No results with hand drill.

[Voice From Beyond]

I was not having any results mining with the hand drill. I was pushing the LMB and seeing ore flying off and the vein being drilled, but was not getting any ore. The ore flying off just disappeared after a few seconds. Infrequently an ore chunk would be collectable.

I was only pushing the LMB once in a effort to save power and reduce the ore lost flying out into space that I would have to chase after only to find that my inventory was full. I have since discovered that the LMB has to be held down for a period of time to successfully mine.

Is this a bug? Mining using the LMB once should produce results as long as ore is flying off and the vein is being depleated.

[Fizzgig]

The best results with the hand drill is to hold the LMB and the T key at the same time. T picks up floating items and you want to grab them becasue the hand drill does not automatically collect.

If you must use the hand drill it is best to control gravity in that area. Park a ship with a grav gen near the site and align its gravity so the rocks dont float off. Then you can drill a way and then collect the pile that forms in the gravity well.

And finally the best option for drilling is with a ship equipped with a drill because those will auto collect. You need to work towards building that. So youll be doing the first and second options before you can build a drill ship.

[Darkaiser]

Hand mining requires you to pick up the ore chunks by hand.

[Rilbur]

Originally posted by Darkaiser:

Hand mining requires you to pick up the ore chunks by hand.

Did you even bother to read the previous posts before spouting off a formulaic answer? It feels insulting and I'm not even the person whose post you ignored!

[Kaokiji]

There are times my hand drill has obliterated freshly released ore chunks, holding the T key can aleviate this issue to an extent, but honestly, having gravity in the area you're mining, or make an incline up to your mine point with a collector or two at the bottom can help even more.
Also, when using a drill ship, instead of moving left to right it is better to make incisions the length of the drill bit into the surface you're intent on mining, this way, ore chunks cannot escape far enough to congest the tunnels or surfaces (or surrounding space) and possibly damage your ship (if it's smaller in size than say a frigate drilling platform.)

Hope this helps!

[maustercheese]

yeah if your the host of the world ie the one who created the world if you just tap the LMB with the hand drill you will never get ore assuming that's what your talking about it also only effects the host player any other player can just tap LMB with the hand drill and get ore everytime i have tried to say something about this quite some time ago but apparently i could not explain the actual problem well enough it's been this way for a long time now this bug unless it got fixed actually at some point have not played recently

[orb]

If you have problems with ore disappearing when using LMB try deleting the "%APPDATA%\SpaceEngineers\SpaceEngineers.cfg" file and set the game settings again. I've had a similar issue some time ago (probably the settings file format changed at that time and key bindings weren't transferred correctly) and deleting the settings file helped to solve it. This could be probably also solved by setting the key bindings again in the game options screen.

[Darkaiser]

Originally posted by Rilbur:

Originally posted by Darkaiser:

Hand mining requires you to pick up the ore chunks by hand.

Did you even bother to read the previous posts before spouting off a formulaic answer? It feels insulting and I'm not even the person whose post you ignored!

None of them. During neither of the first two posts did I see ANY mention of actually picking up the ore by hand. The OP seemed to be a new player and, in my past few month's experience, new players can make simple mistakes because the game doesn't lend itself to instruction. I've seen posts where people wondered why they used the RMB but got no ore. Or why they couldn't use conveyors that were unpowered. Or why their connectors didn't work.

So I went to the basics...LMB, mine the ore, pick it up. By the way, since you were neither the OP nor the other poster why the hell should YOU feel insulted?

[Rilbur]

Originally posted by Darkaiser:

Originally posted by Rilbur:

Did you even bother to read the previous posts before spouting off a formulaic answer? It feels insulting and I'm not even the person whose post you ignored!

None of them. During neither of the first two posts did I see ANY mention of actually picking up the ore by hand.

Read again, it's there.

By the way, since you were neither the OP nor the other poster why the hell should YOU feel insulted?

