Personal Roboport should NOT consume last inventory item

[TransportMeister]

If I want to ghost plant eg. walls and have 1 wall in my inventory to ghost plant from, if I have personal roboport equipped the robots will snatch that one wall right out of my hands and make me unable to ghost plant further wall. I cannot see an instance where its beneficial to consume the last item in a players inventory (especially if there's stuff available in the logistics network).

[DaveMcW]

Sometimes you want it to use the last item, but never the last item in your cursor.

[aober93]

Yea i had this too, when i didnt have blueprints for a reason or two. Id run in circles so the bot didnt steal my last item, while i spastically tried to grab it myself.

Mostly in the instance i had 1 more item to place, and that outpost would supply itself. I would do this and be done with it.

[ssilk]

Added to viewtopic.php?f=80&t=20566 Changes for the Personal Roboport

[leoch]

I'd like to just be able to make blueprints for anything, even without having one of the items in my inventory. Then this wouldn't matter.

[impetus maximus]

agreed! robots should not have access to items you are holding. or perhaps we could have the option to not consume the last of an item.

[galibert]

In https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-191 there are some very interesting ideas that would probably make that problem moot by in particular allowing to place a ghost of an item you don't have.

OG.

[impetus maximus]

In https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-191 there are some very interesting ideas that would probably make that problem moot by in particular allowing to place a ghost of an item you don't have.

OG.

thanks. i feel silly. i have read, and forgotten about that friday facts.

cheers

[Ranakastrasz]

Picker extendes sort of does this via its temperary blueprints.

But yea, the next version of the game seems like it will do this among other things