Fully automated tile scanning mining

[BadManiac]

I was working on a mining script before I left, not sure if you guys already have something similar or if there's any interest in it.

What it does is scan tiles and figures out where the mountain wall is, pathfinds to it, mines, and moves to the next 8x8 block. It will follow the edge of the mountain regardless of shape, completely automagically. All you need to do is have a rune marked next to a mountain, it'll recall there, mine until full, recall back and dump ingots. I think it's even got smelt on beetle support. But it's far from finished, a lot of hardcoded stuff that I used for testing and so on.

Is this something the community here would be interested in? Has it been done already? Mainly talking to the resident scripters since you need to be able to read and understand the script to make use of it in it's current shape.

[Masscre]

Put it on up. I would be interested in trying it out and tearing it apart to look at the code also.

[Khameleon]

sounds like a winner here.. does it move to the next resource grid when its all mined out?

[BadManiac]

Yes, it moves 8 tiles away, along the wall, and continues mining.

I'll dig up the code and post it. It's been a while

[BadManiac]

I can't find it for the life of me. God knows. I found some early test scripts when I was developing and prototyping it.

Basically what it does is check each 8x8 block by tile scanning a "strip" or line of 8 tiles in both X and Y directions. It looks for "impassable rock" tiles.

So if it either starts on "impassable rock, and then a few tiles later finds grass, or starts on grass (or whatever) and then finds "impassable rock", it figures out which way the wall is facing. And since it scans both X and Y, it can get all four cardinal directions. Then once that resource grid is mined dry, it follows the wall along and scans the next resource grid in the same way.

Now, if it DOESN'T find "impassable rock" in the next resource grid, then obviously the wall turned, so it scans the grids to the sides of the current one and finds out where the wall has gone. If the wall was going north-south, it'll try the resource grids east and west of the current one and vice versa.

It's a bit hard to explain... Sorry. I'll go through my backup drive over the weekend and find it.

[Khameleon]

this sounds like a script I thought about writing but I've never played around with tile scanning and limited time now...

[Endless Night]

man id really be interested in seeing the subs that do that........ that is one feature that has been on my todo list for an eternity.

[_C2_]

I would love to set something like this up in the private mountain hole that I have access to.

[Endless Night]

I would love to set something like this up in the private mountain hole that I have access to.

I wonder if thats the same private mountain hole i have access too...

[_C2_]

i have one on fire island created when the landscape changed but i also have one that houses cannot be placed in on malas that is sick.  it is my own private training hole

[Endless Night]

i have one on fire island created when the landscape changed but i also have one that houses cannot be placed in on malas that is sick.  it is my own private training hole

Got the fire island check
Malas - no houses ... I dont have that
But I do have a small private/no housing, unreachable mountain spot in Tokuno

[_C2_]

i have one on fire island created when the landscape changed but i also have one that houses cannot be placed in on malas that is sick.  it is my own private training hole

Got the fire island check
Malas - no houses ... I dont have that
But I do have a small private/no housing, unreachable mountain spot in Tokuno

Umm... We should talk trade... Hehe.  I love rare spots

[Endless Night]

i have one on fire island created when the landscape changed but i also have one that houses cannot be placed in on malas that is sick.  it is my own private training hole

Got the fire island check
Malas - no houses ... I dont have that
But I do have a small private/no housing, unreachable mountain spot in Tokuno

Umm... We should talk trade... Hehe.  I love rare spots

For sure .. for sure.