Therefore Phobos would be classified as 4.1 and Deimos as 4.2. Mars has two moons, Deimos and Phobos with Phobos being closer. For example Earth's moon would be classified as 3.1. Since it takes a certain amount of time (depending on the Survey skill level) for the survey results to return, a pilot can fire and forget a probe at one moon and move onto the next, etc.Įach moon in a given solar system follows a similar WHSOC naming convention as wormholes PLANET.MOON. Preferably this procedure is preformed in the first-person piloting perspective to ensure the probe impacts the moon's surface as the probes will disappear and despawn should they be launched into empty space. The pilot points their ship at the moon being surveyed and waits for the probe to return the results. The first step to moon mining is gathering raw data about the system's moons in order to make informed decisions as to where to devote time, energy, hole control, and fuel towards anchoring a Refinery and maintaining an operational moondrill on moons in question.Ī capsuleer must first survey a moon using no more than a simple Venture fitted with a Survey Probe Launcher armed with Survey Probes. Unlike real life, though, all moons in Eve have infinite resources no matter how many times a chunk is pulled and fractured from a moon, the resulting ore and minerals can never be depleted. Moon goo cannot be compressed while the moon variant of naturally-occurring ore can. In this way capsuleers need not wait for naturally-occurring ore fields to spawn in space and can dictate (to a degree) when and what asteroids will spawn in their system for them to mine and reprocess. With the moon chunk finally in position powerful lasers from the Moondrill itself fire upon the pulled chunk, fracturing it into a small asteroid field to be mined by capsuleers. Once in space, powerful tractor beams grab hold of the chunk and slowly pull it towards the Refinery until it is within a safe distance for fracturing. Its possible to run out of structure fuel before the extraction finishes. The minimum extraction time is six days, three hours. The extraction time set by the manager is measured in days and hours and dictates the volume of raw ore pulled from the crust at a rate of 20,000 m 3 per hour although the in-game graphic of the moon chunk remains unchanged, effectively modifying the density of the chunk were real-life physics applied in-game. The station manager initiates an extraction procedure on the Moondrill which bores into the nearby moon and removes a chunk of material out of its crust. Pieces of a moon can be drilled and fractured for exceptionally valuable ore.Ī special player-operated space station called a Refinery (Athanor or Tatara) fitted with a STANDUP Moondrill is required. Just like in real life, planets in Eve also have natural satellites (moons). 2 Identifying, Naming, and Selecting Moons.