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Minimap Icons

The minimap, being the extremely useful tool that it is for both information and navigation, provides pilots with a large array of icons to indicate what is contained in each sector. Note that only ship and station icons are displayed on the minimap's bar; towers, caltrops, etc are not.

In an attempt to increase the information conveyed by the minimap, core developers have created their own sets of icons. With more icons comes more information that can be gleaned from the minimap, but these new icons are not as straightforward as the original ones.

Common minimap icons

Generally icons on the minimap can be broken down into two parts.

1. The symbol of the ship, which you should focus on learning.
2. Superscript that gives extra information about that ship.

The first part of the table below shows the ships common to most factions on most cores, and the lower part explains the extra info normally available. For a complete table showing all the ships and stations available, see lower down this article.

Ship name	Icon
Small ships
Scout
Fighter
Interceptor
Stealth fighter
Eject pod
Medium ships
Bomber
Stealth bomber
Gunship
Troop Transport
Capital ships
Corvette
Assault Ship
Attack Carrier
Cruiser
Destroyer
Devastator
Missile Frigate
AI Ships
Miner
Small base constructor
Large base constructor
Caltrop constructor
Tower constructor
Carrier
Minor stations
Outpost
Teleport receiver
Refinery
Special refinery
Major stations
Garrison
Expansion Complex
Supremacy Center
Tactical Laboratory
Shipyard
Extra information
Light ship (generally Mk I )	L
Enhanced ship (generally Mk II )	E
Advanced ship (generally Mk III )	A
Heavy ship (generally Mk III )	H
Nan capable ship	N
Teleport receiver ship	↙
Teleport capable ship	↗
Basic station	Hollow star
Advanced station	Solid star
Basic constructor
Enhanced constructor
Advanced constructor

Complete minimap icons

Shown below are the complete icons used in the CC core.

Optional: DN icons added to this list can be found here.

Optional: A+ and the original MS 1.25 icons are located here.

AI ships (constructors, miners, and drones)
Faction specific		Standard	Enhanced	Advanced
All	Small Constructor
All	Large Constructor
		Basic	Enhanced	Advanced
All but IC/TF	Miner
Iron Coalition Only	Miner (ripcord capable)[1]
Technoflux Only	Miner (small-rip)[2]
		Light	Standard	Enhanced
Lt. - Giga only	Carrier
GT only	Heavy carrier
All but TF	Caltrop Layer
All	Tower Layer
All	Deployed AC Tower[3]
All	Deployed SC Tower
GT Only	Rescue Drone
Bases
Minor
All	Outpost
All	Teleport receiver
All	Refinery
Giga and Dreg only	Special refinery
GT only	Research station
OH only	Tele-refinery
Major		Basic	Advanced
All	Garrison
All	Expansion
All	Supremacy
All	Tactical
All	Shipyard
GT only	Palisade
Ships
Small class
All	Eject pod
		Basic	Adv	Hvy
All	Scout
Rix only	Small rip scout
Giga only	Lux. scout
		Light	Reg	Hvy
All	Interceptor
Belters only	Hvy int nan
Giga only	Lux. int
		Basic	Enh.	Adv.
All but belters	Fighter
Belters only	Fighter
Giga only	Lux. fighter
		Light	Reg	Adv.
All but belters	Stealth fighter
Belters only	Stealth fighter
Giga only	Lux. stealth fighter
Belters only	Omni fighter
Giga only	Patroller
GT only	Guardian
GT only	Mustang
Medium class		Basic	Heavy
All	Troop transport
All	Bomber
All	Fighter-bomber
All	Stealth bomber
All	Stealth bomber (Nerve gas)
GT only	PT bomber
All but GT	Gunship
Capital ships
Light class
All	Freighter
All	Attack Carrier
All	Corvette
Tf only	Flagship I
Medium class
Giga only	Lt Cruiser
All	Destroyer
All but TF	Assault ship
All but TF	Frigate
TF only	Flagship II
Heavy class
All but giga & TF	Cruiser
Giga only	Lux Cruiser
All but belts, rix & TF	Devastator
All but Belts, Giga & TF	Battlecruiser
TF only	Flagship III
Super Heavy class
All but belters/Giga/TF	Battleship
TF only	Flagship IV
GT only	Harbinger of Doom
Misc[4]
TF, IC & Belts	Rescue probe/Sanctuary
All	EWS probe
All	Pulse probe
All	Teleport probe
Rix only	Combat drone
Rix only	Heavy combat drone
Rix only	Station drone
Rix only	Heavy station drone
TF only	Plasma generator
TF only	Heavy plas gen
All	Nerve gas missile
All	Floating cash (500 credits)
All	Powerup
All	Unresearched tech
All	Researched tech (spare part)

Footnotes

1  ·	As you can guess from the icon, IC miners can ripcord by themselves.

2  ·	Conversely, TF miners can be ripcorded to by you. However they have limited energy to receive ships, which regenerates slowly, so be wary!

3  ·	Deployed towers and caltrops do not appear on minimaps, but will on your HUD.

4  ·	None of the items under Misc appear on minimaps, but will on your HUD.

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