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I would like to be able to set a flag somewhere to tell the construction robots to automatically collect loose items on the ground.



This mostly has to do with not wanting to have to manually deconstruct huge numbers of alien artifacts in late game but would also be nice for when I accidentally take off my power armor and drop half the inventory

I would love it if, on my way around the map they just did their thing. Once you have over 100 destructor capsules out you can just run through biter nests but it's a pain to pull out the deconstruct blueprint and harvest everything.

Ideally it would be a separate option on personal roboports vs the network but I would be fine if there was just one setting as well.

I know there where a mod for 0.12. Yes, this would be useful.

Keyword: auto-cleaning, auto-pickup, auto-mining

I think to a device or so, that enables this:

- scanning per construction-area (logistic area)
- output number of items laying on ground
- turning on/off by circuits
- filter: only pick up items of one type (more items: more devices)
- auto-mining (instead of miners): ores, stones/rocks, forest (not very efficient, but useful for very small ore-patches)

Related is auto-upgrade.

Just an idea: maybe a third kind of "scout" bot is needed for this type of thing? Once you have this capability, all kinds of questions immediately crop up: can I collect different items within this box? Can I have certain criteria applied dynamically? Can I avoid having my personal roboport affected in order to keep my pocket bots out of trouble with the natives? etc.

For now, if you have filtered deconstruction mod you can just zoom out far using the console command, target stuff you want collected, and mass-order it to be scooped up, I do this sometimes for collecting cotton-candy for example. But that's not really the same thing as what OP is proposing -- it's hard to make a good case that this shouldn't be something that can be automated.

I added it to viewtopic.php?f=80&t=19991 Collection of ideas around robots and self-moving objects