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 most mines, power plants, warehouses and the Weapons factory – 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.

Keep your Pig iron mine at least at the same level as your Blast furnace, ideally a level or two higher. The furnace consumes more pig iron than it turns out as metal – at equal levels the mine barely covers its needs, leaving little for your construction jobs. Mining technology boosts pig iron output on top.

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 long time: in live universes the strongest mines are at level 90 and beyond.

Background

The pig iron mine is the first step towards founding an interplanetary empire. As the main source of pig iron, it is important for the production of metal in the blast furnace and for the upgrading of buildings which need to be resistant to strong vibrations. Pig iron is only found in the deeper layers of the mine. You can dig deeper to extract more pig iron by upgrading your mine to a higher level. The production costs will increase for each level since each level requires a greater amount of materials and technology.

Levels at a glance

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Level	Pig iron	Kryptonite	Build time	Pig iron / hour	Energy needed
1	78	25	8 s	27	-4
2	118	38	13 s	63	-10
3	178	58	19 s	109	-18
4	269	87	29 s	167	-27
5	406	130	44 s	241	-40
6	613	197	1 min 6 s	333	-55
7	925	297	1 min 40 s	446	-74
8	1,397	448	2 min 31 s	587	-97
9	2,109	676	3 min 48 s	759	-126
10	3,184	1,021	5 min 44 s	970	-161
11	4,807	1,541	8 min 40 s	1,228	-204
12	7,259	2,327	13 min 5 s	1,540	-256
13	10,961	3,513	19 min 45 s	1,919	-319
14	16,550	5,305	29 min 50 s	2,377	-396
15	24,991	8,010	45 min 2 s	2,929	-488
16	37,736	12,095	1 h 8 min	3,593	-598
17	56,981	18,263	1 h 42 min	4,390	-731
18	86,041	27,578	2 h 35 min	5,346	-891
19	129,922	41,642	3 h 54 min	6,489	-1,081
20	196,181	62,879	5 h 53 min	7,855	-1,309
21	296,234	94,947	8 h 53 min	9,486	-1,581
22	447,312	143,370	13 h 26 min	11,428	-1,904
23	675,442	216,488	20 h 17 min	13,740	-2,290
24	1,019,916	326,897	1 d 6 h 38 min	16,488	-2,748
25	1,540,074	493,614	1 d 22 h 15 min	19,751	-3,291
26	2,325,511	745,356	2 d 21 h 51 min	23,622	-3,937
27	3,511,521	1,125,488	4 d 9 h 28 min	28,210	-4,701
28	5,302,397	1,699,486	6 d 15 h 16 min	33,644	-5,607
29	8,006,619	2,566,224	10 d	40,072	-6,678
30	12,089,994	3,874,998	15 d 3 h	47,672	-7,945
31	18,255,891	5,851,247	22 d 20 h	56,650	-9,441
32	27,566,395	8,835,383	34 d 12 h	67,249	-11,208
33	41,625,256	13,341,429	52 d 2 h	79,754	-13,292
34	62,854,137	20,145,557	78 d 15 h	94,496	-15,749
35	94,909,746	30,419,791	118 d 18 h	111,867	-18,644
36	143,313,717	45,933,884	179 d 8 h	132,323	-22,053
37	216,403,712	69,360,164	270 d 20 h	156,398	-26,066
38	326,769,605	104,733,848	408 d 23 h	184,719	-30,786
39	493,422,103	158,148,110	617 d 12 h	218,017	-36,336
40	745,067,376	238,803,646	932 d 11 h	257,149	-42,858
41	1.13 B	360,593,506	1,408 d	303,114	-50,519
42	1.70 B	544,496,194	2,126 d 3 h	357,083	-59,513
43	2.57 B	822,189,252	3,210 d 11 h	420,423	-70,070
44	3.87 B	1.24 B	4,847 d 19 h	494,730	-82,455
45	5.85 B	1.87 B	7,320 d 4 h	581,870	-96,978
46	8.83 B	2.83 B	11,053 d 12 h	684,021	-114,003
47	13.34 B	4.27 B	16,690 d 19 h	803,725	-133,954
48	20.14 B	6.45 B	25,203 d 2 h	943,949	-157,324
49	30.41 B	9.75 B	38,056 d 16 h	1,108,157	-184,692
50	45.92 B	14.72 B	57,465 d 14 h	1,300,388	-216,731
