Mining Equipment

May 28, 2009 at 8:39 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Tags: Mining

Basic mining tools and equipment can be bought from Trade Terminals

Trade Terminals
Located in all major towns and outposts

While in Aim Mode, right click and choose Operate from the interaction menu to access the terminal.

Trade Terminals contain all the basic equipment needed to get started on Calypso. You can also sell almost any item back to the Trade Terminal for it’s current Trade Terminal value. The current Trade Terminal value of any item can be found in it’s Item Info Panel.

located in all the major settlements on Calypso. More specialist equipment can be bought from the auction, shops or directly from others.

left to right: seismic bomb, excavator tool, detectonator tool

Ores

In order to begin the process of finding and extracting ores like gold and copper you will need the following equipment in your Inventory:

– Seismic Bombs

– The Excavator Tool

– The Detectonator Tool

left to right: energy extractor tool, enmatter detectonator tool and survey probes.

EnMatters

To begin the process of finding and extracting enmatters like oil and gas, you will need the following equipment in your Inventory:

– The EnMatter Detectonator Tool

– Survey Probes

– The Energy Extractor Tool

The Claim Marker, as well as the Resource Deed, are removed once a deposit has been exhausted or the time limit on it is exceeded. By pressing ‘Close’ on the loot window, the resource is automatically transferred to your Inventory.

Mining can sometimes produce unexpected results, and if you should discover a strange signal while prospecting you might have found a piece of robot technology that can lead to an exciting encounter with robot forces – a Beacon Mission.

Drill Towers Very large resource deposits yield a drill tower. A drill tower automatically extracts resources in regular intervals and needs to be emptied once every 24 hours for smooth sustained operation.