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.
Tweaks
Mod category: Tweaks
Small changes concerning balance, gameplay, or graphics.
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.
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?
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)
Hey, Zantigar! Took me a while, but I figured it out. Some ores that spawn from multiple sources, like in Dredgeworks, where you can have non-ground resource patches were failing due to the drill picking up the first source of the ore it could, which happened to be the non-ground version, thus it failed, and appeared like nothing happened.
Should be fixed now, both for Dredgeworks and the general scenario this implied.
