Space Engineers #18: The Mole

[@mrJMD]

I've been using survival kits on my miners so that any stone gets immediately turned into iron/nickel/silicon. Queue up 5000 ingots in each one and depending on how hard you're going you might need to stop every once in a while to let the stone clear through. This especially good in the very very early game when you're still building your first infrastructure. Also I've found that using small lights at max size and 1.5 intensity is less blinding with the dust than spotlights, but that's probably just personal preference. Nice builds!

[@Bigrignohio]

I think the small ship mega mod pack has small block refineries and assemblers. So you can use small block basic refineries to clear the mined stone.

[@DragonNationGaming]

It is a good idea to add interior lights around your ship to help with lighting. Spot lights were a lot more effective some time ago. I won't use production blocks on a mining ship for several reasons. I want to keep the ship as compact as possible, the stone and gravel just add more weight to the ship requiring more thrust and power, the stone and gravel use up cargo space that is better used on the useful ores, the survival kit is extremely slow and wouldn't produce enough resources in the short time to be useful.

[@dustinandrews89019]

@@DragonNationGaming I tested ejecting stone with a connector v.s. refining it in the Survival Kit, Basic Refinery and Refinery. It's marginally faster to eject stone that to refine it in the basic refinery. My conclusion is the same of yours. Ejecting stone is the best plan. Ideally you can use a port to eject the stone. It's much faster than even several small ejectors.

[@nextjaeger9271]

Id say the power thing (2:10) is because of an assembler or reffinery not being active... just a guess

[@josephwilson6651]

the frustrating part of your videos for myself,is the welding on your own part because sometimes you change things then mention it afterwords in the next segment I enjoy seeing and hearing you do, the as you go thinking and editing the design part which is the inspiration,perspiration, culmination part.

[@DragonNationGaming]

Because if I showed all that, it would require several very boring videos and a very sore throat from all the talking. Usually the talking I do in videos is the only talking I do all day. I've had a lot of sore throats since I started this channel. What I want people to take away from my videos is inspiration. I don't want people copying what I do. I want them to improve upon it. That's why I don't usually show the little changes I make to a creation.

[@Bigrignohio]

The battery power is because you were not running your production modules at the moment. And yes, Isy's inventory manager works well. Just follow the guide for assembler "learning". Otherwise it builds the wrong items.

[@DragonNationGaming]

I tested the power output before I had resources to process. Neither the assembler or the refinery were running. It's not the first time I've seen this issue. It's always been a problem to figure power requirements when using batteries.

[@dustinandrews89019]

I visited about 100 asteroids in my first survival game before I found one with Platinum and one with Uranium. The asteroids do often have two resources. Some of the deposits are deep inside, so you will want the large grid detector set to max range.

[@02091992able]

You could of used power modules on your assemblers and refinery to lower the required max power for them to operate at full production.

[@barkingbarker8291]

15:07 stone bolders (and any other ore bolders) no longer damage ship blocks when they hit them

[@DragonNationGaming]

I know. It's just an old habit to break.

[@supernaturalsoul19]

The more batterys the more efficient this is because they share the load. So they don't dump as much power do to the distribution of power.

[@the-cheeze-ity6487]

Food for thought, maybe put another solar panel rotor 90° to the other one where it can catch more sun

[@stefanokokshoorn3826]

nice another upload of space engineers

[@Bigrignohio]

Also you may want to look at the stone duster mod. Just like the ejector, but it grinds the stone (or gravel) so nothing flies around. Bonus, no sorter required.

[@DragonNationGaming]

And then you use up cargo space for more important ores. This miner is a one time use. One trip gets me all the ore I will need to build a large ship miner. It's useless to add any production to the ship.

[@sveinungchr]

still loving your videos.. but one thing i found realy effectiv in building the smaller ships like smal miners and fighters is just setting up a connected large welder(or 4).. You all ready have it on a rotor.. after rouging it out i just turn on the rotor and enable the welder.. makes building som much easier. Realy liked the ion engines you used.. gonna import that mod in to my save too.

[@DragonNationGaming]

Using the welders can be useful at times but I prefer building by hand because as I'm welding blocks I might spot a problem or come up with another idea.

[@YEAHKINDA]

28:00 Things do bye bye we likey look. This is the only way I will describe the reason why people like it. It's aesthetic for some reason

[@maniac6655]

Please ... someone tell me what is that song he is using in the Miningmontage ??? its just awesome :D

[@flemingjamess]

I would like to know as well.

[@flemingjamess]

Found it. "Blood on the Rocks" by Laurence Lee Murphy

[@maniac6655]

@@flemingjamess What a Legend :D i owe you :)

[@jeremycatches9766]

It sounded like Chris Isaak - Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing.

[@dragonscargames4808]

I feel like people forget that you can get between 4 and 6 standard ores by processing stone. You probably would have way over your need of iron and silicon with just stone. Abundance of a resource I think?

[@DragonNationGaming]

Not really. Stone only gets you a fraction of what you would get with the actual ore. Also, gravel still doesn't have much use. You would be mining a resource that you will never use.

