Space Engineers: How to build a mining ship! (live build)

[Music] hello everybody and welcome back to a new space engineers video so today's video i'm going to be taking you through how i would go about building a mining vessel so it's a new idea i had for a series where i want to kind of build some ships from scratch and on video the full thing so you can see about how i go through the process and also i can give you some tips and tricks on um how to go about building them i'm going to start this video by saying that i don't build completely um for functionality i build quite a lot for aesthetics as well i believe that you know a big part of the game is you know engineering something that looks good as well as working well so it's it's nice to find that balance um i think when you're building also i'll start off by saying if you're building please please get the paint gun mod and it makes everything so much easier painting blocks you know behind certain other blocks and also like replacing colours for example is a feature that the paint gun has it's something that's going to save you a lot of time and then also on top of that you can get build vision and build info so build info will help you with air leaks if you're trying to pressurize a ship and build vision will let you do this where you can basically access the control panel of a block without having to go through um this which it doesn't seem necessary for a ship of this size but when you're working on larger vessels and you've got loads of interior lights or you've got loads of wheels on a rover it makes a world of difference so we're going to building a space miner today that's hydrogen powered so and the thing to consider when you're building that a lot of new players don't consider is lining up a lot of the ports that are already on a block so this is the basic cockpit it's the industrial cockpit and on the back you've got two small ports you've got a small port on the front and you've also got one large port on the back however this lines up perfectly with the ports on the o2 hd generator which is something which is going to allow you to generate fuel so you can put eye straight into it and generate hydrogen from that then that has a large connector on the back which hooks up perfectly into a medium cargo container and then from there you can put on a connector which also has the uh the large um uh the large conveyor paw on the back so it starts there but what i'm actually gonna do is quickly just stick on a little frame here and just to space them out a little bit this is going to give us a little bit more room to work with it's not something you have to do but it's something i'm going to do personally and so when you're building a mining ship there's a couple things to consider the first thing is the propulsion type and also you know where the connector is so a lot of mining ships have the connector on the bottom this makes it a lot easier because you can just dock straight um to like a landing pad you can land on it etc and also a lot of stations have connector ports which dock horizontally like this so really it's down to how your base is set up and your preference typically speaking it's easier to do it this way and but you know there might be some circumstances where it's easier to put it on the bottom or even the top and to connect your minor you could put one here the reason i don't put a connector here is because when you dock to a landing pad say landing pad is a three by three like that the whole back of the ship is going to be hanging off the landing pad so i like to have the um ventral connector either centered or have a rear connector which will always be centered unless you're building like an asymmetrical ship for example so here we have the basics we have a cockpit an o2 generator we have storage for the ore we have a conveyor frame and we also have connector which can serve as storage as well it's got about a third of the volume as the um medium cargo container and another thing to consider is the drills also have storage as well and so yeah on top of that the more storage you have the heavier your ship is gonna get and then this is gonna be a factory momentum especially with a mining vessel if it's full of ore and you're swinging the ship about it's gonna have a whole lot of momentum so if you just clip the side of your base or maybe a connector docking arm you're probably going to cause a lot of damage so that i think the best way to go about it is to have a light slash medium mining ship and which you can control well um at those higher speeds and i just typically find that to be a lot more effective so what we're going to do next is we want some storage for the hydrogen fuel obviously so we're going to set up our symmetry here by pressing m clicking and then pressing n so that basically um sets the symmetry down the middle of the uh of the grid there's a whole you know shenanigan going on with this symmetry but i assume if you're watching this video you at least understand um how symmetry works and how you can use it to make building times a bit quicker so we're going to put a hydrogen tank here and we're going to put a hydrogen tank here so that's four hydrogen tanks plus the o2 generator for space travel i would consider that more than enough some some people might want less some people might want more so we're also going to put a conveyor tubes here just to space the drills out a little bit from the cockpit itself and then we're going to slap the drills on there so the drills are a good distance from the cockpit um so you can mine through an asteroid and but also they're not too far ahead as well they're like sticking out a whole bunch so that's a good um a good distance and the drills have the same storage as the medium cargo container so you've basically got three medium cargo retainers on this thing so that's gonna be more than enough um for most players survival needs so on the back here we want some thrust um i'm gonna use a small conveyor uh junction and then i'm going to use um some conveyor corners here just to give us a little bit more to work with i think you can see where this is going obviously it's a hydrogen-powered vessel so we're going to throw some hydrogen thrusters on it we're gonna have four just so when you're done mining you can you know give the ship a kick and you can really get out there a whole lot quicker and then