[1.17] Mining problems

[Primal11]

I posted this on the steam forums, I was told to come here instead. So, copy-pasted from my steam post, here's my problem:

Some time ago I bought a Fedhelm in canteran space. Ordered it around, got it to mine automatically using its mining lasers and drones, filled its cargo. However, the only people who NEED ore in the entire universe are the plutarch, who hate me.

But this thread is not about the Fedhelm. I reconsidered and I bought a Sequana, got it to follow me to Lava Flow, where there's plenty of ice asteroids floating around. However, it refuses to be considered a mining ship. I can't give it the order to mine automatically, I cannot enter mining mode because Yisha says we have no mining ship available.

I tried removing the fedhelm from my squad forever and leave it sitting alone in space. I tried removing and adding again the sequana to my squad. I tried that and many more things. That ship would not bother touching an ice asteroid. And before commenting that it has no equipment...... It has 2 scoop collector urvs (not that it matters) and 40 surface miners mk2. It also has a crew if that has to be mentioned too.

If someone could point me in some direction towards a fix, I would be very appreciative of that.

I need to mention I am using a mod (ignore jump fuel) in my current version. However, I can always order my fedhelm to mine automatically, and I can enter mining mode with it around.

[Primal11]

Two days later and still nobody even bothers to reply............. k.

[HighwayStar]

I replied to your steam post. I recommended you rollback to an older save. That fixes most bugs regarding ships for me. Go back to an older save before you bought these ships and start again.

[lexsan82]

Two days later and still nobody even bothers to reply............. k.

I've found you have to be right next to the ship for it to recognize that a capable mining ship is in range.

[Primal11]

Two days later and still nobody even bothers to reply............. k.

I've found you have to be right next to the ship for it to recognize that a capable mining ship is in range.

Thanks for the reply. At this time, a rollback is impossible. But correct me if I'm wrong: I think selling the ship and buying a new one would have the same effect.

[Zakuak]

Note sure but couldnt hurt to sell the ships and try buying new ones.

I waded through the bugs and department of major lacking and finally beat the campaign only to find out the trade/economy in game is hosed...

So I figured "well I'll mine stuff" only to find out it hardly works as well.

I may look up how to make PMC neutral to me at this point....I'd love to enjoy more aspects of the game and I can always just blast the hell out of some PMC later on heh.

[Primal11]

I tried selling that ship and buying a new one. Same problem. I can order the fedhelm to mine just fine, but the sequana refuses to be classified as a mining ship.

Good thing I play as a pirate. Yarrr! But it's a shame features don't work as they should.

[xandicar]

Do you have mining drones aboard?

They are very scares and it took me ages to have some, but you need them. Now I can mine, tag and they'll pick-up the ore/ice.

Regretful I found out the hard way. lol

[Primal11]

Do you have mining drones aboard?

They are very scares and it took me ages to have some, but you need them. Now I can mine, tag and they'll pick-up the ore/ice.

Regretful I found out the hard way. lol

Ho ho ho, 40 surface miners mk2. Btw, if I can be a bit of a grammar nazi.. it's spelt scarce.

After typing my reply I actually entered the game, checked property owned, and clicked details of my sequana. I'll be damned, you're right. Damn thing has no drones. But that means the problem lies elsewhere, because I actually BOUGHT the drones from the shipyard, and paid almost 9 mil for the ship + upgrades + all available mining drones(40). I'll be looking for a fix to that and update this thread. My guess is you have to take the ship somewhere. But since you can't give it the order to dock, I have no idea where.

[Djindaar]

Accoding to my exploration so far (and if the trade computer is to be believed at this stage), you can buy Surface mining URVs Mk 1 and 2 from

Spoiler below.

Don't know if that's any help. But most docking ports atm are blocked with NPC ships stuck in the trade bug. I would have thought you could visit a ship builder and upgrade the ship ie have them fitted there. But I have not done any of that stuff yet till the patches arrive. Just mapping and building a site for the fun of it for now.

Spoiler

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URV BTO Line and URV Parts Supply stations.

[Primal11]

Updated for 1.18

Thanks to xandicar's reply I double checked the ship. It had no drones aboard.... I figured that out after spending 9 million credits buying the drones in the first place. I fixed this by talking to the ship dealer that has originally built the ship for me and clicked modify ship > equip drones and selecting what was available. It took a while for the ship to actually dock and get the drones, after which the ship dealer says: "Ship construction complete".

Now I can freely order the ice miner to gather resources in Lava Flow. I told it to mine ice. However, the captain thinks it's a better idea to just keep the 6 units of ice I tagged for it earlier, and is instead going for ore and silicon. He thinks he's flying a Fedhelm, not a Sequana.

I'm running into trouble at every step of the way. But I guess that's part of the fun of an X game at launch. Hope the devs fix it soon, I can't wait to play X Rebirth, a game I've wanted to play since I laid hands on X2 The Threat.

EDIT: After leaving the mining sector to do some other stuff somewhere else, I checked the sequana again and it has lots of ice aboard, but still with a few units of ore and silicon. All in all, the problem's been solved.