Spidertron Follow


DEPRECATED since Factorio 1.1 added this functionality in vanilla. Spidertron units can be attached to players via the remote to automatically follow the player.

Utilities
4 years ago
1.0
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g Attach to vehicles, and formation

4 years ago
(updated 4 years ago)

Thx for this Mod, It makes the Spidertron a true Robot slave xD
I have 2 Suggestions to make this even better in my opinion. Let us attach this babys to vehicles and trains.
Second, if you attach more Spidertrons to yourself -because who doesn't want a big army of those following-can you make them take different spots around the player? maybe even different formation? defense = circle around the master (Me). Attack = Line in front of player.
Right now it's just a giant blob xD

4 years ago

Great ideas! :)

I've thought about attaching the spiders to non-player entities, but that will likely require a greater amount of idle processing due to polling for the entity positions.
Currently I've restricted the mod to only run on event triggers, which means it doesn't do any processing when it's not in use. These events include: using the spidertron remote, and player movement.
While I do want to implement this feature, I'd have to design a clean way to detect other entity movements (vehicles, trains, etc.) to ensure there isn't any unnecessary processing.

As for the group formations, that's certainly do-able. I'll try to add it when I get some time again, but it might be a little while till then. :)

Thanks for the feedback!

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