Tunnel Boring Machine - Space Engineers

[@OctoBooze]

Creator here! Thank you so much for the spotlight, first time to be featured on anything as far as I know of and it has made my week! Just a quick tip to anyone watching: Don't hit the "3" immediately after starting, you should just hit 1 and 4. "3" is mainly for restarting the tbm if you've stopped the cycle for some reason. 1 and 3 do the same thing, 3 builds full tunnel and 1 builds a guide rail onto the launch platform before autotriggering 3 in following cycles :) Shame you didn't show the pipelaying since I spent many hours pulling my hair trying to ad-hoc the damn thing into the tbm after first publishing it without the feature (Clang does not enjoy merges AND connectors hooking many subgrids together I tell you that). Not as fancy as the front welder rack, but the work cycle of it building/connecting/cleaning within pre-established timings while hiding from clang is one of my favorite parts of the build.

[@almondpotato9483]

Could you use the stuff you drill out as materials to build and fuel to continue building the tunnel and keeping it powered on?

[@peasant_shots]

Awesome build man! Congratz!

[@OctoBooze]

@@almondpotato9483 Yes, it is in that sense survival ready! It is equipped for exactly that :)

[@almondpotato9483]

@@OctoBooze Wow! So, I can run this is survival, forget about it, and accidentally have tunneled through the earth and built a giant space elevator?

[@hindugoat2302]

this game had so much potential but never took off because... No competitive multiplayer - you can build war ships but can't really go to war against anyone The space environment is so big that its easy to hide your base and ships way out where no one will ever find them - thus making you immune to pvp attack No population to play with or against, its pretty much single player or maybe co op. Development way too slow to hold our interest

[@Raso719]

A drill capable of self-replicating and extending its drill depth has been something I've been hoping to see in Space Engineers since welders and merge blocks were first introduced.

[@enigmabodylanguage]

*Elon Musk wants to know your location*

[@Thomas-lq6pf]

HIDE YOUR BATTERIES

[@Avetho]

Ah, don't you mean _Geo Descent Labs_ instead of Elon Musk? Pretty sure GDL could put this to good use to recover their long lost bore drill. Who in their right mind would invent the Thermal Flight Armor 1541 if the purpose of the mission was to rescue the drill itself? Blocky worlds sometimes make no sense. But really, Terra Swoop Force was a wonderful playthrough.

[@JupiterKnight]

@@Avetho k

[@baldjesusIRL]

I made something similar a couple weeks ago and I got everything working till I tested it on the mountains and the drills dug too slow, it's cool seeing how this person did it. Definitely an amazing feat. Now to figure out how to turn! xD

[@torgrimhanssen5100]

What do you consider to slow, my downward bore project can't exeed 0.15m/s x.x Piston tenseners at maximum, push strenght at minimum and speed set to 0.0m/s in groups of 10.

[@bof0079]

a tunnel boring machine video with no time-lapse ?

[@bertugbertu1596]

it is boring.

[@joshuachubb9397]

Every drills secret dream is to become a carousel.

[@obiwankenobi2749]

You spin me right round baby right round

[@sptony2718]

I actually like this one, it's a little more elaborate than the tunnel bore I built for space. It was basically a flying cylinder with a dropout hatch for stone and 4 sensors to keep itself at a certain distance from the tunnel walls. It worked fine enough to stay unsupervised most of the time. I should update it with remote controls, timer blocks and other "luxuries" to make it a viable standalone ship.

[@cheetored20]

Why not add a survival kit for the stone while you are at it

[@sptony2718]

@@cheetored20 Now that you mention it, keeping stone has actually become a viablity. Usually I dropped it out to minimise dead weight.

[@SeedlingNL]

I build something like this years ago, but with a different drillhead. Mine used pistons and rotors to scrape out rectangular holes layer by layer. Eventually, it would have a little drilling rover inside that you could drive out when on a target depth and mine out the surroundings, but I never got to completing it. I was also working on a version that worked like an oil driller, with segments being added from a stockpile, and being placed back in the stockpile when retracting the drill. I think it clanged though, so I abandoned that.

