Drone Bay

Summary
Drone Bay Second Floor:
 * You start with 1 drone that can build and upgrade. You need a Drone bay to get more drones or give them other tasks.
 * Drone bay is unlocked after reaching Area 12 and costs 2000 coins to build.

Skills

 * Teaching drones other skills/tasks requires rares, this cost is per drone. You can acquire rares from basic chests, rare chests (purchased with gems through the shop), or from Guild rewards. (See the Guild reward page for more information.)
 * A 20% speed improvement actually multiplies the relevant time by 5/6 per boosting drone; the resulting time is then floored in numbers of seconds, and increased to 1 if it would be 0. This is generally equivalent to improving speed by 6/5, which is 20%.
 * A drone can only take 1 action at a time (including building!), so a drone can't collect mining resources, water, and oil at the same time; these same three actions do not stack in any sense, unlike boosting, so there is no reason to ever have more than one drone that can collect oil or water.
 * While a drone is out of sight working on a task, double-tapping on its hologram in the drone bay will auto-scroll to its location.

Build Tasks Cannot Be Cancelled
Once started, a build task cannot be cancelled. Be very careful before starting a long build in case you have other tasks that might be more urgent.

Task Timers
When using your drones for non-build tasks such as collecting ores from your Mining Stations or boosting your smelting/crafting stations, etc, they have a timer before they automatically stop working. You can restart this timer at any time by simply clicking the drone and starting the task again. (You may want to do this just before you go to bed or leave the game for a while, for example, so the drone continues working while you're away instead of idling just after you leave.)

Stacking Boost Speeds
When using drones to boost smelting/crafting speeds, etc, you can use multiple drones to boost the same station. For example, if you have two drones that both have the "Boost Smelting" skill, you can have them both boost your smelting at the same time to increase your smelting speed multiplicatively. (I.E, the increased smelting speed boost will stack.)