if you just have you know one or two so then we're also gonna have a look at the side thrust now this is something that i like to keep quite good um thrust in general on miners is something you really need to not overlook and because you need to be able to control the ship especially when it's getting heavier hydrogen is the the most powerful thruster and so it is a good idea to have the hydrogen thrusters so we can have two either side um just like that and we might also change this out for a um a junction block here if i can find it ma'am so we're gonna have a junction block there and we have a junction block there um and that is so we can have our up and down thrust so i'm going to pop it here and i'm going to pop it there so we've got forwards side to side we got up and down so now all we need is the reversing thrust now you could put one here but i don't think one's enough i want at least two on this thing so what i'm actually going to do is i'm going to branch off from here or we could actually put it here and that might be a better spot and but i want to extend it a little bit i don't want it that far back and so i'm going to use the new conveyor pipes here actually just because i kind of feel like using them and i'm going to pipe through a couple of hydrogen thrusters just in front of the uh just behind sorry the drills there so that will slow us down uh we have thrust in every direction now so we can start thinking about the other uh subsystems on the ship so i'm gonna put two gyros on this thing you could probably get away with one gyro but typically when i have a mining ship like this i will have one gyro active all the time and one one gyro disabled once it's full of ore you can activate the other gyro to sort of bring back some of that um stability to the craft and a bit of maneuverability if you need to get out of a tricky spot etc and so that's what we're going to do there the next thing we're going to look at is power so i'm going to have a battery-powered mining ship so hydrogen plus battery power is the cheapest uh form of of getting about um it's the most efficient way of getting about well maybe not the most efficient but it's the easiest way to to get set up so we're gonna have four batteries there hydrogen powered vessels don't use a lot of fuel and so that's not something you need to worry about now the next thing would be an antenna so obviously you want to be able to find the ship um you could use a beacon um but i'm going to use an antenna personally because we're also going to couple it with an ore detector and so that we can find ores more easily and i'm going to build myself a little array up top so we're going to put the antenna there i'm going to grab the or detector as well and have that sticking up and then we're going to have a blast door because it kind of looks pretty on the front there and we're also going to leave that into a spotlight as well so a spotlight is a great addition for when you're mining you know you're going through those caves you're in a dark asteroid you want to scout out and see what sort of um ores are about um a spotlight is a great option for that so the next thing we want to do is we want to give it some some body work now a lot of survival ships don't have um much in terms of of bodywork and the thing with mining ships is you're going to be bumping it you're going to be scraping it a lot because you're going through these tight asteroids you know you're maneuvering around and and it's quite a heavy vessel so if you bump into something chances are you're going to break it and so you want to have an element of protection in there um not just um you know for the the things that you're hitting but also you've got hydrogen tanks here and they uh yeah they they they tend to make a bit of a bang when they when they explode to say the least and so that's what we're going to do there and we're also going to add a little bit of the thruster cowling here if i can place the block right just to protect these thrusters because they are quite um valuable components and we don't want them sticking out too much um in case they get hit and obviously get banged up a little bit we're also going to put an armor panel on here just because kind kinda looks nice um and just gives it a little bit extra greeble and omega would be uh very very pleased with that so we're gonna put on some extra armor panels there just to protect our thrusters and so we've got good protection here um around our hydrogen tanks we maybe want something um around this area and you could do arm panels you could do some regular blocks it's really up to you and i'm going to have a little bit of a look here and see what i'm thinking of doing and i'm probably going to do something along the lines of this and a beam block would be perfect there actually but um i think a regular block will do as well so i'm just gonna push out the sides a little bit there and just to protect those hydrogen tanks and also it sort of acts like bumpers right you could put heavy armor there and in fact i might throw on heavy armor panels on top of that as well so that if these sides are hit they've got that little extra bit of protection there and just against you know asteroids and things like that so another thing i like to do is use piston heads to cover up conveyor ports now conveyor ports stick out to me these big yellow grates that are sticking out so i'm going to go ahead and cover those up just with some of these uh top piston parts here um i don't know if i want to do it at the back and we might actually do something else there and but i'll have to have a little bit of think about that and we're definitely going to put it here at the front oh no no i've got a better idea for the front we'll do like a little bit of a bumper here as well to protect the ship now this isn't as relevant as the bumpers on the side however sometimes you do get like floating rocks when you're mining um especially if you're mining with the hand drill so you know it's just something that that could come in handy you know if it if it does save you at least once it's only a couple steel plates right so i do think it would be worth it and then we're going to cover up that horrible uh horrible conveyor port there just with like a little chin on the mining ship and i'm going to add some landing gear here as well just to make it easier to to clamp down to stations