The Author of this mods has not logged in for quite a while
Still the mod works fine even with the newest patches
This is a living Guide. If you have a question, just fire away and I will try to explain if I can

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Major Update: Apex Survival

9th September 2025 -> checkrun: all works fine for me (quickCheck, more later)


I have a savegame to Test with

Ship: Atmosphere Flying Ship (Miner)
-> 4 drills
-> Batterie powered (set to charge when at base else on auto
-> Emergency Reactor (you never know)
-> Uranium refilled when docked (auto)
-> ore unloaded on docking and processed in base (auto)

Ship: Atmosphere Flying Ship (Welder)
-> 2 welders
-> Batterie powered (set to charge when at base else on auto)
-> Emergency Reactor (you never know)
-> Uranium refilled when docked (auto)
-> Welding material will be loaded when (auto)
-> Stone will be pooped out (manual - poop/nopoop)

Ship: Atmosphere Flying Ship (Cargo)
-> heavy
-> Batterie powered (set to charge when at base else on auto)
-> Emergency Reactor (you never know)
-> Uranium refilled when docked
-> Cargo will be filled at remote drilling plattform (auto)
-> Cargo will be emptied at base (auto)


Base
* 6 Refinaries (3 for Iron/Nickel and 3 for the rest of the ores. All have 4Yield-Modules)
* 1 Industrial Refinary (MOD)
* 4 Assembler in Coop Mode
* BigContainer for Ore and Ice
* BigContainer for Ingots
* BigContainer for Components
* SmallContainer (drive by grab - for Components I often use)
* and much much more

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The Author has not logged in for years.
Bottles were added to SE and could not be routed
A Fork was created and fixed that Problem
Use the Fork and only the fork. You do not need the Original Mod

Automated Inventory Sorting Munchy's Fork BETA - This is the version that I use.
USE THIS MOD - DO NOT INSTALL MORE THAN ONE VERSION
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL PLUS ALL THE LATEST FIXES
THIS IS A MOD AND NOT A SCRIPT!
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3398281115


Automated Inventory Sorting Munchy's Fork
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2593266146


This is the Original MOD (outdated!)
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=321588701

• subscribe to the mod in workshop for Space Engineers
  
• Start Space Engineers
  
• from the Mainscreen go to LOAD
  
• click your savegame and chose EDIT then MODS
  
• Add Mod "Automated Inventory Sorting Munchy's Fork" by highlighting it and klick arrow poiting right

Confirm that you have "Automated Inventory Sorting Munchy's Fork" on the right side and leave via OK
Load your savegame and start a simple 2 container test

1. KISS - keep it simple stupid
   
   I recommend to start simple (2 container, 1 tube) and expand on that
   
   container01-tube-container02
   
   Add a sort string to container02
   Name the container "container02 [ore]" (without the quotation marks!)
   
   Now you have this setup
   
   container01-tube-container02 [ore]
   
   Put ore in container01 and see if it gets sorted to container02
   Does it work? Hurray!
   
   Not working?
   
   • check if mod is loaded for your savegame
     
   • check for any typos in the names of the containers
     
   • curse, breath, chocolate, beer or whatever cools you down
     
   • check again
   
   Ice counts as Ore and maybe you want no Ice?
   Then you can add an 'ignore' tag for that
   
   container01-tube-container02 [ore, ignore:ice]
   
   
   

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2. Lets step up a little by adding a connector
   
   connector-container01-tube-container02
   
   Place ore in the connecter and see if it ends up in container2

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If you get stuck, I will try to help! this mod is awesome!:lunar2019grinningpig:

I have

1 Big Container for Ore and Ice
1 Big Container for ingots
1 Small Container for components

1 Small Container in the area where I am working (holds a bit basics)



Hint: You can set a general limit and overrule it for special components!
This gets you 5 of every Construction Component but 150 Steelplates

Assemblers do not need any special setup
-> Just make sure you have "Use Conveyer" turned ON in their config
They should pull the ingots themselfs then

You can name a CargoContainer to pull all components to that container

My Assemblers are named the same with no AIS tags
.Assembler01
.Assembler02
.Assembler03
.Assembler04
.Assembler05
.Assembler06

I have 6 because I use them in cooperative mode (vanilla feature)
This way I can request 1000 Steelplates in Assembler01 and the other Assembler help making them
You can set cooperative mode in the config of the Assemblers (where you set "Use Conveyers ON")

3 Refinaries take Iron, Nickel and Scrap
They only take 500 units at a time of each


3 Refinaries take the rest of the Ores

They all have full set of Efficancy Moduls!

