Space Engineers

Space Engineers

Taleden's Inventory Manager
Is it possible to fill a build ship with cargo automatically?
I'm new to this, friends built a station on my server and have your script running, it's awesome.
When i docked my little builder with a connector all of the items in the builder ship got sucked out, which i suspect is normal.
I added "DOCK" to the connector and now the inventory remains safe on my builder.

Someone mentioned i could configure TIM to fill my ship with materials automatically when i dock.
This sounds like a great idea, but i have no idea how to execute it.
I'd like to full the large cargo on my builder with say 10% steel plate, 5% interior plate, xx%small pipe and so on so as the materials i use for building automatically get replenished.
Is this possible, and any chance someone can point me in the right direction?

Cheers,
v81:yazdsmile:
< >
Showing 1-3 of 3 comments
taleden  [developer] 17 Feb, 2017 @ 7:26pm 
TIM doesn't yet support "fill this container 10% with steel plate", but it does understand "fill this container with 500 steel plates", so you'd have to work out the math to see how many items "10%" is. Then, just add a tag to your container like "[TIM SteelPlate:500]" and any time TIM sees that container it will make sure it has 500 steel plates -- that means it will send some if it's short, but it will also take some if it has more than 500.

To make this work, however, you'll also have to remove the DOCK tag (or make it match the station connector's DOCK tag) so that TIM knows it's allowed to process your docked ship in the first place. In order to protect your other containers so TIM doesn't pull things out of them (such as weapon ammo, reactor uranium or oxygen generator ice), you can instead tag those specific containers with "[TIM LOCKED]" and TIM will never remove anything from that container.
Rockatansky 18 Feb, 2017 @ 10:54pm 
Best way is to set a higher priority on a docking ship, to transfer goods from the base or mother ship.
Virtual Insanity 19 Feb, 2017 @ 6:48pm 
Thanks for the answers, sounds like a great solution.
Is there any limit to how long a tag can be in SE?
Also how do i set priority?

edit - Also how do i combine items, do i use a comma, or a space ro something else?
Last edited by Virtual Insanity; 19 Feb, 2017 @ 6:52pm
< >
Showing 1-3 of 3 comments
Per page: 1530 50