Hands-On with the New PROTOTECH Drill | Space Engineers CONTACT Exclusive

[@Beeblebum]

Contact Reveal/Release livestream this Monday! Much more to come! 😊 www.youtube.com/@SpaceEngineers www.twitch.tv/keencommunitynetwork

[@Zer0sLegion]

Great video, much more professional than mine lol.

[@mbrown7361]

@@Zer0sLegion Genius of them getting all you guys together and previewing like this. I'm enjoying all of these

[@Frostfly]

They gave you the parts that suited your style. and your video was good.

[@Beeblebum]

Thanks! 😊I really appreciate it, but your video was great too! Was nice to see several creators getting a piece of the cake for this.

[@armastat]

Girl, girls ... your both pretty, lol seriously, good job all

[@DobbsyLondon]

Beeb that's great

[@AegirBuildsAndBeats]

So excited you got chosen to release a sneak peek! Wonderful job Beeble, laughed so much at the beginning.

[@papahemmy8587]

It’s been pretty cool of keen to spread the teasers between different se youtubers. Also THATS A BIG ASS DRILL! As someone who loves a good drill rig, thank you keen.

[@kaminofox6853]

That one guy who ends up building a 4x Prototech Drill Rotor:

[@Beeblebum]

I would advice to test it out in creative first.. lol

[@AkhinnaeEmpire]

Drill-Instructor Beeblebum - I expect that underground-train-project realised now!

[@creeloper27]

🤣

[@ultmateragnarok8376]

Having favored asteroid tunnellers for late-game mining (not that I really end up using them much, given the issues this update seeks to solve with the late game) it's really cool to see a drill like this built for that purpose. A prototech overhaul of many craft is certainly in order for a lot of us - but, interestingly, this wouldn't solve every engineering problem. Scraper drillers come to mind, given your example, particularly those used to mine gargantuan amounts of ice for fuel processing, as something which would likely be more practical and perhaps more effective with normal drills as opposed to prototech ones. Curious what its alternate mining mode is like, the one which clears a larger area but destroys materials. That large mining ship at the end is gorgeous.

[@Beeblebum]

I shared the alternate mining mode in the 2nd part of the video - I honestly don't know the accepted term of what engineers call it, I just call it mining and digging as the 2 modes.

[@vortexmods1523]

This is the best preview video we've ever had, I'd like to see you get to make more of these, you're really good for this role.

[@Beeblebum]

Thank you - I enjoyed making it. 😊

[@FunkyBaconArts]

Finally! A large drill that isn't terrible. Old large-grid drills really could do with a slight drill radius buff.

[@SpaceEngineers]

\o/ 🤩

[@Jayson_Tatum]

I'm glad that they're introducing more powerful tools while still giving them tradeoffs. It'll take time to see if this is a power creep update or not, but at least for the drill and thruster, it doesn't seem that way, which is good. There's still a use for the regular drill but it basically simplifies the process of mining large swaths of land, which makes sense given it being end game.

[@TheLasombra077]

Very nice video. I like that the hole was much larger than the drill, that will make deeper drilling much easier

[@primesgaming369]

Love the intro. Reminded me of Red vs Blue. Can't wait for this new drill. Looking good.

[@malcontender6319]

It's awesome that Keen gave each major tuber their own peek. 1:28 Jebus Christos, look at the size of that thing!

[@creeloper27]

This was super professional, loved the presentation and practical tests! Thanks for this!

[@catbehaviourchannel]

Really appreciated the effort you put into the intro!

[@annkoehler8017]

What an amazingly funny and well-made video! I can hardly believe how fast and how MUCH volume the new Prototech drills are able to produce!!

[@Luukm007A]

First time watching your channel, but you already earned my sub! Just great block analysis and I would love to see you do this on all the other prototech block once the update is out!

[@Picasso2013]

The best one in all the creators showcase, bloody good job looks like a movie!

[@Beeblebum]

Thank you, I appreciate that - although I really enjoyed all the other ones as well, everyone staying true to their style. 😊

[@Leprechaunlock]

Outstanding I can't wait to make even bigger drill set ups

[@JamesGilbey-h4q]

Big fan of Zeros Legion, glad he bought me here great video

[@TarisRedwing]

Giving us a reason to actually go get this is what im happy about. It looks cool and is efficient.

