Mining Rates

So how do you determine how fast your miner will mine the resource you’re looking for? It is a mix of many different things, and is different with different mining vessels as well. Here is a tool to calculate it, to figure out the different values, look below it.

Calculator

/hour Ship’s Base Mining Bonus: % Mining Research: % Officer Ability Bonus(es): % Ships’s Special Ability: % Mining Speed Regular and Faction Miners: 0.00
Mining Speed Botany Bay: 0.00
Mining Speed D’Vor: 0.00
Mining Speed D’Vor Feesha: 0.00
Mining Speed Meridian: 1.00
Mining Speed Northstar: 0.00

Research

At the beginning of the galaxy tree.
In the middle of galaxy tree.
At the end of the galaxy tree.
Away Teams Research

Ship’s Base Mining Bonus

Ship’s Special Ability

Officer’s Ability

The captain’s ability and/or the normal officer ability if it applies.

Base Rate of Material

MaterialBase Rate
Grade 2 Ore, Crystal or Gas600
Grade 3 Ore, Crystal or Gas300
Parsteel1200
Tritanium320
Dilithium80
DataSystem Dependent
LatinumSystem Dependent

Mining Rate Formulas

ShipsFormula
Regular and Faction Miners(Ship’s Base Mining Bonus x Base Material Rate) x (1 + Mining Research + Ship’s Special Ability + Officer’s Ability)
Botany Bay(Base Material Rate x (1+Mining Research + Officer Bonus)) x (Ship’s Base Mining Bonus + Ship Ability)
D’vor(Base Material x (Ship’s Special Ability + Ship’s Base Mining Bonus)) x (1+Officer’s Abilty + Mining Research)
D’Vor Feesha(Base Material Rate x Ship’s Base Mining Bonus) x (1 + Ship’s Special Ability + Officer’s Ability)
Meridian (1 + Mining Laser Stat) x (1 + Ship’s Base Mining Bonus + Mining Research + Officer’s Ability)
NorthstarBase Material Rate x (Ship’s Special Ability +((1+ Mining Research + Officer’s Ability) x Ship’s Base Mining Bonus