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Sprite Hydro Miner

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Type: Blueprint

Tags: ship, small_grid, safe

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Description

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 for early survival game mining. Designed as a medium-capacity off-world miner, the Sprite Hydro Miner extracts ores effortlessly with its 4 optimally-spaced drills, automatically ejecting waste stone, and transports ore in 1 large and 1 medium cargo container, as well as the cockpit, connector, and 4 drills. Power is supplied via 1 large battery. Designed expressly for early survival, the Sprite Hydro Miner can be built using parts that are refined and built from basic refineries and basic assemblers, respectively.

Finally, for greater flexibility, the PAM auto-miner script is pre-loaded in a programmable block should the ship's auto-mining features be desired.

Path Auto Miner by Keks: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1507646929

NO MODS, NO DLC, NO ROTORS/HINGES/PISTONS; SURVIVAL READY AND PROJECTOR BUILDABLE!

STATISTICS

  - Blocks: 181
  - PCUs: 4,398
  - L × W × H: 7m × 4½m × 4½m
  - Empty Mass: 30¾ tons
  - Maximum Ore Mass: 93½ tons (using "realistic" 1-1-1 settings)

CONTROLS

{1} Drills
{2} Camera Front View
{3} Spotlights ON/OFF
{4} Hydrogen Tanks Stockpile ON/OFF
{5} Battery AUTO/RECHARGE
{6} Ore Detector ON/OFF
{7} Antenna ON/OFF
{8} Docking Connector LOCK/UNLOCK
{9} Hydrogen Thrusters ON/OFF

NOTES FOR BUILDING WITH A PROJECTOR IN SURVIVAL

(See the last picture for the projector's configuration.)
1. Build a rotor frame on a powered grid; remove the large-grid rotor head and replace with a small-grid rotor head and lock rotation.
2. Build a small-grid projector on top of the topmost armor block; for consistency, rename the projector to be "SHM - Projector".
3. Load the blueprint into the projector; click on the setting to retain the blueprint after construction is complete.
4. Build the blueprint.
5. When completed, grind away the small-grid rotor head, leaving the projector in place for future repairs.

REQUIRED PARTS FOR BUILDING IN SURVIVAL

  - 666 Steel Plates
  - 144 Metal Grids
  - 265 Interior Plates
  - 1,042 Construction Components
  - 89 Motors
  - 127 Large Steel Tubes
  - 79 Small Steel Tubes
  - 193 Computers
  - 26 Displays
  - 68 Bulletproof Glass
  - 20 Power Cells
  - 7 Detector Component
  - 8 Radio-Communication Components

6 Comments

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Spaceman Spiff [author] 25 Apr, 2023 @ 9:52pm

It works flawlessly in single-player survival mode. I haven't checked it in multiplayer mode yet.

Spaceman Spiff [author] 24 Apr, 2023 @ 11:46am

I'll check it again. Thanks for letting me know. Here's the ion version (it's the original design): https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1880569499

Lonnieb123 24 Apr, 2023 @ 9:24am

I discovered the same thing with some other blueprints. They must have changed the way the sorters and ejecters work just a little. You should make an ion version of this ship. It does work really well (exept I could not get the sorters to work correctly) :-)

Spaceman Spiff [author] 18 Apr, 2023 @ 12:01am

I've been playing multiplayer lately (something I've never done before), and I discovered that ejectors require having both "collect all" and "throw out" enabled for them to work. I *never* had this problem in single-player mode. I need to update all my designs to fix that problem.

To answer your question about sorters, I used to do it that way (i.e., only having a single sorter than ejected waste stone out of a single connector from the container), but I found that having multiple sorter/ejector locations (ideally, two per drill) will dump stone almost as fast as it collected. Yeah, the PCU is greater this way, but much more efficient/effective overall.

I hope all this makes sense.

There are many ways to get it done; I've found this method to be the best.

Lonnieb123 17 Apr, 2023 @ 11:46pm

I Like this sip a LOT. Sorters seem to be having an issue. Drills fill up and will not pick up any more ore. Some sorters are white listed for stone going to the ejecters. Blacklisted stone prevents it from go9ing to the containers. Why not just have sorters on the containers and drain the stone from the containers. Might save a step.

Spaceman Spiff [author] 10 Feb, 2023 @ 2:43pm

Fixed the four small hydrogen tanks in the rear; they were upside-down...

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