Updated Construction Drones - Forked


Adds ground based construction robots. A repackage the original mod by Klonan. Forked to fix some long-standing issues. Now with quality support Note: Quality drones only work with the default quality values. Mods that rename quality or add more qualities will not work.

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b Repair travels too far away

4 days ago

Same issue like it was with building - bots looking for repair far-far away of player. Can you pls make the same changes for repairing, with configuration in settings?
And also is there any way to adjust the distance from which bots can build? Sometimes they struggles to build right next (behind) to the wall and tried to find a way around the wall?

4 days ago

The distance they check for repairs should be the same as the distance to check for builds, so I'm not sure why it would be looking further for repairs.

Also, I couldn't find a good solution for build distance. Drones can pass through gates, so you could try those.
Otherwise, I was thinking about adding a new "Spectral Drones" tech that allows drones to pass through objects.
Thoughts?

3 days ago

will be good! if you at all add this mod to the tech tree in early stages - it will be match with this SpectralDrones tech. Yuo can build the dedicated tech tree branch for this.
I think drones itself could be add as part of Automation research - as dependant tech. And you will be allowed to use 2 of them at the begining.
Then, you can add the progression of how much drones you can have simultaneously, starting from 2 and adding by 1-2 per tech to cap at 10, I think. Maybe stretch this improvements to blue science. Maybe finished this with unlim count under production science. Spectral mode could be, for example, under military science.
Also this can be configurable option, for those who dont like vanilla robots or want more than 10))

(again, very thanks for supporting this mod!!!)

2 days ago

Tried to do what I can. let me know what you think.
The "spectral" drones are under space science, since I don't think they should be available until you've either made it to space, or completed vanilla, and the max drones is 20, before the "unlimited" tech, which is also under space science

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