Burner mining drill

Burner mining drill/infobox

Mines about 7 resources per single unit of coal used to fuel it. Covers and mines in a 2x2 area. Mines 0.28/s of copper, coal or iron and .3675/s of stone. Burner miners create a lot of pollution per resource.

Interface

1. Amount of Fuel in the Mining Drill
2. Depletion of 1 Unit of Fuel
3. Progress of Mining
4. Product

Self-Sustaining Coal Mines

Both methods require no electricity.

Method 1

Two burner mining drills can refuel each other when placed next to each other on a coal deposit as long as they're facing each other. Each drill fuels the other and coal gradually accumulates in their Storage/Stacks, so you have effectively a storage of 100 coal (2 stack, 50 coal, one in each burner miner, together 100). You can do this also for 4 or any other even number of miners.

File:Early coal mining 1.jpg

Method 2

This method can be used for any number of burner mining drills in a coal deposit. Place a burner mining drill, then place at least three Transport belts from the output in a mirrored "L" like shape so that the third belt has a gap between it and the miner. Fill the gap with a Burner inserter in a way that the inserter can insert coal to the miner.

File:Early coal mining 3.jpg

History

• 0.8.1:
  • Mining drill now ignores resources that can't be mined because of the higher hardness.

• 0.8.0:
  • Player starts with one burner mining drill and one furnace in the freeplay.
  • Increased mining speed of burner mining drill.

• 0.7.3:
  • Shows area of effect when highlighted.
  • Mining drill evenly mines from every tile in it's area.

• 0.7.0:
  • Added support for modules to Electric mining drills.
  • Mining drills deactivate when out of resources.

• 0.5.1:
  • Show output arrows when alt mode is on.

• 0.5.0:
  • New Graphics.

• 0.2.0:
  • Shows count of available resources.

• 0.1.0:
  • Introduced

See also

• Mining drills
• Coal