Creating a Robot Mining Fleet

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Robot miners can't carry much fuel, which means they won't go far by themselves. To assemble and launch a robot mining fleet:

1.        Merge your mining ships into a fleet with at least one freighter. The freighter typically will be able to carry enough fuel for the fleet to reach its destination.

2.        Assign the planet to be mined as the waypoint, with orders to carry out remote mining.

3.        When the fleet reaches the planet to be mined, split the miners and freighters back into separate fleets.

4.        Select the freighter fleet and assign a circuitous route with waypoints at the planet(s) to receive the minerals, ending with the mining fleet as the last waypoint. At the mining fleet waypoint assign a transport order that causes the minerals to be loaded from the miner to the freighter in the most optimum way possible.

When you set the mining fleet as the waypoint instead of the planet the mining fleet is orbiting, the freighter will automatically follow the mining fleet wherever you send it.