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 increase your Ore Warehouse's capacity. Alternatively, the mine will produce as long as the ore is sent off on a Fleet/Resource Save mission.

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 Y = Droids

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

Production Value formula Including Droids = FLOOR(((((1+((Y)*0.02))*30)*X)*(1.1^X)),1)+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 that 1.1^X does not mean 1.1*X it means 1.1 to the Power X, 1.1 times it self X times, 1.1¹⁴) is not 5.4, it is 3.7975.)

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.

Note 3: The Floor stands for a function inside of Excel that allows the equations output to be rounded down to the nearest whole number.

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

Starfleet Commander 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. The info provided below is not from BFG, but from a player that compiled the calculations.

Ore = Floor(30*x*(1.14)^x) + 20

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

Hydro = Floor(12*x*(1.14)^x*(-0.002*max_temp + 1.28))

where x is the mine level.

See Also

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