EVE is a community-driven massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, set in a world of galactic proportions. This online universe is governed by a hyper-capitalistic economy where space flight is the path to all commerce, communication, and conflict. Your mission is to establish yourself as a major competitor, trusted by your friends, feared by your enemies. To accomplish this, your principle tools -- apart from an impressive array of sophisticated equipment, customizable space ships and in-game corporations -- will be your natural business acumen, social skills, Machiavellian thinking and cunning combat strategies.

Set tens of thousands of years in the future, EVE Online is a breathtaking journey to the stars, to an immersive experience filled with adventure, riches, danger and glory. With nearly a quarter of a million subscribers worldwide inhabiting the same virtual universe, EVE features a vast player-run economy where your greatest asset is the starship, designed to accommodate your specific needs, skills and ambitions. EVE offers professions ranging from commodities trader to mercenary, industrial entrepreneur to pirate, mining engineer to battle fleet commander or any combination of these and much more. From brokering business deals to waging war, you will have access to a diverse array of sophisticated tools and interfaces to forge your own destiny in EVE.

CCP Games announced EVE Online: Catalyst, the next major expansion for EVE Online.

With Catalyst, mining becomes a spark for new conflicts, collaborations, and ambitions. Launching on November 18, 2025, the expansion introduces additional mining vessels, the Prismaticite ore, a highly anticipated 2D ore availability map, and more.

“Mining is the foundation of all activity in EVE, and with Catalyst, it becomes the forefront of power,” said Bergur Finnbogason, EVE Online’s Creative Director. “We’re reenergizing the mining experience, making it far more dynamic, social, and rewarding. To master the universe, you must master its materials. Whether you build or destroy, it all begins with ore.”

“At face value, ore may seem unremarkable, yet it is the hidden catalyst of EVE’s biggest dramas. Creation, conflict, destruction, and rebirth – it’s the center of the eternal cycle of New Eden,” said Snorri Árnason, EVE Online’s Executive Producer. “But where valuable resources appear, so do rival capsuleers, turning mining operations into contested battlegrounds. Players will once again field the mightiest mining ships in pursuit of extraordinary resources, as well as the brand new Pioneer and Odysseus when Catalyst launches on November 18.”

A failed experiment on the enigmatic Drifter Gates has destabilized spacetime, causing Hyperspace Fractures to appear across New Eden. These short-lived anomalies reveal Phased Asteroids rich in a volatile new resource, Prismaticite, an erratic ore that reprocesses into random minerals in unpredictable quantities. Outer Ring Excavations (ORE) engineers have unveiled Phase Anchor technology, a deployable system that stabilizes fractured asteroids for coordinated mining.

EVE Online: Catalyst’s key features include:

• Hyperspace Fractures and Prismaticite: Explore volatile, time-limited rifts to locate Phased Asteroids rich in Prismaticite, a new erratic ore type. Players can test their luck with random reprocessing or choose a different base mineral for Prismaticite to reprocess into, giving them increased agency for fueling the mining industry and impacting EVE Online’s player-driven economy.
• ‘Pioneer’ Mining Destroyer: The first of its kind, bridging the gap between mining frigates and barges. Designed for accessibility, this ship can be piloted by Alpha clones and upgraded by Omegas, offering an accessible gateway to EVE Online’s industrial gameplay.
• ‘Odysseus’ Exploration Command Ship: A long-range vessel built for deep-space expeditions, enabling veteran explorers to lead extended missions into uncharted regions.
• Mining UI/UX Overhaul: Mining cycles are faster and more immersive, featuring a refreshed scanning overlay and a 2D ore availability map. The tactical, easy-to-read 2D map provides capsuleers with improved system visualization, clear jump ranges, and dual data overlays, offering precise navigation and sharper insights for exploration. Both 2D and 3D maps will feature ore availability indicators, enhanced data readability, and customizable scales for greater clarity in every view.
• Mining Mutaplasmids and Critical Hits: New customization and yield-boosting systems make resource extraction more unpredictable, engaging, and rewarding.
• PLEX Transaction Logs: Personal PLEX histories introduce transparency to the in-game economy.
• Carrier Balancing and Visual Refresh: Empire carriers receive notable balance adjustments and updated visuals in response to player feedback.

In the weeks following Catalyst’s launch, CCP Games will deploy an update for Access Control Lists (ACL). A feature long requested by EVE’s community, the ACL update will enable corporations to control who can see and contribute to specific Freelance Jobs. 

Illustrious capsuleers,

Mining is the foundation of all activity in EVE Online, with entire empires being born from a single rock. The Catalyst expansion, coming on 18 November, highlights it as the frontline of power. A new, highly valuable ore will spark a new resource rush, and capsuleers will once again wield the mightiest ships in pursuit of extraordinary riches.

