How To Build An Automated Drilling Platform Without Using Scripts

Learn how to create an automated drilling platform for mining resources step by step using timer blocks and sensors. This platform can continuously drill and adjust its extension but doesn't require any scripts or mods.

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[TheMARSHalMELLOW]

Move the rotor to the vertical connection, creating a theme park pirate ship made from drills, it means instead of drilling a circular hole, you Gauge a large diameter circle, adding more pistons in either direction. later adding wheels and such, you can convert it to a mobile drilling rig by disconnecting it from the ground anchored blocks. Really useful for ice drilling.
If you limit them by reversing them faster, you can drill square holes too.

[FakeSchrodingersCat]

If you increase the bottom extent you should not need multiple sensors.

[Gareth]

you could put the sensors next to the rotor by add 2 blocks from the rotor, that way you don't have to keep adding more sensors further down as the drill mine deeper. that way you'll have better continues long distance mining with multiple pistons

[Rafa]

Thought this would keep going down by its self lameee

[doctorgrubious]

You don’t really need a sensor if you don’t mind doing what I do and just having a 1rpm rotor with a 30 second timer that activates the pistons at the end as well as a second timer, set at 4 seconds, than the 4 second timer stops the piston extension at the end and re-activates the first, creating a loop that does this automatically, no sensors needed, for turning on and each just group the pistons, drills, rotor, as their own groups, and get a button pad and assign the buttons to toggle the groups on and off, the 4th button stops/starts the timer

[wolfe]

An idea here is you can also do a 8x3x3, though this becomes highly unstable kind of requiring a gyroscope to be usable... sadly though such a thing becomes annoying to try to automate because each click of the sensor would extend all the pistons, increasing the chance to damage your rig.

This rig is always great, but with deep drilling you're better off going more manual or utilizing some other methods. 👍

[EKOMovers]

Adding to timer block 1 to turn the sensor(s) back on and timer block 3 to turn them off. (not off/on)
Unless you are done (full extent of the piston ) if time block 3 is activated the drill head will stay in the up position ... if you have to restart it
Senor has a range of appox 20 blocks from the block is is on. Show on hud on the senor and Show senor range will give a better picture of this

[aidantung]

THIS WAS A REALLY WELL DONE VIDEO thank you for maing it it really helped me out . also i think its so cool that you decided to start a youtube channel i think youl be very popular one day dont stop trying

[Siinwu]

if you place a sensor on the back of the drill at the edge of the swing, make the sensor field like a knife blade, left/right 3m, up/down 0, 5m, front o, 1, back 8, 1m. when it has gone a round and cleared the dirt infront of drill it can now trigger it to increase max distance when no asteroids (terrain) detected.

thats it really. :)

[D_Rogers]

Share inertial tensor on rotors & pistons reduces the wobble on long mining arms.... :)

Sensors are under-rated, so handy...

What's the advantage of intermittent piston movement?
Over continuous, but slow?

[limitedgames]

My conveyers on on the drill arm ain’t sending the stone down to my refinery

[alexrogers]

I made this but the my conveyor isn't putting it into my refiner can anyone help?

[ashleyward]

you keep saying one setting but doing a different setting, im lost :(

[MrSN]

Why did you use junctions instead of tubes?

[bobbyvandyke]

You dont need timer blocks or sensors just turn the piston speed to 0.0001 and put 15 pistons on it and then turn the drills and rotor on and walk away. Thats 150 meters so roughly idk 20 real life hours of mining. Roughly 700, 000 iron ingots if you make the drill head 10 drills long and you can put a rod 10 blocks long on the otherside with a ball of heavy armor blocks on it to even out the weight. I got a rover that had a projector on it that projects small mining bases smiliar to this but quite a bit taller with 17 refineries on it to save on material costs 5 windmills the rover can weld the projection with a welding crane it carries on its back using a turret controller to make the crane. I can upload it if anyone is interested. Its a medium sized rover but since it can fly and has all the bells and whistles it is 29, 000 pcu so pretty expensive to make in survival. Took me roughly a week to build it in my mars survival playthrough.