Mining Frigate

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* Normal
* Raider

*"A Mining Frigate that latches onto asteroids, drilling out their core and seizing their precious materials, standing as a chilling testament to humanity's unrelenting thirst for resources."*
— In-game description

The **Mining Frigate**, also known as the **Mini-Mine**, is a breachable location in *Marauders*. The Mining Frigate was first teased in the second development blog for the Red Baron Update, and was released in the later Excavation Update.

## Overview

The Mining Frigate is a breachable location found in raids near the Colony Cruiser. It is set in a large mining ship inhabited by dead and alive Miners in operations with an asteroid that has been mined through the middle, overrun with Raiders that plant AP Mines indiscriminately around the ship and mine. The Mining Frigate can only be accessed by breaching with a Breacher Pod. The frigate contains two escape pods. The Mining Frigate was available in Raider Mode prior to the Guilds Update.

The Mining Frigate consists of the ship itself, which is the part of the level that is breached, and the asteroid mine itself, which can only be accessed after breaching the ship above and can be mined for Nickel Ore. The only way to exit the Mining Frigate is through Escape Pods found only in the ship portion of the map.

The Mining Frigate drills into the cores of asteroids it attaches to in order to obtain precious materials such as nickel. The Mining Frigate demonstrates humanity's claim to resources being unrelenting. The Central Empire has expressed interest in an invasion of the Mining Frigate, sending contractors to investigate its viability. The Kingdom Alliance seek confirmation of the presence of a depot on the Mining Frigate. The United Allies pays contractors to reach the drill pit.

* Points of Interest
* AI Spawns
* Raider Mode AI Spawns

 **Depot Intel**5 seconds
 **Excavation Zone**5 seconds
 **Monitor Check**3 seconds

## Gallery

The Mining Frigate exterior.The Mining Frigate connection to the caves.The Mining Frigate ship portion interior.The Mining Frigate interior.A drill extractor in the Mining Frigate.A walkway inside the Mining Frigate.A Minecart track system in the Mining Frigate.Development schematics for the Mining Frigate design.Marauders - Excavation Update Mine Frigate Comparison
## Trivia

* The Mining Frigate was previously set as the prototype version of the Iridium Asteroid Mine, before being replaced. The Mining Frigate functioned as a demonstration level for testing *Marauders* features.
* During the third devlog hosted with streamer OmidLive, Small Impact Games developer Cameron Smalls fought in a cage match on a cubemap version of the Mining Frigate using the M1A1 Para with OmidLive for gifted subs and Steam keys for the U.A. Ranger cosmetic.

## References

1. ↑ Marauders: Excavation Update - Date Announcement & Pre-Patch Notes! - July 29th, 2023 - Steam
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dev Blog #002 - The Red Baron - December 2nd, 2022
3. ↑ DEV BLOG - #003 - Colony Cruiser - February 01, 2023 - Steam
4. ↑ DEV BLOG - #004 - Planet Killer Base - May 18th, 2023 - Steam
5. ↑ Marauders Update - Excavation - July 5th, 2023 - Steam
6. ↑ @PlayMarauders - June 7th, 2023 - Twitter
7. ↑ Guilds 1.0 Update Released! - December 14th, 2023 - Steam
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 OmidLive - January 31st, 2023 - DevBlog #003 Colony Cruiser
9. ↑ Monitor Check mission
10. ↑ Depot Intel mission
11. ↑ Excavation Zone mission