Space Engineers

Space Engineers

[VSI] Ore Deposit Scanner
Darkmist  [developer] 9 Oct, 2020 @ 1:43am
Feature survey - scanning for boulders
Hey everyone!

There has been some requests for adding the possibility to scan for surface boulders. If you want this to happen, please vote on this thread and if enough of you want it, I'll add itt.

Happy scanning!
Darkmist
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Steve 9 Oct, 2020 @ 9:27am 
+1
cdogames 22 Nov, 2020 @ 7:41pm 
+1
DoubleTap829 14 Dec, 2020 @ 4:57pm 
+10
Wings29 14 Jan, 2021 @ 10:37pm 
+1
Darkmist  [developer] 25 Jan, 2021 @ 10:02am 
So guys, I have some bad news. I did a basic implementation but it turned out that surface boulders are not spawned if the area has never been visited. This probably wouldn't even be a problem, but Keen - as usual :( - set all the classes I would probably need as prohibited. I could leave the current implementation in, but it would probably be very confusing that sometimes it finds surface deposits, sometimes not, and people wouldn't read the info even if I documented how it works. So unless Keen decides to trust modders, this is how much time I'm willing to put into this. Sorry again, I even tried - us usual - to find some workarounds their restrictions, but to be honest I am tired of always having to find the small holes in their "defense".

I hope this won't discourage you from using the mod for its original functionality :)
Steve 25 Jan, 2021 @ 12:30pm 
Originally posted by Darkmist:
So guys, I have some bad news...

Honestly, thanks for just looking into it to see if it was possible! No worries at all - it is what it is. I'm definitely still using the mod, and just started a new game with the Industrial Overhaul mod, which I think will go really well with your ore scanner
Darkmist  [developer] 26 Jan, 2021 @ 3:05pm 
Thanks Steve, good to hear!
Sich 29 Jan, 2021 @ 8:47pm 
Thx for your work, even without the boulders the mod is very very usefull when you use other mods that reduce the number of ore spot.
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