Advanced Plasma Bore

Advanced Plasma Bore is a high-capacity resource extractor introduced in Build 136 and renamed from Large Plasma Bore to Advanced Plasma Bore in Build 147. It functions as an advanced drill designed to harvest individual resource tiles at a high throughput when supplied with the required inputs and booster resources.

The Advanced Plasma Bore extracts from single resource tiles at a base per-tile rate of 0.6/sec, with an increased per-tile rate when boosted to 1.5/sec. Its practical per-tile cap is 1.8/sec, and when boosted the cap rises to 4.5/sec. These rates apply per tile that the bore is placed on and represent its raw production speed before any downstream throughput limits or distribution constraints.

The unit requires continuous inputs to operate; documented input requirements list 48/sec and 0.5/sec (as shown in official rate tables). In addition, the bore accepts a booster input that can dramatically increase its speed: a booster provided at 3/sec yields a 2.5× speed multiplier to the bore’s extraction rate. These input and booster figures are the mechanical requirements for reaching the boosted rates above.

Practical notes and usage considerations:

• Place Advanced Plasma Bore directly on the resource tile you wish to harvest; its listed per-tile rates apply to each tile under the bore.
• Supplying the listed booster at 3/sec multiplies extraction speeds by 2.5×, enabling the bore to reach the boosted per-tile rates and higher effective maximums.
• Ensure whatever networks handle the bore’s outputs can absorb the high throughput; the bore’s boosted maximum per-tile production (4.5/sec) can overwhelm narrow conveyor lanes or small storage.
• Provide the stated inputs continuously (the documented 48/sec and 0.5/sec values) so the bore operates at intended speeds; interruptions to these inputs will reduce yield to base rates or stop extraction.
• Because multiple identical per-tile rates are recorded across resource rows in the official table, expect consistent behavior across the resource types the bore is permitted to harvest (the table shows the same base and boosted figures repeated).

History and version notes:

• Added in Build 136.
• Renamed to Advanced Plasma Bore in Build 147 (previously Large Plasma Bore).

Only the mechanical rates, input figures, booster rate, and change-log entries above are documented in official rate and change tables; other operational details should be verified in-game when combining with specific power, conveyor, and storage systems.