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Metal Mine

Der Motor deiner Expansion.

What it does

Fördert das Metall für Bauprojekte, Schiffsrümpfe, Panzerung und die frühe Expansion.

Metallminen versorgen Bauhöfe, Panzerung, Werften und frühe Expansionsketten. Stetiges Metall hält die Bauwarteschlange am Leben.

What it enables

Hält Bauwarteschlangen, Werftausbau und Flottenproduktion finanziert.

⛏ Resource Production Occupies a building field

Cost for level 1

Metal
60
Crystal
15

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 levelMetalCrystalDeuterium
160150
290230
5304760
102,3075770
1517,5164,3790

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.

Terran Metal Mine — Terran Directorate building
Terran Metal Mine
Standard Directorate infrastructure with broad operational reliability.
Lattice Metal Mine — Auralith Concord building
Lattice Metal Mine
Crystalline infrastructure grown around resonant mineral channels.
Brood Metal Mine — Varkesh Brood building
Brood Metal Mine
Organic infrastructure grown from biomass, nerve clusters and hardened carapace.
Assembly Metal Mine — Synthera Assembly building
Assembly Metal Mine
Machine infrastructure built from modular processors, forges and self-checking control loops.

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