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Hi! I've encountered a bug, or at least a discrepancy in placing vehicles with equipment installed from a chest.
Behavior differs between placing it via pipette tool and blueprint - using former will place default vehicle, latter - will place modified one. This is particularly frustrating in earlier stages of the game when quality equipment is less available.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create spidetron with some equipment installed, and a custom color.
2. Create blueprint of said spidetron and save it.
3. Mine spidetron and place it in a chest.
4. Place spidetron on the ground using blueprint - original vehicle will be placed.
5. Mine spidetron and place it in a chest again.
6. Open the chest and place spidetron using pipette tool - a new default spidetron will spawn.

Expected behavior would be to place the only spidetron available on the planet as-is: with its equipment intact, and leave it to the player to remove it manually if needed.
Using blueprint seems like a hack, which new players transporting their first spidetron between planets will probably not understand. (I had to use editor to make the blueprint itself, as my player was on a different planet)

Thanks for the report, this is working correctly - pipette places a default configured ghost in the cursor and so when it’s built the robots will remove any equipment not matching the default configuration.