Ore Processor
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Overview
This oxp adds the equipment: Ore Processor.
Don't accept a lousy pay for mined minerals! Cut out the middle men.
This piece of equipment is sold at high tech shipyards and is every miner's dream.
The Ore Processor extracts any valuable material from scooped asteroid splinters.
Minimum requirement Oolite 1.65
Why this equipment
You want big bugs and don't like the ore refineries to get the big profit of your mined ore. With this equipment installed you can process your own ore. And when it contains gold, it is really yours!
Usage
The ore processor attaches to the fuel scoop and extracts valuable materials from mined asteroid splinters. Buy a mining laser and disintegrate the asteroids in the usual way. Boulders will break up in all kind of splinters. An experienced miner can see its value from just examine the splinters texture. Than scoop the ones you are interested in. Or just scoop then all when you have storage room. After scooping the processor will start automatically when it contains something of value and in a few seconds it will have processed the ore and add whatever it contained to your cargo. During processing it will consume a small amount of energy. Splinters are processed one by one. When scooping up more than one, the others are placed in storage and processed when the first is ready. When there is not enough energy for processing, the splinters are pun in your hold in unprocessed form.
Availability
This equipment can be purchased in all high-technical systems (12+) for a sum of 3500 Cr.
Download Link
Ore Processor 1.55 Updated version with textured splinters, prepared for the new cargo handling in Oolite 1.74.
Ore Processor 1.52 Original version without textured splinters.
Version Notes
The version posted on the Wiki is the latest version of this OXP. (Updated 1/10/09).
Versions up to 1.52 are written in old scripting system.
Versions 1.53 and higher are written in java script and need Oolite 1.71+ to make use of all this new stuff. When used with Oolite 1.65, the equipment will still work but than it will use the still present old scripting system of version 1.52 and you won't get the new textures.
Version 1.54 does not try anymore to add stuff to the cargo bay when the hold was filled during processing.
Version 1.55 uses the new cargo handling introduced after Oolite 1.73, but also works on older Oolite versions.
Installing and Playing
To play the OXP, unzip the download file. This will create a folder named "Ore Processor". Open this folder and you will see a folder named "Ore_processor.oxp" and a readme. Move the Ore_processor.oxp folder to AddOns. As with all OXPs, its the folder ending .oxp that you need to put in Oolite's AddOns folder, otherwise Oolite will not read it.
