Space Engineers - Xbox Tutorial: Automatic Drilling Rig 

Maan it took me a while to get this right.. couldn't figure out why my downward piston wouldn't drop until I realised I had to set max distance to one meter then tell sensor to increase it with every rotation.. apart from that I know this is an old vid but thank u very much for it.. gotten off to a good start thanks to this series.. totally addicted to SE now lol

Thank you for making this tutorial. I am playing on PC but this is the best tutorial I have found so far and I have looked through lots of them.

the oldschool solution to reduce tool shake was to add a gyroscope onto the drills. Also, not sure about xbox but on the PC version there is an option to turn off tool shake in the advanced settings of the world, which helps to reduce that Klang-tastic wobble.

I cant believe I never thought to use a sensor, i always calculated how slow the pistons need to move in order to go down by one block every 4 minutes or so and made the rotor make a full turn every 4 minutes. The sensor is so much easier

Been using these sort of set ups since I started playing on PC, great to see things like this helping new players. The biggest drill I've set up on pc uses 8 extended pistons on the up arm and 8 on the down arm with 8 drill heads, clang was happyish with it.

I've made much larger drill heads in a plus pattern on Xbox and use gyros on the end of each drill head line as well as gyros on the rotor (switched to override). Not feasible at an early stage in the game/where you're at in the video, but soon after for sure.

Clang is my friend, pushed xbox limits running 19 drills attached to a rotor, attached to 20 pistons so half a rotation equalled a full turn (9 on either side of center). All I can say is it danced while drilling.

I actually never knew you could use sensors to do that! Awesome vid :)

Just got this game on sale a day or so ago and you sir are a damn legend this automated mining system is sweet as 😁 it mines so much so fast even on just one drill lol

Thanks for the clarification on Inertia sharing on X box. I did not know that option was not available. Appreciate your vids.

I actually found a way how to use the wiggle to my advantage while using that auto mining system, what I did was use a small rotor part and small drills, about 5 (one in middle and two on each side) the wiggle of the piston, rotor and drill actually allowed me to boar a wider hole

Change the conveyors into a piston so you can extent it, and start the rig on an advanced rotor (so you can change the direction of the entire rig).

If you put counter weights on the drill it wont shake as much

Ty so much this video really helped me out I built a rig and made my own adjustments you definitely have a new subscriber

Very good drill Rig setup every xbox and PC player should know. The lack of Share Inertia tensor on Xbox is such a shame and will limit builds and hopefully they are working on adding it. I also hope we get this on PS4 one of these days.

The option for share inertia tensor is on Xbox you just have to go into game options from the main menu and select experimental mode before your start up a game.

Love this. Building my own set up. After that will need to build some trucks to transport everything when i finish were i am.

You can use share inertia tension on Xbox now. Have to enable it in options

os i gust want to say you do not have to worry a bout the shaking on a drill rig be because i put a lot of drills on a tig and pushed it into the ground pretty fast😁

Thanks so much, that’s first guide I have found that goes to the basic of mining! Well done

For peeps after 2022. Xbox series X users. Multiplay up to 16 PCU is 500K Share inertia tensor Available +10 drill build is no problem. Happy engineering 😎

The second I saw how he was doing it I started breathing heavily... I will soon defy clang

Clang taketh our crazy builds, and giveth us our Clang ships PRAISE TO CLANG

I’ve never considered wind generators sideways, my mind is blown

You are the Bob Ross of space engineers

Unless I am mistaken you could set the sensor to reduce piston 1 when it comes into range and increase piston 2 when it swings out of range. I think that would make a .2 meter lowering of the rig which the drills should handle.

Just for anyone else on XBOX you can turn on experimental gameplay thats what allows you to activate share inertia tensor

When do you plan on teaching us how to build a mining ship or rover?

Im so grateful for this tutorial however the sensor part is not working and im literally following the same base design maybe with a few minor changes but i can't get the sensor to work and i have to manually do everything do you have any extra tips that might help ?

first like and comment @ 9:35am. holy shit i have never caught a vid this early. keep up the good work, dude

You can get up to 10 drills on one piston in xblocks. I haven't gone higher... yet. *13*

Thank you for doing these for xbox

The sensor isn't working, it's always green, and when the drill goes by it, the piston won't lower. Does anyone have a fix?

