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Placing a miner with no fluid should be able to mine the regular ore patch and skip the fluid required ore.

Phantom329 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 04, 2020 5:46 am Placing a miner with no fluid should be able to mine the regular ore patch and skip the fluid required ore.

This is a limitation from the base game. The same happens if uranium happens to be next to a regular resource patch like coal or iron.

You can try it for yourself: it is very easy to reproduce with just the mod "dangOreus", which mixes up the resource generation, and most definitely will generate uranium next to regular ores.

I don't think the Angel's dev team can do anything about this.

Good to know, thanks.

You can use an AAI Miner to mine just the non-fluid-requiring ore patches; I've done that a few times.