When attached to a ship and supplied with power, it displays up to 5 ore locations on the player's HUD when they are within range — exactly like the Hand Drill does, but with much greater range. ... The range of multiple Ore Detectors does not stack, it just overlaps.

Can you increase ore detector range?

1 Answer. Currently it is impossible to create a small grid ore detector with a higher range than 50m without a mod. It is possible with a hacky workaround, to drop a large grid rotor part where the small grid one should be, they are the same size and can fit inside either size rotor.

How do you broadcast ore detectors in space engineers?

If used in conjunction with an Antenna, the Ore Detector can broadcast the ore it comes near over the array to anyone within range of it. Simply enable the option "Broadcast" option in the control panel.