Ground-penetrating scanner is broken

[mathieus]

It just is since the 1.1 update. None of my researchers will spend any time using it. I have found nothing in a several hours play-through. Tynan, you really need to fix this.

[crossmr]

is it outside without a roof?

[Lamont Cranston]

Mine disappeared twice and turned to rubble. description said it wont work under a roof though?

[Cormac]

if they work on it, they will find something.
right now, there are 2 ways of finding new pockets of ore:

1. there is a very low chance with each finished cycle to find something. the better your researcher the faster he works.
2. after X amount of cycles you get one garantued find (if you find a pocket through methode 1, this will reset)

if you click on the scanner, it should show a progress percentage to the next garantued find.
it takes some time to find something, also there are a few things to consider:
as stateted above, the scanner needs to be outdoor! (no roof above the scanner, the scientist scanning can be roofed), your scientists are doing research first! if you have 2 pawns working and 2 research benches, hey will always research your current project first, only if there is no active research, they go scanning

[Breakingzap]

if you want to stop research you can toggle your high tech bench to off

[crgzero]

I've had to disable my research bench to get them to use it. Even with 2 high level researchers if the research bench is on the scanner won't get used at all unless I force it.

[Wombat]

Yeah, I have same problem (v1.2 Dec 2020). Researchers always go to the Research Benches first. Even if you force them to the scanner, they stay there only a short time. So, as said above you need to either fill up all the benches with researchers or shut the benches down. Then, they will use the scanner.

[Azrak]

How exactly is that a problem? The code has to prioritize something and it prioritizes benches over scanner. And if I give my pawns an order to scan, they will do so. Anyway, great necro.

[ambi]

Originally posted by Wombat:

Yeah, I have same problem (v1.2 Dec 2020). Researchers always go to the Research Benches first. Even if you force them to the scanner, they stay there only a short time. So, as said above you need to either fill up all the benches with researchers or shut the benches down. Then, they will use the scanner.

yeh, that's a poblem with vanilla. i use a mod that expands the work tab down to every job in the game, so you can make someone do scanning over researching.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=725219116