Building

Pig iron mine

The backbone of your economy: pig iron feeds the blast furnace and goes into many buildings. Start early and keep upgrading.

Pig iron is needed twice over: as a building material for mines, the Fusion plant, the warehouses, the Weapons factory and the Particle cannon – and as the raw material your Blast furnace turns into metal. That's why the Pig iron mine is usually the mine you upgrade most often. Every planet comes with it at level 1.

The blast furnace turns two pig iron into one metal. At equal levels the mine barely covers its needs, leaving little for your construction jobs. So keep your Pig iron mine at least at the same level as your Blast furnace, ideally a level or two higher. Mining technology boosts pig iron output by 2% per level.

Each level raises production – and the energy demand, so upgrade your Fusion plant alongside. Like all mines, the Pig iron mine gets more expensive more slowly than most other buildings, so it stays affordable for a very long time.

Background

The pig iron mine marks the beginning of an age of structural development on the planet. It is not only a major supplier of high quality building materials, but an essential component in the refining of metal in the blast furnance. Higher levels of this mine access deeper layers of the planetary crust which contain higher quality iron deposits.

Levels at a glance

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Level	Pig iron	Kryptonite	Build time	Pig iron / hour	Energy needed
1	78	25	9 s	27	-4
2	118	38	14 s	63	-10
3	178	58	21 s	109	-18
4	269	87	32 s	167	-27
5	406	130	48 s	241	-40
6	613	197	1 min 13 s	333	-55
7	925	297	1 min 50 s	446	-74
8	1,397	448	2 min 46 s	587	-97
9	2,109	676	4 min 11 s	759	-126
10	3,184	1,021	6 min 19 s	970	-161
11	4,807	1,541	9 min 32 s	1,228	-204
12	7,259	2,327	14 min 24 s	1,540	-256
13	10,961	3,513	21 min 44 s	1,919	-319
14	16,550	5,305	32 min 49 s	2,377	-396
15	24,991	8,010	49 min 33 s	2,929	-488
16	37,736	12,095	1 h 14 min	3,593	-598
17	56,981	18,263	1 h 52 min	4,390	-731
18	86,041	27,578	2 h 50 min	5,346	-891
19	129,922	41,642	4 h 17 min	6,489	-1,081
20	196,181	62,879	6 h 28 min	7,855	-1,309
21	296,234	94,947	9 h 47 min	9,486	-1,581
22	447,312	143,370	14 h 46 min	11,428	-1,904
23	675,442	216,488	22 h 19 min	13,740	-2,290
24	1,019,916	326,897	1 d 9 h 41 min	16,488	-2,748
25	1,540,074	493,614	2 d 2 h 53 min	19,751	-3,291
26	2,325,511	745,356	3 d 4 h 50 min	23,622	-3,937
27	3,511,521	1,125,488	4 d 20 h 1 min	28,210	-4,701
28	5,302,397	1,699,486	7 d 7 h 11 min	33,644	-5,607
29	8,006,619	2,566,224	11 d	40,072	-6,678
30	12,089,994	3,874,998	16 d 15 h	47,672	-7,945
31	18,255,891	5,851,247	25 d 3 h	56,650	-9,441
32	27,566,395	8,835,383	37 d 22 h	67,249	-11,208
33	41,625,256	13,341,429	57 d 7 h	79,754	-13,292
34	62,854,137	20,145,557	86 d 12 h	94,496	-15,749
