Ore Drills

Ore drills are a way to get infinite amount of ores but in a more interesting way than a laser drill. You need to find Ore Clusters in the world and build an ore drill on it. They consume quite a lot of power and produce a specific amount of ore/hour depending on the size of the drill, the cluster and the type of the ore.

Construction

Note: Ore drills can be built in any direction, this description explains it as building it above the cluster.

• Start with the rod. A drill rod may only be placed adjacent to an ore cluster or another drill rod, no ore cluster may be touched by 2 drill rod blocks at the same time. Place the first rod on the cluster and then add a few rods on it that do not touch the cluster.
• Build bottom of the frame, if the drill frame should be size 3x3, build a ring of Frames around the bottom rod block (the one connection the ore cluster). If the drill frame is bigger than 3x3 (like 5x5, 7x7...), built 1, 2, ... rings of Scaffold around the bottom rod block and then a ring of frame as the outer ring.
• extend the frame to the top. Build 4 pillars of frame blocks in the 4 corners as high as you want the drill to be (There is a limit in size). At the top row build a ring of frame blocks.
• chose the size of the rod/engine. extend the rod as high as you want it (there are a limit on rod/engine relation). Fill the inner blocks above the rod with engine blocks (only the inner blocks above the rod, leave out the side frame outer blocks). The top is also filled with engine blocks (the one with the frame ring).
• fill the side frame. Now fill the outer blocks of the side frames with scaffold blocks.
• place the controller. Now place the controller in the middle on top. The controller is the central tile entity, power and item outputs must go there.
• right click the controller to form. Now put a drill item inside the controller in the gui, close the gui and right click it again. Note: the small drill is for a mini drill with only a rod and a controller on top. The medium drill is for 1xN and 3x3xN drills (Inner size!, so 3x3 drill size = 5x5 frame). The large drill is for 5x5 and 7x7 drills. Which also concludes that the maximum frame size is 9x9.

Size Restrictions

Radius dependent

The radius is the radius of the block with the center.

• Radius 0: 1x1x1 drill, just rod with controller on top
• Radius 1: 1x1xN drill (3x3 frame)
• Radius 2: 3x3xN drill (5x5 frame)
• Radius 3: 5x5xN drill (7x7 frame)
• Radius 4: 7x7xN drill (9x9 frame)

Minimum sizes in height

• Radius 1: at least 1 engine and 2 rod blocks
• Radius 2: at least 2 engine and 3 rod blocks
• Radius 3&4: as 2, but at least same height as radius. (so at least 7x7x7 frame or 9x9x9 frame)

Calculations

Relevant variables

• effectiveMininglevel = [Level of Drill (steel=1,obsidian steel=2,carbon=3)] + [radius (0-4)] - [mining level of ore type]. If the effective mininglevel is <0, the drill will put out cobblestone.
• effectiveclustersize = Minimum of [Clustersize] and [Drillsize]. Clustersize is # of blocks in cluster. Drillsize is the height of the drill (rod+engine).

orePerHour = ([effectiveclustersize*3]+[effectiveclustersize * effectivemininglevel * 0.5]) * [CONFIG_MULTIPLIER]

RF/tick = 80 * [orePerHour] * [radius (1-4)] * [CONFIG_MULTIPLIER]