I haven't played this game for several years, the mod was created for myself as an experiment, and became outdated when the game switched to DH11, so don't use this mod, there are people who can easily repeat it.

im not sure my self but i have given it a try u had to build the inter frist then put on the drill bit over it seem to work like a reagler drill to me tho one way it blows up the othere way it works but reminds me of the old drills

come on i was searching for mining lasers of small size and found this one and its broken :(

I like it (broken, unfortunately)

please someone pick up this mod and show it some love

shame looks cool

this mod is dead the last time it was updated was "22 Jan, 2015"

I see it's pink too.

does this need to be updated? I'm not getting any of the textures, Its pink color

Let's talk in blocks. How many blocks is the drill radius of this drill?

For our game server, we need an XXL Industrial Drill having a drill radius of 30 blocks to each side. The factions on our server build ships that must go underground and even have battles underground, but the current drill radius sizes restrict the size of our ships.

The drill itself could be 5x5x10 blocks in size. Maybe even two work modi: tunneling (30 blocks radius), and ore mining (10 blocks radius to each side, or 30 blocks but very slow). Can you do such a mod?

Heads up, somthing to do with a recent up date causes igniter to act as a regular engine part. Cuases thrust in direction pointed.
It will burn through drill if off set by a conver block on top port of drill.

Hi. Since DX11 the Mod appears in pink. is it the game or your mod making this?

no standart drill funktion for left ore rigth klick missing not in g menue only on off system

Anyone know if this works? Most recent comment over a year ago, now.

:/

I was really hoping for a long ranged drill but it functions exactly like standard drills...

i mounted it on my car on an planet planet and it just drills a hole in the ground in front of it. :P
same as standard drill.

oh well its still very nice

DX11:
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=576692590

Like this drill a lot. Hope you'll get around to update to DX11

THX

first off, im just saying, ive no clue how to program at all

just a thought, start with a laser antenna, make it a turret with coloered tracer rounds
link it into the ore detector for targeting [as the ore detector does pop up or locations on the HUD anyway just find the correct hooks?], and have it interact with the astroid data of target [the game files], type into UI of "exumer" laser antenna the targeted ore and haveit slowly remove the "voxeled" ore from astroid data and add to cargo [kinda like that sensor the spawns ore] or just have it break random voxels on roid while it mines till gone?

OR maybe finding a way to shoot tracer rounds at roid and the "impacts" create a mining effect likly useing a [break and add to cargo] script


the laser antenna kinda feels like a exumur to me

Also wondering about a DX11 version =)

Will a DX11 version be Made?

does it get to the point when its gonna be able to drill at londer distance? so i can mount few of them on larger ship and ore from some distance

how about a laser grinder... with adjustable aria of effect so you can grind single blocks

When i played Eve Online back in the days, this is it ! Mining lasers, salvation and solution for gathering ores without using any other equipment.Finally thanks to the Phantom Mining Laser Prototype, i finally managed to get the "almost same" feeling while mining.Mod might be outdated a little bit;but it's worth a try.If you wanted to see this drill in action, you can check out our review:https://youtu.be/BKuXiisaGUg?t=326

It would be nice if the igniter had an indicator for where the flame would show up, just as a quality of life improvement. Maybe use the conveyor sorter block as base instead of the battery? Other than that, I guess it's a limitation in the engine that makes the inertial dampeners to stop working when you have a thruster on override, right?

is there a laser welder? that would be cool.

needs update for left click[hold] activation like vanilla drills otherwise its kinda cool.

and i made a blueprint out of it:
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=403752030

WORKS LIKE A DREAM!!!!!

@DrivenbyDiamond: you could do it if you made a mod for a piston that had a very long travel with no visual model or collision box, and the drill with no visual as well. This yould give you a drill that could be placed on a piston that could go for as long as you wanted, say 50m. If you want the glowing head then you would just have to find a way to make the thruster flame that long but not have any force.

Complicated but if put into a set of blocks it could be done.

the laser is gone

A laser drill able to mine ores from 100 metres away is an interesting idea, the only problem is the drilling area is a sphere, not a cylnder, so trying to create something like that in the game's current state would result in you drilling everything in a 100 metres radius.

So say id like to make a concept from the movie The Core with a spinning laser drill array i could slice through meteors at what sort of pace?

100-500 is a bit far tbh

idea pondering:
does anyone have this really really anxious feeling for wanting to try out mining with medium range lasers? I mean.. making a mining laser with the top range of maybe 100-500 meters.. is there something in the game and code that doesn't support such an addition?
I mean.. I do have some amateur understanding of the physics of programming and the programming in physics.. but a mining laser would be the most awesome mod addition to the game.
I'm just wondering, what is it that the project stopped on? limited support by code? I mean.. the point of a laser drill would be to make it long range.. that is, it would have to have either an inbuilt tractor beam or a tractor beam counter part.. also.. it could just do the drilling and then you'd vacuum the rest up with the tractor beam mod. :3

[New Eden - Manufacturing Industries]
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COULD i flush cut so i can place a row of blocks

I also had an idea; what if you could code in options to mine a certain thing? Like, set the laser to only mine stone, etc

The laser doesn't show up

dosnt work the laser does not mine just the drill

hmm is it good vs ships too?

the thread extension seems more logical

Drill is a ball on a thread, I can inflate the balloon or make long thread

sweet

i also agree with mike and raven, make the range *much* longer and increase power use

I agree with mike. maybe couple that with an increased power usage to balance it

I am thinking you may want to drastically extend the range and shrink the width so you kinda have something similar to the strip miner from eve online

Nothing seems to be turning up in the tools menu for me. I also tried searching for "mining" or "laser", to no avail. Is there a mod conflict or am I a complete derp?

like first screenshot,place "Mining laser Drill","Mining Laser Igniter" and conveyor

do not understand how to build that, you could make a little video to ??

The thruster effect does not show up for me and the only way I can use it is to activate it in a group.