Space engineers - Autonomous mining drone : Voxeliminator
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- Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2024
- Hi guys !
This drone is a 99% autonomous mining ship . All you have to do is place it close to an asteroid and start it.
It was inspired by this one : • Space Engineers Locust...
It is capable of :
Reorienting itself to find more rock to drill;
Recharge its batteries and resume its work;
Avoid obstacles;
Stop itself when cargo containers are full or when batteries are depleted;
Rejecting stone to only keep useful ore in the cargo, thus considerably increasing its autonomy.
The drone has multiple states :
Drilling : the drone just pushes forward and drills whatever is in the way.
Searching : the drone just made it through the asteroid and reorients itself until it detects rocks again.
Recharging : the low battery threshold was reached and the drone is taking a break in the sun light to recharge it's battery before resuming its work.
Avoiding : an obstacle has been detected and the drone will go backward until the obstacle is no longer detected or it is blocked by something. When the way seems clear it will resume drilling. If it can't resume drilling before a configurable amount of time, it will be marked as stuck.
Stuck : the drone was unable to avoid an obstacle or detect rock while searching within the configured amount of time and
requires an operator's attention.
Stopped : self-explanatory.
Components :
9 drills
1 large cargo container;
1 medium cargo container;
31 of small cargo containers;
2 batteries;
4 solar panels;
1 camera in the front;
1 camera in the back;
1 remote control;
1 antenna;
1 beacon;
4 sensors (1 unused);
4 sensors (1 unused);
1 programmable block;
1 conveyor sorter;
8 ejectors;
9 gyroscopes;
4 thrusters in all directions except forward;
8 forward thrusters;
Etc...
Known issues :
Sometimes gets stuck for no visible reasons. In this case it just needs to be restarted by either pushing the button in the back or by running the program using "StartCommand" as argument.
Searching for more rocks may fail even if there is more rock to mine because the drone rotates on a plane instead of checking all directions.
It is recommended not to use more than 2 or 3 of those for a 64x64x64 asteroid.
Future versions may include auto-pilot from / to mother ship, a more reliable rock detection capability and a more stable AI.
Ship is available on workshop ! Feel free to leave comments and reuse its ideas and source code.
Lovely design as well as use of lighting, per usual. Glad to see you're still creating awesome designs!
one improvement you can make, is if you leave a space between the drills, then you can mine a bigger area. The drill heads take up 3x3 space, but actually mine a 5x5 area.
I love how it just constantly craps rocks XD
Could you make a detailed video on how you created the autonomous mining drone. Thanks
+boggle barin its on workshop available as blueprint , just type its name there
Can you upload it to a dropbox or somewhere where we can download it online instead of using workshop?
I can't get it to stop at all when I just want to unload it
Really like this, but for some reason it is ejecting all ores and not just stone. Any ideas on how to fix it?
Workshop blueprint link?
Nice!
were do I know the music from, and also great auto minner
+Gary Ebbens (gebbens) I had the same question. Found it. The only reasonable music for this mod: soundcloud.com/ccpgames/eve-online-below-the-asteroids
+TheTwober yer that's one place there's another game I've pld with similar music which was bejewelled, love it
Wonderful design! If I were to make a suggestion, is there any way of making it so that it converts the ores it digs up, crafts the parts required in making its model and then replicate itself?
THAT COULD BE FREAKING AMAZING. 10/10 WOULD DIE.
flamethrower262 Nanobot will eat the howle world
Sooo.. uh, place that programm on your huge ass tunnel making devise and it will chew asteroids out of existance, right?
Isn't that music from Eve-Online?
+Jason Taylor it is
i must say eve music fits space engineers
what script did you write it in, Python?
can i use it for my space engineers faction to make less people go out to mine?
Yes but there is a 100$/hour fee.
is that a joke?
It's really worth the price !
i bought it and i for one am happy with my purchased product
nice to see star core dont responce to enything.
+Johnny C jørgensen Sorry for having a real life to take care of ! :)
Well. Its a great design.
+Johnny C jørgensen Thanks :) I have been working on a much improved version, but i have not found the courage to finish its programming yet.
+Star Core i realy hope you get time some day. its an epic design
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