Fluid and Shape Miners

[cwrowe]

I feel like placing a fluid or shape miner, then having to put extractors/pumps and belts/pipes to an output is a bit redundant. Why can't the miners just be placed and produce what they are placed on, ready to hook up to a space belt/space pipe?

Bill

[Khagan]

If you find yourself building the same configuration of extractors and belts repeatedly, then blueprint it. Having access to the internals of the mining platform allows you to do some preprocessing along with the extraction (e.g. separate out the quarters and output full shapes of each on a belt).

[Kage Goomba]

Aside from the fact that I sometimes output to 2nd floor or 3rd floor off the extractor? It's just a nuance of the game. Make blueprints and move on.

[Rinney]

Yep, it's so you can control the output floors. If you use all three floors, the space belt has much higher throughput.

Without the the miner platform, it would take an extra compressor platform that merges 3 belts at level 1 into one with L1-2-3.

[Dragonmaster]

I actually do my cutting right on the extractor platform using the upper floors