Automatic Deep Core Mining Rig Zeta-11B - Space Engineers 

what if there was a ship that could pick it up and transport it to another deposit lol

you could probably use the nano build and repair to pick up what has been built unless its a tunnel that carries special vehicle through the planet

Well done and quite genius. Can you explain how this works with the merge blocks? I've made a rotating drill arm that's hooked to several pistons, but once the pistons are fully extended, I have to take everything apart and add more pistons to go lower. How did you create a self-replicating drill that can continue on forever? As you can tell, I have a long way to go until I figure out how this game truly works. xD

@@du4lstrik3 Trying to figure out how stuff works is one of the best ways to figure out this game. Anyways, the drill has a projector mounted, so it just drags a bluprint of the rail with it. The Mergeblocks make it one grid, wich makes it printable by the drillhead.

@@du4lstrik3 To understand it, you must take it apart. To master it, you must put it back together.

I've been thinking if getting a gaming PC and get this game. I've see that at some point the game won't let you reach further down, have you thought of a way to keep the drill going without having to install a new one altogether?

How did you make those stairs and railings? Are they stock?

Nothing new :) the old boring machine did that too.

you could probably also stick grinders on it to remove the old connectors unless i missed it and this does that already

I love the idea of this.. I might do something similar, like a tall cylinder with wheels on the side for cushioning and possibly some legs on pistons to climb itself back out. Powering itself for a long time may be a problem. Wonder if I can create batteries out of JUST the stone it mines and it give enough power to carry on going....

@@ColinRichardson if you do it in ice, you could use a hydrogen engine I guess

@@ColinRichardson Well- to be honest, I had originally built the entire craft like an ‘L’ on its side.

Awesome*

It has been 10 Month did you build ti?

Archer Stern there is a rig that could build a small ship

Well its not a rig its actually a base connected to a rig

I subbed :D

Phil Swift the truth speaking god.

I thought i had already subbed a year ago... strange

wait till starbase gets released

Projector is on back merge so it's on same grid when merged.

nah, keen only allows 20k cpu, this is 15k base,let alone the blocks you’re constantly welding

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1688517553 for the blueprint.

This is a common issue with SE, it sometimes sets the blocks to station which causes breaks. Every self replicating system that involves merge blocks runs into it alas.

Captain Nero same issue here

I'd be curious myself. He does mention that you need to have some of those blocks underground which I would imagine is for stability's sake but I'd prefer to beable to move this around when I can finally get the game downloaded. Download keeps resetting on me...

in creative it makes its own parts.

wasn't meant to be funny, is there a way?

Probably have to use a projector to build the base, block by block, then manually attach the Pistons and subgrids, then copy over the programming/timer/whatever settings.

Far as ik they patchworked it, though it's still there, but effectively though you can drill through a planet no issue,

Depends on game settings but is somewhere between 10KM and 40KM depth it will just despawn the grid, which means it's a very bad idea to build your base onto this thing...

@@someguy4915 it should only despawn the drill part, it's a subgrid of the platform.

What if you build your main big ship and at the bottom add a bunch of welders about as wide as the whole rig, then you keep several large containers connected to the welders JUST for the resources required to build the rig plus extra battery packs and you build it off of a hologram attached to a battery below, then you sorta slowly ascend while teh welders put it together and BOOM! Portable rig, dismantling it may be the harder part though, you may have to ditch the drill part itself.

I know your comment is 5 months old but. Sounds like one or more of the timer blocks are activating too soon, try adding a second or two to all the timer blocks. Just guessing haven't tried this one since I build my own. I had this problem with mine and this is how I fixed it. May also need to slow down the pistons if welders can't keep up. If you do slow pistons add time to timer blocks too.

Use the admin commands and enable creative mode. If you are in a public server then I dunno

Clearly never played the game. This is many millions of passive ressource gathering

@@brandondallaire Seens that YOU never played the game. It is absolutely pointless spending hours building huge machines that uses tons of resources when you get get it faster and cheaper. If someone wants building it in creative and then dig with it, it becomes cheap. But it is not playing the game.

@@deckrect So, making an engineering machine to mine material, about a game that is about engineering machines, is not ''playing the game''? Are we talking about the same game? Also, nothing is faster than passive. This generates Nickel, SIlicon and iron at a huge rate, and you don't even have to bother with it. By your logic, making large ships or anything fun at all is useless, since you can just takee a cockpit and slap random thrusters at it.

What part failed?

@@sporqist The merge blocks would not function in MP. The creator came into our to server to try and make it work but was unable to get it working.

