is it possible to drill through an entire planet?

[Sooh]

is it possible to drill through an entire planet? Thanks.

someone has tried it?

[ShadedMJ]

<joke> No one has tried in the 6 years the game has been available. </joke>
This comes up as a discussion about every year or so. Most attempts fail because it looks like their computer can't handle it, or maybe game system issues.
Here's the 2015 discussion
https://steamcommunity.com/app/244850/discussions/0/492378265892379370/

[mano_rhan]

yes ! ,

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1862710389

[Weaver]

Yes, if your computer can handle it. Most cannot, and even then it can kill what the game engine itself can handle. The hole you make is generating a ton of voxel changes from the default state your game has to remember and additionally render if within so many km, so it can quickly add up to too much data.

[M.Red]

is possible. went thru earth,moon,mars and triton with a friend. funniest part is when you reach the center of gravity (up and down will switch). but it takes its time to get thru.
my friends computer isnt a very good one, he encountered graphical issues but diggin thru works flawlessly. we swapped the cockpit seat every 1000 meters. its mostly like 9km to the center and then 9km "up again"

Edit: its more fun to start a race thru a planet once the hole is drilled....the tunnel effect is crazy

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Originally posted by M.Red:

is possible. went thru earth,moon,mars and triton with a friend. funniest part is when you reach the center of gravity (up and down will switch). but it takes its time to get thru.
my friends computer isnt a very good one, he encountered graphical issues but diggin thru works flawlessly. we swapped the cockpit seat every 1000 meters. its mostly like 9km to the center and then 9km "up again"

Edit: its more fun to start a race thru a planet once the hole is drilled....the tunnel effect is crazy

Be cool if someone could make the "train through the earth" concept from the Total Recall remake. Could have it on rails and the car itself on rotors so when you pass the centre it flips over and your still lined up with gravity :)

[M.Red]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

Originally posted by M.Red:

is possible. went thru earth,moon,mars and triton with a friend. funniest part is when you reach the center of gravity (up and down will switch). but it takes its time to get thru.
my friends computer isnt a very good one, he encountered graphical issues but diggin thru works flawlessly. we swapped the cockpit seat every 1000 meters. its mostly like 9km to the center and then 9km "up again"

Edit: its more fun to start a race thru a planet once the hole is drilled....the tunnel effect is crazy

Be cool if someone could make the "train through the earth" concept from the Total Recall remake. Could have it on rails and the car itself on rotors so when you pass the centre it flips over and your still lined up with gravity :)

Uh,that sounds nice to try.i will discuss this idea with my friend XD

and mentioning the drilling thru - keep the drill upright check the p-gravity and funniest part the temperature (reaches "inferno" when you are near the center of the planet)

[Spaceman Spiff]

Recently I drilled to the center of a moon and watched the gravity flip back and forth several times before finally flipping for good. Falling at the center is also interesting. I found myself falling, then stopping suddenly several hundred meters before the "center" when my jetpack automatically turned itself on. Weird.

[Scheneighnay]

I could've sworn someone tested it and found out that after a certain depth, everything you toss down the hole just despawns.

[M.Red]

Originally posted by Scheneighnay:

I could've sworn someone tested it and found out that after a certain depth, everything you toss down the hole just despawns.

normal cleanup behavior

[Sooh]

Originally posted by Scheneighnay:

I could've sworn someone tested it and found out that after a certain depth, everything you toss down the hole just despawns.

i had this probleme in 2017 when i played this game, but today, 2020 i dont know if things continue to disapear or not. apparently it's possible to drill through an entire planet.

[Buzzard]

A few years ago, there WAS a 'line of death' for grids and objects, to prevent issues from digging too deep/big voxel changes. With the Survival update in 2019, this was removed, allowing everyone to try to dig through the world.

Oddly enough, that 'line o death' was just that. If you managed to get past that line, you could build, dig and everything else as normal.

[seronis]

The line wasnt 'jsut a line' and programmatically it would have been stupid to implement it that way. Doing a distance check is ONE check. Treating it as a line literally requires twice as many checks to accomplish the same task. Keen is stupid. They're not THAT stupid.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Nothing disappeared for me, but I punched though the Moon rather than a planet.

[Aspen]

I've managed it. Straight through the "Earthlike Planet" using Warheads in Creative Mode. Only "issue" I ran into was that all darkness suddenly disappeared when I went about 21000 meters deep, and everything was completely bright. Gravity also steadily went down when getting closer to the center until there was no gravity at all. Quite hard to navigate near the middle, but possible. Took me a while, though.