Minerals SMAC Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

Minerals SMAC

Minerals are a SMAC Resource in Firaxis' TBS Game of 1999, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (SMAC). Minerals are vital in the construction of SMAC Base Facilities and SMAC Units.

Minerals are produced in squares with sufficient Rockiness, sometimes supplemented by the addition of Mines and similar enhancements.

Once a base has exceeded its free Support level, any additional units (military or non-combat) consume one Mineral per turn of support.

Surplus minerals are applied to production of facilities>, units, and secret projects which a base is creating. When sufficient minerals are accumulated, the facility or unit is built.

Terraforming Minerals

• Construct Mine
• Construct Mining Platform
• Construct Thermal Borehole
• Plant Forest

Terraform for Minerals with Formers; Crawl for Minerals with Supply Crawlers.

Special Mineral Resource Squares

Special Mineral Resource squares produce two additional minerals per turn, and can be increased to three extra with a mine. Crater squares also produce one extra mineral.

Increase Minerals via Base Facilities

• Genejack Factory
• Nanoreplicator
• Nessus Mining Station
• Quantum Converter
• Recycling Tanks
• Robotic Assembly Plant
• The Bulk Matter Transmitter
• The Space Elevator

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