If you get rid of the little thrusters on the back that are around the big thruster and put down drills sideways facing outwards it will make the hole bigger and it might keep you from bumping into the wall as much
Would've been interesting if you added a new section to the Prometheus for the new jump drives, but this works too I guess. You still have room for one extra at the front where those solar panels are, should you need it.
Yeah that's definitely possible as well, would have to do that in Zero G though as I think that would be the best way to go if I was to add another section into the middle of the ship because you would need to use pistons to spread the ship apart 😉✌️
You should just make a giant floating box as a base to start with. You could add details later but in stead of having an astroid or planet base you have a Space Castle big enough to park your big ship inside of
I kinda enjoy the challenge of all the logistics in this series, a lot of playthrough's I have done I have barely traveled to other planets so it's kinda refreshing 😎✌️
@@TheGarageGamer86 The 'castle' would be flying in space like a giant Mobile HQ. That way you could take your whole base with you. It wouldn’t be able to enter gravity so you would still need your ships. You could park it out side of planetary gravity and go back and forth instead of having to find an asteroid every time
You're gonna want to build a atmospheric miner for the alien planet and make sure you place a couple of reactors on it so power won't be an issue in the high gravity. Didn't notice if you had gravel and silver in your cargo so don't forget that. Great vid as usual...looking forward to the next.
Yeah I agree, I think the hydrogen just won't work very well on Alien, at least not with this amount of fuel!! Yeah I have been saving up all of my gravel since the very beginning of the game, last play through i threw it out but this time I kept it because I know you need a stupid amount to build large reactors haha. Thanks for the suggestions man, appreciate the kind words too 😎✌️
Mate ive recently found this series i love it, ive been playing space engineers hell of a long time, working on getting a full set up again, only playing on xbox at the minute but would love to jump in a game with you just to bounce ideas!
Q/E roll doesn't use all of the gyros power. I've used the control module keybind mod to trigger gyros with max roll override before and the ship rolled so fast, too fast really. You could try putting a remote control facing "upwards" 90 degrees to the cockpit and use that to fly it when it's vertical, then your roll is left/right, might be easier to set a level hole and fly too.
I have been enjoying the new miner and the continued quality of the videos. I dont know if this would be worth it, but the thought occurred that it may be possible if the outside drills were on hinges or pistons or something and merge blocks to stop the phantom forces, that they could be moved out to make huge shafts when going for the deposit. it's pretty much not necessary because you can fly well.
or perhaps a blueprint of the miner with a long line of blocks or something off each side that are the diameter of the hole it makes when right clicking as one color and left clicking as another that when visible with a projector could be a grid thingy to align in the hole for backing up. if that made any sense
4:03 Do you use anything to get those readings on the camera? I have the clear camera and the controllable version, but it doesn't have those readings when you're trying to use it as a guide to do stuff without abusing 3 person view all the time. Why would you built a new mining ship for a atmo planet? You could just use the bigger one to jump to the planet, and the hydro one to mine. That is how I'm doing with mine hydro mining. Go down, mine, go up again, just make sure you don't use more the 40% on the way down when you're done mining, stop at 60% fuel, so you can come back heavier. You can always have some ice and generator as backup, but small grid generators are slow as hell :(. I use 11 Hydro tanks and it is more than enough to mine a tons before going back
Oh yeah, so what I had done was put a transparent LCD in-front of the camera, and then on that LCD you select the "scripts" option, then add the "Artifical Horizon" to the list. Then change the background colour to 0,0,0 to make it transparent. The ship would only be able to lift about 143,000kg on the alien planet but full it weighs like 260,000. And also the fuel will only last like 5 minutes tops when it is full of ore, and those the main reasons I don't want to take it to the alien 😎👍
Have you ever thought of making a drilling station on the moon maybe make a drill that's on wheels and going on an angle instead of going all the way down go out on an angle so it's easier to drive out instead of fly out
Oh I caught up! Been binge watching this from episode 2. Really enjoyed it so far. Got me back into SE. What scenario is this with the planets in it? Its been a while since I played.
