Mining

FMining is one of the ways players can make money in Discovery Freelancer. This is done by shooting asteroids with a Mining Array to obtain Ore commodities. These Ores can then be sold to nearby NPC bases for a moderate profit, or taken to a Player Owned Base (POB) with an Industrial Refinery module, and transformed into a valuable Refined product.

Setup

To receive dropped commodities from mined asteroids, you must be properly equipped. This means:

1. You must have a ship with a Mining Array equipment slot.
2. You must have a Mining Array mounted.
3. You must have a mining faction's ID.
4. You must have a mining faction's IFF.

We will explore these in more detail below.

Mining Ships

Ships that are capable of mining have a specific Mining Array equipment slot. Some ships have an additional bonus to the amount of goods you receive when mining.

Mining Arrays are mounted in a dedicated equipment slot and share a space with Cruise Disruptors.

Name	Class	Tech Type	Bonus
Gitano	Light Fighter	Junkers	1.2
Tournez	Light Fighter	Gallic Civilian	1.2
Bull Dog	Heavy Fighter	Junkers	1.2
Courbe	Heavy Fighter	Gallic Civilian	1.2
Surveyor	Heavy Fighter	Sirius Civilian	1.2
Collector	Very Heavy Fighter	Junkers	1.2
CSV	Very Heavy Fighter	Junkers	1.2
Plier	Very Heavy Fighter	Gallic Civilian	1.2
Scraper	Very Heavy Fighter	Sirius Civilian	1.2
Arrastra	Fighter-Bomber	Sirius Civilian	1.2
Recycler	Fighter-Bomber	Junker	1.2
Annapurna	Freighter	IMG	1.2
Aurochs	Freighter	Gallic Civilian	1.2
Camara	Freighter	Sirius Civilian	1.2
Celestra	Freighter	Crayter Republic	1.2
Clydesdale	Freighter	Bretonia Civilian	1.2
Correo	Freighter	Corsairs	1.2
Courier	Freighter	Gallic Unlawful	1.2
CSF	Freighter	Junkers	1.2
Draugr	Freighter	Edge World	1.2
Dromedary	Freighter	Border Worlds	1.2
Drone	Freighter	Kusari Civilian	1.2
Garanchou	Freighter	GMG	1.2
Grizzly	Freighter	Liberty Civilian	1.2
Humpback	Freighter	Rheinland Civilian	1.2
Kestrel	Freighter	Sirius Civilian	1.2
Kin	Freighter	Sirius Civilian	1.2
Leatherback	Freighter	Gaian	1.2
Mule	Freighter	Black Market	1.2
Ferry	Freighter	OS&C	1.2
Rhino	Freighter	Liberty Civilian	1.2
Sunburst	Freighter	Generic Civilian	1.2
Tarvos	Freighter	Gallic Unlawful	1.2
Voyager	Freighter	Sirius Civilian	1.2
Yari	Freighter	Blood Dragons	1.2
Armored Transport	Transport	Sirius Civilian	1.0
Asteroid Miner	Transport	Sirius Civilian	1.0
Civilian Armored Transport	Transport	Sirius Civilian	1.0
Civilian Ferry	Transport	Sirius Civilian	1.0
Gallic Mining Ship	Transport	Gallic Civilian	1.0
IMG Transport	Transport	IMG	1.0
Kusari Mining Ship	Transport	Kusari Civilian	1.0
Kusari Transport	Transport	Kusari Civilian	1.0
Large Transport	Transport	Sirius Civilian	1.0
Liberty Transport	Transport	Liberty Civilian	1.0
Retrofit Explorer	Transport	Sirius Civilian	1.0
Rheinland Armored Transport	Transport	Rheinland Civilian	1.0
Rheinland Mining Ship	Transport	Rheinland Civilian	1.0
Transport	Transport	Sirius Civilian	1.0
Salvager	Frigate	Junkers	1.0

Mining Factions and IDs

In addition to needing a Mining Array and a ship that can mount one, you must belong to an appropriate faction with mining bonuses. The below table will list which Ores each faction has a bonus on, with the size of the bonus in brackets next to the Ore.

