Mineral Mining Laser

"Multi-purpose mining laser with limited offensive capacity."


Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5

Level 6	Level 7	Level 8	Level 9	Level 10


Level 11	Level 12	Level 13	Level 14

Summary

The Mining Laser is the first weapon you obtain in Pixel Starships and the only one able to produce a resource. It is great for mass farming as it doesn't have ammo nor a long charge time. Its low energy count makes it very efficient, but also a big target making Armor a must.

Strategy

Attacking

The Mining Laser does exactly one damage to an unarmored room. This makes it have a hard time chewing through armored or 3+ power rooms. If you find your opponent has a one power room, make sure the lasers fire no higher apart than 0.7 seconds to do guaranteed damage. The Laser also does massive crew damage to yours and the enemies, this still takes awhile so make sure you have some other win condition.

Defending

Make sure your Mining Laser has a ton of armor and crew around it, it only has two power which makes it a BIG target. The room to target when editing the Laser's AI can also be a dilemma. The Shield is usually your safest bet, it has only three power but it usually has alot of armor and crew around it. Reactors have too much collective power to ever do real hull damage, so don't set it to target reactors.

When To Use

Boarding Strat

Generally, it is not that effective to pair this with the boarding strat on defense as the crew will often get killed by the lasers friendly fire or won't make an effort to support your laser's focus fire. However, if you can control the combat it is great as it saves many missiles or whatever you would usually use.

Hangar Spam Strat

Generally, Missile Launcher would be much better in this situation as they bypass shields and can either EMP or Murder all Teleporters that might over run your ship. The Lasers would have to shoot down a tedious shield and then have to overpower the many crew in the TLP. They also have a hard time dealing with AA or 3 Powered Rooms.

Weapon Spam/Missiles

If your spamming weapons, go ahead and pair this on your hull, it's great. But, weapon spam is not an effective strategy as a Hanger spam or TLP rush is much more superior to this.

Statistics

Ship Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Number Available	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2

Icon	Name	Size	Damage	Minerals per Second	Maximum Power Consumption
	MLZ	3x2	1	0.194	2

Level	Reload Time	Capacity	Upgrade		Ship Level Required
Level	Reload Time	Capacity	Cost	Time	Ship Level Required
1	6s	100	50	10s	1
2	5.875s	200	250	5m	1
3	5.75s	300	1K	22m 30s	2
4	5.625s	400	4K	1h	3
5	5.5s	500	12.5K	3h	4
6	5.375s	600	25K	6h	5
7	5.25s	700	50K	12h	6
8	5.125s	800	100K	1d	7
9	5s	900	200K	1d 12h	8
10	4.875s	1K	400K	2d	8
11	4.75s	1K	800K	5d	9
12	4.625s	1K	1.6M	6d	10
13	4.5s	1K	1.8M	1w	10
14	4.375s	1K	2.1M	1w 1d	11