Semi-autonomous mining platform (no scripts) || Space Engineers

[@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am]

It kinda looks like a bacteriophage, and I'm all for it!

[@D_Rogers]

I was thinking the same!! :D Creepy, but practical..

[@AtariEric]

Agent Smith inconsolable.

[@returntosenderfenderbender5415]

It's literally called H.I.V

[@deimuader]

@@returntosenderfenderbender5415 but HIV is not a bacteriophage

[@returntosenderfenderbender5415]

@@deimuader nerd

[@jones1171]

Absolutely brilliant. I had a design like this but it was much more cumbersome and I had it as a large grid. Splitting the carrier and the miner is genius

[@Rexhunterj]

Specialize, instead of making grids/ships that do some/many things, make them do one or two things very well.

[@fulconini]

If there was an easy way of producing these you could just setup like and army of these and then just collect them once they get to the surface. Very cool concept

[@Pro100tv9]

I was thinking that the rotor/piston arms could actually be replaced with static arms, then slap some magplates there, sync it all and perhaps it could work similar

[@axelander_ish]

@@Pro100tv9 I tried something similar. If was single piston caterpillar with drilling head. Worked on some angles against voxel grid, failed at others. Wall roughness is a problem :(

[@lattitude01]

you could build a production gantry for them, the time spent building the gantry could arguably be better spent just hand building a couple of those, but once the gantry is built you could start stamping them out in rapid succession.

[@jimbothegymbro7086]

if you make a crane you can blueprint the subgrids and connect the pistons and hinges once you've printed them out, it's a little more tedious to do but viable for survival

[@itzaleaf405]

What would be amazing was if you could drop them into various areas from orbit drop pod style, and they would automatically mine out where they land, then later come in with a large ship to pick them all up! Granted that would be absurdly difficult to do to say the least...

[@redpug5042]

just like those vehicles that build their own tracks, but without all the complexity it goes on forever, i like it.

[@ethanbunch3274]

This is actually a really cool design! I have been wanting to design a mining platform that wants built will stay in place and mine material. I wanted to design the head to expand as it drills out more and this is giving me some inspiration for recreating my project

[@samueleveleigh2767]

"nearly impossible to recreate in survival" yea i get the feeling that survival building limits is what really holds the game back these days. the 3D printing department really needs an overhaul by keen

[@marcinZiom17]

Not very practical imo, but still, I truly love these unconvential builds. They make the game so much more interesting

[@mattstorm360]

Who needs practicality when it's this cool?

[@indeepjable]

pure practicality would result in bricks/cubes i think

[@nullpoint3346]

@@indeepjable Hence a few physics mods that punish bricks in atmosphere.

[@syrusalder7795]

Imagine not using a massive wall of drills attached to a congaline of pistons attached directly to your base

[@EddyKorgo]

Space Imagineers. Just imagine TM Because thats all there is to this game... game engine/creator. Its not even game. You have to create a game your self. Base. Yeah lovely only if there was enough ore deposits to build permanent base for continues mining.

[@johncasey9544]

@@EddyKorgo servers exist

[@vert2552]

This is very cool With current event blocks you coupd also detect when cargo is full and have additional steps to eg. Stop moving or even request a cargo drone or something!

[@johnm9263]

theres a plugin you can install for servers or singleplayer that allows for subgrid projection, and theres plugins and mods that allow you to instantly project full grids, at the cost of material and power, with varying efficiencies at varying speeds

[@Nillkiggas911]

A very smart design, time to steal it

[@Танкозера]

I would slapped parachutes on it, than mass prodused and dropped from the ships on ore deposits, then i can just fly around and collect materials as soon as drills get to the surface, and then just move them to a new place. And i'd set up some kind of signal device, that will activate when machine will surface

[@fanjerry8100]

A similar energy effficiency could be created on a single grid that spin around using gyros, there would be lift fans but they only need to activate when ship is ready to leave the bore hole.

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

Essentially, have the lift thrusters like normal but only for exit, but no attitude thrusters, and just let the weight of the thing dig down while locked gyros keep it upright? Not a bad idea.

[@fanjerry8100]

It can also be wide and thin, and spin with gyros to cover a large area with few drills.

[@LiliumCruorem]

This is an awesome build. I’ve been looking for a smarter way to bore tunnel for base building. I’ve been using a projector and warheads to drill big holes like that lol. But now I can get the resources from it too!

