Omega Mining Platform

A large mobile mining platform, capable of landing on and taking off from a planet, moon or asteroid, and drilling into it's surface to mine for ores deep below the surface.

Features:

100% vanilla - no mods. Survival ready. Full conveyor, Oxygen & Hydrogen system. Refinery Assemblers Medical bay & cryo pods 4 Large cargo containers 8 Gatling turrets 4 Interior turrets 4 Jump drives Multiple Hydrogen, Atmospheric, and Ion thrusters- can be toggled on and off separately.

Control room has 2 seats for piloting the ship- one for in space ( ship flies nose-forward ), one for in-atmosphere ( ship flies bottom-down ).

Security station for controlling defense turrets and cameras.

Control seat for operating the Drilling machinery.

Controls are laid out as simply as possible, can be operated by one person but is easier with 2 or more.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Due to current issues with SE being derpy, you may experience the drill shaft stopping after short distances- if this happens, simply unlock & lock the main landing gear quickly using the button on the hot bar, and it should carry on drilling. You will know when you can't drill any further as the drilling arms will be near-horizontal. This is simply one of many bugs affecting ships when they are near to a planets surface, and/or have landing gears and moving parts on motors- can't be helped at present, waiting for Keen to fix it.

ADDITIONAL:

I strongly recommend setting the Safety Over-ride speed to 0 ( zero ) when flying around in order to prevent the Motors from exploding when the inertia dampers kick in. Once you have landed, you can raise the over-ride back to maximum again. Also remember to lock the Drill shaft landing gears when flying around, in order to prevent the shaft suddenly shooting up or downwards when the inertia dampers kick in.

Summary:

This 'ship' took me a long time to get right, going through half a dozen or more iterations in order for it to function smoothly and stand up to use as an industrial piece of machinery, as well as a mobile base that can travel between planets and defend itself from pirates and raiders ( the gatlings shred small ships from all angles... ).

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