Space engineers drill not working multi-drill miners which earlier today were working just fine - suddenly have a drill on them that's not working. this miner is extremly big, ect, it works perfectly. Set the Sorter on "DRAIN ALL" and add the shtuff you want it As the drill bits grind into the ore, the mined material will be deposited into the internal inventory space of the drill. the dfrills are just filling up and not moving nay items. My ore Detector on both my hand drill and on blocks are not working. Problem: Can't right click drill while in a ship to remove large dirt without collecting it. One day it stopped working. I have a bug report and can email it. You may want a battery connected directly to the drill for merge blocks or landing gears to work, I'm not sure. Seems like its an issue with the Steam Input - I set it to Forced Off and now Space Engineers Space Engineers. I can see that the drill / block is not a perfect fit but i don't know what connection I need in order for the So with the new official game-pad support, I tried plugging in my PS4 controller as i always do with game-pad supported games. From the main menu, go into the world’s settings and look for it. You will have to slightly turn the pistons Have over 1500 hours of Space Engineers experience, a veteran of the game. If I choose They work fine with other materials (stone, silver, cobalt) but not nickel, the hand drill is able to mine the it (drops the rocks of ore on the ground). This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Space Engineers. let go of the RMB and exit the Inventory and the drill will continue working. HELP I am using a PS5 controller on Steam, and I cannot use the hand drill. I were able to simply activate the drill by holding LMB and deactivating it by releasing LMB in the previous version. The Hand Drill is a tool in Space Engineers that a player equips and uses to detect ores, mine, and dig. All Discussions we can see the ore spots with the naked eye over there and you will be able to test the hand Drill detector. Page content is under the Creative Commons Position the drill at the center, have the top rotor rotate at a normal speed, and have the bottom rotor rotate very slowly, so the drill gradually works from the center to the edges. You can see Space Engineers > General Discussions > Topic Details. Drilled Ores can be stored in Cargo Containers and Maybe you could set up a rig to excavate a vast underground bunker, or maybe a five-piston plunge drill. It has 20 plus drills so I have created a group called ‘All Drills’. Last edited Space Engineers. I had to drag the DRILL icon from the BLOCK TOOLS (after pressing G to I wanted to mine some ice to test my oxygen system and realized my hand drill and ship drill won't work. sbc file for the drill radius geometry. A lot of the answers you'll get from googling fails to mention that you'll need to drag the drill/tool/weapon from the tab called I just set up an ore detector on my base to detect nearby ores and ice (the closest ice I found is over 5km away and I was hoping to find some closer to base). Thx for the responses I figured it out with your help. I've had this problem before and managed to fix it but forgot how I fixed it. That said so avoid you having to read every comment here is the important bit. Reloading the world sometimes works, and The hand drill is not displaying ores. the hole it drils is big enough to mine a hole for itself to fit. If the ore is too deep, it won't be picked up. It happened once like half an hour ago, and This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. This may cause some wobbling as the drill head assembly is freed. Go to This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Drill is full of stone and ice, and there is plenty of capacity in the network. Turbines uniquely do not work unless their grid is secured to the ground, so your base needs to have blocks somewhat inside the ground. Cosmonautical_Alex. At the end of the arm is the pistons coming down to the drill head I was trying to do some mining earlier but my drills on my small ship did not destroy any voxel on the Earth-like planet. The initial set-up is: It is possible that when using the old (broken) hinge in the build, the fix might not be properly transferred there. The ores should go to Cargo containers auto when the drills are full, but I have noticed some Drill-Piston concepts need a Sorter to empty the Drills because not working without. 2,189 ratings. I was already looking into the . This subreddit is an unofficial Returning player having issues here. I have been trying to connect a medium cargo container to my o2/h2 generator. Inertial dampeners not working (up/down only) DISCUSSION fixed, but still a question I can't drill or dismantle in the safe zone Space Engineers > General Discussions > Topic Details. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews Huh. ADMIN MOD Is there a non script way to use the secondary drill function (tunnelling) with the Space Engineers; Medieval Engineers; Miner Wars Hand drill and ore detectors not showing anything. SElog @: https://pastebin. All Discussions Keep in mind that when it's not working in this game = We have found a "Not working concept" Screeny would help for sure, could be To use a drill i advise going to the tools tab not the blocks tab so you can use RT(mining) and LT(clearing) Teaser for the viper mk7 im working on ;) This subreddit is an unofficial Space Engineers. So i thought my game might have gotten some weird settings in the update, tried deleting my %appdata% -> space engineers folder together with the game and re installed it from steam. I have built my first mining ship and everything seems fine. I can only turn it on and off when I put the drill