1.32 Miners WONT MINE and other frustrations

[DaMuncha]

I have been beating my head against this rock for the last few days. I've tried every suggestion. My Miners wont mine!

I have 3 miners set to my station, the station has 2 million storage, They go mine a few rocks, fill up thier cargo storage, and then just sit there not doing anything, not returning, not making money.

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Also shipyards wont build ships. The paranid wharf has run out of engine parts. And the nearby engine parts factory wont produce. I have ships qued up to be built there, and theyve taken my money, but wont build my ships. (it also turns out that the station took my money, and forgot that it had my ship in the que, so I lost a million credits)

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My Traders stock up on goods they cant sell to stations that wont trade with them.

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And my ships still try to fly through the asteroid when told to dock at my HQ

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Collect storage locker quest requires 2 boxes to be opened, one box apears, and the other box doesnt spawn (searching with long range scanner) or the second lock box apears outside of teh circle and doesnt count as part of the quest when opened.

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WHen I tell my ships to collect wares floating in space, the wares they collect are not added to my inventory or the ships. Even if I'm on board the ship.

[Enyaron]

I have been beating my head against this rock for the last few days. I've tried every suggestion. My Miners wont mine!

I have 3 miners set to my station, the station has 2 million storage, They go mine a few rocks, fill up thier cargo storage, and then just sit there not doing anything, not returning, not making money.

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Also shipyards wont build ships. The paranid wharf has run out of engine parts. And the nearby engine parts factory wont produce. I have ships qued up to be built there, and theyve taken my money, but wont build my ships. (it also turns out that the station took my money, and forgot that it had my ship in the que, so I lost a million credits)

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My Traders stock up on goods they cant sell to stations that wont trade with them.

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And my ships still try to fly through the asteroid when told to dock at my HQ

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Collect storage locker quest requires 2 boxes to be opened, one box apears, and the other box doesnt spawn (searching with long range scanner) or the second lock box apears outside of teh circle and doesnt count as part of the quest when opened.

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WHen I tell my ships to collect wares floating in space, the wares they collect are not added to my inventory or the ships. Even if I'm on board the ship.

Does you station have the correct storage? Container storage cant accept mineing storage. Also try re-assigning the miners. Is this a new start with the patch or a previous one?

Is the shipyard out of any materials at all? As for the engine parts factory you'll have to leave it awhile (30 mins - 60 mins depending on the cycle) for it to restock. In the meantime try running a couple missions to buy a trader ship and just have it ferry engine parts where there avaliable again.

What are your traders set too? If its auto-trade remove them from the options and dump off the items at the nearest storage until you can find a place to sell them too, alternatively make a factory to use the parts.

The last 3 are known issues that there working on from what I've seen on the forums.

Hope this helps ^^

[DaMuncha]

I think the problem might be narrowed down.

My station had no Station Manged trade ship for it, I was letting other other races come and trade with my station for what it needed. the "trader needed" mission pending was causing my miners not to function properly. I was waiting for a new trader to be buiit.

I manually tradeed hundreds of Engine Parts 100 at a time to the wharf which had 8 ships in construction. Then after trading back and forth for a few hours, all hangers floors opened and 8 ships popped out. My two new cargo Demeter's and the Demeter I had ferrying the engine parts and the other NPC trade ships included. I set the one I had qued up for my station sent it off to work for my HQ, and the miners started working again. Now THATS a bug. I previously had a trade ship assigned to the station but It kept gobbling up all the funds I left in the station and my station wasnt even producing anything at the time so I unassigned it.

My station had every thing It needed bought from NPC ships, but untill I built a trade ship specifically for my station the miners would not work.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ ... 1589687354

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Wait nope, theyve stopped again. just sitting around doing nothing with a full load.

[proggic]

I could confirm that the miners assigned to a station do not work as intended. I have an 'old' 1.0 Savegame and a 1.30 Savegame - no matter what - the miner stop working and sitting somewhere in the system with full cargo load.
Using vanilla X4 - 1.32

( and yes - correct cargo is at the station and its plenty of space left for it ) Tested it with silicon and ice! Both dont work longterm

[tsiebecker]

I could confirm that the miners assigned to a station do not work as intended. I have an 'old' 1.0 Savegame and a 1.30 Savegame - no matter what - the miner stop working and sitting somewhere in the system with full cargo load.
Using vanilla X4 - 1.32

( and yes - correct cargo is at the station and its plenty of space left for it ) Tested it with silicon and ice! Both dont work longterm

I can confirm this, also vanilla 1.32 tested with all other resources.
They all just wander around.

Please Fix?

[rit]

I also have 30+ miners that will not auto mine. They are given an order, they mine until full and then just stop dead.

Also, I do not know if this will help in any way but when I add them back to the stations with an assigned role to mine all the ships are given the same assignment rather than any mixing of the possible options.

[wilsonlaizo]

I had some problems with my miners during the economy stagnation caused be the lack of Engine Parts. There is a bug on that and the devs already mentioned that they are going to fix in the next patch.

After I fixed the economy by building an Engine Factory and assigning traders to move them around, things improved a lot overall and my miners are back at (almost) full speed. Also, the map is more lively.

There are a couple things you need to notice when you assign a miner to a station:
1) They will stop reporting the traded value, instead they will just log that the Task is complete and All trade operations were completed. That means they transferred their cargo to your station
2) You need to have a manager in the station. There's a bug when you assign a manager and sometimes it get stuck in your ship, so, make sure you go to your dock and check if he is in his table working, other than that, you need to dock the ship which you transferred it, transfer back to the ship and repeat the process
3) You may want to keep your miners without been assigned to your plant (especially if you want to see how much they are making) and just keep buying minerals from the market. Make sure your manager is setting a correct price for it
4) It may be stupid, but make sure your station is fully constructed, sometimes it appears that it's finished but it's not

And ... if you are suffering by the Engine Parts bug, your problem may be that, just buy some traders (and make sure you discovered and have satellites on the NPC Engine Part factories) or even consider building one for yourself. If they don't have good skills just use the Galactic Trade option and limit to just Engine Parts. They also may be stagnate from time to time because the NPCs are currently pretty slow in building the Engine Parts, so, leave it running and see if it improves your save.