[@tiggerbiggo]

it's definitely possible to make this in survival - although it would be extremely impressive if anyone managed it. Great job with the build :P

[@EddyKorgo]

Before you finish it you get bored.

[@Rither_Venmere]

This is a revolutionary development in Space Engineers history

[@matthewgillies7509]

Suggestion for printable version (~ denotes temorpary connection): Core body with disconnected hinges and down piston ~ to leg thighs (hinge part + armour blocks + piston base) ~ to leg calves. Merge blocks should be created to attach the piston heads to the next stage. Feet can be added after or additional armour block added for temporary merge connection. Core body then ~ to drill rotor base. To merge drill's down piston with rotor, add small conveyor block to piston head, and merge block on the side of the rotor. Rotor base ~ to drill apparatus which will already have a piston head in the correct location. Merely grind down the temporary connection and then attach the rotor parts to each other. Drill's pistons on the mining rig can have their feet completed separately, or again merged to the main grid. This should allow you to make a single grid projection of this mining rig.

[@Pro100tv9]

Automated production line that mass produces those in such way would be awesome

[@elfyyy]

I'll try making this printable some day but it seems like it would be a bitch to get it right lol

[@akaven1643]

That's nice ! I made one different, totally static with a rotative arm with rotative head of 5/6m that goes down every 2min to made a huge circle, it works on earth and also more easily in space, and it's automatic

[@elfyyy]

Thank you so much for the shout out

[@Pro100tv9]

No problem, great craft!

[@johnleroy5088]

Hey elfy, is this published on the workshop and if it is, can it be used on xbox?

[@elfyyy]

@@johnleroy5088 the link to it is in the video description I don't know if this works on consoles, I would assume it does

[@kurntechdouglas233]

dam u the GOD OF drone automation love your videos

[@КапитанОгурчик]

Я впечатлён. Выглядит шикарно

[@paulmccoy2334]

Ive seen your videos quite a few times, and ive tried to recreate a simular design, ive came close to a cool design but yours always seems to work out the best thus far. im still learning SE and how to upload the the Workshop. just to give you a headcount on how many times ive failed. lets just say i stayed focued on the design for 3 weeks ive made 13 models n ive got 2 so far but way too big so. thus far nothing working at 100%.. so very nice work and congradulations on a working model

[@TronNinja]

We've got wormsign! Call the carrier!

[@parmesanzero7678]

I’ve been trying to work out how to build something exactly like this so I’m both excited to see this and disappointed that I didn’t figure it out before I saw this. 😊

[@bragapedro]

Amazing concept! It's really a shame that you can't just build it straight out of a projector, though

[@Pro100tv9]

Agree, I wish it was possible

[@matthewgillies7509]

@@Pro100tv9 the core element of it could be constructed at least partially using merge blocks, when creating a "printable" version of the BP. I have some experience with this in designing custom turrets for my bases, which include various subgrids, which have been disconnected from each other and temporarily merged to the core grid.

[@honzasenbauer612]

I think there is an addon for allowing subgrids in a projector. I am definitely going to build myself one, and I am gonna try it out. Maybe even have the carrier land on top of the hole for further energy savings, and adjust the sensor range so the miner will still do its job. I might also consider adding more legs to the miner so it climbes out of the hole by itself, but then why build the carrier in the first place

[@shahbazfawbush]

But you can with the sub grid projector plugin. It works great.

[@matthewgillies7509]

@@shahbazfawbush I don't use addons, and plugins for some reason crash my game, and since I play primarily on the official servers, all my creations are purely Vanilla.

[@noahbluecoat]

These are the type of drones I want in space engineers.

[@mael3527]

This is incredible ! I love this concept ! Very well done !

[@oldtimefarmboy617]

Cool. You figured out a way to dig a hole without removing anything from the hole.

[@khadrogo4797]

Love this concept, nice work

[@dude2542]

brilliant, simple but brilliant, also great design!

[@MrKhaled306]

This is anything but simple Im trying to do something even similar and i can’t do it I am playing on console If you find me in space don’t be hostile i have all white flags up

[@jamessmith8727]

Superb. Very creative 👍

[@av6728]

It really irks me that most things in Space Engineers that are mechanically complicated in any way tend to be infeasible due to either clang or the fact that you're not allowed to do anything but make a small boring flying brick on most servers

[@The-Lonely-Nexus]

I just love the design with the legs ! Too confusing to set up for me

[@axelander_ish]

Can it be used with any available cargo drones from the box? Also printing it in survival should be possible with multigrid projector plugin. If author prepares it a little bit.

