Mining Pit

A rough rock rim around a dark pit entrance, timber A-frame posts angling up to a crossbeam overhead, rope hanging dead-centre with a wooden bucket swaying at the end. Ore glitter pulses inside the pit whenever the crew swings a pick. A fine dust plume rises from the mouth most days — miners complain of it at every meal.

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Mining Pit

A timber A-frame over a dark pit mouth with a rope-and-bucket rig hanging in the centre. Sand-biome only — converts Miner labour into stone.

Type: building
Kind: mining pit

🏛️ Structure Stats

Footprint: 1 × 1
Max Health: 220 HP
Construction Time: 20s
Walkable: ✗ No
Blocks Placement: ✓ Yes

Build Costs:

timber : 3

ID: 01KPTS5CHAF80QS53R33ZZQN6K

Ref: mining-pit

Rendering: Layer: Foreground, PPU: 64

Game Role

Production — recipe buffer runs a → Stone cycle (3s). Outputs ship to the Capital via SurplusExport.
Tender required — needs a Miner on the hex (or sheltered inside) to advance the cycle. No Miner, no stone.
Biome constraint — must be placed on a Sand tile. Refused by the placement validator on any other biome.
Ledger — carries a MiningPitLedger buffer for local Stone storage before surplus ships.
Footprint — single hex. Must be placed inside Player territory on Sand.
Durability — 220 HP. Repaired by Builders pulling Timber from the Capital.

Lore

Every mining pit eventually finds something it didn’t expect. Seams of ore that weren’t on any survey, water pockets that drown a morning’s work, hollow chambers that echo back the sound of tools in ways no-one wants to think about too hard. Veterans keep a packed kit near the mouth, ready to run, because the pit is never finished telling you what it is.