Good question. Some form of sympathy, maybe, or just the fact that I have people pull the exact same stunt on me far too often.

[dcbobo]

imo, I think the one click LMB is for sculpting terrain, not mining. It's so ore won't be laying around to block you if you're trying to do sometihng specific, and not wanting to mine. i don't know if they intended it this way. But so far I think it's a good thing. I use it often scuplting astroids for specific purpose, be it building or just aesthetics.

so just remember, to mine hold LMB, to sculpt the astroid, just use one click LMB

[Voice From Beyond]

Originally posted by Darkaiser:

Originally posted by Rilbur:

Did you even bother to read the previous posts before spouting off a formulaic answer? It feels insulting and I'm not even the person whose post you ignored!

None of them. During neither of the first two posts did I see ANY mention of actually picking up the ore by hand.

Rereading my OP is seems clear that there was no ore to be picked up. I was pushing the LMB once, seeing ore flying off, and turning around to pick it up, but there was nothing to pick up.

It seems that the only way to mine is to hold the LMB for a period of time, then you will have ore chunks to pick up or hold the T key while mining to automatically gather most of it.

Originally posted by MinionJoe:

If you've lowered the number of free-floating objects in the game settings, then any chunks of ore in excess of that number will be deleted from the environment.

The default and unchanged free floating objects is something like 256 and since holding the LMB produces free floating ore I don't think that is the problem.

It's either a bug or design decision that hand drilling by pushing the LMB once doesn't produce any ore.

[ScruffyBamboo]

Originally posted by samuelgiles:

It's either a bug or design decision that hand drilling by pushing the LMB once doesn't produce any ore.

Pretty sure it's the latter. I found it strange as well the first time I played this game - where's all the ore? There didn't seem to be much of it floating around (turns out most of it had shot out into space at a pretty high velocity - once I started digging in a cave, there was tons of ore floating around).

So I went on these forums, asked around, and found the "hold T" trick. I'd say I get 90% of the ore chunks as they come out - and it fills my inventory so fast, I don't even bother trying to collect the floaters.

Besides, you'll only be hand-drilling for an hour or so, since your first goal should be to build yourself a small mining ship. A single drill will make your hand mining seem like you were using a small chisel. Get a 6-drill ship, and start creting your own caves :)

[Rilbur]

Originally posted by ScruffyBamboo:

Besides, you'll only be hand-drilling for an hour or so, since your first goal should be to build yourself a small mining ship. A single drill will make your hand mining seem like you were using a small chisel. Get a 6-drill ship, and start creting your own caves :)

A single drill ship isn't very effective. It's so ineffectual, in fact, that gravity disk mining is more effective. Take your survival ship, park over your mining spot, push your grav field down. Suddenly you can mine a LOT of material, REALLY quick, by hand. Doesn't compare to a proper four-drill (or better) miner, but compared to a light, minimum-resource single drill design, it's night and day.

[Darkaiser]

Originally posted by Rilbur:

Originally posted by ScruffyBamboo:

Besides, you'll only be hand-drilling for an hour or so, since your first goal should be to build yourself a small mining ship. A single drill will make your hand mining seem like you were using a small chisel. Get a 6-drill ship, and start creting your own caves :)

A single drill ship isn't very effective. It's so ineffectual, in fact, that gravity disk mining is more effective. Take your survival ship, park over your mining spot, push your grav field down. Suddenly you can mine a LOT of material, REALLY quick, by hand. Doesn't compare to a proper four-drill (or better) miner, but compared to a light, minimum-resource single drill design, it's night and day.

He speaks truth. You can shrike the length and width of the field, set it downward and stand under the ship. Ore will collect at your feet if you start downwards.

MUCH better than wasting 2 hours building a mining ship that doesn't work as well and costs resources to run.

[Stewen]

Hello!
Same happend with me.
You have to change settings:
Advanced>Enable voxel destruction must check in to mine in the game!