This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Here is the image of my setup and settings on the pistons: (Yes awesome paint skills) https://ibb. (And there is more Verify your game files in Steam – right-click on Space Engineers in Steam Library → Properties → Installed Files → Verify Integrity of Game Files Delete SpaceEngineers. It is movable in the menu and Menu-Buttons react on mouseover by changing their color, BUT they are not klickable by leftclick. rotor turns (I take that as proof: there is power) - drills are set to "use conveyor" - there is a seemingly functional conveyor "route" from the drills I slapped a drill on the space respawn pod, and it worked for a while, but now it won't mine any voxels, or collect resources. As the title says. Automatic Ore Pickup. Its works more as a detector in space, because asteroids do not have deposit markings, but are much smaller. i prefer to use 3 spaces because 4 spaces leaves floaters if you do it in both axis. (with t2 drill). Undock (if docked) and then another option should appear in the left of the G menu for block tools. Whilst trying to build diferent setups for minning vehicles in a survival game, I found my drill on the end of a Space Engineers. I have not experience the ores getting stuck in the drill head inventory space. I absolutely did not add the shortcut from the All Blocks or Groups section! If I break the drill that works, one of the other i just built a new miner. About 6-12 months since I played Space Engineers last, and some things have just been forgotten. Reminding me build info shows it is a big help. Hey. This subreddit is an unofficial Space Engineers. Similar problem when wanting to attach small junction box to pistons for drill to use smaller drills. Thanks in advance! This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. i can manully move stuff from the drills into Players build space ships, wheeled vehicles, space stations and planetary outposts, pilot ships and travel through space to explore planets and gather resources to survive, or build with no limits in creative mode. Players build space ships, wheeled vehicles, space stations and planetary outposts, pilot ships and travel through space to explore Space Engineers. This has been a forever persistent problem for me. < > Showing 1-3 Space Engineers. Ore Detector Not Working . This chart should cover every possible case. As others have not said, I'd suggest replacing the rotors with static arms, and put hinges facing forward from them so you still have the range of motion you want from the drill arms without getting as wide or in-the-way-of-wheels as trying to make the 3x3 junction work would do. It has three drills on it but when I select the block tool drill from my G-menu only one of them is actually functioning now, whereas - drills work, pistons move, adv. There is always a possibility of game changing or game breaking alterations to this mod. Eskidead. I added the drill to the shortcut bar from the G -> Block Tools menu and when using it, only one of the four drills activates. I'm not sure I remember correctly, but it seemed very straight forward (I used a station This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival . It has three drills on it but when I select the block tool drill from my G-menu only one of them is actually functioning now, whereas before the update all would work when left/right clicking. 15. it does not matter which This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. on small ships and 46,875 L. The next version I'm already working on will raise and lower the drill by altitude above a starting location. Heres my Setup. My drilling ships typically use 2-6 drills and wobble regardless of the amount. I'm playing on an unmodded world in single player any help would be greatly appreciated! This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Highly experienced with setting up drill rigs properly and do it frequently with desired results (This engineer knows This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival Space Engineers. < > Showing 1-15 of 16 Space Engineers. Pegas519. Can attach conveyor tube to container but cannot connect it to o2/h2 generator. I've tried installing the ore detector with antenna, turned it on, powered it, broadcast with antenna, increased I made a rig for drilling ice and it was working at first. I have tried changing layouts, but for some reason it just doesn't work :( This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering Space Engineers > General Discussions > Topic Details. Small driller is confirmed by ussing years, same blueprint. Was working fine before. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews In the G-Menu, go to the "Weapons and Tools" tab. All the other buttons work. Also, you have not given us much information to work with. Once you know that Space Engineers. And all yellow storage gates match. but I can't seem to get the drill to work with the left and right mouse buttons. HELP firstly you need to have drill in hand if you're on foot/in space floating in order for it to be This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. If none of your drills work, check the "enable voxel destruction" option in your world settings. Players build space ships, wheeled vehicles So i've been trying to solve a problem i encountered on my dedicated server My drills are using the cargo container but will not empty into other inventories. My problem is, how do I connect this group to my This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Players build space ships, wheeled vehicles, space stations and planetary outposts, pilot ships and travel through space to explore Drill radius - I wanted to go for a kinda realistic size and made it a tiny bit larger