New: Mining Robot – the Mining Turtle with ore scanner, three chips and its own charging station
A robot that finds ore and ice by itself, drills down to bedrock, drives home, charges and can be found again when something goes wrong.
The wish was a "Mining Turtle": a programmable robot that mines resources, brings them to the base, charges – and can be found with emergency batteries and a beacon if it ever does not come back. That became the Mining Robot.
It stands on the AIMeE chassis but has its own control. Its ore scanner searches down to bedrock and remembers every vein. It drills from above like the Deep Miner, so the terrain stays walkable. At 15 percent main battery it drives home – earlier if the way is long. If something still goes wrong, one of its three emergency batteries brings it home, the beacon light flashes and you get a message. Three IC10 chips run at the same time with the game's original interpreter.
The charging station separates ore and ice, cools the ice, hands everything to a silo or sorter through three chutes and can melt ice into separate pipes – every substance into its own outlet. At the programming desk you send chips to the robot, and with the IC10 link you edit the chip inside the robot directly at the computer.
The server and all players need the mod. The guide with the memory map and four example scripts is in the wiki. As always in German and English – happy mining!
Everything else is in the guide.