Excavator (Immersive Engineering)

The Excavator is a 8x3x7 multi-block added by Immersive Engineering. It is used for extracting Mineral Deposits from chunks, although it is very complex.

"Better than Dwarves"

- The Engineer's Manual

Construction
The Excavator is very complicated to make. It uses 26 Steel Scaffoldings, 15 Steel Sheetmetal, 9 Blocks of Steel, 9 Light Engineering Blocks, 5 Heavy Engineering Blocks, 3 Radiator Blocks and 1 Redstone Engineering Block. This leads to a total of 179 Steel Ingots as the minimum amount for construction, making this a very late-game machine in Immersive Engineering.



The Excavator is actually made of two parts. The "Wheel" is the center part, and is formed by right-clicking with an Engineer's Hammer on the the hidden Block of Steel. The "Engine" is the other part, and is formed by right-clicking the Engineer's Hammer on the center block of the back side (which should be a Heavy Engineering Block).

Before 0.8
The Excavator is very complicated to make. It uses 21 Blocks of Steel, 9 Light Engineering Blocks, 13 Heavy Engineering Blocks and 23 Steel Scaffoldings.



The Excavator is actually made of two parts. The "Wheel" is the center part, and is formed by right-clicking with an Engineer's Hammer on the the block behind the plus made by Light Engineering Blocks. The "Engine" is the other part, and is formed by right-clicking the Engineer's Hammer on the center block of the right-side (which should be a Heavy Engineering Block).



Usage
The Excavator does not have a GUI, and it requires 4096 Redstone Flux per tick (RF/t) to operate. In Immersive Engineering, the only way to generate this much RF is through a Diesel Generator. Energy should be entered through one (or more) of the three black power-plugs on the backside of the Excavator. Once it receives the needed energy, the machine will start spinning it's wheel clockwise and mining.

The multi-block's processes can be halted via Redstone through the "control panel", the block on the left-middle spot of the right side. Mined items will fall out the center spot of the right side.

The Excavator may break a few block under it when it starts up, but it once it has some space it will not break anything else. Any broken blocks are broken with Silk Touch; that is, it will drop the block itself instead of the usual item/items.

A fully powered Excavator can spew up to one Ore per every 3 seconds. Over time this yield rate will lower, but the full extraction process can last for 144 (Minecraft) days.

Trivia

 * Because Mineral Deposits can be in all chunks, the Excavator will function in void worlds, even though this is quite unrealistic.