Space Engineers - S1E23 'Gathering Ice'

[@danielcox3983]

As an old KSP player, I'd say your rover needs more thrusters.

[@Der_Yoloist]

1 little tip: just add a sensor that detects a full rotation and everytime it went there expand the piston by 1 tick. Its much cleaner :)

[@magicfordummiez3382]

I've never thought of that. That is brilliant.

[@Wholy]

Detect full rotation? How bro?

[@baguiobyben12]

Wholy ❶ by counting how many seconds it would take to do a full rotation. It's doable with a single timer block and programmable block combo not with sensors.

[@dontaskquestions8721]

Kinda like a 40mm, but instead of expanding slowly, it expands very very quickly!

[@TheRogueWolf]

If you got fuel problems, Kana'll solve 'em Check out the drills while the rotor revolves 'em Ice, ice, baby....

[@marinary1326]

There is something deeply satisfying but also absolutely hilarious about using thrusters as boosters on a land-bound rover :P

[@DoubleJJizzle]

You should make the Ice mining rig a refueling station for hydrogen based ships. You wouldn't have to put to much focus on hydrogen production in your main base that way, and it's still remotely close so you can keep a close eye on it.

[@thefederalbureauofinvestig496]

The power produced bye the wind turbines will be effected by neighbouring blocks. I have found that having them 8 blocks apart will allow them to work at there maximum efficiency.

[@naomy1701]

thats a helpful tip and good to know, i assume thats a info thats not told in the game

[@Runescope]

You should take a look at the timer blocks. If you find out how long it takes the drills to make one complete revolution, you can set a timer block to extend the maximum length of the drills a little bit every time they make a complete circuit.

[@jlinkous05]

Or set the piston speed so that they extend X meters per revolution, to spiral cut the ice instead of layer cut.

[@Runescope]

That's what he's doing already. It works too, but he should practice with timers now while it's relatively simple. :)

[@arned432]

Well on servers with 2 friends we made one-time company u order resources we deliver because: A) We have too much B) This is funny when they order some absurd sum of materials and we deliver this next hour or so they reaction was brilliant C) We don't spend much but we dig much (mining ring fanatic engineering)

[@theuniversedoesntcare]

Heh.

[@joops110]

You don't need a drill on every block, you can alternate drills and conveyors for the same effect.

[@fastergaming3494]

In this case, if he put a remote control on his rover and made waypoints with it to aoutomattically doc and unload its ores, it would be VEREY useful. Also i love the auto miner concept you came up with, verey creative

[@llljustcallhimdave]

Wind turbines need to be spaced 8 blocks apart for them to be optimal. I normally do them 10 blocks across and 10 high

[@Zamolxes77]

I think somehow I ended up in the same place as you, in my current gameplay. I recognize the surrounding mountains, my pod ended up up there, but after I retrofitted it to fly, I went exploring and discovered the exactly same lake you operate on and built myself a base by its shores, up on a nice flat grass patch.

[@unholyxeras8182]

hmmm...what about putting the support pylon for the drill system on a rotor itself so that once it has drilled down to its maximum depth, it can swing around and drill another section of the lake?

[@DaddyGrindstien]

I did exactly that just yesterday in a test world and was able to cut a perfect 1km wide crop circle in the ice lake that could easily be seen from space. It's actually kinda OP. I have no Idea what I'm gonna do with all that ice, but I know that wherever my ship may take me.... I'll always have cold drinks! XD

[@miletilblight2181]

@@DaddyGrindstien ....yah I've seen people just build rovers with the mining rig on top Yah Just move the whole thing a bit then continue

[@FILOdeathlord]

Multiple rotors holding up that much weight can cause a nice light show. Merge blocks and connectors moved by pistons is a lot more stable for me.

[@Lucky440.]

Build a rocket silo in the hole when the machine is finished

[@TheLukemcdaniel]

I would have used a flying cargo hauler to get the ice. It'd mean building another vessel, but with that hill? It's that or build the conveyors all the way to the top of the cliff, and extract to the hauler truck from there.