Oh that's awesome you got back into the game mate! 😎👌. Oh so this one is just a solar system start, but then i chose the space pod. And then all of the other settings were pretty much stock and all the mods I have used are in the description of each video 😉✌️
Cameras are cheap and it pays to put them just about everywhere. You can turn them off if not used. You never know which perspective you need. Docking, reverse, sides, sides of front and rear etc.
I was thinking, could you build connectors on all four sides of the miner, at the same height? I know your current connector sits at a large conveyor port, but since you're only gathering ore you could hook up the other connectors with small conveyors and they would still work.
Yeah the only issue is that I would have to sacrifice some thrusters to do that, but I mean for the hydro version it could work quite well as it doesn't really need too much thrust to move around sideways 😎
As soon as the event blocks work again, you could add a event block for (dis)connecting your Avalanche that trigger timer blocks with all the settings (thrusters on/off, hydro stockpile on/off, recharge, gyros on/off, ...) you want on launch/landing.
I wonder if you can use gravity assist. The moon is weak. Shut the lift engines and ride on the drills. Or reduce the lift thrusters power and let gravity do its thing.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing, but I'm not sure if you could maintain a steady rate of speed?I kinda feel like once you get to the point where the ship started sinking then it would continue to accelerate, but I would really need to test that to be sure! 🤔🤔🤔🤔
@6:12 check that the inventory settings are the same in your test world as your game world, the difference could easily be one of those multipliers being different
Yeah it might do actually! It's OK though, I am kinda getting used to the miner now. I was thinking of implementing what a few people have suggested and putting a remote control block horizontally and then connecting to it to change the controls when it comes time to dock? 😎👍
This is obviously well after the fact, but what if you rearranged the thrusters on the "top" and placed a second camera, that way you could look the other direction when you try and exit the hole
Yeah i feel like it is a bug as well, because it rotates fine when I use the thrusters first, I haven't come across this issue on large grid ships though, or maybe I have just been lucky? 😊
Why do you struggle with the details? It’s so easy, first mine enough gold to build a couple build and repair units, second,, install said units on a desired mining ⛏ ⛏ vehicle 🚗,, third ,, go mine ,, with said build and repair’s,,, easy peasy.❤😊❤
47:35 I could stack a DOZEN jump drives on that space frame. But then I'm smart enough to 1, know that catwalks are useless in this game, and 2, aesthetics really don't matter.
WOW, the gold mining was an IMMENSE success! Very well done!
39:14 "This base is only really temporary" -Episode 14
Yeah, maybe a little less temporary than I was hoping 😅😂
If you put wheels on the hull of the Avalanche, you reduce the risk of damage while navigating those narrow tunnels
That's a really good idea actually!! 😎👌
If you get rid of the little thrusters on the back that are around the big thruster and put down drills sideways facing outwards it will make the hole bigger and it might keep you from bumping into the wall as much
Or he can try, just left click mine and it will make the hole bigger before he gets to the ore.😁😁
Would've been interesting if you added a new section to the Prometheus for the new jump drives, but this works too I guess. You still have room for one extra at the front where those solar panels are, should you need it.
Yeah that's definitely possible as well, would have to do that in Zero G though as I think that would be the best way to go if I was to add another section into the middle of the ship because you would need to use pistons to spread the ship apart 😉✌️
You should just make a giant floating box as a base to start with. You could add details later but in stead of having an astroid or planet base you have a Space Castle big enough to park your big ship inside of
I kinda enjoy the challenge of all the logistics in this series, a lot of playthrough's I have done I have barely traveled to other planets so it's kinda refreshing 😎✌️
@@TheGarageGamer86 The 'castle' would be flying in space like a giant Mobile HQ. That way you could take your whole base with you. It wouldn’t be able to enter gravity so you would still need your ships. You could park it out side of planetary gravity and go back and forth instead of having to find an asteroid every time
You're gonna want to build a atmospheric miner for the alien planet and make sure you place a couple of reactors on it so power won't be an issue in the high gravity. Didn't notice if you had gravel and silver in your cargo so don't forget that.
Great vid as usual...looking forward to the next.