The best stationary mining platforms are the simplest ones. Pistons, advanced rotor, and 20-30 small drills will get you millions of whatever you want

Try attaching/detaching using advanced rotors instead of merge blocks. the advanced rotors will double as the connectors ;)

They call this donut world

simple: You dont, you dont have to :) This would only come in handy if youd build a massive car or spaceship with this thing mounted to it. And I guess noones gonna do that as this would probably kill your game quite easily. Ever notices how pistons wiggle when in motion? :(

@CMANIAC1 All good :) Take your time, it gets more awesome when you switch from creative to survival to build more complex ships and machines

Arxanion you could use the same inertia killers

The same way you can move it, you can in theory move it the other way, you just would need to have timers Set up for both movement Programms, break the cycle on a defined point and than activate the other program..... But where is no sense, this thing creates a shitload of Ressources... Just discard the rail and the drillhead.

Replace the welders with grinders, then set it to go reverse.

Can you download it, make a projector and build in survival that way? Just set the offset so it is in the ground how he places it maybe

Like the other guy said you use a projector in survival. But if you want to build your own you should practice in creative it's faster to make changes. Some tips: 2-3 pistons long, 1 piston down front and rear, connector needs to be on rear with merge block, line up front and rear merge to use the same merge on platform, the 2 lowering pistons should be set to 1-1.5 max extend, the advancing pistons need a min and max set where they line up the merge on platform, when fully extended you need 3 merge on the platform 1 for the rear that is connected 1 for the front that will connect and one in the middle that the front extends from and rear retracts to, the projector needs to be on rear merge to weld it needs to be apart of same grid as platform, time the pistons start to stop to use with the timer blocks I find 6 seconds best for lowing ones depends on max extend setting, always add 1-2 secs for buffer, add drills, welders can be attached to back of drills with sorter set to blacklist ore you need min drills for all the rig to clear as going down and welders to build each platform block including conveyor that runs under the connectors, slow down the extending pistons so you don't advance beyond speed of drills and welders or it will break adjust following speeds based on your pistons this is just what mine run at timer block 1) wait 6 sec, lock connector, front merge off, retract front piston, projector-welder-drill on, extend forward pistons, start block 2 timer block 2) wait 20 sec, projector-welder-drill off, front merge on, front piston down, start block 3 timer block 3) wait 6 sec, rear merge off, unlock connector, retract rear piston, retract forward piston, start block 4 timer block 4) wait 20 sec, turn on rear merge, extend rear piston, start block 1 I wrote this from memory I don't think I missed anything. Test in creative till you feel confident that you can build it from scratch in creative or just use a projector. It's your choice neither is wrong. You can add more timer blocks if needed depending on how much you add to it. To make a platform for the projector just copy paste the drill rig and delete everything you don't need like the drill save bp then open in projector you will have to spend time aligning it to the drill rig. Select keep projection so it repeats with each start. Make multiple saves to have something to go back to when something goes wrong. You'll have to figure out the refineries, assemblers, storage, and power that works for you. Keep it fed or you'll have a mess to clean up. When you want to stop it just stop the timer that's counting down, remember which one you stop so you can trigger it the next time you want to start it. You don't want to start the wrong one. The one I just built uses duel pistons and projectors with left and right projections to keep the rig moving with only one 6 sec wait for the transition between piston sets. It's fast have yet to test in survival. Well that was longer than expected I think I went into a trance. tip for drilling into mountain merge 2 sets of forward pistons to carry the weight of the drill head. And don't forget to select share inertia tensor for all pistons. My second set connects under the first on the side of down pistons with one block gap. You need the gap or it won't work.

Then don't cheat it. Just use it in survival

Are you talking about the whole game? If yes then, yes. Trains are mod, you can download it from the workshop.

@@tatotiteta This is more like, an idea FOR a workshop. Pre-built city for download from workshop. Or at least different buildings FOR the city.

@@VANdeVice Owh so basically you want to play in a big city? Im pretty sure someone has already done that, i do love the idea

You need to change Timing Block 1 and 3. Projector - On as the first action in Timing Block 1. Projector - Off as the first action in Timing Block 3. Set the rest of the actions both blocks had in the same order after those. Then you need to tweak the delays of Timing Block 2 and 4. I can't remember the times I used but I increased one and decreased the other (increase the delay of 2 and decrease the delay on 4 by a couple seconds, maybe). Lastly you cannot blueprint this in survival becuase of the subgrid. Create a creative world and spawn it in. Seperate the drill (subgrid) and make blueprints of each. Now in the survival you can build both and add the drill to it (pistons and rotors is all I needed). If in solo or admin you can just spawn it in. Best to make a save before you tweak anything then a new one to test new delays.

It worked. Thank you for the fix.

@@LordPandaLad No prob. Personally I prefer just using PAM. You can apply to a ship and have it auto mine virtually anything anywhere. This works too but is far from an early game option. PAM can be done as soon as you have a program block or two.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FQgC-Odue8w.html @FireStar LP

yes you can, keen said so them self's

I've seen an experiment on this in another video. If a grid goes too far down into a planet the grid just explodes, so you can't dig to the core or to the other side.

@@jamesmorgan6831 seen a Video of newer date, where someone reached the 0G point at the Center of the Planet. I think the despawn thing Was at a earlier stage of development

There are several mobile rigs like this one out there.

It has a link