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  • Byproducts: nearly every recipe now leaves waste behind, so recipe pages list byproducts alongside ingredients.
  • Garbage & recycling: waste sorts from mixed garbage down to pure materials, and can be recycled back into stock.
  • Pollution has four kinds: acid rain, chemical, soil and heavy mineral, each settling into the ground differently. Pollution guide →
  • Modules reworked: upgrades are now Basic / Advanced / Modern / Specialty, one per slot, driving the same bonus system as talents. Module guide →
  • Fresh water: machines need it — water drawn from the ocean has to be desalinated first.

The character calculator has been updated for these changes. Read the garbage & recycling guide →

Mining Modern Upgrade

Mining Modern Upgrade

Efficiency Modules

Modern Upgrade that greatly increases efficiency when crafting Mining recipes.

Weight1 gMax stack100SkillMining Lv 2StationFroth Floatation Cell

Notes

The Mining Modern Upgrade is a high-tier Efficiency Module that significantly reduces resource cost and craft time for Mining-related recipes when installed in a compatible crafting station. As a modern-level upgrade, it requires the station to be placed inside a room of sufficient material tier to function, making it a later-game enhancement for miners who have already invested in quality housing. Once equipped, it lowers the labor and material demands of ore processing, helping specialized players produce more with less environmental impact.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Upgrade modules (one per slot)

Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
IngredientQtyType
Crushed Gold Ore30item
Crushed Rock10category

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
MaterialQty / craft
Crushed Mixed Rock0.8
Garbage0.2

Approximate โ€” a category ingredient's salvage value depends on the item actually used.

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled โ€” see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats
Labor9000 calories
Craft time18 min
Throughput3.3 Mining Modern Upgrade / hour (base)

As an upgrade module

SlotSpecialty

How the Update 14 module system works

Recycling & waste

Salvages into (per unit)

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Total raw to craft this

Steps2Total labor9675 calTotal time23.25 min

Approximate โ€” category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

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