Yeah I agree, I think the hydrogen just won't work very well on Alien, at least not with this amount of fuel!! Yeah I have been saving up all of my gravel since the very beginning of the game, last play through i threw it out but this time I kept it because I know you need a stupid amount to build large reactors haha. Thanks for the suggestions man, appreciate the kind words too 😎✌️
The vertical miner is really giving off some Empire vibes! I dig it
I see what you did there 😉✌️. And thanks dude!! 😁👍
Who else thinks that a co-op version of this series would be awesome?
It obviously would
Sign me up 😂 spawn me on pertam spawn TGG on Earth like and we'll try and meet on Europa for hydrogen ships 🤣
Would watch
I think I would have named the miner "The Stack" :)
A Interaction for the Interaction God, a Comment for the Comment Throne, for the Almighty Algorithm
Love it man lol 😎✌️
46:00 What good are catwalks in space anyhow?
Mate ive recently found this series i love it, ive been playing space engineers hell of a long time, working on getting a full set up again, only playing on xbox at the minute but would love to jump in a game with you just to bounce ideas!
Hit us up when you have the game on PC 😎✌️
Q/E roll doesn't use all of the gyros power. I've used the control module keybind mod to trigger gyros with max roll override before and the ship rolled so fast, too fast really. You could try putting a remote control facing "upwards" 90 degrees to the cockpit and use that to fly it when it's vertical, then your roll is left/right, might be easier to set a level hole and fly too.
I have been enjoying the new miner and the continued quality of the videos. I dont know if this would be worth it, but the thought occurred that it may be possible if the outside drills were on hinges or pistons or something and merge blocks to stop the phantom forces, that they could be moved out to make huge shafts when going for the deposit. it's pretty much not necessary because you can fly well.
or perhaps a blueprint of the miner with a long line of blocks or something off each side that are the diameter of the hole it makes when right clicking as one color and left clicking as another that when visible with a projector could be a grid thingy to align in the hole for backing up. if that made any sense
Oh I tend to avoid pistons on anything other than a static object lol. I find that rule has allowed me to avoid clang 😂. It is a great idea though!
Yeah that does make sense, that's actually a really good idea!!! 😎👍
Very glad I play SE watching you at the same time, always reminds me to not do some of the things you do 😂😂 honestly helped me not die a lot
LOL, yeah seeing me die for silly things has probably kept you out of a bit of trouble 😂
8:20 Just put a small marker light by your connector, that way it is easy to see in the shadows.
Yeah the lighting is seriously lacking on this ship isn't it! 😅👌
@@TheGarageGamer86 Just something to use as a way to speed up and make parking safer is enough... ~( 'w')/
you could have put sensors on the side of the miner set to detect the ground so when the ship gets close to the wall it moves away ie bump evidence.
4:03 Do you use anything to get those readings on the camera? I have the clear camera and the controllable version, but it doesn't have those readings when you're trying to use it as a guide to do stuff without abusing 3 person view all the time.
Why would you built a new mining ship for a atmo planet? You could just use the bigger one to jump to the planet, and the hydro one to mine. That is how I'm doing with mine hydro mining. Go down, mine, go up again, just make sure you don't use more the 40% on the way down when you're done mining, stop at 60% fuel, so you can come back heavier. You can always have some ice and generator as backup, but small grid generators are slow as hell :(. I use 11 Hydro tanks and it is more than enough to mine a tons before going back
Oh yeah, so what I had done was put a transparent LCD in-front of the camera, and then on that LCD you select the "scripts" option, then add the "Artifical Horizon" to the list. Then change the background colour to 0,0,0 to make it transparent.
The ship would only be able to lift about 143,000kg on the alien planet but full it weighs like 260,000. And also the fuel will only last like 5 minutes tops when it is full of ore, and those the main reasons I don't want to take it to the alien 😎👍
add reverse camera to mining ship :] it will help with getting out from holes.
A very good idea!! 😎✌️
Have you ever thought of making a drilling station on the moon maybe make a drill that's on wheels and going on an angle instead of going all the way down go out on an angle so it's easier to drive out instead of fly out
Oh I caught up! Been binge watching this from episode 2. Really enjoyed it so far. Got me back into SE.
What scenario is this with the planets in it? Its been a while since I played.
