Servi Mechanici
Deployable Roman mining automata — a fuel-fed fleet that mines while you are away, hard-capped so active play always wins.
Servi Mechanici are deployable Roman mining automata — mechanical servants that mine on your behalf while you are elsewhere. Buy your first automaton, fuel it with oil, and it chips away at the mine you station it in, earning Denarius and Auctoritas without you swinging a pickaxe.
The system is deliberately balanced so that active play always wins: each automaton mines at a fraction of your manual rate, extra automata stack with diminishing returns, and the fleet is hard-capped. Automata are a supplement to mining, never a replacement for it.
How It Works
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Command | /servi (alias /automata) |
| First automaton | 500,000 Denarius |
| Fuel rate | 1 oil per 30 minutes of mining, per automaton |
| Fuel craft | 4 gunpowder + 1 lapis → 1 oil |
| Max banked fuel | 4 hours of runtime per automaton |
| Fleet cap | 1 base · +1 at Prestige 3 · +1 at Prestige 6 · +1 at donor tier IV+ (max 4) |
| Mining rate | 20% of your manual rate, ×0.6 per additional automaton |
| Quest credit | Automata-mined blocks count at 30% |
| Rename | First rename each week free, then 25,000 Denarius |
The Rate Math (Why Automata Never Beat You)
Each automaton mines at 20% of your manual rate, and every additional automaton contributes only 60% of the previous one:
fleet_rate = 0.20 × (1 + 0.6 + 0.36 + 0.216 + …) × your_manual_rate
| Fleet size | Share of your manual rate |
|---|---|
| 1 automaton | 20.0% |
| 2 automata | 32.0% |
| 3 automata | 39.2% |
| 4 automata (max) | 43.5% |
Even a maxed fleet earns under half of what you mine yourself — by design. These envelopes are hard-ruled in code and enforced by automated balance tests, so no upgrade can ever push a fleet past active play.
Fuel & Upkeep
- Crafting oil: 4 gunpowder + 1 lapis lazuli produces 1 oil. Keep a stockpile before long AFK sessions.
- Consumption: exactly 1 oil per 30 minutes of mining, per automaton.
- Banking: each automaton banks up to 4 hours of runtime — refuel before the bank empties or the automaton idles.
- Warnings: chat and action-bar alerts fire at 5 minutes and 1 minute of remaining fuel.
- Legion rebate: the legion Automata Rebate perk cuts fuel consumption by 5% per tier (it never changes the mining rate).
Commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/servi | Open the Servi Mechanici fleet manager (inventory GUI on Java, form menu on Bedrock). |
/automata | Alias for /servi. |
/robots | The legacy Legion Automata Forge — the older robot system, still reachable. |
First buy-in is 500,000 Denarius — an early-game gate by design. If you are still climbing the first ten ranks, your money is better spent on rank-ups and core enchants; come back for Servi once income is comfortable.