Oh, huh! Another modder said that it'd been hard coded but they must've been wrong about that. Thanks for letting me know! :)

Hey DrTinyFace. I just checked on this. It's still working and moddable. The reason the range is so short in the game is that when you increase the range it significantly increases the detection time and takes up a lot of your CPU resources. This mod allows you to increase it to a very large range that will cause even modern CPUs to chug a little. If you're going to use maximum settings I recommend only having one ore detector active and you may have to give it a long time to detect things. Really the only time I use 5km is when I'm asteroid hopping to search for resources. That way there's nothing in range except the asteroid so the scan is reasonably quick and it's usually in range after a jump. If you are anywhere near a planet I would shorten it to < 1 km

Hey, just letting you know that your mod (along with every other ore detector mod ever made) no longer works, Keen patched the game so that the detection distance is hard coded into all vanilla and modded ore detectors now :(

omg bro, i literally increased a couple of numbers in a file. It's not controversial. You have chosen a good name though. I'm drinking a whiskey in your honor!

Another crying, lazy kid make a mod so all go easy.

Alternativly you can use Azimuths ore detectors, they wont kill your PC and they scan at an acceptable level. just dont use the (space only) detectors on planets.

Yes thank you, I realized this almost as soon as I pressed the return button to post the message (having a thick day) but thank you so much for replying :)

@Bolisaris
I feel like this probably changes the range of the vanilla one, not add a new block.
It could have been active this whole time without you noticing.

I have just re-added this mod to increase range of detector, but it does not seem to appear in the game. I have tried removing any other ore detector mod and have placed this at the top but only the vanilla ore detector appears. Does this require a new game restart for the detector to appear.

Weirdly this only works the first time you enter a ship and then never displays ore again until the game is restarted

Yeah I agree seems to work now, must be something Keen did with the last update, keep the goods work up Twinkie.

Hey, it's always worked as advertised. I think my 'puter just got spazzed-out until I restarted SE. No problems since. Kudos for your quick responses and all the extra work you put into this mod! :)

I believe the ore detector works as a sort of background scanning process. Increasing the range as much as this mod does will likely increase that scanning time a LOT. It could be that it's not able to keep up with you, or that it's getting too slow to continue working.

I did the absolute minimum testing of this mod - I loaded it up, found some ore, checked the distance, nodded confidently, and posted it to the workshop. My world only had a few ships and one big station in it. All of which are pretty optimized structures running on my somewhat aged but otherwise beastly gaming PC. So...your mileage may vary. Having said that, the mod is basically changing two numbers. It shouldn't take much for you guys to adjust it any way you see fit.

Just don't use my thumbnail. I worked really hard on that for at least 10 minutes, which means I spent twice as long on it as I did the mod :P

Belay that message! It's working again for me. Go figure. (I exited SE, then restarted it.)

Yeah, it's no longer showing ores for me either. @CptTwinkie, as simple as your mod appears to be, I think the latest SE bug fix broke it. Bummer.

My mod is identical to the game's definition in every respect except for the following lines:
<MaximumRange>5000</MaximumRange>
<MaximumRange>500</MaximumRange>

No I did not mean that, what I meant was there was no other mod running EXCEPT that one mod which would not really interfere with ore detection as such, I was referring to looking at your own mod to see if that could effect ore detection in any way, I am not saying that I am blaming your mod just trying to find why detection is being stopped. Sorry for the confusion.

You want me to take a look at another mod that interferes with mine? That's more than unproductive. I suggest you contact the author of the other mod and ask why it is interfering with ore detectors.

Ore is definitely NOT being detected on my machine, the only other mod I am using is uranium on planets, when I deselect this mod and try the game again ore is detected as soon as I enable the mod ore is not detected, can you take a look at it please.

Thanks I will take a closer look at my set-up

I just tested it in a new world and it works fine. Check that you've set the range on your detectors and that you're not using another mod that can interfere with the ore detector configuration.

Ore not being detected all of a sudden, if I remove the mod the ore detection is back, can you take a look at it as I use the mod a lot and would hate to lose it.

@chrisjordan15, you increased the sliders on the ore detectors right?

This has been tested in multiple worlds and I mean it's a really simple mod.

doesnt seem to be working for me

I don't know man. Adjust the slider to whatever seems good for you.

What the heck? When were ore detectors ever able to detect up to 5km? That's an insane distance.