Talk:King Gold Mine/@comment-43797466-20200102092353/@comment-28075122-20200102111658

the main draw of this mine is its absurdly low base upgrade count

so basically what upgrade count is, every time an ore goes through an upgrader, it gets a certain amount added to its upgrade count (some upgraders give more upgrade count than others). certain items in the game have effects that use this number, most notably cell furnaces, which offer high multipliers, but usually cant process ores that have 1 or more upgrade count.

considering this mine starts out with -100 upgrades, you can very easily give this ore a lot of upgrades and still have it work on cell furnaces.