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My collection of planetary and space mining ships and vehicles. The list is in descending order from oldest (top) to newest (bottom).
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Mole Planetary Miner (Vanilla)
Created by Spaceman Spiff
A simple, small-grid planetary miner with 3 drills, 2 large cargo containers, 1 medium storage container, and plenty of power to dig out that pesky planetary ore. Excess stone is automatically sorted an ejected. An integrated O2/H2 generator provides cabin...
Dirty Ore (Vanilla)
Created by Spaceman Spiff
This large-grid mining ship carries a huge amount of ore in a large cargo container (plus a couple more small cargo containers). The drills are set forward sufficiently to ensure a deep plunge with each pass to maximize ore intake, and sorters ensure stone...
Boss Hogg (Vanilla)
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Are you fed up with those puny, small-block, planetary miners that take dozens of trips to the mine just to get enough ore to build your outhouse? Not with this bad boy. Of large-block construction, Boss Hogg has one large cargo container and four small ca...
The Molenator (Vanilla)
Created by Spaceman Spiff
The Molenator is a simple, small-grid planetary miner with 5 drills, 2 large cargo containers, 1 medium storage container, and plenty of power to root out that pesky planetary ore in all orientations on a small frame for maximum maneuverability. There's ev...
Blue Crab Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
The vanilla (modless) Blue Crab Miner is a pressurized, small-grid mining vehicle with articulated drilling arms that enable precise control over the tunneling and/or drilling operation. By adjusting the drill-arm angle, the operator can control the rate o...
Uranium Express
Created by Spaceman Spiff
{REVISED AND IMPROVED: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1805379684} The newest version of Space Engineers requires new strategies. Uranium still provides the highest energy density for vehicles, ships, and installations. The Uranium E...
ATLAS Mobile Mining & Processing
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Built for survival, ATLAS is a large-grid, vanilla (modless), airtight, self-contained planetary material retrieval and processing vehicle intended for large-scale mining and refining of raw materials in the form of ice, ore, and/or stone. A large series o...
Midget Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
The Midget Miner is my latest 100% vanilla (modless) design for the most weight-efficient design for SURVIVAL at REALISTIC settings that will carry sufficient parts off-world to establish a space base for the express purpose of refining uranium and platinu...
Deep Reach Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
{REVISED AND IMPROVED: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1806053864} Spiffy's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Deep Reach planetary miner, a vanilla small-grid design without mo...
Ice Hog
Created by Spaceman Spiff
I recently published several ships that consume a great quantity of hydrogen to fly, and I thought, "How would I refuel these ships from a planetary installation?" For a solution I present the Ice Hog. Fully mobile, Ice Hog is a vanilla build that uses no ...
Ice Hog Mini
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Like its big brother Ice Hog (https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1709248572), Ice Hog Mini is a fully mobile modless (vanilla) build that uses no pistons or rotors to do its mining. Rather, the 9 drills engage an ice lake by having the ...
Uranium Express mk2
Created by Spaceman Spiff
{NOTE: This is an upgrade to the original design found here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1687185187; designed and tested in the upcoming Desperate Foothold survival mission.} Configured with hydrogen thrusters and supplemented wi...
Deep Reach Miner mk2
Created by Spaceman Spiff
{NOTE: This is an upgrade to the original design found here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1773996879; designed and tested in the upcoming Desperate Foothold survival mission.} Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of ...
Deep Reach Miner mk3
Created by Spaceman Spiff
IMPROVED MK4 VERSION NOW AVAILABLE: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1951091497 NEW AND IMPROVED!!! - Cockpit-accessible from the ground without a jetpack! - Front docking connector for quick-and-easy offloading! - Integrated conveyor...
Deep Reach Offworld Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
NOTE: This design has been replaced by a newer and much more capable version: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2363149756 Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents an offworld versi...
Sprite Miner mk1
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents Sprite offworld miner with four optimally-spaced drills, and one medium and one large cargo container for ore storage. With realistic 1-1-1 settings, the ore cap...
Blue Crab Miner mk2
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Blue Crab Miner, mk2. The Blue Crab Miner is a pressurized, small-grid mining vehicle with articulated drilling arms that enable precise control over the tun...
Claw Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents Claw Electric Miner with four optimally-spaced drills (based on the not-so-famous, but highly successful Sprite offworld miner), and one medium and one large car...
Claw XL Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents Claw XL Electric Miner with four optimally-spaced drills (based on the not-so-famous, but highly successful Sprite offworld miner), and one (1) medium and two (2...
Deep Reach Miner mk4
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Deep Reach planetary miner, a vanilla small-grid design without mods or DLC, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution fo...
Deep Reach Hydro Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Deep Reach Hydro Miner, a non-nuclear variant of the Deep Reach Offworld Miner that uses only batteries and hydrogen thrusters (i.e., no nuclear reactors). D...
Popcorn Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
The Popcorn Miner is a minimalist design that is used as a very early survival game to significantly enhance the player's ore detection and extraction process. Built of only 29 components (1,080 PCU) and eschewing all unnecessary parts, the Popcorn Miner i...
