A size-tiered mining overhaul for Endless Sky that's out of the ore-dinary.
Seven sizes of asteroid re-balanced across every system in human space. There's a slight buff to mining overall. Large asteroids yield less when cracked with non-mining weapons.
Every mineral gets the full tier treatment. Systems are reclassified into six strata — from picked-over dust clouds to motherlode zones — all while mostly keeping total asteroid counts exactly where vanilla ES has them.
Bigger rocks take proportionally more time to crack, and they sometimes drop a secondary bonus mineral.
There are eleven legendary mining destinations scattered across human space, each with a bespoke asteroid field and a spaceport tip that will direct you there.
Rare groups of massive asteroids wander the galaxy on a 12-day rotation. A prospector named Dusty Vein haunts spaceport bars with tips on where they've drifted.
Spoiler: special systems
| System | Name | Theme |
|---|---|---|
| Gienah | Glitter Silver | Dense silver pebble cloud |
| Orbona | Glitter Gold | Pure gold field in clean void |
| Kornephoros | Boulder Garden | Dense asteroid wall with every boulder |
| Durax | Nebula Pocket | Rare minerals in deep pirate territory |
| Delta Capricorni | Debris Storm | High-energy chaotic fragments |
| Menkar | Titan Forge | Titanium motherlode in a sea of iron |
| Shaula | Platinum Cathedral | Precious rocks drifting through void |
| Thuban | Uranium Scar | Single-mineral all-tier uranium |
| Al Dhanab | Iron Curtain | Max-density asteroid wall |
| Phurad | The Centrifuge | Maximum-energy pebble chaos |
| Anax | Jewel Box | One motherlode of every mineral |
- Works with vanilla saves. No new game required.
- Story-critical systems left untouched.
- Compatible with plugins that don't modify system asteroid/minable definitions.
- Download the latest release.
- Extract to your Endless Sky plugins folder:
- Windows:
%APPDATA%\endless-sky\plugins\ - macOS:
~/Library/Application Support/endless-sky/plugins/ - Linux:
~/.local/share/endless-sky/plugins/
- Windows:
- Launch Endless Sky.
Inspired by Comets by zuckung, which pioneered custom minables and wandering asteroid events in Endless Sky.
GPL-3.0-or-later. Asteroid base sprites derived from Endless Sky vanilla assets by Michael Zahniser et al.