[@Pro100tv9]

Hey, I believe it is possible to use a PAM-based cargo drone that is paired with a sensor

[@axelander_ish]

@@Pro100tv9 Can you please give me a clue on how? PAM is my preferred drone type, but I always thought that PAM and moving base connectors are incompatible by design.

[@Pro100tv9]

So this platform will go back to surface once it reaches the distance of 50 meters between itself and the carrier. I'm not certain about that, but I suspect that once it gets back on the surface it will be the exact (or hopefully close enough) spot as it entered the shaft. So if the PAM drone would be programmed to get into those coordinates, it could first save this position as the first stop(job start position), drop the miner, and then, once it completes the job, reconnect to it, and throught the sensor-timer combination start the cargo run. Please keep in mind that I didn't test this solution yet, so I cannot say that this will work for certain

[@axelander_ish]

@@Pro100tv9 Sounds good, but it needs extensive testing. From my head it looks like final position may fluctuate a lot. Based on my previous experience with those pesky voxels :) Actually it may be good enough, if there will be static catching funnel on top of the shaft.

[@Clint_Beastwood87]

I built this with multigrid projector,its hard to weld by hand so i used moded wizardry to do it for me.

[@ghere212]

Truly amazing piece of work!

[@roidroid]

this is somewhat similar to how real-world tunnels are bored if they have a significant angle.

[@ShadowPaladin55]

So, this could be survival friendly. Multigrid Projector mod & Plug in for SE would let you build it, but it would be in the 2 parts (ship and miner)

[@friedec3622]

So complicated. My mining method just utilize custom turret controller. 1. Drill down straight to the ore deposit 2. Make mining shaft from conveyor tubes 3. Make custom turret with drill and pistons 4. On the surface, make wind turbines or solar panel with a battery. You can easily reach millions of ore before adding more piston to reach farther ore.

[@thegamerdudeabides]

This is absolutely beautiful.

[@boomdini9744]

Nothing short of magnificent.

[@kerbalairforce8802]

I'm imagining a river miner that drives down at a 30-40° tunnel angle.

[@gozzilla177]

I made a very large mobile mining rig, like a flying box land it over the ore press the button and it will mine for like 2 hours (maybe 1 hour? Idk bin awhile) and shut off, with optional stone toss, it also refines all the more into ingots and can process ice into H2 or O2 for your needs all you gotta do is pull up a proper cargo ship and load up! Altough its not nearly as cool as this little guy, spider miner wins hands down lol

[@Exis247]

Tip: plugin loader + multi-grid projection mod.

[@ClangandChiill]

Interesting. very similar in concept to my walking miner the nautili. locking to the drill head is a interesting idea, saves having to articulate the legs. Tho I suspect that would limit it to only vertical shafts since if horizontal it would sag during the advance movement and end up with curved tunnels.

[@friendlyfire3412]

It looks like Drills from Satisfactory. The smolls ones... Instead of Big body... They decided to put big legs instead. It really do. Just check it out! But I think you never played it :D

[@wesleymcfarlane9612]

Love it . Excellent

[@ara8692]

Imagine this but you leave it unattended and a drone flies by (automaton) to pick the ore up

[@somedude1771]

There are some mods that help with subgrid blueprinting and building. It's been a bit so idr the name but it worked a year ago or so.

[@Messir]

Very elegant and impressive.

[@PplkSznycel]

Ciekawa maszyna, pozdrawiam.

[@Upsidedowndog27]

Imagine using this in a multiplayer server with your friends and you’re job as the miner is to just go pick up and drop off new bots

[@chriswhittington5790]

Have you thought about making it all one grid with merge blocks with the sub-grids detached and the merge blocks replaced with normal blocks before blueprinting? In theory that should make it all one grid and printable in survival, unless there're too many sub-grids and would overall ruin the miner?

[@elfyyy]

A printable version of this would be cool, but it also sounds like a nightmare to get right I'll give it a go sometime, see how it ends up

[@popanda3652]

im in the process of building a small footprint mining ship to acompany my floating base. this gives me ideas

[@michaeletzel4877]

“Nearly impossible to fully recreate it in survival” 😂😂

[@RainOrigami]

I absolutely love this

[@DaMetaEX]

KLANG has his eyes on you. rotor pistons are notirous physic breakers.

[@goldridder]

This is pretty sweet 👌🏼

[@deathhog]

very impressive, but the equivalent amount of effort could be put into a 13x13 drill head, that is connected to about 10 Pistons, that just drill straight down.

