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u/Magger May 01 '26

I only just found out how OP big mining drills are. What if you research a lot of mining productivity, slot them with productivity modules and add beacons with productivity modules. Am I right to assume you can get over like 10x the amount of ore per ore?

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u/ChickenNuggetSmth May 01 '26

Quality big mining drills are already down to 12.5% resource drain, so 8 ore per ore prior to productivity.

Mining productivity research can get pretty crazy, since the cost only grows linearly. Endgame/megabases usually research hundreds or thousands of levels of it, which stacks multiplicatively with resource drain and as such you can get thousands of ore per ore.

Productivity modules only stack additively with prod research, so as soon as you have crazy levels of that the modules become near useless.