Mining Drone
Mining Drone is a menial drone job in Stellaris 4.5.2. 14 buildings and districts add it, among them Quantum Drilling Hub, Quantum Drilling Plant and Betharian Power Plant.
What a Mining Drone produces
Per 100 jobs filled, before modifiers. Variants that only some empires or worlds get open with their condition.
- Upkeep per 100 jobs
1Energy Credits — Planet class: Volcanic World- Planet
- Planet class: Volcanic World
- Planet
- Produces per 100 jobs
+4Minerals — none of: Deposit: Crashed Ships; none of: Planet class: Sha…- Planet
- None of
- Deposit: Crashed Ships
- Planet class: Shattered Ring Segment
- None of
+2Minerals — any of: Deposit: Crashed Ships; any of: Planet class: Shatt…- Planet
- Any of
- Deposit: Crashed Ships
- Planet class: Shattered Ring Segment
- Any of
+1Alloys — any of: Deposit: Crashed Ships; any of: Planet class: Shatt…- Planet
- Any of
- Deposit: Crashed Ships
- Planet class: Shattered Ring Segment
- Any of
-2Minerals — Carrier flag: has_material_requisitorium- Carrier flag: has_material_requisitorium
+1Minerals — Planet class: Volcanic World- Planet
- Planet class: Volcanic World
+0.5Alloys — Planet class: Volcanic World- Planet
- Planet class: Volcanic World
- Planet
Where Mining Drones come from
Every building, district and zone whose job modifiers add this job. Zones add their amount for every district they sit on.
Quantum Drilling HubBuilding · 600 jobs (varies by empire)
Quantum Drilling PlantBuilding · 600 jobs (varies by empire)
Betharian Power PlantBuilding · 400 jobs (varies by empire)
Lithic BathsBuilding · 400 jobs (varies by empire)
Lithic MaceratorBuilding · 400 jobs (varies by empire)
Experimental CraterBuilding · 300 jobs (varies by empire)
Lithic FiltersBuilding · 200 jobs (varies by empire)
Private Mining ConsortiumBuilding · 200 jobs (varies by empire)
Surface Quarry DepotBuilding · 200 jobs (varies by empire)
Lithic BoreBuilding · 100 jobs (varies by empire)
Hollow MountainDistrict · 200 jobs
Magma ConduitDistrict · 200 jobs (varies by empire)
Mining DistrictDistrict · 200 jobs (varies by empire)
Astro-Mining BayDistrict · 100 jobs (varies by empire)- Betharian ProcessingZone · 1,000 jobs per district (varies by empire)
- Betharian ProcessingZone · 1,000 jobs per district (varies by empire)
- Mineral ExtractionZone · 1,000 jobs per district (varies by empire)
- Mineral ExtractionZone · 1,000 jobs per district (varies by empire)
- Rare Crystal ExtractionZone · 1,000 jobs per district (varies by empire)
- Rare Crystal ExtractionZone · 1,000 jobs per district (varies by empire)
- Betharian ProcessingZone · 500 jobs per district (varies by empire)
- Mineral ExtractionZone · 500 jobs per district (varies by empire)
- OrespineZone · 500 jobs per district (varies by empire)
- Rare Crystal ExtractionZone · 500 jobs per district (varies by empire)
- Rare Crystal ExtractionZone · 500 jobs per district (varies by empire)
- Subterranean UrbanizationZone · 375 jobs per district (varies by empire)
- Gravitonic MinesZone · 250 jobs per district (varies by empire)
Other names
swappable_data: the same job shows another name for some empires or planets.
- Scrap Miner Drone
- Any of
- Deposit: Crashed Ships
- Planet class: Shattered Ring Segment
- Any of
- Crystal Mining Drone
- Has any rare crystals zone
- Grubsymbiont
- Owner
- Wilderness empire
- Owner
- Thermoforger Drone
- Planet class: Volcanic World
Who can work it
- Has owner
- Not: Is enslaved
- Not: Is being purged
- Not: Is being assimilated
- Is sapient
- Always
In the game
Equipped with modern power drills and advanced machinery, these drones extract and prepare valuable minerals for industrial, military, and consumer use.
Mining Drone: questions
How do I get Mining Drones jobs?
From Quantum Drilling Hub, Quantum Drilling Plant, Betharian Power Plant, Lithic Baths, Lithic Macerator, Experimental Crater and 8 more. Zones that add them per district: Betharian Processing, Mineral Extraction, Rare Crystal Extraction, Orespine and 2 more.
Source: common/pop_jobs/04_gestalt_jobs.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776).