Mining Beam Upgrade

The subject of this article is from the Orbital update.
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 28 May, 2024.

Mining Beam Upgrade
Category	Multi-tool - Weapons
Type	Generated Upgrade
Stats
Updated	Orbital

Mining Beam Upgrade
Category	Multi-tool - Weapons
Type	Generated Upgrade
Stats
Updated	Orbital

Mining Beam Upgrade is a multi-tool upgrade.

Summary

Mining Beam Upgrades, contained within Mining Beam Modules, are procedurally generated upgrades granting bonuses to the Multi-tool's Mining Beam.

Upgrade properties

Up to three Mining Beam Upgrades can be installed in the inventory of the Multi-tool. Installing four or more upgrades will disable all upgrades of that type until the upgrade count is reduced to three or less.

Mining Beam Upgrades have the following bonuses:

• Mining Speed: increases Mining Beam damage against minerals and flora.
• Heat Dispersion: decreases the rate the Mining Beam generates heat.
• Fuel Efficiency: decreases charge drain rate.
• Overheat Downtime: decreases the cool-down rate of the Mining Beam.¹

¹ This stat is generally overlooked as the Mining Beam's cool-down can be avoided by quickly resetting the fire button.

The table shows the minimum and maximum values of the bonuses, while the number of bonuses indicates how many are granted randomly for each class.

	Module Name	Stats Drawn	Module Improves
				Min	Max	Min	Max	Min	Max	Min	Max	Min	Max
	Mining Beam	C 1-2 B 2-3 A 3-4 S 4 X 1-4	Mining Speed	5	10	5	15	10	20	15	20	5	20
			Fuel Efficiency	0	10	10	15	15	20	21		0	26
			Heat Dispersion	5	15	15	20	20	40	40	50	5	55
			Overheat Downtime	5	10	10	15	10	15	15	20	5	25

² It is possible to receive one without stats.

Crafting

Mining Beam Upgrades can only be obtained from opening Mining Beam Modules.

Mining Beam Upgrade can be repaired using the following ingredients:

• Condensed Carbon ×75  +   Wiring Loom ×1

Mining Beam Upgrade can be dismantled after construction, returning the following ingredients:

• Mining Beam Upgrade  →   Condensed Carbon ×75  +   Wiring Loom ×1

Installing

Upgrade modules follow a static progression. The generation seed is used for all module families at the same time. During module installations it goes up by one. The new module they change into correlates to their order of installation. If the game is reloaded, the exact same pool will be offered to the player, no matter the order they install other modules.

Example: If an S-class module had 200 ly Hyperdrive Range bonus on the third installation no matter in what order the former modules are installed or their class, if the same S-class module is used third again, it will once again be the 200 ly bonus module even if the name changes. Only if used second or fourth the module stat may change.

Name generation

The names are procedurally generated with a prefix and a suffix as per the table.

The sequence is taken from the game file.

Prefixes
Superconducting Brilliant Dazzling Supreme Incomparable	Supercharged Powerful High-Energy Electromagnetic Resonant	Advanced Fine-Tuned Overloaded Liquid Oscillating	Retuned Enhanced Boosted Efficient Additional
Suffixes
Beam Amplifier Beam Capacitor Lens Optics Emission Chamber Photon Mirror Cooling System Diode Battery Light Filter Reflector Glass Output Coupler

Additional information

• Upgrade bonuses trigger for Mining Beam Upgrades if they are adjacent to Mining Beam, Advanced Mining Laser, Plasma Resonator, or each other, increasing their bonuses above listed values.
• The minimum and maximum property values are extracted from the NMS_REALITY_GCPROCEDURALTECHNOLOGYTABLE.MBIN (1.77) game file, while the name generation is extracted from the NMS_LOC4_ENGLISH.MBIN (1.77) game file.
• X class mods that are better than or the same as S class are extremely rare (the % chance is significantly worse than other X class mods) and getting S class instead is superior in most cases

Discovered Upgrade Modules

Mining Beam Upgrades

Prefix Suffix Mining Speed Fuel Efficiency Heat Dispersion Overheat Downtime Screenshot/ID Brilliant Reflector Glass +20% +21% +50% -20% 20187 Incomparable Output Coupler +20% +21% +50% -20% 48301 Brilliant Diode Battery +20% +21% +50% -17% 56220 Superconducting Diode Battery +20% +21% +48% -16% 71151 Dazzling Photon Mirror +20% +21% +50% -20% Link Superconducting Cooling System +20% +21% +50% -20% Link Dazzling Diode Battery +17% +21% +50% -19% Link Dazzling Emission Chamber +17% +21% +50% -17% Link Superconducting Output Coupler +17% +21% +41% -16% Link Dazzling Photon Mirror +16% +21% +47% -19% Link Brilliant Beam Amplifier +16% +21% +41% -16% Link

Mining Beam Upgrades

Prefix Suffix Mining Speed Heat Dispersion Fuel Efficiency Reload Time Screenshot Supercharged Photon Mirror +16% - -18% -15% Link

Mining Beam Upgrades

Prefix Suffix Mining Speed Heat Dispersion Fuel Efficiency Reload Time Screenshot Liquid Output Coupler +6% - - -14% Link

Mining Beam Upgrades

Prefix Suffix Mining Speed Heat Dispersion Fuel Efficiency Reload Time Overheat Downtime Screenshot Additional Beam Capacitor +6% - -1% - - Link Additional Lens Optic - - -1% - - Link Enhanced Emission Chamber - +6% - -6% - Link Retuned Beam Capacitor - - - - - Link Retuned Diode Battery - +6% - - -6% Link

Mining Beam Upgrades

Prefix Suffix Mining Speed Fuel Efficiency Heat Dispersion Overheat Downtime ID Prohibited Fine-Tuned Photon Mirror +20% +13% - -8% 02711 Illegal Liquid Emission Chamber +20% +6% - -9% 15487 Outlawed Overloaded Beam Capacitor +20% +5% +6% -22% 43504 Banned Oscillating Reflector Glass +20% +2% - -23% 21057 Unlicenced Oscillating Photon Mirror +18% +22% - - 79601 Smuggled Overloaded Light Filter +8% +25% +48% -8% 88737 Outlawed Oscillating Beam Capacitor +8% +23% +55% -8% 34038 Outlawed Overloaded Beam Amplifier +7% +23% +49% -6% 48604 Counterfeit Advanced Light Filter +6% +25% +54% -7% 85088

Release history

• NEXT - Added as a technology.

Gallery

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  S-class upgrade examplebyss(Beyond)

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  S-class upgrade examplegrad(Visions)

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  C-class upgrade examplemple(Abyss)

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  A-class upgrade example(NEXT)

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  B-class upgrade example(NEXT)