35	94,909,746	30,419,791	130 d 15 h	111,867	-18,644
36	143,313,717	45,933,884	197 d 7 h	132,323	-22,053
37	216,403,712	69,360,164	297 d 22 h	156,398	-26,066
38	326,769,605	104,733,848	449 d 20 h	184,719	-30,786
39	493,422,103	158,148,110	679 d 6 h	218,017	-36,336
40	745,067,376	238,803,646	1,025 d 17 h	257,149	-42,858
41	1.13 B	360,593,506	1,548 d 20 h	303,114	-50,519
42	1.70 B	544,496,194	2,338 d 18 h	357,083	-59,513
43	2.57 B	822,189,252	3,531 d 12 h	420,423	-70,070
44	3.87 B	1.24 B	5,332 d 14 h	494,730	-82,455
45	5.85 B	1.87 B	8,052 d 5 h	581,870	-96,978
46	8.83 B	2.83 B	12,158 d 20 h	684,021	-114,003
47	13.34 B	4.27 B	18,359 d 21 h	803,725	-133,954
48	20.14 B	6.45 B	27,723 d 9 h	943,949	-157,324
49	30.41 B	9.75 B	41,862 d 8 h	1,108,157	-184,692
50	45.92 B	14.72 B	63,212 d 3 h	1,300,388	-216,731
51	69.33 B	22.22 B	95,450 d 8 h	1,525,356	-254,226
52	104.69 B	33.56 B	144,130 d 1 h	1,788,554	-298,092
53	158.09 B	50.67 B	217,636 d 8 h	2,096,392	-349,398
54	238.71 B	76.51 B	328,630 d 22 h	2,456,339	-409,389
55	360.45 B	115.53 B	496,232 d 16 h	2,877,101	-479,516
56	544.29 B	174.45 B	749,311 d 8 h	3,368,824	-561,470
57	821.87 B	263.42 B	1,131,460 d 4 h	3,943,328	-657,221
58	1.24 T	397.76 B	1,708,504 d 20 h	4,614,386	-769,064
59	1.87 T	600.62 B	2,579,842 d 8 h	5,398,036	-899,672
60	2.83 T	906.94 B	3,895,561 d 22 h	6,312,958	-1,052,159
61	4.27 T	1.37 T	5,882,298 d 12 h	7,380,900	-1,230,150
62	6.45 T	2.07 T	8,882,270 d 18 h	8,627,183	-1,437,863
63	9.74 T	3.12 T	13,412,228 d 20 h	10,081,281	-1,680,213
64	14.71 T	4.72 T	20,252,465 d 14 h	11,777,496	-1,962,916
65	22.21 T	7.12 T	30,581,223 d 1 h	13,755,748	-2,292,624
66	33.54 T	10.75 T	46,177,646 d 19 h	16,062,481	-2,677,080
67	50.65 T	16.23 T	69,728,246 d 16 h	18,751,730	-3,125,288
68	76.48 T	24.51 T	105,289,652 d 11 h	21,886,347	-3,647,724
69	115.49 T	37.01 T	158,987,375 d 5 h	25,539,436	-4,256,572
70	174.38 T	55.89 T	240,070,936 d 14 h	29,796,009	-4,966,001
71	263.32 T	84.40 T	362,507,114 d 6 h	34,754,916	-5,792,486
72	397.61 T	127.44 T	547,385,742 d 12 h	40,531,086	-6,755,181
73	600.39 T	192.43 T	826,552,471 d 5 h	47,258,120	-7,876,353
74	906.59 T	290.57 T	1,248,094,231 d 13 h	55,091,316	-9,181,886
75	1.37 Qa	438.77 T	1,884,622,289 d 15 h	64,211,162	-10,701,860
76	2.07 Qa	662.54 T	2,845,779,657 d 8 h	74,827,407	-12,471,234
77	3.12 Qa	1.00 Qa	4,297,127,282 d 14 h	87,183,775	-14,530,629
78	4.71 Qa	1.51 Qa	6,488,662,196 d 16 h	101,563,437	-16,927,239
79	7.12 Qa	2.28 Qa	9,797,879,917 d	118,295,362	-19,715,893
80	10.75 Qa	3.44 Qa	14,794,798,674 d 16 h	137,761,688	-22,960,281

Values without speed-up and assistants. Costs are for upgrading to the given level. Set your development center and microsystem accelerator above and the build times adjust.

Pig iron mine

Levels at a glance

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