Does the crane no longer fill canisters?

[LostManAbroad]

As the title asks, is that the case. I have a large rover with a crane on it and I have a few canisters on the rover but I am digging and the canisters are not filling up.

Does it matter which head I use? I currently have a the diamond head on the crane.

[vindicar]

No, it doesn't appear to fill canisters.
Use Wide+Boost mod on your terrain tool, it's about as fast.
Given you can get more materials from a single dirt canister now, it's not that big of a problem.

[LostManAbroad]

It is a bit annoying as it renders the crane pretty much a useless tool.

[vindicar]

Originally posted by LostManAbroad:

It is a bit annoying as it renders the crane pretty much a useless tool.

True, mounting the drill head in fron of a vehicle is much more fun.

[swimbob16]

they really need to add that feature back. that using the crane or just the drill attached to the front of a vehicle fills canisters. i understand that soil can be used to make a butt load of resources, but the sheer amount of dirt you need to make ramps in the core to make rovers viable inside a planet is a bunch of canisters worth, so a nice QoL addition would be that soil can be collected via vehicles as well

[MyProfile]

Originally posted by swimbob16:

they really need to add that feature back. that using the crane or just the drill attached to the front of a vehicle fills canisters. i understand that soil can be used to make a butt load of resources, but the sheer amount of dirt you need to make ramps in the core to make rovers viable inside a planet is a bunch of canisters worth, so a nice QoL addition would be that soil can be collected via vehicles as well

I agree.
I stopped playing before the update and never had the opportunity to use it that way. I had wanted to terraform a mountain down around one of the poles for my solar base. Its a lot of work I think compared to that drill on crane.

[LostManAbroad]

The other problem is that at some point they nerfed the speed of the drill on the crane. Before my last approximately 8 month break from the game, you could put a crane on a rover with a medium storage on the back with 8 canisters on it and the crane would tear through the ground very quickly. I used to love building bases inside of mountains. Mind you, now that they got rid of storms, that is no longer so important.

But anyway, now when you use the crane, you cannot fill canisters but also, the boost mod does nothing to the speed of the crane so it is much faster to just use the terrain tool which completely renders the crane pointless.

[Pahbi]

In its current iteration, I cannot think of a single use for the crane.

It is literally the worst tool for any job.

- P