Construction crane

The Construction crane costs 230 minerals, 120 energy and 50 gears, with a forty-second creation time in build 23882143. The official description lists construction and repair functions: “Adds another building construction queue. Significantly expands the construction area.

Repairs equipment within a small square.” Its health record carries 1 200 base hit points, reserve capacity 50 and armour 0. The configuration also names an expanded construction radius. The description supports its repair role even though the simple component join does not supply a repair rate here; neither a missing join nor the price establishes a free or unlimited repair mechanic.

The Empire’s Construction crane also costs 230 minerals and takes forty seconds in build 23882143. Shared mineral price and timing do not establish identical support mechanics. The Mutant crane’s fire coefficient is 0.3, while the Creator of Flies records 0.7; that is a specific comparison, not a claim that every other Mutant structure shares the same value. The description mentions repair and another construction queue, and the configuration records an expanded construction radius. These separate sources describe its role without proving a particular repair rate or a faction-wide weakness.

Use the crane’s described additional construction queue and expanded area when planning where the next buildings can go. Its 1 200 base hit points are a defensive value, not compensation that guarantees a forward position will survive. The repair statement concerns equipment within a small square; it does not establish repair while moving, a universal target list or a free recovery rate. Arrange damaged equipment around the stated support area only with those limits in mind. Extra construction capacity is useful when there is work for it, rather than a promise that every later building necessarily arrives sooner.

The crane’s fire coefficient is 0.3, compared with 0.7 on the Creator of Flies, and its area coefficient is 0.3. None of these values establishes how much extra flame or splash damage it takes. Its replacement configuration requires 230 minerals, 120 energy and 50 gears, as well as forty seconds. That resource commitment and the described construction-support role are concrete reasons to consider it as a target. Check whether the enemy is using its area or queue before prioritising it; removing the crane is not automatically more valuable than interrupting current combat-unit production.