using the laser drill completely changes the approach to make miners. No longer needing to be small tightly built to let it burrow the tunnels it makes. It can be a giant refinery ship with the lasers on arm turrets... I will have to put that in my to do list
No need to make small miners that borrow in the first place. My mining barge is large enough to have several on-board refineries and assemblers. I was inspired by the "chunnel" bores, and those used to make tunnels in the swiss alps. It's not quite "Asteroid Eater" level, but it's not terribly far off.
@@kinngrimm Taking all the ore spots in one go would require an "Asteroid Eater". Small barges rarely have the cargo capacity needed to finish off entire ore deposits in one shot either.
You could make a repair shipyard that has a bunch of these welder “repair turrets” and have them set to target ally, then you could just fly through the repair yard and get fixed up, combine with a toggleable blueprint of your ship correctly overlaid so even fully destroyed blocks can be fixed
ive been waiting for this for literal years. why has nobody ever thought of making a laser mining mod before? i only know of one and its super old and broken.
I started using this the day that it popped up on the workshop and I don't think I'll ever go back to the regular tools. Looking forward to more tool mods coming down soon using tool core.
I like the concept of the laser tools, but this particular execution leaves something to be desired. I happen to be red-green colorblind, and the colors he has chosen for the various beams is virtually impossible for me to tell apart, and I was flipping between paused portions of your video to look at each. Why the mod creator chose THOSE particular colors I will never know. I came across this mod that is similar. Look it up on the workshop: "Vortex Industrial: Animated Laser Tools [ToolCore]" Not only are the colors in that one easier to differentiate (for me at least) but each beam has an additional animation effect that makes telling them apart so much easier. I also like the custom models he's gotten. Just thought I'd bring this up and my red/green colorblind issue. Hope that's not out of line.
I imagine the same thought went behind it like the makers of rifles. 99% are right handed. I'm a lefty. You're color blind, 99% are not. You did see the option in the video where you could change color right?
@@robsdeviceunknownI'm a lefty also. Not as rare as you think, neither is colorblindness. As for the option for changing the color, there were two parts that I saw. One affects which "Beam" is being used, be it weld, grind, or mine, and depending which choice you use, affects the color of the lasers (and said colors are so similar to each other as to be very difficult to tell apart for those like me). That is to say the colors are tied to function and cannot be customized, and the colors chosen are... poor. The other part was "what color of blocks are affected". Meaning the lasers will work or not work on blocks of the specified colors. That does not change the colors of the lasers at all.
i chose red because red like welding sparks and i chose green because it's opposite of red and i chose yellow because yellow is mining color i'm glad you like the vortex tools i think the creator palpatine is a swell guy :)
I prefer to let the devs try and come up with the tools because after a certain point the mods that pc put on is actually annoying and it defeats the purpose of the game
Every tool can become a weapon. The maws of a Grinder ship have grown from melee range to close range as though Jaws was given a laser weapon.
using the laser drill completely changes the approach to make miners. No longer needing to be small tightly built to let it burrow the tunnels it makes. It can be a giant refinery ship with the lasers on arm turrets... I will have to put that in my to do list
No need to make small miners that borrow in the first place. My mining barge is large enough to have several on-board refineries and assemblers. I was inspired by the "chunnel" bores, and those used to make tunnels in the swiss alps. It's not quite "Asteroid Eater" level, but it's not terribly far off.
@@abitterpill7331 its enough if it can take the ore spots in one go, no need for the whole astro =)
@@kinngrimm Taking all the ore spots in one go would require an "Asteroid Eater". Small barges rarely have the cargo capacity needed to finish off entire ore deposits in one shot either.
Imagine replacing all the drills on the asteroid eater with this block. Good bye, anything!
You could make a repair shipyard that has a bunch of these welder “repair turrets” and have them set to target ally, then you could just fly through the repair yard and get fixed up, combine with a toggleable blueprint of your ship correctly overlaid so even fully destroyed blocks can be fixed
ive been waiting for this for literal years. why has nobody ever thought of making a laser mining mod before? i only know of one and its super old and broken.
Same mate! I got that old mod working once then gave up! May have to dust off space engineers for this mod!
There have been several laser mining mods over the years, the concept is nothing new. Though as you've said, the older ones tend to be broken.
I started using this the day that it popped up on the workshop and I don't think I'll ever go back to the regular tools. Looking forward to more tool mods coming down soon using tool core.
Nanobots gone LASER's.
THEY HAVE A TURRET VERSION NOW!!! WOOOO
Reminds me heavy of starmade
mmm i am thinking clean up drones or grinding pit
thats cool on your single player it be great on multiplayer it may be cheating a bit to much and for newbies it be cool
Definately way over powered
I like the concept of the laser tools, but this particular execution leaves something to be desired. I happen to be red-green colorblind, and the colors he has chosen for the various beams is virtually impossible for me to tell apart, and I was flipping between paused portions of your video to look at each. Why the mod creator chose THOSE particular colors I will never know.
I came across this mod that is similar. Look it up on the workshop: "Vortex Industrial: Animated Laser Tools [ToolCore]"
Not only are the colors in that one easier to differentiate (for me at least) but each beam has an additional animation effect that makes telling them apart so much easier. I also like the custom models he's gotten.
Just thought I'd bring this up and my red/green colorblind issue. Hope that's not out of line.
I imagine the same thought went behind it like the makers of rifles. 99% are right handed. I'm a lefty. You're color blind, 99% are not. You did see the option in the video where you could change color right?
@@robsdeviceunknownI'm a lefty also. Not as rare as you think, neither is colorblindness. As for the option for changing the color, there were two parts that I saw. One affects which "Beam" is being used, be it weld, grind, or mine, and depending which choice you use, affects the color of the lasers (and said colors are so similar to each other as to be very difficult to tell apart for those like me). That is to say the colors are tied to function and cannot be customized, and the colors chosen are... poor. The other part was "what color of blocks are affected". Meaning the lasers will work or not work on blocks of the specified colors. That does not change the colors of the lasers at all.
i chose red because red like welding sparks and i chose green because it's opposite of red and i chose yellow because yellow is mining color
i'm glad you like the vortex tools i think the creator palpatine is a swell guy :)
I prefer to let the devs try and come up with the tools because after a certain point the mods that pc put on is actually annoying and it defeats the purpose of the game