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robotic hands equipment to increase the engineer reach
Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2026 12:16 pm
by ciqa
short reach in the begining is fine and logical, but i always felt like the reach should be extended with tech, same way as we increase the speed.
there should be a pair of robotic hands 2x2 size with either a bonus of +30% to all (interaction/mining/ground pickup range) or a fixed numbert if % break the reach calculations - for example 5/2/1
Re: robotic hands equipment to increase the engineer reach
Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2026 4:31 pm
by eugenekay
ciqa wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2026 12:16 pmthere should be a pair of robotic hands 2x2 size
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Personal roboport is 2x2, and grants
Construction robot usage within a 30x30 area.
Good Luck!
Re: robotic hands equipment to increase the engineer reach
Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2026 9:47 pm
by ciqa
Construction robots cant ctrl+click to collect assembler/chest contents at once, cant put in half stack of anything instantly. Cant interact with combinators. Cant drag and build a row of stone wall. Robots are their own category altogether.
This is the same answer as why we should have robotic legs if we have a car...
Re: robotic hands equipment to increase the engineer reach
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2026 1:07 pm
by eugenekay
I believe that items which
already exist in the game are preferable to wishes for features.
There is of course
a mod for that; I thought it was impossible because there is not an equipment-based
reach_distance_modifier... however (like most things in Factorio!) it can be worked-around using a control.lua mod....
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