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Mobile Gas

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 hydrogen gas and oxygen gas components. Mobile Gas provides a large landing pad and four docking ports for immediate fueling of ships with hydrogen gas, oxygen gas, and/or ice. Mobile Gas is a vanilla design, and built without mods, rotors, hinges, or pistons.

Designed to be accesible from the ground without the use of a jetpack in a survival game, Mobile Gas has the following features:

- 1 industrial cockpit
- 8 batteries for power
- 6 hydrogen engines for power and battery recharging
- 13 drills for collecting ice
- 8 hydrogen tanks
- 4 oxygen tanks
- 16 O2/H2 generators
- 4 large cargo containers for ice storage
- 4 docking connectors
- 18 forward/backward atmospheric thrusters to facilitate travel
- 1 programmable block with MMaster's Automatic LCDs 2 script

PCUs - 8,221
Blocks - 804
Empty Mass - 650 tons

NOTES FOR OPERATION
The last picture shows the main controls. The ice collection process involves starting the drills, and a combination of reducing the suspension strength using {4} and reducing the suspension height using {6}; the optimum suspension speed is approximately 1 m/s.

The atmospheric thrusters are only needed when traveling from one location to another. Increase the suspension strength, height, and speed using {5}, {7}, and {9}, respectively, but be careful when traversing rough ground because the rover's size makes high speed travel appear deceivingly slow and the drill-to-ground clearance is relatively low (for obvious reasons). Optionally, the drills can be reassigned to {1} as a block tool, right-clicking the mouse to use them for clearing instead of mining, and moving forward to produce a relatively smooth roadway surface (but nothing like what KSH does for their scenarios; I don't know how to do that); set the suspension strength to at least 50% and suspension height to maximum to prevent producing a deep roadway bed.

NOTES FOR BUILDING WITH A PROJECTOR
As shown in the 11th, 12th, and 13th pictures, a single red block was intentionally added to be the location of the grid pivot to simplify the projection process; the grid pivot is the projector's anchor point. As shown in the 13th picture, the red block will project on top of the projector; you will 3 spacer blocks above the projector, minimum, to provide adequate clearance to build the wheel suspensions. Once the building process is complete, the red block should be removed.