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An Agent is an entity that picks blocks, on behalf of one or more diggers, and starts generating transactions. It reads the dependencies to get available blocks, and the incentives to rank them, then picks the highest ranked block. An Agent will continue to pick blocks during a period until stopped by Dependencies or Constraints.

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Description

Name

Checking the Use as Agent option in the Loader Types setup step establishes one-to-one relationship and results in a linked Fleet and linked Agent being automatically added to the project whose name match that of the loader type. 

Stockpile Reclaimer is an Agent used only for material movements between Stockpiles and Crushers. It is added to the list of Agents by default.

Image

Image assigned to the agent and used in the Animation:

Loader

Shovel

Excavator

Drill

Dozer

Quantity Field

Select Quantity Field for each Agent.

Proportional Extraction

Warning

Be careful using the Proportional Extraction setting. It is a specific tool that affects your schedule speed significantly, by making selected Agent to mine every material in multiple passes instead of one pass.

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