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Mining waste probability, which is a chance per cycle for resources to be turned into space dust.
Mining waste is taken from the asteroid and not from the mining yield.
T1 drones, T1 modules and faction modules has a 0% waste probability.
While T2 modules has a waste probability of 34%, the crystals can add additional waste probability.
Type A: Standard yield
Type B: Higher yield, high waste, less reliable
Type C: Lower yield, very high waste, very unreliable. It destroys more then it mines. Used for offensive mining or clearing out a belt of unwanted ore
showing % ore destroyed with % mining waste probability.
While mining With T2 - Type A II, there is a 37,60% mining waste probability.
Cycles | 10000 | Yield | 220m3 | |
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Waste Probability | 37,60% | Waste Cycles | 3760 | |
Mined Yield | 2 200 000m3 | Wasted Yield | 827 200 m3 | |
Total ore taken out of the belt | 3 027 200m3 |
So in this example, of the 3 027 200m3 ore in the belt 72,67% gets mined while 27,33% turns to space dust and disappears.
When mining high value ore like R64/R32 it might be more advantageous to mine with 0% waste.
The mining will go a little slower but less of the high value ore gets destroyed, leading to a great value can get extracted from that moon.