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Author Topic: Automatic mining: Is it possible and has it been done?  (Read 6985 times)

Cyborgman

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Automatic mining: Is it possible and has it been done?
« on: November 08, 2009, 07:23:16 pm »
I have been playing DF for awhile now and like to dig out just the minerals I want when I find them.

Example:
I dig exploratory tunnels out in all directions and once I strike a mineral/ore I want I follow the vein digging out only that mineral. While it is effective and keeps loose stone to a minamum it requires babysitting the miners and designating every block to mine right after I uncover it.

Is it possible to make an external program that automatically designates certain minerals that I choose as they are uncovered? And what scripting language would be necessary to make such a program. (I have quite a bit of technical expertise and want to expand it further) By the way, if this has already been done please stop me... I already looked around but couldn't find anything.
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Re: Automatic mining: Is it possible and has it been done?
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2009, 07:29:54 pm »
As to has this been done, as far as I know no.

There are some programs which would reveal the minerals such as dtil. However that is about as close as it gets.
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Re: Automatic mining: Is it possible and has it been done?
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2009, 07:50:18 pm »
Yeah, I found that one but it seemed like it would take all the fun out of exploratory mining and make actually finding the minerals too easy.
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Re: Automatic mining: Is it possible and has it been done?
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2009, 05:07:47 pm »
Could do it (almost) just don't have the time. Basically all you need is breakpoint @0x456000(0 based)-> this is dig function. and dfHack lib to add designation around it... Few notes for those who do this: function is called every time wall is damaged by digging.
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Re: Automatic mining: Is it possible and has it been done?
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2009, 08:03:47 pm »
Where can I get information on how to do this? I want to learn how to do it myself. I imagine c++ or some other scripting language would be needed but how does one go about hacking the memory.
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Re: Automatic mining: Is it possible and has it been done?
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2009, 09:21:56 pm »
You  don't "hack" it, you read from it and write there, and any language has special syntax for it.
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Re: Automatic mining: Is it possible and has it been done?
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2009, 02:59:09 am »
That is what I meant... I used 'hack' as the slang term.
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Re: Automatic mining: Is it possible and has it been done?
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2009, 04:11:13 am »
Wasn't there a auto room-dig tool around here somewhere?
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Re: Automatic mining: Is it possible and has it been done?
« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2009, 04:16:01 am »
Quote from: Keilden on November 10, 2009, 04:11:13 am
Wasn't there a auto room-dig tool around here somewhere?

Doing that is much easier you just send key presses to the game (or if someone is clever alter the memory directly while the game is paused) in a pattern to designate the room.

I use something similar to mine shafts of updown staircases in a pattern to reveal as much of my mining zone as possible. It's hard to reuse that area though and you still need to go back afterwards to re-designate the ores.
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Re: Automatic mining: Is it possible and has it been done?
« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2009, 05:26:58 am »
I guess what I am talking about would be a program that specifically targets a certain ore and auto designates it when uncovered.
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Re: Automatic mining: Is it possible and has it been done?
« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2009, 05:29:48 am »
Quote from: Cyborgman on November 10, 2009, 05:26:58 am
I guess what I am talking about would be a program that specifically targets a certain ore and auto designates it when uncovered.

Yup, this is the harder task, you'll have to hook into the digging function as mentioned above so you know when new squares are revealed and then scan the memory to see what they are and if they are ores mark them for digging as well. Ideally you want to do this before handing control back to df so you don't run into issues with multiple processes editing memory (even if in this particular case it would probably work).
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Re: Automatic mining: Is it possible and has it been done?
« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2009, 11:13:06 am »
Found some time... Please enjoy :http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1581
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Re: Automatic mining: Is it possible and has it been done?
« Reply #12 on: November 10, 2009, 11:28:03 am »
Quote from: darius on November 10, 2009, 11:13:06 am
Found some time... Please enjoy :http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1581

That work by just selecting all ores that are revealed through digging?
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Re: Automatic mining: Is it possible and has it been done?
« Reply #13 on: November 10, 2009, 11:31:15 am »
Quote from: Keilden on November 10, 2009, 04:11:13 am
Wasn't there a auto room-dig tool around here somewhere?

there are at least 3 of them and you can always make your own
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Re: Automatic mining: Is it possible and has it been done?
« Reply #14 on: November 10, 2009, 11:40:28 am »
Quote from: Shades on November 10, 2009, 11:28:03 am
Quote from: darius on November 10, 2009, 11:13:06 am
Found some time... Please enjoy :http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=1581

That work by just selecting all ores that are revealed through digging?
Works like this: every time tile is degraded (by digging) function checks a few things:
1. is it a vein?
2. is tile finished digging? (currently not really works)
then if both are true it does this on 3x3 grid around:
Checks:
1.Is tile revealed?
2.Is it valid tile type? (not sure about this one... only one currently. This should stop it from digging smoothed walls)
3.Is it still vein?
4.Is it the same vein?
And then designates the tile for digging.
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