Energy mines have lathes?

[Qwerty Quazo]

Just got defensive struct, and a amplified lathe was blown up by emergent moments later. I thought energy mines have lathes only to build struct. Is this an intension?

[GoodMorning]

Yes, mines have Lathes when you get Def. Struct. This is to allow them to rebuild it themselves. As a bonus, we get a fixed (free?) Lathe.

[Qwerty Quazo]

This is to allow them to rebuild it themselves.

Broken?

[planetfall]

This is to allow them to rebuild it themselves.

Broken?

Probably not. I pointed this out months ago and Virgil didn't change it. The struc itself isn't very strong so the lathe being able to do other things does help justify the amp gem cost.

[knucracker]

Yeah, it's a lathe like any other... with one exception in the upcoming build.  In the upcoming build the lathe on a mine can build struc 5x faster than a normal lathe.

Most of the time the lathe is inconsequential other than building surrounding struc.  But depending on map design it can be useful for chain reaction energy source building, gathering nearby energy pods during and early mission, taking out a very near enemy structure.  All edge cases, but they can show up from time to time.