Logistic robots should pack themselves into requester chests

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Logistic robots should pack themselves into requester chests

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As the subject says, logistic robots (and construction robots, too) should pack themselves into logistic requester chests that want them. This would be useful for mods that provide upgraded robots.

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Can you give a specific example?
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Bob's mod includes recipes for higher level robots that require a lower level robot as part of the recipe. It'd be great to set up a logistic chest next to an assembly machine for that recipe, and have the requester chest gradually suck up the old robots and convert them to new ones.

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ColdPrototype wrote:Bob's mod includes recipes for higher level robots that require a lower level robot as part of the recipe. It'd be great to set up a logistic chest next to an assembly machine for that recipe, and have the requester chest gradually suck up the old robots and convert them to new ones.
Inserters can take robots out of roboports, with a smart inserter you can easily do this now.

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Rockstar04 wrote:Inserters can take robots out of roboports, with a smart inserter you can easily do this now.
Yes, but the robots are scattered across a wide area, berthing themselves across dozens of roboports. This would summon them, in quantities set by interactions between the requester chest and linked machines, to a single location for processing.

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I mean the logical direction is this: like a requester chest a roboport can request to have X bots of type Y in the storage (until needed). That would fulfill your suggestion perfectly and can be used to distribute the robots (and repairpacks) much better. In the end your network can react much faster like so, because it requests free robots back, before they are needed.
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ssilk wrote:I mean the logical direction is this: like a requester chest a roboport can request to have X bots of type Y in the storage (until needed). That would fulfill your suggestion perfectly and can be used to distribute the robots (and repairpacks) much better. In the end your network can react much faster like so, because it requests free robots back, before they are needed.
I think this makes sense, and it would allow the player the customize the logistics network much more.

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oh yes, that's a better sugestion. A roboport that has a quantity request setting.

Able to set quantities for each type of item (robots included) in their bays.
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bobingabout wrote:oh yes, that's a better sugestion. A roboport that has a quantity request setting.

Able to set quantities for each type of item (robots included) in their bays.
This would be very useful.

That, and repair packs as well, since irritatingly robots can't figure out how to get repair packs out of another roboport, and that other roboport's robots don't feel like using their repair packs to go repair cuz its too far.
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