[@mknight6902]

Try a config with the Heavy Mining Drill Steamworkshop it, You will NEVER look back

[@mknight6902]

@7:20 "this is 'A' Obsolete tunnel driller", for anyone wanting to Actually drill a tunnel, heavy mining drill on steam, click this: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=475375953 a single drill is a lovely 5x5 large blocks and Most importantly:THERE IS NO MINING DUST With this drill. Essentially you really only need two for some nice wide coverage, bear in mind to have Heaps of storage as this will gobble up anything you point it at.

[@mknight6902]

@Von I gues you got a point but even still looks like it really needs a bit more speed. I suppose if you leave the pc running overnight, it might do what the hvy drills do in 2 minutes. The problem I see with this is that you have to have the drills running normally rather then a right click action... this means 12th century progress... why even mess with something that needs a decent redesign.

[@mknight6902]

@Von ​ @Von as the name Implies Nilla is just that.... they just threw the Van in front of it... I find vanilla Unplayable tbh, the Mining dust is as big a crime as Murder, It hurts your eyes and is just a serious Aggravation and waste of time, Since I created my Main mining ship with Heavy drills theres NO MINING DUST AND I come home with upwards of 24 ton of goodies, and thats with ONLY 2 drills... can you imagine what I could do with 10?

[@didntThinkBeforePosting]

creating tunnel for transport and base while also acquiring the resources needed for said constructions. very nice

[@thermonuclearlabcoat3701]

I approve

[@AndrewmanGaming]

This is really freaking cool! Great showcase :)

[@koolerpure]

It’s an amazing build, definitely gonna use it in a base build that I wanna have inside a mountain

[@tedwillsey5114]

Was this removed from Steam workshop? Anyone still have teh blueprint?

[@levikarkiainen331]

Please add this as a survival thing. I'd love to see you guys doing "hit and runs" against the evil green eyes drones and destroying their production and Mining stuff. Maybe even stealing some of their supplies.

[@TheKaiTetley]

They should build this machine in real life. It is ingenious. A giant bore that reinforces the tunnels it creates. Genius.

[@Homieto]

That's pretty much how a real tunnel boring machine works!

[@neddavies4358]

you could use the ore it collects to build more rail it would go forever provided its under ground

[@Senbino1998]

i build something similar and my problem is that as soon as i connect the drill rig with a merge block with the floor below (witch is a station) the drill rig will becom a station and will still stay as a station even when i turn the merge block off does anyone has an idea how to fix this?

[@chrisshergie1030]

No time lapse or showing us the finished product?

[@presidentofthegalaxy3642]

Congrats on 1k (:

[@JackRPG]

thanks :D

[@malakifraize4792]

Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t they use something similar to this to make subway tunnels?

[@axodouble2643]

Awesome i love seeing your videos please never stop making them i love it 😍

[@tatotiteta]

How do i build this using a projector on survival mode?

[@serafim8027]

how to build Tunnel Boring Machine (Vanilla) 10m diameter in survival mode ?! I don't have half the building

[@jasonwhyttes1679]

Voxel hands blew my mind >.< I've been drilling with right click to make underground bases...

[@Sarge92]

voxel hands is creative mode

[@noyzzz3132]

Can’t you hold it in place with 4 unconnected connectors? The yellow light, just put up the strength

[@WardenWolf]

Tried it. It went a short distance and then broke. I found two critical problems: one, the mass building up in the cargo containers simply overloads it, and two, it eventually gets out of alignment with the overhead merge blocks and can't lock on to extend itself. The first was fixable by changing the output so it simply dumped the rocks out the back. The second was not.

[@YouTubeH8sMe]

It has assemblers but no refinerys to refine stone to make mets for assemblers.

