Changelog

Version: 2.1.28
Date: 12.09.2025
  Changes:
    - Disabled the autopilot line on map view
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed the event filters that caused issues when placing other entities

Version: 2.1.27
Date: 12.09.2025
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed an crash when placing space platform tiles

Version: 2.1.26
Date: 10.09.2025
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed error when mining ghost entities

Version: 2.1.25
Date: 06.09.2025
  Changes:
    - Capsules now use the new icons
    - Changed sentry types to spider-unit to make them more useful.
    - Capsules can now be placed as ghosts, allowing them to be placed in remote view

Version: 2.1.24
Date: 18.03.2025
  Changes:
    - Combat Robots will now slowly take damage when being inside an ash cloud from a demolisher

Version: 2.1.23
Date: 17.03.2025
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed a bug which caused captured biter nests not being removed from the target list

Version: 2.1.22
Date: 06.12.2024
  Changes:
    - Added the empty Layers due pathfinding issues again

Version: 2.1.21
Date: 04.12.2024
  Changes:
    - Removed the lack of collision layers from the combat robots. They are now vulnerable to demolishers attacks.
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed Issue with the Clean command

Version: 2.1.20
Date: 21.11.2024
  Bugfixes:
    - Removed "player-creation" from spider leg to remove the blue squares

Version: 2.1.19
Date: 20.11.2024
  Bugfixes:
    - Restored Destroyer damage back to 20
    - Disabled Vanilla robot recipes that were active in game

Version: 2.1.18
Date: 20.11.2024
  Changes:
    - Fixed Vanilla Robots receipes showing despite being disabled
    - Cleaned up Factoriopedia
  Bugfixes:
    - Robots do not create ghosts upon death anymore

Version: 2.1.17
Date: 10.11.2024
  Changes:
    - Quality now applies to combat robots
    - Added custom command that cleans invalid data. Used by entering /clean_invalid_data in console
    - Adjusted the recipes slightly
    - Active-defense-equipment of destroyer and defender units replaced with guns due quality
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed a bug where the segments of a demolisher caused the game to crash.

Version: 2.1.16
Date: 05.11.2024
  Changes:
    - Replaced destroyer prerequisite from follower-robot-count-4 with defender
    - Replaced destroyer prerequisite in electric-weapons-damage-1 with defender

Version: 2.1.15
Date: 02.11.2024
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed Crash when selecting destroyer & destroyer units with blueprint item by making them not blueprintable
    - Fixed Crash when playing PvP which caused invalid units to not be removed from the group
    - Added Migration to 2.1.15

Version: 2.1.14
Date: 29.10.2024
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed first sprite rendering of defender robot.

Version: 2.1.13
Date: 26.10.2024
  Bufifxes:
    - Fixed Crash when loading Prototype definition

Version: 2.1.12
Date: 25.10.2024
  Bugfixes:
    - When Combat Robots are damaged they show the correct icon in the alert

Version: 2.1.11
Date: 25.10.2024
  Bugfixes:
    - Worms now target combat robots again

Version: 2.1.10
Date: 21.10.2024
  Info:
    - Updated for Factorio 2.0.
  Changes:
    - Increased health of Sentry Robots from 100 to 180 to reflect the changes done in Space Age
    - Added Pentapods and Demolisher to the enemy list

Version: 2.1.9
Date: 02.01.2023
  Compatibility:
    - Fixed an issue with space exploration which caused the game to crash when landing a spaceship. Unfortunatly, due to the workings of space exploration, all combat robots will be removed upon landing. 
  Interfaces:
    - Added a interface which returns the targetList. To get the list, use e.g. remote.call("combat-robot-overhaul", "get_targetList", surface_index = 1). Surface_index can be omitted to get the list for all surfaces.

Version: 2.1.8
Date: 29.11.2022
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed an issue which caused the key-shortcut to not work
  Changes:
    - Defender Units now incorporate social distance from the players again
    - Default social distance is now set to 0 (so the player is in the middle)

Version: 2.1.7
Date: 19.11.2022
  Changes:
    - Removed some non-essential code

Version: 2.1.6
Date: 17.11.2022
  Changes:
    - Fixed a bug which caused the game to crash when the player died right before the combat robot could spawn

Version: 2.1.5
Date: 16.11.2022
  Changes:
    - Undid a change which caused the game to crash when the defender units attempted to defend something

Version: 2.1.4
Date: 12.11.2022
  Changes:
    - Fixed Bug which caused projectiles to vanish when spawning capsules in short order
    - Combat Robots will now spawn directly when flying with a jeptack. This is done to prevent a crash which happens when the player is damaged right after he has thrown a capsule but the entity hasn't spawned yet.

