@Dragonspride, sure as long as it stays friends only. Thanks.

@LAVB0yActual, No, I'll look into them once I return home.

are t he grinders meant to grind blocks behind?

Hello, I'd like to ask for consent to use a modified version of this for my friends group. I'll make the mod set to friends only. I want to lower the drills volume to .5, 1, 1 and its cutout radius to .8

Azimuth Drill Mod Update Notes(Update: 5/15/2024): Mod Update: Code Fixes
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=>Fixed large components not moving through small conveyor tubes.
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I don't have any mods that change inventory size, but I have played around with a few more small drills from other modders. These may or may not mess with the vanilla drills or each other somehow.

After my edit of EntityComponents.sbc:

<EntityComponent xsi:type="MyObjectBuilder_InventoryComponentDefinition">
<Id>
<TypeId>Inventory</TypeId>
<SubtypeId>AzimuthSmallGrinder_SEM4</SubtypeId>
</Id>
<Size x="1" y="1" z="1" />
</EntityComponent>

The inventory size is now 1000 liters.

Before editing, the size tag was <Size x="4" y="5" z="1"/> which translates to 20.000 liters in Keen's weird scheme (I would simply have used liters).

Do you have any mods that change inventory sizes and or what are your advanced world settings set to?

Both can affect the inventory sizes of the drills heavily.

Found it in EntityComponents.sbc with help from Digi. He has written an article about the topic:
https://github.com/THDigi/SE-ModScript-Examples/wiki/Hidden-SBC-tags-features#entity-components

I can look into that tonight.

I like this drill in most respects, but the capacity seems a bit excessive (larger than the vanills small drill, which has a larger model to begin with. I wanted to change that for my own game but did not find the parameters in CubeBlocks_Azimuth_Drill.sbc. Where do I have to look?

Not sure if it is any help but i had a similar problem, i had vanilla drills on a miner and they were harvesting something like 1~2% of what they were supposed to(i had 1 small grid large cargo and i drilled ~500 meters into an asteroid and only filled 70%of it) When i removed this mod from the load list and tried again i was back to normal mining yields

Yes they are completely different systems. :)

That is completely normal. :)

The vanilla drills work normally on asteroids, I switched them out to try and it worked as should. But as soon as I put the small drill back, no stone is collected by the drill.
To be sure I spawned the same ship blueprint on earth to try and drill the stone there, and again that worked as intended.
So maybe asteroids are a different "texture or material" than the stone on planets. I'm just guessing, I have no clue.
Thanks alot for responding.

That's odd, but it simply is the same as Keen's drill, I'm not sure why it is happening.

It seems after the last major game update a lot of my mods have issues now. I would see if the vanilla ones do as well. It could be a game bug or something I have to change.

Yeah I'm using the "block tool tab" on the toolbar menu and left click to drill. It works on earth stone, but not on asteroids. I use 2 small drills on pistons on a small hydrogen ship. Similar to a design I have effectively used on earth.

Are you using it on your toolbar or right clicking?

Awesome drill, love it. But the drill doesn't seem to be collecting asteroid stone. It does fine collecting stone on planets and it collects ores from asteroids, but not the stone. It just makes a hole in an asteroid.
Do only I have it or is it a bug?

correction: med cargo = 3375 L

It 'kinda' makes my small drilling rover tip forward alot.If only it would balance with 1 medium cargo like the normal smg drill.

What is the base inventory size of the tiny drill? smallgrid is what I am interested in. In my private (survival impossible) world I had an inventory of 20k liters. While normal sg drills are 3200 ish. Did I mess up somewhere with inventory modifiers?

The drill doesn't seem to be collecting anything. Doesn't even make collectible rock. Just removes whatever it mines. Is there anything extra I'm needing to add to make it collect ore? I have it hooked up to a conveyor and it all works fine with a normal drill. Thanks in advance for the help.

Azimuth Drill Mod Update Notes(Update: 5/7/2023): Mod Update: Code Fixes
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=>Fixed the toolbar config not working after the latest mod update. This is now permanently fixed and updated.
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A fix will go out for these this weekend that will fix the bugs with the block tools grouping.
I got covid from my vacation trip and it's pretty much beat the heck out of me so far.

Yes, that is my plan for this week.

Hey, this is a great mod! But for some reason it does not show up in block tools anymore. Any chance you can resolve this? I really appreciate it :)

I can look into that. I just got back from a 2 week vacation now. :)

Do we have a fix for getting the drill to show up in block tools?

For some reason i cant add the drill on the toolbar for control with the mouse . i mainly use this mod for digging out corridors so it would be awesome if that could be fixed

I think it currently is that, but I'd have to push an update to all of Azimuth which would be a pain. :D

is there way to make drilling radius to 0.5

Azimuth Drill Mod Update Notes(Update: February 2/19/2023): Mod Update: Code Fix
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=>Fixed the toolbar config not working for years.- I was just notified of this. Sorry!
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The stats above are way out of date, sorry :)

Why is a smaller drill more expensive?

Np :)

Well darned, thank you anyways.

You can't, it is hard coded.

How can I adjust the inventory size of this drill? I'd like to make it smaller.

np :)

thx

Azimuth Drill Mod Update Notes(Update: January 1/26/2022): Mod Update: Code Updates
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=>Reverted Drill cutting radius, since it was causing issues with picking up resources.

=>Fixed broken g-menu category due to Keen changing the display name of the category.
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I will take a look now :)

Definitely losing resources with those drills. Area of digging is bigger than with regulars, meanwhile gathered resources is much lower. Can u balance it properly, please?

Hey just tried out the mod and while i love the model for the drill and what it can potentially do, however i have a game breaking problem.

I tried your mod out and the thing that made me disable the mod was that i had my tiny drills on the end of pistons which were attached by blocks to merge blocks. For whatever reason when trying to turn around very fast using my gyros, the game freaks out and sends my ship into an uncontrollable spiral.
The only way to get out of the spiral is to turn off my dampeners, manually correct my thrusts, take off the miners, and then re enable my dampeners.
Ive tested the vanilla drills with this config and have had no issues what so ever.

TLDR: I love this mod, and want to see more drills or more possibilities. However, i can't use this mod due to this issue. Please fix if possible <3

Yeah that's a well known game bug I think, I will see if there is anything I can do but I doubt it.

correct, the inventory multiplier plays a massive role in inventory sizes as it is not very customizable yet. :)

About that bug, if it is anything like RB micro tools, it could think its caused by the drill cargo capacity. If your game has rather low cargo capcity multiplicator, the tools may be collecting more material per cycle than they can carry (like they get 1k stone, but can only store 500). So the extra 500 are lost forever.

Im not 100% sure it is what happens but that would make sense I think.

Possible solutions :
- Higher capacity on the drills (a bit ugly, especially with high cargo capacity multiplicators)
- Drop the extra ore to the ground (actually I wouldnt mid if some or even ALL the ore was dropped, used in conjuction with a collector/gravity collector it would be a more interesting "engineering challenge" to play with)

Thanks for your work btw.

no. I am picking up much more material with the standard drill. I love the tiny drill but I just seem to pick up way less... maybe I am pushing into the ore too fast?

I am not sure on that, does the same happen with the vanilla drills?

The Tiny Drill is great but I am losing a lot of the mined material. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a configuration or a way to build these where I dont lose all the material I am mining? Also, I seem to take damage behind the drills if I am close. Is that normal?

Azimuth Drill Mod Update Notes(Update: May 5/24/2021): Mod Update: Code Updates
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=>Increased the detection range for the Welder from 1.3(vanilla) to 1.6 now.
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