Deep Reach Space Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Deep Reach Space Miner, a vanilla small-grid design without mods or DLC, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for la...
Dirty Ore mk2
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents a significant upgrade to the Dirty Ore, a high-capacity large-grid space miner that is designed and built without the use of subgrids (rotors and/or pistons) and...
Super Sprite Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
As a significant improvement in capacity and speed over the original Sprite offworld miner, Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents Super Sprite offworld miner with six optimally-spaced drills, and one...
Popcorn Miner mk2
Created by Spaceman Spiff
NEW AND IMPROVED!!! This revision is based on survival playtesting using 1-1-1 settings; I was frustrated with the manual requirement to dump waste stone. This revision completely solved the problem by simply adding a small conveyor, two small conveyor sor...
Super Claw Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Super Claw Electric Miner, a signficant upgrade to the original Claw Electric Miner in digging speed and ore capacity. I also revised the drill ejectors to e...
Super Claw XL Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Super Claw XL Electric Miner, a significant upgrade to the original Claw XL Electric Miner in digging speed and ore capacity. I also added half a dozen more ...
Blue Crab Hydro Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Blue Crab Hydro Miner. The Blue Crab Hydro Miner is a pressurized, small-grid mining vehicle with articulated drilling arms that enable precise control over ...
Blue Crab Hydro Miner PROJECTABLE
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Blue Crab Hydro Miner. The Blue Crab Hydro Miner is a pressurized, small-grid mining vehicle with articulated drilling arms that enable precise control over ...
Flea Micro Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Flea Micro Miner as a minimalist design that is used as a very early survival game miner, when thruster components are available, to significantly enhance th...
Flea Hydro Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Flea Hydro Miner as a minimalist design that is used as a very early survival game miner to significantly enhance the player's ore detection and extraction p...
VSM-03
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents vertical shaft miner VSM-03, a vanilla small-grid design without mods or DLC, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for v...
Pathfinder Utility Vehicle
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Pathfinder Utility Vehicle is a small-grid, heavy-lift, all-purpose crafty designed for high-gravity planets such as Omicron with its 1.9g gravitational acceleration. This design is mod-less and uses no rotors or pistons, so building from a blueprint in su...
Mobile Gas
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents Mobile Gas, a planetary-based, large-grid rover designed for conveniently and quickly extracting a large quantity of ice, and converting to and storing the ice's...
AutoSprite Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the AutoSprite space miner for trouble-free auto-mining utilizing the Path Auto Miner (PAM) script (ingame scripts must be enabled in advanced controls). The PAM...
Centerpoint Mining Complex
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Designed and built by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, Centerpoint Mining and Refining Complex is a completely automous, high-capacity processing and production facility built to move throughout the universe strip-mining asteroids of all their usable ores, ...
AutoSprite HE Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the AutoSprite HE (Hydrogen Edition) offworld and moon miner for trouble-free auto-mining utilizing the Path Auto Miner (PAM) script (ingame scripts must be enab...
AutoMole Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the high-capacity AutoMole planetary miner for trouble-free auto-mining utilizing the Path Auto Miner (PAM) script (in-game scripts must be enabled in advanced c...
AutoMiner Printer Bay
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the AutoMiner Printer Bay, an semi-automated facility that is optimized for producing SPES AutoMiners, although it can be easily adapted to work for any number o...
Deep Reach Moon Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents a version of the Deep Reach planetary miner that is especially designed to work optimally on the Moon. Deep Reach Miner: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/f...
Pathfinder Utility Vehicle II
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Pathfinder Utility Vehicle II is a variant of the original Pathfinder Utility Vehicle that is a small-grid, heavy-lift, all-purpose craft designed for high-gravity planets such as Omicron with its 1.9g gravitational acceleration. With the advent of higher ...
AutoMole Moon Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the high-capacity AutoMole Moon Miner for trouble-free auto-mining utilizing the Path Auto Miner (PAM) script (in-game scripts must be enabled in advanced contro...
AutoMole Space Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the high-capacity AutoMole Space Miner for trouble-free auto-mining utilizing the Path Auto Miner (PAM) script (in-game scripts must be enabled in advanced contr...
WY-110 Thrush
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Designed and built by Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions for the Weyland-Yutani Corporation without the use of DLC or mods, the WY-110 Thrush is a highly optimized large-grid survival ship with features that far exceed most starter ships, including: · ...
CargoShip_Mining2_mk2
Created by Spaceman Spiff
CargoShip_Mining2_mk2, also known as a SPRT Mining Transport, is a variant of the original CargoShip_Mining2 SPRT spawnship in the vanilla game. Consistent with the original design, this build is completely vanilla (modless) and uses only DLC Decorative Pa...
Super Sprite Miner mk2
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents Super Sprite mk2 as a significant improvement in acceleration and handling over the original Super Sprite offworld miner by doubling the number of forward-drivin...
Cadet Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Designed and built by Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions for the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, the Cadet Miner is an early survival game mining ship for space that can be built using material processed using a basic refinery and basic assembler. An integ...
