Metal Mine
The engine of your expansion.
What it does
Extracts the metal used by construction, ship hulls, armour and early expansion.
Metal mines feed construction yards, armour plating, shipyards and early expansion chains. Steady metal keeps the build queue alive.
What it enables
Keeps building queues, shipyard growth and fleet production funded.
Cost for level 1
Building time depends on the planet’s Robotics Factory and Nanite Factory levels and on the universe speed, so it is not a fixed number.
Cost per level
Each level multiplies the previous cost by ×1.5, so each further level gets steadily more expensive the further you push it.
| To level | Metal | Crystal | Deuterium |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 | 15 | 0 |
| 2 | 90 | 23 | 0 |
| 5 | 304 | 76 | 0 |
| 10 | 2,307 | 577 | 0 |
| 15 | 17,516 | 4,379 | 0 |
Requirements
None — available from the start, with no research or building gate.
How each race builds it
The four races share the same building rules but not the same hardware — each one names and renders it differently, and applies its own combat multipliers from its race profile.
More buildings
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