[@winterstorm9191]

What was the thing behind the one that is standing up

[@Acky0078]

Boring tunnel machine. No just kidding, it's nice.

[@torgrimhanssen5100]

It is actually quite simple to dig a round or square hole in the ground if you go streight down. The rule is to use pistons in groups of less than 10 at 0.00m/s momentum and lowest settings for strenght. A smal ship bore head on a large ship piston works best as you can more simply avoid catastrophic failure where you lose the borehead Now that we got no uranium on planets, the only option is the tiny battery to connect your smal ship connector to a downward facing large ship connector properly and without having it fall of if unpowered if you accidently unlock it. (4 tiny batterys attatched symetrically around the connector) Use a landing gear on a piston to elevate it to the large ship connector, once on magnetic lock, just remove the piston and landing gear, nudge on the batteries on the side of the connector to align it however you want if you digg a square shaft. Once locked you can build your bore head, where i recommend starting with 5 smal pistons + drill bit above the ground, 13-15m above the ground. I have done this with a 7x7 drillbit digging ~320m down, once your piston shaft exeeds 4 groups (120meters) any failure in setting strenght to minimum will bend the shaft and missalign your drillbit. At this point I dug down with 3 groups, set down my drill bit and detatched it from the above station and retracted the 3 groups. Building large positons from the station in 3 groups of 5 (75m of 80m not including connector) reconnecting the drillbit (a litle bit missaligned, just using pistons to get the connector into megnetic lock. This gives a depth of 30x2m (60m) and 75x2 ((150m)^X) My system tanked first when I got up to 250+ smal pistons in my initial idea where I used 4 suport shafts with merge blocks to add on to the shaft rather than rebuilding the drill bit or risk critical missalignment wher Iwould be unable to reatatch the drill bit. Whith yield modules this has prodused 1.2m ingots of iron with respective amounts of other ores from refining rock. so it is not compleatly wasted. With this system, I'll add on conveyor tubes and digg to the center of the planet in no time (0.1m/s - 0.2 m/s) >.< Should probably learn to program timer blocks for this x.x

[@torgrimhanssen5100]

thanks, and here is an immage of the initial design steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197981442498/screenshot/996889770572320972

[@kylemilford8758]

I've been looking for ideas on a tunnel building machine that drills and welds blocks through mountains!!

[@brianbrewster6532]

Interesting and imaginative. But could it be employed on a distant asteroid?

[@KawaiiSoulB42]

Of course Jack always break something in his showcase. XD

[@liammorris1018]

Man i need this thing to make my base, the thought of dismantling it is a lot more daunting than actually making it lol.

[@defaultcamo4288]

grinder ship XD

[@dragonhearthx8369]

I know this is old but, may you run it for a few hours and see how it does?

[@elchewbacco]

It's ok tunnel machine. I don't think you're boring

[@reece3875]

how do you pick up and move the whole thing around

[@creeperslayers6]

He using creative mode tools, more specifically he copying and pasting the blueprint

[@DerZombie7891]

Definitly not boring :D

[@Nemoticon]

Next version... needs to line the tunnel as it burrows!!!

[@dansmcarvalho]

This is vanila? im looknig for something like this!

[@4l3xm4r]

o m g!!!! niceeee!

[@Zamolxes77]

Not a practical machine, but amazing creativity and understanding of the game for creator of this !

[@itsCh4rl1e]

This is great :D

[@ameliajune4285]

Please do a fleet on fleet fully crewed battle. Including fighters.

[@marubeef3052]

Its good as a creation but so many issues with users and does bot have a guarantee to work all the time before having to delete it.

[@LuciferMorningstar-uk7oh]

This dude really though "Yeah all the times I used this it broke, post it"

[@Nemoticon]

A bit over engineered just to dig a hole.... I love the detail though, lol, it's like walking round an actually industrial plant. I usually borrow through with a simple device and then open it up from the inside with a warhead. However, if you don't go deep enough you just end up making a massive, messy crater!

