Companion Drones for 2.0


Tired of the lonely factory life? This drone(s) will follow, assist, and protect you, handling construction, repairs, combat, and manage its inventory all by itself. Toggle between building and combat roles on the fly with hotkeys or the shortcut bar, fine-tune its behavior with customizeable options, and toggle between Modes to enable progression over time or to make the mod more suitable for large modpacks like Angels or Bob's. Maintained by Maoman

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9 months ago
2.0
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b Borked stuff that i encountered

3 days ago

cool mod, but tis very borked at the moment, sadly
its not a bug report per se, i just want to document, in one place, some borked stuff that i personally encountered and confirmed, in case peps dont want to dig through ~10 months old threads
all this is with base game mods and two qol mods - Elevated Rails, Quality, Space Age, Squeak Through 2, Bottleneck Lite

blueprints error - been reported many times already, can happen with a simple balancer or with a train station blueprint, i did not catch any pattern
one workaround i found is to disable construction for the drone, place the blueprint and enable it again

drone getting stuck - i usually start using ghosts early and plan my base basically from the start, so when i finally get my stuff to build with and enable construction on the drone - very frequently it fucks off to the farthest possible ghost, builds it and gets stuck
workaround - disabling and enabling construction makes the drone come back, but it usually just fucks off again and gets stuck again lol
another workaround - if i stay close to the drone it works perfectly, but whats the point of me babysitting it, i installed the mod for the exact opposite reason, might as well just build everything meself lol

drone getting stuck 2 - same as before, but with deconstruction - i mark a bunch of trees and/or rocks for deconstruction, and if they happen to be far away from me - drone fucks off and usually gets stuck, but not always, fucking magic if you ask me
workaround - same as before

drone getting stuck 3 - drone consistently gets stuck if its inventory gets full
workaround - manually empty its inventory, but again - babysitting, might as well do everything meself

UPS - when i tried to upgrade ~10k buldings at once(was transitioning from t2 to t3, still havent built bots, so it was just me and the drone) - game was struggling, hard, and its not like UPS just dropped ~20 points and thats it, no - there were heavy stutter when the drone was moving, very strange behaviour

some minor stuff - combat loop - poor guy having a PTSD episode when he tries to go into combat lol, fueling loop - drone infinitely tries to refuel(yes, i have eligible fuel in my inventory), but this stuff is VERY rare and fixes itself after some time, again - fucking magic lol

on a side note - i liked the challenge mode, cool idea, good implementation
and thanks to the maintainer - great effort my man, o7

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