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New skill idea: Cosmic Digging


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So I've had this in my head for a while now, so here goes;

+ 2 excavation

Requires both Super-DuperHard Digging and Rocket piloting

Effect: allows duplicants piloting a rocket to leave the rocket and mine at space ore fields with their multitool (they just vanish from the rocket for a bit, requires them to be wearing a suit, they will return if the suit were to run out of oxygen). For game balance's sake, they mine slower (about half the speed of the drill cone), and anything they mine is halved in mass due to using their multitool to mine. This halving does not affect how much material is taken from the POI, the same amount is removed, however you only gain half. Only two duplicants may mine a POI at a time. Maybe only one if two is too powerful for early game, although it would require a lot of skill points and morale to do very early anyways.

Gilded ore field is unable to be mined this way.

I am suggesting this because often times I find ore fields within 3-4 spaces of my starting asteroid and would enjoy being able to harvest them early game even if inefficiently and slowly. It would also encourage setting up rocket automation as early as possible, giving people more of an excuse to try and dabble in it.

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