Expand planetary sea help

[mashzapotato]

What does it mean when it says I need an "available ice mining station?" How do I make one available?

[Toppopia]

If theres a system with a frozen planet or an ice asteroid in it and you upgrade the outpost to be a space station, you can build a ice mining addon which exploits the ice present. Frozen planets support 3 uses of the expand planetary sea and ice asteroids once i think.

[gamester512]

You also need a specific Ascension Perk to unlock the Ice Mining Station as well, but you can get it as early as your second perk as long as you're playing with the necessary origin. Ocean Paradise can be a really powerful origin, as you have the potential to get your homeworld to go from a size 30 world (which is already among the largest planets available in the game) to a whopping size 35.

If you are still confused, ASpec on Youtube did a video that gives an overview of how the Ocean Paradise origin works, so you can always check that out as well.

[CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate]

Originally posted by gamester512:

You also need a specific Ascension Perk to unlock the Ice Mining Station as well, but you can get it as early as your second perk as long as you're playing with the necessary origin. Ocean Paradise can be a really powerful origin, as you have the potential to get your homeworld to go from a size 30 world (which is already among the largest planets available in the game) to a whopping size 35.

If you are still confused, ASpec on Youtube did a video that gives an overview of how the Ocean Paradise origin works, so you can always check that out as well.

They don't have the decision without the ascension perk, so you can check this off immediately.

Originally posted by mashzapotato:

What does it mean when it says I need an "available ice mining station?" How do I make one available?

Toppopia is correct, Frozen planets can be used 3 times, ice asteroids once each. Your ice mining module should deconstruct automatically when all available ice is used up, although I've had bugs where it deconstructed early at times.

Each ice mining module can support one planet upgrading at a time. So if you have 3 different stations with ice mining modules, you can expand 3 different planets at a time.

As for the frozen planets, when they are used up, they turn into barren planets, possibly 3 sizes smaller? I haven't checked on the size part. Ice asteroids simply disappear leaving a normal asteroid belt with no asteroids.