How do you make drills?

[Goose]

I swear you used to be able to. did they remove this?

[Arpente Reves]

You can buy them at the Mining bear shop
Useless when your MM is maxed

[kbrayaquar7]

You don't craft them (without mods, I believe there is a mod or two that lets you do so)... you FIND them in chests. But as the above poster suggested, now that they've included matter manipulator upgrades, the drills and pixkaxes are largely useless.

[Goose]

Originally posted by Arpente Reves:

You can buy them at the Mining bear shop
Useless when your MM is maxed

why can i only buy copper drills from him?

[MongooseCalledFred]

I believe more drills unlock as you complete story missions?

[Arpente Reves]

Originally posted by MongooseCalledFred:

I believe more drills unlock as you complete story missions?

More pickaxes ores and drills

[Blehh.....]

Originally posted by kbrayaquar7:

now that they've included matter manipulator upgrades, the drills and pixkaxes are largely useless.

But they mine faster even with the matter manipulator fully upgraded....I notice my platinum silver pickaxes mine dirt in one hit whereas my matter manipulator would take two or three seconds to mind a dirt block.....

Too bad really, I remember being able to repair pickaxes and drills when they're about to break....unless there are mods that bring this functionality back? And or make them mine the same area as a matter manipulator 5x5? Then the only use for the matter manipulator would be to pick up liquids, scout unknown terrain with it's holo projection of a mine area and the ability to mine further without needing to get closer like the drill or pickaxe.

I reckon that's good compromise between mining with picks/drills and using the matter manipulator to do it.

[Arpente Reves]

I though MM maxed was better...
You have mods to make them last forever if you want

[Blehh.....]

Originally posted by Arpente Reves:

I though MM maxed was better...

Oh my mistake I thought my MM was fully upgraded, turns out I'm missing the whole top right section upgrade which deals with deconstruction rate.....so I'm guesing once that's all filled it would mine faster than even a diamond drill?

[Arpente Reves]

I remember that it was extremely powerful

[FireFox]

The Drills and Pickaxes are not useless in the beginning of the game. They can make the first part of the game super easy though.

They're relegated to Temporary use, mostly due ot the fact that after you got the Diamond Drill the Matter Manipulator became rather pointless other than for block placement. So in early builds people would rush to get Diamond Drill's and then ditch the MM for mining.

In those early builds I attempted to remedy this situation by making the Matter Manipulator somewhat upgradeble by giving you a more powerful one provided you had the required resources.

Chucklefish of course took that idea and went further with it than I could.

[Goose]

Originally posted by FireFox:

The Drills and Pickaxes are not useless in the beginning of the game. They can make the first part of the game super easy though.

They're relegated to Temporary use, mostly due ot the fact that after you got the Diamond Drill the Matter Manipulator became rather pointless other than for block placement. So in early builds people would rush to get Diamond Drill's and then ditch the MM for mining.

In those early builds I attempted to remedy this situation by making the Matter Manipulator somewhat upgradeble by giving you a more powerful one provided you had the required resources.

Chucklefish of course took that idea and went further with it than I could.

Wait did you make a mod? Which mod?