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Can someone help me? I have been building a base on minimus lately, and all of a sudden my drills that I've attached say 0 thermal efficiency and refuse to mine. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Pic of my base: https://imgur.com/a/NuraP the mining rig has the 3 giant radiators on them.

Incase its hard to see I am using the bigger of the 2 stock drills, 4 each.

Mods in use:

PBS, USI containers (I forget the actual name) USI LS, Extra planetary launch pads, and dangit.

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Your resource window isn't open, so I can't tell if you have EC (looks like nighttime after all, and that's a usual culprit when drills don't work), but I'll assume you do. The other usual suspects are heat and ore concentration. When you say "all of a sudden" do you mean you were already drilling on that spot? If so, that rules out ore concentration (it has to be at least at a certain level for drilling to begin). Which leaves heat. If you were drilling and it stopped it may have overheated.

If it's none of those, than it's probably one of your mods. Hopefully, someone who knows them can help you.

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Are the drills sticking far enough into the ground?

Are you sure you've turned on surface harvester mode (not asteroid harvester)?

Do you have enough electricity?

Is the ore concentration at your site greater than zero?

Do the drills show the mining animation?

When you right click the drills, what does it say for the temperature?

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The drills are deep enough and the ore concentration should be above zero (I didn't launch a satellite since I was using hyper edit and mechjeb to drop everything on them Minimus flats. I was able to mine some ore for a little while but then it just randomly stopped after I delivered a module to the base. I am not sure about electricity (I was not at my ksp computer at first but now the game is loading so I'll find out in a few).

7 minutes ago, Cpt Kerbalkrunch said:

Your resource window isn't open, so I can't tell if you have EC (looks like nighttime after all, and that's a usual culprit when drills don't work), but I'll assume you do. The other usual suspects are heat and ore concentration. When you say "all of a sudden" do you mean you were already drilling on that spot? If so, that rules out ore concentration (it has to be at least at a certain level for drilling to begin). Which leaves heat. If you were drilling and it stopped it may have overheated.

If it's none of those, than it's probably one of your mods. Hopefully, someone who knows them can help you.

 

7 minutes ago, Aegolius13 said:

Are the drills sticking far enough into the ground?

Are you sure you've turned on surface harvester mode (not asteroid harvester)?

Do you have enough electricity?

Is the ore concentration at your site greater than zero?

Do the drills show the mining animation?

When you right click the drills, what does it say for the temperature?

 

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2 minutes ago, nascarlaser1 said:

The drills are deep enough and the ore concentration should be above zero (I didn't launch a satellite since I was using hyper edit and mechjeb to drop everything on them Minimus flats. I was able to mine some ore for a little while but then it just randomly stopped after I delivered a module to the base. I am not sure about electricity (I was not at my ksp computer at first but now the game is loading so I'll find out in a few).

 

 

In that case, it's most likely that you ran out of EC or you overheated.

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