How much minerals/materials can a miner get per shift?

[kevinz000]

So, I need some real estimates of how much mats a miner can get in a normal shift of 1 hour, and a long shift of 2 hours. No shitposting. I've been thinking about R&D material balance and well, I'd want some amounts first since I don't think ORMs are in stats tracking. Also if someone with access to that wants to add ORM to stats tracking that'd be great so I don't need to shit up the forums with this.

[Whoisthere]

It takes me about 10 minutes of inefficient mining to get about 6k worth of points. I'm fairly new to mining and don't autism about making everything optimal. I've no idea about the share of each type of ore in those 6k points. I assume that in an hour I could get at least 50 tiles of rare ores (gold, titanium, uranium), maybe 10 tiles of diamond? Maybe I'm being too optimistic here.

[Kel-the-Oblivious]

With some nose to the grind stone mining, can collect 200 assorted rare ores, no glass or iron, before the first ash storm hits. Once you get a plasma cutter and a bluespace satchel, you can easily drown the station in so many minerals the QM is selling everything off to buy a hundred null crates.

[Hatfish]

Best case scenario, after an hour of mining you'd generally see 100+ of every rare material in the ORM, and anywhere from 200 to 500+ of base materials like metal and glass.
That's assuming the miners all don't die early in the round, of course.

[D&B]

Assuming the first miner focuses only in mining, you could get an approx of 20 diamonds if you're lucky, 10 blue space crystals, 50 or more sheets of uranium, 50 or more sheets of titanium, and 80 or more silver and gold. This is without taking into account watcher kills which give more diamonds.

For two hours just triple the amounts, since RnD upgrades boost mining a lot.

[Whoisthere]

How much resources can lavaland actually provide?

[D&B]

The only infinite thing would be diamonds, but afaik if you kill tendril spawns too quickly, they stop respawning.

[Drynwyn]

Miners rarely focus exclusively on mining, they are more often hunting for phat loot.

[calzilla1]

Miners rarely focus exclusively on mining, they are more often hunting for phat loot.

[Kel-the-Oblivious]

Miners rarely focus exclusively on mining, they are more often hunting for phat loot.

Those aren't miners, those are shitlords who take the Shaft Miner position because it has the most toys for their private little Gateway style hunting mission.

I always make sure to remind my fellow miners the dance steps of ore. Mine, upgrade, explore, hunt.

[onleavedontatme]

Miners rarely focus exclusively on mining, they are more often hunting for phat loot.

Eternal reminder that the stat page shows more minerals being mined with lavaland than were getting mined during the asteroid.

[Drynwyn]

Miners rarely focus exclusively on mining, they are more often hunting for phat loot.

Eternal reminder that the stat page shows more minerals being mined with lavaland than were getting mined during the asteroid.

Oh, that's not a BAD thing. Miners shouldn't BE expected to spend their entire round poking noninteractive rocks. BUT, because of those expectations, balancing R&D material costs around the Maximum Miner Yield is a terrible idea.

[onleavedontatme]

Oh, yeah material cost balance will always be a joke like every other resource system we have.

[D&B]

Bring goofgrinder back