Is there any way to speed up mining?

[Da'Inihlus]

I've played stationeers for about 50 hours. And the unofficial wiki has just become my most visited site recently.

Yesterday I felt a little bored when mining some iron, so I made a play time analysis with the help of my friend. And I find that 4 out of 10 play hours, I was out there digging something.

And we joked that I can just put all my suit in the recycler, then die, then reborn with another suit.That would be far more efficient than mining on hand.

Then is there any way to mine faster?
I was using the electric drill, with mining belt on slot 5, and mine through the ore vein.

[eberkain]

There ae lots of mining mods, i like the 4x ore personally, but it seems broke on the latest beta.

[Da'Inihlus]

Well, I've played Space Engineer for 200+ hours all configuration 1x. A 4x ore mod is unacceptable in my situation.

[Norseman]

Originally posted by Da'Inihlus:

Well, I've played Space Engineer for 200+ hours all configuration 1x. A 4x ore mod is unacceptable in my situation.

Then why ask? There is no faster drill to make ores come to you faster.
But you can tweak mineables.xml file to the amount of full 50 ores every time you hit a lump og ore. Same result, same result if coded both ways, and/ or different politics, in your case :)

Edit: get Toolmake up and make as many Mining Belts as you can. Fill slot 3 with them and mine till they are full. Then you don't need to run back and fort every time 7 slots in the mining belt is full:

[Cardinal]

Originally posted by Da'Inihlus:

Well, I've played Space Engineer for 200+ hours all configuration 1x. A 4x ore mod is unacceptable in my situation.

you not playing space engineers here

[Da'Inihlus]

Originally posted by Aydjile:

Originally posted by Da'Inihlus:

Well, I've played Space Engineer for 200+ hours all configuration 1x. A 4x ore mod is unacceptable in my situation.

you not playing space engineers here

[edited]Do you mean that, when playing stationeers, set ores to 4x is just fine? In fact, ive been convinced that make ore drop more is a necessary thing.

[Da'Inihlus]

Originally posted by hugin:

Originally posted by Da'Inihlus:

Well, I've played Space Engineer for 200+ hours all configuration 1x. A 4x ore mod is unacceptable in my situation.

Then why ask? There is no faster drill to make ores come to you faster.
But you can tweak mineables.xml file to the amount of full 50 ores every time you hit a lump og ore. Same result, same result if coded both ways, and/ or different politics, in your case :)

Edit: get Toolmake up and make as many Mining Belts as you can. Fill slot 3 with them and mine till they are full. Then you don't need to run back and fort every time 7 slots in the mining belt is full:

Im taking 3 mining belt with me now, also 3 large batteries.
with that im mining surface ore very fast, but im running out of them, now i have to walk about 1~2min away from base to find a surface ore point.
or maybe i should make my base movable?

and.... is this configuration working for my dedicated server? on an existing save?

[PipAlmighty]

Try one of these maps out, even just to test, and see if the mining goes faster for you.


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1342044794

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1341261999

[Rhekis]

when you see surface ore dont be afraid to dig down as long as you have jetpack fuel to get back out if needed. some of these veins are pretty large and will fill your entire belt without having to run around. Thanks for the suggestion on carrying multiple belts, makes a HUGE difference!!!!

[Kortak]

personally i hope they make it kind like factorio.. you go out there to find ore manually..then you find a very large spot with a certain kind of ore and you build up some automatic stuff...with solar power powered etc or other automatic stuff which makes it that you gather a lot of ore automatically over time...

hours and hours of manually digging is not for me

[ulzgoroth]

Are you using ground penetrating radar? Because that definitely helps get a bunch of stuff faster than wandering around looking for it.

If you're spending a lot of time in transit, it might be worth making some extra mining belts. Carrying five belts instead of one (or six if you don't need your tool belt) would let you haul enormously more ore.

[Da'Inihlus]

Originally posted by ulzgoroth:

Are you using ground penetrating radar? Because that definitely helps get a bunch of stuff faster than wandering around looking for it.

If you're spending a lot of time in transit, it might be worth making some extra mining belts. Carrying five belts instead of one (or six if you don't need your tool belt) would let you haul enormously more ore.

The effective radius of ground penetrating radar is too small. Unsually, the radar even cannot show the whole view of a ore vein, which i can identify by eyes. So, I would mine more ore by walking a few more step, and replace the radar and tablet with a mining belt.

I thought when holding a tablet with Ore Scanner, the focusing item would be relevant with what kind of ore would be shown on the screen. But after a few tests, i find that some of items would show everything, others show no signal.

[Dark Phoenix]

Originally posted by Kortak:

personally i hope they make it kind like factorio.. you go out there to find ore manually..then you find a very large spot with a certain kind of ore and you build up some automatic stuff...with solar power powered etc or other automatic stuff which makes it that you gather a lot of ore automatically over time...

hours and hours of manually digging is not for me

I believe mining drones are on the wishlist.

[Jawnycat]

For where the game is now, at least for 1-3 players, just bite the bullet and use a multiplier mod or edit one together yourself, like others have suggested. It's more fun figuring out a setup with good efficiency, throughput (and asthethics) for a glut of ore than it is running around for hours mining.

Mining, as it is now, is really not a strong point of the game and there's no shame in modding out it's tedium till it get's more involved or more interactions with other systems (Like exploring being worthwhile).

[ulzgoroth]

Originally posted by Da'Inihlus:

The effective radius of ground penetrating radar is too small. Unsually, the radar even cannot show the whole view of a ore vein, which i can identify by eyes. So, I would mine more ore by walking a few more step, and replace the radar and tablet with a mining belt.

I thought when holding a tablet with Ore Scanner, the focusing item would be relevant with what kind of ore would be shown on the screen. But after a few tests, i find that some of items would show everything, others show no signal.

How do you identify the whole of an ore vein that's 90+% underground by eye?

I dunno what you mean by focusing item, but I have noticed some things (coal in particular) seem not to have any signals.

[Da'Inihlus]

Originally posted by ulzgoroth:

How do you identify the whole of an ore vein that's 90+% underground by eye?

I dunno what you mean by focusing item, but I have noticed some things (coal in particular) seem not to have any signals.

When you dig one of them, the others would pop out naturally. And when you point at one that is very near surface, UI will show the name of ore. it is very simple to mine full vein of ore just by hand and bare eye.