[@hermesvoeglein535]

Performancewise, don't use too much conveyorjunctions, they tend to drop the sim-speed and cause lagissues if you use an overabundance of them, if you can use a standart conveyor for something use it instead of a junction. Won't be a problem right now but it will be in the future, when you start to amass more and larger grids.

[@fastergaming3494]

I think thats why when i use ONLY conveyor juctions, my game crashes and the ship bugs out. That or its a graphics card problem because 2 of the four gave in and one corrupted my pc so i had to reboot everything and had to learn a lot of things to the game all over again.

[@EadTaes]

You should really leave one wind turbine on your drill. Just in case.

[@KrakenIsMahB]

i think the best approach could be making lift next to some almost vertical hillclimb, less resources, more fun ... or conveyor system system instead, rover should be light enough to climb hill on its own

[@wesleyhughes4852]

Very cool vid man, I like that little tip with the rotor displacement option as that always helps with connectors for refuelling ships. Deffo worth a sub 👌

[@FBlaise]

so much fin watching that rover go up the hill... I was like "Just use your mining ship to mine out a ramp...

[@nikkihansen6833]

Just an idea. If you put a landing gear on the mining rig and set it to ship you can just move it around to the place where you need recourses from. ;)

[@ozgott1415]

Imagine working somewhere and they put your office chair next to a 18 cylinder engine.

[@FILOdeathlord]

You ever think of getting the stackable wind turbines mod? They work great and help save space for a wind power farm

[@vikingo987]

How do you input the numerical values directly in the advanced rotor terminal instead of moving the slider? How do you pick up the exact items you need to build something from a container?

[@MrChitakifsy]

Hold Ctrl and click on the slider to enter numbers "Easy inventory" the mod for better interaction with containers

[@vikingo987]

Thanks!

[@aidansteffen6719]

If you filled up all the cargo containers with ice, you would be able to fill around 36-37 large gride hydrogen tanks

[@stevenfernandez7867]

How do you get the information to pop up while using the ship? I have to get out just to see what’s missing and stuff

[@rubberdorky]

Still haven’t figured out the disproportionate cost to run hydrogen power generators... I audibly yelled when you cut down the turbines.. WHYYYY

[@jaroto12]

Yeah backup power always helps and he will drill through the ice

[@Zamolxes77]

If you land next to a lake, I think this should be your priority, massive amounts of power and relatively compact, much better than turbines or solar arrays !

[@gamemakerjunior]

This is nuts. I swear my current survival base is just a couple hundred metres away from yours (closer to the cobalt deposit)

[@mikemanning3407]

How do you manually set your rotor and piston values without using the slider?

[@shindoukyouki]

Hold left control (CTRL) and left click the slider, that opens up the manual value input screen.

[@ColinRichardson]

Please.. enlighten me.. which button is the "emergency brake" ? It's not listed anywhere

[@GutoWoi]

How do you make the structure so stable? , I put 2 pistoes and 1 drill and it is shaking and shaking

[@Demon-mg2mt]

if you check share inertia on the pistons that should stop the shaking mostly

[@GutoWoi]

@@Demon-mg2mt I have seen several videos that the player has checked this option, but in my game does not have this option to check

[@Demon-mg2mt]

@@GutoWoi oh just before you load check settings and enable experimental you should have the option then :D

[@MrChaos211]

why is it everytime i see videos like this your planets are sooo smooth, and not freaking craged all the hell like mine always come as?

[@squirejj224]

Great videos! Question: I have a similar setup for a mobile drilling rig, but with much smaller drill diameter that your stationary drill rigs. Problem is I constantly have to repair the Advanced rotor's rotor head that is directly attached to the drills, for some reason it keeps on taking damage, which then cause the ore transfer to back up in the drills. The vehicle can lock down onto the voxels, so it isn't shaking when drilling. I have tried everything so far but it keeps taking damage. Any ideas what I could be doing wrong?

[@PraetorianCarlo]

turn off sub grid dmg?

[@fastergaming3494]

If your drill head is small, it may be the voxels colliding with your rotor head. And if thats true, try widenning your drill head (if its small, like 3 by 3, or smaller)

[@squirejj224]

​@@fastergaming3494, I managed to fix it, it seem the speed that I had for the Large Advance rotor's rotation was a tad to fast, dropped it by 50% and now I it working perfectly.

