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Starbase Ships by EGOTech
Bugger
v1.0.3
The Bugger is a 448 ore crate capacity mining ship with 10 sweeping mining lasers drill for surface mining operations. It is designed to work in conjunction with a moon base and a separate hauler as it is not the quickest ship.
Features
- 448 ore crates
- Standard Cruise function
- Turtle and Sloth functions with adjustable rates
- Transponder system with ping function
- Separate mining seat for mining operations with view of lasers and ground
- Row of 10 mining lasers that sweep from side to side
- Auto mine function that auto advances (with adjustable thrust and speed) ship for easy mining
- "Feelers" to keep ship in hover mode while mining
- Four ore collectors
- Two external and three internal resource bridges
- Auto generator rate script with adjustable minimum rate
- 36 T3 generators with 36 T2 enhancers fueled by 12 T3 fuel chambers and 24 spare rods on racks
- Radiators and heat sinks that provide more than adequate cooling
- Eight large propellant tanks with 96,000,000 units of propellant
- Propellant time and fuel time panels
- 182 batteries
- 20 T2 box and 80 T2 triangle thrusters providing forward thrust
- 32 T2 triangle thrusters providing braking thrust
- 104 T2 triangle thrusters for maneuvers, with extra thrust upwards
- Basic crafting bench to craft refills plus the tools and advanced bench
- Speedometer
- Timer panel
- Odometer panel
- Many extra slots for YOLOL or memory chips
- Top speed of 100m/s when empty
Videos
EGOTech Bugger Surface Miner Showcase
Channel: Flames_YueBugger - Starbase Planet Miner
Channel: Jimma GamesBuild Cost
Material Cost
| Material | Volume (kv) | Stacks | |
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Aegisium Ore | 116,200 | 67.2 |
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Ajatite Ore | 11,434 | 6.6 |
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Arkanium Ore | 31,121 | 18 |
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Bastium Ore | 360,220 | 208.5 |
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Charodium Ore | 228,097 | 132 |
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Corazium Ore | 4,455 | 2.6 |
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Exorium Ore | 52,109 | 30.2 |
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Glass | 6,704 | 3.9 |
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Ice | 96,000 | 55.6 |
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Karnite Crystal | 3,806 | 2.2 |
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Kutonium Ore | 6,942 | 4 |
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Lukium Ore | 9,288 | 5.4 |
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Nhurgite Crystal | 123,958 | 71.7 |
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Vokarium Ore | 165,950 | 96 |
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Ymrium Ore | 13,729 | 7.9 |
| Total ore | 1,230,012 | 711.8 |
Credits Cost
| Credits | |
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| Assembly | 270,618 |
| Manufacturing | 1,123,093 |
| Total | 1,393,710 |
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Usage
To enter the ship, there is a button on bottom of the ship that will open Hatch. Once inside you can also open and close the cockpit glass Canopy. Buttons for these are available in the pilot left side consoles.
Flying the Ship
The left lever on the center console controls backwards thrust (braking) and the right lever controls forward thrust.
| Interface | Function |
|---|---|
Speed |
Current speed in metres per second. |
ForwardThrust |
Current forward thrust, maximum of 10,000 units |
Throttle |
Current throttle level, maximum of 100 percent |
Cruise |
Activates cruise control, forward thrust will not reset to zero unless turned down. |
Turtle |
Activates turtle mode which sets forward thrust to a maximum limit of TurtleRate of full thrust. |
Sloth |
Activates the low sensitvity mode of pitch and yaw by limiting thrust. Use the Sensitivity switch to set the maximum thrust rate of sloth mode. |
Aim |
Reduces the response time of key presses for pitch and yaw. |
Guide, Hover Distance, FrontRight, FrontLeft, BackRight & BackLeft |
Guide activates rangefinders at each corner of the base of the ship. Each repsective corner shows distance to the ground. Red warning lights flash when ground is less that Hover Distance. |
Range & Distance |
Activates forward rangefinders, with Distance showing distance to object detected by center rangefinder. |
Mine, Advance, Advance Thrust & Advance Time |
Mining controls. See Mining. |
SafeZone |
Whether current location is in the safe zone. |
StrengthFactor |
Current strength of ship. May fluctuate as ore crates are filled. Anything below 1.0 means ship is damaged. |
Transponder Toggle & Ping |
Transponder controls, Toggle turns on and off ship transponder while Ping will activate transponder for three seconds |
Timer |
See Timer. |
Odometer |
See Odometer. |
NOTE: For safety, firing full braking thrust will deactivate Cruise.
