Automatic operation is the default behavior, so you have something preventing that.

Make sure your "fuel" is full... batteries are getting fully charged, and/or whatever you use to power a reactor onboard is getting refilled.

Make sure it is fully unloading - I don't know if this is still required, but I always build my conveyors with a sorter set to actively pull everything out (been a while - can't remember exactly what the settings are called).

On the PAM control panel... go through your settings to see if anything strikes you as preventing the job from continuing. It's usually related to one of the two above issues.

Those are the main two things that come to mind.

Originally posted by Conan of Oz:

Automatic operation is the default behavior, so you have something preventing that.

Make sure your "fuel" is full... batteries are getting fully charged, and/or whatever you use to power a reactor onboard is getting refilled.

Make sure it is fully unloading - I don't know if this is still required, but I always build my conveyors with a sorter set to actively pull everything out (been a while - can't remember exactly what the settings are called).

On the PAM control panel... go through your settings to see if anything strikes you as preventing the job from continuing. It's usually related to one of the two above issues.

Those are the main two things that come to mind.

its fully unloading, the only thing is that its not fully charged, is that a requirement for it to autorun?

thank you for responding so quickly

Originally posted by r/report.me:

Originally posted by Conan of Oz:

Automatic operation is the default behavior, so you have something preventing that.

Make sure your "fuel" is full... batteries are getting fully charged, and/or whatever you use to power a reactor onboard is getting refilled.

Make sure it is fully unloading - I don't know if this is still required, but I always build my conveyors with a sorter set to actively pull everything out (been a while - can't remember exactly what the settings are called).

On the PAM control panel... go through your settings to see if anything strikes you as preventing the job from continuing. It's usually related to one of the two above issues.

Those are the main two things that come to mind.

its fully unloading, the only thing is that its not fully charged, is that a requirement for it to autorun?

thank you for responding so quickly

It's configurable. Scroll through your settings while you are sitting in your craft. You can set the threshold, if memory serves.

But why would you want to launch without full batteries?

I'll be honest with you... I build my miner (planetary) with one battery (just to get started) but install a (cheat) small gravel reactor, and a small stone-to-gravel crusher.

My purpose in playing these days (well, it's been many months, but...) is just for fooling around, digging massive bases out of a mountain. It takes long enough as it is without waiting for batteries to recharge.

I also put a sorter between my drills and storage bays that block stone. The drills still fill up, but the storage containers never do (unless I hit something precious) so my program runs uninterrupted until finished.

If interested, here is the blueprint for my ship.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3067888933

You will probably want to be in creative mode so you can build this without the tedium of hand-mining all the resources you'll need. And you'll need to learn how to use a projector. It's a small block ship, so what I do is build a rotator (Can't remember what they're properly called) then delete the large block interface on top of it, then tell it to build a small block head.

Then you can out a small block projector on it.

Then you need to learn how to adjust the position of the projection so it is not hitting anything, is right way up, etc...