The Infinity Drill : Space Engineers Tutorial

Hey Bearded, I like the simplicity of this tunnel boring machine, is it as stable in survival mode?

Love the build can’t wait to try this! Also I use this strat where I cut down on size and use a hinge with a small head to create computer room for the even controllers and such to downsize while stacking more in a grid since those blocks cost less to

I enjoyed this!

Nice work but a bit overcomplicated from the point of view of an engineer, useful mods, Drillsystem

loved it, will try a vertical version, maybe will drill trough the planet🤣. awesome, really

Great build! For stability, what about adding a wheel behind* the front merge block?

It's like a two stroke engine!

Working well. Does it sag at all?

One question though do you have scripts to always have the components for each extension?

Ive played SE from when it first came out, made auto miners and jaz like that but ive never used projection blocks with welders, i need to pull my finger out, after watching your video its really got me thinking, thanks ;)

DRILL THROUGH THE EARTH

Food for thought. Having this as a core for a ship that can land down lock in to the ground and bore like this would be amazing to see. Also you could add a simple set up for the drill part with a printer and welders to make a base floor as it drills. Love seeing other engineers builds. Keep up the awesome work man.

I'm feeling like doing this vertically instead of horizontal and just bore my way to the core.

its so cool to watch

Unwanna make it slower reverse one piston at a time instead of then both going together

Nice build

May I show off my take for an automatic mining platform?

Built a couple of these in the past to core out an asteroid or when playing with deep ores mods.

Cheers dude, I'm a long term owner but due to dad duty I've barely played it in the grand scheme. Thing like this will make me tey and get more grid time.

looks good

This looks amazing 😁

seem to have an issue everything is set up right but when it tries to push it from the first it doesnt pistans go crazy then it explodes cant seem to fix or figure out why

How would you make it retractable

That port 🙈 I'd change one piston by like .5% so they line up better, and wheels may help with stability to hold the shaft for unlimited lengths

I cant wait to try it, but use the rock for basic materials

I've done something similar, except it was vertical and drilling straight down, and had the drills on a rotor allowing a 15 drill setup to bore a 30 block wide hole. Always ended up with Klang issues though. Probably the whole "Rotors on pistons" thing.

great idea. Now I think you need the reverse operation to happen so it switches the welders out for grinders and retracts the whole thing back when you are done burrowing through the mountain and finally mount the whole thing on a ship or other vehicle that can rock up, lock itself in place, dig the tunnel, pack it all back up and move on to the next one.

I tried to make a setup like this many years ago based on how an oil well is dug. Never quite got it to work right, glad to see someone finally did 🙂

Ooh, I had a lot of fun developing a vertical variant of this a few years back, thought it would be cool to imitate the oil rig look. I... kinda overcomplicated it and gave up though XD. Tried to optimize too much and got lost at the assembler-balancing step.

The first thing I did that might help you though was making the motion all happen on the drill assembly that went into the earth. I didn't like how pistons got more unstable with distance. IIRC my setup was two pistons with merge blocks at the top and bottom with the rest of the drills and conveyors attatched to em. The whole thing would 'inchworm' its way down by releasing one at a time, and build the pipe/merge block anchors as it went.

The other thing you could consider (if the goal is resources instead of a shaft) is to put a couple minute delay between extensions like I did, or add refineries, that stone you're throwing out could be turned into sweet sweet ingots.

I got pretty far into the project, even had grinders and multiple projectors set up so that after the drill assembly finished with an anchor station, it'd grind away all the extra bits and replace it with cheap piping. Figured every block I could cut from the repeating segment was more 'profit' material. The issue for me came with trying to make sure my welders always had access to enough stuff. Something about getting the assemblers at the base station to ONLY make enough parts for an extra repeatable section stumped me. Repeat-orders, even at the right parts-ratio, would eventually fill storage and jam, trying to trigger the parts-order with timer blocks broke when the refineries didn't keep up or you hit an ore patch and started only having access to one ingot type, and moving the stuff around with connectors was its own headache. Then I realized any loss of power would brick the thing and I quit instead of trying to harden it against disruption-by-violence.

I probably should have looked into repurposing someone's inventory-management script and just sunk the base station into the rock, but that was about the time my frustration convinced me to give up and move on to something else. Hope you have fun developing your variant and it actually sees survival use! Remember, 'perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'!

You could add a pair of station grinders right after the welders that remove/recycle the connectors and merge blocks. Would save on weight and resources

Gonna have to see if i can build this onto a rover platform

WOW, that's amazing!!!

i wonder how wide we can get it. wheels onder neath somehow maybe? im not sure how clang would handle that. id love a way to dig out a big hanger space

blues backround music is cool.

Is there a way to set up a way for it to stop when the inventory is full it stops

wonder what happens after it got around the planet once.. IF it gets around the planet that is

Got to admit, that design I really liked, nice one. If you could do a video on the process of making it, yeah I know you can get the blueprint, but I'm sure a few of us would like to see the build process.

This looks useful for a IO playthrough to dig a well down for geothermal. Nice!

If stability is a real concern at some point you can always just slap on some wheels under the drill head and put wheels at free or zero friction as well, just a thought if necessary...

great tutorial, it's good to see a bit of vanilla engineering sometimes :D

Is it more stable if you build it downwards?

you should add a reverse mode where it grinds the blocks instead of welding it

This is awesome. I am building it in survial atm. Anyone know how the second event block is programed?
Cheers!

Clever

😊Amazing thanks for sharing 👍

bet you could add a wheel to the bottom of each section to help with the pistons from bending

Evil genius all i can say !