[@fredpryde8555]

wow that is awesome looking drill i wonder how hard it will be to actually get the parts needed for these prototech items i going to watch the stream god knows what time it will be on here in Australia lol looking forward to the new contact thanks for the review BB

[@JunohProductions]

I'm definitely going to be seeking to get one or two of these for a mobile tunneler/refinery.

[@eugene_cornelius]

Cool hands-on demo! Thanks for sharing.

[@chaoticserenityart]

I've never been so excited for a drill before, it's gorgeous!

[@UrbanImposter]

looks like a TBM bore head to me, probably the inspiration.

[@kubel83]

Very creative video and intro. Absolutely loved it ❤

[@wedoalittlearson7609]

I saw new drill and actually GAWKED im so pumped

[@bastiane215]

This is amazing and We will love it!! I have no doubt about it ... Thank you Keen! 🎉🎉😊

[@johndegnan5703]

This monday! I'm excited!

[@SurvivalBobGaming]

I need a Bob proof drill! This looks like it just might be it!

[@Beeblebum]

Just be careful when adding more than one of those on a rotor... 😂 they are expensive explosions, lol

[@incrediblebat]

i really like that each youtuber is revealing a different prototech block

[@Beeblebum]

Same, I was of course excited to get a piece myself - but it was really nice to go and check out the other creators as well and see what they received and how they approached it. 😊

[@mr_aluma]

Nice! I'm really excited for the update!

[@creeloper27]

0:21 This felt a ton like those trash mobile game ads with the boss and levels ahahhahahahaahha.

[@dirtypixeI]

Haha, love the intro, very funny👍

[@panemcircensesque]

This is really exciting ! One note though: I'm afraid that this being an endgame block might pose a problem. See, by the time I've built a base and/or ships able to sustain production of end game blocks, I generally am all set up in terms of ore input etc. I'm just hoping that the increased need for magnesium might partially solve this issue. Well done one the video :)

[@Beeblebum]

Well, I am calling it End-Game Blocks because that is what Keen Described them as, but SE never really seems like there is a real End Game. You will need a lot of magnesium for example to build the prototech components (Zero Legion covered that in his video).

[@mikobirra]

Heavy Mining Drill, Heavy Mega Drill, used for years :)

[@fiercedogfilms6135]

Why did the beginning remind of of those noob v pro v hacker videos 😂

[@frankmartel5775]

The drill did not collect 972K litres. It collected less than 364K litres, which converts to 972K kg. The display at [ 3:21 ] shows 364,092.07 / 421,875.01 L and that includes the stone

[@Beeblebum]

You are totally right - and I am really not sure why I said Liters - as I did not even use Liters in the script I made for the video... I guess my ADHD brain just looked at both units and combined them. 😂

[@GP22855]

Imagine a custom prototech drill digger with a rotor!

[@simplementepersona]

Why does the start gives me cursed phone game add vibes?

[@Lambda420]

Glad everyone got a piece.

[@Beeblebum]

Yeah, it was nice to see blocks and videos from other perspectives - Really good job from Keen. 😊

[@Lambda420]

@@Beeblebum yessir. Found a whole list of creators I didn’t even know about. What a slam dunk.

[@RichyN25]

Awesome new block!

[@TheOneMaster7700]

Awesome that you got to showcase this drill update. Congrats Man! Could you put like four batteries on it and drop it and time how long it takes to reach the centre of earth-like?

[@Beeblebum]

Haha.. maybe.. Might need a gyro as well.. 😅

[@evlkenevl2721]

He demonstrates the prototech drill's alt mode at 4:40.

[@Arcanidge]

Oh Yeah. GREAT Vid. Love the new content, and what SE player won't Love this?

