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spidertron follow and move
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2025 1:00 pm
by monty1510
Hello
I am playing in factorio 2.xx and i am in a sandbox. I found the remote for spidertrons but i cant get them to move after selecting or get them to follow. what am i missing?
Re: spidertron follow and move
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2025 11:01 pm
by Premu
You have to assign the remote to a specific spidertron. I believe you have to select the remote and right-click on the spidertron? I'm not 100% sure, I can't verify it myself right now.
Re: spidertron follow and move
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 12:21 am
by mmmPI
select remote to have it in cursor, left click and drag to create a selection box, select spider, remote gets attached to selected unit, ( visible next to cursor that turned into a remote, now next to a spider icon), now right click will task previously select spider to move.
If you ever select a remote, your cursor turns into a remote, if no spider icon are visible next to the remote/cursor, none is selected/attached
Re: spidertron follow and move
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 5:25 pm
by monty1510
mmmPI wrote: Sat Apr 12, 2025 12:21 am
select remote to have it in cursor, left click and drag to create a selection box, select spider, remote gets attached to selected unit, ( visible next to cursor that turned into a remote, now next to a spider icon), now right click will task previously select spider to move.
If you ever select a remote, your cursor turns into a remote, if no spider icon are visible next to the remote/cursor, none is selected/attached
Thank you for that. still not working. do you think sandbox might be preventing it from working?
Re: spidertron follow and move
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 6:33 pm
by mmmPI
monty1510 wrote: Sat Apr 12, 2025 5:25 pm
mmmPI wrote: Sat Apr 12, 2025 12:21 am
select remote to have it in cursor, left click and drag to create a selection box, select spider, remote gets attached to selected unit, ( visible next to cursor that turned into a remote, now next to a spider icon), now right click will task previously select spider to move.
If you ever select a remote, your cursor turns into a remote, if no spider icon are visible next to the remote/cursor, none is selected/attached
Thank you for that. still not working. do you think sandbox might be preventing it from working?
no why ? have you tried not in sandbox ? both worked fine for me, could have a spider follow another one and another one and another forming like a convoy
Re: spidertron follow and move
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 3:58 am
by monty1510
mmmPI wrote: Sat Apr 12, 2025 6:33 pm
monty1510 wrote: Sat Apr 12, 2025 5:25 pm
mmmPI wrote: Sat Apr 12, 2025 12:21 am
select remote to have it in cursor, left click and drag to create a selection box, select spider, remote gets attached to selected unit, ( visible next to cursor that turned into a remote, now next to a spider icon), now right click will task previously select spider to move.
If you ever select a remote, your cursor turns into a remote, if no spider icon are visible next to the remote/cursor, none is selected/attached
Thank you for that. still not working. do you think sandbox might be preventing it from working?
no why ? have you tried not in sandbox ? both worked fine for me, could have a spider follow another one and another one and another forming like a convoy
Here is what happens when i try. see video
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ITwAss ... drive_link
Re: spidertron follow and move
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 6:36 am
by mmmPI
You have many mods and it's unclear which action you are doing, although it look clear that you are able to "select" spidertron they seem unresponsive to what you did.
reading the tooltip of the remote usually helps if you rebind keys or if there is a particular interaction with a mod that could alter the behavior of spidertrons.
Re: spidertron follow and move
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 9:19 am
by monty1510
mmmPI wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 6:36 am
You have many mods and it's unclear which action you are doing, although it look clear that you are able to "select" spidertron they seem unresponsive to what you did.
reading the tooltip of the remote usually helps if you rebind keys or if there is a particular interaction with a mod that could alter the behavior of spidertrons.
Thank you.. it was something to do with mods i think. i ran a fresh map with 2 mods, vesicle snap and one squeak through and was able to assign the spiders to follow me around this did not prior.