Space Engineers Building an Automatic Drill Rig | Timer Blocks and Event Controllers Tutorial Part 2

Welcome back to our Space Engineers tutorial series! In Part 2, we continue building the ultimate automatic drill rig by diving deep into programming Timer Blocks and Event Controllers. This step-by-step guide will help you automate your drill rig for maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
In this video, you'll learn:
How to set up and program Timer Blocks, Event Controllers, Pistons, Rotors and programmable blocks for automated drilling sequences
The role of Event Controllers in automating your drill rig
Practical examples of using Timer Blocks and Event Controllers in your drill rig setup
Tips and tricks for optimizing your automatic drill rig
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:28 Section 1.0 - Event Controller 00
00:02:48 Section 1.1 - Event controller 01
00:04:19 Section 1.2 - Event Controller 02
00:06:26 Section 1.3 Event Controller 03
00:07:57 Section 2.0 Timer Block 00 START
00:10:24 Section 2.1 Timer Block 01 PAUSE
00:12:12 Section 2.2 - Timer Block 02 RESET
00:13:45 Section 2.3 - Timer block 03 Reset 2nd
00:15:45 Section 2.4 - Timer Block 04 UNEVEN GROUND
00:16:33 Section 2.5 UNEVEN GROUND 2nd
00:17:08 Section 2.6 Timer Block 06 MAX DEPTH
00:19:03 Section 2.7 - Timer Block 07
00:21:34 Section 2.8 - Timer Block 08
00:22:51 Section 2.9 Timer Block Overview
00:25:24 Section 3 - Setting for Pistons and rotors
00:25:42 Section 3.1 - Depth Piston Settings
00:26:13 Section 3.2 Rotor Settings
00:27:58 Section 4.0 Programable Block Scripts
00:28:38 Section 4.1 Disable auto assign
00:31:16 Section 5 - Solar Alignment Setup
00:32:49 Section 6 - Setting share inertia tensor
00:33:15 Section 7 - Starting resources
00:34:17 Section 8 - Optional Extras
00:37:21 Section 9 - Programming Your Button Panel
00:38:24 Section 10 - Setting up for autocrafting
00:39:43 Fixing Mistakes balancing storage
00:47:53 Section 11 - Teasers and Spoilers for survival series
00:49:28 Section 12 - Troubleshooting
00:51:48 Section 13 - Why the content has stalled for a bit
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[@listerman]

Thanks for the tutorial. For your “issue” of not knowing it has finished. Maybe add an extra event controller to check if all pistons (depth and width) are “fully” extended and have it trigger an extra timerblock to retract all, stop rotors and drills. That would be a nice sign that it has finished

[@sh3rmangaming]

Agreed when i was building and testing the rigs i hadn't kept the world open for the full 24 hours needed for the rig to finish the entire hole. The mobile version we build in episode 3 takes this into account and sends a message using the broadcast controller when finished so you can make a trip out to get the rig to move. By implementing the event controller for detecting max width to turn off the standard max depth event controller and adding a new hole finnished event controller we can trigger the reset function. For the mobile version we are also using event controllers for pass number 2 finishing so you can be forewarned about the impending completion of the rig and place the way-point for the rigs next target and add it to the ai blocks to hopefully keep the rig running perpetually.