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Drilling doesn't generate ore.


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I had just landed on Duna, in a area that I know has ore. When I activated the drill, though it has a very low rate of mining, nothing was created to refuel. I've  also let it run for at least 20 minutes without getting any ore. With the mining rate it shows, it should be getting about 0.016 every two seconds.  Does anybody know what might be going on and or how to fix it

(The mods that I have installed are: Transfer Window Planner, Kerbal Engineer, and Kerbal Alarm Clock

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Welcome to the forum @Duncan.Howell. I've moved your issue to gameplay questions.

The drill-o-matic jr will only mine if the ore concentration underneath it is above 2.5%. It also seems you don't have enough cooling on your vessel as the drill is quite hot and will only reach peak efficiency when you keep the temperature down to 500k.

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I can't tell if your pod is crewed, but having an engineer (preferably a high-level one) can speed up mining by quite a bit  But as mentioned above, heat is your main problem (that 0.6% number means you'd be getting ~200x more work out of it with adequate cooling). 

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