how do i take stuff out of a drill

[Maurice]

i got this game earlier today but i cant find out how to take stuuf out of the drill

[impetus_maximus]

if you hit the Alt key you will see a yellow arrow. that is where ore will be placed. you can have it go direct into a furnace by placing one there, place it on a belt, or into a crate. you could pick it up with an inserter but there is no point in that.

i suggest playing though at least some of the campaign to get a grasp of the game mechanics.

PS welcome to the addiction.

[Maurice]

thx for the help and i dont know why i didnt do camaign first

[impetus_maximus]

you are welcome.

i think many are eager to do a 'new game' free mode run. that is where the game really shines. the campaign is basically a tutorial.

[Maelstrom]

Look where the arrow is on the drill and put a belt there.

At the very very begining when you're using burner drills you should put a furnace there, then have a burner inserter pointing away from the furnace into a wooden box. That will get you your early iron and copper plates.

[Overeagerdragon]

Pro-tip:

In the beginning you can put your burner mining drills to mine coal right next to eachother so they "feed" eachother. A burner mining drill will extract coal faster than it will use it so it will keep drilling untill the recipient mining drill has 200 coal then it will shut down. It saves you on a LOT of wood/iron early game because you won't have to build chests and/or belts but WILL give you stacks of 200 coal you can ctrl-click pickup from them....a perpetum mobile

[Warlord]

Originally posted by overeagerdragon:

Pro-tip:

In the beginning you can put your burner mining drills to mine coal right next to eachother so they "feed" eachother. A burner mining drill will extract coal faster than it will use it so it will keep drilling untill the recipient mining drill has 200 coal then it will shut down. It saves you on a LOT of wood/iron early game because you won't have to build chests and/or belts but WILL give you stacks of 200 coal you can ctrl-click pickup from them....a perpetum mobile

You using mods? Burner drills can only hold one stack of coal, which in vanilla is 50. If you are talking about 4 burners total capacity, then that fits but you never stated the count (and technically you can do 2 facing eachother rather than a circle of 4.

Anyway, in the base game, the burner drill is the only miner with actual contents, which is the fuel storage. All drills output the ore they dig onto the square in front of it, rather than contain it like assemblers or furnaces.

[Kittenpox]

In addition to having a Mining Drill deposit its materials into a Chest, or onto a Transport Belt, or (in the case of coal) directly into another Burner Mining Drill, you can also have it drop its materials directly into a Furnace.

Personally, I like to have my first Coal field begin with a Burner Mining Drill that feeds itself.
If we have our drill facing north, then we'd have it deposit onto a conveyor belt that also flows north - connecting to another two conveyor belts which flow eastward. Then, between that 3rd conveyor belt and the mining drill, I'll have a Burner Inserter feeding the Burner Mining Drill with the ore it's been gathering - and any excess continues along the conveyor belt line. :-)

If you know how to use Blueprints and import a string, try using this:

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It's a pretty handy starting point for coal-mining, because it feeds itself and you can lay a bunch of them side-by-side, like this:

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All you need to do is put one unit of a fuel resource (Raw Wood, Coal, a Wooden Chest, a Small Electric Pole, Rocket Fuel - whatever's gonna burn, really) into that first coal miner, and it'll feed the rest automatically. :-)

Or, if you've got Iron/Copper you want to gather at the very beginning of the game, then you could use something like this:

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It's not tileable like the coal mining one is -and you will want to progress to an Electric Mining Drill soon enough anyway- but if you put a whole bunch of coal in the chest that feeds the conveyor belt it should provide the resources to power the rest, so you can come back later and gather all the Iron (or Copper) plates from the second Wooden Chest.