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Gravity Well Collector Ship

This ship uses gravity generators to pull items in from all directions and collect them. No need to worry about parking a small scoop in the correct place to gather ore as it floats off.

It also makes collecting an existing cluster of floating ore easy to collect as each side covers up to 300m from the center of the ship for a total of 600m diameter cover area.

The ship is equipped with the following

2x Large Gyros (Located at the center)
6x Small Reactors (Located at center but can be restocked via conveyor)
166x Cargo containers (feed by conveyor system)
480x Collectors (connected to conveyor system for easy unloading)
7x Connectors (To automate unloading)
6x Gravity Generators
183x Conveyors
24x Small Thusters
1x Beacon
2x Cockpits


This is actually the improved version of this concept. The one I originally made was way back before conveyors and collectors. It was fairly basic and as such not worth publishing.

I needed a way to collect all the ore that floated off because it missed my collection bins. As well help collect ore for my team-mates who were not good at setting up any type of scoop or collection system. Yet the problem with the standard scoops is they only pull ore in one direction and any ore behind it gets flung away into deep space. It also cost a lot because you need a block covering every piece of space you want to collect in.

The original proof of concept for this design was made with 6 light armor rods 15 blocks long going off in each direction with a gravity generator on top of each set to cover only down to the middle of the structure. It had a reactor, gyroscope, and 6 small thrusters. With no collectors at the time the ore simply swirled around slowly losing momentum as they hit the rods and made their way to the center. After which you just picked them up by hand.

Obviously the original proof of concept is much cheaper to build for survival but also requires you to manually collect ore. This current design can also be scaled down to save on resources if you’re building in survival, just be sure to adjust gravity generators. The ship is built to show off a unique solution to collecting all the floating ore/debris.