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Sprite Miner mk2

Spiff's Practical Engineered Solutions, a division of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, presents the Sprite Miner mk2, a vanilla small-grid design without mods, and contains no rotors or pistons making it a perfect survival-ready solution for early game or small mining projects. This revision of the original Sprite Miner design utilizes additional hydrogen thrusters, coupled with 4 small hydrogen tanks, to significantly boost the ship's acceleration and deceleration when mining in hostile environments allowing for rapidly escaping even when fully loaded.

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

NOTE: This ship uses heat vents from the Warfare 2 DLC; the heat vents are non-essential (i.e., decorative only) and may be ignored.

- Blocks: 186
- PCUs: 4,499
- L × W × H: 7m × 4½m × 4½m
- Empty Mass: 30 tons
- Maximum Ore Mass: 93½ tons (using "realistic" 1-1-1 settings)

  - 2 large batteries
  - 2 small reactors (backup; not required)

  - 37 ion thrusters
  - 20 hydrogen thrusters

  - 1 large cargo container
  - 1 medium cargo container
  - 1 connector
  - 1 cockpit
  - 4 drills

{1} Drills
{2} Spotlights ON/OFF
{3} Marker Lights ON/OFF
{4} Antenna ON/OFF
{5} Ore Detector ON/OFF
{6} Batteries AUTO/RECHARGE
{7} Docking Connector LOCK/UNLOCK
{8} Hydrogen Thrusters ON/OFF
{9} Ion Thrusters ON/OFF

{1} Hydrogen Tanks Stockpile ON/OFF
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Note: Remember to clear away stone by selecting the drills {1} and right-clicking your mouse to get to an ore deposit. Once you hit an ore deposit, left-clicking your mouse will collect ore.

(See the last two pictures 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. Stack 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 topmost armor block; for consistency, rename the projector to be "SM - 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 small-grid rotor head, armor blocks, and rotor frame, leaving the projector in place for future repairs.

- 627 Steel Plates
- 88 Metal Grids
- 237 Interior Plates
- 852 Construction Components
- 89 Motors
- 127 Large Steel Tubes
- 63 Small Steel Tubes
- 163 Computers
- 20 Displays
- 62 Bulletproof Glass
- 6 Reactor Components
- 40 Power Cells
- 37 Thruster Components
- 1 Detector Component
- 4 Radio-Communication Components

- 29,394 Iron
- 980 Nickel
- 634 Cobalt
- 1,107 Silicon
- 30 Silver
- 37 Gold
- 15 Platinum
- 120 Gravel