[@culyc]

unfortunately no longer on the workshop ...... a remake of the 10m version still exists "Tunnel Boring Machine 10m redacted" by ObiWahn68

[@EvilNecroid]

is there a cheaper version for survival?

[@topminator1667]

just steal a ship or two and start building it right away

[@patrlim]

When you want to make a tunnel but don't want to minee yourself

[@frankthetank4315]

Just found you vids these are high quality

[@SlayerGodOfDeath]

oh look new beyblade , spining like crazy XD

[@rubinolas6998]

Are there any tunnel *interesting* machines?

[@Strax1357]

love it ^^

[@krismoore8895]

Can u upload to mod io

[@cubanelabs8573]

good channel for 1.2k subscribers

[@GusCraft460]

The problem with straight things in space engineers is that the planets are too small. The biggest planets are less than two percent of the size of earth. What starts out straight will quickly become an upwards incline. It’s why all atmospheric ships seem to pull up as you travel long distances with them. They aren’t pulling up, the curvature of the planet is just pulling away from them as they continue on a perfectly straight path.

[@luciusavenus8715]

y not biwd tunnel?

[@thenaberius6081]

Anyone have steam blueprint? to reupload ?

[@coca_con_limon]

it's broken but if somebody can fix it, will be awesome

[@Ev1lsp00n]

Does anyone else think Jack is the Jeremy Clarkson of Space?

[@clennius]

daily uploads? nice

[@luxocracy5205]

He complains about how slow the tunnel bore can be but you have to realize that real machines that do this go at a sluggish pace too.

[@001-j4d]

그렇습니다 더 재밌는게 많은것이 명백합니다.

[@001-j4d]

저는 이미 무한한 재미의 가능성을 체감했습니다

[@rewrew897]

I built a slightly more simplified drill train with the hover rail mod This is still more impressive, but my train is a bit faster, and does turns

[@beaconofwierd1883]

Why not just increase the speed if you want it to drill faster? With all those drills you should be able to go at least 0.4 m/s without any problem.

[@topminator1667]

uhm... you should keep in mind that it rotates the drills, so they need to go slower

[@BazilRat]

Sadly, one of the updates broke it and it's been more trouble than Octomoose has brainpower for to fix - which is fair enough.

[@malcho1234]

And yet it always gets busted at around 500 meters...

[@FireWarrior2013]

I think that's the case for any self-building drill. On my Discord's server one guy created something much like this, I have no idea if he took inspiration from this exact build, and it couldn't go past 450m without breaking.

[@BlazinNSoul]

Better not show the Russians this lol. People who know the story here will find it a fascinating read. The Space Race wasn't the only thing Russia & the West were fighting for during the Cold War. Another fantastic Space Engineers project with real world connections. :b

[@Valenorious]

Missing a refinery now that stone begets basic ingots.

[@originalgameronline3457]

Elon Musk?? Lol, Jeff Bezos is calling, my Amazon should be a lot faster now.

[@Skatche]

Jesus, what on earth is wrong with the camera in this game? It's giving me motion sickness the way it rolls constantly.

[@xchronox0]

It's only while jetpacking/flying a ship. It's necessary for when you're in space.

[@kylemilford8758]

It would be cool if someone made a mod to keep camera even with horizon line (or gravity) would save us from having to turn jet pack off and back on quickly to level the engineer

[@unavailable8813]

Captain jack? You changed your name.

[@bloodstormwolf9512]

They're 2 diff people (assuming that was serious)

[@honeybadger2371]

I really wanna play this game but too bad I don't have pc🤣

[@Dichuz91]

you know if you're gonna feature someone stuff you really should put the workshop link in the description so people who want it can find it without having to launch a man hunt through a steam workshop that is filled with mostly noob garbage builds. for those of you who want it here are the links to the two different versions steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1671909553&searchtext=tunnel+borring+machine steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1671909553&searchtext=tunnel+borring+machine you're welcome

[@JackRPG]

I always leave a link in the description. The big TBM workshop page also provides a link to the smaller one.

