Newcomer / Intro Mining - cannot collect musgravite

[Spud Munky]

Hi All,

I'm finding that musgravite fragments will not show up on my scanner and my limpet drones won't collect them. I can target them and manually collect them in my cargo scoop but then they disappear - they do not go into my refinery or into my cargo hold. I was able to collect them no problem my first time out but never since and I don't have a problem with any other mineral - only musgravite.

Here is a link to a .png screenshot. You'll see that the musgravite fragment is targetted at only 165m away but not showing on my scanner and the limpet drone is dutifully still sitting below my ship but not going after the fragment.

Can anyone help me with this?

Many thanks.

 

[metatheurgist]

You have set musgravite as something to be ignored by your limpets and refinery. You set it on Contacts iirc.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

I have seen instances where the fragment can get lodged inside the asteroid parts you blew up.

Can you show a screenshot of your left hand panel, contacts tab? How many drones have you launched? Are they getting destroyed when retrieving fragments? What happens if you have nothing targeted? The limpets should auto-collect.

 

[aRJay]

I think @metatheurgist is right and Musgravite is on ignore, if you look in contacts and it is listed in a dull red typeface it is on ignore, if you highlight it then move to the right hand part of the contacts screen you can remove it from the list.

 

[d8veh]

or you can target any of the fragments that you see in front of you through the windscreen, then look in your contacts panel and you'll see on the right side "remove musgravite from the ignore list". When you click that, all the fragments will appear on your radar as little white squares and your limpets will collect them.

 

[Spud Munky]

You have set musgravite as something to be ignored by your limpets and refinery. You set it on Contacts iirc.

I think @metatheurgist is right and Musgravite is on ignore, if you look in contacts and it is listed in a dull red typeface it is on ignore, if you highlight it then move to the right hand part of the contacts screen you can remove it from the list.

DOH! Thanks guys, I did add it to my ignore list because there was one fragment stuck inside an asteroid and my limpets seemed to keep dying trying to get it. I thought I'd only told them to ignore that fragment, not the whole mineral type.

 

[John Dallas]

honestly i wish the ignore function would be better... so u could ignore materials beforehand^^ like going into a mining tab and set what u want to ignore^^

 

[Deleted member 166264]

honestly i wish the ignore function would be better... so u could ignore materials beforehand^^ like going into a mining tab and set what u want to ignore^^

Or telling the collector controllers to ignore stolen items only.

 

[Esteban]

...or, conversely, set material(s) that you'd like to NOT ignore.

c'mon, binary is your (our) friend!