I Built a Combine Harvester for Super Fast Rock Mining! (Scrap Mechanic Survival Ep.29) 

This is one of the big reasons I like scrap mechanic, where in other games resource gathering is just break resource -> raw resource, in scrap mechanic, resource gathering is not just a task, but an engineering problem ; there are many ways to go about doing such a simple task, and while some ways are obviously more efficient than others, no one method is THE most efficient method.

18:49 I actually forgot you’re Canadian until that moment

Oh my gosh I was bored and literally just checked if Kan uploaded something new. Perfect timing I would say.

I also thought this was going to be a fail. Now I gotta try this for myself :)

16:09 Kan: "like a crombine in this game is..." Me: Lol crombine.

25:55 If you have lvl 5 seat, make the steering angle on back wheels smaller...

Wow, 6:35 is the first time I'm really realizing how atmospheric his garage is at night, weird.

THANK YOU KAN! So many other content creators have been relying on Metal 3 as "weight" and I've been sending my hand through my face further and further pointing out that Concrete is the heavier material even though it has more friction. It has a little less durability, but that's the trifecta of the 3 mats; concrete is heaviest, wood is lightest, metal is the most durable. BUT EVERY CREATOR IS USING METAL AS WEIGHTS AND THEY USE TOO MUCH OF IT!!!! Sorry. I'm just overwhelmed that a creator recognizes the in game stats for what they are. But thank you again, Kan. Great video, I've got a dumbed down version of something like this (no moving arms or limbs.) It works great to get through rock piles, it just needs a guaranteed way to remove the final resources out of the way. Also, once a refinery bot is taking resources from 1 collector, it won't take resources from any other source save you shoving it in manually until that designated collector is either removed or emptied. That being said, it might be better to have something like 3 refinery bots per collector (overkill yes, but it'll keep the process moving).

Maybe add two more pistons to hold everything in the front with a short width so you can press a button for switching to lower ground sweeping. For battery-making, ScrapMan made a sweet glowbot feeding mechanism.

kAN: This is a good mining vehicle. I will finally have resources!! Rocks: Oh No

Leave the speed on the pistons low, but turn the length up to 5 or 6 so the pistons won't be able to lift the harvester even though they are always on the ground.

Make the drills bearing/controller driven. Works so much better than any engine powered drill. Rocks don’t fly all over the place. My miner has bearings to tip all the drills 65 degrees in the front toward the ground on a push of a button. Nice build - you are crazy fast when you build, very skilled! Thanks for great content.

6:00 speed and power! (Jezzas famous last words

Don't forget the lowboy trailer for trucking this bad boy around. also a controller and bearing to lower the "header" (in this case the drill bits) would help instead of turning up the pistons.

It's over Rocks, kAN's got the high ground!

I thought this said "Combat Harvester"

I still hope for a Multiplayer Monday sub series where you guys go to each others Survival maps and show each other your builds.

kAN: in this episode, we are going to build a better drill machine Next episode, kAN: we are are going to build a new mining machine Next episode, kAN: we are going to build a new drill machine today...

For even more efficient mining you can add another refinery, but 2 containers-1 refinery is best ratio, because you refine while you drive from node to node, so 2 refineries, 4 collectors is perfect for this car (it looks to me). You can make car wider than miners. And you could put 2 more collectors on mining arms at sides, just put 1 or 2 blocks higher on side arms, so it don't interfere with other arms when side arms are lower than middle arms, and put collectors wide enough so they goes side of 2 middle collectors when arms fold up, in that way you get additional benefit of collecting more in front of action...and both refineries can take from 2 middle collectors while side collectors are down with mining arms. And put 3 chest at back, so you can go for long mining sessions.

You and your creations inspire me to build amazing things like automated turrets or even automated farms that knows when and what to farm

Heck of a design dude! Love it!

Bearings work better. I use 4 arms with a drill on each end. And 2 drills on the bottom of each arm. You put the arms on bearings and adjust the arm to go to 90 degrees to straight out. No pistons needed and works better. The only thing I have not done is use suspension on the top drills. I don't use them to prevent lag. But, it looks like I will try it. Anyrate. Great video. Glad you got a good miner! And I appreciate that you made the trailer and small scooper set up. It was very cool to see. I know it did not work out. But the fact you did it is awesome.

I think raising the drill mechanism/assembly up higher and angling the drills downward would help break up the small rock bits on the ground and also allow you to contour them more.

Use controllers they spin the drills fast enough to brake the rock

thank you for the toilet seat trick. Was able to fix a problem i didnt even know was there. No need to get into huge detail, but it worked like a charm. Extremely useful.

