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Advanced Mining Machine

Mining Facility

Using the quantum chip to positively intervene the photon group generated by the exciter in the transition process, it can lead a obvious bunching effect of the laser beam. Under the action of the special gravitational field, the focused laser beam rapidly heats the ore veins along the predetermined path, transports in the form of particles and encapsulated into cargos, it can be built more convenient and have a higher gathering speed. The collected ores can be transported out by conveyor belts or logistics drones.

Gathering Target		Vein
Gathering Speed		60 * veins * Mining speed/min
Work Consumption		2.94 MW
Idle Consumption		168 kW
Made In		Assembler
Hand-make		Replicator
Stack Size		30

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Summary

The Advanced Mining Machine is the late-game alternative to the regular Mining Machine, offering both higher mining speed and better vein coverage. Unlike regular Mining Machines, the Advanced Mining Machines' mining field cannot overlap with each other, although they can overlap with regular Miners' fields.

The baseline mining speed of an Advanced Mining Machine is 60 per vein, twice as fast as the basic one. Additionally, the Advanced Mining Machine's field is large enough to easily cover an entire vein cluster at once. Like the basic Mining Machine, the number of veins covered does not affect energy consumption, which ends up making the Advanced Mining Machine more energy-efficient as well; covering an entire cluster only takes 1 Advanced Mining Machine but could take 5 or 6 basic ones.

The Advanced Mining Machine also has 2 features the basic one does not. First, it has a slider that allows the player to manually increase its mining speed up to 300% of the baseline, although this will greatly increase the energy required. Second, it contains an internal storage similar to a Planetary Logistics Station with a base capacity of 5000 items (increased by 1000 per level of the Logistics Carrier Capacity upgrade) that can be set to Supply or Storage mode. Setting this to Supply allows Logistics Drones to pick up items from the Advanced Mining Machine, but as a result Advanced Mining machines cannot be built near Logistics Stations.

On top of all these improvements over the basic Mining Machine, the Advanced Mining Machine also has 9 conveyor belt outputs instead of 1. When using Conveyor Belts Mk.III, up to 16200 items can be unloaded per minute. The Logistics Station Integrated Logistics upgrade also allows the Advanced Mining Machine to output stacked cargo, raising that limit to a whopping 64800 items per minute at the upgrade's maximum level.

Production Chain

Recipe	Building	Replicator?	Technology
1 20 s 20 10 10 4 40		✔

Operational Configuration and Settings

Gathering Speed Slider

Gathering speed can be set as low as 100% (the normal speed) and as high as 300%, in increments of 10% at a time.

The power consumption increases by the multiplier squared. For instance, 200% mining speed results in 2.0^2 = 4 times the power consumption.

Speed multiplier	100%	150%	200%	250%	300%
Power consumption	2.94 MW (100%)	6.615 MW (225%)	11.76 MW (400%)	18.375 MW (625%)	26.46 MW (900%)

The gathering speed multiplier stacks multiplicatively with the speed bonus from the Veins Utilization upgrade.

Output Cargo Stack Count (Slider) & Use Tech Limit (Checkbox)

These options are unlocked with the Logistics Station Integrated Logistics upgrade. It allows Logistics Stations and Advanced Mining Machines to output cargo to the belts in stacks instead of 1 at a time, similar to the stacks formed by the Automatic Piler. When the checkbox is set, the slider is locked and the amount of cargo in stacks is equal to the maximum possible allowed by the upgrade. Otherwise, the player can set the stack count at which the cargo gets unloaded, between 1 and the current tech limit.

Player Tips & Tricks

While the Advanced Mining Machine's mining speed is a welcome luxury, keep in mind that veins will be depleted considerably faster than with basic Mining Machines. Be prepared to set up new mining facilities on other planets.

Normal Mining Machines can be placed on the same cluster as the Advanced Mining Machine and put their output directly into the Advanced Mining Machine's storage.