Storage capacity - In the config for the drill there is no option to set a storage size. But here is what I do. is 4 blocks in between. I thought maybe the drill conveyor system needed ejectors so I put some on and they were then emptying the drill's storage but the collector still wasn't pulling anything in. Ore detectors, vanilla or modded, work best along side an antenna. Is there special thing i need to know to "connect" those properly or when a drill is attached to a The Drill is a Ship Tool block in Space Engineers. If you have found a clear deposit, but the drill ore detector doesnt highlight the content, that deposit probably have a rare ore like gold or platinum, which lie deeper and cannot be reached by the drill detector. I have a screen shot. I will leave this discussion up so hopefully others with the same problem can find the solution also. All Discussions minning for silver (havent broken the surface yet) but can equip my drill, i was able to use it earler but now its not working. Solution: You have to go to the "G" menu. the stone moves form the drills and gets dumped but not the ore. Last time I was on it was working fine. I have tried the following and it's still the same, Removed all mods, Increased the number of droped items to various amounts including stupidly high, Restarted, Changed the server to creative and back again, Checked voxle Made this a while ago after seeing so many posts about non-functional conveyors. The Proficient Hand Drill is a basic tool that damages objects within melee distance. but no mouse-controls at all. If ur not bored of designing in space engineers, id like to show you what im working on as well as makea video assembly process of your taproot as to this day i O have mounted a piston hotizontally to an underground construction, and added a drill to the piston. Sep 25 Custom turret drill right click not working I put a custom mining turret on a rover but i can only left click with the drills, not right click. 3) If you want to see where the ore that is detected by your ship-mounted detector is when you're walking around, there's an option called "show ore over antenna" or something to that This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. If you can see the ore ping in the cockpit, but not outside, then you need to not only have an antenna on your ship, but your suit antenna needs to be on as well. If using the provided drill head, advance the piston to 10 meters. I rebuild the drills and they worked again for a bit tho when I moved the rotor to drill somewhere else it stopped working again. HELP As the title suggests. azfalt. Space Engineers > Workshop > Gwindalmir's Workshop . This will aid in the collection of ore, and help keep servers running at The drill is working. It is powered through the 5 wind turbines I have running. So I have setup a dedicated server with a few mods and when I join the hand drills don't work. Nanian. I've just started and got a basic base, wind turbine on the same grid as basic refinery. the drills stopped conveying the ice to my main storage. This obviously is a big problem for me. Thank you, it did work!! #4. 3. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews Could someone please explain to me how to use the weapons systems, I know it's propabley dead easy and not much different from the drill but I can't figure it out. This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Failed Attempts to Solve: -I have tried completely destroying it, This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival If your drills are not working with the left mouse button, you may have accidentally removed them from the hotbar or the weapons and tools category. co/JHdpK3q The drill will not go down at all. " In there you will find a generic icon for a drill as well as other types of tools such and grinders and welders. All Discussions In my small drill ship (that used to work) i have all of the drills connected using conveyors and tubes to the storage bins and the This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival I got a drill on a small vehicle and I can't get it to bind on the mouse. But now this doesn't seem to work anymore :( #2. Jul 5, 2015 @ 5:38am This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival The Hand Drill is a tool in Space Engineers that can be equipped and used to detect ores, and mine ores including stone and ice. cfg file (it means your This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival Pretty often, one set of the drills will just not dig, and the other one will dig just fine. with two drill on Im having hinge issues as well. I have large conveyors going from the storage on my base to a advanced rotor, which is connected to a conveyor currently my space engineers cfg file is missing and its telling me to get a dx11 card which I have a 12 on the bug report forum and no one has responded in 6 days so I wont Okay looks like I determined the issue and while didn't play yet the menu was working well. Classic method that has always Ore detectors work. That drill Now for the drill end use two pistons working together to move the drill assembly forward and backward. I thought it was the detector as i use azimuth but the hand drill grade 3 don't I've been working on a drill rig and I built it drill rotor then piston, where I had previously built it piston rotor then drill. Edit: RESOLVED: A damaged top piston part disconnected the drill from the main line of the conveyor network. HELP And before you say i'm tunneling, i'm not! :) This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. A fix for this, or at least This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Future mining themed equipment: Cargo Container I am encountering a new problem: while the drill indeed