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Flea Hydro Miner

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 process in space. Where resources are scarce, hydrogen thrusters are used in lieu of ion thrusters. The connector is necessary for recharging the battery by connecting to another grid's power supply, and for the convenience of dumping acquired ore.

The Flea Hydro Miner is a pure vanilla build without DLC, rotors, and/or pistons, and is comprised of the following small-grid components and parts, all of which can be built using a basic assembler:

SPECIFICATIONS
PCU - 1,891
BLK - 86

1 cockpit
1 O2/H2 generator
2 drills
1 connector
1 large battery
2 medium cargo containers
2 gyroscopes
20 small hydrogen thrusters
1 antenna
1 ore detector

NOTES FOR BUILDING WITH A PROJECTOR
1. Build a battery, then build a rotor attached to the battery; remove the large rotor head and replace it with a small rotor head (see the last picture). Alternatively, attach the rotor to a powered large grid.
2. Build a minimum of 2 armor blocks on top of the small rotor head to provide adequate vertical clearance for the projection, then add a projector on the top block with the front of the projector facing away from the battery; the front is denoted by a vertical gray stripe.
3. Load the blueprint and set the projector's vertical offset to -1; the projector should end up directly below the armor block (see the last picture).
4. Build the miner.
5. When complete, remove the projector.
6. You're done! Take your first step in dominating the universe.

BUILD-FROM-PROJECTOR PARTS LIST
Steel Plate - 382
Metal Grid - 80
Interior Plate - 124
Construction Components - 569
Motors - 40
Large Steel Tube - 58
Small Steel Tube - 56
Computers - 72
Displays - 7
Bulletproof Glass - 34
Power Cells - 20
Radio-Communication Components - 4
Detector Components - 1

This is a first-level space miner. My other first-, second-, and third-level space miners with significantly greater gathering and carrying capacity are:

First-Level Miners
Flea Micro Miner: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2188716093

Second-Level Miners
Sprite Miner: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1880569499
Super Sprite Miner: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2001956897

Third-Level Miners
Deep Reach Hydro (for moons and space): https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1970044875
Deep Reach Space: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1998740877