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I started testing current 0.17 beta version and I wanted to try new Campaign. I played the first one - "Introduction". I noticed that Burner mining drill has somewhat unexpected behavior for me.

I got to the point, where I needed to mine coal using burner drill. So I crafted one, built, fueled it up with solid fuel and let run. As I'm used to, I did ctrl+click to get items without GUI (like you can obtain from furnace or assembler). I obtained solid fuel (from fuel slot) instead of mined coal (from production slot). Also, when I tried to obtain coal within the GUI, I couldn't get it to my inventory by any way (drag, click). The only way to mine it was through chest or standing in output place of a miner and pick it up from ground (default key F).

I'd expect to pick up mined items with ctrl+click or by dragging via GUI. I also built furnace and it's behavior is OK - on ctrl+click I obtained produced items, fuel stayed in place. I attached save game, so you can skip like first thirty seconds of campaign .

BTW, the graphic and GUI improvements are amazing, I like it!
Pavel

Hello, thanks for the report.
Drills don't mine into their inventory, but push items they mine onto tile in front of them (exact tile is indicated by yellow arrow when you hover mouse over the drill).

Ctrl+click to take out fuel is useful for early game chaining of coal drills in a loop, so they mine into each others fuel slot instead of chest for example, and ctrl+click allows to quickly take out coal for use in other machines.

Oh I see it now. it is exactly the same as with electric miner, you can't directly take items from it. My bad. Anyway, could it be due to the GUI change that I was convinced that I can take things from miner directly? Maybe it could be more obvious that it is only visualization of a product and not a slot for items that could be taken to inventory? See the thing is that I played Factorio for 156 hours now and I still convinced myself it is broken and it should work differently. (Maybe it was my bug-hunt fewer, who knows?). Also I usually played in a not so effective ways (i learned about burner drill mining circles quite recently). And maybe I missed in the tutorial info, that burner works by pushing the items in front of them. What do you think about this misunderstanding?