Version: 2.1.3
Date: 25.10.2022
  Changes:
    - Hopefully decreased the load time when deleting a lot of chunks

Version: 2.1.2
Date: 30.08.2022
  Changes:
    - Fixed an issue which caused units to not target nearest enemies while traveling
    - Changed the name of walls in exclude settings to stone-walls so defender-units don't defend them

Version: 2.1.1
Date: 10.08.2022
  Changes:
    - Fixed a bug which caused defender units to not defend the base

Version: 2.1.0
Date: 03.08.2022
  Changes:
    - Balanced the speed of defender units when attacking so they don't overshoot their target all the time
    - Hopefully fixed a bug where destoryer units got stuck for a long time and were destroyed one by one
    - Adjusted the destroyer units behaviour so they spread out more and don't clump together
    - Fixed bug where thrown capsules weren't counted towards the overall combatrobot follower count, thus allowing to have more bots than the limit
    - Increased performance when scanning area with lots of biter nests

Version: 2.0.10
Date: 26.07.2022
  Changes:
    - Registered worms and nests via game script so they are removed from the target list if another mods replaces or destroys them

Version: 2.0.9
Date: 05.12.2021
  Changes:
    - Disabled the corpse parameter on destroyer and defender units which led to the creation of two corpses for one unit
    - Thanks to Gelion17 the mod now has russian localization.

Version: 2.0.8
Date: 24.11.2021
  Changes:
    - Fixed a bug which occured when the base was attacked by invalid entities

Version: 2.0.7
Date: 17.11.2021
  Changes:
    - Fixed a Bug which caused the game to crash when all destroyer untis were destroyed 
    - Changed the reference for maximum_following_robot_count from the global force to the player force

Version: 2.0.6
Date: 16.11.2021
  Changes:
    - Fixed Bug which caused the game to crash when all defender units were destroyed

Version: 2.0.5
Date: 31.10.2021
  Changes:
    - Fixed Bug where Sentry Units didn't do any on_entity_damaged
    - Changed the base defense code of defender-units to make it more similar to the behavior of destroyer units 
    - Changed the move_to_target offset to a random number between -10 and 10 instead of the distance between group_position and unit
    - Cleaned up Code

Version: 2.0.4
Date: 15.10.2021
  Changes:
    - Replaced the Destroyer Unit prototypes with Spider Vehicle to improve the pathfinding and combat mechanics of the destroyer unit
    - Changed the attack as well as the defeding behaviour of destroyer and defender units

Version: 2.0.3
Date: ????
  Changes:
    - Removed the "destroyer" prerequisite from Follower-Robot-Count-5

Version: 2.0.2
Date: ????
  Changes:
    - Fixed Crash on_entity_damaged

Version: 2.0.1
Date: 07.09.2021
  Changes:
    - Changed Defender Units from Type "Unit" to "Spider Vehicle"
    - Overhauled the entire code base
    - Added Surface filters to targetList as well as Unit Groups (This should make it compatible with mods who change the surface like Space Exploration"
    - Added Compability Patch for "Industrial Revolution 2" and "Un-Minable Bots"

Version: 1.0.9
Date: 30.08.2021
  Changes:
    - Fixed Issue with invalid unitgroup on various occasions

Version: 1.0.8 
Date: 23.06.2021
  Changes:
    - Removed Destroyer Capsule from prequiste for max-follower-update-5  
    - Fixed Crash when moving backwards in crash
    - Fixed Crash when deploying new units when previous group was pdestroyed

Version: 1.0.7 
Date: 29.04.2021
  Changes:
    - Fixed Issue with the defense Exlusion List

Version: 1.0.6
Date: 20.04.2021
  Changes:
    - Fixed Issue when mining defender units

Version: 1.0.5
Date: 20.04.2021
  Changes:
    - Changed the vision distance & attack range of destroyer unit.

Version: 1.0.4
Date: 19.04.2021
  Changes:
    - Fixed crash when mining units.

Version: 1.0.3
Date: 18.04.2021
  Changes:
    - Fixed missing unit sounds.

Version: 1.0.2
Date: 17.04.2021
  Changes:
    - Fixed issue with defender and sentry units not attacking
    - Fixed issue with event filter not working properly

Version: 1.0.1
Date: 16.04.2021
  Changes:
    - Initial Release