Building an ICE HARVESTER Part 3 - CRAZY BIG DRILL RIG! - SPACE ENGINEERS Survival - Ep 35

[@SkyeStorme]

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[@Kaboom-0623]

those flat bits with a small pad ... put a rotor in the building and a spotlight on the rotor and have it shine across the surface down to the ice ... great for night time lighting adding bright to a dark structure

[@Kaboom-0623]

oh ... add a few or a pair of spotlights into the smoke vent ... then you can colour it as well ... a yellow with flashing red say ... and blue strobes near the rim outside .... on the window level ... make a small control room with a cockpit cab the crane looking one ... and the rest is open catwalks with railings ... then you have the inspection catwalk and the work area that has a closed in main operations and a lounge looking out and in ... each face that you can do it put a ladder going down to where the top of the drills would be ... before drilling ... and on the angle faces set a stairway up ... on the ones nearest the front door ... also the flat section on the 45's mark a landing pad with a connector in the middle ... not connected ... and it becomes a recharge spot or shuttle docking

[@adamaberle9820]

On the smoke stack: Take the smokers in the center and raise them up several blocks. This will add volume and substance to it.

[@cmilkau]

I love that whenever Skye is pondering what to do, he picks exactly the opposite of what I would have done. After all, that's the interesting bit about watching this.

[@FnD4212]

You always have good sense of design. I, however, just slap it as long as it works.

[@poelmeister]

Same. Cheapest and fastest please, and Send It. :)

[@CraigH999]

You know what? The pipeline would look better if you had drilled out a channel for them so that the pipes were basically at ice level. Nice update, Skye!

[@fusseltyger]

Man I love that you really react to your audience... No wonder it's so much fun watching you play Space engineers.

[@Johnny-Autokill]

Be careful with swapping full blocks out, it's like a gateway drug for builders. the next thing you know, everything NEEDS to be plates, panels or half blocks... I'm trying to quit myself😅

[@SkyeStorme]

lol ;)

[@thepope56]

Yeah I think he got the building bug by now 😂😂😂

[@groggjoggarn]

Fantastic work across the line! A thought about the drill rig: Instead of one big set of rotating drills on each arms, I think several 3-4 smaller ones could look even better. More separate rotating axles and it would make more sense constructionwise, to spread the load. And, you could offset the centres on the two opposing pairs, to cover the areas in between.

[@cmilkau]

Having the drill rig go through the room would actually be pretty cool. Could be surrounded by windows.

[@pawt105]

"I'm going to go have a mental breakdown" LoL We love what you do man keep it up!

[@fredpryde8555]

the soke looks cool the building shape is amazing that is one hell of a lot of drills great series

[@Talnidus]

I apologize if it was mentioned in the last episode but elevating the center cluster of exhausts could get you a bit more height for the plume 🤔

[@RealCloudArchitect]

I was thinking this, if the outer ring of exhaust smoke will hide the centre one, can you raise the centre one? (Also can you build off a 45 degree angle? I don't have the game, so just spit balling thoughts in my head.)

[@JasonW.]

Also, maybe add a fire and/or sparks one in dead center to give the smoke some glow

[@Talnidus]

I am for sure stealing this concept somehow. I never even thought about what a smoked out glow would do, lights might do something cool as well

[@poelmeister]

How’s Picture doing? She’s missed! :) Love the series!

[@robertmcknight8628]

Don't forget you could add interior walls for depth. Also grated windows on the ribbed sections might help you out too.

[@s.scottstaten1852]

It doesn't look like it'll quite meet in the center. Maybe put some drills below the main "arm" of the rig to clear the center section? IIRC you had one horizontal drill on the end of your mountain drills, that could keep the junction between the holes clear. That said, it looks REALLY impressive and I suspect I'm going to love seeing it turned on!

[@noxen89]

More, more, MOAR !! give me all the series Keep up the good work Skye 😊

[@TaylorBertie]

The two pipelines can be useful because it means you can put a sorter in and out. Not strictly required, but hey if you need a justification.

[@dwalpole]

In the drill rig. If you set the two sub radius arms at 90* to each other and have them rotate in opposite directions you'll be able to cover the center of the circle. Think hand mixer. Love your content. Keep up the big work!

[@pcplayermalc]

That's what I was thinking, too! It might be ok with grouped rotor control and maybe needs the breaking torque of the central rotor increased.

[@Ronin456]

Love the extractor. One suggestion for the pipeline. On the straight sections create some u-shaped expansion joints like you see on pipelines. I think that makes them look more interesting.

