Engineering the PERFECT automated mining machine...

Hydroneer 2.0 is finally released, and this time I fix the main problem in Hydroneer by building a perfect automated mining machine that uses logic to turn ore into gold bars!! It took a long time though... Maybe I need to try multiplayer in Hydroneer?

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Epic Game Store Support-A-Creator Code: RCE

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About Hydroneer:

Hydroneer is a mining sandbox game where you dig for gold and other resources to build massive mining machines and a base of operation. Use primitive tools, hydro-powered machines, and player-built structures to dig and evolve your operation in this tycoon-style progression system.

Using a state-of-the-art voxel based terrain system, you can create cave networks, quarry pits, or even mud mountains. Discover relics of the past in the depths of Hydroneer, with better rewards the deeper you dig.

Hydroneer features a dynamic modular system for building structures and hydro powered machinery. Create the base of operations from your own design to optimise your work. Create networks of hydro pipes, control pressure. Craft resources, weaponry, and jewellery.

Rigs are large hydro powered machines used for a variety of uses, from digging resources to transporting goods.

Various parcels of land await you in the world of Hydroneer, each with their own advantages. Deeper pits, attractive scenery, and closer stores. You decide where to build your base of operations.

#realcivilengineer #hydroneer #engineering

[amrrahmy]

as a software engineer, seeing the visual representation of spaghetti code Rube Goldberg machine with bugs just to do something twice when a simple condition is met, was something.

[baystated]

Our sympathies for all the electrical tradies that had to witness this.

[yeehaw]

On behalf of everyone, I want to thank you Matt for your eye opening videos. For three years i wanted to become an architect but thanks to you the world is saved and i'm heading to med school

[michaelgorman]

Seeing RCE start to venture closer to my field -- software engineering -- has quelled any fear I might have had about my own job security.

[andreswanepoel]

Congrats on the Easter egg. Absolutely awesome from the Devs. Maybe they're trying to bribe you for a higher score of their bridge😉

[mordofable]

Loved seeing the automation aspect of this. I'm a programmer - and any games that have this involved make me very happy. As for dealing with the random resources getting through... You can likely get rid of the magnets if you have your weight sensor stop the belts dropping the resources, but add a 1-2s delay to the bar being spit out. That adds room for additional resources to fall in/be caught, while preventing any more from getting in the way. then have the sensor which detects the bar is out/leaving - that immediately trips the smelter to reset, and then a very small delay after turns the belt dropping the resources back on. This does mean the bars will vary slightly in weight between them though, not sure if that's undesired.

Edit: posted this right before the revision which pretty much resolved the problem lol. solid job, if it works it works!

[victorcast]

I would like to point out that Bridgefour ended last episode with FIVE bridges! Did you forget the log bridge?

[Darkassassin]

Instead of magnets; stop the conveyors, then trigger the smelter a second or two later, restarting the conveyor once the bar is detected at the output. That gives time for extra ore pieces to land and melt before it casts the bar.

[Squidgygoggan]

RCE: *spends hours creating 3 bilfs*
Also RCE: *doesn’t use them and teleports instead*

[adogandasubaru]

On point engineering: take something simple and make it amazingly complex… love it

[crowguy]

Next step: Automatic loading and refueling trucks for selling your bars. That’s about as far as automation goes in vanilla. They’re really missing other things that could be triggered automatically.

[michaelolynyk]

The developers of hydroneer are awesome.
Josh and RCE have been both referenced in the game, based on how they played the game.

[NickCombs]

My initial thought is to replace the magnet tomfoolery with another conveyor below to catch and return fallen items to the input line.

[The_Defragonian]

Seeing RCE play raft would be pretty interesting with how efficient he would build his boat.

[renegade]

8:19 The problem is no one bothers to make a new type of circuit control until someone needs something to do something in a certain way. Then, their R&D lab spends the next few months trying to come up with a new part that works the way they need it to. Then, when they got "something", it goes through its paces to see how efficiently it will work, gets refined even further, until a finished product is produced to be sold to the general public.

[millieh]

An an electrical engineer on a gold mine, the “logic flip flop hook” made me giggle. Need a PLC expansion pack.

[AdolfoDeaquino]

6:36
The Real Civil Engineer: "Hopefully you guys understand."

Me: Shredded Lettuce

[maxfrei]

I feel like this video had highest amount of actual engineering out of all channel so far. Keep up good work!

[jtcustomknives]

In the lumber mill we have this problem. It’s solved by 2 things. One is a speed up belt. Boards from a slower conveyor are fead onto a faster conveyor belt. This increases the gap between the boards so thy can be dropped out at the right time. The second way is a waterfall. The boards are dropped off the end of a set of chains into a gully of sorts. Then a set of chains come up from under the pile of boards with lugs just tall enough to catch one board. This way boards are kept spaced and in the proper position and can be dropped into the correct trays as the computer keeps track of each board in each lug spot. It might work in the game if you can change conveyor speeds and extend them longer so thy drop onto a slow conveyor then to a real fast conveyor. Never played this game but it looks really interesting

[gomaashaban]

Finally, a use for the digital and logical circuits course that i studied in college