Good and simple stuff, works well as intended with no setups

Hey, wonderful and elegant machine! I was just wondering how yo managed to get the pistons to go so slow? Spent hours today trying to work it out!?

Buttons don't make it work

if you turn the drills on in the terminal it will work without you clicking

it how to work auto?
iam do hold click ;p
its needs script

Awesome creation.Thank you so much :)

Re: the piston and rotor speed, these are settings i've had success with:
Plunge arm pistons: 0.005 speed
Drilling rotor: 1.5 - 2.0 rpm

You have to set these manually using ctrl+click on the velocity sliders in the control menu. Using buttons to +/- the velocity values will overshoot it enough to destroy the rig as it suddenly rams into the ground at 5 m/s.

locing the BP!!! only issue i have is after a while the pistons get too low for the drill heads... Any ideas

pistons and drills does not show in never surrender game

@Elriel, Thank you :)

To those having trouble with piston speed, You can't set the pistons to slow enough speed to work for this. Set pistons to reasonable speed instead and use a timer block to increase the piston maximum distance periodically.

@RazorJTR Projectors don't support subgrids. If you want to build it with projectors in survival, you will need to go to creative and make a separate blueprint for each subgrid and then use a separate projector for each.

I tried to build it with a projector - why is the drills etc. missing? - is it a setting I'm missing in my world?

I pasted your rig in and there is no setting for the pistons speed. What is the recommended speed

How do you get this to work properly? the pistons and rotor dont want to work correctly at the slowest speeds o.1 for both to make perfect circle cuts. always ends up making trenchs

What speed do you use for the pistons? The button for the pistons doesn't seem to work on my save. 0.1 seems too fast but I don't have a lot of experience with pistons.

@Chumad, you have to paste the blueprint for everything attached to rotors to appear. It is a limitation of SE. Rotor/Piston attachments are considered subframes and are ignored by projectors.

@Kanajashi Odd, the one I built didn't come with anything attached to the single piston and I have no drills what-so-ever. Also, there's no rotar to be seen. Is the blueprint uploaded completely to the workshop? Am I missing a mod or DLC or something?

@Kanajashi great video's about SE watched them a few time's and i use the drill ,. amazing stuff

@Kanajashi, found your series through your mining rig video. love your work man keep it up.

Oh, also, you could replace every second drill with a conveyor and it would still work just as well. There's no real benefit to having drills packed this tight.

@lolbob1122 Two wind turbines is probably overkill for something like this. One would do just fine. Rotors, pistons and drills don't eat much power at all. The only reason to have two is if you also intend to use it as a recharge station for the cargo vessels that come pick up the ore, which probably is the case for the author since there's a battery visible as well.

You'll need more wind turbines, though, if you want to add refineries and/or assemblers to process what it digs up.

hey kanajashi love your series keep it up just wondering are the two wind turbines enough to keep it going?

Stone, sure, I can buy into that, and I'm redoing this drill rig to follow suit (AND to make it mobile). But ice? Maybe for a local power gen through the engine? I dunno.

Simply better to build a Basic Refinery and attach it to the large Cargo to transform all that stone into useful material. Nothing wasted and materials pay for everything in the build, not just target resource.

The only recommended thing I'd add to this is to have an ejection system setup to just drop what isn't wanted into a hole off to the side of the infrastructure. Hole not included in blueprint. It may be a bit lag inducing just having boulders drop off, but, I've not found anything to void off resources any other way. So just set the object count to about 50ish, and you should be good.

Too much stone being picked up at your gold mine? Drop it off to the side.

I spawned in at an ice biome, and I've got enough ice now for 6 play throughs.