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Mining Drill

Description
Ever wish there was an easier way to mine for resources and archeology items without wasting time mining and digging around constantly? You're in luck! With the Mining Drill mod you can just spend a couple resources to automate your mining and get a small chance to dig up artifacts too!

READ BEFORE SUBSCRIBING:

The Mining Drill will unlock once you unlock the "Drilling" skill in-game. Please make sure you unlock this skill before you assume the mod is broken. :)

Also, the items gained from the Mining Drill will be dropped on the tile the structure was placed on. So you will have to manually collect the items as they drop from each drill. This may change in the future if enough people request automatic collection instead. Let me know in the comments if you want this change!

Crafting Recipe:

Steel: 10
Electronics: 2
Bottled Oil: 3


How It Works

30% chance of getting Junk which will just result in Sand.
*you get bonus Sand by placing the drill in a Desert biome!

60% chance of getting a Basic Resource. Every biome has a unique increase to certain drops. Some even have an added unique drop to that biome. More details in the charts below.

7% chance of getting a Rare Resource. Every biome (except Grass and Desert) have a unique rare drop.

1% chance of getting an Archeology Item. Every biome specific archeology item is included.
*(dig spot items only, no fishing archeology items.)


FAQs

Q) Do Lighthouses affect the Drill?
A) Yes. The same way they would affect any vanilla game structure.

Q) Can I get all artifacts using the drill?
A) No. Only artifacts that can be found while digging. The other half would still have to be farmed via Fishing methods.

Q) I can't see the Mining Drill in any of the build categories. Is the mod broken?
A) No. You must unlock the "Drilling" skill in-game before you can build the structure or see it in the Industrial category.


--------------------------- Basic Resources --------------------------

Grass Biome

Biome Bonuses:
  • More gold and iron ore drops and drop chance.
  • Chance to drop poop.

Item
Amount
Drop Chance
Gold Ore
4 - 8
40%
Iron Ore
4 - 8
40%
Coal
2 - 4
10%
Poop
3 - 5
10%

Desert Biome

Biome Bonuses:
  • More gold and iron ore drops and drop chance.

Item
Amount
Drop Chance
Gold Ore
3 - 10
40%
Iron Ore
3 - 10
40%
Coal
2 - 4
20%

Graveyard Biome

Biome Bonuses:
  • More gold ore drops and drop chance.
  • Chance to drop bone.

Item
Amount
Drop Chance
Gold Ore
5 - 8
40%
Iron Ore
2 - 4
30%
Coal
1 - 3
20%
Bone
4 - 10
10%

Snow Biome

Biome Bonuses:
  • None. Most average of all biomes.

Item
Amount
Drop Chance
Coal
2 - 4
40%
Iron Ore
3 - 6
30%
Gold Ore
3 - 6
30%

Fire Biome

Biome Bonuses:
  • More coal drops and drop chance.

Item
Amount
Drop Chance
Coal
5 - 10
50%
Iron Ore
2 - 4
20%
Gold Ore
2 - 4
30%


--------------------------- Rare Resources --------------------------

Info: All rare resources have a 7% chance to drop regardless of biome or item dropped.

Grass Biome

Item
Amount
Drop Chance
Random Gem
1 - 5
7%

Desert Biome

Item
Amount
Drop Chance
Random Gem
1 - 5
7%

Graveyard Biome

Item
Amount
Drop Chance
Great Skull
1 - 3
7%

Snow Biome

Item
Amount
Drop Chance
Crystal
1 - 3
7%

Fire Biome

Item
Amount
Drop Chance
Obsidian
1 - 3
7%


-------------------------- Archeology Items -------------------------

Info: All archeology items have a 1% chance to drop regardless of biome or item dropped.

Grass Biome

Item
Amount
Drop Chance
Fossil
1
1%

Desert Biome

Item
Amount
Drop Chance
Sphynx
1
1%

Graveyard Biome

Item
Amount
Drop Chance
Kapala
1
1%

Snow Biome

Item
Amount
Drop Chance
Frozen Relic
1
1%

Fire Biome

Item
Amount
Drop Chance
Dino Egg
1
1%


Conclusion

Hopefully this makes your mining grind much simpler in Forager. If you enjoyed this mod, all I ask for is a like so it can be shown to more Foragers and hopefully help them just as much as it helped you! Thank you for your time and support!

*for any bug reports, please leave them in the comments section!
36 Comments
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Arvoly 6 May @ 10:30am 
Hey, I've been using your mod for a bit now, has been very helpful, but the fact that it doesn't auto pickup is unfortunate.

I see you haven't worked on the mod in a while, but could you please make it so it auto picks up the items?
Them8 26 Feb @ 6:51am 
I know that its been a long time since you worked on the mod, but making automation pick up the drop like it does help with the other machines would be nice.but i love the mod as is as well
GavNovaGenesis 22 Oct, 2023 @ 1:18pm 
where can i find the perk at to unlock it
R10K 24 Jan, 2023 @ 4:40pm 
cheese
Eckman Jones 3 Oct, 2022 @ 8:31am 
Could you add in a feature that would automatically pick up the things it mines like the mining lasers do when they break a resource node?
luhmau  [author] 7 Aug, 2022 @ 12:51pm 
Hey @PÖ, Thanks for the comment! If I remember correctly I made it so that the snow biome is the most average of all the biomes in terms of unique drops. The "rare resources" I'm referring to are towards the very bottom of the mod description and are different per biome. In addition, the rare drop for the snow biome is Crystals, not gems! (confusing I know)

So, the only place you can reliably farm for random gems are in the Grass and Desert biome as their rare drops are any random gem from 1-5. Hope this helps! If not feel free to reply to the comment and I'll try to address any questions you may have. Thanks again!
PÖ 7 Aug, 2022 @ 3:52am 
Hi and thanks for a great mod. One stupid question though: My drill in the ice biome (where all my lighthouses are at the moment) give me 0 gems. You write "Info: ALL rare resources have a 7% chance to drop REGARDLESS of biome or item dropped." You later write that the ice biome drops extra crystals. All in all I interpret it as gems should ALSO drop in the ice biome, am I misunderstanding?

Also, often when going to collect items its totally empty by the drill. Bug?
deivuko 28 Apr, 2022 @ 12:22am 
That's a peace of :Muffin_time:
Cool mod :)
Cobalius 18 Jan, 2022 @ 4:56am 
i had other mods running too, but this was affected by auto collection and i didnt need lighthouses to reach my million coins in a day
StupidAndCrazy 1 Nov, 2021 @ 5:58pm 
thx