Is it possible to add an option to make it work on sea ice biomes again?

v3.0:

Updated to RimWorld 1.6

@Gerewoatle: That's the neat part, they don't!

How do you people even function in society?

@icytux, It already has that option as shown in the image in the description.

Would it be possible to give us an option to turn off sky requirement? It's a ground penetrating scanner not a sky penetrating scanner lmao.

@Triel, yes the long scanner does, and the ground-penetrating scanner doesn't

amazing and thank you.

Doesnt long scanner already have option to choose output?

Super useful mod. Would you consider doing something similar for the long range scanner? Even adding some kind of automated mode would be fantastic. Thank you for your work

oop, nevermind, I updated the mod to 1.5 and it worked fine.

Anyone having an error where the random find interval stuck at 6 days and the guaranteed find keeps going over 100%?

@valdrax, the ground pen. scanner usually cannot be built or used whilst underneath a roof (for some reason), this makes it possible

What is the option "Allow to build ground-penetrating scanner under a roof" supposed to do?

Other posters below suggest that it's not meant to allow you to build a scanner in a mountain base, but I'm pretty sure it used to allow that (and then sometimes if you toggled the option on and off). What is the intended functionality?

nnniiiceee

see this is why i love mods with good configs; it lets you do exactly what you want with it. take my awards and prosper

@Device it says it should be compatible with everything.

is this compatiable with roofed scanning?

The Legend. Hope all is good with you Sarg, thank you for your continued contribution to this sometimes rather, ungrateful community.

@Yukimaru you're thinking of Roofed Scanning, that's not what this mod does.

While the adjustment numbers work, I still couldn't build it under a roof (in a mountain to be accurate), had to use another mode to patch it. Is it just me or? Because I didn't have any other mod chaning this behavior (or apparent to change it)

@monkmith, in vanilla, both types of scanning are in the research work type and you can not prioritize one type over the other.

@Omega13 just use work tab. it'll let you individually rank all the different jobs withing a work category.

@Omega13 The problem is that there are 3 separate jobs (research, short scan, long scan) and they are combined into 1 work category in the vanilla game. You are asking the author to split those jobs, and then swap the order of 2 of them, just for you. There are other mods that do that already, and if the mod author did that, you would have everyone else complaining that pawns will not prioritize the short range scanning.

The vanilla default is to prioritize short range scanning over long range scanning. Swapping that only helps you, but causes problems for everyone else who uses this mod, and will cause lots of headaches for people trying to troubleshoot why no one will do what they are supposed to.

Vita: these are good suggestions, however, I do feel like my comment remains a decent suggestion to make the mod more useful without having to do all sorts of weird workarounds.

@omega13 There are a few ways you can accomplish this.
Zone your colonists away from the short range scanner.
Put the short range scanners behind a forbidden door.
Use a mod such as Personal Work Categories, Complex Jobs, or Work Tab to prioritize long range scanning over short range.

As a suggestion - what if you could put the scanner in automatic mode? Leaving it on, but not requiring someone to scan it, just letting it do its thing passively.

The reason I ask is because colonists prioritize the ground penetrating scanner over the long range mineral scanner. However, I'd like them to use the long range scanner while still benefitting from the passive scanning feature of this mod, rather than requiring me to turn off the long range scanner entirely to make my full-time scanning pawn stop using the ground penetrating scanner and use the long range scanner.

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@ProfileName both add the function to search for an specific ore, thats more likely what is causing the issue

This is an amazing mod. I always hated how clunky and spastic the scanner was, this makes me want to make one. Great mod!

RimPy said this was incompatible with "DeepOreAtHome" - not sure why the two are incompatible or how?

Kikohi has left modding

Is this a new mod or just a repost? Cause i'm pretty sure i was already subscribed.

Looks like "can be placed under roof" conflicts with "Biomes! Caverns" mod.

Thanks!

I'm guessing the difference is that salt is already set up to be able to be deep drilled in its source mod, whereas eltex isn't. Its not that this mod allows you to add modded minerals to deep drilling, it just lets you choose to scan for modded minerals that are already set up for deep drilling.

In the screenshot it shows salt, which is a modded ore. I would like to mine Eltex from the Vanilla Psycasts Expanded mod, but it does not show up as an option. Is there a way to add this to the list of scannable ores?

Thanks, Sarg.

Maybe. Try it

Maybe I'm missing something, but uh...

there's a setting to do exactly that in the mod's settings. It's even in one of the screenshots above. Does it not work?

Out of scope

Is it possible to remove the unroofed requirement?

Obviously

from rimpy " Mod Incompatible with: itself [duplicates : 1] of packageid [kikohi.bettergroundpenetratingscanner] in active and/or inactive lists

@kongkim: The scanner will always find new resource patches as long as there's free space for them. Thus your only limitations are mining effort and resource placement.

Exception ticking GroundPenetratingScanner37886 (at (97, 0, 127)): System.MissingMethodException: System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1<Verse.IntVec3> RimWorld.GridShapeMaker.IrregularLump(Verse.IntVec3,Verse.Map,int)

some error occurred

Looks good, i never really used the ground-penetrating scanner much.
But can you run out of ground resources on the map, or will it always be able to scan new resources?

you shouldn't

I love this and you

It shouldn't