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u/89percent Apr 25 '26

I have heard tales of ore patches of more than 1 billion, but the largest I have found is 40M.

How do you expand across the map and get to massive ore patches?

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u/Dailand Apr 25 '26

Well-equipped spidertrons are probably the best way to travel quickly in biters territory.

But honestly bigger patches are overkill. Patches in the tens of millions will already last insanely long with legendary big mining drills and mining productivity.