Small drills on my ship not collecting all ore bits?

[The Insane Dump]

Been mining a little bit and I realized that there is a lot of stray ore flying around while I mine. I checked online and the wiki said that it's okay if there's one space between the small drills (there is), it'll collect everything just fine.

I have a connector on my ship, but I shut it off thinking that might be an issue, but still there's a lot of rocks flying around while I mine.

I checked online about a gravity generator, but I think this was addressed when the conveyor system was introduced. Is that true?

Thanks!

[Fury6]

Drills are INTENTIONALLY not 100% efficient. If you don't like the factor of inefficiency then.. you're an engineer - engineer a solution ;)

On the drills:
The *small* drills mine an area that is 1 small block (0.5m) wider than the drill face (small drill = 3x3 block face).

The large drills OTOH do not behave the same, they mine an area that is only just fractionally wider than the 1 block (2.5m) drill face (large drill = 1x1 block drill face).

[edit]

Originally posted by MinionJoe:

[...]gravity generator or use a mod that allows small ship gravity generators.

Not necessarily, you can 'capture' a gravity generator on a small ship in at least a couple of ways. You could then either 'capture' the gen directly into your small-ship miner, or you could use dedicated small-ship utility vessels containing a captured grav gen to support the miner for greater flexibility (and likely better handling qualities).

[Skeloton]

In addition to others.

Small ships will destroy any floating ore you try to mine.

However Large ship drill will collect ore thats floating about. Not sure if some gets destroyed or not.

But hey least they removed that god forsaken shaking.

[Cake for Mumm-Ra]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the small amount of ore that isn't collected is pretty negligble, no? For me, it's not worth the effort trying to set up a gravity generator and collect all the little chunks of ore my ship didn't get - I'd rather just start a new hole and collect the majority as I drill.

Also, depending your your ship design, putting collectors on the side might be able to catch floaters. For example, my ship just digs a straight line through an asteroid. It rides pretty close to the walls. Anything my drills aren't collecting should get caught and get sucked into a collector (but, again, I don't even bother :P

[Skeloton]

Can be but that depends on what you call "negligble". Some people might have a zero wastage policy when it comes to mining :)

[Cake for Mumm-Ra]

Originally posted by Hunter:

Can be but that depends on what you call "negligble". Some people might have a zero wastage policy when it comes to mining :)

I can appreciate that.

[Fury6]

Originally posted by Hunter:

But hey least they removed that god forsaken shaking.

Indeed and I'm so glad they did

Originally posted by Cake for Žižek:

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the small amount of ore that isn't collected is pretty negligble, no? For me, it's not worth the effort trying to set up a gravity generator and collect all the little chunks of ore my ship didn't get - I'd rather just start a new hole and collect the majority as I drill.

That's right, it's only a fraction of the percentage of captured ore, not economically viable to expend the resources necessary to gather it in a closed system. However, for the sheer entertainment value of coming up with interesting & novel ways of extracting it all, it sure can be worthwhile in an open world where the available resources are practically limitless.

[Skeloton]

Yeah its nice not making a million tonne drill ship to counter that shaking.

Totally irrelevant but i like doing this with my raw ore:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=306793732

[Cake for Mumm-Ra]

LOL that's amazing

[Skeloton]

I made a rock shield out of that contraption. Unfortunately unless the game can handle the amount of rocks and their collisions so i dont end up playing in slow motion, you can never use it properly.

[Bloo Q Azure]

throw a shield gen on a large battery and stick it to a landing gear - who says you need to mod in small ship grav gens? =D

[tomkrist]

Adding collector?

[The Insane Dump]

Thank you for the replies, but I posted this over a year ago. LOL! The ship came out great! :)