[@echo-1935]

So, under the central pistons, add another rotor and set of drill heads to cover the central core. You can even set them to turn the other direction from the "Arms", just to weed out those of us with ADD. BTW: I bought this game (and all the DLC's) after watching your first 2 episodes. When my therapist asks, I'm throwing you directly under The Bus.

[@plageran]

i gotta know: can you use hangar doors and light sensor's together? it would be cool if the half hangar doors open during the day and smoke would come out and close at night. it'll look like heat vents

[@einsford9894]

The back and forward of design is why i tend to design in creative and then build in survival often from a blueprint

[@adamaberle9820]

22:47 Seamless beams: Hell yeah!! Seamless triangle siding: NO! Blue side panels: Ooooh.....😮 Nice!

[@TheRealPhilG]

Don't forget about Klang. Share those tensors

[@firiedemon]

its fantastic, keep up the great entertainment, watching this series makes my day!

[@jamoecw]

It is really coming along. I never go that fancy with my drills, so it will be nice to see it in action.

[@rycbar9196]

the drill concept sounds awesome. i recommend playing with the spinning direction off the rotors, because everything spinning the same way will probably look a bit boring.

[@the_stonemaster]

"this will gonna be fun" Yeeeeeesssss indeeeeed

[@samadams4165]

Got my daily fix. Stay blessed Skye and Picture

[@bow-tiedengineer4453]

You should go extra ridiculous with the drills, and bore a hole clear through to the center of the planet. It's possible to do, and it'd be really cool!

[@GamerGrover]

24:22 maybe try to put lights in the triangle rivets love the series

[@guingstongg1287]

are heads gonna roll from the top of your aztec temple? 😂

[@SkyeStorme]

lol ;)

[@deeraz]

Don't forget to drill out the centre, with some overlap too! Because if you have even a sliver of voxels not being removed the whole thing will come to a halt as soon as any part of the conveyors runs into it.

[@michaelaotearoa3839]

I like using columns as structural pipes.

[@triskelionchi3747]

You are the first youtuber I have seen lean this far into the creative aspect of this game whilst in survival mode. Well done on your perseverance towards your ambitions. Would love to see your save uploaded to the workshop when you are done.

[@kevinwatson5833]

13:35 sometimes you can use color to break up lines and flat spots

[@adamaberle9820]

Add a belt to the cliff side and put all the pipes come down into it.

[@dushanabe]

"Ribbed for her pleasure..." 🤣🤣🤣

[@mystrtwenty]

Loving this series Skye, great fun watching you build ever more insane structures 😎 A couple of thoughts for the drill rig; If you get the rotation timing right, you could have another set of drills in the centre that overlap the external sets and ensure the whole areas gets bored out. I would probably only do the two arms for that though. With all your timer blocks, event controllers and what have you, if you put in a rotor/hinge with a small head, you can fit all of your computing requirements in a much smaller space. Also, I saw someone else suggest having the drill pistons go through the centre of whatever control room you create. Sounds cool to me 👍

[@Makro3d]

I have a sneaky suspicion you'll want to build a large scale storage and refinery building next to this, in addition to what you've got in SHAGGER DEEP. Because nobody wants to see continuous hemmoraging of stones.

[@cmilkau]

I actually like the blue spilling over the edges a bit

[@cmilkau]

1/8 blueprint is actually enough because the thing has both mirror and rotational symmetry. Maybe that saves some time.

[@derekmazeppa1160]

As I'm looking at your drill set up, if you shorten the arms a few blocks, you could add more drills to get the middle. Another option is, to add a center drill set up so everything gets drilled and you consume more ice. Sorry, it's the mechanical engineer in me seeing a possible opportunity to increase your drilling production :P I've also discovered there are different layers of ice as you drill down. It starts off as ice, then stone, then ice, then stone for a long way down and I believe there are ice pockets the further you drill down.

[@andezdoes]

My god , another vid so soon . You doing the work there son .👍 Skills

[@billrowe8718]

An idea for the pipelines: many long runs of pipe (think Alaskan pipeline) include U-shaped sections for thermal expansion. One of those in each of the long horizontal runs would break up the line a little and add visual detail

[@donebydaan1]

So far the Atmos Chimney is starting to look truly amazing, soo much details and more to come! I think a dash or red would look good, 2 horizontal red lines around the top near the chimney's exhaust, to match with the deck of shagger deep base.. A bit of a warning sign thingy

[@takumi2023]

If youre worried about the middle not being drilled, you could overlap the drill area and offset the rotation by a couple of degrees. The problem is if there's ever a stoppage on one of the drill but not the others. 😂

[@CraigLYoung]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@baker4000]

I feel like using Ice as an energy source is underrated.

