Deploy spidertron upon landing
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2026 7:51 am
TL:DR
Deploy pre-equipped spidertrons upon landing on a planet
What?
If a spidertron is dropped onto a planet, have it land in a capsule and step out as an entity. Spidertrons are already sort of an end-game "player replacement" (it uses equipment, has logistic requests, hosts construction bots, etc), so it would be natural for them to land like a player does.
Any spidertron that is clearly intended to be used as-is should deploy (criteria like if it has been named/configured/equipped), blank spidertrons should stay as an item if there is a landing pad.
Gives extra incentive to complete Gleba research early: Most players drop themselves (or convince a friend that Aquilo is an awesome seaside vacation
), but maybe cautious players would essentially drop a Curiosity rover onto a planet first.
Why?
This resolves reports like:
118257
viewtopic.php?t=122587
Several cases of players setting up a spidertron, sending it to a new planet, and manually deploying it via bot, only to find all the items/config are missing, which is often seen as a deletion bug since it's not clear that the bots actually took the equipment items out into storage.
Deploy pre-equipped spidertrons upon landing on a planet
What?
If a spidertron is dropped onto a planet, have it land in a capsule and step out as an entity. Spidertrons are already sort of an end-game "player replacement" (it uses equipment, has logistic requests, hosts construction bots, etc), so it would be natural for them to land like a player does.
Any spidertron that is clearly intended to be used as-is should deploy (criteria like if it has been named/configured/equipped), blank spidertrons should stay as an item if there is a landing pad.
Gives extra incentive to complete Gleba research early: Most players drop themselves (or convince a friend that Aquilo is an awesome seaside vacation
), but maybe cautious players would essentially drop a Curiosity rover onto a planet first.Why?
This resolves reports like:
118257
viewtopic.php?t=122587
Several cases of players setting up a spidertron, sending it to a new planet, and manually deploying it via bot, only to find all the items/config are missing, which is often seen as a deletion bug since it's not clear that the bots actually took the equipment items out into storage.