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How to place mining drills where there is no ore?
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 9:59 pm
by 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.
Re: How to place mining drills where there is no ore?
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 10:00 pm
by Klonan
British_Petroleum wrote: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
Re: How to place mining drills where there is no ore?
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 11:32 pm
by British_Petroleum
-ah it's okay i'll just spawn some ores in with the console
Re: How to place mining drills where there is no ore?
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 11:36 pm
by Klonan
British_Petroleum wrote:-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
Re: How to place mining drills where there is no ore?
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 12:10 pm
by 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.
Re: How to place mining drills where there is no ore?
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 3:09 pm
by British_Petroleum
Yes those were my thoughts also
Re: How to place mining drills where there is no ore?
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2016 5:45 am
by safan
i think you can do it with cntrl + blueprint. That forces everything that can be placed.
Re: How to place mining drills where there is no ore?
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2016 9:25 am
by Neemys
safan wrote: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