[@kylebryce7]

The boring tunnel

[@MrBasileus1981]

Trading Station vor EEM steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1687861261

[@jasonharding96]

WHERES AANG

[@wilezekiel5773]

Is this guy related to Aaron LSG because they have the same accent and a suspiciously similar voice

[@ethanspaziani1070]

I mean I think this is pretty cool but Space Engineers has a memory leek if you just keep drilling you will run out of RAM 😒

[@bloodstormwolf9512]

Becuase its loading more things perhaps?

[@RadekZielinski.]

In space drilling is dead easy. On a planet no so much... in survival you can make a flying drill that can drill in any angle and fit inside the hole, though it uses a lot of power to run, but hey... hydrogen engines ;)

[@11darklight11]

There is now so much more fun to have if you play without building flying drills. It makes you actually think how to get ores from underground to the surface efficiently. Flying drills on a planet make survival too easy in my opinion.

[@RadekZielinski.]

@@11darklight11 seems fair what you say actually, and i agree, but then again this type of drill in the video is looking more like the drill used in building road tunnels. For mining be aware in real life you use massive crane like drills... that are the biggest machines in the world. If you wanted to make any big sci fi ship in this game in survival, you would need more efficient drilling methods. I guess you could have a big drill on wheels that could also work, but still, the best way to transport the good ore/ingots is through air. Massive cars are effective, still i guess, but much more slower. I just find cars slightly boring to control, i find less fear of destroying anything when on the ground.

[@brolohalflemming7042]

Well, if you want a big drill on wheels and aren't afraid of destroying everything on the ground.. Then OctoMoose is your.. Moose? See also their massive Bucket Wheel Excavator. Modelled on the huge BWE's used to strip mine stuff here on Earth. It's an ingeneous and impressive creation in SE, and perfect if you want to build a big runway, or turn mountainous terrain into an homage to the Netherlands..

[@RadekZielinski.]

@@brolohalflemming7042 Holy mother! Just seen it :D however will that not tip over on hills? And there i am going back to my ways... big and lumpy rides of death and 10m/s max. For me die hard but in quick pase is the answer to play this game... i get a little bored going around so slow. But this is one cool machine capable of doing great work when leveling terrain or making a base. Thank you for showing me this, never seen it, maybe i'll have a chance to use it. :)

[@Керебет]

Построено по секретным документам Илона Маска

[@Cutie22704]

I don’t know, I found this video a bit BOREING.

[@jonorgames9880]

i see what u did there

[@sgtdebones]

They should of put the modded TBM drill head instead of this amateur vanilla one

[@LTLoudpack7100]

Well, thats boring. *ba dum tss*

[@matthewbluck1105]

FYI DragonNation Gaming already covered this awhile ago

[@rcarrot2955]

I born you?

[@dangernoodle8813]

and... its boring... (pun intended , booooo)

[@ducadicastelmonte604]

Doesnt work

[@mechasheep4861]

not gonna lie a little boring

[@BlazinNSoul]

I see what you did there lol. :b

[@orbitalpotato9940]

Looks pretty boring to me...

[@biocube4705]

I didn't want to watch the hole thing... Cuz it was boring.

[@rager5865]

This video is pretty boreing.

[@madcapmagician3130]

I see what you did there, good job

[@cossuccede2538]

No thanks

[@kevinalleinimnetz827]

Zuviel Dummes gelabber .

[@lukasstaar6860]

Thats one hella boring machine

[@klix4720]

Yeah this is pretty boring

[@gus8016]

That's just *boring* ...

[@MrIrdatlan]

Yeah pretty boring.

[@catnerdadrian7601]

This is quite boring