Enhanced Hand Drill

Tool

Enhanced Hand Drill

 

Components

Required

 

 

Iron Ingot

20

 

Nickel Ingot

3

 

Silicon Wafer

5

 

 

Mass (kg):

22

 

Volume:

25 l

 

Build time (seconds):

12

 

Speed Multiplier:

1.2

 

Reach Multiplier:

1

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 limited range.

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: 'T') 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 Grinder 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.

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

• Drill - a larger mining tool, mounted on a Small Ship, Large Ship, or Station

Update History

Update 01.008.004

Hand drill enabled

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