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Space Engineers

Chutes - Now with Conveyors
Skellitor301 21 Apr, 2020 @ 11:11pm
Option to turn off autocollect for drills
So one idea I had which I could not find on the workshop was the option to disable ship drills from collecting ores and stones, like a gamerule only you can select which drills do this(larger boring drills may have issues with this). This would work in tandem with this mod and you can come up with interesting solutions to collect and haul rock chunks to drop off points. Think digger digging into the rock face, a bulldozer pushing all the rock chunks into a pile or off a ledge into a dump truck, a scoop to scoop up the pile of no ledge to put in dump truck, then the dump truck drives the rocks to a collection point. Or, skip the dump truck and push the rocks onto a chute that leads to the collection point.
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you can always make your ship drop stone and ore but problem is ejectors and connectors drop way too much so the problem is more with those i guess?
Skellitor301 31 Dec, 2020 @ 3:43am 
Originally posted by Darkie:
you can always make your ship drop stone and ore but problem is ejectors and connectors drop way too much so the problem is more with those i guess?
The idea is to make this mod more of a need than an option. As it stands, all you need to do is make a simple ship with wheels and you've circumvented the need for chutes. Using the ejectors and connectors to drop is just making the problem of useful chutes extra tedious. What I was suggesting is make chutes more useful even after you've got ships that can dig more effectively than the hand drill, so you can dig out entire areas and haul the payload to the chutes. If you keep auto-collect on then why bother with chutes is the point.
i think i saw a mod that's gives the turn on/off option on auto collect for drills but i'm not sure tobia honest...
Skellitor301 31 Dec, 2020 @ 4:17am 
Originally posted by Darkie:
i think i saw a mod that's gives the turn on/off option on auto collect for drills but i'm not sure tobia honest...
If you find it, lemme know? That'd be pretty much what I'm looking for.
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