Bucket-wheel excavator

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• 11 Mar
  phill

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  I have seen a smaller version of the wheeled excavator in the real world , used to feed a belt ,directly loading ships at an Iron ore terminal and coal into a power station plant.
  The set up was the trains brought the stuff from the mines, and dumped it loose in huge piles next to the excavator, for it to scoop up. This allowed fast uninterrupted loading of the ships (faster you can load the less tax in port dues payment )

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• 01 Jun, '22
  CATman4L

  i thought this was already planned its the next stage up from the big excavator

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• 08 Jun, '22
  Darkaiser

  This is NOT an up-gunned excavator...it's an atom bomb of an excavator. I can see this late-game but TBH I'm not sure an island rates something THIS big. Maybe a size or two down from here? A bigger excavator is a good idea but nothing this big.
  
  Unless we can travel to a new island...

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• 12 Jun, '22
  Kendo Kenpo Merged

  Would be cool to build a huge Bucket Wheel Excavator like the Bagger 288. Make it where it can move forward very slowly to mine out very large areas!

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• 12 Jun, '22
  Kendo Kenpo Merged

  Guess this has already been suggested. That just means it needs to be a thing!

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• 16 Jun, '22
  Cddx Merged

  It's all in the title, of course with Captain of industry sauce

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• 27 Jun, '22
  Aktymel

  Well for that we would need maps like 5x size

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• 29 Jun, '22
  Captain Zuff System

  "Huge Bucket Wheel Excavator!" (suggested by Kendo Kenpo on 2022-06-12), including upvotes (6) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 29 Jun, '22
  Captain Zuff System

  "The Lego Bucket Wheel Excavator 42055 in the game" (suggested by Cddx on 2022-06-16), including upvotes (3) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 13 Jul, '22
  Darkaiser

  I can see this as a top-tier thing. It would be a HUGE investment but you'd only need one per mining site!

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• 08 Aug, '22
  ostlandr

  This would be awesome. Mine with electricity and belts rather than vehicles. (Yeah, I cry over every drop of diesel burned on my island.)

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• 20 Aug, '22
  Horknis

  Crazy stuff. one turn and all my starages are full. 10 minutes mining and even the C iland recorces are gone. you would need recorce areas bigg as some maps are to make this a resonable thing.
  
  Unless you find mines on seesize where you can build up another infrastructure to mine down with this Bucket weel excavators. them properly need be attachable to belts and the belts itself would need to ran fast and canstantly. a Spoon excavatar would be more a thing.. also dynamit mining for limestone for better realism. I sometimes sit there and glaring at the tiny excavatar slowly dig in it tiny steal shovel into the hard stone XD

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• 01 Sep, '22
  Reformatio

  Those are the largest land machines and I find them awe-inspiring. Also they are a huge part of modern mining operations. I would love to see them in this game.

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• 05 Oct, '22
  Trysella

  This would be very awesome. And in that case give the mining tower a belt output, because real life bucket wheelers work with conveyors.

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• 29 Oct, '22
  Kaery

  If we do get this (and the mechanics are actually possible...), I'd like for this to be built as a building, possibly in several parts... To be turned into a crawler like the rocket transport for movement, and turn back into a building once in place, so one can attach a conveyor belt like the real ones have.

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• 14 May, '23
  PersonenKraftWagen

  It is a good suggestions but i think there is a big problem because of how big a bucket wheel excavator is

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• 13 Jun, '23
  Agent Smith

  I doubt this would be practical but if it was added somehow it would be soo cool to see ingame.

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• 28 Jul, '23
  AqueousOrca3148

  instead of making a real to life scale one they could make it like 2:1 scale or smaller maybe

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• 13 Jan, '24
  Phooenixification

  Sure would be cool, but i'm sceptical that the investment would make sense on these small islands. Throughput of the bagger is 0.24 square kilometers of materials per day which would mean that it eats the whole island within about month. Sure you could scale it down but i really don't see the point unless the map gets way bigger, like atleast x10.

