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Mining Drill

Mk I static drill for hardness-1 deposits: 25 t/h at standard purity and 10 W while extracting.

Stats: Built on Mineral sites · Power in -10 W · Stockpile 2,000 (mixed)

How to obtain: The recipe unlocks when you complete Helios, Cargo Pod Run. Requires the Basic Drone Operations research (Terraform Index 180,000). Fabricate a Mining Drill Kit on a Fabricator: 3× Machine Frame, 1× Control Unit, 1× Circuit Panel, 2 t Water. Build it on a mineral site with a Pioneer’s Constructor.

Access: self / get_component(id) · Like every component, exposes .id and .name.

Methods

Section titled “Methods”

.drill_rate()

Section titled “.drill_rate()”

Mineral extraction rate in t/h right now: the full rate while drilling, and 0 whenever the drill is powered off, has no deposit under it, cannot cut the deposit’s hardness, or its stockpile is full. Adjusted for site purity and drill tier.

Returns: Number (t/h)

.output

Section titled “.output”

PickupOutputSlot exposing the Drill’s stockpile through count(), capacity(), and stacks(). A physically present Rover or Pioneer pulls through its own input; a drone flies with go_to_drill() and loads with cargo.load(). The Drill has no direct item-routing methods.

Returns: PickupOutputSlot

Command mailbox

Section titled “Command mailbox”

peek_command() · next_command() · command_count() · clear_commands() (SELF ONLY): see Script Commands.

See also

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