[@JUNIsLuke]

I’ll love the mobile game add ahh intro lmao, also HOLY SHIT IS BIG Also also I’m so glad you got this

[@smokecrash2147]

the intro reminds me of those Noob vs Pro vs Cheater Minecraft videos, nice bit of nostalgia

[@TimbavatiLion]

Drill radius is the biggest factor in my opinion. Drill ships are notorius for constant repairs and replacement as the holes they dig are barely larger than themselves. This drill changes that completely.

[@LordOfThunderUK]

DrillSystem can make a square 75m wide.

[@AnonNopleb]

Amazing sketch there you did for the intro! I wouldn't call the power consumption a big advantage, even 10 kW for the rotor-drillhead is so little in this game. I am curious if those encounters become a thing on the official servers as well, because their size would make a huge difference with the limited drill count

[@sniper6823]

My god, it's beautiful.

[@ConflictZ0NE]

This is a pleasantly unexpected item to be added

[@creeloper27]

We needed a bigger vanilla drill a ton, this is fricking AWESOME! Can't wait to attach this with a large rotor head to my small grid ship for mining in space hahahahahaha.

[@Beeblebum]

Good luck... My experiments with the prototech drills and rotors were rather explosive.. so I would advice to test much of it in creative. 😂

[@creeloper27]

@@Beeblebum I see clang is not happy with the new drill, will test in creative for sure then! Thanks for the tip!

[@deltacx1059]

1:58 i don't think people realize how little that is, my garden tractor is around 13kw for reference.

[@wulfhart2]

no one: it's already endgame but you are just about to get the prototech drill. are you still going to mine? space engineers players: the real game just started.

[@mattstorm360]

Now i'm worried what will happen when you right click it.

[@steller630]

@@mattstorm360 core of the planet immediately

[@Beeblebum]

at 4:32 I show the alternate mode (I always differentiate between these as mining and digging, lol)

[@TheThiroc]

Thing looks like the one mega drill from a drill mod i used to use

[@nickifiresnow1931]

very cool!

[@Akumahiru]

omg!!! can't wait :D

[@kitsunekaze93]

attach to a hinge and make a small ship behind it and build a tunnel ship!

[@Beeblebum]

I wish you the best of luck with that.. 😂 My experiments with subgrids were... interesting, haha.

[@Sassy_Witch]

finally a huge drill. The modded ones were often really buggy

[@LordOfThunderUK]

I am guessing you have not tried DrillSystem

[@Sassy_Witch]

@@LordOfThunderUK that mod is completly outdated and as buggy/ugly wym

[@jmatya]

O. M. G. That's thing ist huge. 😅

[@hallofo8107]

While "13 meters is bigger than 9 meters" (in terms of drilled area) is true, math makes it even more impressive. 9 Meter hole = 63.62 square meters of drill area. 13 Meter hole = 132.73 square meters of drill area. So not only is it far more efficient, it drills out over TWICE the amount of stuff in terms of surface area!

[@LordOfThunderUK]

DrillSystem can make a 75m square hole

[@emilesteenkamp]

oh that is soo good. Hope i can make it to the stream. will be watching factorio vids that day as the NDA embargo lifts. does it come in a small grid? Can we see you drill to the planet core with that?

[@Beeblebum]

No small grid versions for the prototech drill - just the massive one.

[@nerdocalypse7466]

big ass drill approved

[@DobbsyLondon]

Like a full TBM

[@BackyardShenanigansYT]

I’m gonna use a 3x3 with this to make a start game with an asteroid drydock, with a Star Trek ship, ima use this to carve out an interior space

[@Beeblebum]

I would really advice to test combined drills in creative before you apply them in survival - Certain setups I made did explode violently after a while. And its gonna be a expensive one in survival.

[@BackyardShenanigansYT]

@@Beeblebum I wasn’t going to do that in survival, I was gonna carve out a space, build the station, then save the world as a start point (some how)

[@pedropimenta896]

Level 1 architect Level 12 enjiner Level 45 Master engineer

[@therealbahamut]

The tiered tech modder is either going "FINALLY" or "are you F'ing kidding me??" Personally, I've never been a fan of the "carving" functionality or of drills magically digging out rocks several meters away from the actual drill bit. It's handy, sure, but I wish they'd just make drills with heads wider than the block itself. Like how the hell is that protodrill making a hole that wide, you know?

