@[W] Wolfgang It's been 6 months, but if you're sill looking for that, it already exists! Here you go.

Can anyone verify if this still works? Hasn't been updated in close to 4 years

I sure would love a "bucket wheel excavator" similar to your giant grinder!

WHY would you make this huge drill cheaper to build than the vanilla drill??????????

So for some reason the heavy impact drill doesn't appear in the block list

this mod made with toolcore would be top tier

Last update around 2 years ago. Doubt will change.

make this mod without that super zoom plz then ill re-add it

im droppin this message in every mod untill i find it witch ever mod has the stupid far zoom out need to go thats just too far dont add it it the super zoom out make your character a pin dot on the screen makes this mod not enjoyable im removing it

causes crashing when loaded

I like this mod and love the Big Drill. My only wishes is that we could build around the drill. I like to hide/protect stuff like that since it stance out to much for my taste. And i constantly destroy them by just do a small turn against something that i didnt see or forget that it was there. And because they are so big (wich is a good thing to me) you also make a bigger ship and that makes it even harder to see anything around you.

imo the drill has an absurdly cheap cost, it should be much more expensive to build than a regular drill and it is currently basically the same. I can just make the edit myself but I can see other people had a similar sentiment.

Hrm... I had something awkward happen with the Shipbreaker on a small grid.

I had it hanging on a piston (1x3 piston from nukeguard's More Pistons) on a rotor-and-hinge assembly controlled by a custom turret controller. Sure the thing made piloting my grinder shipe a nightmare but given it was huge and unwieldy it was mostly a center of mass and multiple-subgrid dampener issue.

But this one time I was trying to grind a static grid (assert installation) and the grinder just... Fell off. It fell off while it was still working and managed to grind off the nose of my ship, even, in the process. There was not a single damaged block, the grinder just fell right off and I don't know why.

As much as I love these, would it be possible to spawn the really big grinder just a bit farther from the engineer? I have a rough time placing the damned thing!

As for the complaints of the drill, I filled my drill ship in about ten seconds recently. It might need a balance pass (made more powerful maybe) but it looks fine as-is to me.

The drill cost needs significant upward adjustment. It currently costs less than the basic one in iron, has a massive internal storage, and its drill radius is about 5m. Maybe add cost of large cargo container and 40-50 large steel tubes.

@Tilki Earthbreaker or Mexpex mining drill?

@Covfefe I built a ship, lost sadly to 1.200 update, that used BA-20 to hunt and eat ships on Earth and in space. Components were recovered, but mass grinding tends to be messy as some parts get left behind when you eat a ship wholesale because they grind slower.

I would love to see a huge drill with model more or less similar to BA-20 Grinder and flat drilling area around the disk. It would make an epic quarry main tool.

the drill should be more powerful, it works too slowly and small area

I'm excited for the shipyard-sized welder. Can't wait to use it in an actual shipyard situation!

Is the BA-20 Shipyard Grinder just intended for pure destruction or is it actually supposed to return items? For me it only is very good at destroying things (which is cool), but it doesn't seem to give me any components.
I love your work and especially the models are *chef kiss* perfect. Don't wanna be that guy who only complains xD

The BA-20 Grinder can be placed in survival by character or in a ship cockpit. It can be tricky to do but it is possible. It is easiest with a block framework to aim placement off of, even if only used temporarily for placement.

Too be fair, no where does it state only for creative. Or that should be done in creative.
So his response makes sense. But ya I always use creative for large builds anyway :-) Then use nano bots to bring into survival if wanted.

its for creative u dummy

I cannot place the BA-20 grinder with a character--it's that big. Maybe cut it into sections: a flat base no more than 3 blocks in height, then the arms, then the disc.

Heavy drill cost is even less than the basic drill and is quite strong. I had another heavy drill mod and it used the material of over 30 basic drills in the same space including 4 gravity component. Your cost might be better balanced at about 3-5 times the basic drill and use large steel tube and metal grid.

The discord link doen t work

Correction, the grinder wheel would have spun the wrong way.

I believe it was intended to be, but SE would not allow it to work as a wheel. It would have ended up being a massive cool looking but normal drill.

I build nothing but huge builds so these are right up my street! I love them! I got excited for a second thinking the grinder in the pic was a bucket wheel excavator :(

lol the impact drill is a ship sized on its own. I like it lol

welder version planned? :P

Ba-20, hidden inside a capital ship until needed would be op, u ram the enemy then start grinding them

@akin of fury, I wish it was as well. That would give me some neat ideas on builds i could make lol

Great mod no issue atm (15hours played with this mod) great models and working fine <3 more from that pls

dang i wish

Thought the BA-20 was an excavation wheel for a second

Is it intentional that heavy drill is cheaper than vanilla drill and has inventory volume as big as large cargo container?

@Baron ScrumCumulus

This could be due to weight vs. torque. You may have too much weight for the gyros to break free of stable position. Once the thrusters brake free of stationary position the ship requires far less torque from the gyros to turn and rotate the ship. This effect/bug is present in vanilla as well. To test it, try slapping down a ton of gyros while the drills are full. If you can turn it's not an issue with the mod but with the vanilla code of the game.

Hi, awesome mod. Getting an odd bug, though. If the drills are full of stone/ore, I cannot turn the ship at all when it isn't moving. As soon as I accelerate the ship it turns at full speed. Might be to do with other mods though, I'll check and let you know. Thanks :)

@Akiad

Discord link comes up expired/invalid. =-(

@Valhamyr try mounting the drill on a rotor part with a landing gear to lock it in place when reattaching. should save you some hassle

can you increase the drill radius a bit more? atm it cant dig out a hole big enough to build it in the tunnel it created. (i play with deep ore mod and creating a 1500m deep tunnel means i have to rebuild the drill multiple times)

~Starts designing triple BA-20 base eating Mega-Pit.~

=-Þ

New world...several world days to create a fully functional starter base with a simple large block stationary drill rig to gather gravel for my Gravel Sifters ...

At last enough to build a Heavy Impact Drill...

First use of HID on a 50m deep Iron and then a 75m deep Gold ore deposit...

...Massive hole with enough Iron, Gravel and Gold to conquer the solar system.

"My name is Annastasya, Queen of Queens;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

semodder4 sparky may have lost his account to a scammer ive been gifted 2 games that arent showing in ineventory and or games library and the person who may have his account is desperatly trying to scam me is there anyway i can contact sparky other then steam if his account has been stolen i dont want the scammer to see our coms

Please make large rotary drill, similar to BA-20 grinder.

Your mods look amazing. Can and when should we expect large grid weaponry? Gotta have moooooore

@Akiad

You have brought us a grinder that Lord Clang himself is proud to use!

@Nadamas that was my original intention, but due to how the game handles drills, its impossible to have the model rotate in the correct direction while also drilling in such a large, but flat, area along the grinder wheel. I am still trying to figure out a way to make it work well, but it seems fairly impossible at the moment.

I never really understood why you made that mega grinder a grinder. I mean, it's ridiculously amazing, but... would it be possible to be made into a bucket wheel excavator as well? The model seems to fit so well! Great mod all around tho :D

@Akiad:

Woohoo! Thank you again!

I haven't yet looked at the drills but I see that you got all the effect areas sorted out. I do notice that the Large block Ship Breaker has a much smaller grind area than the Small block equivalent. (by 4 meters, almost 2 full Large blocks!) Is this intended ? (Like purpose designed for something specific?)

Also, would it be possible to have the Ship Breaker Grinders description names changed from
"Ship Breaker" to "Ship Breaker Grinder"? That would make it much easier to locate when searching the G-Menu for "grinder".

As always, beautiful work on the mod!