@Star, set it to collect mode.

still mines stone when stone mining is disabled :(

How to stop following character drilling?
And to drill only given area?

Small ISsue found. On the moon using normal stone, I can drill and collect everything just fine. But the 4 Drills set to "Fill" do not fill. The other 2 functions work but not fill. I have a bug report and can email it.

I used this mod, in collect mode, to excavate a planetary encounter; so that I could salvage the wreck in it's entirety.
Once salvage operations were complete, I used the fill mode to restore the landscape to roughly what it was before the salvage operation.
I ended up with 5+ LCC's full of stone once the landscape restoration was complete.
Is there a reason why it uses significantly less stone the fill the hole that it dug?

@homadsen IMO logic behind this, gravel is sub product of stone, that's why you can't use it to fill voids. Maybe there are mods converting gravel into smth more useful. E.g. In Industrial overhaul gravel can be burnt in incinerator, converting it to other resource.

Thank YOU for making this, starting from scratch on new worlds is fun but grindy and this makes it way more fun, easier and faster to test stuff in Survival and just to do a playthrough

Love your mod ! just have one little thing i dont understand.. why cant we use gravel ? we have so much of it in survival mode and it would be great as filling. that is ! thank you so much for a very cool mod

how do you make mods?

... and now.... GPS DRILLING SCRIPT for the Nanobot Drill and Fill System!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3296512822
Quick and easy positioning of the DnF bots to a GPS location!


HOW to get the GPS locations FAST? Use my new Drill=>HERE! script (just released!)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3296158808
Get GPS coordinates to deploy drills!

"6 of them targeting different ore deposits" - works great
"on different asteroids" - great, if within range (see @andywht comment, which is exactly my test results {'reliable up to ~3km, "works" up to 4 - after that.....'})
"on a turret" - WHY? the bots can be positioned directly.

Use https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2321343808 and just a tiny bit of engineering, you have what you asked about.
Use my https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2861428091 and make PATTERNS

@Du5t3 I know you can fiddle with the mod's files, increasing the distance. Although I've increased the distance up to 10k, I could drill only up to 2-3k. Try it for yourself and see what you can come up with.

I would like to make a venture from EVE. The idea is to have 6 of them targeting different ore deposits on different asteroids on a turret. Can we make this work? Distance is really the factor here. Anyone have thoughts?

ShadedMJ You can disable Ice as well, as any other ore

On collect mode I think ice is included in ore. I disabled stone and don't get stone. Ice still comes through and I'd rather not get ice.

@OneSki glad it helped!

Andy, your comment saved this mod from being unsubscribed by me today.

Better labeling is needed for the mod. The settings are clear as mud.

As of 29 May 2024 it works perfectly, filters are working, collet/drill/fill modes are ok. A little trick: if you don't want to drill stone, set it to collect mode and disable the stone - then it will only drill ores from under the ground or boulders or asteroids.

Having the same issue as @Vas with the drill filter's not working. I don't want it to mine stone but it will.

is there a script that can be used with this, since it has the option to be controlled by a script at the bottom of the control panel scroll?

Still working fine for me...

It seems that the patch that Keen published yesterday (17 May 2024) broke something. Before this patch, the mod worked, but now, with the Ptach, the Drills no longer dig and no longer collect. It is as if they no longer detect the ore (?)

strange i've used from beginning till today.. works great!?

As of 05/17/2024 It was not working. It is not firing the Beams out but shakes.

Works for me perfectly, without any problems. Very useful mod, Thanks for it!

This is casing my game to CTD when clicking to group them together, just so you know! It has done this to me about a year ago, but did manage to get it to group, and work, though. Trying a newer version.

Managed to get it kinda working. Was having problems with it stuck on drilling it looks like, even after switching to collect. It eventually did switch to collect though. Some options in the other mod suddenly locked though and I can't get them back. :/

Unfortunately, the filters don't appear to work. I can't tell it not to collect stone, I can't tell it not to drill stone.

