Mines

An excavation site for extracting valuable metals used in construction and upgrades. Upgrade levels 1-30 improve its benefits and help your port progress.

Mines is a production building. Higher levels increase the resource flow your port can rely on without trading or raiding.

Metal per hour: 50 · Levels: 1-30

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How to use it

• Improving mines output when that resource is the bottleneck.
• Mines has an upgrade path through level 30; use it when its benefit solves the port’s current bottleneck.

Strengths and watchouts

Useful notes

• Initial level: 1
• Upgrade range: levels 1-30

Watchouts

• Compare the next upgrade cost with the port problem you are trying to solve.

Pairs well with

• Warehouse capacity and the upgrades that spend this resource.

Values

Costs

Name	Value
Wood	50
Cloth	50
Metal	75
Population	10

Effects

Name	Value
Metal per hour	50

Levels

Level	Costs	Time	Points	Benefits
1	Wood: 50 Cloth: 50 Metal: 75 Population: 10	1m	10	Metal per hour: 50
2	Wood: 63 Cloth: 63 Metal: 94 Population: 2	5s	2	Metal per hour: 75
3	Wood: 78 Cloth: 78 Metal: 117 Population: 2	4m	3	Metal per hour: 113
4	Wood: 98 Cloth: 98 Metal: 146 Population: 2	7m	4	Metal per hour: 169
5	Wood: 122 Cloth: 122 Metal: 183 Population: 3	10m	5	Metal per hour: 253
6	Wood: 153 Cloth: 153 Metal: 229 Population: 3	15m	6	Metal per hour: 307
7	Wood: 191 Cloth: 191 Metal: 286 Population: 4	20m	7	Metal per hour: 371
8	Wood: 238 Cloth: 238 Metal: 358 Population: 4	30m	8	Metal per hour: 449
9	Wood: 298 Cloth: 298 Metal: 447 Population: 5	40m	9	Metal per hour: 543
10	Wood: 373 Cloth: 373 Metal: 559 Population: 6	50m	10	Metal per hour: 657
11	Wood: 466 Cloth: 466 Metal: 698 Population: 7	1h	11	Metal per hour: 788
12	Wood: 582 Cloth: 582 Metal: 873 Population: 8	1h 15m	12	Metal per hour: 946
13	Wood: 728 Cloth: 728 Metal: 1091 Population: 10	1h 30m	15	Metal per hour: 1135
14	Wood: 909 Cloth: 909 Metal: 1364 Population: 11	1h 45m	18	Metal per hour: 1362
15	Wood: 1137 Cloth: 1137 Metal: 1705 Population: 13	2h	21	Metal per hour: 1634
16	Wood: 1421 Cloth: 1421 Metal: 2132 Population: 15	2h 30m	26	Metal per hour: 1961
17	Wood: 1776 Cloth: 1776 Metal: 2665 Population: 18	3h	31	Metal per hour: 2353
18	Wood: 2220 Cloth: 2220 Metal: 3331 Population: 21	3h 30m	37	Metal per hour: 2823
19	Wood: 2776 Cloth: 2776 Metal: 4163 Population: 25	4h 30m	44	Metal per hour: 3388
20	Wood: 3469 Cloth: 3469 Metal: 5204 Population: 28	5h	53	Metal per hour: 4065
21	Wood: 4337 Cloth: 4337 Metal: 6505 Population: 34	6h	64	Metal per hour: 4594
22	Wood: 5421 Cloth: 5421 Metal: 8132 Population: 39	7h	77	Metal per hour: 5191
23	Wood: 6776 Cloth: 6776 Metal: 10164 Population: 46	8h	93	Metal per hour: 5866
24	Wood: 8470 Cloth: 8470 Metal: 12705 Population: 54	9h	110	Metal per hour: 6628
25	Wood: 10588 Cloth: 10588 Metal: 15882 Population: 63	10h	132	Metal per hour: 7490
26	Wood: 13235 Cloth: 13235 Metal: 19852 Population: 74	11h	160	Metal per hour: 8239
27	Wood: 16544 Cloth: 16544 Metal: 24815 Population: 86	12h	192	Metal per hour: 9063
28	Wood: 20680 Cloth: 20680 Metal: 31019 Population: 100	13h	230	Metal per hour: 9969
29	Wood: 25849 Cloth: 25849 Metal: 38774 Population: 118	14h	275	Metal per hour: 10966
30	Wood: 32312 Cloth: 32312 Metal: 48468 Population: 138	15h	340	Metal per hour: 12063