[A14] Resource Mining Rig (1.2)

[EzraN]

Resource Miner

Description:
This mod adds a new way for you to get resources passively. You can construct a 2*2 mining 'rig' that will use power to find resources like stone, silver, steel, and other metals and place them around the rig.

Texture updated to look slightly more like it belongs in the game

Stone blocks will now spawn instead of stone walls, (Mountain rock?) steel slag also possibly now.

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Technical Details:
Power Usage: 1500 W
Stack size: 1 (Will not stack items)
Will not place items on 'filled' zones (buildings, walls, ect...)
It will place an item at the surface about every two minutes.

Author
Me and a bunch of forum posts 

Download
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/az7c92dq4zyr6ux/AAC2tLXPViHxAH4x5dTLwppMa?dl=0

How to install:
- Unzip the contents and place them in your RimWorld/Mods folder.
- Activate the mod in the mod menu in the game.

Side Notes:
First mod I have made so criticism would be very helpful. I know the texture for the mining rig is not very good I'm not a good artist, might update it with a better texture if I can figure out what to make it look like...

• If someone wanted to use this mod for any of their modpacks I would be very happy for you to do so.
• If you want to see how it works or want to change it to work better for you I will post the link to the development version.

[Sekmeth]

I like the idea of passive generation of resources, all though there are a few similar mods out there, but with some cleanup on the model it might become popular for those who want a simplified way to get resources without going head deep into a deep tech tree

[EzraN]

Thanks! I'm going to try a few different looks on the model to see which one 'fits' the best I think.

[Master Bucketsmith]

Use this to get your screenshots shown in the thread:

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[SpaceDorf]

Nice and Simple.

Looks good

[EzraN]

Wow, this got a lot of views. Thanks for commenting about it I appreciate it a lot! It looks like next update for A15 is going to have a machine like this that grabs stuff from 'underneath' the map so it will stay for this version probably.
Glad to see you liked it!

[Master Bucketsmith]

I noticed you used the 'album' URL to imgur instead of the direct image URL. I updated that little snippet of code so you can copy past it directly and it should work, sorry about that.

[EzraN]

Oh thanks, I got it now. I'll make sure to not use the album link next time.

[Nictis]

It will place an item at the surface about every two minutes.

Is this two minutes real-time? Meaning that it will vary by how fast I have the game running?

[EzraN]

It would take two minutes for it to create a new item on the regular single play button time, but the faster speeds will make it seem to spawn faster even thought it is just because of the increased time rate it goes at. Its like how crops grow in the game.

[anakismail]

Hi, is it possible for the rig to spawn stone chunk instead of "rock wall"?. Because right now i need to make the colonies to mine it so that it does not block the rig.

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[EzraN]

I can change that I'll update it right now!