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Winning Conditions

  • Special Parts constructed
    /
  • Sample probes analyzed
    /
  • Resources unlocked
    /
  • Total money
    1m

Harvest – Total – Current Month

Volatiles and Essentials ?

H Hydrogen
kg
Si Silicon
kg
N Nitrogen
kg
O Oxygen
kg
? Unknown
Research
needed
C Carbon
kg
? Unknown
Research
needed
H2O Water
kg

Industrial Metals ?

Fe Iron
kg
? Unknown
Research
needed
Co Cobald
kg
? Unknown
Research
needed
Ni Nickel
kg
? Unknown
Research
needed
Mg Magnesium
kg

Platinum Group Metals ?

? Unknown
Research
needed
Ru Rutherium
kg
? Unknown
Research
needed
Rh Rhodium
kg
? Unknown
Research
needed
Pd Palladium
kg
? Unknown
Research
needed
Os Osmium
kg
? Unknown
Research
needed
Ir Iridium
kg
? Unknown
Research
needed
Pl Platinum
kg

Research Laboratory

Highly specialized facility
located on Earth. ?


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Time left days

Pointsmax. 10

Discover Essential75%

Discover Industrial10%

Discover Platinum<1%

Pointsmax. 30

Discover Essential100%

Discover Industrial75%

Discover Platinum10%

Pointsmax. 60

Discover Essential100%

Discover Industrial100%

Discover Platinum75%


☬ 1.500
★ 50
☬ 4.000
★ 100
☬ 7.500

Schedule

Next event

Upcoming events
Event Time

Business

Total money

This Month

Last month

Total Depts

Monthly Repay

Astro Space Market

This market is operating in space and
trades essential resources. ?


Resource Price (kg) Stored
Hydrogen

kg

SELL
Silicon

kg

SELL
Nitrogen

kg

SELL
Oxygen

kg

SELL
Unknown ???

???

SELL
Carbon

kg

SELL
Unknown ???

???

SELL
Water

kg

SELL
Iron

kg

SELL
Unknown ???

???

SELL
Nickel

kg

SELL

Earth Metal Market

This market is operating on Earth and
trades platinum and precious metals. ?


Resource Price (kg) Stored
Unknown ???

???

SELL
Cobald

kg

SELL
Unknown???

???

SELL
Magnesium

kg

SELL
Unknown???

???

SELL
Rutherium

kg

SELL
Unknown???

???

SELL
Rhodium

kg

SELL
Unknown???

???

SELL
Palladium

kg

SELL
Unknown???

???

SELL
Osmium

kg

SELL
Unknown???

???

SELL
Iridium

kg

SELL
Unknown???

???

SELL
Platinum

kg

SELL

Factory

Builds Hi-tech space station
parts on Earth.


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Time left days

Optimized storage thanks to
high-end compressing technology.

More precious metals are yield
from the mix of raw materials.

The docking guiding unit makes
drones more efficient.

Print simple station parts from
your mined resources on site.

★ 50
☬ 10.000
★ 100
☬ 25.000
★ 150
☬ 40.000
★ 200
☬ 100.000

Transport Earth ➤ Station

Send Cargo from the Factory Depot to your Station. ?


Cargo Weight Costs Transport
Unknown ??? ??? ???
NextGen Compressor 0.75t ☬ 75.000 Install
Unknown ??? ??? ???
AI Resource Seperator 1.5t ☬ 150.000 Install
Unknown ??? ??? ???
Docking Guiding Unit 1t ☬ 100.000 Install
Unknown ??? ??? ???
3D Printing Module 2.5t ☬ 250.000 Install

Transport Station ➤ Astro Space Market

Send resources from your Station to the
Astro Space Market. ?


Resource Weight Costs Add Amount
Hydrogen kg 1/3 1/2 ALL
Silicon kg 1/3 1/2 ALL
Nitrogen kg 1/3 1/2 ALL
Oxygen kg 1/3 1/2 ALL
Unknown ??? ??? ???
Carbon kg 1/3 1/2 ALL
Unknown ??? ??? ???
Water kg 1/3 1/2 ALL

Industrial Metals
Iron kg 1/3 1/2 ALL
Unknown ??? ??? ???
Nickel kg 1/3 1/2 ALL

Transport Station ➤ Earth

Send resources from your Station back to Earth. ?


Resource Weight Costs Add Amount
Unknown ??? ??? ???
Cobald kg 1/3 1/2 ALL
Unknown ??? ??? ???
Magnesium kg 1/3 1/2 ALL
Unknown ??? ??? ???
Rutherium kg 1/3 1/2 ALL
Unknown ??? ??? ???
Rhodium kg 1/3 1/2 ALL
Unknown ??? ??? ???
Palladium kg 1/3 1/2 ALL
Unknown ??? ??? ???
Osmium kg 1/3 1/2 ALL
Unknown ??? ??? ???
Iridium kg 1/3 1/2 ALL
Unknown ??? ??? ???
Platinum kg 1/3 1/2 ALL

The Astro Miners Handbook

Transport Earth ➤ Station

Although transporting cargo from Earth to space has become commonplace, the costs remain extremely high compared to e.g. interspace transports. Therefore, going from Earth to orbit and beyond is only worthwhile for transporting highly specialized parts that are manufactured in a Factory on Earth.

For this purpose, transport rockets are launched from the Earth to stations in space at regular intervals.

All components already produced in the Factory are listed in the Transport display. Their transport can be booked for the next flight at the corresponding costs.

Bookings can be cancelled free of charge at any time up to the start of the transport.

The exact time of the next transport can be seen in the Schedule display.


-- Image Credit: NASA/Boeing

Transport Station ➤ Earth

After the transports have unloaded their cargo at the stations, they begin their return flight back to Earth. For this flight, a Transport Station ➤ Earth is available.

