Astroneer - How to Dig Roads and Tunnels Quickly!

[@curtholland4739]

Galactic civil engineering at it's best. Nice tutorial. Buggy drill rigs are challenging.

[@Gregg29407]

They really are! Once you get it going, your best bet is to just hang on and hope to end up somewhere close to where you intended to be! lol

[@Gregg29407]

P.S.- In response to a viewer's question: On the keyboard, use the C or V buttons for turning on/off the drill and/or paver. (The C button for whatever is equipped on the front "left" (i.e.-US driver's side) and the V button for whatever is equipped on the "right" side.) On a controller, it's the left/right shoulder buttons. Hope this helps!

[@Gregg29407]

I haven't run into any limits on file size yet but I'm sure there's a point where you could deform the planets to such an extent that most computers would really start to feel it. I've seen a couple of videos where people have dug out massive holes in a planet, filled it to the top with dynamite, and set them all off at once. The amount of debris caused their computers to lock up each time they tried to open that particular saved game. (Sad for the saved games, but what glorious explosions!)

[@sammy5576]

They really need to add first person view for the vehicles, seriously it's so annoying

[@Gregg29407]

It's tough getting used to driving this thing and I don't know if anyone ever gets really GOOD at it! LOL First-person view would help a lot.

[@flash1259]

I wish I had seen this video a year ago. I'm paving a road around Glacio right now. I've been landing as close to chambers as I can. Then I'll pave 3/4 the way around the planet then to the north pole then back to the equator and to the south pole unlocking the chambers. Then I go back to the shuttle and pave a zig zagged road to the core. I got that from One Last Midnight. I'll take a beacon with me so when I hop to the core I know how to get back to the vehicle. That keeps me from having to go back down the road to the center. I just go to the first chamber then see which one it is. So far I've been landing on the equator. I'll just make a straight line from chamber to chamber even on Atrox. I do have to go through mountains and sometimes high above the ground. Sometimes the chambers are a considerable distance above the holes in the terrain. Watching your video helped me to remember putting the large storage on the rear of the large rover. I was wondering how I was going to get enough power to unlock the chambers on Atrox on the rover. I'm pretty maxed out now with the available spots for RTG's and using a medium silo for a bunch of QT RTG's. I also have to take a canister of graphite to repackage all of the RTG's every time I unlock a chamber. I have connected a second large rover. I don't like doing that on planets like Atrox. Too much of a chance for me to fall in a big hole trying to get that long of a vehicle around on the narrow elevated roads.

[@Gregg29407]

I'm glad you found the video helpful! Cutting these roads feels very rewarding in the game but it does seem to take a LOT of practice to get it right! LOL When I was driving through the freshly cut road in this video, I was thinking to myself, "Well, there are STILL more turns on this road than I was expecting!" haha

[@flash1259]

@@Gregg29407 It looked like controlling the rover with a keyboard was smoother than using a controller. It's jumpy and bouncy with a controller. Normally my roads are pretty straight around a planet. I'll avoid things I don't want to destroy. Until I got to Atrox last night. I tried to avoid all of the big open valleys. I did pave roads across the top of a few. Avoiding them messed up my road making. Instead of going east around the planet from one chamber I actually ended up at the south chamber not realizing it until it was too late. I did end up with extra roads this time. I don't plan on going back so it's not a big deal. The trip to the core was the normal cringe fest.

[@Gregg29407]

@@flash1259 Yes, Astroneer works with the keyboard much better than a controller. Unfortunately, I've had to move to controllers exclusively over the past couple of years due to some elbow/wrist issues (telling people I have an "old video game injury" NEVER gets taken seriously by my co-workers! LOL). Atrox would be the graduate school of road building, so tying all 6 Big Purples together on that map is quite an accomplishment!

[@flash1259]

@@Gregg29407 I've done it a couple of times before. It went better when I just took the direct route instead of trying to avoid elevated roads. It sure seems to me that the planets are better now. It doesn't seem like Atrox is as harsh as it used to be. Maybe I'm just remembering it wrong. It also seems to me the formula for nanocarbon alloy has changed. I remember it taking more processes than it does now. Again I could just be remembering it wrong.

[@coltkeyan]

This helped a lot thank you!

[@Gregg29407]

Glad to hear it! :)

[@consciencelibre4223]

il me semble que ca marche pas avec le module foret 1 sur le grand rover. tu crois ? Car ca marche avec les touches c et v.

[@sammy5576]

I haven't got methane yet😢

[@Gregg29407]

Don't worry; once you get your atmospheric condenser set up on Atrox, you'll soon have all the methane you'll need! (It takes awhile to to produce enough, but once you get it going, it really starts to flow.)

[@Warren1138]

And then your file size gets too large and your game won't load anymore.

[@Gregg29407]

Oops! I meant my comment above to be a reply to your message.