Gold Mine

For the terrain, see Gold Seam.

The Gold Mine in Dungeon Keeper generated gold at a certain rate per hour, which was used to buy certain traps, hire minions, train minions, and upgrade certain rooms.

If the Gold Mine reached the storage capacity, it would not generate any more gold until it was collected.

Gold Mines were not built, but rather, claimed.

Notes[]

Concept art

Generated gold over time. The quantity the mine could have ready to collect at a given time was equal to the bonus total gold capacity offered by that mine.
Entry point for invaders once a Gold Mine had been claimed. As a result, each additional claimed Gold Mine greatly increased the vulnerability of your dungeon, especially to flying units like Ghosts.
Uncollected gold was more vulnerable to theft.
Bolstering increased gold production.
Upgrading Gold Mines was required to reach additional storage required for upgrading certain buildings, especially the Dungeon Heart.

Upgrades[]

Level	Gold Production	Gold Storage	Build Time	Upgrade Cost (Stone)	Forgone Gold	Break Even Days¹	Dungeon Heart Required
1	400/h	600	0m	150	0	0.00	-
2	800/h	1,200	10m	400	67	0.01	Level 1
3	1,200/h	1,800	30m	800	400	0.06	Level 1
4	1,600/h	3,000	1h	1,600	1,200	0.17	Level 2
5	2,000/h	15k	2h	3,500	3,200	0.42	Level 3
6	2,600/h	30k	4h	7,000	8,000	0.72	Level 4
7	3,200/h	50k	8h	15k	20,800	1.78	Level 5
8	3,800/h	100k	16h	40k	51,200	4.22	Level 6
9	4,400/h	150k	1d	80k	91,200	7.3	Level 7
10	5,000/h	200k	1d 12h	150k	158,400	12.5	Level 8
11	5,500/h	250k	2d	2.5M	?	?	Level 11
12	6,500/h	300k	2d 12h	4M	?	?	Level 12
13	7,500/h	350k	3d	6M	?	?	Level 13
14	10,000/h	400k	4d	8M	?	?	Level 14
15	12,500/h	500k	5d	10M	?	?	Level 15
16	15,000/h	600k	6d	12.5M	?	?	Level 16
17	17,500/h	700k	7d	15M	?	?	Level 17
18	20,000/h	800k	8d	17.5M	?	?	Level 18
19	22,500/h	900k	9d	20M	?	?	Level 19
20	25,000/h	1.0M	10d	25M	?	?	Level 20
21	27,500/h	1.1M	11d	30M	?	?	Level 21
22	30,000/h	1.2M	12d	35M	?	?	Level 22
23	32,500/h	1.3M	13d	40M		?	Level 23
24	35,000/h	1.4M	13d	45M	?	?	Level 24
25	37,500/h	1.5M	13d	50M	?	?	Level 25
26	37,500/h	1.6M	14d	51M	?	?	Level 26
27	37,500/h	1.7M	14d	52M	?	?	Level 27
28	37,500/h	1.8M	16d	53M	?	?	Level 28
29	37,500/h	1.9M	18d	54M	?	?	Level 29
30	37,500/h	2.0M	20d	55M	?	?	Level 30
31	37,500/h	2.1M	21d	56M	?	?	Level 31
32	37,500/h	2.2M	22d	57M	?	?	Level 32
33	37,500/h	2.3M	23d	58M	?	?	Level 33
34	37,500/h	2.4M	24d	59M	?	?	Level 34
35	37,500/h	2.5M	35d	60M	?	?	?

¹ Break Even Days is how long, from the time you start the upgrade, until you have the same amount of gold as if you didn't do the upgrade. Simply put, how long until you are making more than you would have by not upgrading.

Note:

Build Times and derivative values have been updated for content update 8.0 from May 2018.
Max level is 35
Rate shown does not include bolstering, guild perks or DK Premium boost.

References[]

Electronic Arts (19 March 2014). Dungeon Keeper FAQs: Claiming Gold Mines & Stone Quarries. YouTube. Retrieved on 24 February 2024.