can u set what ore it mines

Is there a way to increase the range of the drills? Even directly on top of the marker for silver 300m deep, I can only get Stone.

Realising this is a few years old now but I cam to this mode when the original just pulled stone and not the cobalt 90m below it. Figure the deeper pull would work better. original removed, now I am getting gold from somewhere? Not that the gold source is a bad thing but I wanted the cobalt.

I am trying to use this on Europa and it only ever detects ice. Even if it sitting directly over ore, without ice touching it. Any ideas?

You cannot have this installed alongside the original mod, and replacing the original mod with this one keeps your drills in place

How deep is the original ore mining resourcenode mode and your edition

Crashes the game as soon as I attempt to place a static drill with this mod. Origional mod works without issue for placement.

So if you use a tiered upgrade module with a speed modifier of 10, it will crash the server with a divide by zero error.

does the advanced drill take speed module, yield module, or power module upgrades?

@days - Thanks Mate!

Yeah they "Work"
But on the other hand ... if they would be easier to place, they would be extremely OP imho :D

@Jan - I'm not sure they work with modded ores? But I think they do. Might be a bit finicky.

They don't cost too much to make, and I recommend not using the T1/First version, because of a bad sound bug. Just skip to T2/Second version to avoid the sound bug.

Glad you got it working, though :) They can be kind of finicky. I've only placed them on the iron ore on a preplaced custom planet, but I haven't played much since then.

Happy Engineering!

@DaysofKnight: I got it to work with vanilla ores .... after placing over 20 drills ....

i want to use it with immersive Scarce resources and AwwScrap... not really an option if you need Tons of resources to build 1 working drill ... :(

@Jan Van Pommes

No, it still works. Because I'm still getting iron ore from mine on a custom planet with preplaced ore spots with the drills from this mod.

Keep trying, I'm sure you'll get it!

i really don't get whats wrong ... i tried the original mod .... i tried this one ... all the drills are extracxting is stone .... even when placed 2m above the ore ....

my dissapointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined :(


is this broken since the last update?

Going to give this version of the mod a go as the original is causing save corruption for me.

@daysofKnight - thanks for the answer to this :) i was using the smallest one in the beginning :D

@Dustmuz - I think that's a bug that comes from the original mod. Which the Mod author hasn't really touched in a long time.

From what I gather, people have discovered that the sound issue only comes from the first/smallest drill. So, just don't use that one. The second one is better, and just as easy to make resources wise

Is there a way to either quiet down the drills or fix the drill sound??
it more often than not, it bugs out, and i hear the drill sound, even if im 1000km from the drill itself and it is quite loud

@daysofKnight: Glad you like it :) But seriously, we dont know how the original authors life situation is (is he doing well etc.?). Despite his choices of function/balance and lack of explanation, he does deserve credit for making a fantastic mod.

@sammytoby: I just have some very basic knowledge about programming and not good enough to fix crashes that doesnt have an obvious fix (something that affects everyone and can easily be reproduced), sorry... You can try your luck asking the original author of the mod - and if he releases a new version, i will update that with the changes i have here.

@cosmos: I had it run faster than the original before, but with the removal of slowdown penalty when close to another drill, i changed it back. I might do a version that is a lot faster next time i play SE, but wont promise anything.

I was going to comment a nice long rant on the original mod, since the Mod Author of the original mod dropped the mod, gave little to no instructions or help, and hasn't responded to any comment in two years.

I hit back by accident and it deleted my wall of text (Since I'm using the mobile app at the moment) and I couldn't be bothered to re-type it all. Backed out, saw your mod.

And I see you made some useful changes and are actively talking to your community. Will download this mod instead.

The idea of the original was great, but the blatant MIA abandonment and lack of guidance, help, or any real kind of instructions or how the mod works from the original mod's Author turned me away from it.

Looking forward to playing with this mod

@Xelan: The mod does not alter or replace any ores

Does anyone have an idea if this mod replaces the vanilla ores or alters them in any way? Setting a sorter with whitelist and *ores* doesn't let ores through, despite that being the only thing it should actually do. And my inventory script doesn't seem to recognise ore as ore either.

this mod has made me crash when i tryed to place it idk why but just a heads up to see if can be fixed if im not the only one it happing to but the mod is really nice

this mod is fantasic i cant not play with out it

I'm using Deep Ore mod, but it still isn't seeing ore below 1k depth. Also, if two ores are stacked vertically, it only gets the closest one. Is it possible to be allowed to select the desired detected ore?

can you make it so they pull ore faster i find them a waste of time vs drill ships

SORRY MAN :( I was just trolling... all mods are good and we have a choice :)

@RakWar Well... it is a mod, so you dont need to download it if you dont like it :)

horrible mod that ruins the game

@Irator i have no skill with code or even scripts but thanks to your explanation i got them to work there's a bit of piping but i got it too work by placing them scattered over the ore node and one placed a few block under the first one and im now getting all 3 resources. thanks XD

@rowly6798 The drills can only choose one ore to drill. If it is not the ore you want that is selected, you have to move it slightly so the center of the drill points down towards the ore you want.
Also want to mention that i am not the original author of the mod and have limited coding experience, so i have no idea how to make one drill mine all three nodes at the same time or if it is even possible, if that is what you wanted it to do.

@Irator hi im using your version of the mod and set up an advanced drill on top of a ore node but it only gathering one ore when there is 3 ore's all within 25 m of the drill ??

i figured what what was going on, location placement is a bit finicky. thanks for the replay tho.

Original was at roughly 90-100m, so it should be +-6000m down now (1 block is 2.5m)

how deep have you got it to detect an ore

erm... funny but important info for you guys i use "RIM's Tiered Modules" for my late game refiners etc yer... well... if you have this mod (dont know about others similer) DON'T use the kardashev speed modules on the drill, it crashes the game all the way to desktop haha

Looks Good, All Working A.O.K thanks again! :)

@Johny Did some changes that might have fixed my derp. Tested in my world and works fine there.

erm... just logged into my game (single player) and all the drills are pulling stone? tried replacing them but just stone is this just me? (i have alot of mods so it might be something else)

@Irator Fantastic! haha! nice one! thanks :D

@Irator Yes yes that is better indeed, great stuff!

@Johny Managed to increase the ore discovery distance :)

@BoompaBlubbah I changed the Yield back to the original mod's values. It was set to 4x ore yield previously which was pretty dang op, especially without the drill slowdown function.

@Lighted Shadows - Thanks for the tip, will change it :)

@BoompaBlubbah - I increased the speed when i made it last year, but forgot i did it... will add it to description - thanks for noticing and reminding me.

Hi Irator,

I am currently using your version on my world. The work speed of the drills was not changed, correct?

Irator
You can set the MOD to Unlisted and it will still be usable from servers and by people using your server without it being on the workshop list.

Current visibility: UnlistedThis item is visible to everyone, but will not show up in searches or on your profile.

Ah OK fair enough, well thank you anyways that thump scared the c*** out of me first time I head it and when flying past I still I was getting shot at from time to time.

Checked the code and found a section that check the range.. but not sure which of the values to change for this to work. (i'm not a programmer). Might do some testing on this later.

I'm also not sure if it is a good idea to change too much as the original creator of this mod included this line in his mod description "No- you cannot reupload this" - I originaly had this set to private and only changed to public so it could to be used in a remotely hosted private server.

Awesome, Thank you! oh btw do you know if there is a way to make it work deeper? like if we had deeper ores active? i had to deactivate it as this (and others like it) only seem to check up to 100m down.

oh.. make sure you dont have both active