Space Engineers - Building a simple mobile drilling rig

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I usually don't talk a lot, which is why i usually refrain from long videos..
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[@VanWavo]

This is genius man... Some room for improvement still but like 100x better of what i ever built. Hats off to you, sir!

[@buzbom1]

Here here, and there there..pip pip...yes This is a nice tight package. Was just about to try and build something from my head...then remembered seeing this cpl months ago. Nothing better then a drive by mining.

[@auldcrow1461]

Love the way you went about doing this build. I always start with a wheeled platform, never occurred to me to start like that. Sub for your genius!

[@Holycrabbe]

instead of having material convayers going upwards, use exstended pistons which can then retract to lower the hole thing, this will make you go just as deep but with need for fewer materials

[@citizenslave810]

Props on the drill bit design. I shamelessly copied it in my own build.

[@tassie7325]

Your work is awesome and I would love to see more building tutorials from you. Including script writing, about which I have no idea. I would like to see more detail from some of your earlier videos, including the large mobile drilling rig, and the way you ran the pistons in conjunction with the rotors to deploy the drilling tower.

[@PatrickHansen101]

Thanks man, much appreciated! Sure, that sounds like an interesting idea for a video, haven't played around with that concept for a while, and i never finished the work on the large rig :)

[@tassie7325]

@@PatrickHansen101 Cheers

[@justsomeguy1136]

@@PatrickHansen101 especially since they just completley re-worked the lcds and stuffs like that it would be great time for a scripting tut;)

[@HighDutchman]

So my drill extended all the way down but now the pistons wont retract back in ? Can it be that the drills got to heavy with ice and rock ?

[@BinarySecond]

This was really cool, love how it turned out

[@Cruz0e]

26:25 its not just too much power but wheels r upside down:D

[@Askalor]

basic mining rig? ur kidding? thats more advanced than any stupid idea i had... 20 meters and i have to rebuidl my tower to gain more depth...

[@TheZeusxt2000]

You have titled this wrong

[@Dinkleberg96]

Nice design! I would make the chassis a little bit longer, so that would put extra weight on the front and so when moving uphill it wouldnt make a wheelie. But I liked it

[@Lynxdom]

Very awesome! I'm inspired! Thank you :)

[@SamaelVR]

Nice build. Good looking rig.

[@Tigerbeast]

You ever get the feeling you're playing that old 2D Snake game where you eat the apple and you get bigger? "Building a simple mobile drilling rig" You high?!?!

[@struckdanger666]

Excellent idea for a build! 🖤 1 like awarded to you sir

[@Enchisedmy]

Watched this, had a quick glance at your latest stuff, subscribed.

[@ColinRichardson]

I think I have just realised, I have been putting my wheel suspension on upside down the whole time.

[@DenBlackburn]

Thank you for your time and effort in making this video, what a fantastic mining rig, great work, please keep it up, Ive got to sub ;)

[@PatrickHansen101]

Thank you, much appreciated :)

[@MrCGChief]

Great job man!

[@specrtre]

This is amazingly compact to what im trying to do im extreamly new to the game and have been trying to figure out how to make a drill rig. So as long as i keep pistons facing same direction i dont have to make a long tower of pistons? How do you decide how long to make the solid parts of drill so pistons work?

[@nicolaschaput338]

If you are a noob like me do not try this in survival, when I tried the rotor to see if it worked the whole thing blew up, lost my whole afternoon... great explanation!

[@PatrickHansen101]

Ouch! Tip: Unless you have changed/disabled it, or autosave, you should have 5 save's worth of backups. You can access them, by going to Load Game, select your save and click Backups.

[@nicolaschaput338]

@@PatrickHansen101 thx buddy ;-)

[@purplemnkydshwshr]

New to game, Trying to build drilling rig on an icy moon, Complete rig and realize that this is not simple (for complete noob me at least) 0.25g is . . aah . . a little wobbly and weightless, (might have somersaulted, once) Add a butt ton of gyroscopes and a fixed landing gear on the side of my rig so no more gymnastics, No longer trying to take off or flip over when i turn on rotors, Success! Woohoo!!! >_

[@mcneck0wns]

I built something similiar to what you showed at the very beginning at 0:21 But so far I have a lot of trouble figuring out how to configure the rotors to not just spasm around and mine chaos-pendulum-style. I would really appreciate a video regarding this drilling rig of yours!

[@kinngrimm]

Is there an advantage to have the drilling heads positioned in 1 hight differance to ach other? Sure from reallife it is so it gets easier into the earth with a pointed arrow head of sorts, but does it matter in Space Engineers where any type of surface is pretty much the same to mine?

[@Drakopiou]

Impressive

[@qualifiedidiots2165]

Can't get to the drill part. Fecking rotor keeps spinning the arm into the ground.

