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Beaver Space Miner

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 mining projects. All components can be built using a basic assembler.

Designed as a high-capacity, ultra-compact miner, the Beaver Space Miner extracts ores quickly and effortlessly with its 4 optimally-spaced drills, automatically ejecting waste stone, and transports ore in 1 large cargo container. Power is supplied by 8 small batteries; the batteries provide plenty of power for multiple mining trips, but recharging regularly is recommended. Designed for hostile environments to escape hostile threats, numerous hydrogen thrusters, including one large hydrogen thruster, supplied by 4 small hydrogen tanks and 2 O2/H2 generators provide incredible acceleration and handling, even when fully loaded. These features make the Beaver Space Miner a perfect solution for the player who needs to get to an ore deposit, quickly extract a large quantity of ore, and get back home again in a challenging space environment.

NOTE: The Beaver Space Miner uses a DLC industrial cockpit, but may be directly exchanged with a standard, non-DLC cockpit because of the configuration of the conveyors (see the second-to-last picture).

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

STATISTICS
 - Blocks: 152
 - PCUs: 4,067
 - L × W × H: 8m × 5½m × 4½m
 - Empty Mass: 32¼ tons
 - Maximum Ore Mass: 84½ tons (using "realistic" 1-1-1 settings)

CONTROLS-1
{1} Drills
{2} Spotlights ON/OFF
{3} Batteries AUTO/RECHARGE
{4} Antenna ON/OFF
{5} Ore Detector ON/OFF
{6} Camera Down View
{7} Docking Connector LOCK/UNLOCK
{8} Hydrogen Thrusters ON/OFF
{9} Large Hydrogen Thruster ON/OFF

CONTROLS-2
{1} Camera Front View
{2} ---
{3} ---
{4} ---
{5} Marker Lights ON/OFF
{6} ---
{7} ---
{8} ---
{9} Hydrogen Tanks Stockpile ON/OFF

NOTE: Remember to clear away stone by selecting the drills {1} and right-clicking your mouse as you tunnel. Once you hit an ore deposit, left-clicking your mouse will collect ore.

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. Place 1 armor block, minimum, vertically atop the small-grid rotor head to provide sufficient clearance for building the miner.
3. Build a small-grid projector on top of the armor block; for consistency, rename the projector to be "BSM - Projector".
4. Load the blueprint into the projector; click on the setting to retain the blueprint after construction is complete.
5. Build the blueprint.
6. When completed, grind away the armor blocks, small-grid rotor head, and rotor frame, leaving the projector in place for future repairs.

REQUIRED PARTS FOR BUILDING IN SURVIVAL
 - 697 Steel Plates
 - 168 Metal Grids
 - 214 Interior Plates
 - 1,021 Construction Components
 - 100 Motors
 - 120 Large Steel Tubes
 - 79 Small Steel Tubes
 - 163 Computers
 - 14 Displays
 - 78 Bulletproof Glass
 - 16 Power Cells
 - 1 Detector Component
 - 4 Radio-Communication Components