Close Up of a Harvester MKI
There are four variants of Harvester, MKI - MKIV.
How to set up a harvester[]
- Put the harvester in your cargo ship and take it to your desired location. This should be near a belt or space scrap etc.
- When you are at your desired location jettison the harvester but make sure its not too far away from what you want to mine.
- Right click the harvester to get the deploy button, you may have to move closer to it.
- Once deployed go get in a ship that has scan capabilities (also you will need a power cell), when you have returned scan the harvester and the belt or object you want to mine's ID.
- Click the harvester and put transfer a powercell or two.
- Now you need the system chat window open for the telnet commands.
- Firstly use the /telnet status <harvester id> to make sure you can talk to it. You should get a reply similar to this : ID: ## | Type: 0 | Power: 0 | Target: 0| Active: 0
- Now type /telnet power <harvester id> - this turns on the power. a response will be given : ID: ## Power on Successful.
- Now we need to set a target, to do this type in /telnet target <belt/object id> <harvester id> - You should get some responses saying the id and target have been found and that the range are within parameters.
- Now that the power is on, target is set it is time to activate! Type /telnet activate <harvester id> and it should start working away. Use /telnet status <harvester id> to get it's current power, active state and target to make sure its working away.
harvester efficiency ratios: mining speed & power consumption
| mk1 | 20 | 0 | |
| mk2 | 50 | 2,5x | |
| mk3 | 100 | 5x | |
| mk4 | 200 | = | 10x |