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Peon Pocket Miner

The Peon Pocket Miner is an ultra-compact, small-grid, vanilla mining ship with atmospheric thrusters that doesn't use mods, rotors, hinges, or pistons, making it a perfect survival-ready solution for early game mining projects on planets and on moons with atmospheres. All components can be built using a basic assembler with ore refined in a basic refinery.

Designed as a medium-capacity compact miner, the Peon Pocket Miner extracts ores quickly and effortlessly with its 2 optimally-spaced drills, automatically ejecting waste stone, and transports ore in 1 large and 1 medium cargo container, a connector, the cockpit, and 2 drills. Power is supplied by 2 large and 12 small batteries; the batteries provide plenty of power for multiple mining trips, but recharging regularly is recommended. A total of 46 large, small, and flat atmospheric thrusters provide excellent acceleration and handling capability, even when fully loaded. Twin gatling guns are included for defense. These features make the Peon Pocket 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 environment.

Consider using its twin, the Neon Pocket Miner, for operation in space and on moons:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3489979731

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

 - Blocks: 200
 - PCUs: 2,627
 - L × W × H: 8m × 6½m × 3½m
 - Empty Mass: 38¼ tons
 - Maximum Ore Mass: 75⅓ tons (using "realistic" 1-1-1 settings)

{1} Camera Front VIEW
{2} Drills
{3} Gatling Guns
{4} Floodlights ON/OFF
{5} Ore Detector ON/OFF
{6} Antenna ON/OFF
{7} Camera Rear VIEW
{8} Docking Connector LOCK/UNLOCK
{9} Atmospheric Thrusters ON/OFF

{1} Batteries AUTO/RECHARGE
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NOTE: Remember to clear away stone by selecting the drills {2} 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 "PPM - 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.

 - 553 Steel Plates
 - 64 Metal Grids
 - 161 Interior Plates
 - 924 Construction Components
 - 609 Motors
 - 67 Large Steel Tubes
 - 68 Small Steel Tubes
 - 113 Computers
 - 7 Displays
 - 16 Girders
 - 38 Bulletproof Glass
 - 64 Power Cells
 - 1 Detector Component
 - 4 Radio-Communication Components

 - 35,623 Iron
 - 3,508 Nickel
 - 192 Cobalt
 - 696 Silicon