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Mineable Dwarf Planets
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Mineable Dwarf Planets

Description
Adds a mineable dwarf planet to each system.

Essentially a gigantic asteroid containing custom resource nodes dropping mostly Iron AND Copper, but often also some Tritanium, Carbon, Uranium and Gold, it requires considerable effort to mine down if only due to the sheer size of the dwarf planet compared to standard-sized asteroids.

It spawns in a somewhat similar way that other rare asteroids are spawned in so finding it goes in a similar fashion. Once you approach a dwarf planet close enough, a question mark will appear just like with any other discoverable asteroid so you can get to its exact location. (Unfortunately it is currently impossible to add customized exploration missions to the game, so this is the best I can do for now)

From update 1.4.2 there are 3 types of dwarf planets featured by this mod: A standard type, a type which has a more sandy outer layer and a type which has a rocky core.

I've set it to spawn somewhat outside of the asteroid belt, a bit out of the way of where most of the default stuff is happening. I aimed to find a balance between the asteroid's massive size and keeping the graphics nice along with optimizing its core gameplay features. Default asteroids are not affected in any way.

Mining the dwarf planet can offer a new, challenging and profitable mining experience :). Or if you want you can perhaps just go dig a hole in it and build a space station inside of the dwarf planet. Or go dig a larger hole and put 10 space stations inside the dwarf planet if you want to. Download the mod, find the dwarf planet and go wild :P

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I've created 2 add-ons for Mineable Dwarf Planets:

Mineable Dwarf Planets - Pirate Addon
Adds an extra Mineable Dwarf Planet with a spawn chance of 50%. If it spawns, it will be guarded by a pirate station and up to 24 defense platforms. This dwarf planet will have its location marked with a question mark as soon as you enter the star system.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2968765697

Mineable Dwarf Planets - Beacon Addon
Adds an extra Mineable Dwarf Planet with a spawn chance of 50%. If it spawns, it will be accompanied by a hyperspace beacon.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2968765069

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Mineable Dwarf Planets works well together with Mineable Megaroids, which can be found here:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2888986724










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2 Jul, 2024 @ 1:26am
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spycats 12 Jul @ 9:06pm 
nobody expects globally warmed dwarf planets
spycats 12 Jul @ 7:35pm 
honestly i did not think you would test this, i just found it by chance in creative mode
SirCampalot  [author] 12 Jul @ 4:09pm 
@spycats: tbh I never tested this extensively, why this exactly happens.
None of the mineable dwarf planets spawn within the sundamage zone normally.
spycats 12 Jul @ 2:39pm 
these minable dwarf planets apparently can melt in the sun. tested using creative no other asteroids melted just these
SirCampalot  [author] 1 May @ 4:19am 
(part 2 because too long)
The standard MDP will have a spawn chance of 50% with the sandy type and rocky type each having a spawn chance of 25% (for 100% total).

I'm happy to have brought more diversity to the Mineable Dwarf Planets mod, the new added types will help make career mode a bit more interesting and diverse :)

The addons for MDPs will have to be modified separately though, so until then these will spawn just the standard MDP types.
All 3 types of MDP have the same name, so if you want to identify which type it is you'll have to use Mark 1 Eyeball
SirCampalot  [author] 1 May @ 4:13am 
v1.4.2 adds 2 new types of Mineable Dwarf Planets that have a brand new feature I've recently been experimenting with.
The new MDPs feature more prominent stratification (meaning they have multiple layers of different materials).
One of the 2 MDPs is like the standard one, but its outer layer consist of softer more sandy material that is somewhat easier to mine, but the outer layer contains fewer rare resources.
The other new type of MDP is the same as a standard MDP, but features a 'small' rocky core which has increased rare resources.

So if you find a sandy MDP you'll get a bit less loot and if you find one with a rocky core you'll get a bit more :)
SirCampalot  [author] 13 Mar @ 3:10am 
Version 1.4.1 made all Mineable Dwarf Planets visible when inside gas clouds, just like all vanilla asteroids are since Cosmoteer patch 0.28.2.
No other changes were made.
SirCampalot  [author] 6 Mar @ 12:07pm 
Version 1.4.0 provides improved compatibility for future content. In itself Mineable Dwarf Planets has not been changed, the changes were all internal.

Also updated supported version numbers.

Please also note that there never was a version 1.3.0 of this version of MDP, I skipped it from 1.2.0 straight to 1.4.0 to provide synchronisity with the Extended Tech Tree Mod version of Mineable Dwarf Planets which is now also at version 1.4.0.
SirCampalot  [author] 2 Jul, 2024 @ 1:29pm 
@Agent_Ra: Thank you for your feedback :)
And keep enjoying!
Agent_Ra 2 Jul, 2024 @ 1:16pm 
<3 thanks for supporting your mods 2.5 years after release!