Ship of the Week - Plunge Mining Rover - Space Engineers Ship Design Challenge

I know I'm late to say this but, if you slapped a survival kit on there to refine the stone and made the ejectors spit out the gravel, this would have been an excellent surface miner for shallow veins and basic resources like iron, nickel, and silicone which are used a lot. But otherwise cool vid and this is the first of yours I found.

Oh my God I absolutely love the Winnebago.

I love how when you exploded it, the drill slid down the hole!!! I wasn't expecting that and it gave me a good laugh. ;-)

Best done in Large Grid for deep ores. The deepest an ore will generate is 300m. So that is 30 pistons. I have built a ship that can land on planets with those 30 pistons and 5 drills, mine the hole, then leave. I use cargo freighters to transport the ore to a base, the ship isn't designed to fly when full. My ships are always designed to do ONLY one thing.

Its wasn't the vehicle's fault it's designer multiplied 6 * 10 and somehow came up with 120. 😂 Good video, though.

Magnetic plate on the cab roof to glue the piston to the top. More stable.

You can attach the inside of a small grid hinge to the outside part of a large grid hinge.

I built these many times and unless you make them very wide or tall to accommodate for another extended piston and another set of retracted pistons to functionally double the reach, there will always be ore located too deep :) I no longer bother with these, I always just build a brick of 9 drills pointing down with no cargo hold and a ship on top of it with sole purpose of drill me a nice straight vertical hole for my my normal mining ship

The rotor broke because of the left side. Yes it doesn't look like it's hitting the rover frame but it does. Would have been a simple fix

instead of rotating the mining head i find using a rotor of hinge to sweep, making a square hole, and instead of doing it just at the drill head if you have it at the apex for the piston height, you can strip mine a large area behind the drill, counterbalanced by the containers at the front. easiest way i can put it, imagine a golf putter, with drills at the gold club head.

These smaller designs work great for basic ores like iron and nickle, but for things like gold and silver it's way better ot just make a very tall station(ary) base driller with a tall arm that will have about 10 large pistons goign down. I think 8 or 9 reaches gold but never can be too safe lol. But with drills that tall, there's really no way to make an efficient and safe ground vehicle. The coolest mining platform I even made was a tall cone-shaped center with like 9 large cargo's, (2 stacked vertically on the base, then a 3-wide, 2-high stack above that) and 2 extended arms on a rotor at the top. On each end of the arm, I had like 8 or so pistons that went down to a longer arm of drills in a row. The rotor spun very slowly while the pistons decreased extremely slow - I think I was doing like 0.2 rotatiosn a min to account for how massive it was in area. I ahd like 20 drills in a line on each arm. It was all attached to a merge block and drilling a large cylinder around the 3x3 base plate. I originally planned to move it with a large magnet ship with a ton of H2 thrust, but it was still too heavy and I found atmo thrusters were easier and more efficient to move it,. You just had to build a small baseplate with a merge block and battery to power it, then connect it to a new ore deposit. It WAS a bit overkill kinda, but it was ona small server where we were building the Halo ships like the Panama in survival. It took like a dozen trips with large small-grid cargo ships, or even with a few smaller large-grid ships with basic cargo size.

The drill head rotor broke when the drill head sank enough from the piston drop for the top of the drill head which is wider than the drill tip (which barely cleared the frame of the truck) and that side lodged into the frame of the vehicle, and if too much power is used to rotate the head it can exploded the rotor when its held in place for too long. Once the drill heads get low enough in the ground you could start the rotation then once cleared of the frame.

For attaching small grid to large grid use a timer block looping on attach will reduce the time for you making the position adjustment of the part

I would like to see someone make a working serenity off of the series Firefly

I didnt upload it but me and a friend made this exact setup but all large grid and without the reverse piston. Even set up timer blocks to extend the pistons 1 by 1. Had a landing gear to hold the assembly in place when the tower was in driving position and two "circles" of angled blocks keeping the pistons straight as they extended or retracted. Named it the B.A.D. (big ass drill) :p

I had the same problem with small drills on a large rotor. They will eat rotor if it is closer than 2 small blocks behind the drill. One more short tube section between the rotor head and drill junction would fix it.

That first piston could have been retracted to lower the drills a bit further.

The fact you can make this in 40mins where I struggle for 2 hours trying to make the body and wheels for a 15long 4 wide vehicle.

Nevermind. Just a calculation error: A single LG-Piston extends roughly 10m...

125m down, with 4 pistons, max length 15m (if I remember correctly), is not going to reach the gold. Simple math. 10 pistons, you got a chance.