This was always one of my favorite mining ships. I liked having the back room for using the constructors and gear and was sad when I returned after a long break from Empyrion to see it no longer worked. So hope you don't mind that I went a bit crazy and rebuilt this thing (with my own flare) from the ground up. Best I could get was tier 2 but quite happy with the results and thought I'd share.

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2103734993

I just want to add that when I said it looks like a big ugly truck it was an honest compliment!
It reminds me of an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAP . And I still Love it. Thank you!

A useful utility vehicle that you can get on an early start. For best value, add more things to it as you get research, especially the drill turrets. When you do this, you'll improve vehicle manuevering by adding at least 2 more RCS (I put mine above the rear hover engines). For Patch 9. I also added a WiFi transmitter under the medical bay area. Only downside to this HV is only 1 cargo box, which results in some limitations. Upgrade armor as you see fit, you have room underneath to add thrusters to compensate

Thanks Kyla I’ll work on it

Good Designs. Kool looking! Lite and Heavy ships. If u have time... more Mediums. Problem is ....If u upgrade armor how many Hv hovers do u add? So nice to have a Med Design. Mahalo

Thanks HurtfulPlayer I fixed the Airtight Issue and now its Oxygenated! Thanks again for letting me know :)

I really like this HV. Looks like a big ugly truck.
One small problem. Fuel Tanks and RCS's are not airtight. So the Fuel Tank and RCS on the right side bottom are preventing the back cabin from pressurizing. It's a pretty simple fix, though. I have a fixed version if you are interested. Great work!
Oh, I see someone has already comented on this. Mine still has the Medic Station, but no Clone Chamber as I never use them.

It’s built to be super cheap while still handling all the early game tasks

the ships a little oodd and rolls around a lot but gets me where I want to go, whole front end now is hardened steel ans took out 2 squads of robots near the radar station and didnt lose a block so far.

EPIC LOOTS k

went bsck looking for the door that lever opened and found a huge hnager like door buarded by a robot. killed ihm and went in and found...a warehouse fillrf with crates, killed a few more robots and elft with a second set of ehavy armor and some odd ingets and ores, enough to fill my backpack and hot bar too.

😃 thats awesome!

attacked and boarded a 'abndoned factory' which of course might have been a factory but certainly wasnt abandoned, added a second gun and appraoched at it fired on me and we fiored back. I won this one. then landed silently about 100 yeards out and walked in armed with a burst rifle and shotgun. took some hits killed a bunch of turrets, nightmares and scorpions and left after activating the leverl at the end of the level, but left for now since that made me two loads of loot and now have a set of medium armor on and a set of ehavy in storage back at my base.

Awesome Kevin! I'm using it myself in a new PVP server to resource gather. Had to modify some stuff to cater for it. Let me know how it goes!

got mine going and ran around with it a bit, but silly though got flipped coming off a hill into a lake and when I got it upright again it was full of water...no reallly was ...up to the stick.top speed was 1.9 until I got it out onto land again and after a minute or two the speed went back up. never saw anything like thta, it was kind of funny really.anyways got some combat steel panels from a wreck and so added about 20 panels in obvious places that are the middle grade steel, so every panel I added now is 100 hp instead of 50, that should help a bit, and added a minigun too.

Thanks Ravaged. I had done an edit to the blueprint to fix a heating issue from the genrator, that must have caused the leak, as it wasn't an issue on the original post. I'll look into it and fix. Thanks Again!

@XCaliber I did run into one issue with it. The back compartment is not O2 sealed. Took a bit but figured out RCS's next to the fuel tank (the one exposed to the outside underneath the HV), behind the clone station, was the air leak. I moved the RCS's and the other fuel tank behind the medical station, dropped a few blocks of steel in their original place, put everything else back inas they were, and now it's all breathably comfy! Granted, it means you couldn't leave that marked for the future med station but it was just the simplest solution I ran with.

Hey Ravaged thanks! I find the Tier 1 Drills to be a problem regardless with the new issue with third person view. I tested this pretty extensively and it doesn’t have issue with negotiating outward. It is also small and light enough to turn dig and come out forward which I find lately is the best method.

Looks really good! Question: How well does this thing handle getting out of verticle holes when the drills are installed and used?

Thanks Talohan :)

Once agian Xcal, you have made something that's practical and easy to get at a low level and can grow with the player.

Thanks Bro

I was looking for a way to avoid mining anything by hand after those intitial small nodes are mined out and this is the solution! A survivable POI assault ship to level AND a mining ship. Perfect.

Thanks JetsetUK! I fixed it...i forgot the Light is unlock level 7

I haz confuse... O.o List of Equipment - Medical Station but pictures show the space for it... and... Piccy of the control panel says it's Unlock lvl 7, but your blurb says it's 5... is that because of the Medical Station?

nice job dude, got something good here

Very nice. I light the industrial look a lot. Geat job!

lmao thanks Nighthawk!
Thanks Super!

Looks like the tool to get people building...Good job

You want a Ka Bar? You want a Skeletool?....... Boom!!!
Nice work XCal.