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[0.15.5] Looting corpse with power armor difficult

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When you die with a power armor and full inventory, then return to the corpse without a power armor, your inventory will be smaller. Currently upon mining the corpse you obtain items in the order they are sorted, until the inventory inevitably runs full. Usually I won't even get my power armor on the first loot attempt, so the only solution is to put stuff in a chest after that first attempt (better have a chest with you). The desired behavior is probably to equip the power armor from the corpse first if the player currently doesnt have one equipped, then the rest of the inventory so that you only need to mine it once.
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Re: [0.15.5] Looting corpse with power armor difficult

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As a quick workaround, just open the corpse and take the power armor first. At least that's what I've been doing for now.

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Oh. I didn't know it behaves like a storage chest; I thought you actually had to mine it. Maybe that solves it already. Or maybe now I want the behavior as I described above to work for storage chests too.
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Automatically equip best armor

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It would be great if when you:
Craft a better armor it would automatically swap it for your current armor
Pick up a corpse, it would equip the best armor in the corpse rather than the worst. (this is particularly annoying)

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Define "better/best" armor, especially for players who carry multiple armors with different module loadouts for different purposes. Or I could imagine the frustration if you craft a higher tier power armor while your existing armor's bots are working.

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Phoenix27833 wrote:
Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:52 pm
Pick up a corpse, it would equip the best armor in the corpse rather than the worst. (this is particularly annoying)
Open the corpse like a chest.
Shift click on the armor you want, then control click on the empty slot.
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NotRexButCaesar wrote:
Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:26 pm
Phoenix27833 wrote:
Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:52 pm
Pick up a corpse, it would equip the best armor in the corpse rather than the worst. (this is particularly annoying)
Open the corpse like a chest.
Shift click on the armor you want, then control click on the empty slot.
That's tricky, if you have to dodge worms & don't want to get locked-in by biters

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jodokus31 wrote:
Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:55 pm
NotRexButCaesar wrote:
Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:26 pm
Phoenix27833 wrote:
Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:52 pm
Pick up a corpse, it would equip the best armor in the corpse rather than the worst. (this is particularly annoying)
Open the corpse like a chest.
Shift click on the armor you want, then control click on the empty slot.
That's tricky, if you have to dodge worms & don't want to get locked-in by biters
Faster than mining it.
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jodokus31 wrote:
Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:55 pm
That's tricky, if you have to dodge worms & don't want to get locked-in by biters
i guess i am better than i thought :lol:

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NotRexButCaesar wrote:
Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:39 pm
jodokus31 wrote:
Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:55 pm
NotRexButCaesar wrote:
Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:26 pm
Phoenix27833 wrote:
Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:52 pm
Pick up a corpse, it would equip the best armor in the corpse rather than the worst. (this is particularly annoying)
Open the corpse like a chest.
Shift click on the armor you want, then control click on the empty slot.
That's tricky, if you have to dodge worms & don't want to get locked-in by biters
Faster than mining it.
I'm pretty sure, he does not mine the corpse, but rather opens it and then instead of searching the correct armor to shift click, just transfer all. When you now wear the wrong armor, its quite annoying...

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Phoenix27833 wrote:
Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:52 pm
Craft a better armor it would automatically swap it for your current armor
I think this is not a good idea. Imagine you craft a power armor mk2 and it replaces your power armor. Suddenly the equipment grid is empty. Your robots don't return, you get moved by belts, have no shields etc.
Phoenix27833 wrote:
Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:52 pm
Pick up a corpse, it would equip the best armor in the corpse rather than the worst. (this is particularly annoying)
From my testing the items in your corpse are ordered in this way: First the items from your inventory, than armor and weapons slot. When you ctrl-klick/ or mine the corpse the inventory items are therefore transferred first. I think a good way to fix this would be to reverse the order in which the items are put in the corpse. First armor and weapons slots, than main inventory
This should also fix the issue that you often can't mine/empty the corpse in one go, because you need to equip your armor first.
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[Ick] Merged two posts about looting corpses.
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NotRexButCaesar wrote:
Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:39 pm
jodokus31 wrote:
Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:55 pm
NotRexButCaesar wrote:
Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:26 pm
Phoenix27833 wrote:
Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:52 pm
Pick up a corpse, it would equip the best armor in the corpse rather than the worst. (this is particularly annoying)
Open the corpse like a chest.
Shift click on the armor you want, then control click on the empty slot.
That's tricky, if you have to dodge worms & don't want to get locked-in by biters
Faster than mining it.
Slower than running past and ctrl-click-ing the corpse. Had to run past and dump the loot in a chest and repeat a few times in the past.

But I don't think I've seen an idea here yet that improves things. "Best" armor is subjective with equipment grids. But maybe moving all armors to the front of the corpses inventory loosely ordered by their tech level would help in most cases. You get the most advanced armor first and put it on. That might not be the best but it's most likely one that can carry all the stuff. Actually even better: put the armor the player was wearing first. So looting puts on the same armor the player was using before.

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mrvn wrote:
Fri Nov 05, 2021 3:36 pm
But I don't think I've seen an idea here yet that improves things. […] Actually even better: put the armor the player was wearing first. So looting puts on the same armor the player was using before.
If I may point you to my earlier post:
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Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:20 am
From my testing the items in your corpse are ordered in this way: First the items from your inventory, than armor and weapons slot. When you ctrl-klick/ or mine the corpse the inventory items are therefore transferred first. I think a good way to fix this would be to reverse the order in which the items are put in the corpse. First armor and weapons slots, than main inventory
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ickputzdirwech wrote:
Sat Nov 06, 2021 10:20 pm
Sorry, missed that.

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