@spartan_722 this sounds more like a server sync issues, because if the server is hosting the mod, everyone should see the voxel updates taking place. This shouldn't be a client side only, especially if other players are falling through what appears as solid ground.

mod works... kinda? im using it on my friends dedicated server and while yes it mines ore. i LOVE it but... i wont use it as only the host can see the hole its making... me and the other person playing dont see the hole being dug. but if we walk to it we fall through the ground.

can we have a bit more of a targeted drill. like all drones aim for enabled ores and dont just randomly go all over the allowed area

Works great. But I really wish it worked with build vision

I'm curious, does this work with programmable block where I can adjust the distance via script?

Anyone have an issue where the Horizontal offset keeps flipping from positive to negative or the other way around?

It's just amazing! It's a bit fantastic, even though the technology already exists. I would like to see an animation of a laser beam coming out of a nanite nozzle that melts rock (ore). At the moment, animation is a fantasy from the future. We just need laser beams!!!

Amazing mod, love if. If you're using this mod, I've uploaded a blueprint for a tunnel bore with 25 drill heads that has all their offsets pre-loaded to allow for the quick drilling of an area. I use it for drilling out large tunnels (usually 25x25x75) or mining (75x75x75) The blueprint is here

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3140594615

Pretty sure they weren't talking about the drill itself, but how it drills.

Hi. The module is aligned to the platform You build the module on. The only way You can tilt the drill, is by using rotors.

It's aligned to the planetary pole, unfortunately. I once tried using it on the north pole; things looked straight and all, but wandering across the actual pole (on foot) was buggy at least, fatal at worst. (That was a few years ago, but I doubt it's something Keen could ever fix.) No idea if the equator acts the same way.

ello just wondering if the drill angle can be altered? to say like the local grid alignment.

@xray163 - on your 'notes'...
Generally good and correct, however, it is clear you don't understand how to configure the drill...
Referencing your numbers:
2. No, it will drill from 'farthest' or 'nearest' depending on your setting. It is true it is not a 'surgical block' (read some very old comments on the original authors WS to learn why this "SE Physics" problem exists)
3. No, it searches for whatever is in the list and gets a 'hit' - again, see #2 for what is picked.
4. Yes, if you set it to 'Drill', you will DRILL everything. If you set it to 'Collect', you will only COLLECT those ores in the list.
8. any drill will fill the storage if you let it. Use Collect to limit it. Also, see my script called Supply Lines, which stops filling your base with ores.

@aurigasixty - I use the DnFs all the time - on a server and single player. In fact, I just did a video a couple days ago showing how I'm using SAM autopilot and the DnFs instead of PAM now. I show how I configure it for specific ores, etc. - might help you find what you are not setting https://youtu.be/-jLnHteRJfM

update please great mod. will not distinguish between ores. just a indiscriminate drill as is. Same thing with Repair and Build Nanobots priority settings do not work. Id's may need updating, or is it just me?

hey im working on a script. ones already finished but the other needs flags to work properly. is there any api specific for this mod so i can see if the drill is collecting ore or not or do i do it the same way i would for the normal drills?

some notes,
1. As of when i wrote this the mod works fine with only a few quirks that i could find
2. when you turn on the drill it will start drilling from wherever the center of the affected area is and there is no way to change that.
3. it will search first for whatever ore is at the top of the priority list then go on to the next one if it cant find any in the area
4. even if you disable stone in the mining menu it will continue to mine stone if nothing else is available to mine
5. Depending on your settings when you set up the world one drill can probably support 2 or more refineries equipped with 4 yield modules as long as it is always mining
6. I highly recommend using nanobot build and repair with this mod (as of writing this it also works fine)
7. you must build a basic refinery at least once to unlock the drill system
8. this thing can and will fill up all your storages with stone if you let it run long enough

Greetings, the mod does not work well, the laser drill does not drill in the given area, please check the mod

Well, I'd rather think they quit than died, but...

dead mod author, ignore or rip and fix yourself

"@Blue_Phoenix May 25 @ 11:46pm
I'm playing coop with someone and I can't see voxel changes without reloading"

I'm having the same issue. I tried looking to see if anyone else created a newer or updated version of this mod with no success.

Someone did with the nano build and repair system mod though with a seamless transition.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1327040622

When you select the ores you want to collect, above that selection menu is the enable/disable buttons, simply select enable or disable