Mining Machine
The Mining Machine does not break blocks. It rolls an ore table and drops the result. Every tile below the machine must hold a block.
Drilling minerals by consuming electrical energy
It needs to be placed in an appropriate location to work properly
Special minerals can be extracted in special environments— In-game tooltip
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Max UE storage | 800 |
| Cost per dig | 5 UE |
| Dig interval | About every 0.35 s |
| Drop chance | about 10% per dig |
| Tile size | 3×3 |
| Ore table | Basic |
If the floor check passes and it has power, it keeps digging: 5 UE about every 0.35 s, about 14 UE/s. The spend does not depend on a drop. About one in ten digs drops ore, so about every 3.3 s on average.
Recipe
Section titled “Recipe”Anvil.
| Material | Count |
|---|---|
| Iron Bar / Lead Bar | 15 |
| Iron Pickaxe / Lead Pickaxe | 1 |
| Circuit Board | 5 |
| Workstation | Anvil |
Placement
Section titled “Placement”On place it scans 3 wide × 6 deep under the bottom. Any empty tile stops it. About every 3 s it prints:
It needs to be placed on a hard surface in order to carry out mining operations.
A block in every tile is enough. Platforms count. Air, liquid-only, or wall-only tiles do not. The Underworld and asteroid mines work if the pad is solid.
There is no UI. Left-click to place. Right-click with an item does nothing in the current version. It runs once it has UE.
Ore table
Section titled “Ore table”A dig every ~0.35 s, about 10% chance to roll the basic table. Biome is the tile directly under the machine.
| Ore | Base chance | Condition |
|---|---|---|
| Copper / Tin / Iron / Lead / Coal | 0.10 | Any |
| Silver / Tungsten | 0.09 | Any |
| Gold / Platinum | 0.08 | Any |
| Demonite | 0.07 | Not a Crimson world |
| Crimtane | 0.07 | Not a Corruption world |
| Fossil | 0.05 | Desert + Underground / Cavern |
| Dubious Plating / Mysterious Circuitry | 0.05 | Calamity installed |
Weights shift a little by table tier. The basic miner only drops the rows above. Meteorite, Hellstone, Hardmode ores, and Chlorophyte need Mining Machine Mk2.
Drops spawn under the machine. Use a Collector, or pick them up yourself.