It also makes the compass very hard to get early game because you need that copper for so many other important things. 2 for beacons? 4 for a compass?! 2 for a simple sign or picture frame? Ugh! It makes the signs and picture frames unusable until you have a drill arm. Copper is always in short supply even with the drill arm. Glass is probably the most important, simply because I like bases with a lot of windows and glass corridors. The above suggestions about mining by are still great though.Ĭopper, glass and occasionally gold are the only things I generally mine for. The Devs seem to have increased barnacles on Reefbacks lately however (4-5 per Reefback), so in this playthrough copper hasn't been an issue. you find a lot of lead/titanium when looking for copper).Įspecially copper.previously I've always lacked in copper until I got the Prawn drill arm. If we're talking titanium, glass or uranite then I entirely agree with you!Ĭopper, magnetite and gold are awesome to mine though, since pick-up spots for these are scattered and unreliable (e.g. Only people who want to feel the experience might like it.ĭepends largely on the resource. The only exception of unavoidable drilling is the few pieces Kyanite you need and the drilling of ion crystals at the PCF.įor me drilling is a complete failure in comparison to resource pickups. For copper you have a far better method with the Sea Treader's route and the rest is just map knowledge where large masses of small resources are to be found. I tend to gather only the small resources while diving, which is really fast and without danger with the reinforced diving suit. As mentioned the whole ore pile can be moved, but not be put to inventory, which is another failure. It's tedious and unrewarding, as the process takes far too long for only a small amount of pieces that you have to pick up slowly while searching for them with all the disadvantages you mentioned. Don't forget that drilling is late game tech and therefore can be made more powerful.For those vertical wall drills you'd need a grappling hook and a drill arm that can also suck while drilling.Cut those big ion drillable crytals out of the game and replace them with tiny ones. ![]() Make some other rare resources drillable only.Allow at least the Propulsion arm to suck and auto place in inventory, allowing to mass suck items you drill with the other arm.Forget the Gravsphere for that as this includes too much workaround for only a few pieces.Make drilling a single splitup process or speed up the splitting parts, so it takes less time.And a machine to produce ion crystals in drillable form and not just a simple small crystal is also a joke. Neither is it fast and making you resource rich, nor are there much resources you don't get otherwise. That drilling is good for advanced and fast resource gathering or only good for resources otherwise unavailable.īut the game doesn't use any of the 2 possible drilling advantages. The time I need to drill a big ore resource is about the time to get double or triple the amount diving through a mini resource field that is dense. Or maybe (additionally?) change the function of the Gravsphere so that you can select what you want to pick up?Įven then it would be too much extra work for almost nothing. ![]() Than a grinder multipurpose room machine that can do the work. Or they could make a new storage unit for ores. The drill arm just needs to be able to suck up the drops and its done. But I do agree the system in place needs work. My best guess it they "clipped" through the world and fell into oblivion.ĭoes anyone have any tips for using the Gravsphere to mine? Or, are all the deposits *not* on flat ground pretty much impossible to mine? So, I tried to follow the "fall path" of the copper to see if I could get the mined copper that way. It hadn't attracked even one single piece of copper. ![]() ![]() The Gravsphere had grabbed maybe a half dozen fish and a limestone deposit. I finish mining and expect the Gravsphere will have collected 6-8 pieces of copper. I placed it right next to the copper deposit and went to town mining. I knew those copper pieces would likely fall off never to be seen again. I marked four deposits on not so flat spots in the Grand Reef. I used these to make beacons to mark other nice copper deposits. I found a huge copper deposit on a nice flat spot of the ocean floor and mined it to obtain 6-8 pieces of copper.
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