Gonna do something like this immediately now that I have a spot with cobalt to mine out

Trying to have the Sensor decrease the Minimum Distance by 2m every rotation like yours does in the video, but when I select Decrease Minimum Distance from the Setup Actions page, I can’t choose by how much the Minimum Distance decreases. It just decreases it 0.0m. How did you get it decrease by 2m?

I just remove the bottom amd add another few pistons when i reach bottom and im pretty sure the shake gives me more reach outwards

Loving your tuts so far, but the sensor just doesn't want to work for me. I followed your steps to the letter

Great stuff man stay safe and God bless!

No, Klang is this games merciless god of physics

Looking for some advice the senser works but the piston wont extend did i miss something or did i not ser it up right

Thank you for the series of videos It has been very helpful

I did exactly what you did but my sensor isn’t responding or at least the pistons aren’t working. Playing on Xbox btw

Was trying to get this to work for nearly 2 hours before going to bed. I’m on computer playing with a controller; I have the same setup and copied your settings for the pistons and the sensor, but nothing happens. My drills just spin around in a circle never dropping any further into the ground. Am I missing something?

I just made a drill rig with 90 drills on it Shakes quite a bit but it hasn't broken yet 😅

QUESTION : Is it possible to make a remote, windmill powered power-charging station at your mines, so that you can mine long enough to fill your rover, without having to return to base, to charge your suit?

How close does the sensor have to be I tried setting it up before going to bed but it wouldn't work

hi gang #;}. about the shake..... there is a setting ( button to allow tools shake or not ) to remove it in the world settings. i use a 3 drill setup with. no shake at 5 it still has some but still much better.

I did exactly this. However, the materials gathered aren't being automatically added to my refinery. I even have the share inventory option on. I don't know what to do.

I built this and my drill is only the blocks distance away like yours. My front extent is at 7.5, bottom is like 20-25, and my sensor is set to detect subgrids. I have had zero luck getting it to work. Everything in the video I did except that i have 2 drills not 3, but they’re just as far from the sensor as your 3rd drill. Very sad because i know it should work and some how i messed it up.

Are you going to stream the xbox Space engineer's again

2024 and can not get this to work. Sensor detects the movement but does not lower the piston using your settings. Don't know how to fix it. Any ideas would be appreciated

Honestly I'd just use timer blocks and it'd work just as good.

My assembler and storage aren't pulling from tbe drills. Also it won't feed from one to the other. I have tons of power also so that's not the problem. Pretty annoying

Going to put a simplified version of it on my rover.

Awesome video dude, good job!

I've had issues that the advanced rotor doesn't allow item transfer. I can't find a work-around

I'd like to see the previous tutorial telling how to start a drill rig.I have started a drill rig and I have so far connected reinforced conveyor tubes out to a reinforced curved conveyor tube. now what do I do next? add more reinforced conveyor tubes going up or add a piston going up?

Very helpful. Thank you.

Aaaand mine broke immediately after building it

you don't need sensor for pistone. set piston speed to 0.1

The rotor won't transport items and I don't know why because I built it like you

Use experimental mode on Xbox gives u inertia sensors

Can you stack 2 pistons together to keep pushing down?

Hey Kanajashi !! ✌😎🤘😬💯 Loving ya videos been helping my brothers and I really get into the game. Quick question; Are you going to be covering vehicles soon/ in upcoming videos or maybe you have a PC video that I should look at ??

I’ve been having the hardest time getting this dang sensor to work someone helppp

sorry i've tried to do this on my mining rig but its decreasing the minimal distance too much rather than a little bit at a time

Is there a way to have the pistons only move a set bit per rotation. To prevent the drills from being slammed into the ground. I would like to rotor to do two rotations then have one the piston move 2.5 extend until its full extended. Then the next one in sequence

How does the sensor know when the first piston is done and to switch to extending to the second piston ?