Oh that's awesome you got back into the game mate! 😎👌. Oh so this one is just a solar system start, but then i chose the space pod. And then all of the other settings were pretty much stock and all the mods I have used are in the description of each video 😉✌️
New drinking game take a shot every time he says "alright".
Let me know how long you last 😜
Cameras are cheap and it pays to put them just about everywhere. You can turn them off if not used. You never know which perspective you need. Docking, reverse, sides, sides of front and rear etc.
I was thinking, could you build connectors on all four sides of the miner, at the same height?
I know your current connector sits at a large conveyor port, but since you're only gathering ore you could hook up the other connectors with small conveyors and they would still work.
Yeah the only issue is that I would have to sacrifice some thrusters to do that, but I mean for the hydro version it could work quite well as it doesn't really need too much thrust to move around sideways 😎
As soon as the event blocks work again, you could add a event block for (dis)connecting your Avalanche that trigger timer blocks with all the settings (thrusters on/off, hydro stockpile on/off, recharge, gyros on/off, ...) you want on launch/landing.
I didn't even know that they were broken? are they fixed now?
@@TheGarageGamer86 yep, they work great now.
You can use an event controler to control the stockpiling and battery management. When you dock stockpile and recharge, undock reverse.
I really have to look into these blocks hey, seems like the possibilities are endless!! 😎✌️. Thanks for the suggestion mate 😁
This series has cost me buying Space Engineers
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I wonder if you can use gravity assist. The moon is weak. Shut the lift engines and ride on the drills. Or reduce the lift thrusters power and let gravity do its thing.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing, but I'm not sure if you could maintain a steady rate of speed?I kinda feel like once you get to the point where the ship started sinking then it would continue to accelerate, but I would really need to test that to be sure! 🤔🤔🤔🤔
@6:12 check that the inventory settings are the same in your test world as your game world, the difference could easily be one of those multipliers being different
I think I figured it out, my character had a whole bunch of ore in his inventory, and because it's creative the inventory is unlimited 😂✌️
Why don't you place a camera right next to the miners connector? This would greatly assist you in lining up for connection to the main ship.
Yeah it might do actually! It's OK though, I am kinda getting used to the miner now. I was thinking of implementing what a few people have suggested and putting a remote control block horizontally and then connecting to it to change the controls when it comes time to dock? 😎👍
This is obviously well after the fact, but what if you rearranged the thrusters on the "top" and placed a second camera, that way you could look the other direction when you try and exit the hole
Yeah I may modify this design a little bit at a later stage, a few people have mentioned the same thing and I do think it is a good idea 😉👌
I think the gyros not turning you unless you move first is a bug. I get that on my ships as well. It won't rotate unless you push forward a little.
Yeah i feel like it is a bug as well, because it rotates fine when I use the thrusters first, I haven't come across this issue on large grid ships though, or maybe I have just been lucky? 😊
It seems to be an issue when you have larger grids in the world
Ooh alien planet, high grav low 02 was it a green sky?
Yeah that's the one! 😎👌
how you do to move the camera that way?¡ my game dont let me move the camera, is static in the back or first person is soo bad.
Hold down ALT and then move it around with your mouse 😎👍
@@TheGarageGamer86 thanks =) i will try it :D
Replace the standard Gatling guns with the warfare dlc modded ones
Yeah I plan to do a separate video on bringing this ship up to date with the current blocks in the game and some mod's too 😎
Still not using /gps I see 😂
Oh you know me, stubborn as a mule when it comes to the /GPS 😅
Why do you struggle with the details? It’s so easy, first mine enough gold to build a couple build and repair units, second,, install said units on a desired mining ⛏ ⛏ vehicle 🚗,, third ,, go mine ,, with said build and repair’s,,, easy peasy.❤😊❤
Because I like pretty things and flashing lights 😉😅😁✌️
47:35 I could stack a DOZEN jump drives on that space frame.
But then I'm smart enough to 1, know that catwalks are useless in this game, and 2, aesthetics really don't matter.
Aesthetics are the ONLY things that matter in this game 😅😂✌️
@@TheGarageGamer86 I guess we are playing entirely different games then.
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>play game with 90% aesthetic blocks
>aesthetics don't matter
Lmao you wot m8
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