Space Engineers Tutorial: How to build an automated mining ship using Rdav's AI Autominer

I thought it wasn't possible but Rdav proved me wrong: a completely automated mining ship in Space Engineers

A special thank you to Rdav for his help in putting together this tutorial, as always if you have your own tips and tricks for this please share them as I'd love to know for when I next head to space :)

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[trinitytruth]

Fascinating. This game has so much potential thanks to modders and script writers. A huge leap forward.

[betacenturion]

The coding experience in me is currently experiencing ****INTENSE BREATHING****. This scripting stuff is very powerful.
I really do appreciate that you don't have to sit down and learn a programming language to learn to program. Games like these are perfect for teaching programming in a way that is fun!

[Ackros]

saw this and realised another use for this.... mining a tunnel into a moutain to base a underground/mountain base :)

just need to figure out how to modify for planetside, and then just have it goto a start point and then tunnel straight for X meters;
then move up and repeat to a max height you want;
then go back to start of first run and move to the right and repeat all that until a max width reached.


so digs bottom left first and finshes top right

[gamepad]

a good script to be used on planets is PAM, as it can be used in both space and on planets, and would go along well with Rdav's auto miner script.

[mrfeicco]

Another awesome and easy going tutorial! Cheers man! I have been eyeing the Rdav scripts for awhile and the auto miner is gonna go well with my latest cruiser. As always, great content!

[staffsergeantoz]

Hey Splitsie good vid mate and good on you for supporting Rdav's work. I've been following his work for some time now and if you think this is great work remember to checkout his fleet command AND his future shipyard project.

[PetrusRossouw]

Now, if only Rdav could make a script only version for easy updates I would be happy.

[Comicsluvr]

I have always loved the idea of a large ship filled with small mining drones to mine asteroids automatically. This script does it. Many thanks.

[suspektgaming]

Tutorial---> Master forever ... you so easy to understand .You forgot auto refill of Fuel .. you have make my game a lot better .. love you work ;)

[maxrander]

hey splitse this helped us out on one of our discords servers the way we got around the docking pathfinding issue was to setup pads on an outer area only connected to the rest of the base from underneath so the area in about a 25X25m area was just empty space we had 6 running at once and we setup a another drone group to patrol the area between where we were mining and our base and also had 2 players on patrol aswell and now with the new patches and stone having a little use we were so stocked up on iron that they bugged out from not being able to transfer cargo to the base and stopped working until we noticed but in short without your Tutorials our fully auto-mining fleet would be just a dream as we could never get the script to work before watching this video

[DonnaPinciot]

I'm so glad that I've finally convinced them to use the actual script section rather than blueprint for simple installations like this from now on; a blueprint makes this far too hard to update, or even check for updates.
I understand not changing it over now (Since you can't do that without deleting the item and uploading a new one), I only regret not asking about it sooner, they might have been willing to do it shortly after release.

_It would still be really nice to have a script version of this uploaded as well, though..._

[MrZuribachi]

Great tutorial. Very comprehensive and informative! Keep up the good work man!

[ImproveReload]

might be a nice idea to have some sort of Fleet (like 10 -20 Ships) that mines asteroids and bring it back to a MOVING Command Ship ( not too fast, like 2 or 5 m/s) would be nice to see when they take off

[Ogre-zrzk]

great vid. There was a blueprint on the workshop for an automated atmo-miner, called the Octopus, more involved setup though, had to show it the center of gravity, safe travel height, docking point, name cargo on base, GPS above ore, drilling depth from GPS, # of shafts, etc... Haven't used it in several months so don't know if it's broken or not.

[justadad]

I've been looking through your catalog of videos for a scriptless setup for an auto-miner ship but have yet to find one. Your other videos on Ai blocks i found were awesome and helpful, do yiu have one on how to setup drills and ore site location?

[iwtd]

if they put automation in space engineers its going to be the new factorio

[tiberiosity]

Good to see more of your stuff, Splitsie. Any thoughts on how to make this work from a mobile home base?

[Dominus]

Can this be used with multiple ai ships to speed up the mining of an asteroid via a fleet of these drones?

[jamestrotter]

Hi guys, , could you change out the drills for grinders and use it on floating wrecks?

[foxesace]

Would this work if you’re sending those miners off of a moving refiner flagship?