That is how i do it, with sorters ;)

Still works at the time of this post. Really cuts down on weight and volume allowing the player the mine the whole asteriod vein(s) in one trip.


Small caveat: I've noticed that if this block is linked to a conveyor system containing ice, the ice may also be compressed. To avoid this either toggle the block off before returning to your base, or use a conveyor sorter to blacklist ice so that the ice itself isn't compressed.

A generic sorter will be needed at the 'output' end of the compressor block as well to prevent ice from entering the compressor from the other side if both conveyor ports are used. Otherwise the ice has to go through a refinery before it can be used by a O2/H2 generator. Definitely a great mod though.

Don*t know if youre still active. But i started playing Space engineers again and found out that the mod is crushing the game i wanted to ask if the is any chance you fix that or if there are any other mods which do the same? (its no problem if not, just have to get used to the weight then^^)

Ganjavinchi - i would need to know how to somehow script that in, I dont know how to do that.
Zymm - I dont want to open the can of worms of adding mod mats for every possible request out there lol.
NotMat - Its to maintain usability with the vanilla gens and any other mods that use ice.

Can a change be made to make compressed ice usable in generators? The refining process seems like an unnecessary extra step.

How difficult would it be to add deuterium? Thanks

Is it possible to get an update to add an option whether or not to compress ice as well :)?

=)

Nice idea :) That reminds me of Eve onlines Roarqual ;) compressed ore :D

yeah put the compressed ice through refineries to decompress - i finally found a way to compress and process ice back at base without causing much fuss with vanilla game or the hydrogen reactors mod.

I'm not complaining because I love this mod but just a heads up compressed ice doesn't work in the generators. :) Thank you again for the update!

ICE!!!!! AMAZING :)

"Engage!"

the compressor ? yes in theory you could get more compressed ore than you mined lol

Does uprade Modules have any effect on this block?

stone updated

yes i used my own mods in game and noticed i need to update the stone to gravel since keen changed this in the survival overhaul

Sry for Necroing here. I installed the mod it works great.
But i found a "not activated feature" the compressed Stone dont give Iron,Silicon and nickel.
Do you plan to update this or leave it be?

I request adding a DEcompressor, too. Or better yet, a decompression mode to the compressor so we can build one to compress it, and another with some sorters to decompress quantities of ore on demand. Reason: non-vanilla refineries, etc, don't work with the compressed ore. Also request that it work on ice.

No Idea

Is there a way to add a config file to this, so we can set the ores to a percentage of the original total? EX: setCompression=.75 would make ores 75% lighter.
I ask because i would like some compression, like for me around 30%.

mine works :P

For some reason, I cannot get the Ore Compressor to work. It doesn't accept any input.

think about what you are asking xD

I hate to be a dick, but is there any way you can make a version that gives the compressed ores mass?

i have used it before, i was a cool mod i admit.

ok, not a problem. so far i haven't had any issues but thats mainly cause i think something is keeping the better stone ores from spawning, lol. i'm just gonna drop it and stick with what i got.

nope, i probably wont support it either to much work.

curious if anyone knows if this wil work with the better stone mod or not, i like it for imersion but i also really like to be able to compress my ores.

awesome and yeah i cant do much with mod refineries unless those refineries use the vanilla blueprints.

yeah, i actually managed to find it after a bit of digging myself, but thanks a lot, i know it will probably help others.

Just reworked my big refinery ship to use regular refineries since the modded refineries i were using aren't compatible. just had a time getting TIM to regulate the refineries the way i want. :)

Basically all the typeID's are the same as vanilla but they start with "qcmore"

il get the typeID for you


<PhysicalItem>
<Id>
<TypeId>Ore</TypeId>
<SubtypeId>qcmoreStone</SubtypeId>
</Id>
<DisplayName>QCStoneOre</DisplayName>
<Icon>Textures\GUI\Icons\ore_rock.dds</Icon>
<Size>
<X>0.07</X>
<Y>0.07</Y>
<Z>0.07</Z>
</Size>
<Mass>0.0001</Mass>
<Volume>0.0001</Volume>
<Model>Models\Components\ImpossibilityCore.mwm</Model>
<IconSymbol>QCStone</IconSymbol>
</PhysicalItem>

Thanks for that edit, it's working great for me since i switched over to using the industrial centrifuge mod instead of a regular stone->ore crusher. My current issue is trying to get TIM to recognise the QCStoneOre so that i can force it to put equal amounts in all my stone crushers. otherwise working great apart from my specialised refineries not working with it, but i'll ask the original mod author about that if possible since that isn't an issue with your mod.

I can finally use my massive laser drill ships without having to constantly dump stone, Yay.

i added that stone crusher expansion just now

No just the one, the "Stone Crusher" by Hex. it is the best one.

there are a lot of different stone crushers though, lol. you wanna patch every one of them?

for the stone crusher i can just make it also do compressed stone directly ;)

that would be wonderful if you can. maybe just a means to decompress ore for compatibility with stone crusher mods as well.

unfortunatly no :( il have a look at maybe making a small addon that specifically caters to that mod.

is there a way to decompress stone after compressing, say, for the thorium reactors mod? quantum compressed stone cannot be used to make thorium.

one of my old giant mining ships with over 20 mexpex heavy mining drills had 10 refineries stashed in the but.

That's actually a pretty cool idea. I never thought about processing stuff on the go :D
Thanks!

i actually have 2 ice procs on my miner just for that.

right :P the ice proc is kindof a compressor if u compare the wieght of 1ice vs the output

Ah what a shame. I kind of hoped to be able to put the compressed ice in your Ice Processor from the hydrogen mod ;)

wow woops, i left the ice compression in by accident. removed it.

ice isnt part of the refine process and it goes into the oxygen gen as is.

ahh ok
il get it fixed

Hi,
I love to see the ore compression as a stand alone mod comming back again :) but I have a bug report to make as well..

As soon as you put Ice in the compressor the game crashes. According to the logs, the definition for compressionice is missing:
2017-02-04 11:02:57.182 - Thread: 13 -> No definition 'MyObjectBuilder_Ingot/compressionice'. Maybe a mistake in XML?

Which leads to a KeyNotFoundException.

Greetings,
Kelghar