# Space Mining
Space mining—extracting valuable resources from the void—is the most fundamental and accessible path to wealth and progression in **Pulsar Rift**. Every ship comes equipped by default with a **Mining Beam**, a versatile tool that allows you to extract raw materials from various small objects scattered across the cosmos. Your targets can include: * **Asteroids** * **Chunks of cosmic ice** * **Ship debris** * **Organic remains of xenofauna** To mine, simply **maneuver within the optimal range** of the target and activate your mining beam.
Not all resources are gathered passively. For richer yields, a more aggressive approach is sometimes needed. * **Comets:** Encountering small or medium-sized comets? **Destroy them with your ship's weapons.** Upon destruction, they will fracture into numerous mineable fragments. * **Enemy Ships & Xenofauna:** Victorious combat leaves a battlefield ripe for salvage. Destroyed hostile ships and aggressive alien lifeforms often drop valuable scrap and organic matter. However, **exercise caution:** overly powerful explosions or careless weapons fire can annihilate the very loot you seek.
### What Can You Find? While mining, you will primarily harvest four basic resource types: * **Gems Shards** * **Metal Chunks** * **Gas Particles** * **Organic Cells** For the fortunate and persistent miner, rarer finds await: * **Valuable items** * **Alien artifacts** * **Locked cargo chests** **A word of caution:** The value of resources generally increases with distance from core systems, as you venture into more remote and dangerous planetary systems. Greater reward comes with greater risk—deep space is fraught with peril. These refined resources form the backbone of the galactic economy. You can **sell your haul** at any trade outpost or station [shop](/pulsar-rift/shop.md) to earn your first credits, or **purchase materials** you lack for your own projects. Mining is not just a solitary grind—it's your entry point into a vast interstellar market. Start your engines, pilot. The asteroids are waiting. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://pulsar-rift.gitbook.io/pulsar-rift/mining/space-mining.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.