Mineable Gigaroids – Lite Edition
Adds a low amount of mineable gigaroids to each star system.
Mineable Gigaroids are very large asteroids containing mostly iron AND copper, but also some carbon, hyperium, tritanium, uranium and gold (and some will contain some diamonds).
As a new feature, barren rocks may also drop resources, though only in small quantities. These rocks can be mined just like resource deposits.
Roughly 5 Mineable Gigaroids are to be found in each star system, usually within an asteroid field. Because the game spawner seems to sometimes be a bit funky, I added a new type of asteroid field to the game which is guaranteed to contain at least a couple of the new Mineable Gigaroids. These new asteroid fields also contain a low amount of Mineable Megaroids instead of only a lot of usually tiny default asteroids and will make these asteroid fields easier to navigate and mine. These mineable megaroids are very similar to the ones in my Mineable Megaroids mod. These new asteroid fields will only spawn 1 (or sometimes 2) in each star system.
Mineable Gigaroids come in several variants, with most containing increased amounts of certain resources.
Some may contain more iron and more copper than usual, while some mineable gigaroids contain more carbon (along with a low amount of diamonds). Some may contain more hyperium or tritanium and some contain more uranium and gold.
Gigaroids which are larger and contain more rare resources will be somewhat more uncommon.
Even though mineable gigaroids are not as large as my Mineable Dwarf Planets, these are still massive asteroids and it will take some time and effort to mine them down.
If you’d like Mineable Gigaroids to also appear around the smaller trade stations, I have the Trade Station add-on, which can be downloaded from here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2934175030
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Why Lite Edition? Because I made a previous version of this mod featuring more variety in both colors and sizes. However, due to game engine limitations that are beyond my power to change, the performancehit turned out to be more than I anticipated, so I had to regretfully unlist the old version of this mod because I could not with a clean conscience keep it up with the issues it could cause.
This version doesn’t have the performance issues that the previous version had.
Fortunately I was able to make some changes and while it will not look as nice as the old version of this mod, balance wise it’s nearly identical. Still very unfortunate that there is no way to simply change the color of an asteroid without the game making a full copy of the existing texture atlas, which turned out to be the main cause of the performance issues.
I’ve decided to upload this mod as a separate download, because trying to fix the old version would probably break people’s playthroughs.
Mineable Gigaroids is compatible and can be combined with my other mods (unless stated otherwise), particularly with Mineable Megaroids, Mineable Dwarf Planets, Less Dense Asteroids, just to name a few.
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Mineable Megaroids can be found here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2888986724
Mineable Dwarf Planets can be gotten from here https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2893554386
and Less Dense Asteroids can be found here https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2888975911
Legal stuff: I do not give permission to anyone to reupload or modify my mods without asking for permission from me first.
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
