Mining Robot

The wish came as a "Mining Turtle": a programmable robot that mines resources, brings them to the base, charges at a station and – with emergency batteries and a beacon – can be found even if it does not come back. Mining Robot builds exactly that on the AIMeE chassis.

The robot: its ore scanner searches below it down to bedrock and remembers every vein with sort, amount and depth. It drills from above like the Deep Miner – the terrain stays walkable, and further ores at the same borehole are faster. You choose everything, ores only, ice only or specific sorts, plus up to three priority sorts. It returns at 15 % main battery – or earlier when the way home is long. If the main battery still runs flat, it drives home on one of its three emergency batteries and sends a distress call.

Three IC10 chips run at the same time with the game's original interpreter: db is the robot, d0 its home station, batch instructions reach the station's data network by radio. A faulty chip flashes red and stops nothing else.

The charging station links exactly one robot, charges it, takes its load into separate stores – ore (8 slots) and cooled ice (6 slots) – and hands it to a silo, stacker or sorter through three chutes. Its ice melter sends every substance into its own pipe outlet; the mixing protection only melts when each resulting substance has a matching outlet. At the programming desk you send chips to the robot; with the IC10 link the computer edits the chip inside the robot directly.

Multiplayer: the server and all players need the mod. Every robot belongs to its builder.

Full guide with IC10 memory map and example scripts: Mining Robot in the wiki