Nope. While there are some ways that are coming that might make mobile 'GPS' markers possible at present in vanilla you can't do that

Is there a way to make the drone dock to a mobile ship instead of gps coordinates? I imagine theres a way to have the coordinates be the coordinates of a block instead of static coords but I'm not sure how to do that

how you making them guns look around like that?

Thanks Splitsie for this drone and for your tuorials on utube, I was about to give up trying to learn this game but now I'm bricking my was thru, cheers mate.

What a bummer reading these comments causes a person to feel! It's such a shame this game is so buggy with so many things. Since it was released it's always had potential to be an amazing game but the lack of turorials IN the game that teach a new player even the basics of the game enough that they can actually play and do things and all of the bugs makes it extremely difficult for new players to understand any of it. Your videos definitely help, Splitsie! Unfortunately it doesn't seem like many people think to search youtube to learn about this game before they give up frustrated because it's so difficult to learn and it's plethora of bugs on top of the learning curve.
I've had the game since it was Green Light and I have to take long hiatuses from playing it because it gets too frustrating for me.

I have used this design in both atmospheric design and adapted for zero-g with ion thrusters. The drones are fairly capable against space pirate drones as long as their range is set to max. Simple and effective. Thanks @Splitsie!

Sad but true, thankfully the number of scripts out there for performing advanced autopiloting is steadily increasing so I may be able to continue the tutorials with those in the not too distant future (when time is magically available) :P

Thanks for the reply, Splisie. I agree, autopilot has MANY bugs.

There are many, many, many bugs with the vanilla autopilot. This was the most reliable design I managed to construct. I had plans to do more tutorials on how to use it, but ran into so many inconsistencies that I had to scrap those plans :(

I have a repeatable bug. My drone went to a patrol bm, switched back and forth between 4 bms and then freaked out and proceeded to a random patrol bm. Also, my drone wont dock correctly - hovers, dock goes yellow for 1 sec, then it takes back off... Seems like bugs.

Very nice dude, thanks

It's unfortunate that the bug where the guns keep shooting dead wolves hasn't been fixed, but really this was more a proof of concept than something that I expected would be practically useful. I wanted to create a guide about how to dock without just going for a cargo transport drone, so I thought this would be cool - and useful if that bug is ever fixed :)

u should make more ships ur workshop is very empty

for me its kinda useless beacuss the gatling turets still keep shooting dead wolfs soo it waists alot of ammo

Well, it flies until you forget to provide it with uranium it can access, I'm pretty impressed with the autopilot system, I don't know if it was broken when I first tried it, or if I was just useless - probably the second one :P

Heh... looks like someone else had an idea similar to mine: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=805205593

Yours flies though...

That's a very fair point. It should certainly work well for the sabiroids and then you've got a real reason for making it fly :)

Personally, I would use this for the Sabiroids as I never have wolves enabled. (I feel SOOO guilty when I have to kill them because of that whine, plus, they're also dogs! I prefered the Cyberhounds)