Find
1. Find the rock
Scan the belt for a rock worth cracking. Good ore is contested — pick a lane you can hold long enough to finish the break.
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Find the rock. Crack the ore. Scoop — and bank before rivals.
CLASHROIDS mining is the asteroid ore loop: find a rock, crack it for ore, scoop the yield, then bank before rivals steal the lane. Free in the browser. Steam Coming Soon (app 4296990) — wishlist toward 10K+.
The mining loop
Crack
2. Crack the ore
Break the rock open. Ore only spills when the crack lands; abandon mid-break and you gift the yield to whoever finishes it.
Scoop
3. Scoop the yield
Grab the ore before it drifts into rival scoops. Unbanked yield is still a race — the scoop is only half the haul.
Bank
4. Bank before rivals
Get the ore home. Mining wins when the bank clears; everything still in transit is a payday for whoever cuts you off.
Why mining sticks
- » Find rock → crack ore → scoop → bank before rivals.
- Distinct from full-economy scrap (smash rocks → bank → hex → turrets), wreck-recovery salvage (mark wreck → scoop hull → bank), loaded-haul cargo (load → fly heavy → bank or drop), and hit-and-run raid (smash in → scoop → bank → extract) — mining is the ore crack-and-bank race on live rocks.
- No invented keybinds, tech-node names, Lab steps, or weapon stats — trust what the belt shows when the ore spills.
- Wishlist on Steam so Early Access fleets land already racing the same rocks.
Go deeper
- Scrap — full economy: smash rocks, bank, claim hex, plant turrets.
- Salvage — mark wreck, scoop hull, bank before rivals.
- Cargo — load scrap, fly heavy, bank or drop for rivals.
- Raid — smash in, scoop, bank, extract.
- Drone — deploy a helper that scans, tags, or assists the scoop.
- Turrets — bank scrap, claim hex, plant guns, hold the recontest.
- Hex — claim space, hold the grid, turn banked scrap into territory.
- Fleet — squad play that keeps ore lanes contested.
- Boosters — sustained afterburner for the race to bank.
- Warp — short-range blink that cuts angles across the belt.
- Wishlist — Steam app 4296990, free browser + Early Access goal.
- Play — free browser asteroid PvP, no download.