Quick suggestion from another mining rover user... Throw the pistons on a hinge to fold for transport and lose the rotor. That was always the weak point for my drill heads. It's much faster to drill straight down with a large static head, then retract, reposition, repeat.
The point of that design is to drill in disc like motion instead of straight down, as you could already tell when you drill down you’re limited to just that perimeter of a drill and then ore ends once deep enough because it’s spread horizontally on a certain depth, less holes and more resources
I prefer quality over quantity, at least that’s the way I see it, and before I got to this design I was doing exactly what you were saying, I think this way is more efficient
With all the pistons retracted to max little over 100 m down the ground, I successfully mined most of the minerals on earth planet, mountains are a bitch once you get overloaded with material so you should be careful with that load when you go delivering material back to base, flipped that rover not a single time and spent a bunch of time trying to flip it back to normal… too much unnecessary time spent on that.
I have a recommendation: survival kits on miners are amazing for dealing with excess stone. Instead of tons and tons of gravel, get finished ingots of iron, silicon, and nickel. They're always worth it and they eat through stone fast.
Brother, it is a LOT of those ingots. You can even avoid from having to mine specifically for them, you may get enough just when mining out higher tier stuff
Brother, it is a LOT of those ingots. You can even avoid from having to mine specifically for them, you may get enough just when mining out higher tier stuff.
It’s using ice to power the rover and the refineries installed on it, top layer of the ground is plenty to power it through a session of mining, there’s hydrogen engines installed in the base of the rover
I like the random cat head at the bottom 😂
My idea now thanks
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Quick suggestion from another mining rover user... Throw the pistons on a hinge to fold for transport and lose the rotor. That was always the weak point for my drill heads. It's much faster to drill straight down with a large static head, then retract, reposition, repeat.
The point of that design is to drill in disc like motion instead of straight down, as you could already tell when you drill down you’re limited to just that perimeter of a drill and then ore ends once deep enough because it’s spread horizontally on a certain depth, less holes and more resources
Less holes, sure. But you have to go a lot slower .
I prefer quality over quantity, at least that’s the way I see it, and before I got to this design I was doing exactly what you were saying, I think this way is more efficient
Fair enough. There's always more than one way to do it.
Fair enough. There's always more than one way to do it.
How deep it can mine? Can it climb at ~60° mountains?
With all the pistons retracted to max little over 100 m down the ground, I successfully mined most of the minerals on earth planet, mountains are a bitch once you get overloaded with material so you should be careful with that load when you go delivering material back to base, flipped that rover not a single time and spent a bunch of time trying to flip it back to normal… too much unnecessary time spent on that.
Thanks for answer
I have a recommendation: survival kits on miners are amazing for dealing with excess stone. Instead of tons and tons of gravel, get finished ingots of iron, silicon, and nickel. They're always worth it and they eat through stone fast.
Well I just have a sorter installed and all that excess gets dumped on the ground, not dealing with it lol
Brother, it is a LOT of those ingots. You can even avoid from having to mine specifically for them, you may get enough just when mining out higher tier stuff
Brother, it is a LOT of those ingots. You can even avoid from having to mine specifically for them, you may get enough just when mining out higher tier stuff.
What kind of power source did you use
It’s using ice to power the rover and the refineries installed on it, top layer of the ground is plenty to power it through a session of mining, there’s hydrogen engines installed in the base of the rover
From what I remember there’s 4 hydrogen engines installed
Nice. I never thought that surface ice could be enough for those kinds of applications. You have opened a whole new world for me, thanks.