51	69.33 B	22.22 B	86,773 d 1 h	1,525,356	-254,226
52	104.69 B	33.56 B	131,027 d 7 h	1,788,554	-298,092
53	158.09 B	50.67 B	197,851 d 5 h	2,096,392	-349,398
54	238.71 B	76.51 B	298,755 d 9 h	2,456,339	-409,389
55	360.45 B	115.53 B	451,120 d 15 h	2,877,101	-479,516
56	544.29 B	174.45 B	681,192 d 3 h	3,368,824	-561,470
57	821.87 B	263.42 B	1,028,600 d 3 h	3,943,328	-657,221
58	1.24 T	397.76 B	1,553,186 d 5 h	4,614,386	-769,064
59	1.87 T	600.62 B	2,345,311 d 4 h	5,398,036	-899,672
60	2.83 T	906.94 B	3,541,419 d 21 h	6,312,958	-1,052,159
61	4.27 T	1.37 T	5,347,544 d 1 h	7,380,900	-1,230,150
62	6.45 T	2.07 T	8,074,791 d 12 h	8,627,183	-1,437,863
63	9.74 T	3.12 T	12,192,935 d 5 h	10,081,281	-1,680,213
64	14.71 T	4.72 T	18,411,332 d 4 h	11,777,496	-1,962,916
65	22.21 T	7.12 T	27,801,111 d 13 h	13,755,748	-2,292,624
66	33.54 T	10.75 T	41,979,678 d 11 h	16,062,481	-2,677,080
67	50.65 T	16.23 T	63,389,314 d 12 h	18,751,730	-3,125,288
68	76.48 T	24.51 T	95,717,864 d 22 h	21,886,347	-3,647,724
69	115.49 T	37.01 T	144,533,976 d	25,539,436	-4,256,572
70	174.38 T	55.89 T	218,246,303 d 19 h	29,796,009	-4,966,001
71	263.32 T	84.40 T	329,551,918 d 18 h	34,754,916	-5,792,486
72	397.61 T	127.44 T	497,623,397 d 7 h	40,531,086	-6,755,181
73	600.39 T	192.43 T	751,411,329 d 23 h	47,258,120	-7,876,353
74	906.59 T	290.57 T	1,134,631,108 d 5 h	55,091,316	-9,181,886
75	1.37 Qa	438.77 T	1,713,292,973 d 10 h	64,211,162	-10,701,860
76	2.07 Qa	662.54 T	2,587,072,389 d 21 h	74,827,407	-12,471,234
77	3.12 Qa	1.00 Qa	3,906,479,308 d 17 h	87,183,775	-14,530,629
78	4.71 Qa	1.51 Qa	5,898,783,756 d 4 h	101,563,437	-16,927,239
79	7.12 Qa	2.28 Qa	8,907,163,471 d 20 h	118,295,362	-19,715,893
80	10.75 Qa	3.44 Qa	13,449,816,842 d 12 h	137,761,688	-22,960,281
81	16.23 Qa	5.20 Qa	20,309,223,432 d 4 h	160,406,265	-26,734,377
82	24.50 Qa	7.85 Qa	30,666,927,382 d 14 h	186,744,578	-31,124,096
83	37.00 Qa	11.86 Qa	46,307,060,347 d 17 h	217,375,244	-36,229,207
84	55.87 Qa	17.91 Qa	69,923,661,125 d 1 h	252,993,356	-42,165,559
85	84.36 Qa	27.04 Qa	105,584,728,298 d 20 h	294,405,959	-49,067,659
86	127.39 Qa	40.83 Qa	159,432,939,731 d 5 h	342,549,993	-57,091,665
87	192.36 Qa	61.65 Qa	240,743,738,994 d 4 h	398,513,102	-66,418,850
88	290.46 Qa	93.10 Qa	363,523,045,881 d 4 h	463,557,770	-77,259,628
89	438.60 Qa	140.58 Qa	548,919,799,280 d 14 h	539,149,292	-89,858,215
90	662.28 Qa	212.27 Qa	828,868,896,913 d 17 h	626,988,222	-104,498,037
91	1.00 Qi	320.53 Qa	1,251,592,034,339 d 17 h	729,047,971	-121,507,995
92	1.51 Qi	484.00 Qa	1,889,903,971,853 d	847,618,411	-141,269,735
93	2.28 Qi	730.83 Qa	2,853,754,997,498 d	985,356,403	-164,226,067
94	3.44 Qi	1.10 Qi	4,309,170,046,222 d	1,145,344,378	-190,890,729
95	5.20 Qi	1.67 Qi	6,506,846,769,795 d 6 h	1,331,158,227	-221,859,704
96	7.85 Qi	2.52 Qi	9,825,338,622,390 d 20 h	1,546,945,981	-257,824,330
97	11.85 Qi	3.80 Qi	14,836,261,319,810 d 5 h	1,797,519,002	-299,586,500
98	17.90 Qi	5.74 Qi	22,402,754,592,913 d 10 h	2,088,457,645	-348,076,274
99	27.03 Qi	8.66 Qi	33,828,159,435,299 d 6 h	2,426,233,703	-404,372,283
100	40.81 Qi	13.08 Qi	51,080,520,747,301 d 21 h	2,818,352,281	-469,725,380

Values without premium, Synth or specialization bonuses. Costs are for upgrading to the given level. Set your development center, microsystem accelerator and universe above and the build times adjust.

Pig iron mine

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