Invincible rocks in asteroids?

[Trooper]

In survival mode I built a ship designed to bore straight through asteroids and collect everything along the way.. except very quickly I came across an issue where a very small floating rock appears randomly during these excavations. These small stones, about the size of the character's head, completely halt my ship's progress into the asteroid. I'm not sure if this is a bug or if it was intentionally put there so we don't mine out asteroids completely, but it is rather annoying nonetheless and is forcing me to only mine the exterior layers of these rocks. These small pebbles cannot be drilled, ground out, shot, exploded, rammed, moved, or anything! What's frustrating is when one appears on the side of my ship and cuts right through everything since it can't degrade.

Has anyone else seen these small invincible rocks, or am I going crazy?

[Blake]

Are the drills on our ship built in highest density possible? Because I have this very same concept on my survival game and I've never encountered this problem. Are you using large, or small ship grinders?

[Trooper]

Yes they are built close together to ensure that the ship can safely move into the asteroid as it drills through. It is a large ship. These tiny rocks are driving me crazy, and I'm not sure what more to do to resolve the issue.

[Blake]

hmm.. I must admit I've yet to try the large drills in this configuration, but the small ones are definitely without this issue.

[Norseman]

They are just left overs from drilling (If I understand your correctly) and with the hand drill you remove them with pointing the drill bit to the center and hammer it away ;)

[Blake]

Originally posted by hugin_q3:

They are just left overs from drilling (If I understand your correctly) and with the hand drill you remove them with pointing the drill bit to the center and hammer it away ;)

Yeah, this solves the problem, of left-overs from small-scale drilling, but if you have 5x5 large blocks of drills, you don't really want to get out every minute to drill out a couple of rocks by hand.

[rjustice2006]

Hand drilling these is definitely the answer. I have had this issue a few times. Just take your hand drill to it, might take a couple of tries to hit it in just the right spot.

[Trooper]

No, these are not leftovers. Like I said in my original post, these rocks cannot be "drilled, ground out, shot, exploded, rammed, moved, or anything", meaning I have tried absolutely everything. These rocks are also in perfect shape as opposed to the rugged leftovers you normally find while drilling an asteroid.

After some experimentation of switching components at the rock appearance site on my drill, I have actually figured out that spotlights cause this bug. For some reason, having a spotlight on a large ship near the drills creates these invincible rocks directly in front of them--halting the entire ship in its tracks. Interesting bug, to say the least! As soon as I removed the spotlight I successfully drilled directly through the largest asteroid I could find (in another location, obviously).

I wish I could post a video of this phenomenon. I do have screenshots, though, if any of you wanted to see them. I do hope the devs take a look at this unique bug.

[Silly Cat]

i had one of these indestructable rocks several 100 m from the next asteroid. there where some tiny but usual rock pieces adjacent which i could mine with my hand drill. just one tiny bit resist any removal, perfect diamond shape. i hope i dont crash on it with one off my giant creations or one of my superfast accelerating ships. guess it would be a nice feature if such small pieces get converted to floating rocks automatically.

[Tikigod]

I've had something similiar but not quite the same problem a few times but since the latest patch it's happening constantly even when using the hand drill.

I've noticed the problem I'm having seems to be sections of rock that are created from deformation after mining a surface are then made to be partially without any kind of collision area which means I can clip through a small section the rock, but also means my drill isn't actually mining anything solid when technically it should be.

Not really found a work around for it except just moving around erratically and hoping I clip enough through the rock for my drill to be able to reach the section of rock that has actual collision. Making extra room around the problem area so I have more room to move and try to clip enough through the rock seems to help.

The OP mentions his problem is that there are solid but invincible chunks of rock that even cut through ships though, so unlikely related.

[DatDuck]

I have been killed by invisable astroids while i was building a ship and now i cant finish it

[Laaaaggertha]

Found this bug myself recently. I built a base inside an asteroid we hollowed how. never been an issue till now. The whole asteroid my base is in filled in and is bugged. you cant mine any of it. no matter what method. i even tossed warheads at it. Nothing.