The Mining Drone in Spaceship Commander is an automated unit capable of mining minerals from veins that come to the surface. Cheapness, lack of a pilot, autonomy and the ability to load a drone on almost any ship, even a small one, made this model very common.
Mining drone
The Mining Drone in Spaceship Commander is an automated unit capable of mining minerals from veins that come to the surface. Cheapness, lack of a pilot, autonomy and the ability to load a drone on almost any ship, even a small one, made this model very common.
Iron ore (vein)
Copperore (vein)
Mining process
The drone is equipped with a cone drill, in which carbide cutters are installed. In the process of drilling, the cutters knock out pieces of rock that break off and scatter, at the same time they are picked up by a powerful compressor and pumped into the drone like a vacuum cleaner. Further, the rock moving through the channels inside the body to the distributor and pours out into the cargo body.
Scheme
To unload the mined rock is used a telescopic connector, which is connected, for example, to a ship, after which the contents are quickly unloaded without any buckets and other uncomfortable and outdated things. Although, in principle, the drone can also be unloaded with a bucket, because its cargo body is open.
Mining drone unloads the contents into the ship
The drone is controlled like a usual unit. For order to start mining, you need to send him to an ore vein (iron, copper, etc.). After its cargo body is filled, it will automatically go to the ship for unloading. In order for the drone to appear on your ship, you need a mining module. Remember that not every ship is equipped with a slot for this module.
