Tunnel Boring Machine - Space Engineers 

Creator here! Thank you so much for the spotlight, first time to be featured on anything as far as I know of and it has made my week! Just a quick tip to anyone watching: Don't hit the "3" immediately after starting, you should just hit 1 and 4. "3" is mainly for restarting the tbm if you've stopped the cycle for some reason. 1 and 3 do the same thing, 3 builds full tunnel and 1 builds a guide rail onto the launch platform before autotriggering 3 in following cycles :) Shame you didn't show the pipelaying since I spent many hours pulling my hair trying to ad-hoc the damn thing into the tbm after first publishing it without the feature (Clang does not enjoy merges AND connectors hooking many subgrids together I tell you that). Not as fancy as the front welder rack, but the work cycle of it building/connecting/cleaning within pre-established timings while hiding from clang is one of my favorite parts of the build.

A drill capable of self-replicating and extending its drill depth has been something I've been hoping to see in Space Engineers since welders and merge blocks were first introduced.

a tunnel boring machine video with no time-lapse ?

*Elon Musk wants to know your location*

Every drills secret dream is to become a carousel.

I made something similar a couple weeks ago and I got everything working till I tested it on the mountains and the drills dug too slow, it's cool seeing how this person did it. Definitely an amazing feat. Now to figure out how to turn! xD

I actually like this one, it's a little more elaborate than the tunnel bore I built for space. It was basically a flying cylinder with a dropout hatch for stone and 4 sensors to keep itself at a certain distance from the tunnel walls. It worked fine enough to stay unsupervised most of the time. I should update it with remote controls, timer blocks and other "luxuries" to make it a viable standalone ship.

I approve

This is really freaking cool! Great showcase :)

I build something like this years ago, but with a different drillhead. Mine used pistons and rotors to scrape out rectangular holes layer by layer. Eventually, it would have a little drilling rover inside that you could drive out when on a target depth and mine out the surroundings, but I never got to completing it. I was also working on a version that worked like an oil driller, with segments being added from a stockpile, and being placed back in the stockpile when retracting the drill. I think it clanged though, so I abandoned that.

It’s an amazing build, definitely gonna use it in a base build that I wanna have inside a mountain

Awesome i love seeing your videos please never stop making them i love it 😍

This is great :D

creating tunnel for transport and base while also acquiring the resources needed for said constructions. very nice

Please add this as a survival thing. I'd love to see you guys doing "hit and runs" against the evil green eyes drones and destroying their production and Mining stuff. Maybe even stealing some of their supplies.

Just found you vids these are high quality

love it ^^

Congrats on 1k (:

@7:20 "this is 'A' Obsolete tunnel driller", for anyone wanting to Actually drill a tunnel, heavy mining drill on steam, click this: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=475375953 a single drill is a lovely 5x5 large blocks and Most importantly:THERE IS NO MINING DUST With this drill. Essentially you really only need two for some nice wide coverage, bear in mind to have Heaps of storage as this will gobble up anything you point it at.

Boring tunnel machine. No just kidding, it's nice.

o m g!!!! niceeee!

They should build this machine in real life. It is ingenious. A giant bore that reinforces the tunnels it creates. Genius.

you could use the ore it collects to build more rail it would go forever provided its under ground

It's ok tunnel machine. I don't think you're boring

I've been looking for ideas on a tunnel building machine that drills and welds blocks through mountains!!

Voxel hands blew my mind >.< I've been drilling with right click to make underground bases...

Definitly not boring :D

It is actually quite simple to dig a round or square hole in the ground if you go streight down. The rule is to use pistons in groups of less than 10 at 0.00m/s momentum and lowest settings for strenght. A smal ship bore head on a large ship piston works best as you can more simply avoid catastrophic failure where you lose the borehead Now that we got no uranium on planets, the only option is the tiny battery to connect your smal ship connector to a downward facing large ship connector properly and without having it fall of if unpowered if you accidently unlock it. (4 tiny batterys attatched symetrically around the connector) Use a landing gear on a piston to elevate it to the large ship connector, once on magnetic lock, just remove the piston and landing gear, nudge on the batteries on the side of the connector to align it however you want if you digg a square shaft. Once locked you can build your bore head, where i recommend starting with 5 smal pistons + drill bit above the ground, 13-15m above the ground. I have done this with a 7x7 drillbit digging ~320m down, once your piston shaft exeeds 4 groups (120meters) any failure in setting strenght to minimum will bend the shaft and missalign your drillbit. At this point I dug down with 3 groups, set down my drill bit and detatched it from the above station and retracted the 3 groups. Building large positons from the station in 3 groups of 5 (75m of 80m not including connector) reconnecting the drillbit (a litle bit missaligned, just using pistons to get the connector into megnetic lock. This gives a depth of 30x2m (60m) and 75x2 ((150m)^X) My system tanked first when I got up to 250+ smal pistons in my initial idea where I used 4 suport shafts with merge blocks to add on to the shaft rather than rebuilding the drill bit or risk critical missalignment wher Iwould be unable to reatatch the drill bit. Whith yield modules this has prodused 1.2m ingots of iron with respective amounts of other ores from refining rock. so it is not compleatly wasted. With this system, I'll add on conveyor tubes and digg to the center of the planet in no time (0.1m/s - 0.2 m/s) >.< Should probably learn to program timer blocks for this x.x

Of course Jack always break something in his showcase. XD

daily uploads? nice

Man i need this thing to make my base, the thought of dismantling it is a lot more daunting than actually making it lol.

