Small ship drill mod w/drill-sized radius?

[VanGoghComplex]

I'm trying to build a terrestrial miner that will just gobble up surface boulders whole, leaving flat ground where they were. Think bulldozer, but instead of the earthmover blade on the front, a wall of drills.

Problem is, the vanilla small ship drills have a gigantic area of effect compared to their size. It's tough to make a wall out of them with a flat AOE.

Does anyone know of any small ship drill mods that behave like the large ship drills? That is to say, a single drill will only make a single-drill-wide hole?

[Zefnoly]

Originally posted by VanGoghComplex:

I'm trying to build a terrestrial miner that will just gobble up surface boulders whole, leaving flat ground where they were. Think bulldozer, but instead of the earthmover blade on the front, a wall of drills.

Problem is, the vanilla small ship drills have a gigantic area of effect compared to their size. It's tough to make a wall out of them with a flat AOE.

Does anyone know of any small ship drill mods that behave like the large ship drills? That is to say, a single drill will only make a single-drill-wide hole?

i dont know but most of my terrastrial miners are large ships. The biggest reason is that small pistons breaks to fast. I have made a large drill tower that can reach 75m in the ground and make shafts big enough for my smaller miner ship to go down. I will join in here to see if someone finds a mod adding that soft of drill you talk about. I have some stuff i could need it for

[frostmx]

Try this
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=493809682

[Zefnoly]

Originally posted by frostmx:

Try this
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=493809682

That is a nice one :) have used it for it's conveyor tubes but have not tested other drills than the thin one

[VanGoghComplex]

Originally posted by Essedus:

I know of a two that I've used before.

My first recommendation is this one, regular sized drills but the effective radius is drastically increased.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=414578445&searchtext=bigger+drills

This next one does the same thing, except it's only in a small drill form, and it's effective radius is obcene, you're gonna get more stone than anything else using this with a slight hiccup as the game processes the giant chunk you're about to eat. Right click function is going to lag your game for a few moments and it is absolutely not recommended that you use it for any reason because you're probably gonna destroy whatever it was you wanted to get.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=421341887&searchtext=mega+drill

I absolutely appreciate the time you spent to bring me these, but I was asking for the exact opposite thing. ^_^;

My whole problem is that the drill radius even on the vanilla drills is just too big.

[Essedus]

I don't think I've seen any mods that have a more condensed effective radius. I completely misunderstood what you were asking for, my apologies.

[VanGoghComplex]

Originally posted by Essedus:

I don't think I've seen any mods that have a more condenced effective radius. I completely misunderstood what you were asking for, my apologies.

No worries! The machine I'm building is kinda weird anyway.

I found one that works, if not perfectly, called the micro-drill.

My machine does its job. I'll upload pics tonight.

[Kraft51]

so if you want to create a "flat" spot .. behind (in between the ship and the drill wall) have a single row of drills pointing downward so that is flattens as it removes ... you could essentially layout roads with this set up as well.

edit:typo