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W&M Deep Core Mining Platform

Designed to strip mine asteroids of mineral rich veins quickly, the Deep Core Mining Platform combines the efficient rotary cutter head of a tunneling drill with massive cargo space, automated waste rock disposal and on-board refineries, to allow for continuous strip mining or to drill out the core of massive asteroids without having to stop and jettison excess rock manualy. Pure profit in the tank.

Version 1.4




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Features

- Heavily armored, rotating 20 drill cutter head with built in, gravity fed loose ore collectors.

- Heavy armor structure, provides increased protection against the hazards of mining and helps stabilize the body when the drill is running.

- Automated stop sensor, stops the drilling cycle when it detects empty space ahead.

- Massive, 17 Large container ore and refined material cargo hold.

- 4 Built in refineries with room for upgrades, refine ores into ingots as you mine, saving time and cargo space.

- Built in, automated trash collectors / ejectors, jettison unwanted materials such as stone to drastically increase the amount of space available for valuable ores and refined materials.

- Extendable cargo transfer connectors for easy offload of ore and refined materials.

- Pressurized small ship hangar, housing manual controls and detailed status displays. Allows the player to dock a small ship within for maintenance or to pilot the drill manually for easier harvesting of small surface deposits.

- Automated LCD status displays.

- Survival ready, industrial systems and oxygen are connected.

- Strategically placed cameras for easier remote control maneuvering.

- Auxiliary battery power supply.

- 2x XL long distance travel industrial thrusters.

- 52x recessed maneuvering thrusters.

- Jump capable, single FTL drive.

- Easily re-fuel uranium and oxygen, via extendable rear connector.

This build will receive updates as new features and future relevant mods become available.


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Cockpit / Remote control action bars

Bar 1


Bar 2


Bar 3



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Credits

- Design and construction by Walsing & Mohr

- LCD status display script by the ingenious MMaster (Configurable Automatic LCDs)


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Known issues and bugs

- The body of the ship tends to slowly twist itself around the X axis over time as the cutter head spins but does not appear to actually spin, causing odd behaviour in the way the astraunaut interacts with it when not seated. This is easily resolved by stopping the cutter head and re-starting it.

- The cutter head cannot be detached due to advanced rotors being unable to do so, hopefully this will change in the future, allowing for easily replacing destroyed cutter heads, or dis-assembly for easier repairs.

- Ridiculously complex timer array.

- Two grid construction makes this build somewhat blueprint projection unfriendly. May require some adjustments of the blueprint's rotor offset to get both halves to show up properly.

- This build was optimized for DX9. Colors and lighting will not look as intended if used with DX11, we are waiting for KSW to further refine their DX11 settings before commiting time and effort to it.

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