Not a practical machine, but amazing creativity and understanding of the game for creator of this !

A bit over engineered just to dig a hole.... I love the detail though, lol, it's like walking round an actually industrial plant. I usually borrow through with a simple device and then open it up from the inside with a warhead. However, if you don't go deep enough you just end up making a massive, messy crater!

i build something similar and my problem is that as soon as i connect the drill rig with a merge block with the floor below (witch is a station) the drill rig will becom a station and will still stay as a station even when i turn the merge block off does anyone has an idea how to fix this?

What was the thing behind the one that is standing up

This dude really though "Yeah all the times I used this it broke, post it"

Reminds me of the SOL 3 (you can find it on the workshop.)

oh look new beyblade , spining like crazy XD

Do stations curve with the planet? because if not, this thing will start working against gravity at some point

I know this is old but, may you run it for a few hours and see how it does?

Interesting and imaginative. But could it be employed on a distant asteroid?

Next version... needs to line the tunnel as it burrows!!!

good channel for 1.2k subscribers

It has assemblers but no refinerys to refine stone to make mets for assemblers.

unfortunately no longer on the workshop ...... a remake of the 10m version still exists "Tunnel Boring Machine 10m redacted" by ObiWahn68

Was this removed from Steam workshop? Anyone still have teh blueprint?

How do i build this using a projector on survival mode?

Sadly, one of the updates broke it and it's been more trouble than Octomoose has brainpower for to fix - which is fair enough.

Tried it. It went a short distance and then broke. I found two critical problems: one, the mass building up in the cargo containers simply overloads it, and two, it eventually gets out of alignment with the overhead merge blocks and can't lock on to extend itself. The first was fixable by changing the output so it simply dumped the rocks out the back. The second was not.

When you want to make a tunnel but don't want to minee yourself

Please do a fleet on fleet fully crewed battle. Including fighters.

그렇습니다 더 재밌는게 많은것이 명백합니다.

Does anyone else think Jack is the Jeremy Clarkson of Space?

Can’t you hold it in place with 4 unconnected connectors? The yellow light, just put up the strength

how do you pick up and move the whole thing around

Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t they use something similar to this to make subway tunnels?

The problem with straight things in space engineers is that the planets are too small. The biggest planets are less than two percent of the size of earth. What starts out straight will quickly become an upwards incline. It’s why all atmospheric ships seem to pull up as you travel long distances with them. They aren’t pulling up, the curvature of the planet is just pulling away from them as they continue on a perfectly straight path.

Its good as a creation but so many issues with users and does bot have a guarantee to work all the time before having to delete it.

He complains about how slow the tunnel bore can be but you have to realize that real machines that do this go at a sluggish pace too.

This is vanila? im looknig for something like this!

I built a slightly more simplified drill train with the hover rail mod This is still more impressive, but my train is a bit faster, and does turns

how to build Tunnel Boring Machine (Vanilla) 10m diameter in survival mode ?! I don't have half the building

is there a cheaper version for survival?

No time lapse or showing us the finished product?

And yet it always gets busted at around 500 meters...

Are there any tunnel *interesting* machines?

Elon Musk?? Lol, Jeff Bezos is calling, my Amazon should be a lot faster now.

I really wanna play this game but too bad I don't have pc🤣

Trading Station vor EEM steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1687861261

The boring tunnel

Missing a refinery now that stone begets basic ingots.

Why not just increase the speed if you want it to drill faster? With all those drills you should be able to go at least 0.4 m/s without any problem.

y not biwd tunnel?

Can u upload to mod io

Better not show the Russians this lol. People who know the story here will find it a fascinating read. The Space Race wasn't the only thing Russia & the West were fighting for during the Cold War. Another fantastic Space Engineers project with real world connections. :b

Captain jack? You changed your name.

you know if you're gonna feature someone stuff you really should put the workshop link in the description so people who want it can find it without having to launch a man hunt through a steam workshop that is filled with mostly noob garbage builds. for those of you who want it here are the links to the two different versions steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1671909553&searchtext=tunnel+borring+machine steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1671909553&searchtext=tunnel+borring+machine you're welcome

Well, thats boring. *ba dum tss*

Anyone have steam blueprint? to reupload ?

Построено по секретным документам Илона Маска

I born you?

In space drilling is dead easy. On a planet no so much... in survival you can make a flying drill that can drill in any angle and fit inside the hole, though it uses a lot of power to run, but hey... hydrogen engines ;)

WHERES AANG

Jesus, what on earth is wrong with the camera in this game? It's giving me motion sickness the way it rolls constantly.

I mean I think this is pretty cool but Space Engineers has a memory leek if you just keep drilling you will run out of RAM 😒

FYI DragonNation Gaming already covered this awhile ago

They should of put the modded TBM drill head instead of this amateur vanilla one

Is this guy related to Aaron LSG because they have the same accent and a suspiciously similar voice

and... its boring... (pun intended , booooo)

I don’t know, I found this video a bit BOREING.

dont work

Doesnt work

Looks pretty boring to me...

This video is pretty boreing.

I didn't want to watch the hole thing... Cuz it was boring.

No thanks

not gonna lie a little boring

Zuviel Dummes gelabber .

Thats one hella boring machine

That's just *boring* ...