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ships help: mining drones

What are mining drones?
Mining drones are exactly what they sound like.
These super cool, very cute drones will help you harvest your asteroids or planetoids.
Requirements:
1. A cargo tank of some kind.
2. The minerals skill raised to the max.
3. Some drone repair kits, craftable only.
4. A ship with a cargo bay in it.
How does it work?
1. You buy your drones.
2. You deploy your tank, see shelp cargo tanks.
3. You go into a field and deploy your drones onto asteroids or planetoids.
4. While they work, you do what ever else you wish to do.
5. If one gets damaged or is finished, it will send you both an in game, and out of game, notification. If the drone is damaged and you have a patch, you can type send patch to make the patch zip off to repair the drone.
6. Go and collect your drone. To do this, teleport down from your ship using the teleport command, type return drone, then teleport back to your ship with a 1-way teleporter, if it does not return to you automatically.
7. unload it in your cargo tank.
8. Return it to your ship and repeat the process.
9. Gloat to your friends about how awesome your drones are.
Full list of commands:
deploy-mining-drone, or dmd: deploy a mining drone onto an asteroid or planetoid. You must be hovered above the asteroid when you do this and not landed.
Repair drone with : repair your drone with a repair patch.
run : run your drone after repairs.
return : return your drone to your ship.
transport : move the drone between your cargo bay and the tank and vice versa.
unload : unload the drone into the tank.
reload : reload the drone into your ship from the cargo bay.
drone-get: from a landing pad, will retrieve any wandering drones.
Rank: the skill of the maximum mineral.
Skills: minerals
Race advantages: see ahelp asteroid harvesting
Recommended help files: shelp cargo tank.
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