Mining In a Line

[PrimeEagle]

I know the mining radius of miners can be adjusted, but can anyone think of a way to make a miner mine in a line in a single direction? For example, the miner mines the tile underneath it plus several tiles in a line in one direction only.

[PFQNiet]

Unfortunately not, the mining radius is always a square.

[robot256]

If you really wanted, you could make invisible companion drills that your mod places next to the center drill automatically. The effective zone would be the sum of the squares then. The side drills could have their result item placement vectors set to output on the center drill's belt, and they all have their speed cut in 1/3. (The tooltip for the center drill would only show its 1/3).

[PrimeEagle]

If you really wanted, you could make invisible companion drills that your mod places next to the center drill automatically. The effective zone would be the sum of the squares then. The side drills could have their result item placement vectors set to output on the center drill's belt, and they all have their speed cut in 1/3. (The tooltip for the center drill would only show its 1/3).

You can have a drill output somewhere not adjacent to itself?

[robot256]

I don't know for sure. It would be worth trying, the docs don't mention a limit but there might be one anyways.

[Silari]

Huh turns out you totally can put the vector outside the nominal bounds of the miner. Not sure if there's a limit, but you could certainly do the multiple miners in a row trick.

[PrimeEagle]

That's great, thanks!