A spidertron with an assembling machine for a body. Drive it anywhere, pick a recipe, and it crafts from its own trunk.

How it works

• Open the spider and an Assembler window appears next to it with a recipe picker, progress bar and status.
• Ingredients are taken from the trunk; results go back into the trunk. Logistic requests and trash slots work as normal, so robots can keep it supplied and emptied.
• Crafts at assembling machine 3 speed (1.25) and can make anything an assembling machine 3 can, except recipes with fluids.
• Changing the recipe or picking the spider up mid-craft refunds the ingredients.

Power

Uses 375 kW from the equipment grid: reactors and solar panels first, then batteries, then other equipment's charge. Low power slows crafting down. There's a map setting to make crafting free.

Recipe

1 Spidertron + 1 Assembling machine 3, unlocked by the Spidertron technology. If you add the mod to a save where Spidertron is already researched, the recipe is unlocked automatically.

Notes

• The crafting animation plays all the time, not only while working.
• No guns. It's an assembler, not a combat spider.
• Recipes run at normal quality.