Guides/Electronics and Automation

**This is a Guide page.**This means the page will walk you through a specific task and/or strategy.
**Electronics** **and automation** consist of all electronic components from both the electronics table and automation table.

## **Mining Automation**

### **Basic Installation**

Drills are the electronic blocks that you are likely to use most often, to mine the ore boulders available in all biomes.

It is therefore important to know how to set up a rapid and efficient mining or even foundry system using an arm collecting the ores and transporting them to a furnace. (see picture to the left)

### **Advanced**

To avoid saturating the furnace, it is also possible to add an arm facing the furnace, with a chest behind it, allowing the furnace to be unloaded and the ingots stored in it. (see picture to the right)

It is also best to secure your mining device, as some mobs can destroy it. For this you can surround it with a wall, or ensure that you destroyed all enemy spawn blocks on the ground.

if you want more precision on how boulder mining works check out this guide by ZeroGravitas : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2806120066

## Root Automation

The following are automation methods used for farming Wood, Coral Wood and Gleam Wood. These setups can be easily modified to incorporate Table Saws for seamless automation of Planks, Coral Planks and Gleam Wood Planks.

### Simple/Inefficient Setup

This is a simple automation setup for root farming. Electrical Wire used to power the drills can be placed beneath the Conveyor Belts to allow for a more compact setup.

### **Advanced/Efficient Setup**

While the simple setup is easy to implement, it is not high yielding. The following is a setup that utilizes the growing mechanics of roots for a much higher yield.

This advanced automation does require some setup work, as simply planting the roots and letting them grow can result in gaps in the roots, (as seen below) due to how root plants decide where to place the next growth. Roots will not grow directly beside any other root, so making sure they initially grow in straight lines is important.

Because of this, it is helpful to start with a single root to frame the growth paths.

There are limitations in how far the roots from a single root plant can grow, so the main root plant system will need to be added part way through to complete the setup. Make sure these new root plants are planted strategically, so that they do not cause early wood growth further down that will create gaps and prevent complete growth of the roots. After the main root plant system is in place, the root plant used for framing can be removed if desired.

Using this method, much larger and higher yielding root farms can be planted.

See ZeroGravitas's guide, which this was based on, for more in-depth information: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2802836829

## Electronic Circuits

### Logic Gates

If you wanna get into electronic circuits and advanced electronics, you need to learn the basics of logic circuits.

Here are all the different truth tables, and a picture representing all of them using the electronic blocks of the game.