Vehicles with a drill (Underground Vehicles)

Do i have to say more ? xD

I like the idea of sitting in such a thing, driving my way trough the underground of a planet and building tunnels in the process.
Maybe you need fuel to run it so you cannot drive with it forever or resources mined with this thing can't be collected since the drill destroys everything, so its not unfair instead of mining your way down to the core of the planet.

I just dont know how huge the planets will be so yeah, this is my suggestion.
(Having this on a big asteroid would be pretty handy i think)

(Now with rockets :O *joke*)


(Basic concept)

 

Why not. Late game right?
Probably as an anti-endgamer thing, of course it needs fuel, and you have to "renew" whatever material the drill is made of to continue mining effectively.

NOTE: Effectively, doesn't mean it will break,etc.

Cheers

 

This sounds amazing. And it totally fits into the game's theme.. good one.

 

Sure thing, laaaaaaaaaaaaate game

I like that.

 

I a....

Yes

 

great idea

 

I would love to get a mech with drills, paint it red, and name it Lagann.

 

wooo! yes

 

i wanna know what game that picture is from and how to get it.
it looks like star wars galactic battlegrounds
plz plz tell meh
if you do i will follow you! (in a good way)

 

I have to dissapoint you, its from Command & Conquer: Yuris Revenge :O
http://www.moddb.com/mods/command-conquer-devastation/images/updated-mole-miner there you can find it.

 

I knew it was red alert right away! Love those games.

 

I support any drill that will pierce the heavens. Is this such a drill?

 

Hamdrax now in vehicle form

 

I love this topic. I upvoted it as hard as I could. Since I liked it so much, I took this idea, along with a bunch of other peoples awesome vehicle ideas and made a combined suggestion.

In order to satisfy everyone in their creative desire what is really needed is a vehicle hangar/garage/bay area that would be part of a players space station. In it players could be able to build, customize, and store their vehicles for use on planets. The bay itself could be upgraded with resources to increase the amount of vehicles stored, vehicle size, type, amount of customization options, etc. With a system implemented like this, it could satisfy the multiple suggestion topics that include different types of vehicles like, subs, aircraft, mechs, and multi-person vehicles.

I've created a suggestion for this here: http://playstarbound.com/suggestions/?p=view&id=8183
Please upvote it since it will help making vehicles with drills a part of the game!

Together we can get it to the TOP!​

 

Rather than making it 100% endgame, what about something like Motherload(flash game) where you have to upgrade the drill to mine through certain materials or maybe even past a certain depth?

 

Supposedly, the way mechs (and I guess other vehicles) will work is by spawning with a set amount of energy which decreases over time and when they take damage. Running out of energy would cause the vehicle to despawn and give it a cooldown until it could be used again. It seems like it would be fairly simple to have this apply to a drill vehicle, where it would lose energy over time and lose more depending on how tough the material it is trying to drill through is. It could be permanently or temporarily upgraded to allow it to drill through tougher materials or even survive a short trip through lava.

I think this is a cool suggestion, especially if some sort of modular upgrade system is implemented for vehicles.

Upvoting with the force of a thousand suns.

 

This is an awesome idea.

 

I just had the same idea! I think the hand operated drills are kinda dumb, THIS IS THE FUTURE! A drilling mech would be perfect.

 

Amazing, great idea.