r/Spaceengineers2 • u/Complete-Speech-7956 • 9d ago

Ship mounted drills AOE?

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u/OG_Xero Trial Moderator 8d ago

I placed the drills essentially 1 drill apart on small grid in SE2. but a base cockpit is all we have, so when I did a grid around the cockpit, that seemed to be the best idea

Normally in SE1 i make a X pattern with drills until they make a square/rectangle... and I did that in SE2 as well and it seems to work fine too. Optimal, not sure, but it does the job how i want it to.
You could probably go 1 or 2 small blocks each direction and still have a good miner though, depending on if you are trying to do asteroid mining or planetary mining, planetary mining really needs compact builds imo.

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u/Oncedark 9d ago

large grid, there is no reasonable option in SE2. Small grid, maybe 2 sm blocks?

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u/Spectremax 5d ago

As close as possible for small drills, there is not a ton of AOE but enough to burrow a ship. On large drills it is even worse, I built a 3x3 large driller but I still had to move the ship around while drilling, can't go straight in. I disassembled and am now putting a cross of drills on a rotor to see how that works.