Autominer

[NimrodX]

Is there a limit on the number of autominers you can have running?

I put down one and it works fine, but no matter where or how I try to place a second one (on another deposit) the placement box is red.

[Randal Vimes]

No limit generally. There might be a configuration option that you can set if you host a multiplayer game. In my current scenario I must have 30.

Make sure you are directly above the mining node and it is not too close to any structure. I imagine there could be a bug in there as well, but I placed a bunch recently (in 8 - haven't yet placed them in 9).

[NimrodX]

Strange. Lets see if it works when I load the game up again. Now that I think of it maybe I was still in base connection mode and it thought i was trying to add blocks to the base.

[Graf Schokola]

One autominer per ore node is the limit.

[NimrodX]

I was not tring to place more than one per node. I'm pretty sure it was because I had left base connect mode activated or something. now it is working

[Demon of Razgriz]

Originally posted by Graf Schokola:

One autominer per ore node is the limit.

Is that a limit overall, or can multiple players each have 1 autominer on the deposit?

[Xango2000]

It gets really annoying in multiplayer trying to figure out which autominers is yours (and which ones you Don't have access to) when you see more than one on every node.

Upside, you can faction share them... So each member of your faction can have an autominer on each node and you can refuel and collect all your faction's autominers.

[Karvin]

Yes, base connection mode can cause that with water generators also, pretty sure it used to say can't connect to base so you would know, but now it doesn't it just won't work.

[NimrodX]

I'm pretty sure that was the problem. A message of some sort like "can't place on base" would have been helpful.

Speaking of water generators, there really should be a way to connect those to your base.

[Missybiatch]

Hey guys my autominers seems to be dissapearing. Is this a bug_ I placed them in an NPC territory close to Tal villages. Does NPC remove them or destroy them_ We lost 3 autominers already and it says that its been removed

[SifVerT]

Originally posted by Missy:

Hey guys my autominers seems to be dissapearing. Is this a bug_ I placed them in an NPC territory close to Tal villages. Does NPC remove them or destroy them_ We lost 3 autominers already and it says that its been removed

If it is a public server the admin might have refreshed the deposits. A side effect of that is the auto miners may get wiped.