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Star Citizen · Mining & salvage ops

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Regolith.rocks carried the Star Citizen mining community for years, and its shutdown left a real gap. Motherlode was built to fill it — a free, community-run hub for mining and salvage ops. Here is what is in it.

Free · Discord, Google, or email sign-in · Unofficial fan project

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Sessions & crew

A session is a shared ops board for one run. Everything logged during it stays in sync for everyone on it.

Live ops board

Rocks, work orders, and refinery timers update in real time for every member of the session — add something from your phone mid-run and the rest of the crew sees it.

Join by share code

Six characters, no ambiguous letters, easy to read out over comms or paste into Discord. Guests can join without making an account.

Crew roster & roles

Track who is on the run and what they are flying, with owner, operator, crew, and guest roles.

Profit splits

Settle up at the end — equal, role-weighted, or custom cuts. Produces a payout sheet you can drop straight into your org channel.

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Work orders & refinery timers

The part you open mid-run. Mining and salvage work orders both live here.

Per-ore material lines

Each line takes its own quantity and quality, so a mixed order is recorded the way the refinery actually sees it rather than averaged into one number.

Live yield & fee

Refined output, processing fee, and estimated aUEC recalculate as you type, across every refinery method.

Countdown timers

Every order runs its own countdown to completion, visible to the whole session.

Ready-to-collect alerts

Opt into notifications and get pinged when a batch finishes, instead of remembering to check back.

Salvage work orders

Salvage runs the same flow as mining, with its own materials and its own earnings tracked separately.

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Prices & reference data

Open in the browser, no account, nothing to install.

Community-maintained prices per terminal, with a stale flag on anything that has aged past a week so you know how much to trust a number.

Every ore, gem, and salvage material — rarity, value, quality tiers, and where it can be refined.

All refinery methods side by side: yield, time, fee multiplier, and which stations carry a location bonus.

Bodies, belts, and the rock types that show up at each, with composition ranges.

Full specs for mining heads, modules, and consumables, plus mining-capable ships.

Salvage materials and ship hull values for working out whether a wreck is worth the time.

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Calculators

The math you would otherwise be doing in a spreadsheet on your second monitor.

Pick a ship, slot lasers and modules, and see the resulting charge window, extraction rate, and how the stack handles resistance and instability. Save loadouts to your account.

Put in a rock's resistance and instability, get back how much charge headroom you have before it fractures on you.

Input costs, component yields, and whether a build is actually worth making before you commit the materials.

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Organizations

For orgs that mine together and need somewhere shared to put it all.

Org membership

Create an org, invite members or handle join requests, and set a primary org that tags your name in sessions.

Roles & permissions

Member, stockpile manager, and admin, so the people running logistics have the access they need and nobody else does.

Shared stockpile

One pooled record of what the org is holding, instead of five people guessing in a Discord thread.

Deposits & withdrawals

Members request a deposit or withdrawal and a stockpile manager approves it, so the numbers only move when someone signs off.

Org leaderboard

Aggregate stats for the org, separate from individual rankings.

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Your account

What follows you between runs.

Ore inventory

Track what you are personally holding and where, and push a stack over to an org stockpile in a couple of clicks.

Mining log

Your history across sessions — what you pulled, where, and what it earned.

Connected apps

See which third-party apps you have granted access to, and revoke any of them whenever you want.

Sign in your way

Discord, or email. Or run a session as an anonymous guest and claim it later.

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API & developer access

Free, documented, and open to anyone who wants to build on top of it.

Commodities, market prices, locations, rock types, refineries, terminals, mining lasers, modules, gadgets, and ships — all available as JSON, no auth needed.

OAuth for user data

Ask a user for permission and read their profile, org memberships, and inventory through /api/v1/me. Scoped, and revocable by them at any time.

A full OpenAPI reference at /developers, and a 60-requests-per-minute limit that is generous enough for anything reasonable.

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Getting started

About a minute from a cold start to a session your crew can join.

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    Sign in

    Discord, Google, or email. You can also run a session as an anonymous guest and claim it later.

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    Start a session

    Name the run and pick your location. That session is the shared board for everything that follows.

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    Bring your crew

    Share the six-character join code in Discord or over comms. Everyone lands on the same board.

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    Log rocks and work orders

    Add a scouted rock with its composition, then carry it into a refinery work order. Timers start on their own.

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    Settle up

    End the session and split the take — equal, role-weighted, or custom. You get a payout sheet to paste into your org channel.

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Questions

What is Motherlode?

Motherlode is a free, community-built operations hub for Star Citizen mining and salvage. It covers refinery work orders and timers, community-maintained commodity prices, game reference data, mining calculators, org stockpiles, and real-time sessions your whole crew shares.

Why was Motherlode built?

Regolith.rocks was the tool a lot of the mining community relied on, and when it shut down that left a gap. Motherlode was built to fill it so people had somewhere to keep tracking their runs.

Is Motherlode affiliated with Regolith?

No. Motherlode is an independent project by Cryon Dynamics with no connection to Regolith.rocks or the people who built it. We have a lot of respect for what they made and for how long they kept it running for the community.

Does Motherlode cost anything?

No. It is free. The calculators, price tables, and reference data work without an account at all. You only sign in if you want sessions, crew sync, saved history, org tools, and refinery alerts.

Can I import my data from Regolith?

There is no automated import. Motherlode starts you with a clean slate, though the reference data — ores, refineries, methods, lasers, modules, ships — is already seeded, so there is nothing to set up before your first run.

Does it handle salvage as well as mining?

Yes. Salvage work orders, salvage materials, and ship hull values sit alongside the mining tools, and session earnings track mining and salvage separately.

What can organizations do?

An org gets a member roster with member, stockpile manager, and admin roles, a shared stockpile, deposit and withdrawal requests that a manager approves before anything moves, and an org leaderboard. Setting a primary org also tags your name in sessions.

Is there an API?

Yes, and it is free. Reference data — commodities, prices, locations, rock types, refineries, terminals, lasers, modules, gadgets, ships — is available as JSON with no auth. There is also an OAuth flow so your app can read a signed-in user's profile, orgs, and inventory with their permission. Full reference at /developers.

Is Motherlode affiliated with Cloud Imperium Games?

No. Motherlode is an unofficial fan project. It is not made, endorsed, or reviewed by Cloud Imperium Games or Roberts Space Industries.

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Open without an account

These run in the browser — no sign-in, nothing to install.

Commodity pricesMining loadout builderSignal calculatorCrafting calculatorOre referenceRefinery methodsLocationsLasers & modulesSalvage referenceAPI reference

Give your crew somewhere to land.

Sign in, start a session, drop the join code in your org Discord. If something is missing or a price looks wrong, we are in the Motherlode Discord and we do read it.

Motherlode is an independent, unofficial fan project by Cryon Dynamics. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Regolith.rocks, Cloud Imperium Games, or Roberts Space Industries. Regolith is named here only so players looking for it can find somewhere to go.