1. Spawn the station Basic Dispatcher
   
2. Spawn one or more XU-3 Auto mining drone
   
3. Take control over the drone using "k-menu" -> remote access -> control
   
4. Press "3" on the toolbar to switch to control camera view
   
5. Press "1" to enable mouse movement in the interactive menu
   
6. Using "E" on your keyboard select the following: Menu -> Take control -> Take control
   
7. Be careful, the drone will turn off it's dampeners!
   
8. Quickly press "Z" to turn them back on
   
9. Press "1" to disable interface
   
10. Dock the drones to the connectors
    
11. After docking press "Z" to turn the dampeners OFF

Upon world reload or copy/paste operation you may notice that drones try to use thrusters to compensate for the mothership movement.
To prevent that select "Recall" from the main graphical interface.

1. Get to the mining area of your interest
   
2. Align the station/ship/dispatcher perpendicular to the mining area
   
3. Control any "autopillock-remcom" (sub-grid, marked on color in k- menu (yellow or orange for instance))
   
4. Press "1" to disable interaction with the interface
   
5. Press "4" to undock
   
6. Fly the drone low, over the mining area
   
7. Press "3" to select bottom camera view
   
8. Press "1" to enable interaction with menu
   
9. Select "Menu" -> "Start mining job"
   
10. The job is set

1. Make sure that you have enough connectors named "docka-min3r" to accommodate new drones
   
2. Recall currently working drones
   
3. Spawn or print the drone (when spawning - make sure that it is low, over the flat surface)
   
4. Repeat steps from "Initial setup" (from point no. 3).
   
5. To plug the new drone into the network it is needed to set up a new mining job. To do that follow the steps from Setting up the mining job.

• Preferably adjust any mining job parameters before the job starts. Doing otherwise will apply changes after the finished shaft.
  
• After using the interactive menu on the drone with the mouse control function, press 1 on the toolbar to disable it. Otherwise, you won't be able to fully control the drone.
  
• While installing connectors on your carrier, install them in a line, only on one side of the ship. Doing otherwise will cause collisions.
  
• When starting a new job align the carrier's connectors horizontally with the entry of the shaft.
  
• While starting a new mining job, align the carrier's connectors perpendicular to the shaft.
  
• After changing the mining area or copy/paste in different location, set up a new mining job first. Otherwise while recalling the drones will try to get to the old location first.
  
• If the drone gets damaged during the mining job, after fixing it, recompile a-min3r PB block on the drone
  

  Originally posted by cheerkin:

  That's not needed unless you absolutely lost one of crucial blocks (main gyro, remote, connector). Otherwise the drone would resume work as soon as you fix everything.

• If you see any weird behavior, like a drone just hanging in the air, clear custom data of the empty "docka" connectors, if that won't help execute "command:clear-storage" and "purge locks" (the latter may cause collisions)
  
• If you can't control the drone after undocking it from the station, turn off the gyro override (it's on the toolbar of the drone)
  
• If completely changing the set of drones, recompile the station's PB block. It will update the list of active drones.

• Do not press "resume" or "recall" more than once. It will break the system.
  
• Avoid recalling when some of the drones are docked. There's an issue with that function that may cause problems.
  
• Do not resume while still mining
  
• Do not copy/paste the drones during their task running
  

  Originally posted by cheerkin:

  Regarding dont's, resume/recall spam is getting handled better in latest versions. I totally see reasons for running resume if you have some drones that you are tinkering with, while having a task in progress. It's better to run commmand:mine for specific drone though.
  
  If you are copying a drone, execute "command:clear-storage" before that. The state is the part of the blueprint (it's stored inside PB).

1. Take control of the control seat
   
2. Press "1" - now you have access to mouse-control the interface
   
3. On the screen you can choose maximum shaft depth, skip-depth (the distance during which the drone won't collect anything to its cargo containers), max and min battery charge values, max fill of the cargo container, etc.
   
4. Select the values that you find the most suitable for the job. You will see confirmation of the changes on the log-LCD.
   
5. Now follow the steps from "let's set up the mining job"

1. Max depth to x
   
2. Skip depth to x
   
3. Turn on adaptive mining (Drone's interactive menu -> timers -> adaptive mining)

You can change the color in which the main display shows your drones.
To do that take control over the particular drone, find the group that contains lights and change its color according to your preferences.
That will automatically apply changes to the GUI.

• In the drone's or dispatcher's "k-menu" find PB block "a-menucommand"
  
• In the Custom Data of the block, on the left side of the line, after "DisplayName=" there's an argument description. For example: "DisplayName=skip 0m", skip 0m - will be shown on the display.
  
• On the right side of the line there's an argument passed to the programmable block that will set the value for the drones. For example: "command:set-value:skip-depth:0" - will set the skip-depth value to 0
  
• So let's say that we found uranium at 90 meters. We will add two more options to our default menu.
  
• Add (important to keep the spaces): " DisplayName=Depth 90m;command:set-value:depth-limit:90" under "Depth limit" where marked values may be changed to your needs.
  
• And " DisplayName=skip 80m;command:set-value:skip-depth:80" - to skip stone layer straight to the uranium deposit.
  
• You can change or add any other values from this list: Arguments and values for SCAM
  
• To know more about the menu configuration check out: Tree Menu Command NET