Asteroid mining and do they respawn

[Zaniaac]

Do certien kinds of Asteroids have different minerals to them? And do they respawn after awhile in-game

[DataSchmuck]

I think it would be cool if they didn't respawn. I would make it my life mission to stripmine the entire system until every last rock is eliminated. (I may have a case of Mild OCD)

[Groota]

They do have different content. There's a field on the east side next to the Waterloo station that's all uranium and plutonium. The one way north west of trinity has alot of diamonds. They seem pretty limitless. Remember, also, you can loot only what you want from anything using loot from the radial menu or just collect all and delete the low value stuff to fill your hold with diamonds or whatever.

[Zaniaac]

So do the Asteroids respawn after awhile? Because, I'm thinking I'm going to go around and mine for a hour or so and see how much I can get. This game doesn't provide enough money for ships

[Machin Shin]

does asteroids and gas clouds and whatever else is there to harvest respawn?

[Twelvefield]

I imagine they will respawn after you leave the sector, like MSFS. But if you don't leave the sector, they might not respawn. Or maybe docking triggers respawn. I've thought of this, but I don't have the will to test it.

What really gets me is the sheer mass of the asteroids. The fields are both super dense and enormous. Compare the fields to the size of the planets. There must have been superplanets a hundred times the size of the terrestrial planets that smashed into one another to make those fields. Yet not one rock gets sucked into a wormhole or a rift, or even makes planetfall or a sundive - in either sun. You'd think the blue neutron star would have annihilated everything way before the start of the game. The system should just be the neutron star and a sphere of utter destruction surrounding it. Miraculous proof that God exists.

[Zaniaac]

So nobody can confirm that asteroids can respawn in-game? I think Twefield has a point, however if you sat for hours on in and mined them, would you make a dent in the population of the asteroids? I just want to do nothing but mine and find out.

[danijel]

Hey guys.
They do respawn in the way Twelvefield said. When you leave the area and come back, the asteroids are also back. Same works for nebula gas pockets.