Prospecting Drill


Build drills that consume ore-sample templates to grow ore patches in a ring around themselves. Bootstrap from rare worldgen remnants. Vanilla and Space Age compatible.

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15 days ago

I started up a new game with this mod, and once I unlocked the technology, the drill I placed consumes the samples and doesn't spawn resources. I have no idea why.

14 days ago
(updated 14 days ago)

Have you powered it up? If yes, what version are you playing on and with what mods, so I can try to replicate the issue.

Some questions so I can figure this out:
- When you place the drill right next to an existing ore patch and feed it a sample, does that patch grow?
- What surface/tiles is the drill on? Bare ground, concrete, something else?
- Would it be possible to provide a screenshot of the drill that you placed?

13 days ago

Questions in order: no, the patch does not grow, it just deletes the sample
Red desert 0(tile), so bare ground, and I'm still on Nauvis
Here's a doc with a screenshot and all my mods (there's a lot of them, fair warning)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZU3P-ZVRCTzBg3y4dRzygkqZNrkUlPBwiRtRK3j613A/edit?usp=sharing

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