Once the pistons are fully extended I drop the drill set by grinding the connection. Then I raise the pistons/fix them and add some tubes and a two merge blocks - carefully lower the new setup back down and you can mine an entire new depth without disassembling the whole thing.

"I did some digging" (300 mile hole in background) THAT IS NOT SOME.

Put wheels on it boom u can move it

"That's what being an engineer is all about - you start building something, a problem arises. And now you have to figure out how to deal with that problem." Yea, and because when you're a hammer? All you see is nails? An engineer's solution is: "Hey, I can build something for that!" Course that's what makes these kinds of games fun. There's always another problem to solve.

Never fail to find inspiration whenever I search SE videos. Cool mining rigs man.

I’ve started space engineers recently and have had the same issue with getting enough ice, I’ve done the same large drill design but probably 20 more drills wide, I decided to use solar, wind and batteries to power it all to help save a little extra ice

For anyone interested the song at 27:34 is Surround Me by Kevin Andersson.

I've been in situations where a minute seems like an eternity. You know what they say... The watched pot never boils.

This is effectively how I do most of my mining on planets. My rigs aren't quite as fancy or automated. They use pretty much a single turbine for power (if in atmosphere) and a quarter of the drills. Instead of using a cross pattern to get a level done in a quarter of a rotation, it uses a full rotation. I haven't had the rotor head pop off yet. But I wonder if this is due to the pistons being added to the head instead of the rotor added to the pistons. I manually set the pistons to drop down about 2-2.5m at a time. So if there is two pistons, they go down 1m each. If I have 5 than its 0.5m each. Rotor speed needs to be setup so its not too fast this way however. Usually around 0.5-0.8 RPM. Less the more drills being used. If I'm doing this over rock instead of ice/water, then I'll use a sorter linked to a connector designed to throw out everything and then white list by stone. For every 1M kg of ore you get, you'll likely see 5M kg of stone which isn't normally what you want. DNG's method shown here is way way faster. The method I use is simply a necessity due to materials available. Of course the biggest issue is transporting ore/ice mined. I've been using a small ship large (5x5) eight wheeled rover with 3 large cargo boxes. But will likely be switching to a large ship type sometime in the future. Another advancement I'll be doing is for some of the deepest ores. I'll be using two sets of vertical pistons. One to raise the height of the entire rig to fit more pistons going down. And retract those pistons as the drill pistons need to go deeper. Right now for most surface deposits 4 pistons is good enough to hit things about 45m down. But to get down to 60-80m you need 6 to 8 and the whole thing starts getting really tall. A hassle even with jetpacks on to build. As for people saying to make this mobile.. I've done that before. But I don't know if its worth it. Pertam and Europa is probably good for wheels, and Mars for atmospheric thrusters (due to lower gravity). But we're talking having the need to be able to move upwards of millions of kg of ore/ice at 0.6-1.2G. I'd imagine those of you who can make vehicles that do this easily may have better mining techniques already.

Wow, that looks eerie. Just a huge mining rig abandoned in a shaft that goes for about a mile.

Using your rotor drill concept, I made a drill tram with auto welders. Each episode I watch, I see something new I can toss in my builds. Thank you for the excellent source materials!

This is the only video I’ve found useful explaining timer blocks

I'm not entirely sure why this came up in my recommended, but now it'll be coming up in my subscriptions

27:26 I demand a 10 hours version of this montage, jesus this is relaxing to watch...

The red experimental mode box can be turned off in the shift-F1 menu

at the beginning of the video the contrast in the dark and light makes it fun to move my phone

It is so satisfying to watch that thing go down.

Normally I despise intros, but yours gave me a great sample of the games that you play that I also play and did a great job of promoting your content. Subbed. Good job!

Watched the opening, saw the game selection, heard the music. Gave the man a sub.

i have watched so many of ur videos they always pop up on my recomended, its verry interesting aswell, you really deserve more subscribers!