Backboards behind the drills to keep the rocks from jumping onto the back of the pistons. Reduce power/speed of pistons so they sag just a little more and may get those buried rocks w/o needing to adjust them.

Kan, if you want to have a super low sweeper mode, you can put the whole front assembly on a bearing or one extra piston extender thing set to one length. That way, you would have a super low sweeper mode and all of the fingers would be able to contour to the ground without causing much lag.

Why not put adjustable suspension on the truck? If you do you should have the front and back on separate buttons to extend just in case you need to “aim”

Love ur scrap mechanic vids keep it up!

KAN is really good at building unnecessarily expensive and ineffective but kind of unique things :D

5:04 "its gonna end up looking like a combine" my head: oh a combine solider in half life 2

This is the best mining vehicle I’ve seen. I’ve been so excited to see you build the best miner. Took some time, but damn is that quick and easy

*kAN makes 3 drill fingers* kAN: “i have been spam building them”

If you were to make a Tank Steering system, with the small wheels, and mount them on sport/short suspension, you could eliminate the problem of getting high-centered on the bumps those rocks sit on. I do love the combine's terrain hugging feature. A "Splash guard" is a great idea too. If you could figure out a way to make a bulldozer spade that ushers the rocks into the drills as well, it'd be crazy. Though, I'm not sure how the heck that would work, with how the drill-armatures move.

i built a pretty awesome design, the front of my miner is like a vice. 2 pistons spread apart the arms and on the inside of the arms is a 2x2 of drill heads on each side. i drive up to a mound, open the vice, wrap around the pile and close it. it clears a pile in no time at all

Loved the finger design

i want to thank you for this video as i was having a problem making a good miner

I was ready for another "cool but not totally functional" machine but I'm blown away by how well that worked for a initial design. The fact that you need to consider a second refinery just to keep up is a sign this is a game changer

I have ran combines my whole life so just an idea on the sides of the combines their is a panel that lifts out that reveals the gears so why not make that into extra storage

Something you might want to look into is the ability of pumps to place blocks. You can make self repairing walls.

I think having a nice combine could work well on a large farm where you also use a large planter. You could also then have a fun watering vehicle.

I suggest the name: "Combine Rock Harvester"

I wish there were blueprints in survival so then for Multiplayer Monday there could be a mining vehicle race, LOL. Everybody brings their mining vehicles from their survival worlds.

I just have a bar with 5 drills on it on the front of my vehicle and I can angle it 30 degrees up and 30 degrees down. It works great and will not lag your game. I have 3 extra bearings underneath and they are all connected to an electric motor. They are on button 1 and 2, so they work with the mouse buttons. I can pull the 5 drills off and put 3 saw blades on without having to connect motors or controllers and cut wood instead. I do like the idea of shocks on the drills though. I might try that. I would have sunk the resource collectors and refinery into the base of the vehicle as they are so heavy and it will lover you center of gravity a bit.

you should put a diagonal section that forms a triangle that leads up towards the drills on each individual finger so that the blocks that get flung up hit it and tumble back towards the drills

Nice build I use something similar. One piece of advice make it as light as possible. At the rate you can harvest you will run out of the easy formations on flat ground real quick. Trying to get traction on a slight slope with 2 resource collectors and refinery is bad enough you won't want to carry all that cement go T3 wood you will thank me.

Use another 6 drill bits above so you can extend it to where you cannot reach

Wow, kan smart. Never thought of a harvester for mining

That flying woc: It must've been the aliens kidnapping it with their flying saucer beam.

Add cactuses facing down on pistons under each drill to add more friction near the front. And you can use a switch to use then whenever you need it.

You can simulate number logic by putting a controller loop and using a rising monostable (pulse at the start of input) from a button to power it to “toggle” what the piston is at.

I think you could do a similar thing with saws... just mount the saw blades on top of the fingers. (so they angle downwards towards the ground) The saws will aim directly at the stumps to chop down the trees, then you drive the blades under the logs, and the sides of the saw blades will chop the logs into pieces. You could probably even use that exact vehicle... you'd just have to swap it between saw blades or drills.

Been waiting for this vehicle since your first drill arm.

Dang i loved that trailer

You should try to give it more ground clearance because it'll let you get iver the hill easier and you cac set the pistons to 5 which will be aimed more into the ground.