[@WetAdek]

Man, I was building this thing in survival mode and by friend just came around to see what I'm doing. Just when I was done with the drill part, I hear a boom and my friend goes like '' dudee lightning just fucked your shit up''. That was frustrating af....

[@zrebbesh]

I think you need an extending landing gear under the nose to lock the rig in place while drilling.

[@PatrickHansen101]

yeah :) i did something like that on my original version, this was sort of improvised on the spot, so bad decisions were made! If you want a look at how i did it originally, i got a vid of it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3WaYah8bNx4b8U

[@Diablorf]

When I'm placing the pistons so close to each other like that 3:32, in my game they start to wobble. I just recently started to play. Did Keen nerfed this? Or I'm doing something wrong?

[@PatrickHansen101]

Weird! Try turning on "Share inertia tensor" on the pistons as you go. Recently made a small-grid version of this, and during that i had to enable it as i went or it'd wobble apart.

[@Diablorf]

@@PatrickHansen101 I checked it out, it's the case with the small tubes and pistons. The large ones are handling alright...

[@HighDutchman]

This inertia option doesnt show on the xbox one

[@tiercen8260]

Hey mate. I built this and it dug a big whole but won’t come back up. The drills are full of stone. Could that keep the pistons from retracting?

[@PatrickHansen101]

Possibly yeah, try messing around with the Max Impulse (Both axis and non-axis) settings, ought to get it going :)

[@altioar]

At 4:33 you should have made the conveyor go to the corner instead of the center, this way the pistons would be in a spiral with the final piston being in the center, making you not need that tail you added at the end saving materials and possibly making the structure 1 block shorter

[@altioar]

You could also replace the conveyors coming from the tower rotor with pistons that extend when you store the drill, moving the weight of the entire rig forward when driving

[@PatrickHansen101]

@@altioar Right you are on both counts!

[@OdeeOz]

Wonder how well this would work with the Azimuth Super Containers?

[@jsaplays7954]

That thing is great! I tried to build my own one but well the pistons glitched out and it eploded🤣🤣

[@tonikatatonico]

Same

[@Geroskop]

Instead of making upwards conveyors in the drill tower you could just use more pirtons in oposite direction.

[@PatrickHansen101]

That seems like the intuitive way to go, but it will actually just make the pistons counteract eachother. Meaning that the piston tower will expand, but the drill won't move :)

[@AquariusGhostHunter]

​@@PatrickHansen101well the thing that you are over looking is that opposing pistons are not to be engaged at the same time. so you could probably condense your piston array even more. any piston's facing up would have to be extended out so that they may be retracted while downward facing pistons extend.

[@PatrickHansen101]

@@AquariusGhostHunter when this was built, that wasn't possible :) The size was only doable because the conveyors take upp less than a block of space (and only attach end to end) Side-by-side without spacing would just explode if you even managed to put them there. That being said, absolutely, as long as clang doesn't get you, replacing conveyors with extended pistons would be more space efficient

[@AquariusGhostHunter]

@@PatrickHansen101 hey maybe you could make an updated version? video idea. if you are still into you the game

[@matthewreynolds2531]

and how does it work ... you have to move it when the hole is done?

[@nickolaichristiansen3558]

I have built this, shamelessly, the exact same way you built yours. However, no matter what I do, when the drills are sent down, I cannot retract them again. Any pointers?

[@PatrickHansen101]

Hey, it's what the video is for! :) You're probably running into one of two problems, both with the same solution! Either your cargo gets filled with ore, and then your drills get filled, making them heavier or your drills are getting wedged. *In either case*, try increasing the Max Impulse Axis/NonAxis on the pistons, should fix the issue. Beware though, increasing this value too much may allow drilling rig to self-destruct :p

[@Barxxo]

Very impressing, but seems needs more wheels, like 8?

[@PatrickHansen101]

Na, 4 wheels is easily enough to support 3-4 large cargo containers,more wheels won't do that much given how suspension works atm. It would be better if the wheels were placed better though, more symmetric around center of mass and further from it

[@Barxxo]

@@PatrickHansen101 ok, thx

[@PatrickHansen101]

@@Barxxo np :) 8 Wheels would look a lot cooler thought, i might make an aesthetically oriented rig at some point :)

[@Barxxo]

@@PatrickHansen101 i like to have at least 6 wheels to not to get stuck in a hole

[@Keric04]

So noob here, I was following along your video to build the drill tower. My plan was to build that and then the vehicle around it and make a mobile base. I got everything built and went to define the max rotation limits like you did (360 top, 270 side). As soon as I defined the 270 the entire thing blew up and blew up my base/pad/shitshack. I'm about to restart today but I'd love to understand how/why I made a bomb out of the drill tower 😭😭😭😭. Any advice would be great!

