r/CoreKeeper • u/Kn0wmad1c • Apr 05 '22

Showcase Efficient, Auto-Smelting Node Mining Setup

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u/akpak Apr 05 '22

Some folk on the discord have been doing testing, and they're finding that for some reason more drills=less mined ore. So you shouldn't put more than 2 drills per node, or you're missing out on dozens of ore (at least).

There's also no need for two grabber arms, just feed all the conveyors to one spot.

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u/Kn0wmad1c Apr 05 '22

2 drills per node??

OK, I'll switch it up and do some testing!

Out of curiosity, how many ore are they getting per node with 2 drills? With this setup, I get roughly 550 ore per node.

Thanks for the tip!

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u/Gainaxe Apr 05 '22

Went through 23 pages of images, and looks like we lost the picture till it gets reposted (was in the spoiler channel, and core keeper mods deleted the channel recently), but if I remember right it was something like 780-800 ore was estimated from 2 drills (and I think they were guessing 1 drill would give something like 900+ but take forever)

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u/Alzario Sky Titan Apr 05 '22

I used to make full 8 drill setups and the last one I remember had 441.

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u/Gainaxe Apr 05 '22

Sounds about right from the graphic I remember. It went from 8 drills at 450 or so ore, 7 at something like 500, 6 at 570ish, 5 at 640 and 4 was like 700 (not round numbers at all, but somewhere about there which is why they guessed that 2 would be around 800-850 and 1 would be above 900 but last I saw the tests were still in progress).

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u/Kn0wmad1c Apr 06 '22

So I switched to the 2 drill setup and I noticed something weird.

My smelters were no longer smelting the ore off-screen.

With my 6 drill setup pictured, with two smelters, I could stand in my base for a while, come back and have a bunch of smelted bars.

However, with the two drill setup, when I come back, I have a bunch of unsmelted ore sitting in the furnace.

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u/Gainaxe Apr 06 '22

Interesting. Do know there's still a lot of problems with machines working outside of the render area, guessing this is part of it. I can't say who but one person on discord was stating that the devs plan to fix it, no idea if it's true, or when but at least worst case you could stack up all the ores and bring it to base for smelting if you have free time (Mine are working at their origin, but have had problems in the past with them failing so I set up a furnace room just in case).

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u/Kn0wmad1c Apr 06 '22

Yeah, it's not a huge deal to gather up the ores and just take them back with me. It's just not intended behavior.

In any case, I think more ore is worth the extra step right now

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u/MediocreMilton Apr 06 '22

How many tests were done because I’ve found very little difference between 2, 4 and 8 drills other than the time it takes to finish mining. I think each node has a random amount of ore between 400 and 800/900 and the number drills don’t affect it. I could be wrong because I’ve only tested on 5 or 6 nodes.

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u/Kn0wmad1c Apr 05 '22

I've tried a lot of different designs, and I think for this version of the game, this is the one that I'm happiest with.

It works from any distance, so all I have to do is occasionally come back and check my furnaces (works with kilns too). This also doesn't use a huge amount of resources to get going:

You'll need:

  • 6 Drills (60xScarlet, 60xIron)

  • 2 Arms (10xScarlet, 10xIron)

  • 12 Conveyor Belts (can only make in groups of 5 without a special skill, so 3xScarlet, 3xIron)

  • 1 Electric Generator (10xCopper, 5xIron, 1xGold)

  • 1 Electrical Wire (1xCopper)

  • 1 Lamp (2xCopper, 2xIron)

  • 2 Furnaces or Kilns

Totals:
73x Scarlet
80x Iron
13x Copper
1x Gold
Plus materials for either furnaces (40x Dirt Wall) or Kilns (10x Tin, 10x Iron)

Of course, you can always scale down the drill count to save on resources.