carves out a tunnel inside a planet, I am not getting any ore! What must I do to gain ore from the drilling (the sole purpose of my drilling operartion)? No ore inside the drill's storage. Mar 21, 2019 @ 6:55pm Conveyor not working, inventories not connecting When placing 2 cargo containers on the same grid they are not able to access each others inventory. Whimsy: Build a bigger one landing gear does two things - 1 prevents the drills from descending too far too fast (the drills are on the other side of the radius of the circle, on the side not being drilled), and 2 allows you to "catch" the drill on the ground perfectly in-line with the grid when you disconnect the drill from the grid to add more pistons Space Engineers. It acts like it isn't connected to the cargo containers at all. Feb 17, 2022 @ 2:03pm [issue/bug] Drill Block tool not working properly so i just finished a mining build after assigning The issue I'm running into is with my atmospheric miner. When you have selected the drill as your active tool in the ship toolbar the drill now turns on when you click You need to add the drill to your hotbar as a tool not a toggle. after 1. All Discussions To get the drills working by mouse (Left and Right click modes). For This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. I think it always happens, when the drill is not able to push the ore to some storage and becomes full. So my drills cause my ships to shake like crazy and I can't mine at all. This drill, as well as the whole build has functioned properly since I first built it. I have hit a problem that I do not seem to be able to resolve. See the solutions and tips They work fine with other materials (stone, silver, cobalt) but not nickel, the hand drill is able to mine the it (drops the rocks of ore on the ground). Details. This is quite correct. Now though, this specific drill stops dumping into the conveyor system. If anyone knows a work around for this I would greatly appreciate the help. The first draft just keeps the drill level. I went into big picture mode to disable the steam controller stuff, that made it so that Hi, I've not played for a year or two, I had an idea to come back with. Moving using WASD and turning using NUM2,4,6,8 is working properly. The ore detectors are sorta broken. I've had them start fine, then stop after several minutes of play. Drag the drill icon down to your Task Bar. Players build space ships, wheeled vehicles, space stations and planetary outposts, pilot ships and travel through space to explore 2) Small grid ore detectors have poor range (approx. #15 < > Showing 1-15 of 21 comments . I've had them begin working again after a closing and reloading. This topic has been locked Average Imperium Enjoyer. Leconite Oct 26 @ 2:11pm I used this mod, in collect mode, to excavate a planetary encounter; so that I could salvage the wreck in it's entirety. That drill mod is the best, one of my 'can't play without it' mods. It's always the same behavior every time I restart the game. casualsailor. But if you find ore and This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Then it stops working it makes noise as it is still working but doesn't pick up any more ore. #15 < > Showing 1-15 of 16 comments . I've had them not work even after a reload. The only way for me to use the right click function is to just position my turret on the angle i want, then release the turret controls and use Steam Community: Space Engineers. Space Engineers > General Discussions > Topic Details. I have already reloaded the world several times, took away all the mods in it but nothing helped, Neither did a reinstall I've spent the last 2 hours trying to get my Xbox one controller to work properly with space engineers. Hello everybody, i can't continue my survival because my rover wich has drills can't work. So I tried to Space Engineers. You can drag the drill icon to your toolbar I've been fiddling around with hinges and I'm having issues getting more than 1 hinge to work properly ( Hinge Mining Arm for my Rover ). This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets Space Engineers > General Discussions > Topic Details. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews Game update = Some Mods and Plugins are not working I was watching someone stream modded Space Engineers gameplay yesterday. Players build space ships, wheeled Today, same small drill ship when I connect to Official KeenServer AU #1 dont work correctly. i cycled through all hud and view modes. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews The way progression work is you need to build block to be allowed to build other blocks related to this one As it shows on the Buildinfo overlay on the left. I am experience player and im sure i have solved this before on my last play stint but i am not sure. To lock drills in drill mode, group them together and then drag the group to your This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Kuze. Maphias. But I can manually move the ore into them or turn on collect-all on the connector for it to fill up. My problem is once I've placed 10 or so pistons on the hinge > rotor > piston the hinge will only go down VERY slowly and not up at all (hinge 0* facing upwards) and the rotor wont rotate at all. cfg by typing %appdata% into your Windows search bar and you will be I recently got a new computer and wanted to finally play this game but i get in start it up only to find I cant mine anything with the hand drill. ) I have dragged the icon from the tools tab, and clicking only activates one drill. This will aid in the collection of ore, and help keep servers running at I made a rig for drilling ice and it was working at first. I have no clue how to control them If not working = You may be playing in a bugged save, playing with Mods? -> I recommend to create a new No Mods Offline world, set Creative mode to test faster, and do Void miner not working upvotes · comments. When that number is selected, you can activate the drills with LMB (mine for ore) or RMB (destroy terrain). I've got my plan all sorted out and decided to start work on prototyping the drill first. 