Each location on the map suitable for a base has a mineral field, made up of individual mineral clusters. Each race requires specialized worker units to harvest minerals from a mineral field: terran SCVs and later, MULEs , zerg drones, and protoss probes.
To harvest minerals, these units travel to the mineral field, spend some time gathering at a mineral cluster, and return to base with a load of minerals. Workers continue this process to provide a steady stream of minerals which increase the counter on the upper right until all of the minerals at a base are depleted. Minerals found in a typical mineral field are blue, and workers harvest 5 minerals per trip from these clusters. High-Yield Minerals Some mineral patches contain special rich minerals, which can be easily identified by their distinctive yellow or gold hue.
Rich mineral clusters provide 7 minerals per trip, instead of 5 minerals as normal mineral fields do. These rich clusters contain the same total amount of minerals as normal mineral clusters do, but workers mine them faster--increasing your mineral yield. Since more income means a bigger and stronger army, rich mineral fields are highly desirable. Beware that rich mineral clusters can be risky to take, since they tend to be placed in locations which are hard to defend and more exposed to attack.
Gathering Minerals At the start of the game, you can select the workers available to you and direct them to harvest minerals by right-clicking a mineral field. Workers will automatically arrange themselves to harvest from 'unoccupied' mineral clusters; if no free mineral clusters are available, workers will get in line behind one of the occupied clusters and wait their turn.
Saturation is typically reached when three workers are harvesting each mineral cluster or vespene gas geyser though this can change if a base is located further away from available resources. Each mineral cluster represents a specific quantity of minerals. After those minerals are gone, the cluster is depleted, and it will disappear from the map. A notification message will play when the last cluster in a mineral field has been mined out. It's wise to move workers from a field that is being depleted to a new, fresh mineral field in order to maintain a steady income.
Placing New Bases. The farther that workers must travel to claim minerals, the longer they will take to return those resources, and the slower resource gathering occurs. Edit source History Talk 2. Do you like this video? Play Sound. Minerals Minerals are a form of crystal resource. StarCraft Manual. Irvine, Calif. StarCraft: Shadow of the Xel'Naga.
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User Info: Vydiot Vydiot 11 years ago 6 No don't keep building workers on your old base if you've got an expansion up. Do you guys trust "Activision Blizzard" with a new Starcraft game?
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