Space Engineers - Asteroid Drill

WORKSHOP LINK : steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles...
Hey guys ! Second ship from me ! :)
This one is a large asteroid drill made of two parts : the head that contains the drills and the body that contains everything else, including lots of containers.
What makes this drill special is that the drills are separated from the storage containers by a rotor but they can still be connected to them using connectors.
The head of the drill contains two large containers used as a ore buffer. Once they are all full, the pilot has to pause the drill head, wait for it to align with the body thanks to the magnetism of the connectors, lock these connectors, empty the ore buffer into the main storage, unlock and start drilling again.
The ship is totally usable in survival mode since every necessary parts are connected to one another and the amount of drills and blocks is reasonable and realistic.
it's maybe not the design that will give you the more ore / minute but at least it make slick holes !
Hope you like it ! Comments are appreciated ! :D

[@MartyLuminarty]

That connector design is pretty damn clever.

[@MegaSim3]

Ba Sing Se will fall.

[@ZxCrono]

I'll have to keep this design in mind when I build my deployable planet core driller That is a very smart drill head...

[@doctorsquiggle6020]

I've been playing this game as long as you have and this is pure nostalgia

[@JonCFyrebyrd]

An extremely realistic and highly inventive design. High amounts of creativity and ingenuity are required for such amazing creations so kudos to the creator.

[@nubeees]

I've always loved tunnel bores! This is a work of art!

[@TheAxel4444]

That is fucking glorious.

[@abstractismpython2302]

Idk about anyone else but this was wayyyy too satisfying lol

[@overlean1]

6 people who disliked don't like "slick holes". Awesome build man, well done

[@enthusiasticamateur8516]

that ship has sharp teeth, good work. i have just got the game and with only 7 hours in game i can only dream of building something like that.

[@topcat2015]

what you have here good sir is a bona fide TBM tunnel boring machine. well done. large scale mining operations will never be the same.

[@andresklopp]

Of all the mining ships i have seen this is the most realistic looking. Great work mate.

[@kruleworld]

friggin awesome, like the big tunnel borers

[@tianszechreich8062]

wow, amazing idea about using connector like that

[@DarkSamers]

Found it in wrokshop!!! "Asteroid Drill - Steinbrecher [no mods]" That's what your looking for.

[@Prich1010]

What if you drilled a massive hole into an asteroid, then created a tube shaped base to secure inside the hole with landing gears.

[@yudka3285]

In vanilla you can't operate with asteroids this way. You have to put a block into asteroid and than use any type of intersection.

[@lil_brando98]

That's incredible.

[@Reggiland]

currently making a scaled down version in my survival with a friend. this is so cool.

[@user-neptune84]

Now that's well made drill well done well done

[@waterlubber]

It looks like a 12v car socket. Really cool!

[@MrDanials1]

Holding down the right mouse equipped with Drill destroys the rocks instead of collecting them.

[@AlphaandOmega0237]

this ship only works for destroying asteroids using the right click function if you want this for mining ore you're out of luck I made a exact copy of this ship and it does not work in survival for ore mining still a cool concept though

[@YAHGOA]

Impressive, I was hoping you'd show off the spoils though...

[@sirbushwookie3807]

Holy ship! That is awesome

[@starburst98]

the new advanced spinning bits that can connect to connectors means the head can transport to the body while spinning now.

[@CockatooDude]

Wow, as far as mining ships go, I have not seen a more efficient one. Well done.

[@Estupitastico]

WOAH. That's pure awesomeness!

[@YezaOutcast]

impressive design and very well thought out idea !

[@phillipahlers5948]

Real nice ship man. I was thinking about a planet drill too, but your ship is way better than my tries ;)

[@Brutalyte616]

Mount one of these things onto a large ship and you can turn any sizeable asteroid into a well-camouflaged and well-protected base in a matter of minutes.

[@101m4n]

Ngl, this thing is pretty damn impressive...

[@FlyingJetpack1]

This ship is amazing, can you please upload it to the steam worshop?

[@captainwallard2788]

this is absolutely genius.

[@RunikalXyz1]

This is insanely cool, nice job

[@seven4seven]

Fantastic ship, love it!

