Orestack

Motherlode range gate

An optional gate on top of your automated strategy. When the live motherlode pool is below your min or above your max ORE, your miner sits out — without you pausing by hand.

What does it do?

Each round’s Treasury motherlode is the ORE pool that pays winners on the winning square. The amount varies. Automated strategies normally fire whenever their own balance and strategy rules allow — they don’t look at how large that pool is.

Motherlode range gate adds that missing check. Before your strategy runs, Orestack compares the live motherlode to the min and/or max you set. If the pool is outside that band, the round is skipped.

In plain english

“Only mine when motherlode is between 0.2500 and 2.0000 ORE.” Your tile logic, EV math, and split percentages stay the same — this only decides whether the strategy may fire.

Settings

Enable

Off by default. Existing miners keep their current behaviour until you turn this on and save.

Minimum ORE I’ll accept

Skip when the live motherlode is below this. Leave empty to ignore the minimum.

Maximum ORE I’ll accept

Skip when the live motherlode is above this. Leave empty to ignore the maximum.

Starting recommendation

Enable with a minimum only if you want larger pools; a maximum only if you want smaller ones. Set both to target a band. Watch Activity, then tighten or loosen the range.

Where to find it

Open Mining on the Mining page and select your miner.
Edit Strategy in the STRATEGY panel (or set it while creating a new miner).
Scroll past your strategy’s own fields to the Gates group — look for Motherlode range, toggle it on, set min and/or max ORE, then Save.

When it skips

Skips show in the miner’s Activity panel as SKIPPED with a plain-English reason, for example:

Skipped — motherlode 0.1200 ORE outside your 0.2500–2.0000 ORE range.

Other reasons you might see:

Motherlode below your minimum, or above your maximum (one bound set)
Motherlode pool data unavailable this round — the filter fails closed (sits out) rather than deploying blind

Things to know

Works with every automated strategy in the live picker — Lotto Mining, Fixed Tiles, X Random Tiles, EV Gate, V4 presets, V4 Orestacker, Shadow, OG Sniper, Custom Strategy.
Independent of strategy math — it does not change tiles or amounts; it only gates whether your strategy runs.
Inclusive bounds — at the min or max, the round still fires. Leave a side empty to ignore that bound.
Sibling of Crowded-round skip gate — that gate watches network-wide SOL; this one watches motherlode ORE. See Crowded-round skip gate.