The Drill is a mechanism that requires electricity to function. Its primary purpose is to harvest ore boulders, but it can also be used to mine any wall and damage creatures, similar to a trap.
Drills deal 60 damage every second to ore boulders and walls in front of them. This ignores all damage reduction, allowing them to break all non-indestructible walls such as the Maze Block.
Additionally, they deal 22−26 damage every other second to all creatures directly in front of them.
Obtaining[]
Crafting
| Result | Materials | Crafting station |
|---|---|---|
 Drill |  Iron Bar (10) Scarlet Bar (10) |  Automation Table |
Notes[]
- Drills will pull items dropped inside them through to the back.
- With one drill on an ore boulder, it produces one ore every 2 minutes. Additional drills on a single boulder decrease the time to produce one ore from the deposit, with diminishing returns.
- However, to maximize production, it is still best to use the maximum of 8 drills, which together produce one ore every 30 seconds, which is four times faster than a single drill.
- The drill that outputs the ore is the one that deals the 120th damage tick since the previous ore was produced.
| Drills | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time per ore | 2 min | 1 min | 50 sec | 40 sec | 37 sec | 34 sec | 31.5 sec | 30 sec |
| Ore per minute | 0.50 | 0.88 | 1.20 | 1.50 | 1.62 | 1.76 | 1.90 | 2.00 |
| Time to drill entire boulder (hours) | 60.0 | 34.0 | 25.0 | 20.0 | 18.5 | 17.0 | 15.75 | 15.0 |
| Ore per minute per drill | 0.50 | 0.44 | 0.40 | 0.375 | 0.324 | 0.293 | 0.271 | 0.25 |
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History[]
- 0.3.0-297a: Introduced.
