Octopus: Full-Auto Mining Robot for Planets для Space Engineers
This is a full-auto planetary mining robot. It can mine resources in 2 different regimes.
"Ore field mining". You all have seen ore-containing dark spots on planets. This mining regime is desined to mine these dark spots. Drone will mine multiple vertical shafts one-by-one. It will make a little horizontal shift after each run.
"Rock scavenging". In this regime drone will find and mine rocks, also in full-auto mode. (Thanx to @Innoble for his awesome planet scanner).
20/04/2017
Octopus updated.
Now you do not have to Calibrate thrusters, set Inv Mult and search for planet center.
Here are things to do to start automining:
1. Paste bot from BP into your world
2. Recompile Octopus1PB_Nav block
3. Connect to base connector and press "5" to remember connector position
4. Disconnect bot, take it to mining site, float above ground (10-15m) anf press "6".
That should work on all planets and moons with atmosphere.
PB_Nav arguments:
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SaveConnector - stores base connector from ship's position.
StartDepoDrill - starts "square spiral" mining
StartRockDrill - starts hunting for rocks
Pause - toggles pause
Rename - rename all ships block from ShipName to NewName (you need to set ShipName in both prog blocks after renaming). It's needed when you want 2 drones working on 1 base. They must have different block names.
PlanetCenter - Takes points to calculate planet center coordinates
SetFlyHeight - sets safe flight height
DisplayHeight - displays current height on status panel (needed for thruster calibration)
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PB_Scan arguments:
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Stop - toggles scanner stop/continue
reset - resets scanning results and starts scanner
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"Ore field mining". You all have seen ore-containing dark spots on planets. This mining regime is desined to mine these dark spots. Drone will mine multiple vertical shafts one-by-one. It will make a little horizontal shift after each run.
"Rock scavenging". In this regime drone will find and mine rocks, also in full-auto mode. (Thanx to @Innoble for his awesome planet scanner).
20/04/2017
Octopus updated.
Now you do not have to Calibrate thrusters, set Inv Mult and search for planet center.
Here are things to do to start automining:
1. Paste bot from BP into your world
2. Recompile Octopus1PB_Nav block
3. Connect to base connector and press "5" to remember connector position
4. Disconnect bot, take it to mining site, float above ground (10-15m) anf press "6".
That should work on all planets and moons with atmosphere.
PB_Nav arguments:
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SaveConnector - stores base connector from ship's position.
StartDepoDrill - starts "square spiral" mining
StartRockDrill - starts hunting for rocks
Pause - toggles pause
Rename - rename all ships block from ShipName to NewName (you need to set ShipName in both prog blocks after renaming). It's needed when you want 2 drones working on 1 base. They must have different block names.
PlanetCenter - Takes points to calculate planet center coordinates
SetFlyHeight - sets safe flight height
DisplayHeight - displays current height on status panel (needed for thruster calibration)
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PB_Scan arguments:
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Stop - toggles scanner stop/continue
reset - resets scanning results and starts scanner
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