@Toaster Thanks! Yes, but it will take a little effort. You will have to add the modded ores into my mod's .sbc files. If you need to share the mod you have my permission to re-upload it unlisted. If you are unsure how to do that, you can message me in Discord (Link in the button ^) and I can point you in the right direction.

Love this mod! Is there a way I can add modded ores in so they also get compacted? Stargate ores are what I am curious about and Deuterium

@Zylian3907 I haven't updated it in a while, but I still actively keep tabs on it. I just looked up the mod and it seems like a lot of people have issues with it and other mods. The author mentions that modders can make their own inventory requests using a custom API call. I'll be honest, I don't have the time to dig into that to make this mod compatible, but if you want to dink around with it to see if you can get it to work, you have my permission to re-upload an unlisted version of my mod with the tweaks :3

I don't know if this mod is still being updated, but I've noticed the Ore Compactor refuses to work when the Easy Inventory Management mod is installed. Is it possible to fix this or are they just completely incompatible?

@RuschGaming.TV Yeah! There is another production block called the 'Ore Mill', that will uncompressed the ores back into their normal state. The compressed ores will smelt directly though, the Ore Mill was mainly for mod compatibility.

Hey @wonzy Is there a way decompress the ores that are compressed?

@AlexMoi Oh no! I wounder if the recent update changed something, because that definitely didn't happen before! Can I DM you to get more details?

Major bug, I've made a mining ship and I had a little ice in my pocket and put it in the ship, it got compacted and I didn't know. When I docked to my base that was attached to the ore mill. (didn't get any other minerals) It duped the ice again, and again, and again, and again. It turned less than a hundred into waaaaaaaaay too much. I had ice everywhere. Filled up everything. I've uninstalled the mod because it just kept doing that.
It kept making compacted ice but then un-compacted it then compacted it over and over.

@Jtaa and I resolved this issue :]

Hello, I downloaded the mod TBH - Compressed Ores but I don't get the compactor block.

Thanks for a great mod and I second Bejasc’s crushed ore idea.

@Wonzy would be awesome to see!
Will keep an eye on your Discord for any streams or updates

@Bejasc That is a great idea! I may create a separate mod that adds that feature, but is compatible with my other mods as well, so people can pick and choose what they want to use.

I'd love to see a version of the Ore Mill that crushes ore, giving "Crushed Iron", "Crushed Cobalt" etc, that can be refined for an increased yield.

I know Industrial Overhaul has this, but IO goes too far from vanilla - too complex/too many other ores.

Something that worked like this for vanilla ores would be amazing.

Pas de soucis et merci :D

oui mais j ai trouver d ou ca venais je n' avais pas accee de power donc desole ton mod fonctionne tres bien

@erik Bonjour! Je ne parle qu'anglais mais j'utilise un traducteur. Lorsque vous placez deux compacteurs sur la même grille, ils arrêtent complètement de fonctionner ?

bonjour j ai un souci avec le compactor je ne peut pas en mettre plus de 2 sinon les compactor ne fonctionne pas

i want a small block ore mill

@LawrenceindaSky It will run with that mod in use but it will only partially work. The mod will work for the vanilla ores, but not the new ones. If that mod changes the yield value of the vanilla ores, you will want to use the Ore Mill block before smelting the compressed ore to get the alternate values.

@infra Industrial Overhaul is also not supported, same deal as this one ^


Unfortunately the way things are in Space Engineers, every item has to be manually defined. So any new ore that a mod adds, I would have to make a definition for it in my mod, including the model, icons, etc. I need to find the time to make compatibility packs for some of these other mods.

Is the mod supporting Better Stone by any chance?

And i dont know if industreal overhaul is compatable. so i use ore mill just for sanitys sake

i have like,1000 mods

well,the preticular deign of my ship prevents expanding

@infra Well, there are other mods I am working on that are ahead of this one. I work on these for free, in my spare time, so I really can't give you a time frame on this.