IMPORTANT
All are set to "Use Conveyor System OFF" (They are managed by AIS and not SE)

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My Atmospheric Mining Ship has 2 connectors
1 to hand over ores to the base and refill ice&uranium
1 to dumb out Stone

Since Strone is handled very special in SE you have to use a little trick to dumb ONLY stone

Basicly I have a routing Conveyer that has its filter set to stone

DRILLS --- CONTAINERS --- CONNECTOR --- ROUTING CONVEYER - CONNECTOR

The Drills have no special setup and use the normal conveyor setting to export their ores
The Containers have low priority. All my ship-container have 20 or above
The Connector have no special entries

I use a connector to drop stone
-> can hold more stone and drop bigger chunks. overall its faster

I bound the stone dropping connector to the hotbar of the ship, so I can toggle if stone gets dropped

To export the ore to my base, I connect the ship to the base and I am done

Ship Container have Prio 20 and the Ore container in the Base has 10

So all Ores get sucked into that big container in my base

Remember
20 is lower that 10! Priority 1 is the highest!

A WelderShip needs materials to the welding
My Ship has 1 Welder and 1 Grinder

Which and how many you choose depends on what you are building

Each time you connect to your base AIS will try to fullfill the request
until there is no more material or the container is full

Basic setup with 2 containers on a small ship
Both containers are not full to let place if you grind down something

I yet have to find a way to push out excess components when docking....
If you have an idea, please let me know

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My WelderShip has 2 LCD

The first display holds some basic information

The list of components can be long,
The other Display consists of 2 linked LCD

This is how you link LCDs by naming them
See more details in the LCD MOD description


Only the first of the linked LCD gets custom data
Rest are following the first and have empty custom data
This displays the components your ship has loaded
the quota can be changed in the LCD script in the ship programmable Block
be careful when editing the script :D

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Setting up turrets is quite Easy

In each Turret config -> Use Conveyor OFF

each turret stocks 3 ammo-cases

1. Tests were reported MOD is not working at all
   Played for several hours. Did some mining flights.
   checked assemblers, furnaces, refinaries
   I had to update my LCD script because it was outdated. not related to sorting, only display
   
   Result: works fine! Ship gets unloaded, reactor refilled, cargo sorted, ore processed
   

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2. 1. Does not work with Piston, Connectors
   
   No script, no tricks, just the inv sorting mod
   https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2231956628
   
   Result: works fine! Ship gets unloaded and reactor refilled
   

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Definatly this for totally awesome LCD displays!

1. Put down a programmable block
   
2. Load the programm, Edit the name of the LCD tag it should handle, save
   -> public string LCD_TAG = "T:[LCDbase]";
   
3. Edit the Name of the LCDs that the programm should handle (use the name from previous step)
   
   
4. Edit the custom field of the LCD to select what should be displayed
   
   All my LCDs have similar names, so are together in overview. All have [LCDbase] in their name
   
   "Base LCD Large 01 [LCDbase]"
   Custom Data Entry
   
   Inventory * Ore
   
   "Base LCD Large 02 [LCDbase]"
   Custom Data Entry
   
   Power
   
   "Base LCD Large 03 [LCDbase]"
   Custom Data Entry
   
   InventoryX * Ingot Echo Echo Echo Power Stored in Batteries PowerStored Base
   
   "Base LCD Large 04 [LCDbase]"
   Custom Data Entry
   
   Working Centrifuge Working Assembler Working Arc Working Refinery01 Working Refinery02 Working Welder
   
   "Base LCD Large 05 [LCDbase]"
   Custom Data
   
   Tanks Base Hydrogen Echo Echo Ship01 PowerStored Ship01 Echo Echo Ride PowerStored Ride
   
   Ride: my ground vehicle
   Ship01: my flying ship
   
   All LCD names are used WITHOUT quotation marks!
   
   See Screenshot to look what their outputs are
   There are tons of keywords to chose from! All explained in guide of the mod

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=822950976

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Which other functional MODs do I like?

This for its stackable Wind-Harvesters and Mast
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1668945384

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This for Solars following sun
Works well with the Mast from "Stackable Wind Turbines"

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1728457223

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This for Elevator - Does not work on moving ships!

1. Place lowest Floor
   
2. Place cabin above it
   
3. Place space
   
4. Place middle floors as needed
   
5. Place top floor exit
   
6. DONE

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1154898843

My thanks to all mods and all helping to make Space Engineers even better

by writing mods
by comments
by suggestion
by reporting bugs

It is easy to miss something, so if something I wrote is confusing/untrue. please let me know

ty and have a fine day! :lunar2019grinningpig:

checkrun 27th june 2021 -> all still runs fine for me
* this is a mod, not a script! Just add the mod and name the containers und machines
* use the 'bottle-fix' version (it fixes bottles and replaces original mod)
http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1301767562
* my little nuts and bolts guide
http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2232184310