Mining Patch Planner

by rimbas

Adds a planner that designs a mining drill layout for a resource patch.

Utilities
a month ago
1.1 - 2.0
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Mining Blueprints

g Simple layout + Big Miners won't connect all power poles

1 year, 2 months ago

When using the "Simple" layout with Big Mining Drills and Medium Power Poles, with direction of facing to the right/east, the power poles won't be properly connected all together between different rows of miners. I had to manually add some poles to power all the rows of miners. I dunno if that's expected behaviour or if they should all be connected?

Thanks for the mod, I love it for making a tedious part of the game a breeze.

1 year, 2 months ago

No, there's no special logic to connect them between rows. Yes, it's a bit annoying to then add missing poles for connectivity.
I don't really want to do a bodge fix because everything is overdue for a complete rewrite after Space Age.
I'm doing some fixes to account for power pole reach with quality so for example rare medium electric power poles can reach between lanes.

10 months ago

I love this mod, and I just want to say I'm also looking forward for a fix for this.

6 months ago
(updated 6 months ago)

The same happens in sparse layout, predictably. Maybe "mining row planner" might be a more apt name for the mod :)

6 months ago

In my pain I ported the Outpost Planner to 2.0 (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/OutpostPlanner2)

Unfortunately, it comes with a bunch of it's own issues and lacking features.

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