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As your operation grows in SpaceCraft, automation lets you scale beyond what you can do by hand. It is how mining and production keep running while you focus on strategy and expansion.
Automating Production
As you progress on your journey, you can maximize efficiency and expand the scale of your enterprise by automating your production. You set up automated mining systems, build interplanetary logistics networks, and create supply chains to fuel your growing industry.
Drones and Cargo Ships
Automation is carried out by your fleet of helpers. You establish production and delivery lines with drones and cargo ships to automate and improve mining, extraction, and logistics operations. Drones and cargo ships move materials so that production and delivery continue without you piloting every run. These delivery lines tie your bases together. See Base Building.
What Automation Covers
System | Purpose |
|---|---|
Automated mining | Keep extracting raw materials without constant manual input. |
Production and delivery lines | Drones and cargo ships move goods and feed production automatically. |
Interplanetary logistics networks | Move goods between planets and systems automatically. |
Supply chains | Feed raw materials and parts into ongoing production. |
Why Automate
Automation lets you optimize resource extraction, streamline production, and let automation handle the heavy lifting while you focus on strategy and expansion. Instead of personally mining every load, you build systems that produce continuously, which is essential for running a large industry.
Automation, Trade, and Corporations
Automated production and logistics make large-scale trade and organization practical. A steady automated supply of materials and parts feeds the marketplace, and within a Corporation, shared logistics let many players coordinate interplanetary operations. See Trading and the Player-Driven Economy and Corporations and Co-op.