Quartz Extractors

Made for mining quartz in the caves and biomes where you'd normally collect it by hand.

Place a T2 or T3 ore extractor near a natural quartz deposit:

• T2 collects quartz mixed with its usual materials.
• T3 lets you choose the local quartz from its normal ore-selection menu.

Supports Pulsar, Blazar, Magnetar, Solar, Quasar and Cosmic Quartz where they naturally occur. Stay close to the original quartz spots; large caves can contain separate deposit areas. Collecting the loose quartz won't stop your extractors working.

T1 extractors, sulfur fields, mining speeds, power use and storage capacity keep their usual behavior.

Installation

Install with r2modman or Thunderstore Mod Manager, then launch the game modded. Requires BepInExPack 5.4.2305 or later.

For a local install, use Import local mod and select QuartzExtractors-1.0.0.zip from the GitHub release.

For manual installation, put QuartzExtractors.dll in BepInEx/plugins/QuartzExtractors/.

Co-op

Install the same version on the host and all players so mining output and ore-selection menus agree.

Settings

Launch once to create BepInEx/config/noxie.planetcrafter.quartzextractors.cfg.

Set Enabled to false to turn the mod off. Edit with the game closed, then restart.

Compatibility and bugs

Randomized mineables aren't supported. Dropped quartz and meteor drops don't create mining spots. If you uninstall, select a normal ore on any T3 previously set to quartz.

Found a problem? Open an issue on GitHub with your planet, extractor tier, location and BepInEx/LogOutput.log.

Changelog

1.0.0

• Added quartz extraction at natural deposit locations for T2 and T3 ore extractors.
• Kept T2 mixed material output and T3's existing single-ore selection.
• Added a planet-specific map of 621 natural outcrops and Rainbow Cave chamber constraints.
• Preserved native generation rates, power use, inventories and ordinary ore veins.