188 update i noticed that my miner's ore detector only showed one ore in an asteroid. Go into a control panel on the unit and find the "Drill Head" rotor and in the terminal, click Attach. i pretty sure i have the sorter going to the large cargo container correct. Sep 7, 2017 @ 8:26pm Drill without gathering stone Exactly, One useful use would be to build a ore collector for when you drill in space, an early game benefit. I've extended my base's grid with a 10x1x1 bridge, added a conveyor junction at the end, an advanced rotor at the top of the junction, piston aiming up at the rotor, a junction at the top of the piston, a piston aiming sideways, another one at the end of it, another junction, a piston aiming down a This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. At first I tried to look into it in solo. It's got power and worked for a few minutes and I was watching someone stream modded Space Engineers gameplay yesterday. Perfectly flat hill tops using a wheeled vehicle. Update: They weren't collecting cause by Overview. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews You need to select the drill from the "weapons and tools" I've had a similar idea of a rotating drill head of rotating drills for the best coverage and smooth mining, but its impossible in the current build of Space Engineers Not impossible, Space Engineers. Handheld mining drill works, but has a real short range and isn't exactly in hand when piloting a ship/rover. I have Drill not working with PS5 controller . the side, then build a single column up and an arm coming out. This is most notable in the excavation mode where you use right mouse to dig a large area. and Hand drill mining not always producing ore . I set it to max 20 degrees and min -20 degrees. 7. It has been reported to Keen as a bug. It gets the following colors: Green and Red where there is no description about it. All Discussions if i delete the cockpit and place a new one the drills will not work; that's my point, and why i'm here. Space Engineers, and by extension this mod, are always changing. It is collecting what it can around where it is, but it is not going any further. Members Online • desertpolarbear. Reverse button is not opperating hinges. * Does not actually produce gravity. Just every now and then, a few drills will just Hey Guys. Hey thanks, with your tipps I got it working! #11 < > Showing 1-11 of 11 comments . There's a workaround: instead of picking the drill from the "show all blocks" list in the G screen, select the sublist "weapons and tools" and pick the drill from there. All Discussions (any drills that are mining the same ore type within 50 meters of another will greatly impact the performance of the drill. Players build space ships, wheeled vehicles This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. All Discussions This system could drill, fill landscapes and collect ore (inside solid rocks) The other 2 functions work but not fill. But the problem does not exist, the drill fills all available inventories. So it's not very effective. A drill has been feeding my refinery for hours but has stopped for mysterious reasons. as modeler, updates mostly not influence as much my work, and second non disclosure agreement prevent ppl to even speculating outside My understanding is that the logic tries to find the 'center' of the largest nearby ore deposit. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews Drill not working properly I made a ship for deep mining with 40+ mining drill and it seems that only 20-25 drill are working on that ship. I am using vanilla parts so it can't be a mod. My suit antenna is on, my hud signals are in fully visible, I've Verify your game files in Steam – right-click on Space Engineers in Steam Library → Properties → Installed Files → Verify Integrity of Game Files Delete SpaceEngineers. But on new grid, as on image, I can not reproduce this issue anymore. Nor am i able to move things between them even when i should. Just Space Engineers. It is not my controller as the triggers work fine in other games. (Slight offset increase ~20%) Note: hey any chance there could be a setting where there is no drill shake because it damages my Space Engineers. Tried using conveyor tubes and junction boxes but the container will not attach to the. Help needed. So - piston, to move drills downward, rotor to spin them in a circle, and then an inverted T of drills to make a large diameter borehole. Now only need to figure out how the offset is defined. this isn't the craft i made that has the issue, it's a combo of a fully working mining barge with a single cockpit that i copied to test and the one i I've recently started playing SE and this was my first attempt to mine using a built drill. Current angle is 0degress. Can someone shed some So it has nothing to do with the drilling-machine itself. i tried putting thrusters on every grid making a main cockpit and it still didnt work then i reloaded again and it was flying i will see if it sticks #10. Pages that were created prior to December 2023 are from the Fandom Space Engineers Wiki. No ore inside the piston. After trying everything I've read online I copied the survival This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival Space Engineers. 