Prospector

by Mylon

Adds prospecting to enrich ore patches. Extends the lifetime of ore patches with some investment, but comes with the drawback of making mining slower.

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10 months ago
0.14 - 1.1
3.07K
Mining

g mining blind spot

4 years ago

The mod is quite nice, but there's one thing that REALLY bugs me.
Due to the prospector's range, for larger ore fields you need to place them inside the fields.
But due to the miner's range only being 5, this leaves blind spots in the mining area, even with the most dense configurations possible (Pretty sure that the best case configuration has to leave one tile unmined)

If the prospectors could mine the ore directly beneath them, this would not be an issue.

4 years ago

Also, is it possible to enrich the ore fields before starting to mine them?

4 years ago

Yes, you can enrich before you mine. It's intended that you'll need multiple prospectors to cover a field and some might need to be in the middle of the field.

I've thought about adding wider miners so they could mine under prospectors, but there's a lot of mods that do that already.

4 years ago

Enriched ore mining is slower, right?

4 years ago

Yes, it's intended to be a tradeoff.

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