Mining Machine

Mining Facility

The more veins covered by the mining machine, the faster the mining speed, and the same vein can be covered by multiple mining rings, but the more mining rings covered, the faster the consumption.

Gathering Target		Vein
Gathering Speed		30 * veins * Mining speed/min
Work Consumption		420 kW
Idle Consumption		24.0 kW
Made In		Assembler
Hand-Make		Replicator
Stack Size		50

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Summary

The more veins covered by the mining machine, the faster the mining speed, and the same vein can be covered by multiple mining rings, but the more mining rings covered, the faster the consumption.

Production Chain

Recipe	Building	Replicator?	Technology
1 3 s 4 2 2 2		✔

Total Raw Materials

10x Iron Ore
2x Copper Ore

Gives Extra: none.

Player Tips & Tricks

Here's a formula for determining how many veins you need to cover, to fill a belt:

V = (2 * Bs) / (1 + (0.1 * Vu))
V = Veins
Bs = Belt Speed (in items/second)
Vu = # of Veins Utilizations Upgrades completed

The Conveyor Belt Mk.I can carry 6 items per second or 360 items per minute. A Mining Machine that is covering exactly 6 veins will produce 180 items per second. Combining the belts from two mining machines will fully saturate a Conveyor Belt Mk.I with a full 360 items per minute. Note: Mining machines can cover the same resource veins, as shown in the picture below.

Two Mining Machines Fully Saturate a Belt

The mining machine harvests each vein covered by its harvest area at a rate of 30/s (without any technology researched). This rate is the same for all material veins. Each level of the Veins Utilization Upgrade increases the harvest rate by 10%, and reduces the consumption rate by 6%.

Veins needed to fill a belt
Base
12	11	10	9.3	8.6	8
24	21.2	20	18.5	17.2	16
60	54.6	50	46.2	42.9	40