Guides/Miner Costs

Assumptions

1. This page assumes finite resources (infinite resources and Blight Magnifiers are there own optimization problems)
2. This page assumes that the player has a limited capacity to micromanage (so past a certain point all frames are mobile and have Behavior Controllers). It doesn't account for a mining crew that moves buildings via Deployers (yet)
3. This table doesn't include the cost of controlling the miners (e.g. radar), powering the miners, or shipping the resources

How to read this table

The first four columns describe the build. Miner is the type of miner on the bot, is whether excess internal slots are used for mining drones, and is whether a behavior controller is included in the cost.

This table is given in terms of the resources (-seconds, -seconds, and ongoing Power draw) required to get the equivalent of one Miner. Miners-per-bot is how many miner equivalents are on a single bot of this type, i.e. a Twinbot with two Laser Mining Tools has four miner-equivalents*. As it's per miner, we can say that the 1-miner basic worker will pay for itself in 2 minutes 26 seconds while the 26-miner (13 advanced drone) Mobile Command Center will pay for itself in 1 hour 9 minutes, ignoring the cost of support, processing, and logistics.

^{*yes, technically advanced miners are 2.08x faster for crystal due to tick rounding}

Frame	Miner			-seconds	-seconds	Power	Miners-per-bot
Building 1x1 (1S)				140		15.0	1
Worker				146		25.0	1
Building 1x1 (2S)				206		15.0	2
Worker			1	207		25.0	1
Twinbot			1	718		22.5	2
Building 1x1 (1S)				1168		7.5	2
Building 1x1 (2S)				1200		7.5	4
Worker			1	1201		12.5	2
Twinbot			1	1456		11.2	4
Worker			1	1964	150	12.5	4
Worker		1	1	1977	150	11.7	6
Twinbot		1	1	2074	150	11.5	10
Twinbot			1	2092	150	11.9	8
Hound		2	1	2956	150	10.8	20
Hound			1	3194	150	10.9	16
Cub		1	1	3222	150	11.4	14
Cub			1	3426	150	11.7	12
Mobile Command Center		1	1	4180	150	10.4	26
Mobile Command Center			1	4361	150	10.4	24