Show off your Kethane Mining Designs!!

[Russell0]

Kethane mobile drill / storage. Can drill for kethane using the front part and then at its rear another section for more storage. Docking ports allows the addition of more storage sections at the end so in theory you can have lots of sections. Each rear section has its own unmanned control module and power supply so once its arrived near the main part of the vehicle it can drive and connect.

It has landing struts to flip it over if it should ever happen.

It also has Kerbal Attachment System on the rear section for fuel transfer if needing to transfer to another storage unit.

Hope you like!!!11!

[SargeRho]

This is my all-weather kethane miner. Can operate day and night, no matter how long the night is.

[SyberSmoke]

This is my Muner Drilling Rig. Made using KAS, Infernal Robotics, Kethane, portable launch site (hum...that is wrong), and Spherical Tanks.

This rig is simple and to the point with a good amount of fuel for landing. A drive section was used, but was discarded.

[firegeek83]

Here's a new addition to my CMP series, the CMP4. Using the same mining platform as the CMP3, the CMP4 has expanded fuel capacity that also has KAS grappling hooks/electromagnets. Basically, the end result is a long range mining platform that doubles as a SAR vessel when needed.

Edited August 29, 2013 by firegeek83

[BJ Quest]

My new Miner in KSP version .21.1.2 Orbiting Kerbin ready to go to Mun or Mimnus for testing.

BJQ

The new miner tests out just fine :-) Added 2 spherical tanks to the side of the main fuel tank - this works out well. :-)

I can process much more fuel/Oxygon/RCS gas etc. BJQ

Edited September 6, 2013 by BJ Quest
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[Oneillcz]

Hi! Very nice designs you all created. These are two of my ideas you can use when building rigs with Caterpillar tracks mod. The first one, with MarkV tracks, VTOL, suprisingly easy to fly and land. But I'm not using it, because it is too heavy and has too many parts (70) for just a mining drill with kethane storage, but I'm playing on old laptot, so someone with good desktop can probably use this along with big Mun bases and refineries without much trouble. The second one on the other hand, is just an experiment, to figure out if it's possible to recreate small mining drills used on construction sites. The heavy drill is too big for it, but with some .cfg editing, one could scale it to look much more accurate, add some kethane trailer behind it, with solar panels or RTGs and it might look very nice.

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[Amphiprion]

Wow, Oneillcz, That is a strange and different design. I like it.

Russel0, the aesthetics of your kethane truck are really awesome, I love the way it looks..

[Temstar]

A couple of mine:

Prototype Mun Fuel Terminal:

Here you see the base's crawler transporters moving around a landed Mun shuttle

Mun shuttle refuelling

The fuel terminal's refinery has a docking port designed for compatible tanker rovers to dock with it in order to bring in the crude kethane from well heads in the surrounding gas fields. With that success I've decided to expand operation. In order to keep number of parts reasonable the new refinery will be built a few kilometre away from my main Mun base which will have two launch complexes to handle ships on the surface. The refinery itself will no longer handle ships, instead it just converts kethane into refined products to be trucked over to the main base via product tankers:

Kethane refinery prototype, note the crude tanker and product tanker

Mun base prototype

[texasjakit]

Wow, I love the pipe system

[Van Disaster]

My standard mining tower. Self-propelled, and if it's empty, orbital. All my current base parts tend to be space-capable to a degree, although no bases on high-G planets yet.

That's Minmus, so that shuttle returns full to Kerbin orbit - hence the fins to stop it tumbling during aerocapture ( I run FAR, it matters ). I've learned the hard way about including converters everywhere, so I do... also means I can plug it into a hub with some panels & make a refuelling depot.

Or use it as a tanker & refill a station refinery:

A gratutitous shot of an Extraplanetary Launchpads ore mine. Ore is damn heavy.

Edited September 3, 2013 by Van Disaster

[fcdrifter13]

This is my Kerbin truck, I use it a ton, and I have also made another version that is automated to use on the Mun, it weighs a 10 tons more and is completely automated. it can drift and jump as well.

[BahamutoD]

Did more work on my Beetle. It works for landing on Duna and refueling there, but there really is only enough dV to get back up into orbit and not much further from there.. It was cool and fun though.

[Amphiprion]

@Bahamuto--- Wow!! just wow!

[YX33A]

BahamutoD, that's a awesome looking ship. The folding wings sell me on it, though.

Mind sharing the craft file so I can check out the wings/try it out?

[BahamutoD]

BahamutoD, that's a awesome looking ship. The folding wings sell me on it, though.

Mind sharing the craft file so I can check out the wings/try it out?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/103148235/Beetle.craft

Here u go. (I think this is up to date)

The required mods should be kethane, kw rocketry, procedural fairings, procedural wings, procedural tanks, b9, mechjeb, spherical tanks, infernal robotics.

Obviously not optimized for sharing haha, sorry about that.

Edit:

before using the robotics, the servo groups tell you what to set the speed of each group to. 1-6 control the different parts, 0 returns everything to the closed position, 9 switches between aerospikes and nuclear.

Edited September 4, 2013 by BahamutoD

[YX33A]

I only have to get KW, honestly. Wait, no, add Procedural Tanks and Spherical Tanks to that list. I don't recall a procedural tanks mod being released, unless you mean Stretchy Tanks, in which case scratch that from the list of mods I need. Besides, Spherical Tanks is normally in my LO and KW isn't as bad anymore IIRC. I still might have to ditch a lot of farings from it, but we'll see.

Seriously, looks fun and I'll be learning quickly. Hopefully quickly enough to show off my own design. I plan on making a SSTO with interplanetary capability. Might end up using Warp Drives to test them out, but we'll see.

EDIT: Oh, right, does she use FAR? I recently downloaded it in anticipation of removing Mission Controller from my setup again.

Edited September 4, 2013 by YX33A

[BahamutoD]

Oh sorry, yeah I meant stretchy tanks . KW is probably my favorite addon for rockets and fairings and I haven't had any issues with it. And yeah I used FAR with this, haven't tested it without FAR.

[firegeek83]

Here's my trip to Ike with my CMP4. Nothing new here, just eye candy.

[Amphiprion]

No more mining designs?? C'mon chaps! tally ho!

[Temstar]

136,000L of harvested Kethane.

Because I can

Also this smaller operation:

See here if you're interested in making something similar:

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/50685-Modular-Base-Creation-Kit

Edited September 30, 2013 by Temstar

[Bigant]

loving your modular base building stuff wishing my pc would handle many crafts.. but it all works so easy and well baring a few little issues but nothing major i just like to drive the crawler to fast

[Cuel]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/103148235/Beetle.craft

Here u go. (I think this is up to date)

The required mods should be kethane, kw rocketry, procedural fairings, procedural wings, procedural tanks, b9, mechjeb, spherical tanks, infernal robotics.

Obviously not optimized for sharing haha, sorry about that.

Edit:

before using the robotics, the servo groups tell you what to set the speed of each group to. 1-6 control the different parts, 0 returns everything to the closed position, 9 switches between aerospikes and nuclear.

I think you were using some older version or something, my game just crashes when I try to load it.

Could you briefly explain how you attached the fairings?

[chrischambers]

I like the design, and the functions of each differant part. Great Craft

[csanders]

Portable mining rig

[firegeek83]

Here's my long term successor to the CMP series that is designed to be a one way mining platform. Can be placed in low grav or atmosphere bodies. Provides 3-way connection to fuel transfer vehicles for rapid refueling ops with ground shuttles.