Firstly I'd like to state that I am aware that autominers without depletion falls into the same category as POI refreshes which are essential for most servers. However, on smaller servers/singleplayer the focus is mostly exploration with a possible nomad style play. In those scenarios ore depletion makes for a much more interesting game. Sadly autominers does not seem to be that useful compared to just mining out the ores by hand or with a vessel. As a short term solution we can make the autominers better. For example, the T1 minder can extract x2 the ores from a node, T2 x4 and T3 x8, taking respectively x2, x4 and x8 longer. Having this option configurable at autominer level similar to the AutoMinerFactor for ores would be great for fine-tuning servers and singleplayer games. Now, this is of course nowhere near as interesting as creating mining facilities and processing plants that needs defending. It is however a small step filling the gap between boring autominer runs vs mining out a newly discovered deposit in 5 minutes Edit : Multiple Miners Also an option to remove the restriction of a single miner per person per node will be appreciated. There is definitely no need for that restriction in single player or coop multiplayer.