A Resource Rush

Mining is now becoming increasingly dynamic, rewarding, and fiercely contested, with mysterious hyperspace fractures revealing volatile asteroids, rich in a powerful ore.

Discover Phased Fields and bring your fleet to harvest great riches, but at great peril. Dispatch new phase anchor deployables to be able to mine the mysterious asteroids and the prismaticite they contain but act fast before the fracture closes.

Prismaticite, a new type of erratic and extremely valuable ore, refines into different minerals at random, although by using reactions to reprocess the ore, you control the outcome.

New industrial and exploration ships expand strategic options, but danger lurks at every junction. The fight for resources fuels creation, destruction, connection, and conflict across the cluster.

Whether you rise to build or strike to destroy, every story begins with ore.

Pioneer: A New Mining Destroyer

Level up your industry game with the Pioneer, a perfect middle ground between a mining frigate and mining barges. Even brand new capsuleers can obtain this new mining destroyer after only a few hours in New Eden, and fly it as Alphas. There is even more to unlock for Omegas, too, so this vessel can scale as you realize your industrialist ambitions.

In all, there will be three versions of the Pioneer, including a Tech II version and a Consortium Issue variant.

Odysseus: Exploration Command Ship

Lead your fleet further afield with this new exploration command ship and conquer uncharted territory.

With new expedition command bursts and a massive new exploration hold, you can stay out longer, venture further, and carry more loot back home.

Mining Refined

Resource harvesting is getting more responsive, immersive, tactical, and rewarding than ever before.

Faster Mining Cycles

While total yield remains the same, faster mining cycles make the process more responsive and dynamic. Feel progress every second as your lasers tear through asteroids in shorter, more engaging bursts.

Mining Crits

Critical mining hits bring a thrill to every operation, offering a potential bonus yield on successful strikes from your mining lasers. All mining lasers have a chance for critical hits, but skills and modules can improve your odds.

Mining UI/UX Improvements

The mining interface has been reworked, with clear, real-time data and a cleaner presentation integrated into the space scene itself. New scanners will work faster and give you clear, color-coded readouts so you can quickly see which asteroids will be worth your while, and many more improvements have been made to the mining experience.

Highsec Mining Improved

Highsec mining has never looked better. New visual updates and the return of anomaly sites bring omber and kernite back to highsec. Complete them for a rare chance at highsec mining escalations or use your scan probes to discover hidden combat sites with valuable ore.

Mining Mutaplasmids

Mutate your mining modules and drones for potential bonuses. The new Mining Mutaplasmids introduce risk and reward to industry fittings, letting you push your yield and efficiency to unpredictable extremes.

A new way to see the stars.

A tactical, easy-to-read 2D map gives capsuleers the clarity they need for planning and exploration. It’s a long-requested feature that enhances both accessibility and strategic gameplay.

The new 2D view delivers improved system visualization, clear jump ranges, and dual data overlays, offering precise navigation and sharper tactical insight directly in-game. It’s the map new pilots needed and veterans wanted (thanks for all the feedback!).

Both 2D and 3D maps will feature ore availability indicators, enhanced data readability, and customizable scales, including logarithmic options, for greater clarity in every view.

Learn the Ropes with a New Epic Arc

Whether you’re warping into New Eden for the first time, or just want to explore everything the new expansion has to offer, a new accessible and brief epic arc has got you covered.

Explore and experience the new mining content through an introductory narrative journey, intended to test a new way to introduce expansion content. At the end, you will have a new Pioneer mining destroyer to launch your mining career.

This new arc will introduce the Catalyst expansion to pilots of all experience levels, and help new capsuleers set goals and discover some of the wonders of New Eden.

PLEX Logs

Monitor your PLEX-flow with new personal PLEX transaction logs, bringing transparency by showing where it comes from and how it’s spent. The first iteration will display entries for the last 30 days, with a cap of 2,000 entries, covering inflow and outflow.

Carriers Forward

Carriers are receiving a buff to utility, a visual refresh, and a reduction in manufacturing cost. These are not drastic changes, but rather incremental adjustments so we can monitor the effects and work with capsuleers to refine their role in the ecosystem.

Get an Early Taste

You have an opportunity to see the new hyperspace fractures, rare asteroids, and more mining improvements in advance by jumping into a mass test on the Singularity test server from 17:00 –19:00 UTC on 23 October. Since it’s still in active development, this will not be fully representative of the final product, but primarily serve as a performance test. We do, however, welcome any feedback on design, balance, and user experience.

Check out this forum post for all the details on the mass test.

Catalyst Arrives 18 November

Prepare to dive into the heart of New Eden’s next great transformation. The rush begins soon, be ready to mine, fight, and rise.