How to place mining drills where there is no ore?

[British_Petroleum]

Hi guys,

Is there some easy way of placing a mining drill where there isn't any ore? I want to make a large blueprint of mining drills but there is no ore patch large enough for me to place the mining drills where i want them.

[Klonan]

Hi guys,

Is there some easy way of placing a mining drill where there isn't any ore? I want to make a large blueprint of mining drills but there is no ore patch large enough for me to place the mining drills where i want them.

Nope, sorry

[British_Petroleum]

-ah it's okay i'll just spawn some ores in with the console

[Klonan]

-ah it's okay i'll just spawn some ores in with the console

Yep, something like this

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/c local p = game.local_player local s = p.surface local pp = p.position for x=-50,50 do for y=-50,50 do s.create_entity{name = "iron-ore", amount = 10, position = {pp.x+x, pp.y+y}} end end

That will make a 100x100 square centered around you

[bobucles]

It would be nice to force down a drill for the sake of building blueprints. Useless drills aren't exactly a player hazard by the time players have blueprints. Even if only a ghost drill can be placed that should be enough to make a bp.

[British_Petroleum]

Yes those were my thoughts also

[safan]

i think you can do it with cntrl + blueprint. That forces everything that can be placed.

[Neemys]

i think you can do it with cntrl + blueprint. That forces everything that can be placed.

no even with CTRL+ blueprint, the drill ghost isn't placed where there is no ore