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• 13 Feb, '24
  MaddTrker

  They do make smaller models than just the Bagger 293, because not all mines were capable of using the really large models. The scale of BWEs varies significantly and is dependent on the intended application. Compact BWEs designed by ThyssenKrupp may have boom lengths as small as six metres (20 ft), weigh 50 tons, and move 100 m3 (3,500 cu ft) of earth per hour. you could make these more of a late game after the mega excavators.

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• 14 Jul, '24
  kreeg

  I see no reason this should not be implemented, It was a stretch goal, so it was already planned to be added.

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• 25 Jul, '24
  Mr. Sum Thin Wong

  Hi, i mean sure they are neat looking but i wonder if any of you know what they really are or what they are employed for. Generally speaking they are not for mining minerals they are for removing large amounts of overburdon on top of minieral deposts.. think top soil and loose rock! IMHO they are not in the scope of this game!

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• 28 Jul, '24
  Murk

  Bucket wheel excavators are definitely used to mine coal, not just the overburden. This probably also applies to iron ore, as there is nothing to be said against it. Quite apart from that, such a machine would make a good endgame goal and fit in with the overall look of the game. It doesn't have to be one of the 240k's there are plenty smaller excavator which still have this impressive look.

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• 01 Oct, '24
  Case_Hardened

  @murk It's got to be the big one!

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• 19 Feb, '25
  halcyforn

  its not bad but i think this one should be more needed than this big one Dragline Excavator , it can dig nice holes and even dig material in water. 20 meters down is enought i think.

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• 27 May, '25
  IGK111

  it would be cool to see BWEs in the game and but certainly not a monstrous large one as there are small BWEs like the KR400NK which is only 50ton and 6meters or 20feet in length. The moving truck while being loaded might be a problem but the conveyor could be lengthened and shortened for the BWE if it goes trough from consideration to under development or something similar. The dragline excavators also could be a great extension of mining and if an update brings in the possbility to dig a canal for sea water acces in the island, or just to simply make harbor making easier.

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• 13 Jun, '25
  Calery

  I’d also like to see BWEs in the late game to move mountains.
  But in reality, those monsters are nowhere near as movable as excavators are.
  So, the power to move enough material to keep an Oresorter MK2 busy should also come with a downside to keep the game challenging.
  Real BWEs are delivered to the excavation site in sections, which are then assembled on-site.
  For COI, maybe they could be limited to running on two train tracks spaced three areas apart from each other.
  They come with a mixed ore belt which leads directly to an Oresorter MK2 to be sorted.
  Moving a BWE from one mine to another would be labor- and cost-intensive — in reality, it's simply not done.
  A few Years ago I've seen a news-artikle where a old BWE was for free. Unless the "Buyer" have to manage the Transport.

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• 21 Jun, '25
  akdude2000

  I can see it being made in pieces in game either in assemblies or a vehicle garage, and assembled like a normal building on site, and deconstructing them gives a full refund. Like the train track idea, could be the faster variant, with a stepper one that is a lot slower but as it isn't on tracks, can move freely on level terrain. Also the track variant cant go up or down grades, or maybe only very very shallow grades, like it would be in the 2-6% grade range, so a new option would have to be added in the grade options.

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• 20 Nov, '25
  Grimmel

  Add a new type of dense ore with this so it doesnt chew trough the landscape in seconds.

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• 15 Mar
  User69

  With the release of Update 4 and the introduction of the new Stacker gameplay mechanics, I think it might be a good time to introduce a Bucket-Wheel Excavator using the same expansion principle as the Stacker, but obviously in reverse.
  Instead of increasing the height of the pile of material, I think the same technique could easily be used to descend deeper underground or excavate a mountain.

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• 25 Apr
  Jawlatook

  You can store huge amounts of loose materials using dumping designations. It would be great to use a bucket wheel excavator to pick up this material again when you need it.
  
  Maybe it could be balanced so that bucket wheel excavators are much faster on loose materials (dirt, sand ore) or already mined materials. Maybe very late game variants are stronger and can also mine rock, like a nuclear bucket wheel excavator.

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