Gold pan

Gold pan is the initial gold producing structure. Most likely it will be your first building in the Get a Little Gold game. It's the only buildings that is available from the beginning and don't need to be researched.

Description: Gold Pan is a most simple way to extract gold from sand and gravel

Base price: 10 gold.

Base production: 0.1 gold per second

Production Researches

Icon	Name	Unlocks at	Description	Initial cost	Cost per second	Base research time
	Better panning 1	5 pans	Doubles pan base production	100	2	1 minute
	Better panning 2	25 pans	Triples pan base production	10000	70	3 minutes
	Better panning 3	50 pans	Quadruples pan base production	1 Million	2000	10 minutes
	Better panning 4	100 pans	Quintiples pan base production	100 Million	70000	30 minutes
	Better panning 5	200 pans	Sextuples pan base production	10 Billion	2 Million	1 hr. 40 min.
	Better panning 6	300 pans	Septuples pan base production	1 Trillion	70 Million	5 hours

Note: Effects from production researches stack. For example if you complete Better panning 3 research, your total multiplier will be x24 (2 x 3 x 4).

Special Ability Researches

Icon	Name	Unlocks at	Description	Initial cost	Cost per second	Base research time
	Baking gold 1	15 pans	Doubles pan production for every 30 pans owned	900	25	2 minutes
	Baking gold 2	35 pans	Doubles pan production for every 29 pans owned	810000	4000	10 minutes
	Baking gold 3	75 pans	Doubles pan production for every 28 pans owned	1.5 Billion	1.5 Million	50 minutes
	Baking gold 4	155 pans	Doubles pan production for every 27 pans owned	2.7 Trillion	540 Million	4 hr. 10 min.
	Baking gold 5	315 pans	Doubles pan production for every 26 pans owned	7.29 Quadrillion	290 Billion	20 hr. 50 min.

Baking gold multiplier can be calculated using the following formula:

$\text {Baking Gold Multiplier} ~ = ~ 2^{(\text{Number of pans} ~ / ~ \text{Baking gold ratio})}$

Baking gold ratio depends on the level of the baking gold special ability. It is 30 on the first level of baking gold and 26 on the fifth level of baking gold because it doubles pan production for every 30 and 26 pans owned on 1-st and 5-th levels respectively.

For example if you have 135 gold pans and completed Baking gold 4 research your baking gold multiplier will be 32 (2^(135/27)).

Gold Pan Production Calculations

Initial gold pan production can be calculated using the following formula:

$\text {Gold pan production} ~ = ~ \text {GPP} ~ \times ~ \text {BPM} ~ \times ~ \text {BGM}$

where GPP is Gold pan base production (0.1 gold per second)

BPM stands for Better panning multiplier that depends on Better panning production research. For example if player completed Better panning 4 research his BPM will be 120 (2 x 3 x 4 x 5).

BGM stands for Baking gold multiplier that depends on the number of pans owned as well as the level of Baking gold special ability. For example on 4 level of baking gold and 135 pans owned BGM will be 32 (2^(135/27)). General formula for calculating BGM is following:

$\text {BGM} ~ = ~ 2^{(\text{Number of pans} ~ / ~ \text{Baking gold level ratio})}$

So if you have 135 gold pans and completed Better panning 4 and Baking gold 4 researches your result Gold pan production will be 0.1 x 120 x 32 = 384 gold per second.

Baking gold is probably one of the most powerful special abilities as it use exponentiation to calculate base production multiplier. That is why Gold pan become one of the most powerful gold producing structures in the late game.

Gold pan production can be further boosted by tower and rocker's special ability Bathing gold.

Pit's special ability Digging gold also take a part in Gold pan production as it increases base production of all buildings in game.

So the final formula will look like this:

$\text {Final gold pan production} ~ = ~ \text {GPP} ~ \times ~ \text {BPM} ~ \times ~ \text {BGM}~ \times ~ \text {TM} ~ \times ~ \text {BathingGM} ~ \times ~ \text {DGM}$

where TM is bonus from tower (increases gold pan base production)

BathingGM is Bathing gold multiplier (multiplier to gold pan base production from rocker's special ability)

and DGM stands for Digging gold multiplier (multiplier to all buildings base production from pit's special ability).