RELEASED Mining Gun 1.0.1

TheArmchairExplorer submitted a new mod:

Mining Gun - It's a way for miners to turn solid rock into lots of small bits of rock.

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How do you craft it?

 

At an anvil (or similar later workstations), for 20 iron bars and 500 pixels. Look for the Wad Gun.

 

Thanks

 

You're welcome. Let me know how it works for you - while I don't intend to add many (if any) new functions to this device, refinements are possible.

 

Cant stop the rock!

 

True, true - but you can smelt it.

 

Curses!

 

TheArmchairExplorer updated Mining Gun with a new update entry:

Move to activeItem format, add mining of background tiles

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TheArmchairExplorer updated Mining Gun with a new update entry:

The Bigger Brother

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TheArmchairExplorer updated Mining Gun with a new update entry:

1.0 release

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How do I actually make this in 1.0? It's not in the anvil...

 

This could really do with some screenshots

 

Good question: You'll find it in the foraging table. Right-mouse to mine the background, left-mouse to mine the foreground; and the explosion radius is 7 pixels for the original and 15 for the mk. II gun. Right now, the background mining occurs when the projectlie runs out of time to live or hits a foreground object. I do have it in mind to make it more targeted, but that's going to take better API documentation before I get to grips with Lua coding. (Hint, hint, pretty-please-with-sugar-on-it, devs.)

I've added a screenshot to the Steam Workshop release - which is coming soon - but it really is brutally simple.

If you have other questions, or ideas, feedback, or suggestions, they're all welcome.

 

Can i destroy the ancient teleporters on lush planets? (after i unlock the teleporter to the outpost that is)

 

That depends on how those objects are set up: These guns create an explosion with a high harvest value, but some tiles and objects are protected from mining. (If you spawn one and fire it off in the tutorial mission, then you'll see what I mean - there's no effect on most of the map.)

 

TheArmchairExplorer updated Mining Gun with a new update entry:

The Cannon Is Back

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what's the item id?