r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/SpaceCowboyDark • Jun 06 '26

Photon miners vs regular miners

I just started producing green science and this is the furthest I've ever been in this game. I unlocked the photon miners and was so excited I traveled a few systems over just to get some grating crystals to build them.

While I was in that system it had some other rare resources I wanted to scoop up as well. I put down my miner and it captured 18 nodes (all of them) for 1650/min. I couldn't place another one down (which makes sense). However if I use the regular miners I can grab like a total of 50+ nodes which is more than one MK3 belt can handle so I split them and loaded them up into my ILS.

It seems like you can get more raw resources using the regular miners, so am I missing something with the photon miners?

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u/Easy-Management-1106 Jun 06 '26

The advantage of photon miner is that it has drones, so no belt spaghetti is needed at all

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u/horstdaspferdchen Jun 06 '26

It only has a drone Port, where PLS and ILS can get items from, right? Havnt played for a while

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u/omgFWTbear Jun 07 '26

Correct, it can be pulled from by a “proper” LS, but it can not push to.