It can drop a lot of pots if you are lucky . <| sep |> I can ' t help but think that anyone who grinds it or wishes for such complexundermining changesadditions simply doesn ' t know enough . There isn ' t really much to know at this point . You find a system with the correct type of rings , spam prospector drones until you find what you are looking for and maybe map them as well . After that it ' s just shooting a spinning rock and listening to limpets deposit the ore in your refinery . Once you ' ve launched your collector limpets , you could literally put a rubber band around your trigger and go make a sandwich . Scanning makes more sense . We already have cargo scanners that can identify materials within a ships hull , why not one that can identify whats in an asteroid . We have scanners that can tell us the composition of and entire planets crust but not this relatively tiny rock we are staring at ? How is this drone getting this information , core sample ? Effectively , scanning the rocks wouldn ' t be any easier or faster , it would just make more sense and we wouldn ' t need to carry and waste hundreds of drones . I agree on the performance improvements and better modeling for asteroids . Being able to synthesize limpets would be cool and would give us a reason to want to collect some of the more mundane materials .