Mining ores, fluids and special planetary materials.
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Mine deposits using burner or electric drills, then smelt iron ore into iron plates used in most early production chains.
Mine copper ore and smelt copper plates for electronic circuits, cables and many mid-game components.
Use coal to fuel boilers, early furnaces and burner mining drills, and as an ingredient of certain production recipes.
Use stone in early furnaces and later in bricks and concrete production.
Extract crude oil with pumpjacks and pipe the fluid into refineries to produce oil products.
Pump water from suitable shorelines into boilers, chemical plants and other fluid consumers.
Mine uranium for nuclear processing once the necessary research and sulfuric-acid logistics are available.
Smelting transforms mined ore into a widely used intermediate needed by gears, pipes and steel production.
Smelt copper ore and distribute copper plates to circuits and additional recipe chains.
Steel requires further processing from iron and is essential for higher-tier machines, rails and military infrastructure.
A refinery fluid product often directed into plastic, sulfur and related chemical chains.
Produced in chemical processing and used by several advanced systems including uranium mining and batteries.
Space Age: a Vulcanus resource enabling foundry and big-mining-drill technology chains.
Space Age: a key Fulgora material obtained through the planet's scrap processing economy.
Space Age: Gleba agricultural crop used in organic processing chains subject to freshness and spoilage.
Space Age: Gleba crop feeding biochemical recipes and agriculture lines.
Space Age: Fulgora salvaged material recycled to obtain a mix of useful intermediates.
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