Gas deep miner

[Kusagi Tsuki [IOL]]

Would be good to be able mine gases same way as deep miner does with other ores or maybe just add another output from deep miner for gases.

[Qybat]

We don't want the deep miner to be a 'solve all problems' machine. It removes the grind of mining in the late game. But if it did gas supply too, what would be the point of rocketry? And trading would become less useful. The game needs to direct players towards exploring all mechanics by making each one best for solving a certain problem.

[Kusagi Tsuki [IOL]]

Well I have solution for your problem don't use it nobody force you to use it...
Its just idea for players like me who like to build large projects but hate grinding materials like stupid

[Soupster]

I have an idea: RTG that costs 1 iron and give infinite power. Don't like it? just don't use it.
Yeah... the "just don't use it" argument kinda falls apart.

Depending on what planet you're on, you can get all the gases necessary for self-sufficiency from the atmosphere, and you can get volatiles from breaking down plant matter.

[Kusagi Tsuki [IOL]]

Boy :D i already done craftable "dev/creative" RTG version that not cost much its not that problem to do it for just 1 iron :D

I just wanted to way that allow me to mine gases maybe through deep miner as side product which then need to be separated and filtered which would also increased complexity of deep miner as if there would accumulated wrong gases whole rig would go boom...

Maybe ability for deep miner to mine ices that would on heat evaporate as any other ice so you need to cool whole rig there is so many ways to done it to make it more complex and giving players more options.

[Qybat]

I do have one interesting suggestion: Make it a random event. The deep miner will function as it does now, 99% of the time. But on rare occasions, very rare, it will 'hit an ice pocket' and pop out some ices instead or ores for a few minutes - either water, or volatiles, or oxite, any of them potentially with nitrice too.

This is too unpredictable to depend upon, and is more interesting for the potential for trouble it may cause as the unanticipated ice jams up the processing, especially so if it can evaporate from the centrifuge! It sets another little challenge for deep miner operation. Either prepare for the potential influx of ices (and reap the rewards of this random event throwing you a sudden delivery). Or be an unprepared slacker, and wonder why your centrifuge room is suddenly either ankle-deep in water or on fire.

[Kusagi Tsuki [IOL]]

finally you kinda started to getting my point

[LostME]

I think it's not a bad idea to let deep miner also get ice. As far as I know, it depends on the % of deposits on the planet, so if there is no ice on the planet, you will not get it. So the centerfuge can give out ice, which will also reduce the amount of free rare resources received.

[Kusagi Tsuki [IOL]]

Probably best way would be if deep miner could mine ice so dev could relatively easy allow this thing and also modders could easy change values and percentages...