[@PatrickHansen101]

I actually did the same thing in my recent build video, had to start all over. I think one of two things happened: 1: You set the max/min limits to not include the current angle of the rotor, this will result in physics-breaking acceleration and wreck your stuff, in most cases. 2: Diabolus ex Machina, the game just decided that it did not like what you're doing and decided to blow your stuff up, that's what happened in my case. Best suggest i have is to set rotor limits before you begin building, or switch to using Hinges instead, they seem more stable (but still set the limit before building the tower!)

[@changsplace]

Great video. Thank you for it. followed your steps. When I got to the point of setting the parameters for the rotor, I tried to lay it down and all it did was slam down very fast on the vehicle. I gave the rotor the same parameters I saw on the video. What am I doing wrongs. Please help

[@PatrickHansen101]

My bet is that a high value is getting input somehow :| my best bet is to try with a lowee one!

[@tinanyegaard4190]

This guy sounds danish

[@terrytaylor4828]

👏👏👏 very impressive to see what people build on SE.. Mind if I copy this design?? This is fucking amazing 🙏🙏

[@christianandreasen2330]

Ser sygt ud brormand

[@GraDash]

why my rotor cant reverse ? it moves only if i change upper and lower limit (cabin and battery present)

[@PatrickHansen101]

Try raising the power/torque on the rotor, it may have too much mass in one end. Also make sure "Share Inertia Tensor" is turned off on the rotor.

[@Grottizy]

any ideas on why it might explode every time it's not ported to a base? the dill loves exploding but only in survival

[@Grottizy]

Sorry on the loading of the game is when it explodes but only when its not connected to a base Via a connector

[@danielhawkins7455]

If that happens from loading in, you might have the same problem as me. My issue was that I forgot to turn on share inertia tensor for ALL the pistons AND rotors. The world would load fine, but then I noticed the drill arm had begun to vibrate slightly. It became rapidly more violent, actually tossing the entire rig around, until the entire arm split in several places and threw everything far in all directions, including the huge rig chassis, almost like an explosion. Not sure if you checked share inertia tensor for everything, but since you say connecting to a static grid solves the issue, doing that would make the rig grid static which is changing the state of the base rotor grid. Make sure EVERYTHING has share inertia tensor activated, including the rotors. Otherwise, not sure what's going on, but rotors and pistons are a likely bet on the source of something like that, especially if changing grids between dynamic and static has an effect.

[@Kristjansen_Cobra]

Hey bro. I was testing the world from the workshop, but the rig doesn't work so well. First, I had to add a landing gear due to the weight of the drills when they fill up. Also, the cargo containers are not filling up. I think it's because you take them off and put them back again. I'll try to reproduce it from scratch to see what happens ... Thanks

[@PatrickHansen101]

yeah, it was made up on the spot, so i didn't balance it out. My other mining rigs are a lot more balanced out, just wanted to show the premise :)

[@Kristjansen_Cobra]

@@PatrickHansen101 I'll check them. thanks!

[@vovozaum]

was the conveyor snake needed? couldn't we just make it with piston on piston?

[@PatrickHansen101]

While that seems intuitive, pistons going in opposite directions will actually cancel eachother out, so the snaking is required :)

[@vovozaum]

@@PatrickHansen101 in what way they cancel each other out? They no longer wobble if you do this?

[@ElderWuggie]

Can you make a space drilling rig maybe with landing gear that attaches to the asteroid's?

[@PatrickHansen101]

Was actually planning a deployable rig like that for my next build, although for planets, but i guess space would work just as well!

[@user-iy2dk7sc1f]

GG

[@leolokarp6877]

Omg thanks you But i have no Iran Bit Solar regulates

[@derricklong9958]

I tried something very similar to this, but my rotor doesnt seem strong enough to lift the arm from laying down to standing up...even removing weight from the drill... anyone else seen this?

[@CoffeeandCancerStix]

I imagine by now you've found a solution, but when I made a mining rig I found that my rotar lock kept getting triggered because I set up a button wrong.

[@AngelOfChaos188]

So I duplicated this build, with my own twist of course. But I am have a problem where the conveyor junctions keep getting damaged. Does anyone have any idea why?

[@PatrickHansen101]

My advice would depend on what your twist entails ;) Which junctions are getting damaged?

