Hand Drill

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Hand Drill Icon.png
Tool
Hand Drill
Tool Icon.png

ComponentsRequired

Mass22 kg
22,000 g
22,000,000 mg
0.022 t
Volume25 L
0.025 m³
0.0016 Large-Blocks
0.2 Small-Blocks
2.5 hL
25,000 mL
Base Production Time1 s
BrowseLast edit: 2021-02-04

Overview

The Hand Drill is a basic tool that damages objects within melee distance. While primarily used to mine asteroids for harvesting ores or for creating tunnels, the Hand Drill can also be used to make controlled dents in ship hulls for aesthetics or as a melee weapon against other players in Survival Mode. It features a built-in Ore Detector with a limited range of 20 meters.

Usage

Using the Hand Drill consumes Suit Energy. When mining, the Hand Drill does not automatically pick up every ore it mines. Many chunks of ore will instead be set adrift as objects in the world to be collected manually. Holding the "Interact" key (default: 'F') while mining with the Hand Drill is generally recommended, as this will cause the player to pick up many of the ore chunks as they are created. When used to damage blocks, the Hand Drill will not produce any Components; the Grinder is a better tool for destroying constructed items.

The player always spawns with one Hand Drill in their inventory if enabled in World Settings, as well as a Grinder, Welder, and an Automatic Rifle. Additional hand drills can be constructed in an Assembler.

Variations

There are now three upgraded versions of the Hand Drill. They are superior to the standard Hand Drill, by having progressively faster speeds and larger dig radii.

Media

Hand Drill digging and item icon in toolbar
Space Engineers - Hand drill, small ship drill, tweaked rotation functionality

Tips

  • Hold the interact key (default F) to grab ore chunks as they get drilled.

See also

Update History

Update 01.008.004
  • Hand drill enabled

Tools

Automatic Rifle

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Grinder

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Welder

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Drill

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Hand Drill Icon.png Hand Drill 
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Bottles

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