[@cmilkau]

26:15 Lights would look great there I think

[@MatthewHolevinski]

The Acheron (LV-426) Ice Nipple is looking fabulous

[@spottedot]

Offset the starting positions of the drill rotors. That way all 4 drill arms can cross over each other and eat up the center sections.

[@MrJeffro56]

Put in a small circle of drills in the center and that would cover the entire floor. A lot of work for a drill rig, but I must admit that it is a really good looking one. Still enjoy the content of your videos.

[@MJK-hc5cz]

The building looks great, would also love to see you build something like a capital ship in creative without the restrictions of survival sometime.

[@groundhog0699]

I do love space engineers on your channel. It fits. BUT please ALSO bring back Timberborn! It doesn't have to be crazy....just lax playing without all the absolutely crazy huge Skye projects. Don't burn yourself out with just one game. Play both and switch it up a bit.

[@syfrett5]

I think the drill arms might look cooler if you could but doing multiple circles of drills like a dartboard from the top looking down so it makes a super even and smooth cylinder hole all the way down though I don’t know the first thing about this game but love the design so far! Keep the videos coming Skye!

[@ash-vj1ks]

You could fill the entire floor in on the inside and place an ice drill rig under the floor then place stairs leading down as it digs. Maybe 🤔

[@MarioPlinplin]

Skye makes a massive crazy build: 😐 The comments were right: 😮

[@nathanbrown6539]

26:15 could put a hinge (on a rotor sunk in) to add some structure that's rotated out. Think your reference had something like that?

[@CDRNFreeRunner]

If the control room has glass floors (no idea if those are in the game), you could view the progress from there

[@butidigress13]

I am really enjoying watching your process. I constantly get stuck myself when building things. One suggestion for the raised structural part that reaches up to the center tower part. Currently, it looks like the two go into the base of the tower, but it looks a bit small for support. I dont know if it will look good, but if you make that bottom part of the center tower thicker where the supports come in, it might look more solid. Not sure since I cant play with it myself, but bumping that part out to meet the supports might look nice.

[@bucyrus5000]

Should move the steam/smoke to the sides of the tower, not the top. Top should have antenna and dishes, maybe a landing pad. Put ports on the sides of the tower.

[@mikatron2680]

I'm curious to see what you do with the drill rig and how it will excavate the middle bit of ice between your four circles so that the pistons can keep lowering

[@amrastheluckywoof5524]

Don't forget a central drill arm ^.^

[@DaPaKa]

SE Noob here but won't the central piston line hit the hard undrilled surface below meaning it'll Klang out? You probably have it all sorted in your head and I just can't see it 😅😅

[@nigzie1]

I’m glad someone else has noticed that I thought I was going crazy.

[@ben_1]

He actually mentions this at around 34:00

[@mathias_jensen1]

Still going strong in space engineers glad to see it😉 though i recently found your channel i am quite hooked on your humor and wits❤ Thanks for the great series and do whatever you feel like i am sure i will get a good laugh either way😁

[@Aphenro]

Looking good. IMHO different shades of blue might work to highlight/play down sections. When you put the other sets of drills in, will they collide when the arms are pointing at each other? Is that the calculation you did? If they do collide, maybe you can you rotate two opposite rotors 45 degrees to make sure the arms won't meet. But you'll need to ensure they stay in sync or Klang may get you. Loving the series!

[@JAFlys]

Drills should be like a hand mixer. The individual arrays need to extend past center but offset in relation to each other as to not collide. This will clear out the center ice and not create a giant donut pattern.

[@MartenDeclippeleir]

you could add some programmable blox to check inventory of cargo containers. that way you can check automaticly when de drills turn on and of i think

[@randallvolk8437]

Have you thought of what you will use the building for when it depletes the ice it is sitting on!

[@Eanruig]

I think you could have another set of drills located in the center to drill in the middle section.

[@Mark_McMarkster]

I hope u plan to add one smaller drill rig in the centre of the four.

[@jennitro]

The blue between the white ribs makes it look like an AC Cobra

[@RealCloudArchitect]

Loving the series. I think the drills arms might look good with an addition 2 arms on them, so you have a North, East, south, West type config, as you're intending with the main boom arms (if I understood you correctly). I also think it would be good to have each rotor move the opposite way to its neighbour (CW,CCW,CW,CCW). In theory, you could have them longer and overlapping without collisions... it would certainly look cool, and if you move the position of the rotors inwards, is should allow you to mine more of the centre.

