Solar Ore Generator

Use the power of the sun to generate ore!

Setup like an Algae or Oxygen Farm, make sure it gets sunlight and it will generate ore over time.

All vanilla ore types are available. Even Ice.

Built in crafting progression for example you'd need 5 metal grids for magnesium and explosives for silver.

WORKS ON CONSOLES, available under Production or Large Blocks

Included in the Skyblock Scenario here:
https://mod.io/g/spaceengineers/m/skyblock-scenario#description

Reasons why I enjoy this mod:
Gives you an alternative and interesting challenge to mining.
Lets you focus on progressing your base/station instead of searching for those hard to find ores.
Gives you a source of uranium and platinum on planets.
Enables an asteroid free space start (SkyBlock) or voxel damage off.
Lets you setup for your in-game retirement.
Lets you take a break and still be progressing.
Lets you scale up to meet any production requirement.

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Ore Production Rates:

Ores: 1 solar ore generator keeps up with 1 Basic Refinery’s processing rate. 2 generators match 1 Large Refinery.

Ice: 2 keeps up with 1 O2 Generator

Stone: 1 generator supports 1 Survival Kit, 2 support 1 Basic Refinery, 4 support 1 Large Refinery.

Ore production is not effected by world settings. The above assumes default 3x refining speed. 
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Power Requirements:

| Tier | Generators |
| 0.20 MW | Stone, Iron, Nickel, Silicon, Ice |
| 0.45 MW | Cobalt, Magnesium |
| 0.80 MW | Silver, Gold |
| 1.25 MW | Platinum, Uranium |
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Is this balanced for survival?

On paper no, in practice yes? The journey through progression is engaging in a different way since you're working on solar farms (verse asteroid hunting). By endgame vanilla and this are both abundant on resources, so with this you just save the late game ice and uranium runs.

(I have set the power requirements to be higher for higher tier ores, but SE has a bug and doesn't apply those settings right now so it's still at 20kw per.)
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Other Mods you might enjoy with this:
Magnesium Reactors
https://mod.io/g/spaceengineers/m/magnesium-reactors#description

Power Cell Discharger (Get power from stone)
https://mod.io/g/spaceengineers/m/pcd-power-cell-discharger#description

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Mod Review by Ranos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf4Nu_nU6q8

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