Auto Miner / Auto Gathering Carriages usage

[Chris]

Hi everyone

Does anyone understand how the carriages that are supposed to automatically mine and pick up commodities are supposed to work?

My friend and I were playing this yesterday and grabbed both of these carriages, but neither seemed to really do anything?

The auto gatherer let you place wood inside it? But it didn't pick up any wood by itself, which seems to make it pretty useless for anything other than an additional moving stockpile.

The auto miner, didn't seem to do anything at all, we thought it might mine some iron deposits as the carriages passes by them in the adjacent tile, but no luck?

Has anyone had any luck actually using these carriages and if so what are you actually meant to do?

[TheSheog]

You need to put wood/iron into the auto gatherer/miner for them to work.

The gatherer picks up commodities within it's range (but you have to put wood in yourself, to fuel it). It starts with only 1 tile range, but this increases with upgrades, I think.

The auto miner "hits" all trees and iron deposits , it starts with a 1 tile range. Upgrading it once improves this to 3 tiles range.

That's as far as I know , only saw a bit of the game on twitch , don't have the game myself.

[Chris]

Oh, thanks

I saw a fan spinning when I placed wood in the auto-gatherer, must have not noticed it picking up nearby resources, that's interesting that they both gather/collect both resources though.

I thought it was only wood for the gatherer and iron for the miner.

[Keilay]

Feed it wood / Iron

[Awstrd]

The auto-gatherer uses wood as fuel. The auto-miner uses iron as fuel. Neither of them will do anything unless they have fuel.

[KrakenBacon]

The auto miner will „hit“ forrest or mineable rocks within its range at certain (short) intervals, usually destroying them and exposing the respective resource, unless the train is already going quite fast, then some blocks may only get hit and not destroyed.
The auto gatherer will collect resources lying in its radius, as can be seen by the voxels flying towards it.
If you add an efficiency booster to this combo and upgrade the auto-miner and gatherer to level 3, your train will basically destroy EVERYTHING left and right of it, but unfortunately not necessarily in front of it.
And as someone stated before me, neither of those wagons will do anything unless they are fed with wood/iron. This does get less annoying with upgrades tho, as the max number of fuel resources that can be stacked into it increases.

[Eek-A-Mouse]

what does the auto gatherer do exactly? put block in storage cart?

[Sperber]

Originally posted by Eek-A-Mouse:

what does the auto gatherer do exactly? put block in storage cart?

Yes. But you need to fuel it with wood for it to work and it consumes about 1 wood for every meter or so that the train travels.

[Cress]

The autominer is not too great, unless you're just looking for an alternate playstyle to dynamite. Most things require wood or iron to work.

[Draco18s]

Autominer is amazing once you upgrade it once. Twice will give you a 5 tile range, which coveres basically the whole width of the map. Note that if the cart is on a corner, it will "hit" things along a diagonal.