ORE mining
ORE is the beating heart of PANDOR. Your planet mines real ORE, every ORE mined turns into Dust, Supply Drops open on ORE's rounds, and the weekly prize pays out in ORE.
ORE, explained
What ORE is, how mining it works and what it costs, after ORE's own guide.
Hard money on Solana
ORE is a token on Solana built to be hard money: fair launched in April 2024, no pre-mine, no insider allocation, and a hard cap of 3,000,000 enforced onchain.
One tile in 25, every round
Mining happens on a shared 5×5 grid. Each round, about a minute long, miners deploy SOL across the 25 tiles, and an onchain entropy program picks one winning tile. Every tile has the same 1 in 25 chance, and every result is public.
Our Supply Drops open on the same result, so nobody picks what you get, not even us.
Split or solo
Each round mints 1 ORE for the winning tile. On the 15 split tiles it's shared by how much SOL each miner put there. On the 10 solo tiles one miner takes it all, with odds set by their share.
Hold 5% of the winning tile: that's 5% of the ORE, or a 5% shot at all of it.
1 in 500
Every round also adds 0.2 ORE to the Motherlode, and every round has a 1 in 500 chance to trigger it. When it hits, the winning tile's miners split the whole pot by their SOL. Then it resets and builds again.
Most of your SOL comes back
After each round, miners on the winning tile get 99% of their SOL back and everyone else 89.1%. What the protocol keeps is the cost of mining, and it uses it to buy back ORE on the open market.
Holding pays
Mined ORE waits in your miner account until you claim it. Claiming unrefined ORE costs a 10% refining fee, shared out to the miners still holding theirs. Leave it in and you earn refined ORE, which claims fee-free.
Two ways to mine
You don't have to play the grid yourself: in PANDOR, packs mine for you.
Free: the simulation pack
- Keeps your planet making Dust
- Renews itself every 7 days, so you start it once
- Mines no ORE
Premium: mining packs
- $20 or $200, paid in SOL or USDC
- Mine real ORE for 7 days through RubyPool, an ORE mining pool
- In your wallet's name: only your wallet can take the ORE out
- Dust from every ORE mined, on top of the base rate
Most of a pack's price mines for you; the rest funds PANDOR and the weekly ORE prize. ORE's refining fee and the pool's fee come off when you take ORE out.
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Every ORE mined becomes Dust
Each ORE your packs mine turns into Dust for your planet, and every Reactor level adds 20% more. Dust builds your fleet and your defences, and it's what raiders come to steal. They can take your Dust, never your ORE.
Up to 200% of what you mine
With Premium, burn Dust on the weekly board. The top ten planets share a prize paid in ORE, each up to what its own packs mined that week. Mined plus prize: up to 200%. The game shows your share as it moves, and RHEA warns you when a burn can't pay yet.
Ready to take command?
Available now on the Solana dApp Store.