Portable Miner is a 1x1 entity with attached 1-slot inventory that its mining results go into. It requires no power, but cannot output anything automatically.
Miner Mk.1-3 are 5x3 entities that only have a 1x1 mining area - this allows the player to place them anywhere on the resource node, but only one of them. They require electricity. Each tier has double the mining speed of the last, at 1, 2, 4 per second respectively.
There will be two types of miners:
Portable Miner is a 1x1 entity with attached 1-slot inventory that its mining results go into. It requires no power, but cannot output anything automatically.
Miner Mk.1-3 are 5x3 entities that only have a 1x1 mining area - this allows the player to place them anywhere on the resource node, but only one of them. They require electricity. Each tier has double the mining speed of the last, at 1, 2, 4 per second respectively.
[x] Miner Mk.1
[x] Portable Miner
[x] Miner Mk.2 & 3