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Transport Astro Miner

An easy-to-build, extreme-duty, Space-only mining ship. Vanilla (no mods) and no DLC.
Survival ready. Great for strip mining!


Carries around 330,000Kg Ore or about a 1/3 of a Large, Largegrid cargobox!

Cargo Containers are Code-Indexed for convenience:
In the Terminal type " MC " to bring up JUST the six large cargo boxes and Connectors.
This is for when you connect to another Small or Largegrid and don't know where this ships' cargo is.

The purpose of this ship is to provide easy(er) ore extraction and delivery in space.
If you play in worlds with the Asteroid Amount on Lowest Density or play with the SEWorldGenPlugin (asteroids only appear in fields or belts by default) and prefer to HardMode get ore then This Ship Is For YOU.

Its one thing to find the ore its a whole 'nuther thing to mine it! This ship simplifies that.

This ship is not designed for the early game BUT if you manage to build it... It will make your life ALOT easier.
Motors. This thing is all MOTORS. Conveyors and Atmo Thusters. Thats Ni (nickel) and Fe (iron) to you. And some Co (cobalt)
Check the bottom of this post for more Vanilla planetary based trucks and trailers that work great with this ship.


v1.0 Specs & Features:

1. Can carry around 330,000Kg (<460,000k Kg total grid mass) in Space.
When cargo boxes and all 8 drills are full of ore; equates to just under 330k KG of Ore stored)
1a. Doubles as a heavy-lift mover just build a carry handle on whatever you're moving. Mind the thruster plume.

2. Eight drills. Timer block activation or Manual mode.
2a. Manual drill mode is hotkey set #1 now. (use hotkey 4 for Parameter lights and 3 to for headlights)

3. Fourteen Large Ion Thrusters for upwards and downwards movement. Six Large Ions, Twelve small ones for left/right. Six Large Ions and six small for reverse and Eight Large Ions and Eight small for Forward. Fully 3D capable (duh..)
3a. Use 440k - 460 Kg total ship mass as your hard limit but don't fret, thats the maximum cargo space anyway so just keep mining until the weight stops going up then offload at your station, ship, carrier or whatever you flew in on.

4. Six Large Cargo boxes for Ore storage. (note: drills store as much ore as Medium Containers, x8)

5. Two Large Smallgrid Connectors are used for ore disposal for Ore you don't want. Removes Stone by default. Sorter is Hotkey On/Off with 6 for convenience. Use the Terminal for setting a preferred ore filter.

Components required to build this;
Steel Plate x3191
Interior Plate x585
Metal Grid x27
Construction Component x1035
Large Steel Tube x386
Small Steel Tube x88
Thruster Component x686
Computer x256
Display x11
Motor x204
Glass x54
Reactor Component x285
Power Cell x200
Radio Component x4
And one detector. x1

The Thruster parts are the hardest to get. Thats alotta Pt and Co. I recommend demolishing pirates for these parts. Seven Largegrid, small thusters will be enough to build this ships' engines.
To build the Reactors try breaking down Three Largegrid, small Reactors from pirates or whatever.
This ship is designed to gather alot of ore to build capital ships. It needs alot itself, yes but I wanted an extreme-duty Smallgrid miner for space mining.



NOTES

Hangar dimensions are 4x3x10 largegrid block. Can also fit in hangars just two blocks high, the height of Airtight Hangar Doors. Snug but possible. Check the last picture for an example.

Connectors are flush too so no hanging clips into A Rock Or Something.

This ship is hard to take pictures of.