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, 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

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 )

Level	Ore Cost	Crystal Cost	Energy Use	Production Value
1	48	24	11	22
2	76	38	25	48
3	122	61	40	79
4	196	98	59	117
5	314	157	81	161
6	503	251	107	212
7	805	402	137	272
8	1,288	644	172	342
9	2,061	1,030	213	424
10	3,298	1,649	260	518
11	5,277	2,638	314	627
12	8,444	4,222	377	753
13	13,510	6,755	449	897
14	21,617	10,808	532	1,063
15	34,587	17,293	627	1,253
16	55,340	27,670	736	1,470
17	88,544	44,272	860	1,718
18	141,670	70,835	1,001	2,001
19	226,673	113,336	1,163	2,324
20	362,677	181,338	1,346	2,690
21	580,284	290,142	1,555	3,108
22	928,455	464,227	1,791	3,581
23	1,485,528	742,764	2,060	4,118
24	2,376,844	1,188,422	2,364	4,727
25	3,802,951	1,901,475	2,709	5,417
26	6,084,722	3,042,361	3,099	6,197
27	9,735,556	4,867,778	3,540	7,079
28	15,576,890	7,788,445	4,038	8,075
29	24,923,024	12,461,512	4,601	9,200
30	39,876,839	19,938,419	5,235	10,469
31	63,802,943	31,901,471	5,951	11,900
32	102,084,710	51,042,355	6,757	13,512
33	163,335,536	81,667,768	7,665	15,328
34	261,336,857	130,668,428	8,687	17,372
35	418,138,972	209,069,486	9,836	19,671
36	669,022,355	334,511,177	11,129	22,257
37	1,070,435,769	535,217,884	12,582	25,162
38	1,712,697,231	856,348,615	14,214	28,427
39	2,740,315,569	1,370,157,784	16,047	32,092
40	4,384,504,911	2,192,252,455	18,104	36,207

See Also

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