[@commanderfreakkz5688]

Imagine this has grinder and you drop to an enemy base and grind through roof top of the base

[@geronimo5537]

Hmm I like the idea. However clang would forever consume this in multiplayer.

[@daveo2992]

Can't put rotors on ships, causes them to turn uncontrollably and if you LG to the ground it clanga and blows up

[@dudupintarolas5214]

You should make aversion of theze for attack they look like they could easely snipe important Systems

[@SinnerD2010]

My only issue with this design is that single sm. grid large cargo box is gonna fill up real quick. Other than that, fucking amazing 😁👍

[@Areanyusernamesleft]

Now this is engineering!

[@rubenscheuer519]

Ingenious!

[@spartan876_A28]

Ah this reminds me of the machine drill from the matrix revolutions

[@ColinRichardson]

I did wonder how that would get itself out the hole since the bottom pistons would no longer be in play. Floating platform makes sense

[@AniFan121]

it did seem like that the miner had landing-gears at the side of the drilling part

[@yamahsghost]

Piston and routers... * Shivers in clang*

[@snowwhite7677]

Looks like it needs 8 legs instead of four. This would allow 4 legs to move while the other 4 stabilize.

[@librariantopokemon]

it kinda does, on the drill head itself.

[@cross7693]

Looks really cool, but it a shame it has so many subgrids so it almost unbuildable by hand/projectors. My proven design was 6x6 wheel base with drills on multiple pistons and lile 14 timer block to mine at good enough speed

[@Душнила-т1я]

Это замечательно, что он использует свои же стены, чтобы держаться за них, но что если бур попадёт в пещеру и 2 из 4 ногам не за что будет держаться

[@HUNmerlin]

brutal

[@thegamingeconomist3831]

That's brilliant! Wish it worked in survival.

[@K.M.3.]

With Automatons Released this would work even better.

[@alexross915]

man that looks very good

[@ronh8126]

I wonder if you could recreate it in survival using the new AI Event controller block and timer blocks. Hmm🤔

[@chrisbacon3071]

It’s beautiful!

[@BuilderB08]

Wait a second… Semi Autonomous Mining Platform… S.I.M.P. It’s called the SIMP.

[@LittleRedDevil3]

great idea, but its just way to slow, but a good AFK miner at least

[@yelectric1893]

I love this.

[@ludbud57]

Looks very cool, but that storage will just fill up in like 10 seconds lol

[@MCD10000]

Dude multiple subgrids aren't a problem if you know how to set it up as a spure

[@ProtoFurry.Original]

Are thos magnetic pads if they are I can probably make a bootleg version of that

[@everagustin6811]

I made it in survival with only the video as reference, it was hard tough

[@БРРРРР-ъ8ы]

Гениально

[@ninetailedfox9906]

Can you do a building tutorial video?

[@Plisko1]

A semi autonomus mining vehicle that can't be created in survival? For what?

[@rileygusk3273]

I think she meant with a printer

[@RouxQvixote]

I tried to build something similar but I was stuck at the mechanical concept

[@Layla_Escariot]

All you need is a few merge blocks

[@scanerang]

Seems very useful! Does it work sideways? Might be nice for tunneling

[@elfyyy]

it works in any angle even upside down as long as the inner legs are attached to a surface but for tunnelling you might look for something bigger, look for Vendeta44 on the workshop, one of his submissions was the inspiration for this ship and is way bigger than mine

[@denisshepelev1966]

Looks 😃👍 like it!

[@ahsokatano6059]

more like a test to see if you can anger clang

[@Ming1975]

What's dumb is that by the time you can build that, you won't need it.

[@blueocean7363]

is there a video that showcases how it s done?

[@jamesnorton2134]

That cannot be created in survival huh? Challenge accepted ;)

[@Kolljak]

Stop making me feel inadequate.

[@TheDarkCatYT]

Clang has claimed this one

[@krismoore8895]

This is pure genius 👏 would u possibly be adding this to mod io I loved your auto miner as a remote drone on xbox works mint

[@Pro100tv9]

Hey Kris, unfortunately I'm not the author of this drone, but you can ask him directly over here: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2824531886&searchtext= And perhaps he will upload it to mod io

[@krismoore8895]

@@Pro100tv9 sadly I can't post on steam I keep trying my heart out but I used my account and my brother's and we can't leave comments

[@Nikotinbetyar]

How did you maneged to not anger lord clang

[@andymarcelli2835]

There are mods to project subgrids.