Mining Drones

by Klonan

Adds mining drones and mining depots

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3 years ago
0.17 - 1.1
84.9K
Mining

i Output contents on circuit network

4 years ago

It's really neat that Mining Depots can integrate into Transport Drone road networks. However, I'd like to see how much ore is in all Depots (in a dashboard display), but the Mining Depot doesn't accept red or green wires. The Supply Depots in Transport Drones allow this, so I'm now using those again :)

4 years ago

The transport depot GUI shows mining depots too

I don't want to add the complex workarounds needed for linking the mining depots to the circuit network

3 years ago

Not sure exactly what the goal of circuit network integration was, but for me, it was automatically inserting miners into a depot if it ever hit zero ore. But you can output to chests and connect a drone insertion arm that triggers when the buffer chests fall below a threshold.

On the other hand, this might fall under the category of unnecessary min/max. Just load up each depot with the max number of drones and walk away.

3 years ago

i would love have way to see by circuit how much ore are avaiable to pick on that mining exactly... like output that number in nixies tubes or something like that...

2 years ago

I think I want what Junhinhow mentioned.
Explained simply, I'd just like to be able to connect a circuit cable from a depot to a speaker so I can notify myself when the patch as a whole is running lower than a desired threshold.

This is available with vanilla miners. They allow you to read the contents of the entire patch so it should be possible with the depots as well.

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