Also, I am confused on your application of this. If you already have a large grid ship, why not just place the Ore Mill on it? You can't be saving that much space if you are attaching grids together for a work around. Furthermore, what mods are you running that make you need the Ore Mill to begin with? It is really only there for mod compatibility, as the compressed ores can be refined directly as is.

stil wating for small ore mill...i have a large grid ship but the size is limated and i have found a trick to put small blocks on large grid with a landing gear. i need it soon

@raven.god Yes, they weigh twice as much as their regular counter parts, but they have half the volume. So you will be able to essentially store double the amount of ore you can normally carry, at the cost of weighing twice as much. Less important in space, but in atmosphere is can be challenging!

Are compressed ores heavyier?

sigh... well,good luck.

I haven't had much time to mod lately, and when I have I have been working on some other projects. For the Ore Mill speed, you can edit the .SBC locally on your end and can crank it up to whatever you want. For the small grid version that will probably take a long time on my end.

(during delay i have been subbed the whole time

any luck?

Ahh gotcha okay. I will throw the idea into the pipeline. My modding has slowed down some due to other projects, but I am still around and taking ideas/bugs reports/etc :)

oops i want a bigger faster versuion and a small grid i ment to say that oops

The Ore Mill is only a large grid block. Did you mean you want a bigger version of it?

i want a large block ore mill

@Calmaria Thank you! And for sure! Testers are always welcome. I do have a discord for tracking bugs, feature requests, and progress updates if you are interested. Invite link is embedded into the Discord logo above :3

Congratulations from a long time married man!

I would be glad to help with testing, and using the new mod when it comes out.

@Calmaria Indeed! It also really helps reducing the size of small grid mining ships, since you don't have to cram a ton of cargo containers on it. The next production mod, Dense Ores (Adds a similar compression flow to smelted ingots for ease of transport) is still in development! My personal life has been rather hectic lately, I got MARRIED last weekend, but it is starting to calm down and I will be able to work more on updating my mods and working on new ones!

@KagedDeamon I am still intending on creating a smaller small grid compactor! It is a really great idea, especially with the Automations update. It will for sure help make compact mining drones!

Very nice.. This will add a good step in my gathering loop ;)

A super small compactor could be doable! I'll play around with it and see what I come up with :3

Would it be possible to make a smaller version of the small that as a trade off in size, it takes longer to compress and does not compress as well as the larger version? I have a small grid miner that is about the size of the compactor itself and would like a compactor for it but my main ship's hangar is well, designed AROUND the small miner....

Lovely! Great work!

AtomicWorld I added comparability to the IO Crusher. Gives you the crushed ore variant.

That's not how that works. Iron ore to iron ingots by default is 70% mass. You cannot exceed 100% mass conversion, which can be reached for iron ore with only 3 upgrade points having yield modules if I recall correctly. Additional yield modules, when processing iron ore, will have no effect at all. The same is true of silicon which has the same conversion rate as iron, and I think scrap metal caps out at two points but it's been a while since I checked the math.

There are no ores that convert at full efficiency. The refinery has a 100% material efficiency rate by default, but that's only for purposes of comparison with the basic refinery which has 70% efficiency. Which is to say, it destroys 30% more mass during conversion than the full refinery does.

yield modules are technically fine for Iron ore I don't know what you mean. If a refiner is set to give you 1 ingot for 1 ore and you have a yield that gives you 1.1 for 1 ore then you could get a free ingot every 10 ore. the reason I think some people have issues is that the yield on the refiner they are using does that for the compressed ore and provides them 2.1 instead of 2 when they go directly to a refiner with yield modules. Mathematically it makes sense that it could be an issue. But I'm not an expert in ore refinery so I could be wrong.

Thx Pepper, i'll try that!

It shouldn't be able to do that without some kind of plug-in. The game doesn't allow for a greater mass output than the input in refinery type blocks - which is why yield modules aren't very useful on say, iron ore.

I have mine Here but I removed the direct smelt overall. But upped the compression x4. The problem with the direct smelt is people report the ability to cycle it to get free ore. I think it has something to do with yield upgrades. What I think I might add to my mod is add the direct smelt option to the crusher so there are more reasons to have those.