Resources

Mining is the ground floor of the game. The mines dig Iron, Carbon and Hydrogen into your colony's stocks around the clock; the Photovoltaic Array — and later the Fusion Reactor — feeds them Energy, and a colony short of Energy mines slower. Silos and tanks cap what a colony can hold: production halts against a full store.

Raise the mines early and often. Every building, technology and hull downstream is paid out of what they dig — and the ground matters: the tiles within your colony's reach feed its production, so where you found a colony is never indifferent — see the planet layer for how to read the ground.

The ledger

	Resource	Kind
	Iron	stock
	Carbon	stock
	Hydrogen	stock
	Biomass	stock
	Population	population
	Energy	energy
	Dark Matter	account

Buildings

	Name	Base cost	Growth per level	What it does
	Iron Mine	60 Iron, 15 Carbon	×1.5	Digs raw metal from the crust — the backbone of every structure and hull.
	Carbon Mine	48 Iron, 24 Carbon	×1.6	Grows the crystal every electronic and alloy refinement demands.
	Hydrogen Extractor	225 Iron, 75 Carbon	×1.5	Distills deuterium from deep water — fuel for drives and reactors.
	Photovoltaic Array	75 Iron, 30 Carbon	×1.5	Feeds the grid from the star; the mines starve without it.
	Fusion Reactor	900 Iron, 360 Carbon, 180 Hydrogen	×1.8	Burns deuterium into steady grid power beyond what the star gives.
	Iron Silo	1,000 Iron	×2	Buffers the metal flow; production halts against a full yard.
	Carbon Silo	1,000 Iron, 500 Carbon	×2	Buffers the crystal flow against the yard's appetite.
	Hydrogen Tank	1,000 Iron, 1,000 Carbon	×2	Holds the synthesizer's yield under pressure.

Each figure above is the base: every level costs more by the growth factor beside it, and yields more. Construction times shorten with the Robotics Bay and Nanite Assembler, over on Facilities. Stocks that outgrow the silos can be spent or moved — Fleet hauls them between colonies, and the Merchant trades them against Dark Matter.