FunkyBacon you the best!

A new variant have been made that should fix the fuel issues as it now have more than twice the capacity. Also it looks better, imo.
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3569874054

Like i mentioned even without a script I was unable to do much with this ship. I will deconstruct this one and build up your older variants or maybe see if i find the ion version somewhere in your workshop and have that instead.

I don't know how PAM handles miners but if you don't needlessly burn fuel it should last for a full trip regardless of distance. It does burn a lot of fuel that is true, but brake/reverse thrusters are on a toggle for a reason so that you can easily drift forward without wasting energy on constantly stopping and going when mining.

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This ship is a major flop. I love all WHI line vehicles but one single tap and poof. 5% of hydrogen tanks GONE. Operation range is less then 5 Km due to how much hydrogen it uses. I set mine up with PAM script and it barely was able to mine 100 meters in before it was stuck in the hole. I had to rescue this ship multiple times because it ran out of hydrogen. I just hope that someday M9 will come out with a better cargo to hydrogen usage balance.

If it can't travel or mine for as long as the cargo ship has fuel then its not really a efficient ship. I really really love WHI ship lines but this one is just not it. If the ship can't even farm a whole 4x4 (that is 4 rows width and height) and with a depth of 100 meters deep before having to return to base then I would say to stay away from this creation. I mentioned cargo to hydrogen balance.

I meant when cargo is full the hydrogen tanks should be at 50% at least so that makes you able to fly to 50km asteroid and be able to do the job and come back. This ship cannot perform this task as-is. I even tried mining by hand without script on single player survival settings x10 on cargo but no dice. I hope the ship maker comes out with a better design.

I'd trade my kingdom for a planet-capable version of this.

just built it and the batteries won't recharge? i am docked to station with large reactors and still won't recharge any ideas?

@Doctorstaik.
Yes it does. 4 big ones in the back, only the middle one is an actual connector. Plus a row of small ones on the left and right side.

does it have ejectors for unwanted stone? good work though

Of all the WHI ships, only the M4 is not suitable for PAM due to the hexagonal arrangement of the drills. The exception is M4-MK2. He has a rectangular profile.

@lkcarfrey, yes. You can try it. But i thing ship is too big. I use M1-M3 for PAM

@lkcarfrey
I have no idea as I never used that script before. But feel free to put it on there and give it a try if you want to.

Is this P.A.M. capable?

Any plans to do a vertical miner in your WHI style?

This one is begging for a PAM script loading in 😊

Might as well just build a large grid ship at this point lol

Maximum overkill, love it!