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Author Topic: "Contagious" mining - mining whole cluster at once  (Read 1270 times)

Sirbug

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"Contagious" mining - mining whole cluster at once
« on: May 26, 2013, 05:10:39 am »
After many mining operations i carried on, I realized one feature I badly need. Ability to assign the whole vein or cluster to be mined. As they tend to be in unpredictable shapes, and miners may take different task once they mined all I marked, it's really unoptimized process.

I propose following mechanism: contagious digging. Once tile marked for such is mined, all newly revealed tiles of the same material get marked as well. This would let player to command "Mine all this coal you find in this vein" and such, automatically.
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Re: "Contagious" mining - mining whole cluster at once
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2013, 05:19:01 am »
There have been many, many "follow that vein" type suggestions.  A lot of us want it.  That doesn't make us any less tired of seeing it come up in new threads over and over and over forever.
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Re: "Contagious" mining - mining whole cluster at once
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2013, 05:20:01 am »
There is a dfhack script that does that for you.
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Re: "Contagious" mining - mining whole cluster at once
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2013, 06:00:44 am »
-Mine marked tile
-Check newly exposed tiles if they contain the same ore as the mined tile and
-If so, mark them for mining and assign highest job-priority
20 GOTO 10

But i know jack about programming, so i have no idea of how long it would take to implement something like this
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Re: "Contagious" mining - mining whole cluster at once
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2013, 06:46:17 am »
just use the dfhack one.
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Re: "Contagious" mining - mining whole cluster at once
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2013, 06:46:55 am »
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Bloat218, VEIN MINING OPTION, (Future): Ability to designate a metal vein for digging. They'd keep mining out the same kind of metal in adjacent squares as they uncover them.
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Re: "Contagious" mining - mining whole cluster at once
« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2013, 09:08:59 am »
Something being planned doesn't invalidate it's discussion.

But i agree with it being a bloat goal.
It's not necessary for smooth gameplay and there are more important things to work on first.
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Re: "Contagious" mining - mining whole cluster at once
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2013, 11:00:47 am »
if anything contagious mining sounds like something a dwarf would do if it was linked to a material he liked and would then try to hoard some in his bed room
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Re: "Contagious" mining - mining whole cluster at once
« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2013, 11:49:31 am »
Quote from: Gamerlord on May 26, 2013, 05:20:01 am
There is a dfhack script that does that for you.
Quote from: Gamerlord on May 26, 2013, 06:46:17 am
just use the dfhack one.
Third party utilities in general are not universally used, need updates for new versions, might not work for every system, and might stop being updated. Far better to include their function in the game, if appropriate (and this is not only appropriate, not only a bloat goal, but an entry on the main dev page).
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Re: "Contagious" mining - mining whole cluster at once
« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2013, 11:20:04 pm »
« Last Edit: May 26, 2013, 11:28:03 pm by Bumber »
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Quote from: Ispil on August 30, 2018, 01:17:08 pm
Reading his name would trigger it. Thinking of him would trigger it. No other circumstances would trigger it- it was strictly related to the concept of Bill Clinton entering the conscious mind.

THE xTROLL FUR SOCKx RUSE WAS A........... DISTACTION        the carp HAVE the wagon

A wizard has turned you into a wagon. This was inevitable (Y/y)?