This is a actual awesome idea. I love it

"Call that a drill?" 'produces this creation' "Now this, this is a drill" :D

Naming? A core driller? That would of course be the "Corilla", dude.

I made the ice rig that you made except for the hole mine left took 32 large blocks to reach the center. My friend turned around and saw a massive monstrosity with 120 drills on it covered in wind turbines.

I don't know why, but I'd love to see this ice drill shrunk down just a bit for a ship & have the drills on all surfaces turning the way you got that ice drill goin', lol

It's cool to see what an ACTUAL ENGINEER does. Stay cool Rich!

Regarding that truck, I like to use pistons, hinges, and connectors to pass power and inventory between grids that were build separate from each other.

Damn Rich its nice to see how much your channel has grown buddy!

Man, Minecraft really started whole new genre of first person building games :D After it became popular, building elements started popping up in new games like crazy.

When I am in need of ice, I just make a flying pancake with drills all over the bottom.

3:05 OOehhhhhhhhhhh CLANG PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP .... I still have a giggle when I see it happen hehe ;)

I know this is an old episode, but I'm rewatching the series. Why not build a digger just like you did for tunneling, but with the drills below instead of above, and just have it work its way across the lake. Also, for the digger that's making the tunnel, why not put several "cars" on it, each of which gets larger, and the last one just builds the walls and floor. That would reduce the weight issue, and the later ones could run on the same track. The last one could even grind down the conveyors if you wanted.

This is just so cool good job

ive only watched 1 eppisode and in already obsessed

Built this on a modded playthrough it got destroyed by Orks 5 mins after I got it running 😢

It hurts to see all that Ice get destroyed. at 27:58 all 3 kontainers are full already. since storage 1 was already 100% full the moment you looked. and once the drills are full. all the ice just got destroyed. that would have ben enaugh ice to fill at least 20 Large Containers. I skiped to 30:33. i must corect myself i asume that hole is big enough for 50 Large containers full of Ice. oh boy.

just realized your base is located in the exact same lake as mine

This is satisfying.

55 by 55 large grid cubes is 137.5 meters in diameter

Awesome stuff man!

You could see it go down at 24:25 just before you poped up the inventory.

Well...I’ve never played this game but that was pretty cool to watch. Right on man. Side note: Love how you handle the people who tell you how to play a game YOU paid money for. Got my sub dude. 👍

22:51 At that point, you should have filled that large hydrogen tank about 5 times over with the amount of material you've mined.

the end could be a part of "oddly satisfying" xD

Your logo looks a lot like the dragon I drew yesterday now that’s what I call a destiny

Would be neat if you mounted the drill on a ship that you could repeatedly land and lower. That way you wouldn't need to rebuild the thing every time you wanted to move it or have it dig deeper

Just set your pistons to something really low. I use 24 stacked pistons set at .0005, and the rotor at 1rpm. Digs 200+m with no timer block. (2 pistons down, conveyor tube back up, rinse repeat to 24 pistons. About 12 blocks tall for the pistons and rotor.)

Now we just have to figure out how to attack the assembly to a mobile platform so we can reposition it and make new circles everywhere.

6:04 ships can land give you materials and you can maybe make it a station

3:07 is just awesome

Quick question how did you set up the timers? Never used them before and am confused on how to set them up

why do you use junctions for the X above the hole instead of tubes?

Wouldn't it have been more material efficient to do just one stick of drills with some sort of counterweight opposite it?

On the downside it takes forever to construct takes a heck ton of resources and it’s slow But on the upside I guess it’s great for making underground bases and collecting whatever’s In the way of its helicopter blade that spins at 1 revolution every 2 minutes

Nice music at the end.