Managing Power and Fuel
| Interface | Function |
|---|---|
Propellant |
Total propellant remaining in propellant tanks, maximum of 96,000,000 units. |
PropTime |
Time and distance remaining of propellant based on current usage. Distance is calculated from speed. |
FuelTime |
Time and distance remaining of fuel based on current usage. Distance is calculated from speed. |
WithBackup |
Same as FuelTime but takes into account backup rods available. Use the switch for Backup Rods to set the number of backup rods available. As standard there are 24 extra rods. |
Fuel Rod 1 to Fuel Rod 12 |
Fuel remaining on fuel rods in individual fuel chambers, maximum of 300,000 units for each. |
Generator |
Current generator rate. |
Min Gen & Min Generator Limit |
Toggle and sets minimum generator rate. See Managing Power. |
Shutdown |
Will turn off all fuel chambers thus shutting down generators. |
Battery |
Shows current battery charge of the batteries, maximum of 10,000 units. |
HeatTransferRate |
Current heat transfer rate of the heat sinks, maximum of 100%. |
Flow In & Flow Out |
Toggle flow modes of resource bridges. See Refueling Propellant. |
Lights |
Turns on and off internal lights. |
Canopy |
Opens or closes glass canopy. |
Hatch |
Opens or closes ship entry hatch. |
Managing Power
By default the generator will only run and ramp up when the batteries need charging so there is minimum management needed. But you can set a minimum generate rate by setting the Min Generator Limit value using the switch for the minimum rate and turning on Min Gen.
Refueling Propellant
All four resource bridges can be used for refuelling propellant. To refuel from another ship, turn off Flow Out on the pilot right side console and leave Flow In turned on. Then connect a resource bridge to the other ship. To refuel another ship, do the opposite, Flow Out turned on and Flow In turned off.
Remember to turn Flow In and Flow Out back on if you are using the Endo to collect ore via any of the ship's resource bridges.
Mining
Activate Lasers to turn on the mining lasers which will automatically sweep from side to side. Activating Advance will slowly move the ship forward based on Advance Time and Advance Thrust. Adjust Advance Time (period to wait before each advance in seconds) and Advance Thrust (amount of forward thrust when advancing) if needed.
TIP: Increase Advance Thrust if needed as the ship gains more mass from filling up.
Collect turns on the four ore collectors.
Mine will activate automated mining, which will activate Lasers, Advance and Collect.
TIP: Turn on Min Gen and allow the generators to ramp up before starting to mine. Continous use of the lasers and collectors at the same time requires a Min Generator Limit of around 85%.
NOTE: For safety, lasers will turn off if the total fuel is less that 2,000 units.
Other Stuff
Timer
On the pilot center console there is a Timer panel which acts as a timer. It will run when the ship is active and show total time in years, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. To reset the timer, hold down the Reset Timer button on the pilot left console.
Odometer
On the pilot right console there is a Odometer panel which will keep track of the ship's estimated flight distance based on speed. To reset the trip odometer, hold down the Odometer Reset Trips button on the pilot left console.
Frequently Asked Questions
Links
Changelog
v1.0.3 (Current) - 27/12/2022
- Added Discord link to help chip
- Added cruise safety chip
- Added lasers safety chip
- Added missing redundant ducts
- Added some missing small plates
- Added bolts to entry ramp so strength factor does not drop when open
- Removed auto
Hoverfunction which didn't work well enough - Added side "feelers"
v1.0.2 - 05/11/2022
- Piped six heat sinks that were not piped
- Removed now 12 redundant heat sinks
v1.0.1 - 08/10/2022
- Added "feelers" to keep ship in hover mode while mining
- Fixed
Shutdownbuttons' button style - Moved pilot seat slightly forward
v1.0.0 - 03/10/2022
- Initial release
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