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Long Arms
"Reach out and mine someone"
How do I install Long Arms?
Download the free ProjectMods desktop app, then install Long Arms for The Planet Crafter in one click.
</>What does Long Arms do?
Your astronaut apparently skipped arm day because the default mining range is embarrassingly short. Long Arms fixes that by letting you multiply how far you can reach to collect resources. Crank it up and start vacuuming up minerals from across the room like some kind of space magnet. Set it to 100 and you're basically mining from orbit. Set it to 0 and you can't pick up anything, which is a weird choice but we respect your freedom.
</>What is Long Arms?
Long Arms for The Planet Crafter extends your mining and pickup range with a single slider — go from standing-next-to-it to mining from across the cave. Speeds up resource runs and screenshot framing alike. Free from ProjectMods, the community-first game modding platform.
</>Common questions about Long Arms
What does Long Arms do in The Planet Crafter?
Long Arms is a quality-of-life mod for The Planet Crafter from ProjectMods that multiplies the distance at which your character can mine resources and interact with objects. The vanilla pickup range is short enough that every ore chunk, every loose item, and every collectible requires walking directly up to it. Long Arms turns that range into a slider. Crank it up and you start vacuuming Aluminum, Iridium, and Osmium ore from across a cave like a space magnet. Set it to a high enough value and you are effectively mining from orbit. The interaction radius scales with the same value, so opening crates and grabbing scattered microchips also stretches out.
How far can I extend my reach with Long Arms in The Planet Crafter?
Long Arms for The Planet Crafter exposes a multiplier so the range is yours to set. At low values, the mod gives you a comfortable extra foot or two — enough to clear a deposit without dancing around it. Crank it higher and you reach across entire rooms, then entire caves. Pushed to the top end, the range is effectively map-scale within line of sight, letting you mine from a vantage point on a cliff and pull resources up out of a canyon below. There is no hard breakpoint where the mod stops working — the higher you go, the further you reach. ProjectMods kept the range open-ended on purpose to support both modest fixes and pure power-fantasy mining.
What happens if I set my Long Arms range to zero in The Planet Crafter?
Setting Long Arms in The Planet Crafter to zero collapses your interaction range completely. You cannot mine ore, cannot grab loose items, cannot open most interactive objects — your character is essentially looking at the planet without being able to touch it. It is a strange but supported configuration. Some players use it as a temporary lock when filming cinematic shots so they do not accidentally pick up a microchip mid-frame. Others use it as a hardcore challenge layer where collection has to happen indirectly through drones or co-op partners. ProjectMods left zero in the valid range because some genuine use cases exist, and the mod respects player choice.
Does Long Arms affect plant harvesting, golden eggs, and crate loot in The Planet Crafter?
Yes. Long Arms in The Planet Crafter extends the same interaction reach across every player-facing pickup in the game — ore deposits are the obvious one, but it also covers harvesting mature plants from your biodomes, grabbing golden eggs out of nests, looting wrecked-ship crates, and opening doors and storage containers. The mod adjusts your interaction distance globally rather than picking favorites by item type. This makes long egg-collecting runs or completionist crate sweeps dramatically faster, because you can pull a row of items toward you without walking each one off. ProjectMods designed it this way so a single setting fixes the pacing across every collection activity, not just mining.
Why would a Planet Crafter speedrunner pair Long Arms with other mods?
Speedrunners and route-optimisers playing The Planet Crafter spend a huge fraction of their time on the walk between ore deposits — that is the actual bottleneck on resource throughput, not the mining animation. Long Arms from ProjectMods compresses each stop because you mine multiple deposits without repositioning. Paired with Zero-G for flight, it turns a five-minute canyon route into a sweep. Paired with Huge Backpack, you cut the trips back to storage. Paired with Time Warp, your terraforming progress keeps climbing while you collect. For content creators showcasing efficient routes on The Planet Crafter, that mod stack is the standard kit for second-playthrough optimisation videos.
What options does Long Arms include?
Mining Distance Multiplier
How far you can reach to grab and mine stuff - higher means you can mine from further away. 100 is normal range, 0 disables mining, and you can crank it all the way to 2000 to reach clear across the area.
Long Arms is a free The Planet Crafter mod from ProjectMods that multiplies your mining and interaction range, so you can grab ore and items from far away without walking up to every rock.
System Requirements
What features does Long Arms include?
- Multiplies your mining and pickup range so distant ore chunks come straight to your hand
- Crank the range high to vacuum up resources across a whole cave chamber at once
- Set it low or to zero if you want a stricter hand-on-rock harvesting challenge
- Works on every interactable — ore, plants, items on the ground, dropped gear from drones
- Cuts down on walking time during the iridium and osmium grind in deep biome runs
Best For
- Completionists clearing every ore node in a biome without manually walking to each rock
- Builders speed-gathering huge stockpiles of Aluminum and Iridium for a planned base expansion
- Returning players who remember pixel-perfect mining and want a smoother harvesting flow now
- Content creators recording efficient resource sweeps that don't drag through dozens of walking shots
- Casual players who'd rather focus on terraforming progress than chasing every individual rock
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