Make spidertron power its equipment grid

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wahlencraft
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Make spidertron power its equipment grid

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It's more intuitive: The first time I used the spidertron I thought I experienced a bug, because my equipments wasn't working. Then I realised that I needed to add a reactor. I figured that because it has two reactors in it's crafting recipe, that would be more then enough to also give some power to the equipments.

It's better balanced: I think the spidertron in it's current form needs a slight buff. I feel like the equipment grid is slightly too small, not allowing me to have as many exoskeletons as I would like etc. The portable fusion reactor is very large and takes up most of the space. So by removing the need for one I think we would free up enough space.

I think it would be reasonable if the "built in" reactor would output as much as one portable fusion reactor.
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Re: Make spidertron power its equipment grid

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exoskeltons? thats a weird way to spell lasers and shields :mrgreen:

for now though, there is this mod

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/spidertron-extended

does all you want and more
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Re: Make spidertron power its equipment grid

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NimbleJack021 wrote: Mon Jan 11, 2021 6:51 pm exoskeltons? thats a weird way to spell lasers and shields :mrgreen:

for now though, there is this mod

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/spidertron-extended

does all you want and more
Looks interesting. I'll probably use it if I'll do a modded playtrough. For now I'm only using quality of life mods in my current world. I like to keep it quite vanilla.
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Re: Make spidertron power its equipment grid

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This isn't going to happen.
If you want to get ahold of me I'm almost always on Discord.
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Re: Make spidertron power its equipment grid

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wahlencraft wrote: Mon Jan 11, 2021 8:41 pm
NimbleJack021 wrote: Mon Jan 11, 2021 6:51 pm exoskeltons? thats a weird way to spell lasers and shields :mrgreen:

for now though, there is this mod

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/spidertron-extended

does all you want and more
Looks interesting. I'll probably use it if I'll do a modded playtrough. For now I'm only using quality of life mods in my current world. I like to keep it quite vanilla.
For me, this one IS a QOL mod :D The MK3 spidertron, while costly, is fantastic.
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Re: Make spidertron power its equipment grid

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Rseding91 wrote: Tue Jan 12, 2021 1:00 am This isn't going to happen.
Ok :(, thanks for taking your time reading and replying.
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