Needed: Survival Wheeled Mining Vehicle

[Darelius]

Hello, im looking to a working wheeled mining vehicle for Survival play.
(Maybe small and later large vehicle)
Because i dindt get over with the wheel configuration, my wheeled vehicles crush and dont work everytime.

My "ideal" is a Truck with a 45° or 90° Piston-Drill. It stands and then drills, maybe a rotating "drill" Turret or something like that, but possible for survival to get much minerals and bring them back to base...

I didnt find something working in the workshop so far - anyone els finde one?


...DX

[seronis]

make your rover. make it EXTREMELY rear heavy. Now add level forward facing drills on the front that are high enough to just barely not affect the ground when running.

Design complete.

At this point you can set your toolbar to change your suspension strength to tip the nose of the rover up or down compared to the rear. This will define the curve of your digging arc. Nose down a tiny bit and you will start curving into the ground as you drive forward. Once you are going downwards at an angle you like level your suspension and you will keep going in the same direction. Making the rover-miner rear heavy just helps with stability as the weight of the drills keeps increasing as you move and inventory shifts.

Good luck

[RoofCat]

Small grid rover will be almost useless due to low amounts and have multiple other issues.
Large grid - if you mine stone, nothing hard about that one. Deeper ones might need some engineering. At some point they cost more than the return you will realistically make.

Then why would you want to mine stone somewhere to bring it to base if you can build stationary drill at base working with pistons and rotor just as cheap and basically all by itself.

Small grid flying miners are better option for occasional pure ore mining. Quite energy hungry though so you will spend some time recharging them.

You can also extend your stationary miners in all imaginable ways to reach pure ore even 120m deep.

Rovers in general have a few problems in SE except you happen to be in flat desert. A lot of mountains, ugly surface, trees, isolated valleys - it's all crap in the long run.