I should have also noted that the design relies heavily on getting its tanks filled via a large-grid station's hydrogen tank(s) and/or O2/H2 generator(s). When hooked to a large-grid supply, the small hydrogen tanks on the ship refill quite quickly.

Unfortunately, yes, it does consume a lot of hydrogen. I tend to do "bunny hops" with it, i.e., aim at an upward angle toward my destination, hit full thrusters until I get to full speed, then hit "Z" to coast for awhile thereby saving hydrogen. When I start getting close to the ground, I hit "Z" again and blast upward to repeat the cycle. You can go a great distance using this technique.

I just thought it consumes a lot of hydrogen and the generator doesn't keep up.

Thanks for the kind words. Good suggestions, all.

Have now used this build extensively in my moon survival play, and I love it. Works exactly as I'd expect/ want it to. As my first mobile moon mining vessel it has proven itself to be a great investment of resources.
Only modifications I made were to the colour (to match my overall scheme), and the position/ type of reverse camera to match the camera setup I use on all non-frontal docking ships (keeps things simple when aligning without having to use 3rd person, which I try to avoid). Other than this, I'd not really change anything...it's a very well designed and effective ship.

A word to those who may never of tried the self-levelling script....if you can use it, do it. This was my first experience with it, and have now added it to every industrial (read: non-combat) ship I have.

Thanks for independently validating the design!

It fits just perfectly while mining on the moon for me. Cheers!

It always works fine for me, and I've used it a lot.

its really bad on moon, im soory.

Thanks for the info. Several of my ships have "optional" reactors; their only purpose is to keep the batteries topped-off without having to recharge at a base. In some cases, the supplemental reactors are necessary to get maximum performance from my ships, usually when flying within a planet's gravity well when carrying the maximum possible payload mass. In those cases, not including the optional reactors won't prevent the ship from flying, but may reduce its payload capacity.

FYI, If you haven't already seen it, JackRPG has done a nice video review of this ship on his Youtube channel. Based off that I'm going to work towards building this as my first moon miner vessel....

... Just one question. When you say that the reactor is "optional", do you mean optional in use, or optional to build, as in it could be left out of the build without causing weld issues for adjacent blocks?

Great looking ship though, looking forward to building it.

Yes, download SEToolbox from here:
https://github.com/mmusu3/SEToolbox/releases
It will tell you everything about everything for a saved game's grids. You can repair grids, change armor from heavy-to-light,or light-to-heavy, mirror grids, etc. You can do a lot with it.

Putting the component list is a "cherry on top" thing to do - thank you and I will start doing that on my builds as well. Did you use some helper mod or script for the parts list?

I'm really surprised, to be honest. Thanks to everyone.

About time Spiff hit the front page! Nice work

u can sub this and use even blindeyed xD

It's a first! I'm now a legend in my own mind!!

Congrats on getting on the front page, Spiffy!