[@Beeblebum]

Yeah, but you can put this reasoning to the test for a lot of things in this game and much won't make sense... (f.e.: how is one large grid drill able to hold +23Kl of inventory in a small space like that?) 😅

[@therealbahamut]

@@Beeblebum Fair...but that's also a completely intangible mechanic that causes almost zero effect in the game since your drills immediately empty into whatever cargo container you've got anyway. I'd be willing to bet the only reason drills even HAVE inventory at all is due to a programming limitation requiring it for stable interactions. I can see that one making it in purely for performance reasons. Given I know nothing about the code I could be entirely wrong but that's my best layman's theory.

[@shankararhuddlan270]

Beeb's I love this!!! 😂😂😂

[@janbfiala]

It would be great to also see a comparison of drilling speed; normal drills cannot go too fast or they start taking damage from the terrain. Does this new drill allow for higher drilling speeds? Also, it probably will be more efficient in terms of PCU, so that's another big plus.

[@Gorwyn]

Hey Beeblebum! Any chance of a Workshop of that very awesome looking miner at the end? I've been racking my brain with finding a good design to incorporate multiple drills and I can't get this one out of my head. Cheers!

[@Beeblebum]

Oh.. I might have to check If I made a BP of it.. lol The ship was very basic though... it was just for demonstration purposes.

[@Gorwyn]

All good man, I can probably recreate the design by referencing the video. I'm just experimenting with a bunch of different design ideas :)

[@Beeblebum]

@@Gorwyn Found it and uploaded it to the workshop 😊 steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3358999252

[@armastat]

1. Awesome video thank you. 2. Your test does not compare the amounts drilled over time, it shows yield over distance. i suspect the prototype can move farther faster without hitting the wall? having each drill type moving at its max drill speed for the same time would be an actual comparison over time. That said your test was very informative. 3. Endgame is a word that doesn't really mean what we think of it as, if an item really was an end game item we would spend all that time playing, find the item, use it once and then the game is over and we are done, lol. Late Game would be more accurate. PS: Ignore me I like to nitpick, keep up the good work.

[@Beeblebum]

Yeah, I agree on the End-Game, its pretty much a misnomer - I just adapted the naming from Keen for it. End-Game blocks also would make the blocks itself pretty useless as there was no point in collecting them. 😅 On the other hand.. the drills had the same amount of time to drill, while over the same distance - so don't these 2 comparisons hold up? I might do some other tests in the future where we compare a fixed time and set the max possible speeds for the drills.

[@armastat]

@@Beeblebum to illustrate envision two tests, one where the drills go same speed forward, like yours did. the 2nd test do the same but allows the drills to go at their max speeds forward. with max being just short of ramming the far wall and stalling (or exploding). run each test for the same amount of time. the first test does give an answer of which one collects the most ore per distance drilled. The 2nd test of course does not compare amount per distance since they travel different distances. but its running for the same amount of time. in the second test one drill will collect even more ore than it did in the 1st test. (I am assuming for this argument that the New drill will outperform the older one). However this may not be true. It could be that while it collects more ore per foo the older one may penetrate the ground at a faster rate. and thereby get more ore than the new one. Keeping in mind that sometimes what you want to do it get rid of voxels as opposed to collecting ore.

[@BlackCrypt]

Great video but I have question - why would you need to drill that much mats at end game?

[@Beeblebum]

The drill is only one of the prototech blocks, you will need a lot of resources to build the other ones - for example Magnesium for the prototech panels. And, honestly End-Game in Space Engineers really does not exist in my opinion.. I think the game or save you are playing ends when you run out of imagination and things to do. lol

[@MrTrilbe]

@@Beeblebum End game starts when you have a jump drive equipped ship and the ability to land on planets, it's at that point the game provides nothing new, the end of the game is when you get bored of it, end game =/= end of game. Hopefully Prototech will end up mid game, in the long run anyway, and within 10-20 mins of release there's probably going to be a mod to make the missing parts constructable anyway.

[@iloveplayingpr]

It's... it's... beautiful. );

[@Moj94]

Time to build myself a TBM

[@DawgSoldier]

wonder if all tools will have a prototech variant?

