[Twinsen] [15.12] Electric miner inserts ore into a moving car

[Jokunen]

I managed to make an electric drill to insert ore (in this case coal) into a car and drive away while the drill still inserts ore into the car.

I just drove a car in front of the electric miner, waited it to insert at least one ore into the car and drove away while the drill still inserted ore into the car. I managed to recreate it with three miners in total inserting ore at the same time into the same car. You can drive your car how you like, leave your car, and manage the car inventory as you please and the drill won't stop inserting ore.

Unpowering and repowering the drill doesn't seem to have an effect.
This doesn't seem to work if there is an underground belt in front of the miner where it drops the ore.
Miner stops inserting ore into the car if you rotate the drill, cars inventory is full or the ore field changes (somehow checks if the ore field needs to visually change, not sure about this one).

I think this has something to do about the drill thinking there is a chest (car) in front of it and the drill doesn't realize the chest is no longer in front of it.

I attached a save where three miners inserts ore into the car (miners marked with multiple lights). The nearest marked miner stops inserting ore into the car when expected resources are about 780.

[Loewchen]

That is hilarious.
I can reproduce this with a new 15.12 save.

[kovarex]

This clearly isn't a bug.

[Loewchen]

This clearly isn't a bug.

This allows me to fight biter on the other side of the map while my tank is constantly fueled by a mining drill I drove by half an hour ago...

[keyboardhack]

This clearly isn't a bug.

Sweet this means item teleportation is part of the base game

[Klonan]

This clearly isn't a bug.

The mining drill can insert ore at any distance

[Twinsen]

This clearly isn't a bug.

This is clearly a bug

[daniel34]

This clearly isn't a bug.

The mining drill can insert ore at any distance

This is the actual bug. If the container it inserted to is not there anymore although it still exists it should cease to insert ore.

[Aeternus]

I can see logistics potential with this using the AAV mods

[Twinsen]

Fixed in Version: 0.15.14.

Thanks for the report.

[steinio]

This clearly isn't a bug.

I bet kovarex used this trick always in multiplayer with the other devs to cheat.

[Klonan]

Fixed in Version: 0.15.14.

Thanks for the report.

Why would you fix something that is clearly not a bug?

[Supercheese]

Why would you fix something that is clearly not a bug?

Perhaps he was fixing a feature instead.

Doesn't always have to be bugfixes, need to mix things up sometimes with other fixes!