Mining

Mining is a gameplay feature of Icarus. When a moon is selected, (a) metal mine(s) can be purchased for 600 metal and will take 18-24 seconds to build, and (a) deuterium mine(s) can be purchased for 1500 metal and will take 24-32 seconds to build. The amount of time taken depends on how many are available, 1 takes 18 and 24 seconds, and 5 or 6 takes 24 and 32 seconds.

From 1.2.2.2 to 1.4.0.0, purchasing metal and deuterium mines give 30 metal and 18 deuterium respecively, In 1.0.6.1, this is turned into 12 and 4.

Solar collectors can also be purchased and their bonuses will scale with the amount that the player is zoomed out positively, that max out as about a permanent 2 times increase of resource production, if before (1.4.0.0). Solar collectors didn't exist before 1.3.0.0. Now, solar collectors increase the production of the moon that it is built on.