Miners are not mining

[Grapcioo]

Hi guys, I'm completly newb in this game and I just bought my first mining ship, hired crew and just moved this ship to The Reach system and selected local automine behaviour but these guys are just moving around and don't even mine. Why?

[Luna]

Check to see if any stations actually are accepting the resources in question, they wont jump to sell them in local automine mode. Its likely they cant find customers. Try laying an advanced satellite and resource probe for them.

[conrado.lacerda]

Have you tried a guide? There are some good ones either here on steam or on youtube.

Also, if you're learning, don't play the current beta since it's still buggy.

[J3Town]

I've only seen miners take a long time if a system has a small quantity of a resource. The Reach only has Ore and quite a bit of it so I think as long as they're set for ore, they should be busy. Occasionally, miners that are automining are slow at finding an unrevealed belt, but I seem to remember rocks just being everywhere in The Reach. I don't go there very much. But yes, do check if they're full of ore and simply looking for a place to sell it.

[Freelancer]

What is it stuck on? Is its cargo hold full? If so, you might have run into the same bug that I did, where it doesnt know how to sell the ore. My mining ship full of ice was wondering where to sell ice, even though there was a station buying it like 20km away in the same system. People told me its a bug with 7.0

[Venerable_Sin]

Perhaps setting your ship to mine for ore will fix your problem. Otherwise....

I have a couple questions for you if you are willing.

1. What mining ship? ore or gas?
2. What resource are you trying to mine for?
3. Is the ship equipped with the right load out to be able to mine?
4. Have you set out a resource probe?
5. Are you collecting anything in the ships cargo hold or is it just flying around?
6. Do you have sector travel, sector activities, trade restrictions set to off for the ships individual behaviors?
7. Have you found a station that is buying the good that you are mining?
8. Does the ship give you a specific error message on the behavior tab?

According to the encyclopedia entry for The Reach the only natural resources are ore and sunlight. Setting out 4 resource probes also confirms this in my current game seed.

[Anaryl, Emperor of Sol. GEH]

I don't use automine.

Instead what I use is repeat orders. This is simply more effective and ensures that the miner should keep selling - setting sell price to rock bottom will keep the ship mining and selling until the stations demand runs dry (some places aren't in danger of demand running dry early on, esp with S/M miners.

Thing with automine is that they have to be able to sell everything in one load. This is usually what causes them to break - they can't find a sale. I've also noticed that manually micro'ing new miners tends to increase the chances they stick to a mining order well.

I would recommend trying Repeat Orders instead of automine.

[upuaut]

In 7.00 local auto mining is broken. Ships mine until cargo hold is full. Even with a station wanting the ressource in a big quantity, the ships don´t go there to sell.

[Holy Athena]

Originally posted by upuaut:

In 7.00 local auto mining is broken. Ships mine until cargo hold is full. Even with a station wanting the ressource in a big quantity, the ships don´t go there to sell.

Yea this has been my issue.. which sucks.. Whole reason I never played this game despite buying it when it first came out was constant bugs like this.. Now I come back and still the most basic stuff broken..

"But its 7.0 Beta!" Yea... there isn't a reason this should be broken...

[playerofgames]

I've found you need to direct them to a station a few times until they learn. This is a beta issue where the buy prices are too low so they refuse to sell. I guess they'll fix this but in the meantime will have to manually sell until they decide to do it themselves. Just my observation and could be wrong.

[Bazooka]

report 7.00 bugs on the official website.

https://forum.egosoft.com/viewforum.php?f=192

[Lloyd]

If something doesn't work for you. Although it is configured correctly. Do it differently. Do this in all sectors that may be interesting to you and not interesting either. Check. There is a chance that somewhere this will work. This is how x4 has worked since EA, from which it did not come out, even though it already has version 6+.

This is just advice.

[Lloyd]

And yes, write to the forum as the person above advised. It's pointless, believe me. Proven for many years. If you want to spend time, it's up to you. But it’s better to spend time and read what bugs people wrote on their forum. 1-4 years ago. And you will understand how to solve them. Since in most cases. For every bug that people reported. some found a “crutch” to continue playing.


as is my advice. which I gave in the previous message. It was also found not only by me. Just forget that you are playing a normal game. And constantly change the place where you want to achieve something. If you see 0 impact from your actions in the sector.

[Holy Athena]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/392160/discussions/0/4365751613887784520/

I figured out a fix for this problem :D

[upuaut]

I tried to convince my miners to sell via a repeat order.
1. Mine
2. Sell at Station X for price Z.

The station is buying for 88.
The repeat order let me set the minimum sell price to 89 only.
So the repeat orders don´t work either.

[Moustache]

I also have problems with local autominers both gaz and mineral. They get stuck on 'calculating parameters' command once they are full