Space Engineers

Space Engineers

GPS guided mining robot. 4-drills vers. (Scripted with ingame programmable block, no mods, can be used on remote servers)
186 Comments
doug 21 Oct, 2017 @ 7:31am 
Does not help!!!
doug 21 Oct, 2017 @ 7:25am 
Try the auto mining robot thats called the octopus and I modified it to mine on the moon!!!:steamhappy:
Vĕnŕøm™ 12 Sep, 2017 @ 2:27am 
please update
Varaxian 15 Dec, 2016 @ 8:49pm 
Penny,

The new update has broken the code. Please see the below IMGUR

http://imgur.com/a/lFCMg

Program(797,11): Error: Operator '!=' cannot be applied to operands of type 'MyDetectedEntityInfo' and '<null'

Help? I just got this thing working and a server I could use it on. :'(

Gassniffer 23 Oct, 2016 @ 7:29pm 
Please please fix this miner :)
amessiah 5 Oct, 2016 @ 1:59pm 
+1
legotaz 4 Oct, 2016 @ 7:50am 
this drone used to be so cool until the game broke it....... are we getting a updated (Working) one?
CID 7 Aug, 2016 @ 4:27pm 
Hi, me again... Love all your works in fact ;-)...
The drone stuck some time by sliding left or right "in" the asteroid and then I have to drill manually around it to solve.
Have you test to put wheels on the side to prevent that or should I.
I'm also trying to implement the max cargo load from the Octopus actually as the one in this drone return a strange very large int... (I didn't tried it in survival mode actually so, for the moment, I override the cargoload function to not calculate the maxCargo but to take a constant var.)
amessiah 6 Jun, 2016 @ 3:42pm 
can you? no really - there not so much good autominers. or suggest one!
Pennywise  [author] 6 Jun, 2016 @ 12:49pm 
this is a very old bp. I've not updated it for almost year
amessiah 6 Jun, 2016 @ 6:29am 
aCargo showing all time 0% over right display and some ore names with quantity, but all time 0%. If you not support this drone anymore, wh not delete it?
amessiah 5 Jun, 2016 @ 6:36pm 
how to turn on auto eject of stone?
Mechron 2 Apr, 2016 @ 8:38am 
of coarse you can get rid of the trash script all together if you just add a sorter before the ejectors and whitelist stone
Mechron 2 Apr, 2016 @ 2:52am 
and it keeps docking at a speed of 25 needless to say theres not much left of the ship or the base when it docks lol
Mechron 2 Apr, 2016 @ 2:38am 
are they supposed to be spitting out nickel and iron as trash
Jasper Stevens 25 Mar, 2016 @ 9:56am 
I had to bring the code up to date, but it isn't returning to the original connector. Since the latest update, I haven't tested it.
GrandBravo 25 Mar, 2016 @ 8:04am 
Ive sent you a request so you can see ^^
Pennywise  [author] 25 Mar, 2016 @ 8:00am 
Does it work still? It was not updated for so long time
GrandBravo 25 Mar, 2016 @ 7:56am 
Love it! One of the best AI drones i've seen on Space Engineers!
Ps: The drone does not automate the throw out of the stone, any help? (got these things allready set on throw out all but the stone does not transport to it.)
moistboi 17 Mar, 2016 @ 4:17pm 
looks like they fixed the namespace problems the script was having with todays patch. This ship is buggy now though; can't drill straight and gets stuck in tunnels. everything seems to be functionaly working though. I think we should be able to get it to work right with some adjustments to ThrustMult and GyroMult variables.
Jasper Stevens 8 Mar, 2016 @ 12:21am 
I can't get the code to compile. "The type or namespace IMyInventoryOwner could not be found" I get many of these errors
Malaras 3 Mar, 2016 @ 8:31pm 
Ok, finally got ship built. But buttons 2 3 5 are just boxes and grey'd out
Malaras 3 Mar, 2016 @ 4:20pm 
Hate it when building something and there is like 4 block you missed lol, This is a pain to build by hand, everything compacted lol.
Nebtreak 14 Feb, 2016 @ 4:32am 
Thank you/Merci!
Pennywise  [author] 10 Feb, 2016 @ 11:00am 
hope, this month
Pennywise  [author] 10 Feb, 2016 @ 11:00am 
i will fix it. but dont know how soon
JimmyTheSaltyMelon 10 Feb, 2016 @ 10:33am 
could you fix this space version for us i am using 10x for evertyihing inventory ect...and it will not return even if it is at 100% i think it has to do with the 10x inventory :steamhappy:
