cant mine robot over ore

[The Eriksonn]

If you put a lonely robot over an ore patch you cant mine him back becauce you Always select the ore instead:

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[Jon8RFC]

I think Factorio was explicitly setup so that you can't mine a loose item unless you're very close to it and use the (default) F key. If that's still accurate, then you shouldn't be able to mine the robot you've dropped regardless of whether it's on top of ore or not. If it's possible to mine a single item, I'd love to know how because that'd be very helpful among nearby belts with multiple exoskeletons in use.

The alternative I've used is a deconstruciton planner to pick up items one by one. It's pretty annoying, but it's the only way I've figured out so far.

[Jap2.0]

It's not loose, it's flying.

[kovarex]

That is how we decided it should work. If you could select the robot over things under it, it would be very annoying to do anything with a lot of robots flying around.

[The Eriksonn]

that is understandable, i guess he will die eventually becauce of biters or i will have to Place a roboport nearby and have him go into there