[2.0.72] Captive biter spawner not upgradable

[fi5hii]

The captive biter spawner is missing from the upgrade planner and it can't be dragged from inventory to the upgrade planner either.

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This would be very useful for upgrading the quality of the captive nests like you can do with other stuff and an upgrade planner

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I guess this "not being able to upgrade" mechanic also makes it that you can't ghost (shift place) a higher quality nest over the existing ones.
This means that you can't replace existing nests with higher quality ones with bots if you have an upcycling loop for them.

[Hurkyl]

Can you even do this manually? I would have thought you'd need to destroy a captive biter spawner if you wanted to place a higher quality one on the same location.

[fi5hii]

Can you even do this manually?

Yeah you can, here's the video:

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[Rseding91]

That is intended because robots can not mine the old entity and so it’s not upgradable via robots.

[fi5hii]

That is intended because robots can not mine the old entity and so it’s not upgradable via robots.

Even tho the player doesn't have to mine it or destroy it to place a higher quality one over an existing spawner?