Automated Mining?

[Stallion]

Will this game have automated mining and production soon? I really feel like this is a big thing that is missing?

[encodoc]

I, too, hope for this, but it should be something to be achieved, like a T3 miner, that is stationary, but requires a good amount of ingredients from other planets, so that it takes a while to get there. It would extract the ore from the ground at a slowers pace than if you mined if yourself, but hey, it will be automatic. IMO, if you you've put in hours and hours of mining, you've earned a little break to get some mats.

[[WDR] DrDeve]

I hope never. Its gonna cause big problems .....

[Stallion]

It is the one thing holding this game back from being the greatest mash-up of Minecraft and Sci-Fi ever :(.

[Xzystance:TTV]

problem with an placeable auto-mine is griefing, please remember that, if someone places a structure down, you can't dig or place anything within 30m of it. and even if you could, a deposit would get covered and plugged up really fast. now, an idea, lets say make this auto-miner work only on meteroites as an example, and have it auto-decay shortly after it's been emptied. makes it so you still have to work your behind off to get to it (and have something to use it on) but it will be there for your end game after you've put in your time. anyone else agree that this could be a good compromise?

[iCeDrAgOn]

Seeing as how they already have drones in the game... well at least as enemies, why not have player controlled mining drones. that you drop them down at position X, and they have say 30-50m radius that they can search around. give them a limited carrying capacity so that they have to make several trips back and forth.

[Xzystance:TTV]

make them vulnerable to attacks (drone attacks only, not player, damn griefers), so a player has to consider clearing a world, or at least most of it before they think about deploying the drone

[Stallion]

I play Singleplayer excusively...

This would be a good feature for loners like me... Or else it's hard to do larger builds :(.

[ArnMan]

Placing an auto mining device should not count as a structure for griefing. It could be like placing a survival constructor or an O2 generator. It could be a small device such as that.

[Snake]

If you read the main page of their main website for the Developers it actually states that there's going to be mining robots they just have not been implemented yet

[HunterAP]

We simply need vehicle level mining tools. We could then build mining HV's and mining SV's. I believe this is coming, based on the harvester module for HV's. What would be super awesome thereafter would be to have, "AI modules," which would allow us to have limited AI in vehicles to do things like patrol, mine, and follow.

Game is still in Alpha. Lots of time for such features.