Drills not working

[Director of War Crimes]

Only gives the option to toggle conveyor systems. Is this a fault of my own? Any workarounds?

[†๖ۣۜKrampus†]

Right click the drill icon in your task bar you will get options for what you want it to do

[Director of War Crimes]

Originally posted by †๖ۣۜKrampus†:

Right click the drill icon in your task bar you will get options for what you want it to do

I did that, and it only gives me options to toggle the conveyor system.

[Pembroke]

Noticed the same thing. When you put the drill into your toolbar IIRC there should be the choices of whether the toolbar choice toggles the drill on and off, turns it on, turns it off, or uses the conveyor system. However, the selection list that opens only shows the conveyor system choice.

Looks like a bug to me.

There's a workaround: instead of picking the drill from the "show all blocks" list in the G screen, select the sublist "weapons and tools" and pick the drill from there. When you have selected the drill as your active tool in the ship toolbar the drill now turns on when you click LMB and turns off when you release it i.e. similar to how a gun works.

But this should be fixed because when you're boring through an asteroid with your big rig you definitely want the on/off toggle choice...

[Director of War Crimes]

Originally posted by Pembroke:

Noticed the same thing. When you put the drill into your toolbar IIRC there should be the choices of whether the toolbar choice toggles the drill on and off, turns it on, turns it off, or uses the conveyor system. However, the selection list that opens only shows the conveyor system choice.

Looks like a bug to me.

There's a workaround: instead of picking the drill from the "show all blocks" list in the G screen, select the sublist "weapons and tools" and pick the drill from there. When you have selected the drill as your active tool in the ship toolbar the drill now turns on when you click LMB and turns off when you release it i.e. similar to how a gun works.

But this should be fixed because when you're boring through an asteroid with your big rig you definitely want the on/off toggle choice...

Appreciate the advice, mate. Thought it was my own problem. Still love this game to death, though.

[Maleus]

Got the same problem now after the last patch, and I can't find the options in control panel, just "use conveyor system on/off"

[Punisher79]

Any update on this issue? Just logged into my game to have this happen to me.

[Twelve]

once you have loaded your world, quit to menu and reload it, then they should work until you next close the game. at least thats how ive been getting round it.

there is a chance the bug will reoccur if you umerge the drills from the ship.

[Steelwolf12]

Originally posted by Twelve:

once you have loaded your world, quit to menu and reload it, then they should work until you next close the game. at least thats how ive been getting round it.

there is a chance the bug will reoccur if you umerge the drills from the ship.

This works for me as well. But FFS this is getting annoying, Ive had this happen to many worlds amd had to quit them cause it nothing would work. Seem to happen whenever Keen releases a dumb new patch. The option to shut off auto update is even gone now which ticks me off.

[moeh23]

hope they change it quickly. i hate the reloading

[Gamer]

Time to resurrect the dead!

Originally posted by Twelve:

once you have loaded your world, quit to menu and reload it, then they should work until you next close the game. at least thats how ive been getting round it.

there is a chance the bug will reoccur if you umerge the drills from the ship.

I wanted to say thank you because here it is all these years later and I just had this exact problem. And what you said that I quoted fixed it. Thank you for posting that solution. It's what came up when I googled that my drill wouldn't work no matter what I tried. Now it works. Now I can continue playing. Thanks again.