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Moonie Miner

The Moonie Miner is 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 on moons, on planets (with limited capacity), or in space. All components can be built using a basic assembler with ore refined in a basic refinery.

Designed as a medium-capacity compact miner, the Moonie Miner extracts ores quickly and effortlessly with its 2 optimally-spaced drills, automatically ejecting waste stone, and transports ore in 1 large cargo container, a connector, the cockpit, and 2 drills. Power is supplied by 6 small batteries; the batteries provide plenty of power for multiple mining trips, but recharging regularly is recommended. A total of 24 small hydrogen thrusters supplied by 12 small hydrogen tanks and 1 O2/H2 generator provide excellent acceleration, handling, and carry ability, even when fully loaded. These features make the Moonie 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 moon or space environment.

MMaster's Automatic LCDs 2 script (https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=822950976) is used to report information on the cockpit screens; in-game scripts (in advanced settings) must be enabled for the script to function!

Finally, the Moonie Miner will operate on all planets, but with a reduced ore capacity (e.g., 45 tons maximum payload on the Earthlike planet using "realistic" 1-1-1 settings) and a significantly reduced operational time before the hydrogen tanks are depleted.

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

 - Blocks: 135
 - PCUs: 2,939
 - L × W × H: 8m × 5½m × 4m
 - Empty Mass: 21⅓ tons
 - Maximum Ore Mass: 66⅓ tons (using "realistic" 1-1-1 settings)

{1} Drills
{2} Spotlights ON/OFF
{3} Ore Detector ON/OFF
{4} Batteries AUTO/RECHARGE
{5} Hydrogen Tanks Stockpile ON/OFF
{6} Landing Gear LOCK/UNLOCK
{7} Camera Down VIEW
{8} Docking Connector LOCK/UNLOCK
{9} Hydrogen Thrusters 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.

(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. Place 2 armor blocks, 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 uppermost armor block; for consistency, rename the projector to be "MM - 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.

 - 484 Steel Plates
 - 96 Metal Grids
 - 182 Interior Plates
 - 720 Construction Components
 - 55 Motors
 - 82 Large Steel Tubes
 - 55 Small Steel Tubes
 - 144 Computers
 - 12 Displays
 - 40 Girders
 - 32 Bulletproof Glass
 - 12 Power Cells
 - 1 Detector Component
 - 4 Radio-Communication Components

 - 21,938 Iron
 - 794 Nickel
 - 288 Cobalt
 - 585 Silicon