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06-25-2020, 02:14 AM
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I like mining, but I only like to do it as a borg and it bothers me that I can't take notes on different materials and ores (miraclium in particular) without being a human. By extension, being able to play with the nano crucible or other matsci machines would also be wonderful.
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(06-25-2020, 02:14 AM)Kamikaze Mongoose Wrote: I like mining, but I only like to do it as a borg and it bothers me that I can't take notes on different materials and ores (miraclium in particular) without being a human. By extension, being able to play with the nano crucible or other matsci machines would also be wonderful.
I'd love to be a construction worker and ask borgs that are interested in helping me - to create some wonderful gold-tiles or whatnot.
If that change is necessary to make something like this possible - I see no reason why that would not be a great Quality of Life improvement.
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I can't check right this second if it does already, but we could have the Nano Crucible (or whatever it's called, the thing where you make alloys) accept materials via crate drag-and-drop like most of the other machines do?
We could also do the "drag-and-drop to start stuffing it full of a pile of ore on the ground".
I'm not a huge fan of the repeated code around the various ore/ingot-accepting machines and the ways they are loaded, seems like a reasonable thing to standardize (i.e. accept drag-and-drop and loading from crates), which would also allow cyborgs to do it.
No objection to adding a material analyzer to the mining cyborg's tools.
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If we could do the crate thing with the nano crucible as well as the nano fab, I would be highly appreciative. I'm not sure if it already is, I'm under the impression it's not. I'll test it in a second.