Could you make scrapper loot go into inventory?

[TankHunter678]

I am enjoying things so far but there have been 2 rather consistent problems I have been facing, both related to the boxes you use the scrapper to open.

1) In areas with gravity the items sometimes pop out only to disappear through the floor as they just fall.

2) In space the items sometimes collide with each other in such a way that they get a massive speed boost and go flying to who knows where. Sometimes slowing down to a sudden stop nearby, sometimes flying into the depths of map terrain.

While I do love the scrapper as a tool that lets me mine without having to use up battery, I kinda miss the prologue boxes that just poofed after you looted them.

[ShowerHour]

Same thing just happened to me. I broke 2 boxes in the mining area that had gravity. There were 3 items total in each box, but I was only able to pick up 1 item from each box because the rest fell through the floor.

[XLjedi]

Lost through floor is really the only issue. Your scanner can pick-up where they might've floated to in space. Smashing things with the scrapper instrument seems a bit odd to me. The scrapper might as well be represented by a hammer or pickax as opposed to the misuse of something that looks like a metal detector.

Maybe this gets fleshed out in a future update with a modification to the tool that upgrades it to a gravity gun type thing?

[TankHunter678]

Originally posted by XLjedi:

Lost through floor is really the only issue. Your scanner can pick-up where they might've floated to in space.

That is assuming a physics glitch does not occur that causes the item to get super speed when it collides with other items when popping out of the box. Especially later boxes which have more than 3 items in them all trying to spawn in the same spot. You can wind up with items flying out of scanner range or flying through terrain.

It is simply easier for it to work like with asteroids, teleport the goods into the inventory. This avoids both issues.

[XLjedi]

Originally posted by TankHunter678:

Originally posted by XLjedi:

Lost through floor is really the only issue. Your scanner can pick-up where they might've floated to in space.

That is assuming a physics glitch does not occur that causes the item to get super speed when it collides with other items when popping out of the box. Especially later boxes which have more than 3 items in them all trying to spawn in the same spot. You can wind up with items flying out of scanner range or flying through terrain.

It is simply easier for it to work like with asteroids, teleport the goods into the inventory. This avoids both issues.

You must not have an upgraded scanner. It would take a cannon to fire those out of range of a T3 scanner. However, falling through the floor is a valid reason enough.

[Cuddly Robot]

The stuff falling through the floor is a known glitch and is already being dealt with

For what it's worth, those particular crates respawn every time you load the map, so you're not really losing anything - you can get it later. It's a renewable resource. And copper and iron aren't exactly hard to find in the early game