salvage beam

Something i thought would be a huge improvement to designing salvage/mining vessels is applying the acid damage model to salvage beams, so they harvest not just the block theyre pointed at but the blocks around it. Then we dont need to use a waffleboard pattern to make sure we're mining...

This is the first in a soon-to-be series of various miners by the illustrious Porex Corporation. The POREX_MINER_1-OHU (Overhaul Update) is an upgraded version of my more rudimentary design of my very first mining ship the POREX_MINER_1. It remains consistent with my favoured (hallway...

As it is, looting the clouds of random stuff that drop from pirates is tedious, and salvaging overheating ships produces nothing of particular value. At this point the 'salvage' beam is mostly used as a 'mining beam' as a result. So here comes an idea to make this aspect of play a little more...

How much rage will this get me? Please note that this is a random idea and I don't have anything set in stone. Lets say you have a salvage group of more than twenty blocks(20 is the point where it mines a block per tick, any more modules added on are useless). When shot at an entity with less...

The workers of Chaos Inc were getting tired of going out mining day after day, and even with the less than advanced technology they had, they managed to begin assembling fleets that they could remotely control. The very first ship they designed was a very small salvage ship, however, it was not...

for the past few days for some reason when i use the salvage beam on any of my ships(mothership or mining drones) the beams will gather the basic minerals of what i am mining, i.e. dirt, sand, whatever the plant/asteroid is made of, but will not gather any of the ores. i have the cargo blocks...