Drill? DRILL!

[ICountFrom0]

DRILL!

MINE is the drill that will...
*cough* sorry, got caught up in something there.

So, Drills....

Yes, the obvious, it'll work on the deposits that say, "I need a drill" and give 400-500 material from them. Copper, Tin, Iron, Gold, Scarlet.

Less obvious, anything that a pick can break, you can place a drill to work on and it'll break. Mining power is probably somewhere above 500 due to it working on mold walls, but the exact number is unknown.

What else will the drill work on that the pick won't?

Patch notes imply that it used to work on a number of decorative set pieces to let you pick them up and move them. I kind of wish I'd known that earlier, or that maybe I could go back a version and pick up some things I shouldn't.... I'd love lord helix as a decoration near the core. That aside, that's a list of things that the drill WON"T work on now.


Somebody posted a picture of a bug case, and somebody else in the replies said you could drill golden bug meat out of it. Don't know if that's one time or a steady supply.

Any other things in the world that my pick can't handle, but the drill can?

[Lazy Dog Daddy]

interesting post , +1 , might explore things with drills :P

[Soren]

Have you tried testing it on those green walls that are normally unbreakable? Like the ones protecting special locations? I know of a few. Maybe I'll try bringing the drill and see if it works on them. I doubt it though considering they seem to be functionally like bedrock in minecraft.

Also, I've very close to breaking 500 mining damage with buffs. If I can just get the ancient pick, it'd be easy to break the threshold and then test out if mold walls are breakable via high enough pick damage, as well as if I can one shot stone or two shot grassy turf blocks. I think people said mold walls used to be breakable via the dev tool version of the ancient pick.

I'd grind out the ancient pick, but I still have yet to find out the location of the 4th sequence boss. Found the corrupt shaman dood and beat him instead. I even found some poison slime boss. No bird yet, and not enough feathers to craft his scanner either.

[Lazy Dog Daddy]

Lol let me know if it works ... I want to unlock this area ...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2781591053

ALso if you want/need an ancient pickaxe/feathers i can give you some tmr , got 5 of them from azeos ! (back from work around 5pm EST , into core keeper/steam/PC around 6pm EST!)

[Manisz]

Originally posted by ICountFrom0:

Somebody posted a picture of a bug case, and somebody else in the replies said you could drill golden bug meat out of it. Don't know if that's one time or a steady supply.

Or just imaginary. Drills have no effect on this bug.

[Soren]

Originally posted by Lazy Dog Daddy:

Lol let me know if it works ... I want to unlock this area ...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2781591053

ALso if you want/need an ancient pickaxe/feathers i can give you some tmr , got 5 of them from azeos ! (back from work around 5pm EST , into core keeper/steam/PC around 6pm EST!)

It did not work. The drill can't do those pesky green bedrock walls. I pretty much tried on an oval like shape in the south east part of my map just like the one in your screenshot. It did squat diddly.

[IndicaFlowers]

you need the legendary pickaxe

[Soren]

Only now have I released you can drill the same ore vein at 8 times the speed with 8 drills working at once. I feel pretty silly for not realising this sooner.

[Nyx (She/Her)]

drill mining power is exactly 60, actually!

Originally posted by Soren:

Only now have I released you can drill the same ore vein at 8 times the speed with 8 drills working at once. I feel pretty silly for not realising this sooner.

It's not 8x faster though, only at most, 4x

the speed increase is diminishing per drill, taking 8 drills to take it from 120s per resource down to 30s

[Soren]

Originally posted by ✿Vael✿:

drill mining power is exactly 60, actually!

Originally posted by Soren:

Only now have I released you can drill the same ore vein at 8 times the speed with 8 drills working at once. I feel pretty silly for not realising this sooner.

It's not 8x faster though, only at most, 4x

the speed increase is diminishing per drill, taking 8 drills to take it from 120s per resource down to 30s

If the hits are too close too each other, they may not register? I try to time my drills to mostly hit at different times. I have no clue if that actually helps though.