[@90kalos1]

Rather than have the pistons going constantly set them up with a timer block to extend every (x) amount of time (going at .25 you would want it to trigger every 4 minutes )

[@bioboy1819]

You should put a rotor at the base of those ice driller conveyers so you can move the whole rig 360 Degrees which will allow you to use more drilling area before deconstructing the rig.

[@startide]

can you double spiral it ? Rotate like it currently does + rotate the whole thing at the same time ?

[@bioboy1819]

In single player yes

[@fastergaming3494]

Yeah. But if he wanted it to be decent with speed, he would need a four way drill head and if he still wants to use a rover, then he couldnt. But neet idea

[@Dagonius.]

Really nice videos Kanajashi, thanks!

[@mr.baconbits6103]

Im probably late telling you this, but i had the idea of making a huge drill that covers the whole are in which the ores are... And atleast a sorter leading to a cargo container designated for ores and ice... Or does ice count as an ore?? EDIT: Plus a survival kit for all the stone. 5:49

[@joops110]

Ice and stone count as ores, but you can be more specific with the sorter settings.

[@OpreanMircea]

what cargo space multiplier are you playing at? x10?

[@Kanajashi]

Yes 10x

[@andreasstrobl123]

Is there a list of all the mods you use?

[@Albursine-]

It's in the description. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1575828464

[@AudiaciousLife]

wind turbines need 6 blocks free space to get about full power from what ive seen

[@Elislavkat]

what mod do you use in 16:55 when window "value to set" shows up or it just vanilla? so tell me pls which buttons need to push

[@jamesccall3451]

Hold cntrl and left click

[@orvishana1210]

That ice rig! I love it!!

[@anthonymalone6533]

Love your videos

[@tjo_be6090]

how do you vault set

[@hugoandre96]

how do you have your pistons so stable? with 5 drills, my pistons waggle a lot

[@llljustcallhimdave]

Do you have share inertia tensor selected on the pistons, that takes a lot of the vibration out.

[@pastle2007]

Great video ! Downloaded the map now playing it too thanks for that mate:)

[@bushmanboomer4941]

J'adore vos vidéos merci beaucoup.

[@jaroto12]

I love the videos great Job I think that is what he said

[@clintjoseph7126]

Autopilot flying drone cargo ships to haul the mined ores from your drilling rigs and deposit back at your base?

[@tomaka121]

Nice, im considering buying space engineers but the amount of stuff to learn in this gane seems overwhelming. Also im concerned about the late game performance after all that terraforming

[@joops110]

It takes a while to learn the basics, but it's not as bad as I thought before I started a few years ago.

[@ZeroZemial]

Can u give us the link 4 the nanite builder? ^^

[@daheffalump]

Look for build and repair

[@tohpingtiang4878]

You should build hydrogen/oxygen tanks so you can fill it up as you go.

[@dickiedavies6870]

Nice play through, i have this and empyron and find emp is easier

[@blakeman321]

I have a question.. What am I hunting?🤔 Love your vids by the way! :D

[@Kanajashi]

The "Good Hunting" has been my little catch phrase in my MWO videos for the longest time since in that game you are always fighting an enemy. Just has stuck with me lol Guess i should make another for other games?

[@blakeman321]

Oh I see😁 I’ve only started following your channel since this SE series and I did wonder but that makes more sense now!😆 Hey thanks for all the videos it’s really fun to watch and it’s also inspiration for my own SE game! Also thanks for being really good at responding to your community! You rock! “Good hunting” 😉

[@The_Digital_Samurai]

Put down a hydrogen tank if you go hydrogen engine. They burn through ice a ton faster than if you have a hydrogen tank.

[@Elislavkat]

what mod you uses do get components from storage so easy? 11:14

[@Kanajashi]

The mod is "Easy Inventory"

[@nsmannc]

I am big fan so yeah

[@jeremyreese54]

Piping it is better for a ground base. If your base wasn't close, I'd say build a new base.

[@okaidiboy3275]

Hey wanna play together?

[@Ender_Wiggin]

Here early