[@TALLPUP]

If itsn not the plan, add another spinny set of rrills in the middle (that under/lower the others) to pre-drill the center out , it look really cool. :)

[@koppertopkop]

Love that your all over the place. You have got me watching other space crafting videos and some that I've seen are crazy as you but most are not. However I can't wait to just see one of these first 3 projects finished they are all so cool 😎🆒😎 agree I want to see more more now not tomorrow lol get some rest and bust out the next one can't wait to see it! Great work!

[@anteshell]

21:58 Those welds only exist there because they are boundaries from two sharp edges from diagonal blocks. If you smooth out the inside or that part with diagonals, the welds will disappear. You could have made overlapping circles on the drill by having the drills on only a single line and staggering the direction 90 degrees between them. Then stagger the rotor direction, and the drills would never collide.

[@arvy666]

it's awesome!

[@pieair]

Daily positive comment I've been late te past few days, but dont worry i'll always watch, comment and like the vids Skye. I'm hooked on Skye wars, and now it's the 3rd return of the Skyedi's?...Jedskye's?😅. Also remember to pet Picture 😊

[@CornDogShaun]

Skye builds a White Castle 🏰

[@CornDogShaun]

🍔 🍔 🍔 🍔

[@lukassadauskas3246]

Can you put drills on the inner arms to get to the centre core?

[@GrahamBale]

Skye you should try to pirate a ship like the mining transport. It has 2 refineries and two large cargo

[@slashwonder]

Are you going to add any spotlights inside the smoke so it illuminates at night? just a cool thought.

[@tritiumo7090]

Just an idea for the smoke. Since the smoke obscures you could raise the 4 in the middle up on blocks to extend the height of the smoke plume while keeping the outer ring where it is just like @adamabrie mentioned.

[@Kaboom-0623]

the support arms going to the end drills also carry drills on every other spot .... so as it goes around they drill it out and the ends spin and drill there ... I do suggest keeping the end drills to 5 across or some small like that ... each drill on every other spot going to them is good as their reach will clear in between .... also stagger them on each arm ... 2 arms on even blocks 2 arms on odd ... it avoids doom blocks from happening

[@cmilkau]

Angled pieces don't need to have the same diameter as the straight pieces they are connecting to, because the inside and outside corner doesn't have to line up, in fact in reality it typically doesn't.

[@DemiG0D2K]

there are full size windows that do fit the diagonal shape just need to look up windows

[@elias-dz5pk]

because you have an octagon build i think you need to shorten the arms of the drillrig because otherwise they'll crash into the walls or create a hole that's bigger than your structure

[@garyl6031]

Needs a slowly "pulsing" light in the middle or, around it.

[@matemaizl4640]

With painting pay attention when painting bigger areas. Ctrl is 3*3, Shift is 5*5, but if you hold down Ctrl+Shift and paint, it paints the FULL grid. I have no idea how many times I messed it up, holding it down accidentally and in creative its easy, cause you just load in an older blueprint but with survival you have to either load in the world, or repaint the full grid.

[@kevinkhouri8272]

For the SHAGGER DEEP front deck supports, there is a curved hypotenuse. I believe it would look more complete to add the two other triangle legs butted up against the cliff wall and the underside of the deck. Leave the center hollow. Don't know if it's possible to bevel the hypotenuse given the block choice for diagonals but it would finish all the legs off nicely. This would make the deck look strong enough to support a very large ship parked on the deck. Plus it will add more interest to the main base

[@SandMan29331]

Don't you need drills in the centre, or the arm will hit the centre ice pillar?

[@stormedgiant6211]

Blue color on blue ice xD maybe yellow instead?

[@GrahamBale]

With the smoke it looks like a short nuclear power plant cooling tower

[@JasonW.]

Have you tried the seemless welds skin? EDIT: later in video you used it I was thinking specifically for the hollow tube blocks, to make them look more "solid" and less bits n pieces

[@arnarerlingsson6440]

a fifth small drill circle in the middle

[@KemPeck1701]

Hey, Skye.. just out of interest.. look in your G menue, on the bottom right.. and show us the pcu count, so far.. you'ver laid some blocks, our lad

[@TXPhoenix79]

37:05 I just thought about something. What are you going to do when the ice runs out? The ice only goes so deep. I’m thinking you should add hydrogen thrusters and the thin landing plates so you can fly and move it to a new location.

[@squidwardo7074]

I think it would make more sense if instead of having 4 big drill "arms" spinning you had 16 or so smaller ones

[@chrismiddleton5262]

What if You kept a quarter of the rig open so you can see the drill as you fly in from space