What am i missing processing blasted rocks?

[glowpiPe]

I have a hopper i dump everything into. The hopper go into a sorter and the bottom exit go into a washplant and wash paydirt and throughput regular dirt.

The top exit of the sorter go into a jaw crusher and then into a fractioner and into storage. But i only get solid rock. Shouldn't this be gravel and valuable ores? And not solid rock..

[EL-Xatrix]

blasted rock should work fine, but if you somehow fill in solid rock that will just go past those instalations. need to use a ripper, explosive ot the jackhammer to make blasted rock befor filling it into your hopper. if you are sure its blasted rock you fill in then that might be a bug.

[glowpiPe]

Originally posted by EL-Xatrix:

blasted rock should work fine, but if you somehow fill in solid rock that will just go past those instalations. need to use a ripper, explosive ot the jackhammer to make blasted rock befor filling it into your hopper. if you are sure its blasted rock you fill in then that might be a bug.

I am willing to say its a bug. As i can take blasted rock from my inventory and drop into the hopper and it turns into solid rock. If i then do the same to the solid rock it turns to gravel and ores.

I even tried to put another jaw crusher and fractioner after the first 2 and i still only get solid rocks as the output

[tango777]

All I do is rock. This is my setup for max profit. Hopper to jaw crusher to cone crusher then to sellpoint. I have not found much pay-dirt in blasted rock.

[glowpiPe]

Originally posted by tango777:

All I do is rock. This is my setup for max profit. Hopper to jaw crusher to cone crusher then to sellpoint. I have not found much pay-dirt in blasted rock.

I am getting a lot of mixed results with current setup i have. Gonna try your setup and see how that go

[steholliday]

If you scoop up solid rock with a loader it will pass right through into storage as solid rock. Solid rock looks pink, ironically, if you hit the wall face with a pickaxe, it will put blasted rock in your inventory (making you think that the face is blasted rock). Also dropping solid rock from your inventory onto a conveyor or in a hopper, that WILL process it through as if it was blasted rock - however as you can only drop one unit at a time, it's not worth it.
I look when using my loader to see the texture change from 'cobble like' which is blasted rock, to a more 'plain pink' texture which is solid rock, then place explosives & blow up the face to produce blasted rock.
I was playing around with a Tunneller yesterday & that will tunnel into solid rock & spew out blasted rock for processing.

[glowpiPe]

Originally posted by steholliday:

If you scoop up solid rock with a loader it will pass right through into storage as solid rock. Solid rock looks pink, ironically, if you hit the wall face with a pickaxe, it will put blasted rock in your inventory (making you think that the face is blasted rock). Also dropping solid rock from your inventory onto a conveyor or in a hopper, that WILL process it through as if it was blasted rock - however as you can only drop one unit at a time, it's not worth it.
I look when using my loader to see the texture change from 'cobble like' which is blasted rock, to a more 'plain pink' texture which is solid rock, then place explosives & blow up the face to produce blasted rock.
I was playing around with a Tunneller yesterday & that will tunnel into solid rock & spew out blasted rock for processing.

Yeah, this seem to have been it. I mined with the pick and got blasted rock and then i started loading it with the loader. I didn't even think you could get solid rock with the loader and that you had to blast it. And then ontop of it, the fact i could drop solid rock into it and it got processed, made everything so confusing

I made a macro on my mouse to drop of a couple of thousand rocks into the hopper while i was afk ^^ basically click- wait 250ms-release, then repeat and i had that on toggle

But that is not really a intended way to play i guess, so not gonna do that anymore

[conrad-tequila]

whats the best one to use when blasting it?

[steholliday]

I just use 'anfo' & 'tnt' for blasting. Iv seen older YT vids showing that the different explosive have wider a blast radius in the rock, though not sure if that's still the case now. Also don't use Draemite & definitely not a 'nuke' as these, I believe, just creates holes with no ore balls.