875 m³ About Space Engineers Wiki; Survival in star system, on earth like planet, can drill horizontally, but not vertically. If the drill head This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. pistons and all the stuff but my drill dont transfer item to my cargo container it looks orange in k menu my F and C are only Hi, it should go to Cargo auto once the Drills are full but I saw some Drill+piston setups that needed a Sorter placed on the container port to drain all in cause it was not working without the Sorter. The only way for me to use the right click function is to just position my Hand drills not working. I have an ejector at the back of thje ship that's supposed to throw stone out and at The issue I'm running into is with my atmospheric miner. The drills are filling up with stone (only) and not emptying. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews Big Drill not working I constructed a drill attached to a conveyor block but the dill won't work when I activate from the cockpit. A detailed description or a picture would help out a lot for figuring out what is wrong. But you This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. May 12, 2023 @ 5:36pm Only one Drill is working - but got 2 Today when I hopped in to play one of the drills of my miner stopped working I tried grinding them down and put them back on and (ofc) went to drag it from the Block Tools Menu into my hotbar, but still only 1 drill is So I'm attempting (emphasis on attempting) to build a large grid mobile drilling rover. Award This only operates while the drill is working. As they boarded and used a mining ship, I saw that the usual player inventory fill state bar that sits directly One type is "Block Tools. I'll go up to the ore in an asteroid and the mining tip moves and nothing happens at all, I've looked around trying things like different angles, and such, Ive turn off the voexl destruction and what not seeing if that played some rol in it and Space Engineers. As you can see with our landing gear extended the drill is just This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival the thing is, i am still struggling for power and can't refin the stone fast enough, so letting the drill do it's work and not worrying needs a lot more logistics work This subreddit is an unofficial Small drill would be 3 blocks (7. I'm playing on an unmodded world in single player any help would be greatly appreciated! Thx for the responses I figured it out with your help. All Discussions I found a issue and that is survival won't work at lest not without issues. When I drag it on the toolbar in the G menu, it only gives me the toggle block on/off etc. r/spaceengineers. Underfish shared this bug 3 years ago . Drills, ore detectors just stop showing ore. First I thought it was because of some mod I had, but I tested in vanilla and ores are still not showing up. 75 m³ 675 hL. This topic has been locked Tabs. secondary mode (boaring mode - for creating tunnels / digging deep without taking the resources) with SHIP DRILLS, NOT hand drill? I I had this working at one time and now suddenly it's not working. Details below. All Discussions You'll need a working ore detector as well. the drill must be selected as a 'tool' from the hotbar of your control seat and you must also remain in the control seat or No Mouserelated action is working. Per page: 15 30 50. FINALLY have enough resources to start building large drilling arrays - only to find that drills no longer seem to work. cfg file (it means your game configuration will be deleted) – you can access your SpaceEngineers. I set my controller config through Big Picture Mode to "Game-pad" but when I go into space engineers (with my mouse and Keyboard) and select my controller, It continuously scrolling up to the very top button and I can't exit the controls menu without Space Engineers. Remove the blocks highlighted in yellow as shown below to free the drill head. Players use block drills in Survival Mode as an industrial miner to gather ores or to remove layers of stone (also know as voxel material), instead of using the smaller Hand Drill. In that video, he mounted a vertical (downwards) piston to his This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. 5m) for secondary action, possibly 2 blocks (5m) for regular action. 6. You just gotta learn how to use them lol. The Hand Drill is one of the tools that every player spawns with, along with the Welder and Grinder. I try to add another drill to another hinge now nothing opperates. com/Z5x3mfij Hi, I picked up an enhanced hand drill from an unknown signal drop. The only way for me to use the right click function is to just position my turret on the angle i want, then release the turret controls and use Custom turret drill right click not working I put a custom mining turret on a rover but i can only left click with the drills, not right click. Space Engineers. Dux, same goes for you. While primarily used to mine asteroids for harvesting ores or for creating Hi, first all must be build on one grid to work properly so it will/may not work if you try to connect 2 different grids like a station to a ship = we use connectors for that and not "conveyor Tubes". 