Part 2. Minerals
Current settings and naming could be changed in the future if needed.
Minerals or resources are essential for developing a functioning base and robots. So let’s talk about resources, what exactly you need them for, how to control your mining power and storage capacity, and what buildings will help you to improve your mining rate and to store mined minerals.
There are four minerals on the R-Planet. Three of them, Waxon, Caponium, and Enefterium, can be used as building materials for buildings and robots. The fourth one is Wecanite, which can be used not only for buildings but as fuel for robots and droids.
Players will use minerals:
- to make buildings;
- to upgrade buildings;
- to develop all kinds of units;
- to feed robots and droids;
- to trade with one another.
All the primary bases have two deposits of each building mineral and three deposits of Wecanite. Yet there are plots on the map with different ratios of deposits. You can choose one of those for the establishment of your next base.
At the beginning, you’ll get a base, which will start mining deposits of these crucial resources immediately. Although you’ll only be able to store a tiny amount of resources to start off.
So one of your first steps should be to build a Supply Depot.
To build any building, just choose a foundation where you would like to place it and pick the building from the list. You should have enough minerals and free builders to start the process.
Supply Depot is the central storage where you can keep minerals. By upgrading this building, you will increase its capacity. A maximum number of Supply Depots on one base is not limited. A Stash is another type of storage building but from which enemies will not be able to steal resources. It can be pretty useful at the start when you have no solid defensive army. The Stash’s capacity shows the number of minerals from your Supply Depot that are secured in case of attack.
How to increase the productivity of mining
First of all, please keep in mind if the storage capacity isn’t sufficient, all the extra minerals mined will be lost.
Except for specific NFTs (like instant-increase-of-mining one-time use NFT, or Hero NFT ), there are three buildings you can construct to increase the mining productivity of minerals: Mines, Factories, and Terraformator. You should develop a compatible type of building for each of the four minerals.
Mine. The number of mines is limited only by the number of deposits of a particular resource around the base. Upgrade your Mine to increase the mining productivity even more.
Factory. An enrichment station is the second step of growing productivity after the mine. For them to become available, you will need a 10th level Mine and require a 10th level Nexus.
Terraformator is a place where you can attach your land NFT. The increment coefficient depends on the rarity and level of the attached Land NFT. You can attach a maximum of 3 NFT to the base after upgrading Terraformator to the 20th level.
In the future, there with be specific NFTs that will impact the mining rate after implementing the Hero functionality. Increasing mining productivity will be one of the Hero’s powers.
How to enable using NFT Assets in the game?
You’ll need to perform a few actions before you are able to use NFT Assets in the game. First, you need to attach your WAX account to your game account. To do so, please, visit the site.
Go to the NFT Management Tab, and log in with the account you’ll use in the game and your WAX account.
After that, you will be able to see your assets in the game: Setting/Assets, and use them in the appropriate buildings.
Trading
Minerals will be the primary goods and assets within the R-Planet MMO. The Market is the place where you will be able to exchange minerals you may have an excess of for minerals you require. There will be two ways to trade: to accept the offer from the ones available or to create a buy order with the price suitable for you and wait until someone accepts it. Also, you can send resources to another base or to your allies from the Market.
All trading operations are not instant. Your transporters must transport minerals to the buyer, while the buyer’s transporters bring your purchase to you.
By upgrading the Market, you increase the number of transporters and can do more operations simultaneously.
You can also improve your transporters by increasing their capacities. To do so, you need to build another building, the Transport Hanger. Then your transporters will be able to carry more resources on each trip. Upgrade the building to make their backpacks bigger.
Who consumes Wecanite
As you already know, all minerals are required for construction, upgrading buildings, and creating robots. But only one of them, Wecanite, is essential to keep your army alive.
Each robot, after creation/unpacking, starts consuming Wecanite.
Each building has droids servicing it. After updating the building, more droids will have started to live there, so more Wecanite is required daily.
Try to hold Wecanite consumption under control. When consumption is higher than production, robots start to die. When the level of Wecanite in the Supply Depot reaches 0, one robot dies. The dying robot releases some Wecanite, which other robots can consume.
Hopefully, now you have some idea about minerals and how important it is to keep an eye on their production and consumption. Our next article will be dedicated to robots, drones, and other kinds of troops, which will help you to defend your base and defeat your enemies.
