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XM-903 Drillbug A9

Xperimental Miner 903
Compact miner built to be under the 7500 CPU limit (uses 6,950 as of 9.1)

[Not updated for alpha 10 - still functions fine though. It's around 10,000 cpu in A10.6. Has several RCS which can be removed in 10.6+. Thruster layout is ideal for giving a very sensitive rotation force with the new thruster behavior. Holding off on updating till I see what devs are going to do with cpu values next experimental build.]

Updated in A9.1:
retextured cargo extensions, swapped the plastic blocks to cargo extensions. (increased cargo capacity, slightly increased cost)
Updated stats pictures & most of the other pictures.

6 drills
7,875L (SU) Harvest storage [with current volume values, stores just under 4,000 iron ore]
Constructor
Fridge
Oxygen support (2 tanks & Closed cockpit)
Detector & Wireless connection


No weapons, it's just a miner

Lvl 10
Materials:
Carbon Substrate: 279
Copper: 248
Silicon: 199
Iron: 178

~30min production




If you use first person view frequently, you may want to swap to a different cockpit design, in the last pic above the 'B' model has a much clearer view and isn't affected by excessive glare from thruster exhaust. I'm leaving it as the 'A' design since it fits a little better, and I feel the B design is very overused (with good reason though).

Has the usual signals and switches I put on mining things.

It has some side-mounted docking pads, you can take one of these off (or rotate it upwards) to have on-foot fuel access.

Feel free to repaint, retexture, or modify however you like.