[@zanatherkalveleri6927]

by far one of the best mining ships to date, and fast too

[@Mortian]

Wow dude amazing work!!!

[@ederanged7960]

Incredible, look at that perfect smooth cylinder.

[@0siris85]

that was awesome, great job man!

[@JMPERager]

Amazing, much more efficient than the flat mining matrixes some people make, unless this one is used in "god-mode" and the ship is unbreakable.

[@NowellHolmes]

Love it! That's a well-made miner!

[@mosser-wm3dx]

that is way to fucking cool, you could even use leftover wholes at deep bases inside the asteroid with a wicked ass tunnel leading it. dude, i must know how u made this!

[@StarCoreSE]

***** Thanks. This ship is obsolete since the andvanced rotor came out. You can find an updated model on the workshop if you're interested (steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=331552338&searchtext=steinbrecher), but it's not working very well though. I may create a new version for the arrival of panels, maybe.

[@mosser-wm3dx]

hmm, when i get a rig capable of playing without dreadful fps, ill look into it. computers aint cheap lol

[@moonshadow360]

***** Grinders would work better, plus you could salvage a whole base worth of materials. Star Core Neat ship man. now that they have the advanced toolbars, you should set a hotkey for the engines to idle at about 10-15kn, that way you don't have to throttle the thrust like that. It should auto through the asteroid (or planet). If you get a bunch of shifting while its on auto, turn off tool shake, or slap a bunch of gyroscopes on it.

[@RadekNiec]

this is just insane!! :-D thanks dude

[@dameonsmith937]

Best mining ship, so far. Very impressive.

[@WalrusQuake]

This is amazing

[@daniyalkhan9614]

Damn that is one sick build. Very nice. Just played it a few hours so i hope i will be able to build something similar :)

[@Kamizoll44]

Great job! :D

[@user-wn9ch5yp6g]

really good work :)

[@joule400]

few recommendations to improve this a little bit 1 put thrusters in back to override so they keep speed around 1-2m/s and hotkey them on off so you can quickly stop them if something goes wrong 2 max out gyroscope override. this will make it so even if you move mouse as fast as you can the ship will not spin around. it can still move up down left right forward and back but not in any other way.

[@nexxt777_]

Nicely Made! :D

[@Zamolxes77]

That's a very ingenious design, by far the best i ever seen, and it mimics a tunnel-borer machine. One flaw however: no way to transfer stuff OFF the ship to your refinery, no connectors.

[@Obsidi3]

That's AWESOME :0

[@bits3608]

This video used amaze, it was very effective!

[@ThunderDraws]

cooles design, macht schöne runde löcher! :D

[@pipopt]

Amazing!

[@etriussloyd4383]

dear God it's beautiful, might use something similar once I get this game on pc

[@LostMortal]

*Nice, like a Worm*

[@Kotomatsukami]

So far i haven´t seen a better ship!! It´s absolutely amazing and looks very realistic to me...reminds me of Machines drilling to Zion :D (or rather O.o)

[@slaveofself1015]

way easier to do with adv rotor now, great idea with connectors

[@marcelbrunmayr3694]

Coolest and most efficient miner i've seen yet, definitly deserves a like.Edit: Are you german? Greetings from Austria anyway. ;)

[@miguelrodriguez-pineroriva6713]

incredible!

[@nicholasperrin1097]

You, Sir, have way more patience in building than I, Lol, amazing creation!

[@JamesSmith-vg9gc]

Schön gemacht

[@zbytoczywiste]

I`m in love. Just started with that game, but I look at ppl projects and feel awesome :)

[@jackb8677]

really fun to watch these videos like this... lol it makes me laugh to see its effectiveness

[@tassie7325]

That is a beast

[@antaeuscelestial1099]

GLORIOUS!!!!

[@lolerthegoat8603]

Just wow!

[@icemanv16999]

Impressive :)

[@hardwolf5]

Masterpiece

[@_deadlyjay_3365]

good job dude I just got the game and I want to be able to make stuff like that I mean you hollowed out an entire asteroid in seconds takes me more like 20 minutes XD and that's with the top grade stuff xD

[@Frostlegend14]

Mind blowing....

[@2xghostx2]

incredibly effective...