I love your videos keep up the good work stay safe

You should make a bulldozer to push wood into a side open semi trailer to bring it back to your base for refining

I think maybe raise up the drill fingers... dringers if you will... a bit, and raise the ground clearance on the whole vehicle. It'll let you put your drills at a more aggressive angle if you need to, but also it's better for avoiding bottoming out... and looking more like a combine. You know it's a good design when you can double your processing. If you're getting enough resources I think it's time to build a bigger, better, badder base don't you? I'm thinking a nice warehouse/garage on wood support columns over the water. You can't just leave all those precious vehicles outside all the time. The paint job will get ruined from the weather and bird crap!

KAN is totally the RU-vidr!

Kan, a level 5 Controller on max speed is the perfect speed for drills and doesn't need batteries.

I would recommend checking out W4stedspace for a vanilla large wheel design (it uses 8 small wheels 3 bearings and pipes) as well as a suspension system (the larger wheels need it to prevent glitches) the large wheels will make your build look more like a combine if added to the front and it will help you get over the terrain around the rocks.

Very noice!

I like how Kan talked about the yeety drills r a weapon ignoring the fact that his vehicle had a wall of deadly drills

(Tip) if you turn off reflections it brightens the game it makes metal look weird but its much brighter at night

Kan your rock harvester might work butter as a tree harvester also you should make it were when you are harvesting make the bottom higher off the ground and put like two drills underneath so you just drive over the loose rocks

You can add variable piston length with a controller. Button click: 1) 4 2) 5 3) back to 0

Make a rail turret but pointed down, and have it move from one side of the wall to the other and stop if it detects something under it. Then, it waits a few seconds and starts firing until it doesn’t detect anymore. Simple auto turret mounted on the wall.

Luv ur vids Kan

The thing is, 99% of combines use back steering only because of how large the front wheels are (they support most of the weight) and have almost 0 room for any kind of turning, but it's still an awesome creation ngl

A gas engine will definitely work for this, I have made much larger vehicles with a lvl 5 gas and they moved just fine. I had a similar size miner (but much less efficient) that used gas.

I like scrapmechanic your imagination is free to roam even knowing that I have the old version still by any challenge you are able to be as creative as possible there is no limit.

Scrapman has a really good and effective drill vehicle..not that efficient but it works great at its full capacity...

Should add a couple saws on arms to get rid of trees that are in the way or harvest trees

Hey kan make a mobile base like an rv or something that has everything you need a bed storage and food/fridge it might make going it and gathering resources for a while easier so you don’t have to come back to your base every time you run out of food or spuds

Dude ur sooo good u should do a vid were u help people in survivel

If you hold shift while clicking a object in your inventory it will move from your hot bar to your inventory or the other way around

Physics always work at 90% that is a nice build

If you want the whole front to have variable height, put it whole on a bearing that is on a controller; Or use a single piston.

Another idea for a harvester would be a flying one that drops down on the rock and mining them top to bottom

Kan talks so clearly that auto generated English in the CC options actually displays the correct words

Biggest issue I have when it comes to mining vehicles specifically is the fact so many of the stone outcroppings are on raised slopes & the grass traction/friction level seems to be set to "go cart on ice". Huge vehicle made of almost entirely concrete and it still sides down an almost non-existent slope.

This is what i would imagine SM survival to be like. Reusing farm vehicles to mine

Finally kan has a good enough miner

If you still want to make something with a bit more "realism", you can try using the harvester part as an attachment for the front of your truck that you just weld on when you want it, and have the collector/refiner parts on a trailer or something. It might be a little less efficient, but it would be pretty awesome if it works, and would look great.

Hey kAN! I see your garment boxes. Another unboxing plz.

I'd look at what Scrapman did, all of his parking is over the water, but out of reach of the green bots, and it looks cool, but it would need editing to fit to your base

For my miner I made a crane working off of controllers. Free energy and it turns so fast it goes through anything.

The drill holders can be used on a tank model

I've seen a video of a miner that's basically the reverse of this. It reaches over the back of the rocks and pulls the drills towards itself, breaking the rocks and dragging all the rubble with it.

Hi Kan love your videos

Nice.

Kan should make tractors and a huge farm with all the soil he could find with implements and a combine

You should put two refinery stations on it.

Ima yoink your design

So cool 😎 dude

Make an oversize load trailer to move the miner, and your next tree harvester!

Yay more kan

have the drills on a controller lv5 to save battery, they wont spin as fast but its fast enough

maybe you can make a 3 position drills by combining the piston system with bearings in a controller on that arm thing that the piston pushes

Kan you should make a four wheeler and have a small trailer on the back with storage boxes to go exploring and have storage