Suggestion: MKII Miner.

Quote from Kane Hart

So my suggestion btw would make a wonderful plugin even if anyone is up to it till such a thing does ever get decided and added would be the following:
Miner MKII is pretty much just like the MK1 but accepts Lapertron Crystal.
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PS: If your willing make a mod/plugin out of this please don't forget smp <3

I second this idea. It's quite annoying having to take my mobile power setup, lay the cable, charge it just to run a few miners and then spend time packing it back up.

How would this device compare to a BC quarry? How would it be different?

opened it suspecting smt OP, but just laps for miners are ok with me, +1
about quarry q: because it's faster and not ruining the landscape?

Quarries take 4 hours to acquire mass amounts of raw material, ore included.

Miners take a short period of time to just acquire ore.

Defo support! Only reason I don't use miners is because there such a hassle to move around! Crystals in miners would be sooo much easier!

I would like the ability to craft an upgraded OV Scanner to a third tier that sucks even more power for a much larger area personally.

but the ability to use Lapotron's inside a Miner is welcome as well.

How about this 'advanced' miner supports 512 eU/T and the advanced scanner upgrade that might actually consumer more than 128eU/t to run to justify that?

I know going from 2-3 cable types and 2 TFs + an MFS unit down to just one cable type and an MFS unit would be a MASSIVE upgrade for me.

My deal is I just like to be able to take my systems and organize them better, I like placing a single block and letting it run the work, hence why I prefer BC Quarries myself. So a more advanced, higher power usage Miner would be awesome.

I wonder if the miner could hold on to drills and 'scanners' if said items were fully charged/discharged? It would be absolutely lovely to stack up miners in my inventory that had that; or even if I couldn't stack miners hold them but no longer had to carry around drill and scanner.

Would a MinerFSU be nice? (Basically, cobine Miner and MFSU, get miner which works with lapos, 0% chance of dropping advanced machine block :D)

Wait wait that makes me think, what about building a "Mobile Mining Platform" which is a Miner + Drill + Scanner + other crap that can be charged like a Battery and then placed somewhere and mines until its out of energy?

Alblaka, the issue is that we are worried about a wrench failure. I also find it quite annoying to move all my miners around after they have finished along with all the blocks that go along with it. Allowing a lapatron and/or crystal to be used would greatly improve convenience, and in my opinion, not hurt balance at all.

Quote from Alblaka

I don't see why it's so hard to move three blocks around :O

Considering that a fully upgraded miner eats more than the entire capacity of an MFE, it's more like 6 blocks, once you use an MFSU and associated transformers.
MFSU
MV transformer
LV transformer
miner
chest
wires maybe

Mess up any of that and KAPOW something expensive passes into the cold dark night.

First of all, something that eats 24 EU/t shouldn't be running on LV. That's insane. Let it use MV at least.
Lapotrons would be ideal.
I realize you probably want to encourage people to use the smaller, slower miner modes by making OV/DDrill operation power intensive, but allowing established players to use more convenient power options wouldn't hurt.

>> "First of all, something that eats 24 EU/t shouldn't be running on LV."

Uhhh....what? Isn't LV anything up to 32 EU/t....and isn't 24 less than 32? That's like saying your vacuum cleaner should be using your clothes-dryer outlet just because it uses 80% of the amps allotted for the other outlets -- ridiculous and absurd!

Increasing the square range of the miner and allowing configuration on-the-fly (and not the cfg file) of what to pick up would be awesome. Why is the cfg file not good enough? Well, imagine a miner going down and hitting an abandoned mine, no reason to let all that plank/fence/etc. go to waste right...but you might not want the miner to ALWAYS collect that stuff.

Also, as I may have stated already, it would be nice to put those foam pellets in the piping slot and take out the drill to cause the miner to backfill foam in the area it just mined. I'm not sure 100% on how MC renders blocks, but I would imagine that a block face that is against another solid will make MC not place it into the texture list...which could possibly speed up the chunk modeling if all those holes were filled in with solids.

Quote from Alblaka

I don't see why it's so hard to move three blocks around :O

Sadly the high cost of a Miner running always means its a bit more than 3 blocks.