[Request] Make PRAWN drill arm able to "drill" outcrops

[Sephiroth018]

It would be helpful if the PRAWN drill arm would also be able to "drill" outcrops and pick up the spawned ore, like it does for big resource nodes.

[BlueBeard1983]

You know you can use a regular arm, smash the outcrop, then pick up the ore? Yes, it's more involved than just drilling into it, but it's there.

[Sephiroth018]

I know that this is possible, it's just that picking ore up with the normal arm is a bit frustrating, as the arm only picks things up if they are targeted when the pick up animation reaches a certain point.

Also, I use the grapple arm most of the time as second arm and sometimes use it to reach outcrops on walls/ceilings and always have to change the drill arm before that.

[CONTRABARDUS]

I also don't use the default arms once I have the upgrades. So it's usually not an option for me anyway unless I want to switch out arms. There's a mod that makes that easier as you can do it from inside the prawn, but it's still a pain for this sort of use.

 

It's more trouble than it's worth to try to grab the item after breaking a node with the prawn's default arm anyway. Especially if it's on an incline or wall. The default arm is fine for picking up bare resources, but anything in a node tends to roll or float off and is a huge pain to catch in a prawn.

 

I usually just hop out of the prawn to break and grab small resource nodes, but it would be very nice if the drill arm could be used to drill and grab the materials from small nodes like it does with the big ones and store them in the prawn's inventory. I'm not sure why the devs didn't make that the way it works to begin with.

 

In fact, if anything it would make more sense. It seems to vacuum up the ores from the big nodes, so why not from the smaller ones, and even the exposed resources not in nodes? There doesn't need to be a use for the default arms once you've upgraded after all.

 

I would love to see this mod happen as well.

Edited April 10, 2018 by CONTRABARDUS