Zombie Miner
The Zombie Miner is a work post for a zombie in the Old Mine. Put a zombie holding a pickaxe on it, and each round it brings out 1 Iron Ore and 2 Coal, straight into the mine’s storage, then starts again. It comes with Zombie Mining (60 red, 10 blue, after Iron Smithing) and costs 2 Wooden Planks and 4 Bricks at the mine’s build desk.
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- It is the only source of Coal, and Coal is what the factory’s Smithy burns. It is also the only steady source of Iron Ore apart from the Trademaster, who sells 10 at a time.
- The pickaxe sets the pace. A Rusty Pickaxe needs 8 swings of 10 seconds a round, a Bronze one 4. An Iron Pickaxe does it in 3 swings of about 3.6 seconds, about 11 seconds in all. A Steel one is no faster, at about 4 seconds a swing. The walk into the mine and back comes on top. These times are worked out from the game files, not timed in play.
- Gems need the Magpie’s Eye zombie talent: with it, each round has a 10% chance of a Gem. Without it the miner never finds one.
- The Zombie Miner zombie talent takes 2 steps off each round.
- Every round gives the zombie a red tech point, for its own talents.
- The technology stays hidden until both ways into the mine are open. The mine’s Porter Station, from the same technology, carries the ore and coal to the factory.