Octa-Sprite Miner & Tunneler
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Designed and built by Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions for the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, Octa-Sprite Miner & Tunneler is the third variant in a series of survival game mining ships for space. Octa-Sprite's 8 drills are optimally designed with a 7x7...
R.U.S.T. Mining Carriage
Created by Spaceman Spiff
The R.U.S.T. Mining Carriage is a variant of the original R.U.S.T. Freighter created by Aragath, then modified into R.U.S.T. Mobile Processing to add refineries, and modified yet again to add an aft hangar bay to become this ship. Consistent with the revis...
Deep Reach Space Miner mk2
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Deep Reach Space Miner, a vanilla small-grid design without mods or DLC, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for la...
Mole Space Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Mole Space Miner, a vanilla small-grid design without mods, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for large mining pr...
Mole Planetary Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Mole Planetary Miner, a vanilla small-grid design without mods, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for large minin...
Pertam Prospector
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Pertam Prospector was specifically designed for the high-gravity environment of Pertam as an ultra-compact, early survival game mining ship for accessing space-based ores such as uranium and platinum, and bringing them back to Pertam safely for processing....
ME-32 Cadet Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Designed and built by Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions for the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, the ME-32 Cadet Miner is an early survival game mining ship for space and low-gravity moons that can be built using material processed using a basic refinery a...
Mole Moon Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Mole Moon Miner, a vanilla small-grid design without mods, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for large mining pro...
Mole Moon Miner mk2
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Mole Moon Miner mk2, a vanilla small-grid design without mods, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for large mining...
Buckhorn Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Designed and built by Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions for the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, the Buckhorn Miner is an ultra-compact early survival game mining ship for planetary applicatons that can be built using materials processed using a basic refi...
Mantis Hydro Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
The Mantis Hydro Miner is a large-grid, space-only mining ship using hydrogen thrusters for propulsion. Nine drills positioned at the end of three pistons allow for fast ore retrieval nearly 30 meters into an asteroid. Propulsion is provided by hydrogen th...
MicroMole Planetary Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
UPDATED VERSION HERE: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2992238236 Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the MicroMole Planetary Miner, a vanilla small-grid design without mods, ...
Sprite Hydro Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Sprite Hydro Miner, a vanilla small-grid design without mods or DLC, and contains no rotors, hinges, or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution f...
Pathfinder Utility Vehicle III
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Pathfinder Utility Vehicle III is a second variant of the original Pathfinder Utility Vehicle that is a small-grid, heavy-lift, all-purpose crafty designed for high-gravity planets such as Omicron with its 1.9g gravitational acceleration. This utility ship...
MicroMole Plus Planetary Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the MicroMole Plus Planetary Miner, a vanilla small-grid design without mods, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for e...
MicroMole Moon Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the MicroMole Moon Miner, a vanilla small-grid design without mods, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for early game ...
Beaver Space Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Beaver Space Miner, a vanilla small-grid design without mods, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for early game mi...
Mole Moon Miner mk3
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Mole Moon Miner mk3, a vanilla small-grid design without mods, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for large mining...
Hostile Miner Refit
Created by Spaceman Spiff
The Hostile Miner Refit is a variant of the original SPRT Hostile Miner from the vanilla game that is spawned from a SPRT Mining Outpost. Consistent with the original design, this build is completely vanilla (modless) and uses no DLC. The ship's basic hull...
Mole Planetary Miner mk2
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Mole Planetary Miner mk2, a vanilla small-grid design without mods, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for large m...
Sprite Miner mk2
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Sprite Miner mk2, a vanilla small-grid design without mods, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for early game or s...
Pequeño Minero
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Pequeño Minero is an ultra-compact, low-PCU, large-grid vanilla space mining ship design without mods or DLC, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for relatively large-scale, early game mining projects. The compact ...
Atlas Drillship
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Atlas Drillship is a large-grid vanilla space mining ship design without mods, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for extremely large-scale, late game mining projects. Atlas Drillship extracts ores very, very quic...
Cankerworm Space Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Cankerworm Space Miner is a relatively compact, relatively-low PCU, large-grid vanilla space mining ship design without mods, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for relatively large-scale, early game mining projec...
Atlas Drillship_No-DLC
Created by Spaceman Spiff
Atlas Drillship is a large-grid vanilla space mining ship design without mods or DLC, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for extremely large-scale, late game mining projects. Atlas Drillship extracts ores very, ve...
Moonie Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
The Moonie Miner is a vanilla small-grid design without mods, and contains no rotors or pistons, making it a perfect survival-ready solution for early game mining projects on moons, on planets (with limited capacity), or in space. All components can be bui...
Neon Pocket Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
The Neon Pocket Miner is an ultra-compact, small-grid, vanilla mining ship with hydrogen thrusters that doesn't use mods, rotors, hinges, or pistons, making it a perfect survival-ready solution for early game mining projects on moons, on planets (with limi...
Peon Pocket Miner
Created by Spaceman Spiff
The Peon Pocket Miner is an ultra-compact, small-grid, vanilla mining ship with atmospheric thrusters that doesn't use mods, rotors, hinges, or pistons, making it a perfect survival-ready solution for early game mining projects on planets and on moons with...