Beginner Setup Guide

"'I'm new to the game, how do I build a setup?'""'Well friend, you've come to the right page!'"This article is aimed at novice players who are completely new to the game. This page contains dropper types, upgrader types, furnace types and basic setup types.

Other guide articles:

Advanced Setup Guide

Expert Setup Guide

Droppers
Droppers are one of the basic components of a setup, along with upgraders and furnaces. Droppers are self explanatory, as they are used to produce ore (from seemingly nowhere). Ores retain cash values which are increased using upgraders and furnaces when they are processed. Droppers usually have larger cash values relevant to their tier and and how difficult it is to acquire or use them, ranging from a Basic Iron Mine's $2 ore to an incredibly powerful Gargantium Mine's $10sx ore.

Standard
Standard droppers are incredibly easy to use as they simply drop ore from above to the ground below from a white semi-transparent spout. The majority of droppers in the game are standard and are therefore incredibly easy to work with.

Industrial
Industrial droppers all share a common trait where they also have an input slot for coal in addition to the spout at the other end. In return, they drop valuable ore at the same rate at which coal is input at a 1:1 ratio.

Remote
Remote droppers present the player with a remote button on their GUI, popping up near the bottom left of the screen. The player can control their ore output and these droppers tend to have fairly high ore value in compensation for manual control.

Button/Excavators
Similar to remote droppers, excavators require manual control from the player, but instead of a remote button on the GUI, they possess physical green buttons that are present usually on the sides of the mine. Upon pressing, they produce ore. Excavators also produce larger ores compared to the other droppers.

Orbital
Orbital droppers are quite rare to see in a setup simply because there are not many and are outclassed by other mines on the same level. These droppers produce ore by spawning them high in the sky around them and then dropping them at high speeds. Catching these ores can prove quite difficult.

Upgraders
Upgraders are used to increase the value of ore when they pass through. When making a setup, upgraders tend to use up the most space of your setup, both in actual space-usage of your base and in item layout limit. These are put into 2 main categories:

Money-limit
Money-limit upgraders have a cash limit that stops ore from being increased in value past a certain point. These are frequently used in loop setups in order to save money and space.