Schadwe 10 Feb, 2016 @ 8:58am 
Link broken?
Pennywise  [author] 8 Feb, 2016 @ 12:36am 
i've made planetary mining drone. will publish it soon.
JimmyTheSaltyMelon 7 Feb, 2016 @ 6:05pm 
i really like your ship here and all the programing, i am anticipating an update, :steamhappy:
vanished001 20 Jan, 2016 @ 2:37pm 
Cool. Really like the design of this drone its very compact which I like. Looking forward to seeing the updated version. Good luck with the Planetary mining drone. A mining drone that could leave a planets surface, mine in space and return to the surface would be amazing. Tried it myself but I can't code to save my life. I think the auto pilot doesn't know how to fly from space to a planets surface, just sits in space and won't come down.
Pennywise  [author] 20 Jan, 2016 @ 2:29pm 
vanished001 It was made a year ago, so many things have changed in game. It never slows down probably, cause breaking distance was calculated for 10x dampeners. It's not the only issue. Since mining efficiency was changed, it will get full cargo before drilling a half-pass through roid. I'm now finishing planetary mining drone. when i get done with it, i'll be back to this miner and probably will replace it's coding completely.
Pennywise  [author] 20 Jan, 2016 @ 2:26pm 
Schadwe There is a filter conveyor before ejectors. So, you can select what to keep and what to damp.
vanished001 20 Jan, 2016 @ 2:14pm 
Loving the design. Downloaded your test world to check out your drones. Had an issue with this version after starting it from its parked position around the mining station. It went towards the asteroid but never slowed down and plowed into the asteroid at tremendous speed and exploded.
Schadwe 20 Jan, 2016 @ 1:44pm 
@Pennywise
Wont setting the ejectors for throw out and collect all also throw out valuable ore?!
Pennywise  [author] 20 Jan, 2016 @ 1:35pm 
This miner currently stucks in shafts since devs changed mining a few months ago.
Pennywise  [author] 20 Jan, 2016 @ 1:34pm 
There is no script for stone dampening.
Just set ejectors to throw out and collect all.
Schadwe 20 Jan, 2016 @ 11:44am 
Great miner! Yea I'm seeing the stall too, but bigger issue for me is that the miner is not dumping the stone. Is there a set up I'm supposed to change to get it to start dumping stone?
Pennywise  [author] 6 Jan, 2016 @ 2:42am 
он раньше нормально бурил. это чтото в механике игры изменилось. где-то в сентябре. потом поправлю этот бот.
I0GER 5 Jan, 2016 @ 5:35pm 
заметил один серьезный минус, при работе дрона график работы процессора идет зигзагами, +-35-60 процентов, как только ставлю на паузу - сразу нормализуется... какой-то уж очень значительный эффект на комп оказывает скрипт... к слову проц не самый слабый, ноутбучный i7
I0GER 5 Jan, 2016 @ 4:47pm 
пробнул сегодня, и в праыду иногда застревает... не так чтоб критично, можно и подвигать его, но думаю это скорее проблема конструкции..
Pennywise  [author] 5 Jan, 2016 @ 3:01pm 
я давно уже его не пробовал. последний раз проблемы были в застревании в туннеле
I0GER 5 Jan, 2016 @ 2:16pm 
ограниченна ли проблема лишь возвратом для разгрузки, или же с процессом копания тоже не все гладко? И если проблема лишь в возврате к коннектору, можно ли использовать дрон без функции возврата, попросту не задавая ему настройку местоположения коннектора?
Digital_Samurai 4 Jan, 2016 @ 12:58pm 
@Pennywise Have you been able to get them to dock with a ship successfully yet?
Stower 12 Dec, 2015 @ 2:19pm 
I understand really look forward to more of your ships and code :)
Pennywise  [author] 12 Dec, 2015 @ 2:41am 
Yes, I know. But I'will update code when things calm down. Now each update changes smth, causing old designs go broken.
Stower 11 Dec, 2015 @ 7:37pm 
Peenywise 1st off your ships and code are great always checking to see whats new. saddly the mining drone still seems to stall around 35%ish payload. =\
Pennywise  [author] 4 Dec, 2015 @ 6:14am 
well, thanx, than i'm going to check it too. i hope drilling problem is gone, but i think, braking distance is still wrong, cause dampening is 10 times weaker now and the bot won't stop before asteroid and connector.