[@Dumbrarere]

That intro made me giggle 😂 Is this block large grid only? Or is there going to be a small grid version as well?

[@Beeblebum]

Lol, glad you liked it, and yes, only Large Grid. 👍

[@thelaughingmanofficial]

Finally. Mole Machines. a.k.a. Large Boring Drills.

[@zat-1-fury]

This reminds me of a green bean video combined with a zero legion video😅

[@dstyd]

Is there a small grid of the drill?

[@Beeblebum]

No, only Large Grid (for now?)

[@dstyd]

@@Beeblebum Odd. They have a small grid refinery and others so one would think that they would have small grid drills.

[@ecogent]

Minions!

[@Reoh0z]

Using 4 times less drills ... ❌ Using 4 Prototech drills ... ✅

[@FMHikari]

I'm still sort of upset they won't let us build those through the Prototech Assembler... Well, modding time it is.

[@kenrobertson8239]

Curious for one clarification... you mentioned the drills clears with an 18m diameter, and then on the stat screen, it says the drill radius is 13m. Are the 13m and 18m measurements the radius or the diameter? I'm already in creative designing a new mining ship, can't wait.

[@Beeblebum]

13m is when Mining, 18m is when alt-clicking or digging/clearing voxel.

[@kenrobertson8239]

@@Beeblebum meant whether it is radius or diameter. The video used both terms. Diameter is 2x radius. I am guessing it is the diameter, based on how the ship at the end mined on the asteroid.

[@Phonklab]

more secrets revealed

[@digital--hazard1905]

How do you record from 2nd or 3rd perspective in the game?

[@Beeblebum]

If you press F8 on your keyboard, you can enable Spectator - which is like a free fly camera. You probably will have to enable spectator in the settings before you start your world.

[@lukaswei4767]

There is an Endgame in SE? I Played the game for over 1.2k hours now and never heard of an endgame...

[@Beeblebum]

Yeah, I just used the terms Keen is using for the blocks - End-Game in SE is when you run out of Ideas and Imagination. 😉

[@dham99]

does it have small grid?

[@Beeblebum]

No, only Large Grid (for now?)

[@RedBeard_F]

So, if I want to have that, after update, I must create new world? Or it's possible to play on old save

[@kerbalairforce8802]

DLC is normally playable on old saves.

[@alexclaudiu3854]

@@kerbalairforce8802 This isn't DLC tho

[@Beeblebum]

I was not able to test this myself - but I assume its the same as if you would activate cargo or pirate ships on your world? I assume you should be able to enable them on existing worlds? Splitsie and Cpt. Jack did the Global Encounters, so perhaps they have answers.

[@barnmaddo]

The real question, is it large enough to fit a 5x5x5 cargo container and reactor through the hole it makes? IMO that was always an annoying limitation of plunge miners.

[@Beeblebum]

As far as I know, large cargo containers are 3x3x3? The Prototech Drill is the same size as a Industrial Cargo Container...

[@fett713akamandodragon5]

Ensign, do you see that asteroid? I no longer want to see it. Aye, aye sir, removing asteroid.

[@KMDRzuluuragankomander_zulu]

mexpex heavy drill detected...

[@friedec3622]

What I don't like the most from this game is mining on planets. No matter what your strategy is, it's always resource hungry. Is there a laser drill or something?

[@ealtar]

we used to have ships that could devour astreoids, now we can devour WORLDS !!!

[@joshua211111]

Here is the question.... Custom PROTOTECH Drill head....

[@Beeblebum]

Good luck.. haha. Many of my tests did clang out - so test carefully! I was playing an Early Version though.. so maybe it will be fixed.

[@Wolf-1911]

Can we ask KSWH to lower the mining voxel update tickrate so the ground actually deforms quicker? Sitting there with the ground popping out of existence every second isn't very fun.

[@DrJ4Y]

"we got a new update for you. It will be released on...... Monday! enjoy your weekend 😁...suckers!"

[@aloneinfinland]

so they basically reskinned the Mexpex Heavy Mining Drill.....