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Ore detectors detect ores within a limited radius and makes them sh...
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Vanilla
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| Fits small grid
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105.2 kg
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| Hitpoints: |
405
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| PCU: |
40
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| Size: |
1x1x2
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| Time to Build: |
14 sec
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| Fits large grid
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| Mass: |
1545.0 kg
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| Hitpoints: |
6505
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| PCU: |
40
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| Size: |
1x1x2
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| Time to Build: |
30 sec
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| Data Controls:
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[purge] (?))
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The 
Ore Detector is an entry-level functional block in Space Engineers that helps you to find ores.
Usage
Build it on a ship supplied with power, and the Ore Detector displays up to five ore locations as Signals on the player's HUD, exactly like the Hand Drill does, but with possibly greater range.
What's the detection range?
- A Small Grid ore detector has a max range of 50 meters, only minimally more than a hand-held drill. It cannot detect the deepest ores.
- A Large Grid ore detector has a max range of 150 meters.
- The range of multiple Ore Detectors does not stack, ranges just overlap.
- The ore detector can broadcast found ore signals to your HUD, which a handheld drill cannot.
For more info about ores and their depth and distribution, see Ores.
How to broadcast the signal
If you send a RC drone (with antenna) out to do the ore detecting for you, you may want it to report its results back to your long-range station antenna. In the Ore Detector’s Control Panel Screen, enable the setting Broadcast using antennas to make the drone’s ore detector signals visible on your HUD within the whole antenna range.
The broadcasting setting does not increase the detection range of the detector, only visibility range of the signals!
For example, your station antenna broadcasts in a 3km radius, your Ore Detector is set to 150m, and your drone is within range of the station antenna. While the drone detects ores 150m around it, you can see these ore signals on your HUD within a 3km radius of the station.
To use this feature, you need two antennas: The first one on the base, and the second one on the grid that has the Ore Detector. For the signal to reach your suit antenna, make sure that both antennas have broadcasting enabled.
Important exception: New Asteroids only spawn when players are near, so an uncrewed ore detector drone can only detect and broadcast ores on planets and moons, and existing asteroids.
Gallery
A small-grid vehicle can dock to a functioning large-grid ore detector using Connectors. (Just don't press
P key. ;-))
Construction
The Ore Detector exists for large and small grid and requires 1x1x2 blocks of space. It will attach to other blocks on all faces of its cube-shaped base. The cylindrical half of the detector does not attach to blocks.
The large grid variant is preferred when ever you can afford it due its 150 m detection radius. For example, a small-grid ship with a small-grid Connector can dock to and carry a large-grid Ore Detector with large-grid Connector.
Recipe
Utility
Power:  Colorable Solar Panel,  Twin-Blade Wind Turbine,  Battery,  Large Reactor,  Small Reactor,  Hydrogen Engine,  Wind Turbine,  Solar Panel,  Prototech Battery,  Large Warfare Reactor,  Small Warfare Reactor,  Warfare Battery,  Small Battery,  Prototech Fusion Reactor
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Tools:  Drill,  Grinder Block,  Welder Block Command and Control
Control:  Remote Control,  Bridge Helm,  Cockpit,  Fighter Cockpit,  Control Station,  Flight Seat,  Helm,  Saddle Cockpit,  Saddle Cockpit Compact,  Cab Cockpit,  Buggy Cockpit,  Rover Cockpit,  Industrial Cockpit,  Passenger Seat
Automation:  Projector,  Sensor,  Automaton Sensor,  Sound Block,  Timer Block,  Programmable Block,  Control Panel,  Control Panel Pedestal,  Button Panel,  Vertical Button Panel,  Sci-Fi One-Button Terminal,  Sci-Fi Four-Button Panel,  Sci-Fi Control Panel,  Inset Button Panel,  Button Panel Pedestal,  Bridge Button Panel,  Custom Turret Controller,  Action Relay,  AI Basic,  AI Recorder,  AI Flight,  AI Defensive,  AI Offensive,  Event Controller Communications
 Antenna,  Laser Antenna,  Compact Antenna,  Beacon,  Round Beacon, Ore Detector,  Camera,  Top Mounted Camera, Sound Block,  Broadcast Controller
 Text Panel,  LCD Panel,  Corner LCD,  Wide LCD Panel,  Transparent LCD,  Sci-Fi LCD Panel,  Holo LCD,  Inset LCD Panel,  Sloped LCD Panel,  Curved LCD Panel Defense and Offense
 Gatling Gun,  Reloadable Rocket Launcher,  Rocket Launcher,  Artillery,  Autocannon,  Assault Cannon,  Railgun,  Warhead,  Explosive Barrel
 Gatling Turret,  Rocket Turret,  Artillery Turret,  Autocannon Turret,  Assault Cannon Turret,  Decoy,  Interior Turret,  Safe Zone, Propulsion
 Atmospheric Thruster,  Large Atmospheric Thruster,  Flat Atmospheric Thruster,  Ion Thruster,  Large Ion Thruster,  Hydrogen Thruster,  Large Hydrogen Thruster,  Prototech Thruster
 Jump Drive,  Prototech Jump Drive,  Gyroscope,  Prototech Gyroscope,  Parachute Hatch,
 (Short)  Wheel Suspension 1x1,  (Short)  Wheel Suspension 2x2,  (Short)  Wheel Suspension 3x3,  (Short)  Wheel Suspension 5x5,  Offroad Wheels Logistics
 Large Cargo Container,  Medium Cargo Container,  Small Cargo Container,  Modular Cargo Container,  Store,  Contracts Block
 Connector/Ejector,  Small Connector/Ejector,  Collector,  Conveyor Sorter,  Small Conveyor Sorter,  Conveyor Frame,  Conveyor Converter,
 Oxygen Tank,  Hydrogen Tank,  Small Hydrogen Tank,  Air Vent,  Air Vent Full,  Air Vent Fan,  Air Vent Fan Full
 Conveyor Junction,  Conveyor Tube  (Reinforced),  Curved Conveyor Tube  (Reinforced),  Conveyor Tube T Junction  (Reinforced);  Small Conveyor,  Small Conveyor Tube  (Reinforced),  Small Curved Conveyor Tube  (Reinforced),  Small Conveyor Tube T Junction  (Reinforced),  Industrial Conveyor Pipes
 Armory Lockers,  Armory,  Barrel,  Freights,  Cargo Crate, Modular Kitchen Mechanics, Magnetism, Gravity |
Detector Components
Computer
Motor
Construction Comp.
Steel Plate
