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ZG Auto-miner 4x

More easily deploy the maximum possible number of Auto-miners per resource seam (that is 4, now the overlapping anchored techs glitch has been patched).

► Licences: GSO 2.

► Links:

• Use companion tech "ZG Selling Base Small" for small Erudite money bases.
• This tech is part of my "Complete Crafting Guide", here on Steam. Much more info on crafting and it's bugs, there.

► Deploy Instructions:

• Clear out rocks, loose chunks and blocks.
• Load in this tech next to a seam.
• Switch to the 4x miner tech.
• Pick it up in Build Beam and move it over an exposed seam.
• Click "Anchor" button (far better than just releasing Build Beam).
• Pick it back up and shuffle it towards the Auto-miners that are working.
• Repeat until all 4 miners animate.
• Profit.

► Notes:

• Still a little fiddly to position and may not work on very rough terrain.
• You can remove the GSO cab after deployment, or build your own tech around it.
• The *anchor* stems must be as near to the seam as possible, rather than the animating drill parts, which do nothing.
• 2 hours 14 minutes to deplete a seam with all 4 miners working. (1000 chunks at 1 per 35 seconds, per miner.)
• Some of the tech's auto-miners may de-anchor upon re-loading the world (or area) - just attach a cab to Build Beam the whole tech up and anchor back down, to fix.
• See section 4 of my Complete Crafting Guide for more information on Auto-miners.

► Campaign loading:

• Subscribe to this Workshop item, above.
• Go to Creative mode in TerraTech.
• Click the "Load" button (bottom left of screen) and find it in the "Workshop" tab.
• Remove any blocks from the tech that you don't yet have in your play-through.
• Re-snapshot the tech, so it will now be stored as a local snapshot with your own techs.
• Load as normal in Campaign.

OR, just build it yourself - it's only 5 blocks. ;-)