Space Engineers Experiments: Tunnel Drilling Rig 

Good idea. Could of saved my rig from falling if I did that lol.

Had to do it 😀

Well it depends on the 4 speed factors. First and foremost the speed of the mining machine then speed of the assembler, the speed of welder and finally speed of grinder. Here why those speed become important 1) speed of miner if it’s too fast the welder won’t be able to weld enough and grinder will chew through to fast and miner will drop. 2) if the miner is just the right speed for near complete the weld, the basic assembler either will need more unit to produce what needed or have a assembler with speed modules for faster production. 3) welding/grinding if speed is equal then it game over miner will drop unless you go in world setting and reduce grinding speed while maxing the welding to prevent mining drop

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Could you bring the drill back to a mobile platform then convert it to a station after moving the platform?

@@shainekennedy2742 Sounds like a maybe. I don't know.

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Not on their own, you have to weld the holographic blocks either by hand or with a welding tool

@@gsogaming5783 true. I need to get back to this game at some point... :D

This specific build was production. Needed to add more assemblers.

@@PandemicPlayground I would bet one or two more speed modules on the assemblers would have been enough to handle it. Great job on the video.

Turn the settings all the way down I used to play with 4gb on my desktop but my laptop only has 8gb and plays just fine

@@Wesleystewart78 I've tried that before, and still had issues... :(

And that is saying something about the game when voxel work is actually harder than making some rig for both Creative mod and Survival mod

hmmm, perhaps that's another test. I have plans for testing it diagonally.

@@PandemicPlayground worth noting: Keen Server Players can work together, but do not have much if any access to scripts.

@@Peoples_Republic_of_Cotati Yes and yes...with caveats. . The drill limit basically means all 5 have to be forward-facing, and will have to be set to collect rather than bore (or there's no way you'll get enough stone to make the basic blocks). But, you don't actually need the front of the rig to be "open" as it is in this video. The projection can go through the craft itself with no issue. So long as the welders are behind the drills, and the guide-wheels are behind the welders, there's no issue at all. Also, to make sure you don't risk any gaps in the guideway, you can make it one block wide instead of two. So long as the wheels are done properly, it should remain stable. . For diagonals, you'd need one or two rotors to start with. One to adjust the horizontal, and one for the vertical if necessary. Set the angles, lock the rotors...let 'er rip.

no suspension

Setting them on causes them to collect. Right click clears a larger area without collecting and you can't toggle that function on.

I'll work on getting this into the workshop for others to play around with.

@@PandemicPlayground did you?

@@PandemicPlayground Yes please do, I'd so love to use this to bore a tunnel in out mountain base in my games server.

How are you gonna get pendantic on pronunciation and add unecisary phonems? mOUntin [iPa phonetics] ou is the accented voul so the t should follow that. Mount-in Ou is a dipthong Why add an a in there? The way that would be pronounced Ma-ou-nt-in (Ultenantly this can be pronounced with the t in the suppressed syllable, this would be consistent with cVc- cvc)

@@chiefgully9353 The t is not silent.

@@conanthedestroyer7123 rigt... amd there is no A in it. Your the worst kinda wrong being wrong while correcting some one

@@chiefgully9353 nope your wrong.

@@conanthedestroyer7123 lol ok guy. IPA international Phonetic Alphabet. Literally the pronunciation guide.

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