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Rock Vaporizer (Instant Mining)
"Point it at rock and the rock is just gone."
How do I install Rock Vaporizer (Instant Mining)?
Download the free ProjectMods desktop app, then install Rock Vaporizer (Instant Mining) for Stationeers in one click.
</>What does Rock Vaporizer (Instant Mining) do?
Carving a home out of the rock is half of Stationeers, and it is slow. Rock Vaporizer flips a switch on that: point your pickaxe, mining drill, or pneumatic drill at the ground and it comes apart the moment you use it, no waiting on the tool to chew through voxel after voxel. Hollow out a whole base site in one pass, cut a straight highway to that distant ore seam, or clear a collapsed cave-in without losing an afternoon to it. Every hand-held mining tool is covered by the same toggle. Flip it off any time and your tools go right back to their normal speed, so you can keep the fast digging for the big jobs and mine the ordinary way whenever you want.
</>What is Rock Vaporizer (Instant Mining)?
Rock Vaporizer turns the slow dig of Stationeers into an instant one. Point your pickaxe, mining drill, or pneumatic drill at the ground and it comes apart the moment you use it, no waiting to chew through voxels. Hollow out a whole base site in one pass, cut a highway to a distant ore seam, or clear a cave-in fast. Flip it off any time for normal digging. Free on ProjectMods.
</>Common questions about Rock Vaporizer (Instant Mining)
What does Rock Vaporizer do in Stationeers?
Rock Vaporizer makes your hand mining tools in Stationeers clear terrain the instant you use them, turning one of the game slowest jobs into a fast one. Carving a home out of the rock is half of Stationeers, and normally you wait while your tool chews through voxel after voxel. With this mod on, you point your pickaxe, mining drill, or pneumatic drill at the ground and it comes apart the moment you use it, no grinding required. That lets you hollow out a whole base site in one pass, cut a straight highway to a distant ore seam, or clear a cave-in without losing an afternoon. It is a clean toggle, so flip it off any time to go back to normal digging speed. Rock Vaporizer is a free mod on ProjectMods.
Which mining tools does Rock Vaporizer speed up?
Rock Vaporizer covers every hand-held mining tool in Stationeers under the same toggle, so it applies to your pickaxe, your mining drill, and your pneumatic drill alike. Whichever one you have in hand, terrain comes apart the moment you use it instead of after the usual slow chew through the voxels. Because all three are handled together, you do not have to pick a favourite or swap tools to get the fast behaviour; you simply mine as you normally would and the ground gives way instantly. This makes the mod useful across the whole arc of a dig, from breaking initial ground with a pickaxe to boring out a big chamber with a drill. Turn the Instant Mining option off and every one of those tools returns to its normal digging speed.
Can Rock Vaporizer dig out a whole base site at once?
It gets you very close. Because Rock Vaporizer clears terrain the instant your tool touches it, you can hollow out a large base site in a single pass rather than spending an afternoon grinding through rock. The same speed makes it easy to cut a straight highway to a far-off ore seam or to clear a collapsed cave-in quickly instead of picking away at it. You still aim and use your tool at the terrain yourself, so you stay in control of exactly what gets removed and what stays; the mod removes the waiting, not the aiming. That control is handy when you want a clean, deliberate excavation rather than a mess. For the big earthmoving jobs it is a huge time-saver, and you can switch it off for careful work whenever you prefer the normal pace.
What does the Instant Mining toggle do?
Instant Mining is the single switch that runs Rock Vaporizer in Stationeers. Turn it on and every hand mining tool, your pickaxe, mining drill, and pneumatic drill, clears terrain the moment you use it. Turn it off and all of them go back to their normal digging speed, exactly like vanilla, so a tunnel once again takes real time to bore. There is nothing else to set, which keeps it simple: your digging is either instant or it is normal, and you always know which. That clean design is deliberate, because it lets you keep the fast digging for the big jobs like clearing a base site, then switch back to ordinary mining whenever you want the slower, more measured feel of carving rock by hand.
When should I use Rock Vaporizer?
Rock Vaporizer is at its best on the big earthmoving jobs in Stationeers, the ones where the slow dig is pure grind rather than fun. Hollowing out a whole base site, cutting a long tunnel or highway to a distant ore deposit, and clearing a cave-in that is blocking your progress are the obvious cases, since each would otherwise cost you a long, patient session. It is also handy early on when you just want to get a starter shelter carved out and move on to the interesting engineering. Because it is a clean on/off toggle, many players keep the fast digging for the heavy excavation and mine the ordinary way for smaller, more careful work. Rock Vaporizer is free on ProjectMods, the community-first PC mod manager for 400+ games.
What options does Rock Vaporizer (Instant Mining) include?
Instant Mining
Turn on and every hand mining tool — pickaxe, mining drill, and pneumatic drill — clears terrain the moment you use it. Turn off to go back to normal digging speed.
Rock Vaporizer is a Stationeers mod from ProjectMods that makes every hand mining tool clear terrain the instant you use it, so digging out a base takes seconds instead of a long grind.
System Requirements
What features does Rock Vaporizer (Instant Mining) include?
- Clears terrain the instant you swing, so you're not waiting on a tool to chew through the ground
- Covers every hand mining tool, from pickaxe to mining drill to pneumatic drill, under one switch
- Hollow out a whole base site in a single pass instead of losing an afternoon to it
- Flip it off any time and your tools drop right back to their normal digging speed
Best For
- Players carving a base straight into a mountainside who don't want the dig to eat their whole session
- Anyone cutting a long tunnel to a distant ore seam who'd rather arrive than grind through the rock
- Builders clearing a collapsed cave-in or reshaping the ground around a base without the slow, patient dig
- New players who want to reach the fun engineering part without the patient early-game digging first
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