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

The mining machine harvests each vein covered by its harvest area at a base rate of 30 items per minute. This rate is the same for all material veins.

Production Chain

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

Production Progression Chart

for more information on reading and using these charts, see Production Progression Chart

Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4
240	4 240		3 60
120	2 120	2 120
120	3 120	2 120
60	1 60	2 120
120	2 120	2 120
60	1 60	2 120
Buildings Required		13 9
Raw Materials Required (per minute)		600 120
Raw Materials Required (per unit)		10 2

Production Upgrade

Each level of the Veins Utilization upgrade increases the mining rate by a flat 10%, and reduces the consumption rate by a compounding 6%.

Initially this increases the speed at which a vein is depleted, while providing more total items. This reaches its greatest effect at the first infinite level of Veins Utilization, the sixth total level. Upon reaching the fifteenth total level of Veins Utilization, the depletion rate drops below the base rate.

Veins needed to fill a belt
Belt Tier	Base							Total 10	Total 15	Total 20	Total 30	Total 50	Total 110	Total 230	Total 590
	12	11	10	9.3	8.6	8	7.5	6	4.8	4	3	2	1	1	1
	24	21.2	20	18.5	17.2	16	15	12	9.6	8	6	4	2	1	1
	60	54.6	50	46.2	42.9	40	37.5	30	24	20	15	10	5	2.5	1
Consumption of Vein
Per Item	1	0.94	0.8836	0.8306	0.7807	0.7339	0.6899	0.5386	0.3953	0.2901	0.1563	0.0453	0.0011	6.6e-7	1.4e-16
Per minute per vein	30	31.02	31.81	32.39	32.79	33.03	33.11	32.32	29.65	26.12	18.75	8.16	0.40	4.8e-4	2.5e-13

Total is 5 + Veins Utilization Infinite level.

Player Tips & Tricks

Unlike other buildings, mining machines can be rotated clockwise by arbitrary values by holding down the Shift key while pushing R. Holding Shift while using the ⇦ and ⇨ keys allows to rotate in either direction freely.

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