Hi, everyone!
Here is new version of mining drone.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=382495638
It's available for copy/paste to your own world. Does not need script editing for use. Some improvements were made.

If you're still planning to do an easier version of this, I would absolutely love it if you had time to do a tutorial. I took a long break from Space Engineers and now that I'm back, there's a lot of new features added (like pistons!) and some of this stuff I'm completely lost on. Your work here is brilliant though!

That looks a lot like Ecto Sage's auto miner

This is amazing. the most impressive i have seen in this game yet. i have been trying to get this to work on my own game. copy/pase worked just fine how do i get the mining ship's to move to my base connector? i suddenly lost then. they were speeding away from me. problebly to the gps location that you had you'r base

Place programmable block on your base, name new connector "GPS Loc:" and run "GPS Location" script from workshop. It will give you coords of your connector.

how do you get the parameters BaseX, BaseY, BaseZ for a new connector?

This Awesome!

If script is not stopped on some exception and timer, which launches programmable block is still running, then there are probably some floating stones around drone. And these stones block aligning. That happens because gyros and thrusters are running on very low power to make aligning more precise. And even 1-2 floating objects can block them. Try to switch off ejectors for now. Later i will do something to this.

So I tried using them in Survival by building them from a blue print. After redoing all the the groups I was able to get them working. only one major problem. They drill most of the way through the asteroid and gets stuck in align mode. any sugestions on what is going on? I dug one out and the sensor is green.

Thank you for the quick response. I was playing around in your world and I use the new GPS to see were you had the points line up. I saw you have the Y and Z cord dead on but the X was off just a bit. I turned the Carryall with the mining drones attached into a blue print. I will build them in survival and see how it works. I will let you know how it goes.

BaseX,Y,Z are coords of base connector. Connector must be oriented face to +Y.

for using in our own world does the BaseX,Y,Z need to be in a particular spot or just anywhere a block is on the base?

Impressive, look forward to your updates and making the code usable in other use-cases

Impressive!

Excellent work jhnwgacy, the best script yet :D
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Holy S***balls Batman!!! This Has got to be the best thing I have ever seen in SE, Im just flabbergasted at watching this in action...... My only wish is i could understand how to reconcile the program to work for me on the server... Absolutely Geat Job !!! Look forward to whatever else you come up with.