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We've all deconstructed a bunch of chests, and when we do, a bazillion construction bots come and remove the items. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that construction bots can't carry more than 1 item. This means that they are really inefficient at getting rid of the items. Your own bots go and remove the items as well, filling your inventory with stacks of useless items you need to transfer to your trash slots anyways. I'm suggesting, that instead of construction bots removing items, that the logistic bots do it instead, and when they are done, the construction bots remove the items. Currently, you can work around this by replacing the chest with an active provider, then come back later when they are all gone and remove the chest.

I thought about this too many times...

I think Construction Robots can take up to 4 items as well, but even if they can you normally never have as many Construction Robots around as you have Logistic Robots. I am often using a ratio of 4-5 logistic bots to one 1 Construction robot. So it will take a lot longer if the Construction Robots remove all the items first.

It wouldn't be too bad if the Logistic Robots helped with the work though.

It wouldn't be too bad if the Logistic Robots helped with the work though.

I would agree, the logistic bots are for transferring items, and that's what is happening here.

I would say logistic- and construction-bots should do this job together. The faster it goes, the better.

There are also many issues around this whole topic.

For example: If you deconstruct some full chest, your personal robots will easily fill your inventory to a point, where you are not able to do anything. You even cannot change the item in hand. That blows up some of my blood vessels, when I come into that situation.

ssilk wrote:For example: If you deconstruct some full chest, your personal robots will easily fill your inventory to a point, where you are not able to do anything. You even cannot change the item in hand. That blows up some of my blood vessels, when I come into that situation.

More than that. It made me ragequit the game several times after the personal roboports have been introduced. That's why I'm not using it at all.

Well, it's a known issue: In viewtopic.php?f=80&t=20566 there is a link to viewtopic.php?f=23&t=14246 Personal roboport doesn't work as expected
And on page 4 viewtopic.php?f=23&t=14246&start=30#p107945

really avoid, that robots deconstruct, if you don't have enough inventory space left

But this goes now off-topic.

Well I remember that I commented on that one thread back then... and my opinion hasn't changed that much ever since.

Yeah, the blueprint books made some things easier (which used to be my main concern back then) but there are several other problems with Personal Roboports, just like that thread points out.

Also I still have the opinion that while I am inside the range of a Logistic Network my Construction Robots from my Personal Roboport shouldn't do anything... and rather let the Construction Robots of the Logistic Network do the job instead, that is if they able to do it. Which is especially important if I want to deconstruct something or otherwise my inventory gets f'd up... altough it's gotten a bit better with the auto trash slots, but that doesn't change that the items shouldn't end up in my inventory in the first place.

Another thing is that there should be a slot for your personal Construction robots because I tend to release the Construction Robots to the logistic network even if I actually had reserved them for my Personal Roboport... they are basically the same stack in the inventory so when you keep your left mouse button pressed down while waving around you might release too many.

I made a suggestion.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=31292 Ghost-Construction-Mode-Change/Deconstruction-Mode-Change/What Robots Build the Blueprint?/Planning