It will automatically transport samples to the Research Laboratory and can also be used to sell platinum and precious metals on the Precious Metals Market on Earth.

The high upfront costs for transporting these rare metals to Earth are covered many times over by their extraordinary sales revenue.


-- Image Credit: NASA/Boeing

Transport Station ➤ Astro Space Market

This Transport picks up goods from your station in relatively short intervals.

It brings them to your Astro Space Market depot. The ordinary resources bought from this market do not fetch too high a price, but the large quantities your mine yields still promise a good profit.

The exact time of the next transport can be seen in the Schedule display.


-- Image Credit: NASA/Boeing

Research Laboratory

Mining drones occasionally can find samples containing hints and traces of currently unknown elements during the mining of resources on the asteroid.

The Research Laboratory analyzes these samples. Depending on the type of sample, the completed analysis yields a certain number of research points and unlocks newly discovered resources.

The operation of the Research Laboratory requires special equipment and personnel, and for that reason can only be performed on Earth. Therefore, samples are transported automatically and free of charge with the next Transport Station ➤ Earth.

The exact time of the next transport can be seen in the Schedule display.


-- Image Credit: Unsplash

Astro Space Market

This trading market is located in space and specializes in buying essential resources and industrial metals. These raw materials form the basis for the in-space production of simple station components, fuel, fertilizer and other vital materials.

To sell raw materials on the Astro Space Market, they must first be transported from your station to the market for a small fee on one of the regular Transport Station ➤ Astro Space Market. Once at the destination, they are then stored in your market depot, and can be sold at any time.

The exact time of the next transport can be seen in the Schedule display.

However, the Astro Space Market cannot compete with the prices offered for rare platinum and precious metals by the high-tech industry on Earth. These metals can be sold at a much higher profit on the specialized Precious Metals Market on Earth.


-- Image Credit: NASA

Earth Metal Market /// TOTOTOTO

This trading market is located in space and specializes in buying essential resources and industrial metals. These raw materials form the basis for the in-space production of simple station components, fuel, fertilizer and other vital materials.

To sell raw materials on the Astro Space Market, they must first be transported from your station to the market for a small fee on one of the regular Transport Station ➤ Astro Space Market. Once at the destination, they are then stored in your market depot, and can be sold at any time.

The exact time of the next transport can be seen in the Schedule display.

However, the Astro Space Market cannot compete with the prices offered for rare platinum and precious metals by the high-tech industry on Earth. These metals can be sold at a much higher profit on the specialized Precious Metals Market on Earth.


-- Image Credit: Unsplash

Factory

Factory Text


-- Image Credit: NASA

Volatiles and Essentiales

The asteroids that are nearest the Sun are mostly made of carbon, with smaller amounts of nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen, while the ones further away are made up of silicate rock. Silicates are very common on Earth and in the Solar System. They are made up of oxygen and silicon, the number one and number two most abundant elements in the Earth’s crust.


-- Image Credit: NASA

Industrial Metals

The metallic asteroids are composed of up to 80% iron and 20% a mixture of nickel and other common metals.


-- Image Credit: Unsplash

Platinum Metals

The platinum group metals are some of the most rare and useful elements on Earth. Those metals exist in such high concentrations on asteroids that a single 500-meter platinum-rich asteroid can contain more platinum group metals than have ever been mined on Earth throughout human history.


-- Image Credit: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team

Tutorial

Hello fellow Game Jammer – welcome to my game!

Let me guess your first thought... “Boah! So many stuff! What am I supposed to do here?”, right?

Well, – yes, it is a lot of stuff - grab a coffee, relax, take your time... So; – first things first, let’s try to switch into Fullscreen mode with F11 on your keyboard – game is happy about every extra pixel it can get ;-)

Cool! Well – that’s basically it, end of tutorial – enjoy the game! Ha ha, just kidding…

You can move each display to a place you like, just grab the title bar and drag it. See...! You can also minimize it – then it will look like this guy here. The icon shows up in the title bar when you hover over a display.

The game loop is fairly simple: Your hard-working station mining drones (you can’t see them, but they are there, trust me!) are constantly and autonomously mining resources. Right now, they only detect & harvest some few essential resources. We will change that soon…

The mined resources can be sold at two markets – this one here and that one - one is buying your essential resources, the other one the yummy, yummy precious metal stuff. To sell your resources, you first have to transport them to your market depot. Transports for Astro and Earth market visit your station (have an eye on the Schedule), and pick up all you have added with the "Add Amount" buttons in their displays – for a small fee, of cause...

Once delivered at the market (the flight takes some days – we are talking about space distances here...), you can sell them from your depot at any time. The essential resources are peanuts in comparison to the Platinum metals – unfortunately that’s also true for the transport costs…

How you unlock these resources, you ask? Say hello to the Research Laboratory! Every once and a while your drones will find samples of unknown materials. The Transport Station ➤ Earth will bring them from your Station to the Lab for free – so you can analyze them. I left you a present in the Laboratory - one sample for free - go analyse it! By doing so, you have a chance to unlock new resources. Mine them, sell them – you already know that…

I am tired of typing – you will find out the rest by yourself. You are a smart guy – or lady, I love you all, from the deepest of my heart (don't forget to gimme a good rating… ;-) ).

Oh, one more thing: You can actually win the game - try to fulfill one of the Winning Conditions!

Have fun and enjoy!

Your Humane Tiger.

In this game you play as the operator of a space mining station. This station works largely autonomously, but can receive commands from you via the AstrOS operating system.

Sell the mined raw materials on markets in space and on earth. Research unknown samples found during mining operations to unlock new resources and build your station into a real player in the space mining business. Good luck!

Launch System