Mining Conglomerate

Mining Conglomerate will only work correctly when installed on a new game or NG+. Any other usage is unsupported due to engine limitations with new space orbits which are required for Mining Conglomerate to function. An existing save may or may not work, but we do not provide support for this so use at your own risk.

Feeling adventurous? Try "The Pup" method while in a save and it "may" allow you to continue playing without a new game or NG+.

Go to The Pup (a system that seems to have a debug flag set).
Save and exit.
Uninstall MC.
Load game.
Make a new save and exit.
Reinstall the latest version of MC (also a guaranteed way to get the latest version).
Reload save and you should be great moving forward.

Known Incompatible Creations:

TN's Space Mining and Salvage (patch required)

Known Issues:

With recent fixes, the interiors of the two stations are now accessible. They are incomplete and have no purpose (yet). If entering either station and looking to get back to your ship, the doorway for the Argos HQ is easily accessible while the Argos Mining Station is hidden behind the asteroid clipping into the interior (you can walk through it and access the door).

Current version: 1.13 (Submitted 2/12/25)

Life in the Starfield can be difficult, but do you know what isn’t? Joining the Argos Extractors family!

Mining Conglomerate focuses on what it'd be like to work for Argos Extractors within the exciting world of space mining! When starting a new game, a new quest is provided by Argos Extractors due to your current employment with them. When being directed to return to The Lodge, you will also have a quest pointing to the Argos Space HQ in Jemison Orbit. This will introduce the new features through the Station Interface at that location and direct the player to start retrieving Argos tasks from the mission board offered at the HQ.

Major features include:

Space Mining: Unleashing untapped potential for resources and financial gain
Mission board types including; Mine Asteroids, Gas Mining, Protect Mining Operation, Protect Station. Additional random encounters for all mission types.
Stations have a bulletin board with various announcements and messages providing flavor text related to the universe with some added messages based on events.
Players can now receive mail, which is currently only accessible within the station interface.
Get ready to dive into 20 newly revamped asteroid fields and 8 gas fields, now three times bigger for you to mine and explore to your heart's content!
Gas mining and new gas mining missions
New Mining Lasers, Gas Scoop, Radiators which defend the attached ship from gas mining hazards.
Missions award Argos Extractor Scrip which can be used to purchase a variety of upgraded mining gear made in partnership with Argos (LightScythe and Nautilus)

More features are planned to be added

Following the basic quests already added, we will be adding a completely voiced quest around Argos as they expand their operations, interact with other mining companies looking to collaborate or sabotage their progress forward, and tunnel through their prized asteroid.
Orbital Support Station will replace the current Argos Space HQ, being a massive station per each hub orbit like Cheyenne/Jemison/Volii. These will be broken into admin (management of the station), business center (supporting various headquarters of companies ala Neon Trade Tower), customs (supporting to flow of cargo to/from Jemison), passenger center (allows passengers to take shuttles to/from the connected planet, and taxi services to/from other Orbital Support Stations), and trade center (a small mall of vendors).
Other mining companies and factions are involved with new mission types involving sabotage and data theft.
Unique station interiors and interiors for asteroids linked to stations acting as dungeons.
New mining ships built by Deimos

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