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At the moment (in vanilla), there is not often a reason to remove robots from the logistics network. However, in the future (or with mods) there could be situations (mainly regarding upgraded bots and/or repair packs) where a player would want to remove bots automatically, to clear the system of obsolete bots and/or make them available as ingredients.

You can place inserters next to roboports to take bots out of the network.

Gandalf wrote:You can place inserters next to roboports to take bots out of the network.

No you can't.

DaveMcW wrote:

Gandalf wrote:You can place inserters next to roboports to take bots out of the network.

No you can't.

Dear me, you are right. That's weird, I was sure I had done that at some point.
Well you can use inserters to put bots into roboports, it seemed kinda natural that the opposite was true as well. Since it isn't I support this suggestions.

I've suffered from this. My only solution was to cut down the energy from the whole base and rapidly remove the robots from roboports =]

Would love to see this happen. I'm really sick of vanilla repair kits and I really want to get construction bots using modded kits for example.

Yes, we just forget to add the output interface, it is fixed for the next major release (0.12).

It will take a while (2 months probably) until 0.12 is out ...

Removing from roboports only robots or additionaly also a repair packs?