[posila] [1.1] Spidertron logistics doesn't consider in-flight construction robots

[wobbycarly]

I have Spidertron Extended mod, and am using a Spidertron Mk3. I've filtered some inventory space for robots, and set the request for 400 robots. However, I noticed that the Spidertron occasionally overfills with robots. It seems that if I'm in a logistics network, when the robots fly out to do work, the logistic system doesn't count working robots, and sends replacements. The working robots then fly back in, and I have too many.

I don't know how to make a movie of this happening, but I have some screenshots.

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Does anyone have any ideas as to whether:
a) this is a bug with Factorio core
b) this is expected behaviour
c) something is wrong with the way I've configured my logistics request/inventory filters
d) it's a bug with Spidertron Extended

Thanks.

[Klonan]

The bots leave the inventory to go construct things, so the spider requests more
Then the bots return from their job

[wobbycarly]

The bots leave the inventory to go construct things, so the spider requests more
Then the bots return from their job

As I suspected, but this is different behaviour to what happens in a player's inventory... shouldn't it be consistent?

[Klonan]

The bots leave the inventory to go construct things, so the spider requests more
Then the bots return from their job

As I suspected, but this is different behaviour to what happens in a player's inventory... shouldn't it be consistent?

I thought it didn't but yes it does, there is some special logic for characters, I think it should also work for spiders, so I will move this to bug reports

For programmer, the special logic is done in:

Logistics\LogisticNetwork.cpp::1077
LogisticNetwork::FillResult LogisticNetwork::fillRequesters

and for the GUI in:

Gui\ChooseLogisticRequestButton.cpp::232
ItemCountType ChooseLogisticRequestButton::getCountInInventory

[wobbycarly]

Since I started with 0.14, the response from you Dev team has been nothing but awesome the whole time. Thanks!

[posila]

Thanks for the report and thank you Klonan for investigating and triaging this.
Fixed for 1.1.4