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 ==Summary==
-The Advanced Mining Machine is the late-game alternative to the regular [[Mining Machine]], offering both higher mining speed per vein and better vein coverage. Unlike regular Miners, Advanced Miners' mining fields cannot overlap with each other, but it can overlap regular Miners' fields.
+The '''Advanced Mining Machine''' is the late-game alternative to the regular [[Mining Machine]], offering both higher mining speed and better vein coverage. Unlike regular Mining Machines, the Advanced Mining Machines' mining field cannot overlap with each other, although they can overlap with regular Miners' fields.
-The baseline mining speed of an Advanced Machine is 60 per vein, which is twice as fast compared to the regular one, and its mining field is capable to fully cover most vein clusters. As with the regular Miner, vein coverage does not affect energy consumption. This makes the Advanced Machine also more energy-efficient, as one might need 5-6 regular Miners to cover an entire vein cluster. The mining speed can be further increased up to 300% of the baseline, but this greatly increases the energy expenses.
+The baseline mining speed of an Advanced Mining Machine is 60 per vein, twice as fast as the basic one. Additionally, the Advanced Mining Machine's field is large enough to easily cover an entire vein cluster at once. Like the basic Mining Machine, the number of veins covered does not affect energy consumption, which ends up making the Advanced Mining Machine more energy-efficient as well; covering an entire cluster only takes 1 Advanced Mining Machine but could take 5 or 6 basic ones.
-The Machine's internal storage is similar to the single storage slot of a [[Planetary Logistics Station]], with the baseline capacity of 5000, that can be further increased by 1000 per each level of the [[Logistics Carrier Capacity (Upgrade)|Logistics Carrier Capacity]] upgrade. It can be alternated between '''Supply''' and '''Storage''' modes, with the former allowing [[Logistics Drone]]s to pick up its content. For this reason, Advanced Miners cannot be built in the proximity of the [[Logistics Stations]].
+The Advanced Mining Machine also has 2 features the basic one does not. First, it has a slider that allows the player to manually increase its mining speed up to 300% of the baseline, although this will greatly increase the energy required. Second, it contains an internal storage similar to a [[Planetary Logistics Station]] with a base capacity of 5000 items (increased by 1000 per level of the [[Logistics Carrier Capacity (Upgrade)|Logistics Carrier Capacity]] upgrade) that can be set to '''Supply''' or '''Storage''' mode. Setting this to '''Supply''' allows [[Logistics Drone]]s to pick up items from the Advanced Mining Machine, but as a result Advanced Mining machines cannot be built near Logistics Stations.
-The Machine also has a total of 9 [[Conveyor Belts|belt]] outputs, effectively capping the unloading speed by belts at 16200/min, when using [[Conveyor Belt Mk.III|Mk.III belts]]. With the [[Logistics Station Integrated Logistics (Upgrade)|Logistics Station Integrated Logistics]] upgrade, the Miner also gains ability to output stacked cargos, raising that cap to a whopping 64800/min at the upgrade's maximum level.
+On top of all these improvements over the basic Mining Machine, the Advanced Mining Machine also has 9 [[Conveyor Belts|conveyor belt]] outputs instead of 1. When using [[Conveyor Belt Mk.III|Conveyor Belts Mk.III]], up to 16200 items can be unloaded per minute. The [[Logistics Station Integrated Logistics (Upgrade)|Logistics Station Integrated Logistics]] upgrade also allows the Advanced Mining Machine to output stacked cargo, raising that limit to a whopping 64800 items per minute at the upgrade's maximum level.
 ==Production Chain==
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 |Building=Assembler
 |Replicator=Yes
-|Technology=Photon Spotlight Mining Technology
+|Technology=Photon Spotlight Mining
 |Recipe=
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 |In4=Quantum Chip
 |In4Qty=4
-|In5=Optical Grating Crystal
+|In5=Grating Crystal
 |In5Qty=40
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 ==Operational Configuration and Settings==
-===Gathering Speed (Slider)===
+===Gathering Speed Slider===
-Value range: [100%, 300%] (Step: 10%)
+Gathering speed can be set as low as 100% (the normal speed) and as high as 300%, in increments of 10% at a time.
-Allows further increase of the gathering speed. The power consumption increases by the square of the multiplier:
+The power consumption increases by the multiplier squared. For instance, 200% mining speed results in 2.0^2 = 4 times the power consumption.
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-This multiplier stacks ''multiplicatively'' with the speed bonus from the [[Veins Utilization (Upgrade)|Veins Utilization]] upgrade.
+The gathering speed multiplier stacks ''multiplicatively'' with the speed bonus from the [[Veins Utilization (Upgrade)|Veins Utilization]] upgrade.
 ===Output Cargo Stack Count (Slider) & Use Tech Limit (Checkbox)===
-These options get unlocked with the [[Logistics Station Integrated Logistics (Upgrade)|Logistics Station Integrated Logistics]] upgrade. It allows [[Logistics Stations]] and Advanced Mining Machines to output cargo to the [[Conveyor Belts|belts]] in stacks, similar to those formed by the [[Automatic Piler]]. When the checkbox is set, the slider is locked and the amount of cargo in stacks equals to that provided by the current level of the upgrade. Otherwise, player is able to set the stack count at which the cargo gets unloaded, between 1 and the current tech limit, when 1 means non-stacked output.
+These options are unlocked with the [[Logistics Station Integrated Logistics (Upgrade)|Logistics Station Integrated Logistics]] upgrade. It allows [[Logistics Stations]] and Advanced Mining Machines to output cargo to the belts in stacks instead of 1 at a time, similar to the stacks formed by the [[Automatic Piler]]. When the checkbox is set, the slider is locked and the amount of cargo in stacks is equal to the maximum possible allowed by the upgrade. Otherwise, the player can set the stack count at which the cargo gets unloaded, between 1 and the current tech limit.
 ==Player Tips & Tricks==
+While the Advanced Mining Machine's mining speed is a welcome luxury, keep in mind that veins will be depleted considerably faster than with basic Mining Machines. Be prepared to set up new mining facilities on other planets.
+Normal Mining Machines can be placed on the same cluster as the Advanced Mining Machine and put their output directly into the Advanced Mining Machine's storage.
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