Should make Oolite give the message "You have captured a highly radioactive rock", "a gem-studded rock" etc when the item is scooped
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The craft in question would be the Paladin, one of the two ships in PTI.oxp.
(Which has been submitted to oosat2, but for some reason hasn't shown up there yet.)
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If you don't have the ore proccessor device on your ship, some scooped splinters give a 'Splinter scooped' HUD message, but nothing is added to the cargo bay.
Running Oolite buttery smooth & rock stable w/ tons of eyecandy oxps on:
ASUS Prime X370-A
Ryzen 5 1500X
16GB DDR4 3200MHZ
128GB NVMe M.2 SSD (Boot drive)
1TB Hybrid HDD (For software and games)
EVGA GTX-1070 SC
1080P Samsung large screen monitor
If you don't have the ore proccessor device on your ship, some scooped splinters give a 'Splinter scooped' HUD message, but nothing is added to the cargo bay.
Thanks for spotting and correcting it. I forgot that commanders would get those splinters no matter what, now that the cargo award is moved to the script entry.
I lowered the price to 1500 Cr. IMO 5000 was too pricey, but perhaps 1500 is too cheap? I haven't looked at this seriously, but my guess is that it will take about 40-50 splinters at this price on average before the processor has paid for itself..
@Doc - No worries - happy to have helped inspire a small portion what should be an excellent addition and alternative career path to the Oolite Ooniverse.
I found another bug while messing with it last night. Some splinters load food into the cargo bay. So far, I havn't figured out why.
"This system is mildly notable for it's killer edible asteroids..."
I did a quick search on But it's hard to guess what it could be, without knowing where it happened. Did you remember to look in the hold and check what kind of food we're talking here?
It could just have been some edible minerals like this edible clay or an industrial size fridge buried in the remains from a planet which has fallen apart for whatever reason. Which galaxy did this happen in? There are places, where they'll eat things us non diamond teethed earthlings couldn't chew. Could it be rock salt?
What I fear the most is that you've actually made yourself the mortal enemy of every scavenger and space hobo in the Ooniverse by cutting the mythical Big Rock Candy Asteroid to pieces with your lasers. Hopefully not!
At least these are some of the possible explanations until we find one related to code or plists.
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The proccessor seems to load food instead of gemstones, from what I can tell. All the metals, ie gold, platinium, radioactives and alloys load fine from the proccessor.
After scooping a couple of 'roids worth of splinters, a quick look at my manifest screen wouls show radioactives, minerals, alloys, gold, platinium, and food. All this without scooping loose cargo canisters along the way.
Galaxy 3, the same in any system I visit for mining.
Running Oolite buttery smooth & rock stable w/ tons of eyecandy oxps on:
ASUS Prime X370-A
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128GB NVMe M.2 SSD (Boot drive)
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EVGA GTX-1070 SC
1080P Samsung large screen monitor
It would appear the Ore processor's were built from salvaged food processors - something has been left behind in their programming and they're converting some rock splinters into 'little gem iced cake decorations' and hence the manifest computer is a little confused and so is the station trader who has pressed charges over the supply of "unusual rubies" turned out to be a ¼oz of 'Cola Cubes'.
I hear there's a Snoopes reporter on his way to the scene now....
Thanks for testing and reporting. I think that you pointed me straight to the problem here (I have now replaced 'Gem-stones' with 'Gemstones' in the shipdata).
I haven't looked at the stats yet, but looking at the Paladin on the startup screen makes me wanna buy it.
Turning stone to bread. A well known CGC hyperarchbishop was quick to claim it to be an act by The Creator in a press release (which has since been withdrawn and denied).
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A quick test with version 1.02. Results: The edible gemstones bug persists, sad to say.
Unless someone smarter than us - aka Giles or Winston - can offer some insight, the only workaround to getting rock candy instead of gems I can think of is removing the gemstone splinters.