this is legit!

@kinngrimm Ya feel free to re-post if you manage to scale it as long as you credit my original design. Good luck if you do try it would be interesting to see how well it scales up.

should i come to it, i would try out how far that could go with your concept and post a version here on steam then if that is ok with you, ofcause with credits to you or otherwise send it to you if you wish so, so you could make it available.Just no promises to when or even if as i am currently not even playing SE, but might get back into to it as i am in the process of developing an itch for it hrhr missing the game.

@kinngrimm No idea. Presumably you could double it by adding the drills and extra sets of pistons. Youd have to modify all the timer blocks routines for the legs to include the new pistons (and the replacement hinges/mag plates). As well doubling torque values and halving all hinge values.

Might start running into weight issues or clang issues tho not really sure tbh.

What do you think would be the max drills/block radius you could put into such if one would expand on this idear, having more pistons behind each other therefor resulting into a larger whole?

For me the second i press any buttons on it, it just explodes launching parts everywhere and ruining terrain

Nice work. That's truly impressive.

@siloking the drills collide for a bit yeah, unfortunately there's no good fix for it without causing other issues. But its not really a problem as eventually they extend past the hinges and continue on without issue though.

I might be a dumbass, but whenever I start it up, the two drills on the ends collide with the pistons.

That's very cool. Please make a video or a description on the logic behind, how do you setup the timers, what are intended legs movments.

@kylo Ooooh! thats cool! Thanks for letting me know!

It is in the community spotlight posted by SE on steam

Did this get featured on a YT video or something? It gained like 0 traction when I posted it on here/reddit/yt and then all off a sudden I look back and there's a huge spike to 1k subscribers O_o

@WAAAAAGH!!! I never made any storage modules, but its pretty easy to dock another ship to the connector to do what you want. Bonus you can just fly the ship away pre filled once it does stop. The timer blocks to use to start and stop are in the discription.

@DlriumTrgger ngl I'm not sure, I assume a good chunk of it lol, was never a issue in testing tho never filled up the drill storage.

@elcadaver thank you :)

One of the coolest inventions I have seen in Space engineers. Simplicity is at the heart of great inventions.

very nice work! how much of that stone just keeps being cycled back thru constantly?

Do you have a model with a built-in beacon and self-stop feature when the storage is full of anything but rock?

@Vas It was a fail safe when I tried and failed to get easy automation to do the job. But scriptless is nice to reduce performance impact as well.

Any particular reason you avoided scripting which could solve a lot of limitations such as your timer block limitations?

Is it primarily because Keen moved programming blocks into the "These are dangerous" zone and made it harder for people to use them? :P

Lol 1st thing that came to mind with this thing is to connect it to the the "hinge hose" Splitsie built in his Survival Impossible series. :D

the imagination y'all can have will always impress me, good job

This is actually some very cool engineering, well done, I will definately keep this design in mind should I play survival again some day.