Overview[]
Research & Development is one of the few buildings in your base. Upgrading this will give you a higher mining speed, more building items and decreases the amount of time it takes to produce XP and coins from Data & Analysis and Mining Operations. When the game first came out, the max level was 8.
The numbers in parentheses are the true mining speed boosts. For some reason, the game doesn't display the actual mining strength boost. The number in parentheses in the gold/XP time column represents how much you are earning in ruins gold/XP production.
Level | Mining
Boost (Actual) |
Gold
Time/sec (Relative) |
XP
Time/sec (Relative) |
Upgrade Cost | Buildings Unlocked |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
In Ruins | 1x
(1x) |
15s
(1x) |
10s
(1x) |
- | |
1 | 1.05x
(1.05x) |
14.25s
(1.05x) |
9.75s
(1.02x) |
1 | |
2 | 1.1x
(1.11x) |
13.5s
(1.11x) |
9.5s
(1.05x) |
70 5 1 |
|
3 | 1.15x
(1.18x) |
12.75s
(1.18x) |
9.25s
(1.08x) |
1,000 10 1 |
|
4 | 1.2x
(1.25x) |
12s
(1.25x) |
9s
(1.11x) |
5,000 1 3 |
- |
5 | 1.25x
(1.33x) |
11.25s
(1.33x) |
8.75s
(1.14x) |
15,000 1 5 |
Basic Explosive |
6 | 1.3x
(1.43x) |
10.5s
(1.43x) |
8.5s
(1.18x) |
40,000 20 1 10 |
- |
7 | 1.35x
(1.54x) |
9.75s
(1.54x) |
8.25s
(1.21x) |
100,000 40 1 15 |
- |
8 | 1.4x
(1.67x) |
9s
(1.67x) |
8s
(1.25x) |
150,000 5 3 20 |
- |
9 | 1.45x
(1.82x) |
8.25s
(1.82x) |
7.75s
(1.29x) |
200,000 10 100 25 |
- |
10 | 1.5x
(2x) |
7.5s
(2x) |
7.5s
(1.33x) |
300,000 50 1 40 |
- |
11 | 1.55x | 6.75s
(2.22x) |
7.25s
(1.38x) |
400,000 50 40 200 300 45 |
- |
12 | 1.6x | 6s
(2.5x) |
7s
(1.43x) |
500,000 100 400 50 75 50 |
- |
13 | 1.65x | 5.25s
(2.86x) |
6.75s
(1.48x) |
600,000 120 500 20 35 80 100 55 |
Symmetrium Explosive |
14 | 1.7x | 4.5s
(3.33x) |
6.5s
(1.54x) |
600,000 280 500 35 45 80 50 55 |
- |
15 | 1.75x | 3.75s
(4x) |
6.25s
(1.6x) |
1,000,000 150 500 100 75 1 50 100 |
- |