[@Arancarrar]

"Steinbrecher" ^^ Classic German Engineering seen! Nice Job Landsmann

[@MineFeeder]

This is kick ass

[@illustriouschin]

holy shit that was fast. break setting huh, pretty cool.

[@lordraven6534]

You Guys Are Fucking Genius!!

[@jarinthunder]

Wunderbar komerad!

[@AdmiralBeatdown]

Even with new materials coming out I can see this miner that would half to take a lot of updates for it to go out of service

[@Vanewolf29]

What this machine reminds me of is Tunnel Boring Machine used to make subway's and tunnels in mountains for trains and automobiles. Incredible. Well built.

[@brendonmilligan1399]

Thats what i thought too when i saw it, I was thinking "Space freeway tunneling machine"

[@cybranify]

i was thinking the same thing once i saw the face of the drill head

[@ClimberD-tn3xl]

Vanewolf29 yeah it's called a mole. Pretty amazing

[@MrKarnator]

Impressive.

[@Tuttomenui]

So damn cool!!!

[@krallopian]

Oh man that music is so bloody familiar =D

[@setogod]

wow this would be cool for the planet update also reminds me of the film the core or core

[@Graystripe000]

+setogod ]-[ That movie screwed with me so bad when I was a kid... Someone should rebuild that drill from "The Core" and see how well it actually works. (Might need a need front end though)

[@Schnipo]

realy cool :D

[@Shinzon23]

interesting design; you could have used the grouping feature to make it easier to empty things, but overall, nice proof of concept.

[@Light_Wz]

Hmm, how well would it work against large ships?

[@StarCoreSE]

gerpar250 Depends whether they are made of stone :)

[@thedudeguy242]

Star Core *Cough cough* I think you mean... Depends on whether they are made of stone ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@Dark3nedDragon]

gerpar250 Attach grinders.

[@Light_Wz]

We must have a planet sized one of these, or at least a moon sized one.

[@StarCoreSE]

gerpar250 Well this one is already making the game laggy, so let alone a bigger one. SE has some serious performance issues, especially with mining. And now that planets are out, it's putting computers on their knees. Mine has 8 gigs of RAM and can run most recent games with high settings, and yet I can't run SE smoothly.

[@piecat4105]

It's loooks like a worm!

[@Anonymous-fl7mz]

drill planet!!!

[@MyNameJameBoy]

id like to see someone do this to a planet

[@EricLidiak]

There are advanced rotors now that have a conveyor belt in them.

[@withermanpl4268]

impressive thing

[@Grybeard]

I built this in survival. I have made some modifications. I put collectors in the front and a sphere grav gen in the drill. I have 1 large reactor and it is more then enough power. I have 4 large cargo containers in the drill and 4 more in the hull. I also put in 4 refineries. As soon as i stop the drill and lock the connectors the refineries pull from the head and refine. A couple things I have had though. The leading ramps on the drill head keep getting destroyed as well as the occasional drill. It also does not mine anywhere near as fast as this one appears to. It has a habbit of drifting to one side. Maybe I need more gyros.

[@ayandragon2727]

Think of the combat capabilities ramming a capital class with this. You would need a lot more thrusters though.

[@warrenb.3574]

And I add a note : How to take all materials send on space by drilling? If you think about that, with just one drilling, you can kill your near station and all people with meteorite rain. Look your drilling from outside your ship when you see your drill eat the asteroid to understand.

[@bachelorfrog]

congratulations! great ship! but the ore is lost?

[@StarCoreSE]

It depends on which mouse button you mine with. But maybe it has changed, I haven't played for a while.

[@Hotstuff5743]

That's like the monster of TBM's :P Hopefully one day i get that good as i only just started playing this the other day. Hoping to build a TBM type driller just not as big.

[@StarCoreSE]

I have no idea what TBM means but good luck :)

[@Hotstuff5743]

TBM is short for Tunnel Boring Machine. It's kinda the industry name for a mining machine that bores tunnels of all sizes for laying sewer, water, gas pipes or for making subway, railway or other underground transportation tunnels.

[@CharlieZC]

thats coolest thing i ever saw is it on workshop?

[@user-fl4sf8sk3y]

Crazy

[@elijahmafk6910]

Häst du cool gemacht