Just recieved a patch to factorio, 18.43, and the drones no longer seems to operate. They take stuff from the inventory and go to a blueprint or repair but gets stuck. Anyone else having this problem?

yes, can confirm the bug

Yep, they don´t move and they cannot get back into inventory.

Having the same issue -- if you pick them back up manually they'll try to place another item but get stuck again.

And how stupid was I saving the world with the new patch, getting used to manually do stuff when building a huge city is a pain lol. Tried to reinstall the mods but it didn't help - so don't bother with that.

after the update, the drones stand still, doing nothing. when will the problem be solved ?! can we somehow help with this ?!

After a little fiddling with unit.contruction_drone.attack_parameters, I couldn't seem to find any combination of values that works, so it's likely a slightly more complicated problem than just increasing the range by n.

Ran in this too. Bots just pick up item, can't place it, and just hangs.

Yes same thing, affected not only this mod, also "Robot Army" mod fail to set robots to patrol. Think it is issue in a game core (script handling ?)
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How I handled it was that I downgraded the version of Factorio to 18.42

This was apparently a bug introduced by that game version, not something related to mod api changes. There was something in the 18.44 bugfixes, but it's not quite OK yet.

Same

Cross-posting from https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Construction_Drones/discussion/5f2c4d9d3f87ac176455fba5

You can download the mod with my proposed fixes here https://github.com/oiltanker/Construction_Drones/tree/feature/fix-0.18.43, report any encountered issues here https://github.com/Klonan/Construction_Drones/pull/17 or here https://github.com/Klonan/Construction_Drones/issues/18 or link me forum threads.