Drill without gathering stone

[Pegas519]

Not everyone has spent thousand of hours playing SE and thought that I would share a trick about drilling, what to do with all that stone... Just thought I would share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH3L23I-qco

Edit: So to clear the confusion, this is NOT to dig a hole, this is to drill with the mindset of gathering resources. If you want to dig a hole, right click it.

[Hominin]

How are you making the ejected stone disappear that quickly? I was expecting you to destroy your large ship doing that.

[Pegas519]

I have my floating object setting set to low.

[Hominin]

In that case, well done for educating new players on a very good use of sorters. But, since the thread is about educating new players, we should warn them that how you are doing it in that video is extremely dangerous with more realistic settings. Ideally you wouldn't trap your miner between an asteroid and flying stone and you wouldn't throw stone in the direction of another ship.

[Pegas519]

Originally posted by Hominin:

In that case, well done for educating new players on a very good use of sorters. But, since the thread is about educating new players, we should warn them that how you are doing it in that video is extremely dangerous with more realistic settings. Ideally you wouldn't trap your miner between an asteroid and flying stone and you wouldn't throw stone in the direction of another ship.

Correct. If you watch the video carefully, the large ship is above, not in the direction of the stone. But are correct, this was a basic drill setup, to easily understand how it works, as stated in the video. :)

Edit: If you fly slow, the stones are armless. so it is acceptable to drill a hole, have it filled with some stones and backup out of it at low speed. I don't know if Keen reversed this but I thought that they made floating stone armless to ship in some update ago, so people couldn't weaponize them anymore. Or maybe I just dreamed.

[Jel]

I´ll just continue using the right mouse button to drill without collecting...

[Pegas519]

Originally posted by Jel:

I´ll just continue using the right mouse button to drill without collecting...

the right mouse button only gets rid of the voxel in a larger area. This is not what this video pertains to. This video is for if you want to drill with the goal of gathering resources. not to dig a hole.

[Hominin]

Originally posted by Pegas519:

If you fly slow, the stones are armless. so it is acceptable to drill a hole, have it filled with some stones and backup out of it at low speed. I don't know if Keen reversed this but I thought that they made floating stone armless to ship in some update ago, so people couldn't weaponize them anymore. Or maybe I just dreamed.

I'm returning after a long break and did notice ships are more resistant to slow bumps these days. I used to regularly damage my small builders (welder/grinder) trying to get to tight spots but in the last couple of weeks, I've only lost a single welder block and that was from misjudging stopping distance and slamming into my station at a reasonable speed. Actually expected my builder to disintegrate at that point lol. i'll have to test to see if they nerfed stone based weapons one of these days, I'll be collecting stone soon for parachute testing anyway :)

[Assailer]

You only need to put a grav unit pointing away from driller ship to do this right. Group it with the connectors.

[ShadedMJ]

Originally posted by Pegas519:

I have my floating object setting set to low.

That also works to scale.

I have floating objects at a default of 56, and mining ships with 28 ejectors/connectors. Stone is gone in 2 seconds.

[Pegas519]

Originally posted by Assailer:

You only need to put a grav unit pointing away from driller ship to do this right. Group it with the connectors.

Vanilla, there is no small gravity gen i think

[Pegas519]

Originally posted by Hominin:

Originally posted by Pegas519:

If you fly slow, the stones are armless. so it is acceptable to drill a hole, have it filled with some stones and backup out of it at low speed. I don't know if Keen reversed this but I thought that they made floating stone armless to ship in some update ago, so people couldn't weaponize them anymore. Or maybe I just dreamed.

I'm returning after a long break and did notice ships are more resistant to slow bumps these days. I used to regularly damage my small builders (welder/grinder) trying to get to tight spots but in the last couple of weeks, I've only lost a single welder block and that was from misjudging stopping distance and slamming into my station at a reasonable speed. Actually expected my builder to disintegrate at that point lol. i'll have to test to see if they nerfed stone based weapons one of these days, I'll be collecting stone soon for parachute testing anyway :)

They have indeed increased the thoughness of tools.

Edit, freaking typos. I need my coffee. :D

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Originally posted by Pegas519:

Originally posted by Assailer:

You only need to put a grav unit pointing away from driller ship to do this right. Group it with the connectors.

Vanilla, there is no small gravity gen i think

Spherical one is avalible for small grid ;)

[Pegas519]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

Originally posted by Pegas519:

Vanilla, there is no small gravity gen i think

Spherical one is avalible for small grid ;)

Ah, never found a useful purpose for that block, so I never did built it, or try even.

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Originally posted by Pegas519:

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

Spherical one is avalible for small grid ;)

Ah, never found a useful purpose for that block, so I never did built it, or try even.

Same here. Iv toyed with small grid grav cannon ideas in my head but never settled on something that wouldnt veer off course with the slightest mouse movement.

Its cool to use with collectors though to catch those few loose peieces drills can sometimes throw out :)

[Pegas519]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

Originally posted by Pegas519:

Ah, never found a useful purpose for that block, so I never did built it, or try even.

Same here. Iv toyed with small grid grav cannon ideas in my head but never settled on something that wouldnt veer off course with the slightest mouse movement.

Its cool to use with collectors though to catch those few loose peieces drills can sometimes throw out :)

Exactly, One useful use would be to build a ore collector for when you drill in space, an early game benefit.