Volcanoids – Brief Module Guide on Efficiency

Power Plants

All tiers of power plants consume 1 coal every 100 seconds. This also equates to 3 coal every 5 minutes, per plant. 
 
Since all plants use same rate of coal, it’s more coal efficient to use higher tier power plants, depending on your drillship spacing situation. Tier 1 provides 5 energy per second, Tier 2 10, Tier 3 15. 
 
Below is a table showing amount of coal consumed per eruption cycle, per power plant: 
 

Ceiling Modules

The only modules that can be placed on ceilings/top of drillship are power plants and storage modules. Be sure the ceiling have walls or ceiling modules can’t be placed. 
 
Storage modules do not use energy. 
 
 
 

Station & Hub Efficiency

You can have multiple stations for each production/research/refinery module, but processing speed drops proportionally. Higher tier modules process faster than lower tier modules. 
 
For example, if you have a refinery module and 2 refinery stations, it’ll take twice as long to refine the same type of ore per station, when you are running both stations. Adding a same tier refinery module will double the refining speed, which brings it to the same refining speed as a 1 refinery module and 1 refinery station. Ratios matter. 
 
The same principle applies to production/research/refinery hubs. 
 

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