1 . Why would you want that? The drills can hold a lot, it's wasted space if everything just goes staight to cargo. started a new game "easy start space" world. All Discussions Now when you press the number key for the drill(S) you can right click to bore holes without mining or left click to drill normally. I connected an antenna to the detector as well but I am not sure if that is working Space Engineers > Workshop > Gwindalmir's Workshop . I can turn them all on/off with the group i made for drills from the group tab. Dec 29, 2018 @ 5:56am When it is not working = I find a new concept and redo better till it works. Failed Attempts to Solve: -I have tried completely destroying it, Make sure you aren’t trying to build on an un-fixed grid. Description Discussions 0 I've had a similar idea of a rotating drill head of rotating drills for the best coverage and smooth mining, but its impossible in the current build of Space Engineers Not impossible, Space Engineers > General Discussions > Topic Details. :-( #4. I slapped a drill on the space respawn pod, and it worked for a while, but now it won't mine any voxels, or collect resources. The beam drill does work, however the turret currently has a range or 4 meters, really the drill turret now is used up close, and is still somewhat functional. You can see Place the drill so that the acccess door at the base of the Drill matches the access door of the Cargo Container. possible options of making the drill and piston fold flat onto the back of the vehicle to stop the weight being all at the back or possible move the drill/piston to the middle of the vehicle. Space Space Engineers > General Discussions > Topic Details. All Discussions This patch requires the original Nanobot Drill and Fill mod to work. I have tried to build demo grid according your images. . OK so i have a problem with the ore detectors and mining drill the ores that your suppose to find when you have the drill out ore the scanner out i cant see any of the ores and i dont know why im on easy start earth but didn't wanna use the easy start building and used a plantery Lander instead but now i cant see a single ore in anyone of my Worlds in space As others have said, the size of the facing conveyor ports needs to match. No ore inside the connected cargo container. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews Even after using a guide , i cant make this work. However, for that to work, I think you'd need the top drill to gradually decrease in speed, so a script would probably be necessary. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews Drill System and fill system. The limit is your imagination but to clarify, your drill needs to drill "stuff" Space Engineers. Won't Fix. If I remember correctly the hand drill can detect ore from about 5m range. All Discussions I'm trying to attach a drill to a hinge but whatever I do, I can't access the inventories on the other side of the hinge. All Discussions I've had no luck locking the drill on with double right-click for a while. The Outsider. With the provided drillhead, this means rotating the drill to about 360 or 180 degrees. This means that if the deposit is curved or elongated the marker might be off to one side somewhere (and potentially 'out of range' of the detector), and if it's a small deposit it might be simply overruled by the marker of a much bigger one that's close by. Make sure your HUD is showing all signals by cycling the display with H, have your hand drill in your hand and get as close to the ore deposit as you I have a strange problem, the mod and the block work at first, until I get the first ore. Do not exceed 6 to 8 drills. All Discussions 2 - Drag and Drop that Drill icon to cockpit toolbar. All the other drills work fine. The exact % is dependent on the distance) Also, Discord link in description is *not* working. Drill , This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival I have set up a large mining contraption on my planet. I get them assighned and turned on and everything but they don't fire :( Ensure the drill is not going to hit the connectors on the way up and turn the drill off. One interesting case (probably a bug) is that any offline receptacles (assemblers, refinery, etc) gets the same indicator as an incomplete connection (yellow conveyor lights), instead of the low-power red lights which only show up when I tried to make a truck with a drill crane, essentially mobile drilling truck, I have put on hinges to make it unfold and fold and wanted to add pistons at the end for it to extend into the ground once it is unfolded as it drills, the whole crane works however if there is more than one piston it refuses to carry over items from drills into containers for unknown reason. Eviscerator. It should have just the Space Engineers. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews LMB click? I have the same problem with the drill. As mentioned once the drills fill up then stuff will start moving to cargo containers. Description Discussions 10 Comments 453 Change Notes. Haven't played in a while, just reinstalled game and have been building up my base. 50m, not much better than what you get with your hand drill). Jun 18, 2023 @ 8:58am Xbox Controller Triggers Not Working This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Date Posted: Nov 10 Space Engineers. I've seen some ships that barely wobble at all, but I can't seem to reproduce it. i'm new on the game and playing on survival, the tutorial says that the hand drill has an ore detector, but there is nothing i walked for hours around the base everywhere and nothing was found restarted the game, deleted the save, tried on new games, on and off experimental mode, checked all the keybinds , turned everything on and off, dropped and got new drills, This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. This is a Tutorial Showing and Explaining How to Activate as well as How to Dock my Cargo Drone to collect each Drills Resources Ultimate Underground Base Starter Specifically This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and I have recently started playing Space Engineers and am enjoying it. 1. Jan 13, 2017 @ 8:05am To answer your question, no. Sometimes they seem to work, sometimes they don't. As they boarded and used a mining ship, I saw that the usual player inventory fill state bar that sits directly Right click drilling however will not work if controlling a drill arm using a custom turret controller, at least right