Uses for the Crane

[wildwinds]

Having built and tried out a crane I don't really see a good use for it, all my drilling needs are taken care of by front mounted rover drills.

Am I missing some obvious good use for it?

[GD]

At the moment is can only dig resources, but no longer Soil. In earlier days it was a very convenient and fast way to get large amounts of soil.

It is still convenient for resources as the Drill pumps every mined resources directly to the storages on the same vehicle. So no more resource pick/drop between the Backpack and other larger storages every 5-9 resources. If you place it on a large rover together with a large storage with 4 med storages and possible 2 more at the back it can pump 6 medium storages full of resources before you are forced to manually intervene, e.g. to another large rover connected.

EDIT: An no Backpack Energy is used, which makes it sometimes easier, especially with Drill Mods.

[DC-GS]

Next patch fill fix the soil issue.

[Pahbi]

So I tried the crane post patch.

While technically it does fill canisters, it seems like it takes a LOT more dirt to fill the same amount of canisters the terrain tool will fill using the boost + wide mods.

*EDIT*

I think its bugged. I just dug out a massive resin spawn and I got 6 things of resin.

Something is definately wrong, and I don't recommend using it.

*EDIT 2*

The front mounted drill fills canisters really fast, and seems to work well for making roads. The main thing is to start off a road using the alignment tool to get something completely flat, then the rover will continue going straight.

In fact, it actually works really well, except for the wonky horrible camera. :(

*EDIT 3*

I made a train of large rovers, but using the drill attachment only fills canisters on the first 2 rovers. Weird but whatever...

- P