Name	Type	Ore 1	Ore 2	Ore 3	Ore 4	Ore 5
BMM	Bretonian Corporate	Copper Ore (3.0)	Gold Ore (3.0)	Niobium Ore (3.0)	Silver Ore (3.0)
Bristol	Independent Corporate	Copper Ore (3.0)
Core	Independent Corporate	Azurite Gas (3.0)	Iridium Ore (3.0)	Xeno Excavations (3.0)
Corsairs	Independent Unlawful	Gold Ore (3.0)	Xeno Excavations (3.0)
Daumann	Rheinland Corporate	Aluminium Ore (3.0)	Silver Ore (3.0)	Uncut Diamonds (3.0)
DSE	Liberty Corporate	Copper Ore (3.0)	Platinum Ore (3.0)
Freelancers	Independent	Helium (3.0)
GMG	Independent Corporate	Helium-3 (3.0)
GMS	Gallic Corporate	Molybdenum Ore (3.0)	Niobium Ore (3.0)
IMG	Independent Corporate	Copper Ore (3.0)	Gold Ore (2.0)	Niobium Ore (3.0)	Silver Ore (3.0)	Uncut Diamonds (2.0)
Kishiro	Kusari Corporate	Aluminium Ore (3.0)	Helium-3 (3.0)	Platinum (3.0)
Kruger	Rheinland Corporate	Aluminium Ore (3.0)	Helium-3 (2.0)	Silver Ore (3.0)	Uncut Diamonds (3.0)
Mollys	Bretonian Unlawful	Gold (3.0)
Order	Independent Intelligence	Azurite Gas (3.0)	Iridium Ore (3.0)	Xeno Excavations (3.0)
Outcasts	Independent Unlawful	Niobium Ore (2.0)	Xeno Excavations (3.0)
Red Hessians	Rheinland Unlawful	Uncut Diamonds (2.0)
Samura	Kusari Corporate	Helium-3 (3.0)	Niobium Ore (3.0)	Platinum Ore (3.0)
Technocracy	Independent Intelligence	Azurite Gas (3.0)	Xeno Excavations (3.0)
Xenos	Liberty Unlawful	Copper Ore (3.0)
Zoners	Independent	Iridium Ore (3.0)

Official Factions are player groups who have received their own personalised ID. Official Factions that represent mining factions usually have their own improved Ore bonuses. You can only use these IDs by being a member of that Official Faction.

Faction Tag	Parent Faction	Ore 1	Ore 2	Ore 3	Ore 4	Ore 5
]	BMM	Copper Ore (3.0)	Gold Ore (4.0)	Niobium Ore (2.0)	Silver Ore (4.0)
]	Core	Azurite Gas (4.0)	Iridium Ore (3.0)	Xeno Excavations (4.0)
[TBH]	Corsairs	Gold Ore (3.0)	Xeno Excavations (4.0)
DTR-	Corsairs	Gold Ore (3.0)	Xeno Excavations (4.0)
{DHC}	Daumann	Aluminium Ore (4.0)	Silver Ore (3.0)	Uncut Diamonds (4.0)
]	GMG	Helium-3 (4.0)
]	IMG	Copper Ore (3.0)	Gold Ore (3.0)	Niobium Ore (4.0)	Silver Ore (3.0)	Uncut Diamonds (3.0)
]	Kruger	Aluminium Ore (4.0)	Helium-3 (2.0)	Silver Ore (3.0)	Uncut Diamonds (4.0)
]	Mollys	Gold (4.0)
]	The Order	Azurite Gas (3.0)	Iridium Ore (3.0)	Xeno Excavations (3.0)
HS>	Outcasts	Niobium Ore (2.0)	Xeno Excavations (4.0)
]	Samura	Helium-3 (3.0)	Niobium Ore (3.0)	Platinum Ore (4.0)
A/)	Technocracy	Azurite Gas (4.0)	Xeno Excavations (4.0)
XA-	Xenos	Copper Ore (3.0)
OSI-	Zoners	Iridium Ore (3.0)
(\^/)	Zoners	Iridium Ore (4.0)