Ironheart Prospector

Ironheart Prospector

Stop flying circles with a vanilla ore detector. The Ironheart Prospector is a survey radar that sweeps the ground and asteroids around you and marks every ore deposit it finds on your HUD: ore, depth below the surface and size.

Prospectors

[table] [tr][th]Prospector[/th][th]Large grid (1x1x2)[/th][th]Small grid (1x1x2)[/th][th]Glow[/th][/tr] [tr][td]Mk I[/td][td]1,250 m, 100 kW[/td][td]500 m, 20 kW[/td][td]amber[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Mk II[/td][td]2,500 m, 250 kW[/td][td]1,000 m, 50 kW[/td][td]cyan[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Mk III[/td][td]4,000 m, 600 kW[/td][td]2,000 m, 120 kW[/td][td]crimson[/td][/tr] [/table]

Using a Prospector

• Build it upright (it mounts on its bottom and the sides of its base), give it power and switch it on.
• The radar sweeps outwards, nearest ground first. Deposits appear as HUD markers as they are found, for example Gold - 34 m deep - Rich, coloured by ore.
• Markers are yours alone: they show for players with access to the scanner while they are within 1.5x its range, and are never saved or shared.
• Survey range: a shorter range finishes a sweep sooner and reads finer detail (4 m voxels up to 600 m, 8 m up to 2 km, 16 m beyond).
• Ore filter: Whitelist (mark only the ores you pick) or Blacklist (never mark them).
• Most markers, Show deposit markers, Auto rescan (every 5 minutes or after the scanner moved), and a Rescan button and toolbar action.
• The terminal lists the nearest deposits and the sweep's progress. Settings are kept in Custom Data, so they can be edited there too.
• The vanilla close-range ore markers still work as well.

Features

• Animated radar: the turret turns and the chrome dish nods while it surveys, then idles slowly
• A hex sensor array on the front whose cells light in turn while surveying, running lights round the deck, tier glow and status lamps
• Construction stages while you weld
• Large and small grid, own toolbar icon for every tier
• Light on performance: the survey runs on each player's own machine in small steps, the server only powers the block
• Multiplayer and dedicated server ready

This mod's 3D models were made with the help of AI tools.