Automated Ice Drill by Ch3mast3r

The Automated Ice Drill can get you large amounts of H2 and Ice by using some very simple hotkeys. It has a connectors for connecting verticle connector ships and will automatically fill them up with Ice. This was made using the Xbox One X in Experimental

Groups

Ice Drill On/Off

Pistons Down by 0.5m

Pistons Down Toggle Reverse

Pistons Up by 0.5m

Hotkeys (Xbox)

First Page

Up - Extend Out Pistons

Down - Retract Out Pistons

Right - Piston Down By 0.5 M

Left - Pistons Up by 0.5m

Second Page

Up - Drills On/Off

Down - Toggle Pistons Down Reverse

Right - Toggle H2 Engines On/Off

Left - Toggle O2/H2 Generators On/Off

Using the Control Seat you can use the Hotkeys to fully extend the pistons automatically, and fully retract the pistons automatically, and make a very large cut into the ice.

This saves going into each piston manually to extend it.

There is also a hotkey to increase the maximum distance on the Piston Down which allows you to extend them by 0.5m at a time antil the maximum 10m.

There is a hotkey to decrease the maximum distance by 0.5m at a time, but you will need to use the hotkey on page 3 to set the down pistons to reverse before this will work.

This will allow you to put the pisons down by 2m by using the hotkey Right on page 1 and pressing it 4 times.

There are two H2 Engines which can be toggled on to recharge the batteries on the Automated Ice Drill more quickly.

There are two connectors that on the Ice drill to connect Verticle ships with storage capacity to land recharge and pull out ice from the Automated Ice Drill. The cargo containers of the ships will automatically get filled up with ice when they connect to the connectors.

Also you can use my blueprint called Flydro 2.1 on mod.io to move a whole large grid H2 tank worth of H2 fuel to another base, or refuelling station anywhere within the atmosphere. Download it and try it out as it has a verticle connector.

Another good blueprint that goes well with this is the FlyOre 1.0 as it has 5 Large grid, small cargo containers on it to move large amounts of ice in one go.

Iif you have any questions feel free to leave me a comment, I hope you enjoy this blueprint which was made using the Xbox One X in experimental mode.

You might need to go into all of the pistons and click the, share inertia, button on all of the pistons leading to the drills to secure them in place, and not have a set of swaying drills.

Handy tip for this Blueprint.

Thanks,

Ch3mast3r