May be a little "over the top", but perhaps the ability to assign a cargo container to it? When that container is filled it would stop drilling until space is available.

It would be amazing if this could acknowledge safe zones. As of right now, it ignores them like they dont exist.

I had a really wild idea. What if , like lcd's, you could feed this an image file at least a black and white image where the unit would use the image as a mining guide. My thought that you could specify like a whole base level in ground buy the image using either black or white to indicate mine or no mine in 1 meter incriments and you could scale the image with a scale bar indicating how big each pixel would be equal to. I know its not a full idea but just a start I am thinking on working how you could do this via scripting or like i said by adding the ability to assign an image to the drill via the terminal. I mean this could be done very straight forward or very complicated where you could even have color indicating height so that you could have varying height at each point on the image.

Make it so when you walk under/over it you get hurt?

Originally posted by Terd Ferguson:

Make it so when you walk under/over it you get hurt?

Hm. Good idea. Maybe throw in minor cumulative damage to any blocks within the area of drilling. This makes adjusting the area very important, plus adds all sorts of role-playing base/ship anti-personnel and anti-raider ship possibilities. Like how welders and grinders are used now.

hello dummy08 i got a idea for your nanobot drill mod make were it can drill different shapes like the voxel hand tools i would really appreciate it if you did

Another thought. Not necessarily a change to this mod, but rather a script to "step" the offsets on a selectable time basis. To allow mining/collecting over a large area over time.

Pitch adjustment for creating slopes

How would I send the current drilling status, to a LCD, so I can see when I am collecting which ore, inside a rock?

Originally posted by 09Klr650:

May be a little "over the top", but perhaps the ability to assign a cargo container to it? When that container is filled it would stop drilling until space is available.

Thats pretty easy for you to set up, just connect one cargo container to the drill, it will stof if that container is full. to empty the container you could use a conveyer sorter pulling stuff out which can be switched on/off on demand

Originally posted by Raskal:

Pitch adjustment for creating slopes

Pitch the drills? (rotor)

ability to slave the miners together. i am still not sure how to do this

Sir Cluff, how about grouping them? Works for me.

Would it be possible to add a way for a server owner to disable the collection of individual materials? I'd like it to still dig out the stone, but not able to collect it, as it can be a tiny bit op for getting resources from stone

Perhaps the ability to define shape. Instead of just a cube, maybe a cylinder or sphere.