Factorio Forums

2.0.12 experimental
Repro:

1. Place equipment in a spidertron and store it in a logistics chest
2. Pipette the spidertron to place a ghost for bots to place
3. When placed, all equipment in the spidertron is gone

Thanks for the report however I can not reproduce this. When I do it, the ghost is built, and then construction robots come along and remove all of the equipment placing it into the logistics system for storage. Can you provide a save file where this happens?

Ah, I can confirm that the equipment was placed into storage. So it did not disappear, it was simply removed from the spidertron. I must not have noticed the bots pick it up.

Is this intended? It seems quite annoying to try to get around this behavior with blueprints, especially if the spidertrons are pre-equipped when in storage (As there's no way to tell which one will be pulled out by the bots, and if the equipment it needs is inside another spider)

It's "intended" in that a more complex solution was deemed not worth the code complexity and performance overhead. Normally you don't store spidertrons in logistics storage pre-configured. Normally once built, a spidertron just *stays* in the world as is. If you make blueprint copies of them, they will come pre-equipped with ghost requests for the equipment the original one had and that will be installed once built.

That's understandable. I was hoping to be able to remote deploy spidertrons without having to physically be present on the planet, but that is still technically possible with existing systems, just have to pipette->deconstruct->place blueprint and it should work, as everything would be in logistic storage at that point.

I suppose this report can be closed then.