The bots will just go to nearest storage chest that has one of the item type in it already, or nearest empty. With the Logistics section of your inventory, you can have a set amount of any item and your bots will keep you topped off. They won't, however, take any excess you have unless you manually ...

It's more of a synchronized thing. The second you loaded the map, it's already changed. Aliens moved, belts are moving, materials are moving - something somewhere is moving & changing.........therefore when someone joins, it needs to sync to exactly what the map is now, not 5 or 10 or even 1 sec...

What if you manually put in an item, thus making it the closest storage chest of that particular item?

Geez, I just call my saves Home_01 & Work_03 and such...........my creativity went towards music, not naming things lol

Looks like you're all set for king of the mountain.

-forgetting that tank/car steering is different from character movement and taking out some buildings in your base when driving south and wanting to steer left or right I finally built my first tank and was all happy........10 seconds later I had already taken out some poles and a building. I laugh...

Looks like you're slowly getting more sleep. Unacceptable!!!

Pick one of y'all to be the host. Preferably someone with port forwarding ability if necessary. Once the host starts it up, tell them to find their ip address (plenty of websites, search whatismyip). After the host is setup and in-game, the others will hit Connect and enter the IP with the port (341...