Open-Pit-Mine(/-ing)

[Cyr0]

I always was a fan of planetary mining through the use of....well everything but flying mining ships.
But now I am struggeling with setting up drills or maybe other ideas to -> Drill a whole PLUS the "ramp" so that you could go down the pit with a rover and stuff.
I am sure the solution is simple enough but I dont rly know other ways then lets say drilling the ramp afterwards.
Any decent input is appriciated

[Lystent]

If the issue is with angling the drill(s), then use gyros (one on override, the rest not). I also found right-click mining to be quite useful for making a passage wide enough for the miner to drive up to the ore vein.

Edit: but this is just with small grid mining rovers.

[Cyr0]

Oh no, for mining rovers I got rid of the idea of having a gyro-controlled-drill long ago, am more into "bore-tower"-rovers now since they can just drill a hole wherever the deposit is and are a lot more stable.
But I meant as in static grid mining, like I am sure lots (/most) ppl are familiar with, rotor, piston, drill, let it spin at a low rpm, and drill a hole / pit. Which is no big deal.
But I want to be able to go in and out said pit without flying so I need a ramp. Now ofc that could be drilled out afterwards but I thought there may be an easy way to do it while drilling the hole myb.


("Ramps" / Roads like openpit mines have:
http://maineinsights.com/maine-bep-provisionally-adopts-mining-ru )

[Candarian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx05rfsqsO4&list=PLfMGCUepUcNyhjLopHOlIrmz9xeepJWl7&index=7

[Gorbadon]

Sounds like you want to do something similar to what w4sted space did in one of his recent SE streams.
Drilling a spiral ramp like that is doable, but needs a lot of tweaking and some test runs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fhM6Sx3OHg

[Cyr0]

Spiral ramp sounds like what I want indeed!
And ye I thought it may need lots of manual tweaking if no programmable-block-knowledge.

[Spaceman Spiff]

I designed (and have used extensively) a wheeled miner that has drills on rotors that allow the player to control the angle of descent into the ground. Doing so makes it easier to get in and out with a full load. Here's the version that you can paste in in creative mode (because of the rotor subgrids):

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2034462818

and here's the version that you can build in survival using projectors that project the subgrids in exactly the correct location:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2034466066

It may be worth trying.

[Cyr0]

Ok so I think I got it working good enough for me, drilling out a central-hole and then using angled drills for the ramp. Works both relativley (sure, I gotta drill twice / gotta retrofit the drill once) fast and stable.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2045383144