Portable Miner

"We don’t want you to harm yourself mining for ore bare-handed"

- Caterina Parks's assistant Steve

Portable Miner, as its name implies, is the portable version of a Miner. As the first available mining machine, it is used to semi-automate the mining process in the early-game. It can be manually-crafted in the Equipment Workshop after completing the Tier 0 milestone-Hub Upgrade 1. It requires neither fuel nor power. It has no Conveyor Belt connector and can only store one stack of ore (usually 100).

Mining Speed
Although its interface will always say "1 per second", the actual mining speed is as below: Portable Miners cannot be overclocked.

Usage
Open your inventory (default) and + to equip the portable miner in hand slot. Then find a resource node, such as an Iron Ore node. At any location on the deposit where you have the prompt to pick up ore, to deploy the miner. It will display a deploy animation, but will begin mining as soon as it leaves your hand.

When the miner is full, it will stop animating and making noise and its lights will turn off, and you must walk up to it and interact with it (default ). This opens up its UI. Click on the 'Grab All' button take the ore out. If you want to remove the miner including its ores, it can be picked up by pressing the "Pick up Miner" button.

Tips
It is advised to build several portable miners in an arc shape so that the engineer is not required to move around when interacting with the next portable miner. As soon as the is unlocked, build it next to the mining site for ore-buffering.

Gallery
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