Spidertron equipment grid copying

[Nighthunter007]

TL;DR Copying Spidertron equipment grid, similar to how blueprints with modules work.

I've read that copy/pasting spidertron settings is coming for 1.1, and so is (possibly) a logistics tab.

I want to take things further. Copying not just settings and logistic requests, but also equipment grid contents.

I run a pretty big factory, and we use Spidertrons for remote building, emergency response, biter assault, all that stuff. But because the base is so big (~6min train ride end to end) I want to spread out a small army of identical Spidertrons stationed around the place. This is extremely tedious to do when you have to set everything manually. Copying logistics, inventory filters, and settings helps, but that still leaves me setting up the equipment grid manually.

My suggestion is it works a bit like blueprints with modules in them. You copy the spidertron, and logistic bots will deliver and place the items in the equipment grid. Then, I could line up 20 Spidertrons, set them all up with a simpe copy/pase, and send them out to the far reaches of my base as frontier guards, mine builders (or, rather, builders for the bit that allows the train to arrive and build the rest) or repairmen.

(Of course, having 50 spidertrons is quite unhandy with vanilla remotes, but I already have a mod for that https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Spider_Control).