Ore Mine

Ore is the most used, and most abundant resource in the galaxy. It is the fundamental building block of ships and buildings, and can also be used in researching many technologies. As such, the ore mine is generally the first mine new Starfleet Commanders will build.

The Ore Mine produces ore at a set hourly rate. Like the Crystal Mine and the Hydrogen Synthesizer, the Ore Mine can have workers assigned to it and will produce extra ore.

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 ore storage capacity is 100k. When you are nearing your Ore 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 Ore, or build a Ore 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(40∙(1.5)^X)

Crystal Cost = floor(10∙1.5^X)

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

Production Value = floor(30∙X∙1.1^X) + 20

(in other words, as long as the mine is at level 0 (floor) it gives 20, if it is above level 0 It gives 30 * X * 1.1^X).

Note 1: The 20 unit offset is the initial production value for a new planet.

Note 2: The Ore and Crystal costs are the upgrade cost (to go from the previous level to that level) but the Energy Use and Production Value are the absolute values for that level.

Level	Ore Cost	Crystal Cost	Energy Use	Production Value	Production -to-energy	Hours to replenish ore
1	60	15	11	33	3	1.818181818
		2	90	22	25	72	2.88	1.25
		3	135	33	40	119	2.975	1.134453782
		4	202	50	59	175	2.966101695	1.154285714
		5	303	75	81	241	2.975308642	1.257261411
		6	455	113	107	318	2.971962617	1.43081761
		7	683	170	137	409	2.98540146	1.66992665
		8	1,025	256	172	514	2.988372093	1.994163424
		9	1,537	384	213	636	2.985915493	2.416666667
		10	2,306	576	260	778	2.992307692	2.964010283
		11	3,459	864	314	941	2.996815287	3.675876727
		12	5,189	1,297	377	1,129	2.99469496	4.596102746
		13	7,784	1,946	449	1,346	2.997772829	5.783060921
		14	11,677	2,919	532	1,594	2.996240602	7.325595985
		15	17,515	4,378	627	1,879	2.996810207	9.321447578
		16	26,273	6,568	736	2,205	2.995923913	11.91519274
		17	39,410	9,852	860	2,577	2.996511628	15.29297633
		18	59,115	14,778	1,001	3,002	2.999000999	19.69187209
		19	88,673	22,168	1,163	3,486	2.997420464	25.43689042
		20	133,010	33,252	1,346	4,036	2.998514116	32.95589693
		21	199,515	49,878	1,555	4,662	2.99807074	42.7960103
		22	299,273	74,818	1,791	5,372	2.999441653	55.70979151
		23	448,909	112,227	2,060	6,178	2.999029126	72.66251214
		24	673,364	168,341	2,364	7,091	2.999576988	94.9603723
		25	1,010,046	252,511	2,709	8,126	2.99963086	124.2980556
		26	1,515,070	378,767	3,099	9,296	2.999677315	162.980852
		27	2,272,605	568,151	3,540	10,619	2.999717514	214.0130897
		28	3,408,907	852,226	4,038	12,113	2.999752353	281.4254933
		29	5,113,361	1,278,340	4,601	13,800	2.999347968	370.5334058
		30	7,670,042	1,917,510	5,235	15,704	2.999808978	488.4132705
		31	11,505,063	2,876,265	5,951	17,850	2.999495883	644.5413445
		32	17,257,595	4,314,398	6,757	20,269	2.999704011	851.4280428
		33	25,886,392	6,471,598	7,665	22,992	2.999608611	1125.886917
		34	38,829,589	9,707,397	8,687	26,058	2.999654656	1490.121613
		35	58,244,384	14,561,096	9,836	29,507	2.999898333	1973.917511
		36	87,366,576	21,841,644	11,129	33,385	2.999820289	2616.941021
		37	131,049,864	32,762,466	12,582	37,744	2.999841043	3472.071429
		38	196,574,796	49,143,699	14,214	42,640	2.999859294	4610.103096
		39	294,862,195	73,715,548	16,047	48,139	2.999875366	6125.224766
		40	442,293,292	110,573,323	18,104	54,311	2.999944764	8143.714754

See Also

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