Mining Speed

Modifier · mining

Mining speed — a multiplier on the rate of the node being mined, not a rate itself. Every hull mines: each one carries a mining laser of 1.0, and a ship’s laser component raises it from there, tier by tier. Whether a ship has one is the ship’s own, not its hull type’s: survey ships usually do and other hulls usually do not, but an explorer can carry one and a survey ship can lack it. A ship without one reads zero there and mines at the node’s own rate, and mining research still speeds it up. Bonuses do not all sum: laser bonuses raise the laser itself, in the laser’s own units (+26,500% is 265 more laser), speed bonuses add to each other, and the two multiply — MINING BONUS = (laser + laser bonuses) × (1 + speed bonuses), which is the figure the ship’s detail panel shows. Multiply it by the node’s own hourly rate for resources per hour. A source carrying a resource gate raises the rate only for the resources it names, so a ship’s headline bonus can be far higher on one material than another. The detail panel leaves out those gated sources: it shows only what applies to every material, so a hull whose own ability names one resource can read a modest bonus there and mine that resource enormously faster. Two nodes of the same resource in one system can also pay different hourly rates, so the same ship parked on each hauls different amounts without any bonus changing.

Canonical key

MiningRate

Game code

105

Game name

CLIENTMODIFIERTYPE_MODMININGRATE

Subsystem

mining

Badge shorthand

Mining Spd