Frontier - Field Mining Drill

Frontier – Field Mining Drill is a deployable sci-fi mining drill designed for resource extraction, excavation sites, industrial field operations, and frontier-style environments. The asset provides a believable deployable extraction unit for mining outposts, survival bases, exploration zones, industrial facilities, and resource-driven gameplay spaces. It can function as a hero prop, mission objective, environmental storytelling element, or practical scene dressing asset.

The design uses grounded industrial logic and restrained sci-fi aesthetics, making it easier to integrate into a wide range of sci-fi projects.

The asset is part of the broader Frontier equipment ecosystem and works naturally alongside power generation, field distribution, storage, workstations, tools, and other deployable infrastructure assets.

Example system chain:

Portable Field Generator → Field Power Distribution → Field Mining Drill

Included Asset

• Field Mining Drill prefab

Suitable For

• Mining outposts
• Resource extraction scenes
• Survival and base-building environments
• Industrial sci-fi facilities
• Exploration and frontier operations
• Mission objectives and interactable prop setups
• Environmental storytelling and scene dressing

Production Features

• Game-ready sci-fi mining drill prefab

• Optimized real-time asset with LOD0–LOD2 included

• URP and HDRP prefab/material setups

• 4K customizable PBR material workflow

• 1 Texture set with Tint, Material, Surface, Emission, Normal

• 3 color variants included, each with clean and worn surface states

• Transform-based control hierarchy for movable parts

• Sample scenes included for URP and HDRP

• Designed for PC and console projects

Material Customization

The asset uses a mask-driven PBR material workflow designed for flexible customization without requiring texture editing.

Adjustable material parameters include:

• Color tint

• Symbol / text

• Wear, dirt, rust

This allows the drill to be adapted to different factions, environments, and project styles while keeping a consistent production-ready material setup. Included color variants are Engineer Yellow, Desert Beige, and Titanium Grey, each with clean and worn surface states.

Works well with the following Frontier assets

Frontier - Portable Field Generator

Frontier - Field Power Distribution