The U.S.S. Newgrange is a grade 6 Rare Federation Survey ship built for one job: mining gas fast. Its Gas Mining Laser raises your gas mining rate by hundreds of percent, and it carries a large protected cargo hold to keep those hauls safe from raiders. You unlock the build once your Shipyard reaches level 68. If gas is your bottleneck in the mid-to-late game, the Newgrange earns its berth.<\/p>\n
The Newgrange needs 320 blueprints, and the build unlocks once your Shipyard reaches level 68. The build cost is 900 Σ-Dilithium, 105,400 Σ-Tritanium, 2,800 6★ Common Refined Gas, and 710 6★ Common Refined Ore, with a build time of 39 days. The game data does not say where the blueprints come from, so plan around the building level and the resource cost rather than a fixed source. At 320 blueprints this is a longer collection than most early ships ask for, so confirm your current blueprint total before committing resources to the build.<\/p>\n
The ship’s ability is the Gas Mining Laser. It increases your gas mining rate by 700% at ship level 1, rising to 1,785% at level 75. Like all ship abilities, it is always active, so every gas node you park on fills faster with nothing to trigger. This is what makes the Newgrange a gas hauler first and foremost: the higher its level, the wider the gap between it and a general-purpose miner working the same node. Gas feeds refining and a wide slice of mid-game research and building costs, so a faster gas rate turns directly into faster progress on the projects that gate your base. Park it on a high-yield gas node, crew it for mining speed, and it clears that node in a fraction of the time a combat ship would.<\/p>\n
These are base values from the current game data; research, buffs and officers raise them in play.<\/p>\n
| Ebene<\/th>\n | Warp (speed \/ range)<\/th>\n | Impulse<\/th>\n | Cargo (protected)<\/th>\n | Shield HP<\/th>\n | Hull HP<\/th>\n | Health (displayed)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stufe 1<\/td>\n | 6.7 \/ 1,280<\/td>\n | 100<\/td>\n | 126,000 (18,450)<\/td>\n | 3,319,205<\/td>\n | 4,685,936<\/td>\n | 4,002,570.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Stufe 8<\/td>\n | 7.4 \/ 1,385<\/td>\n | 100<\/td>\n | 204,750 (42,385)<\/td>\n | 6,169,727<\/td>\n | 8,710,203<\/td>\n | 7,439,965<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Tier 15<\/td>\n | 8.1 \/ 1,610<\/td>\n | 100<\/td>\n | 256,750 (56,068)<\/td>\n | 11,916,060<\/td>\n | 16,822,674<\/td>\n | 14,369,367<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n The pattern is what you would expect from a survey hull: warp range and cargo climb steadily as you tier the ship, and the protected slice of that cargo grows with it, so a maxed Newgrange both carries more gas and keeps more of it if it gets hit on the way home.<\/p>\n <\/span>Weapons and firing pattern<\/span><\/h2>\n |