Mineable Sundiver Megaroids
Replaces all default (mostly empty) asteroids that are within the sundamage area with mostly large asteroids containing iron AND copper and at least one rare resource. These asteroids contain no worthless empty rock whatsoever, making them much more profitable to mine compared to the default sundiver asteroids which are mostly empty rock.
This mod does aim to provide a good mix of larger and smaller asteroids. The smaller asteroids will obviously be somewhat easier to drag to outside of the sundamage zone, where the processing of these very valuable asteroids can begin.
This mod also slightly increases the total amount of sundamage asteroids that will spawn. Also, the area in which these asteroids will spawn has been slightly enlarged, so some of these sundiver asteroids may spawn closer to the edge of the sundamage boundary.
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Don’t try to fly into the sundamage area unprepared, you will fry into a crisp in no time. Also (as of writing of this mod intro) it is impossible to pick up any dropped resources in the sundamage zone, so the asteroids within it must be dragged out whole before they can be mined.
EDIT: I have since made a mod that enables the harvesting of resources within the sundamage zone without having to take out and risk your crew. It’s called the Sundamage Zone Resources Grabber Mod and it can be downloaded from here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2948856974
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The asteroids in this mod are based on the Mineable Megaroid – Cheating Edition asteroids, but I don’t consider this mod a cheat because of the larger investment and effort required to be able to mine these asteroids. You can’t just park a mining ship next to these asteroids and start mining its minerals because the sun damage will kill any crew that ventures outside. Expensive specialist equipment and a lot of manual work is needed to harvest these asteroids from the deadly sundamage area before you can mine them, so I think the reward should also be better :).
This is a standalone mod.
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This mod is fully compatible with my other asteroid mods, except for the mod No Asteroids. If you use both of these mods, nothing will break or crash, but No Asteroids will prevent the modified asteroids from this mod from spawning.