and such um just something simple like i'll do in fact we could actually bring that down by one block which i might do here real quick so if we do something like this and i might even do rounded at the front get those magnetic plates that we got they have the industry update and just make some rudimentary landing gear that i know the thruster is going to hit it and but those plates do stick out just a little bit further and so you know that should that should work itself out hopefully and it covers up that dreadful um conveyor poor the front there so i mean there you go that is pretty much um a a mining ship right there it's got all the all the good bins you need and what i'm going to do real quick actually is just tidy the front of the top of this up a little bit here i'm just going to add some some protection around the the or detector there and there you go they have a basic little mining ship so you can whiz about in this um it's quite nimble actually um it's got all the axis of thrust up down left right backwards forwards and it's got two drills on the front medium current it's got an o2 generator four hydrogen tanks it's got landing gear this will do whatever you needed to do um in the early game you know just to to get some basic ores um scavenging from the the top of the asteroids pretty much what we like like what we're doing in the survival series at the moment shameless plug i just wonder if that would look better or maybe if we did that instead and then if we got the armor panels as well let's have a look at that i think that makes quite a cute little thrust pack actually and then obviously this bit is sticking out to me as well so i might just throw a little bit of armor on there um i don't want to highlight the thrusters too much um but they do stick out quite a bit and i wonder if we can do something about that maybe we can we can encase them a little bit here i don't know how well this is gonna work it's just something i'm gonna try i actually feel like that works to an extent obviously it doesn't have to be the prettiest thing in the world like that's sc survival and but i want it to at least not be an eyesore for me when i have to uh to play through survival okay cool so yeah that's a basic minor so the final part that i like to do is like to give a little kind of paint all right paint makes all the difference in the world so we're gonna go with a yellow i feel like um yellow is quite an industrial color and i'm literally just gonna paint the whole thing yellow and then we're gonna go through um repainting it a little bit so i like to do sort of the the vanilla-esque aerogath style so typically i'll paint components gray so like the drills and the thrusters etc i'll paint these gray and the main body of the craft is obviously yellow and we're going to just paint over everything that has a function here real quick and then just see how that looks so get these piston heads sometimes it can be a bit finicky to get to them and get those tanks get the conveyors as well we're going to be able to get that tank oh we were we were looking at it i just didn't realize um get that gyro as well get all this stuff on top obviously these are all components too and then get that done as well i'm going to give it a splash of white a nice white stripe and put that there like that coming up the top and we might as well just do something like that there's a couple white stripes on the back don't want to go overboard with the white you see and then i might just do a little something like that there just to give it a little little splash of color and probably also use a little bit more white as well actually that might be too much white that might be too much white i feel like we haven't got enough white though maybe we do i'm actually gonna get rid of this block here and i'm gonna make it curve in a little bit just like that yeah i feel like that just adds a little bit more to the to the shape of the craft okay cool i'm going to paint these gray as well and i might paint the actual quote-unquote landing gear gray too like that and just to oh i just think it looks nice honestly um so yeah there's the the basic mining ship these should be gray sometimes i do like to make the conveyor pipes yellow or orange i mean that's just something you can mess about with but in general there you have it a basic mining ship now if you want to be you know a little bit more complex you want to add some things to the ship um one thing i would consider adding to a mining vessel um is a conveyor sorter ejector so basically it ejects um typically stones but that's only if you're mining for specific ores obviously back before stone had a purpose a lot of people would eject it but now that it has a purpose um people don't tend to um to drop the stone but if you want to drop the stone and i'll show you how to do that so we'll make a copy of this real quick pop it over here grab a sorter so the small sorter and then we're going to grab an ejector as well like that you go to the control panel get the sorters you want to click drain all white list and you want to find stone there you go so it will drain only stone and then you set the conv the ejectors to collect all throughout and then any stone that enters the system will be ejected so if we just stick some stone in here real quick so i'm gonna stick 100 in there and that'll be uh pooped out did it all in one blob but there you go you get what i mean uh you eject the stone via that method um so yeah there's the basic mining ship um obviously you know you'd set up the control panel etc but this will serve you very well in your endeavors just to you know scavenge all of asteroids and complete your basic tasks in a space environment if you enjoyed the video please like comment subscribe let me know what shape you'd like to see me cover next and as always take care everybody [Music] you

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Keywords: space, engineers, SE, mining ship, mining vessel, asteroid, ore, ores, uranium, cobalt, iron, gold, silver, hydrogen, small ship, large ship, small grid, large grid, drill ship, tutorial, build tutorial, tips and tricks, tips, tricks, guide, walkthrough, lunar, kolony, lunark, lunarko, space engineers, space engineers survival

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Length: 20min 26sec (1226 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 06 2022