[@AngelOfChaos188]

@@PatrickHansen101 the center most ones directly connected to the rotor. It seemed to take longer to break when I didnt rotate the drill head, but still broke after the third hole. Also as far as my twist goes it's mostly cosmic. But I'm using batteries and hydrogen engines as I have not located uranium. But the whole drill part is the same

[@PatrickHansen101]

@@AngelOfChaos188 how odd, I've never had that problem! Hmm, only reason I can see would be that the block is somehow bring slammed into the rotor, or that you have the rotor too far in allowing it to hit adjacent blocks. Make sure "share inertia tensor" is turn on on all pistons, maybe set rotor offset to max. Also make sure you don't run out of cargo space, the drills will get very heavy. Lastly, make sure that the speed on the pistons isn't too high, making the pistons squish the drilling head because it can't drill fast enough

[@AngelOfChaos188]

@@PatrickHansen101 okay thank you very much for your help

[@TheRealWinser]

Your idea of simple is no where near my idea of simple.

[@PatrickHansen101]

Yeah, regretted that title pretty fast. I think "basic" would have been more fitting

[@TheRealWinser]

@@PatrickHansen101 I still enjoyed the video but as a beginner looking to get into drilling it was very tough to follow.

[@ashpallet650]

I Wanna know is how did this person kept it from tipping over in the beginning of the video????

[@PatrickHansen101]

I built it as a part of the base/station, and then it turns into a Large Vessel when i break the connection between the two :)

[@martimm0815]

How works the "Stupid Thing"?

[@greenienator8421]

A new sub, haha. The only thing I can think of that you absolutely need is a connector =)

[@PatrickHansen101]

Thanks :) and yes haha, not much use without that ;) tbh, i didn't really plan this build out apart from the tower. This one has connectors, also a transport ship: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIq0fJ-waZ52g8U It is not exactly survival friendly tho!

[@Hollogodis]

tried to build this on the server im playing on...PCU LIMIT REACHED! NOOOOOOOOOOO

[@alexsele3320]

Override pcu limits w admin (alt+f10)

[@Szymonicus]

@@alexsele3320 Meanwhile I've removed whole PCU limit. _They called me a Madman_

[@vincentstead109]

yo, spiller du på PC?

[@coolent_cracker3287]

*hits blunt* but what if it flew

[@scotchwhisky6094]

Does this work with batteries?

[@PatrickHansen101]

Yeah, I usually run with batteries in my survival games. A single battery will drill for like 24+ hours, drive for about one hour

[@alexsele3320]

Either speak up or set your mike volume up

[@Cruz0e]

wheel is upside down 19:00

[@Cruz0e]

actually all your wheels are upside down in the whole video:) people dont learn this the hydraulic is on the top

[@Cruz0e]

gyroscopes are also placed randomly, not aligned... which is ok if you dont do any pitch/yaw override

[@treyeverett6231]

Is this on mod.io?

[@PatrickHansen101]

Never heard of mod.io until you mentioned it, so no :| There's a link to the world in the description of the video. Same with my other drilling rigs :)

[@treyeverett6231]

@@PatrickHansen101 I'm just curious because that's what we use on Xbox

[@PatrickHansen101]

@@treyeverett6231 Ah yeah, didn't think of you guys not having steam workshop! Hmm, not sure what the procedure is for putting things on mod.io, not sure what the difference is between PC and xbox version either, do you know? I'd be up for stuffing some of my things on mod.io, if i can get some info on the topic, no point in posting stuff that isn't compatible :)

[@treyeverett6231]

@@PatrickHansen101 Its really akward, you ¨select¨ the blueprint in game and then you just follow the mod.io instructions, there is a button you click that says something along the lines of upload

[@PatrickHansen101]

@@treyeverett6231 So it's an ingame feature? Sounds like the Keen has just replaced the steam workshop "link" with mod.io :| that could make things a bit difficult

[@montyferguson4657]

Just attach a drill rig to the bottom of a drop ship. Then you can just fly, touch down, lock landing gear, and start drilling.

[@PatrickHansen101]

Sure, ur can you fly A drop ship on 1 battery and a hydrogen generator? A flying thing will get expensive and heavy since it has to lift the ore as well. Pkus, I like driving things :)

[@pvtlehto]

R u Patrick Star lmao

[@alexsele3320]

There are MUCH easier ways to do this

[@Mocha69A]

This video is far from simple. Simple drill my friend simple. Or change the title

[@PatrickHansen101]

In my defense, i have build drills that detect ore and expand horizontally to get as much of the ore and and little stone as possible, on top of suspension including several rotors, so it's relatively simple. I have regretted the title though, I'm getting better at understanding that, what's simple for me may not be simple for others.

[@shock_n_Aweful]

"SIMPLE" lol k

[@puwistiy]

И с полной загрузкой никуда не заедет, первый подъём и вы буксуете.

[@coreywestwell]

Use the rule of KISS, keep it simple stupid, over the top unnecessary design for something that can be achieved in a lesser footprint

[@Mocha69A]

If this is a simple build why is it 34 minutes long. Edit out the boring talking to yourself parts