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The first thing that happens is that each minesweeping component in your fleet or ship sweeps the applicable number of mines - 100% accurate. If you can sweep = or > the number of mines, you will receive no damage. Since the max number of mines in a sector is 100, if your ship/fleet can sweep 100 mines, it is immune to mines. As far as minesweeping components go, each can sweep the number of mines (regardless of the size of the mine) equal to their level. i.e. Minesweeper III can sweep 3 mines. So build minesweeper ships with as many of the highest level sweepers you can up to being able to sweep 100 mines.

Next the mines damage the ships. Damage is applied to ships quasi-randomly to ships in fleets. There has been some experimentation with this in other Posts. The mines start attacking ships until all ships are destroyed or all mines are destroyed. More & bigger warheads on a mine do more damage obviously.

If all the ships are destroyed, the sector is marked automatically as a minefield. Ships won't automatically go thru that minefield, but can be ordered to manually. Once all the mines are swept, the minefield marker is removed.

The max number of mines per sector can be changed in settings.txt.

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