I am having an issue with the stone not going to the basic refinery it's being stored in the drill.... I have been hand picking it and placing it into the refinery... Please help I must have missed something

Noob question on a semi related topic,do i need to destroy my earth base after i have moved to space?im struggling with the pcu limit,great vids btw

Which is better piston than rotor or rotor than piston? Also i experimented on the xbox you can create 10 head drills but it can only be 3 on each side

Thank you for the great series! I have a question. How to you set the amount of decrease when setting up piston in the Sensor? I can only choose 'to do' action regarding that sensor, like decrease or increase max/min distance, but how/where to specify for how much (like it shows 2m in your case)? I'm on PC, though I don't think it matters in this case. I know how to manually control pistons directly. The question is about setting it from the sensor. Thank you!

My stone does not seem to be moving into the container to make resources, have I missed something?

I am wondering how mich distance it will decrease during a sensor ping. How can i configure that how much the piston will move?

How to transport the material afterwards

when i do mine for some reason it disconnects i dont know why can some one help me

I just made a drill rig set up with 240 drills on it it hasn't broke yet I mean when I set it up I was cut on a hill so I Haven't moved it down a little bit But just tinkering with it slowly moving it down because it's not really cutting into a flat surface it's more or less cutting into a hill I'm using 2 pistons 1 on a large car broken large coral container I've got 3 of them topped up to the one I have hooked up to the piston One question with the 240 drills on it I just want Wild with these girls No playing in survivor but I switched it over to creative so I could just cray it out I want I've Of 200Of A 150Filler panelsYou're different areasClose to each Other I'll fiddle with it tomorrow on Monday morning when I get up you know I might try to ram it into the ground how like I did before to see what Will happen but I really don't want to do that I don't want to break all the drills and have to start the game over againHours and creating this areaI've been experimenting with different drill setups like probably other people haveI I like to do crazy drill rig setupsIn the word as places to figure out how to set it up instead of on a flat surface or a little bit of a hill gradeEarlier I had 4 drill rigs on the side of a mountainDrawing down I had one rotating on a Vance rotor but I'm just straight down and had 40 drills on it the 1 with the rotor on it it was shaking quite a bit I had15 drill bits but that wants a straightened line I have All the 15 Drills

i had a question about sensors. you have one sensor that goes down 2 meters on one piston. if you have 2 pistons one that was pointing up and the other pointing down can you have 2 sensors each going down one meter on each piston. and if you have 4 each going down .5 meters and so on?

Are they going to add share anersha for the Xbox

Yea... it doesnt lower itself at all

My question is about the appearance of the equipment. When I build anything, it looks rusty and old, where as in this video it looks shiney and new. Whats up with that? Is there an option or a setting somewhere I've missed?

Can somebody send me the link for the last video can't find it

Your wrong about only haveing 3 drills i have 20 and it does wobble but not no more than yours

I cant get my sliders to work for my pistons. How do you get them to work?

I'd be curious what your stability issues are like. Because on my X1 X literally the moment I log into the game. I'm already getting performance issues pop up in the right hand of the screen. Then you'll usually get a 5 Second screen freeze before it resumes. Then it repeats the cycle in about 1 to 2 minute cycles. You don't really even have to have anything built. New and old games alike it pretty much does the same thing. Space Engineers I've been looking forward to for a long time coming out on console. But unfortunately it's just about unplayable at the moment. Hopefully the May update will help fix some of these stability issues here. :/

I live in a snow and the worst thing about the drills is that it always picks up ice and fills up the storage.

cant u use a timer block instead ???

When I do this my piston just goes maximally. Not just a little bit each rotation.

I’ve tried a million times still doesn’t work

Hey built this but the stone I collect is just staying in the drills not transfering to my storage I checked and made sure my drills are using conveyor system but still nothing am i missing something

Mined over 500k stone with it

I need help, for some reason the stone isn’t being extracted from the drills and put into the system and I have it setup exactly like it is in the video what should I do?

Do you need to have the conveyor tubes for the reaching portion of the drill or can you use pistons? I have full drills but the material is not moving into my refinery. I used conveyor junctions and everything.

Is there a way to transfer all of the minerals from the drills to the refinery

But we can't control how far it gets lowered per detection...

this is a late af comment vut now you can turn on experimental mod and use the share intertai

Hey man quick question. Are there Npcs to fight in the open world on Xbox version? Haven’t seen any personally

Why do I have this gun!? Ain't nobody around

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yay im the newwest comment :)