• klangcola@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    I did that too on my first survival build! Excellent I had to build a whole steel funnel to get the rocks to roll to the collector

    • TheSpaceEngineerOPM
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      1 year ago

      I will freely admit that I’ve never thought to do this. I almost always start in space, though. It feels easier to not combat gravity and Clang up there.

      That said, the Clang and the challenge of gravity feel a lot more fun in the long-run. Like, the best SE stories I have are definitely from screwing around on planets, and random crazy things exploding, or going south in some catastrophic way.

  • ColdCreasent@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’ve used this method and like it. Especially for stuff like ice that you need to mine a lot of to fill the cargo.

  • Thavron@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’ve done this in space with a gravity generator and a funnel on top of my ship. Then just park it under an asteroid and mine a tunnel straight up.