[QoL] Seismic Surveying

Frustrated with finding that Cobalt patch on Earthlike! Worry not science is here to alleviate your frustration! Clamp a thumper to the ground and with our advanced sensors you can detect far away ore spots. Designed to allow you to discover ore nodes on planets similar to the way Radio Spectrometry works.

Seismic Survey

How to use: Build the Seismic Surveyor block. Add the Scan action to your cockpits toolbar from the block. Attach block to planet (does not work on asteroids) - MUST be locked! Press scan to update the map. Add the Seismic Wide Survey LCD Script (not programming block script) to any LCD screen. The screen will display all discovered ore nodes in the area You use the Rotate actions (Right 5, Right 45, Left 5, Left 45) to rotate the scan line on the Wide Survey Screen, any nodes inside the marked area will be highlighted and a detailed readout will be available on the Seismic Detailed Scan. For an ore to be present, you need to see spikes in the graph at all 3 points in the key for that particular ore.

Protip: You can hide scanners from the LCD screen by turning them off.

Mod Extensions

Modders! If you want to create your own Thumper block you can! Add the following XML to the appropriate CubeBlock Definition to enable this script with the specific block. Block must be a Landing Gear

            <ModExtensions>
              <ModComponents>
                <GameLogicComponent Name="SeismicThumperComponent" /> <!-- adds the component to the block -->
              </ModComponents>
              <Group Name="SeismicThumper">
                <!-- Default is 3000 for large grid and 2000 for small-->
                <Decimal Name="Range" Value="2000" />
                <!-- Higher is better-->
                <Decimal Name="Resolution" Value="100" />
              </Group>
            </ModExtensions>

Special thanks to Chipstix213 for the model! Do not forget to thumbs up his mod as well!

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