... oh oh, and they could do **something** for the logistic system
Possibly in exchange for nutrients


Electricity, rather!
Being from Fulgora, it makes sence that they would like electricity
An upgraded organic roboport that used them as bots would be amazing (unlocked on Fulgora with some Gleba stuff)

... dimension the threshold to your base and scale it up. And you can combine it with a buffer chest per robotport, so if you have 4 for construction bots, you could store 10K bots and still have some room to handle large bursts.

If you go this way , you can combine with requests of 50 bots or ...

I feel you can use 2 different roboports to add bots in your network, one for logistic, one for construction , each with a request of 350 of their respective kind of bot, this way it's not possible for one kind of bot to nest in the wrong roboport and prevent the addition of new bots of of the other ...

For example, let's say you have a moderately developed base with 10,000 logistics and 30,000 construction bots. You undertake a very large construction project, and all 30,000 construction bots are in the air. You may want to add more... but your logistics bots are currently relatively dormant, and ...

Ranakastrasz wrote: Sun Sep 06, 2026 5:50 am Admittedly, you would then have to ban all robot types then.

Unless mods are involved, that's just 2 requests: Logibots, Any quality, Max 0, and Construction bots, Any quality, Max 0.

... of "iron ore" that is requested by the landing pad, this way there will be less "burst" and more constant stream to just reduce the number of bots doing silly things. Or just "not request" iron from logistic, if you already have inserter extracting it from the landing pad, belt it to the ...

... chest creates friction when designing logistics networks; it's a quirk of the building caused by a feature that seems like it's great ("hurray, bots can pull items from the landing pad!") but not as robust as it needs to be to get out of the way.

In my specific case, I have requester chests for ...

The first thing I tried was to set a request for Max 0 robots, and it didn't work. That would probably be the most obvious way to do it, since it mirrors how all other logistic requests work.


Yeah, the way the requests work is that defines the minimum request. Like, if you set "50 logistics bots ...

... area set up to load 1k iron plates into its buffer chests. A ship comes in requesting iron plates, so it the request is assigned to a silo and bots start transferring iron there. Midway through, an inserter grabs a handful of plates to be turned into gears, which takes you below 1k total iron ...

Meta

Related but different prior suggestion; 689209

What?

nothingrobots.png

Why?

uncommonbots.png

Currently I use Uncommon Logistics Bots to force a Roboport to be empty.
This is the same underlying idea behind the Deconstruction Planner filter for Splitter trick; it's an impossible ...

... area set up to load 1k iron plates into its buffer chests. A ship comes in requesting iron plates, so it the request is assigned to a silo and bots start transferring iron there. Midway through, an inserter grabs a handful of plates to be turned into gears, which takes you below 1k total iron ...

... area set up to load 1k iron plates into its buffer chests. A ship comes in requesting iron plates, so it the request is assigned to a silo and bots start transferring iron there. Midway through, an inserter grabs a handful of plates to be turned into gears, which takes you below 1k total iron ...

... on the way' is defined to start from the moment the request to launch a rocket is made, and thus includes rockets that currently being loaded by bots, or which are fully loaded but cannot launch. This can result in platforms getting stuck in orbit if:
There was enough of an item in the logistics ...

Thank you for the report, fixed for 2.1.18.

... and can't control where it goes, and the same applies to the ground.

The exact opposite is the case: on the ground if anything discards any items bots will deliver them to open requests from blue chests, then green, then yellow chest with selection, then unmarked yellow chests. And in that order ...

... can't control where it goes, and the same applies to the ground.


The exact opposite is the case: on the ground if anything discards any items bots will deliver them to open requests from blue chests, then green, then yellow chest with selection, then unmarked yellow chests. And in that order ...

Ref.: 135773

... write, write the same logistic_network to all non robot entities inside the logistic supply radius (I'm unsure if the roboport keeps track of the bots it's sent, I don't think so). Though the logic for merging networks should be already done I think.

Though the roboport and the logistic_network ...

... you trash an item, what you're saying is "get rid of this ASAP." This is not a request; it is an order. It should not be ignored, just as logistic bots cannot ignore when you trash items in your inventory. You're not trashing things to help fulfill the requests of other inventories; you're trashing ...

... Trash slots to fulfill logistic requests first before dumping
the not requested amount to the planet. [credit: Nidan]
(analougus to logistic bots preferring blue and green to yellow chests when trashing items)


TL;DR
When a space platform request only requests items from other platforms ...