[@jessecastor2579]

That signal is saying mayday I went and looked at one in my worlds in creative and it’s good loot

[@DragonNationGaming]

No spoilers.

[@jeremycatches9766]

As long as you are using azimuth stuff then you should use the azimuth drills.

[@d-obvious]

That inventory manager "Is-e" (isy's) inventory

[@tanndlin1184]

What is that block that you used to keep the Mole from flying away when you built it? The one you started the stem off of

[@DragonNationGaming]

Rotor and then a projector

[@tanndlin1184]

Dragon Nation Gaming Thanks so much! Love your videos, keep it up!

[@Dustmuz1]

im Curious.. 3900 Uranium ore - turned into 9100 ingots of uranium?? how? :D hehe

[@DragonNationGaming]

3900 liters to 9100 kg. Why is everyone focused on the trivial stuff that doesn't matter? It was a video on building a miner and everyone is focused on everything but the miner.

[@petrexis_]

@@DragonNationGaming i thing we were just curious where did ya get that much of an uranium ingots in such short period of time (you said u were mining like 2 hours), because for 9100 uranium ingots you would need to refine almost an million of uranium ore with refinery equipped with 4 efficiency modules, and i'm not even counting the spent time in refining all of it (7.7 hours), btw ur videos are nice, keep up the good work o7

[@DragonNationGaming]

@@petrexis_ I said it took me a couple of hours to find the ores. I always take the time to grab more uranium and Iron. I usually make 4 or 5 trips for iron and I'll take even more trips for uranium. It was 4 or 5 days between episodes. What do you guys think I do between episodes?

[@isaias-1713]

tunnel to the other side of the asteroid and you will always have light to power your base with solar panels

[@DragonNationGaming]

No you won't

[@TrailerProvider]

@@DragonNationGaming you can simply make another solar panel on other side of asteroid... Just connect your grids together

[@DragonNationGaming]

@@TrailerProvider Why would I? That would be a lot of work just for one episode. A huge waste of time.

[@dragonscargames4808]

I was thinking that even if it takes a million years if I get a computer and SE.

[@dragonscargames4808]

@@DragonNationGaming that depends. I personally would because that's more viewers. You'd be one of the smartest ones. Not saying you aren't 😒, but you'd stick out much more from the rest if you do stuff like this. But it'd make less people rage and get ocd etc.

[@Black_Knight48]

Dragon would u make a space station as your space base just above earth and a mobile base (mainly wheels) with everything u would need to explore the planet 😊 ?

[@DragonNationGaming]

Eventually.

[@Black_Knight48]

@@DragonNationGaming great

[@eternialogic]

Really overkill on the power there. I also hate the new asteroid veins.

[@FredRated1967]

Didn't build my space miner quite this way, but similar to my earth miner, I had sorters and ejectors along the side to get rid of stone. Kind of funny to see the stone suspended in space in a line from the asteroids I mined.

[@hunnybunnysheavymetalmusic6542]

Do ejectors act as THRUST in this game? ~( 'w')/

[@hunnybunnysheavymetalmusic6542]

IT WOULD SEEM that RULE # 1 for solar power is, PLACE SOLAR PANELS AT THE POLES!!! \( 'w')/ At least... ~( 'w')/ It SEEMS that should be the prime directive on that issue... ~( ,m,)~

[@cheesehat6420]

I feel like the jump drive is gona waste ALOT of energy

[@DragonNationGaming]

It's not a waste when it saves hours of flying around from one asteroid to another.

[@Locomotor1979]

lol the connectors when you connectit whit a ship the solar rotor whill be in the way

[@cooler8484]

Lol, bro you called Isy's, ISIS!!! Easy mixup if you never heard someone say it, but funny 😎

[@thatrandommememan9900]

Get gravel genorator mod eats gravel turns it into power

[@DragonNationGaming]

Too unrealistic for me. It's a good idea to get rid of stone though.

[@TheElafis]

@@DragonNationGaming or graver to light block :) save iron

[@kemloorkavarian4461]

ive been playing SE with my Brother and several friends on a private server. i was curious why you decided to use only specific Azimuth mods. there is a collection of all of them available in a single pack on the workshop, the Azimuth Complete Mega Mod Pack~(DX-11 Ready). it has all of your current azimuth mods plus a ton more, really awesome stuff. Keep up the Awesomesauce playthrough Rich, lovin it. more vids tho, once a week aint enuf! i know i know, life can get in the way but do wut you can man

[@DragonNationGaming]

You answered your own question. I don't use mod packs because it has a ton of mods that I don't use. Keep the mod count low and your PC will thank you.

[@Defunkedoak12]

Doesn’t have gravity generator: doesn’t use magboots Has gravity generator: doesn’t use gravity generator If you don’t use it, why have it using power?

[@cooler8484]

O just fuck off..

[@DragonNationGaming]

Because I think of other people. The blueprint is on the steam workshop for others to use and some people do use gravity.

[@creater20225]

i would love to play with ya