It's fact man is so destructive and I love it

Love the intro man!

part of the problem is that unless you use the better hydrogen engine mod or something similar (either more efficient engine or better hyd/ox generators) it takes 2 large generators to keep up with a single large engine so if ya run 1/1 you only store hydrogen when the engines are off...workable with power management mods but a royal pita without

space engineers.. crossed with satisfactory. now that would be insane

You almost said "dramastically" which is awesome anyways lol great vid. Just got this game. I feel like a caveman when i play it lmao I'll get there. Might take a year tho

so satisfying!!!

this is impressive

Holy shit Rich. Another god damn upload? You been going crazy bro.

that drill is thicc

i saw it intro was like "IM SUBSCRIBING NOW" BECAUSE THATS AL THE GAMES I LOVE

Where tf do the clicks come from? I remember watching this when it just came out.

A conveyer to space holy hell lol

What's the name of the song that you used in the drilling part

I built a big wheeled drilling machine, and I gather ice by doing high speed doughnuts over the frozen lakes. lol Fun and efficient. Why carry the ice to the base? Just build a bunch of O2/H2 generators at the ice dig site and fill many hydrogen tanks on site. Make it a refueling station for ships to dock and get hydrogen.

What was the song you used in the end timelapse?

No offense but you sound like the narrator from How it’s made.

Is it weird that i re watched this montage 5 times?

Drill Bill and Ice Ice Baby

I finally upgraded from my little laptop to a desktop with a proper GPU that'll run SE on something better than minimum settings. Maybe next time you're doing an open game, I'll be able to jump in again.

Hey, it would be cool if you gave us a tiny info as to the total power usage, ore/stone outputs, etc in case we plan to do similar projects

this rig is friggin awesome!

how are your drills drilling so smothly? i did try this but like 5 long to each side the drills starts shaking.

So I like your timer thing but, what I did was build the same thing like wht you built a turn on the drills, then set the rotor to 0.79 and one of the piston velocity to 0.00 no negative so that it will still drill but slowly.

hey what is the song name for the montage

Lol, as he was shooting down the tunnel I was like: "Is he gonna slow down? Is he gonna slow down?! Is he gonna slow down?!! Nope. he's dead." Had a good laugh at that.

Just subbed love the content.

Can someone tell me what song that is at the end? Really like it.

This is the first video i watched. I Enjoyed it, the intro is very long tho

a suggestion to modify this ice miner ... on each support upright top it with a fully extended piston when you build it ... then you can lower that to start the hole ... and then use the drill head pistons to extend it deeper ... this will allow you to dig all the ice sheet and get minerals as well if they appear ... the other option from going in circles is rebuild your inch worm miner and have set to do some number of repeats then lift it on wheeled pistons and reposition it and let it run again .. then you are essentially doing a computerized ice farming of a very large chunk of ice and minerals as they appear in between each reset manually add a connection to the new line and poof your piped all the way around you can also build a huge landing pad or platform over it all and launch to space from there or build a factory for building vehicles etc

27:48 1.00x Speed - Liquid/Chillout 1.25x Speed - Dance 1.50x Speed - Club 1.75x Speed - Nightcore

Nice job.

why didnt you show the timer settings??

I made the same with but i made it on a platform that could fly. It looked badass.

Ima put a mini one of these on my rover

i recommend the mods twin industries drills welder and grinders it will help with the frame rate

How did you make that spacesuit?

I would do every second drill a conveyor as they will still cut I would also just have 1/4 of that as a row of drills and let it rotate, it's all coming through 1 piston anyway Would also put it on wheels so you can move it in future If you ctrl + click on the number you can set the piston speed even slower Great vid

hey dragon can you show us how to do timers please

Can you show or share the Timer Block configuration for the pistons? I'm having challenges setting it up to automatically drop the pistons every 1-2 minutes like you've done.

damn I didn't know that the entire nation of dragon's made a gaming channel

Can someone tell me how to programm the timers? I`ve built one myself. but I cant figure out how those timers really work.

How about "Hole Plower 9000"?

ive got 400 hours into this game, and ive never been able to set modules in the ground like that..how in the world did you set them in the ice perfectly like that?

xD 10:27 Ya i immediately noticed you forgot to account for the conveyor and needed to go one more space up, lol.

Seems impratical to build something like that and it not be mobile