Drill Soil Efficiency Rebalanced Drill 2
Changes the soil collection rate of [Rover Drill 2] to collect soil 512x faster than default. This mod can be installed alone or along side the other mods.
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Drill Soil Efficiency Rebalanced
Soil is an incredibly useful resource in Astroneer for scrap and for basic resources, but collecting is destroys the planets that you play on and baloon the file size with terrain edits and dropped items that incidentally appear during collection.
This mod turns the drill(s) of your choice into a soil collcting machine that basically instantly fills canisters with soil so that you need to only dig a minimal amount to collect it and can leave your planets intact.
There are 3 seprate mods, one for each drill. They can be installed alone or alongside each other, and any drills for which a mod is not installed remains unchanged so that they can be used for vanilla exploration and soil management.
Install & use Install: follow the bundled instructions
- Unzip the archive from playbuff and read the bundled readme / instructions first.
- Most mods rely on the game's mod loader — the usual route is a community mod manager (such as r2modman): pick this game, install, and it handles the loader and dependencies.
- For a manual install, put the mod files into the matching Mod / plugins folder inside the game directory.
- Launch the game to confirm it loaded; mods with listed dependencies need those installed as well.
Install locations vary a lot between mods — the bundled readme is the most reliable guide.