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Author Topic: "Dig Vein" dig designation  (Read 1683 times)

Nelia Hawk

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"Dig Vein" dig designation
« on: December 03, 2010, 02:23:13 pm »
its a pretty simple idea:

i.e. you got a long vein of ore you want to dig out but dont want to mark every tile of it or dont want to waste time mineing big squares and useless stone around the vein too.

so you go to the "designations" and instead of "dig" you chose "dig vein" and mark a few fields of the ore/gems you want mined like usual.

once a miner digged out that marked stone and reveals the stones around it, the dig vein order automatical sets nearby tiles with the same ore/gems then the mined out tile, to be mined too...etcetc.

the order doesnt work for "normal stone", just for ores, coal and gems (economic stone?), and the order is canceled on damp/warm stone.



would that be "usefull" or too much "automation"?
if its "too much automation" it could just work for like 10,20,30 tiles of that material and then you have to mark more.
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Re: "Dig Vein" dig designation
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2010, 02:28:50 pm »
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Nelia Hawk

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Re: "Dig Vein" dig designation
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2010, 02:36:09 pm »
wops...

well.. kind of ignore it then XD
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The Merchant Of Menace

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Re: "Dig Vein" dig designation
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2010, 02:41:06 pm »
Happens all the time. Good thing we have a Sentient AI Dedicated forumer to point out these things.
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Re: "Dig Vein" dig designation
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2010, 03:19:13 pm »
all hail footkercheif for his dutiful work.
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Re: "Dig Vein" dig designation
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2010, 07:01:01 pm »
It's also in the dev log.
Search 'Vein Auto-mining' (Without apostrophes)
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