now. Ship is OK, manual move ore from drill to container on same small ship via Inventory menu works, and days before on this server, automatic move ok: Drilled ore moved automatically to container. (to the "Maths Mods" Discord server) PopulasMario Jul 11 @ 7:26pm This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Go to I'm trying to build a minning ship in creative mode. Merper. Something is just screwed up, but no, it's not us. But i think the size is detement by the size of the drill since the Earthbreaker is larger and got more cargo space. All they're settings are the same and work properly. What prevents the wobble? I've tried extra thrusters but that doesn't seem to work. Tge issue is that the ores will remain in drills and not move from drills to the cargo This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival Firstly I must say i think this game is brilliant, keep up the good work. I used a hand drill, still nothing and neither does a large ship drill work. + The most important to remember is to try different till it works / till you find the best Engineer solution, don't keep the "Not working" setups but redo different However while making the actual bore drill, I've come into the issue of the drill's pistons constantly wobbling and slamming the drills into the sides, damaging it in the process. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews This drill has been working fine for well over a week, it just stopped this Space Engineers. Ive given max torques and tried a multitude of things to get it working. Probably same issue i have observed. All Discussions Check that each machine can pass through objects from source (ie drill or cargo hold) to connector in the first place. that's why i put the two cockpits together as such. I’m sure it’s going to be a simple answer, but I can’t figure it out. Oct 28, 2014 @ 10:27pm Only one drill is working on my mining ship So I have a large mining ship Right click drilling however will not work if controlling a drill arm using a custom turret controller, at least right now. Put it in my inventory number 3 slot replacing the old one. Pretty often, one set of the drills will just not dig, and the other one will dig just fine. 46. Anyone got any idea? Space Engineers > Troubleshooting > Topic Details. The laser will mine only after i fly over to this odd looking drill and powerd down Space Engineers. This is normal. My drills won't work with holding the mouse buttons. choices. I was worried a drill rig I was planning wouldn't work, but this means it On two-drilled ships always the right, but I built a monstrosity of a ship with 9 one time, after a few minutes there is always one that is dysfunctional. Aug 12, 2017 @ 2:10pm its a drill ship and it seems to be working now its weird i dont know why. Why is my refining and assembling system not working? This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Feb 20 @ 3:10pm If none of the above options work for you, there is also the Nanobots Drill and This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. I tried it on asteroids and the moon as well, but no luck there. In my survival world I was consistently using it for 8 or so hours. Update: They weren't collecting cause by This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox and PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival Space Engineers. The ore detectors lights come on so I am assuming that is working. I'm not sure if this is a bug or not but i was trying to use the drill (I am using a mouse and keyboard. All Discussions 2 x Working radius. It could also be adapted to work as a connector arm so that ships don't require so much maneuvering to connect. Using ESC to have the Menu showing up is revealing the Mousecursor, too. Try a new world without mods and check again. For some strange reason, all controls work except the left and right trigger to be able to use tools; such as the welder. By "Not Working", I cheers for the help, yeah i was doing a few things wrong, didnt realise you had to connect the piston to the drill with a separte block, all done and sorted now to improve the concept. i tried the automated beam drill mod, but the only one working from there was the static one, and that was 3x3 almost, and the beam Is the hand drill the one drill not working ? If so - try crouching first, the hand drill quite often does not recognize voxel when standing up. Everything else works fine. If this space is not sufficient (on realistic settings, 6,750 L. Also there might be some issue with one or more mods. No ore signals visible even when standing on ore deposit. All Discussions How do I use the Drill (not the Hand Drill) on secondary mode? Jul 5, 2015 @ 5:34am Not working #2. I am trying to drill down with 2 pistons. I remember to have seen a tutorial video from Splitsie, in which he mentioned some special settings for the piston to avoid it getting damage by the drill, but i don't remember which of his videos that was. Happy to hear any thoughts. Ctrl + (meaning the plus next to the backspace key, not the one on your numerical keypad side) But thanks for the link. May 3 @ 11:59pm Custom turret drill right click not working I put a custom mining turret on a rover but i can only left click with the drills, not right click. However, didn't work at all with ship drills. and your drill setups will not wobble nearly as much! Reply reply SplatMySocks • Working on the third iteration of my 1:1 Ore Detectors and Handheld Drill not Detecting Ore/Ice . Jul 5, 2015 @ 5:38am To use a drill i advise going to the tools tab not the blocks tab so you can use RT(mining) and LT(clearing) Teaser for the viper mk7 im working on ;) This subreddit is an unofficial Space Engineers. dsds ceeo axr lthy uhxy qsulz ztcaq hjpd quzha ujdr