Crystal Mine

Crystal is the resource commonly used in electronics and a fundamental building block of ships, buildings, and research. It's more scarce and expensive to mine than ore.

Like the Ore Mine and the Hydrogen Synthesizer, the Crystal Mine can have workers assigned to it and will produce extra crystal.

Rather than producing in one lump sum every hour, mines produce resources continuously in Starfleet Commander, so you will see your resources update with every new page load.

Initial crystal storage capacity is 100k. When you are nearing your Crystal storage limit, the resource counter in the top right of the interface will turn orange. When the counter is red, your mine will stop producing. In order to resume production, you must either use the Crystal, move it elsewhere (including a fleet/resource save) or build a Crystal Warehouse to increase capacity.

Workers

One worker may be assigned to a mine from the beginning. Another is allowed with every three levels. So a level 3 mine may have 2 workers, a level 6 mine may have 3 workers, etc.

Workers able to work in the mine are:

Type	Production Increase
Mining Droid	2%
Basic Android	4%
Human Worker	4%

Cost, Energy Use, and Production by Level, Universe 1

X = Level

Ore Cost = floor( 30 * (1.6)^X )

Crystal Cost = floor( 15 * (1.6)^X )

Energy Use = floor( 10 * X * (1.1)^X ) + (1 if X > 1)

Production Value = floor( 20 * X * (1.1)^X ) + 10

Note: The 10 unit offset is the initial production value for a new planet.

Level	Ore Cost	Crystal Cost	Energy Use	Production Value	Production- to-energy	Hours to replenish crystal
1	48	24	11	22	2	1.090909091
2	76	38	25	48	1.92	0.791666667
3	122	61	40	79	1.975	0.772151899
4	196	98	59	117	1.983050847	0.837606838
5	314	157	81	161	1.987654321	0.97515528
6	503	251	107	212	1.981308411	1.183962264
7	805	402	137	272	1.98540146	1.477941176
8	1,288	644	172	342	1.988372093	1.883040936
9	2,061	1,030	213	424	1.990610329	2.429245283
10	3,298	1,649	260	518	1.992307692	3.183397683
11	5,277	2,638	314	627	1.996815287	4.207336523
12	8,444	4,222	377	753	1.99734748	5.60690571
13	13,510	6,755	449	897	1.997772829	7.530657748
14	21,617	10,808	532	1,063	1.998120301	10.16745061
15	34,587	17,293	627	1,253	1.998405104	13.80127694
16	55,340	27,670	736	1,470	1.997282609	18.82312925
17	88,544	44,272	860	1,718	1.997674419	25.76949942
18	141,670	70,835	1,001	2,001	1.999000999	35.3998001
19	226,673	113,336	1,163	2,324	1.99828031	48.767642
20	362,677	181,338	1,346	2,690	1.998514116	67.41189591
21	580,284	290,142	1,555	3,108	1.998713826	93.35328185
22	928,455	464,227	1,791	3,581	1.999441653	129.6361352
23	1,485,528	742,764	2,060	4,118	1.999029126	180.3700826
24	2,376,844	1,188,422	2,364	4,727	1.999576988	251.411466
25	3,802,951	1,901,475	2,709	5,417	1.99963086	351.0199372
26	6,084,722	3,042,361	3,099	6,197	1.999677315	490.9409392
27	9,735,556	4,867,778	3,540	7,079	1.999717514	687.6363893
28	15,576,890	7,788,445	4,038	8,075	1.999752353	964.5133127
29	24,923,024	12,461,512	4,601	9,200	1.999565312	1354.512174
30	39,876,839	19,938,419	5,235	10,469	1.999808978	1904.519916
31	63,802,943	31,901,471	5,951	11,900	1.999663922	2680.795882
32	102,084,710	51,042,355	6,757	13,512	1.999704011	3777.557356
33	163,335,536	81,667,768	7,665	15,328	1.999739074	5328.012004
34	261,336,857	130,668,428	8,687	17,372	1.999769771	7521.78379
35	418,138,972	209,069,486	9,836	19,671	1.999898333	10628.31
36	669,022,355	334,511,177	11,129	22,257	1.999910145	15029.48183
37	1,070,435,769	535,217,884	12,582	25,162	1.999841043	21270.88006
38	1,712,697,231	856,348,615	14,214	28,427	1.999929647	30124.48078
39	2,740,315,569	1,370,157,784	16,047	32,092	1.999875366	42694.68353
40	4,384,504,911	2,192,252,455	18,104	36,207	1.999944764	60547.75195

Universe 2

One aspect of the new universe 2 opened up in August, 2010, is that the mine production numbers have been changed to a different formula. This info should be added to this entry soon.

• The following formula is tentative, based on a user's calculations, not info provided by BFG:

Crystal(x) = Floor(20*x*(1.14)^x) + 10

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The following is a partial table equivalent to the one above for universe 1

• Note: "Equiv Crystal Cost" equals the combined ore+crystal cost of level as crystal based on merchant conversion value of 166 ore = 100 crystal

Level	Ore Cost	Crystal Cost	........	Energy Use	Production Value	Production- to-energy	........	Crystal Equiv. Cost of Level*	Hours to Positive Net Income
0	na	na	│	0	10	na	│	na	na
1	48	24	│	11	32	2.91	│	53	1.66
2	77	39	│	25	61	2.44	│	85	1.39
3	123	62	│	40	98	2.45	│	136	1.39
4	197	99	│	59	145	2.45	│	217	1.50
5	315	158	│	81	202	2.49	│	347	1.72
6	504	252	│	107	273	2.55	│	554	2.03
7	806	409	│	137	360	2.63	│	893	2.48
8	1,289	645	│	172	466	2.71	│	1,418	3.04
9	2,062	1,031	│	213	595	2.79	│	2,262	3.80
10	3,299	1,650	│	260	751	2.89	│	3,629	4.83
11	5,278	2,639	│	314	939	2.99	│	5,806	6.18
12	8,445	4,223	│	377	1,166	3.09	│	9,290	7.90
13	13,512	6,756	│	449	1,438	3.20	│	14,863	10.34
14	21,618	10,809	│	532	1,763	3.31	│	23,780	13.49
15	34,588	17,294	│	627	2,151	3.43	│	38,047	17.69
16	55,341	27,671	│	736	2,613	3.55	│	60,876	23.30
17	88,545	44,274	│	860	3,164	3.68	│	97,401	30.78
18	141,671	70,836	│	1,001	3,817	4.26	│	155,839	36.56
19	226,674	113,337	│	1,163	4,591	4.50	│	249,341	47.66
20	TBA		│		5,507		│
21	TBA		│		6,590		│
22	TBA		│		7,869		│
23	TBA		│		9,376		│
24	TBA		│		11,152		│
25	TBA		│		13,241		│
26	TBA		│		15,697		│
27	TBA		│		18,581		│
28	TBA		│		21,965		│
29	TBA		│		25,932		│
30	TBA		│		30,580		│
31	TBA		│		36,022		│
32	TBA		│		42,387		│
33	TBA		│		49,830		│
34	TBA		│		58,526		│
35	TBA		│		68,680		│
36	TBA		│		80,531		│
37	TBA		│		94,353		│
38	TBA		│		110,468		│
39	TBA		│		129,246		│
40	TBA		│		151,117		│

See Also

• Crystal Warehouse
• Mines
• Ore Mine
• Hydrogen Synthesizer
• Workers
• Mine Droid
• Solar Plant