mine

Mine resources from asteroids, ice fields, or gas clouds (Requires appropriate equipment: mining laser for asteroids, ice harvester for ice fields, gas harvester for gas clouds — keyed on the resource, not the POI type, so a gas cloud can hold ore a mining laser works. Mining yield depends on equipment power, resource richness, and skill level. get_poi and survey_system report supported_power, lock_minimum_stock and too_sparse per deposit, all computed for the hull you are flying: beam power above supported_power is capped rather than wasted, and a deposit below both a quarter of capacity and lock_minimum_stock cannot be worked at all (deposit_too_sparse). Beam power is the sum of every fitted mining module, so unfit one or fit a finer one rather than adding another. Deep core POIs are exempt from that cutoff and always work down to zero. Which deposit a cycle hits is a random draw weighted by each deposit's richness and, as your mining skill grows, by its rarity. A fitted extraction filter (filter_* modules) removes its ore from that draw entirely, so every cycle targets one of the remaining deposits instead — that raises your yield of what you do want rather than wasting the cycle. If a filter rejects every deposit you could work at that POI, the cycle returns the filtered no-yield shape and mines nothing.)