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Tl;dr

Hate going outside and annoys biter ? Need more ore and ore in the base are depleted ?

what

Here the deep ore miner that gives infinite ores at expense of enormous power, materials, and size. This deep ore mining simply a big building that have big rod for deep digging the lands. And require recharge with steel every few hours. However this technology need in end game. Where resource will scarce and materials are needed for an9ther research and base expansion. So having this deep bore early are not reccomended.

why

So people have isolationist play style without making enemy become stronger and evolving them to destroy our base. Also enrich main base.



Recipe :

Steel (a lot of it?
Adv circuit
Concrete
Some irons
Productivity modules
Electric mining drill

Function :
-Unlimited ores mining. So you can isolate yourself agains other threat
-gives 10 ore / minutes
-need 4 Mw / sec

Research requirement :
-between mining productivity research, that require hi tech components (yellow beaker)

bump

Please don't bump when your idea is still on the main page. It doesn't really help, your idea had been read already I'm working my way back to page 7 or 8 looking for interesting stuff and that's only since Wednesday.

Talking of wednesday similar idea to yours but not so much of the how and more of a why than one sentence was posted, you might be interested in that discussion viewtopic.php?f=6&t=47826

Honestly I skipped over yours thinking it was that post until you bumped it because the premise was identical and deep mining was mentioned in that thread. It's an interesting enough idea but nothing I really have anything to contribute to.

Please see viewtopic.php?f=3&t=678 Roadmap

Dirty mining is greyed out. I found this comment:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=678&start=520#p272709

We decided to not do this, the mining productivity research seems to be solving the problem.