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Situation:
* Placed a blueprint containing electric mining drills with productivity-3 modules in them.
* Bots place the miners
* I go grab some modules and on the way "lose" some construction bots (they go off to do something else).
* When I return to the miners some modules get placed by the bots I still have, but others don't because some bots are gone and the task is assigned to those bots.
* I place the modules myself.

I noticed the following:
* The blue "some modules are missing here" graphic does not disappear when I insert all the missing modules.
* The blue "some modules are missing here" graphic is not clickable. When I try to click the miner I usually click the middle. When the missing modules graphic is on the miner and I click that, the miner GUI does not open. I have to click the edge of the miner, not on the missing modules graphic.

Cheers and keep up the bugfixing. Love your game.

- Bertus

P.S. Tasks getting assigned to bots from my personal roboport that are currently far away might also be called a bug. Stuff not getting built is usually how I discover that I left behind some bots somewhere. Some indication that I am leaving bots behind would be nice. Also this could be an achievement ("Hey! Wait for me!" - leave behind 10000 bots)

That blue thing in the center is clickable to make it possible to right-click it and cancel the order of delivering modules. As for making it reacting properly on placing modules manually - well, if there are bots nearby, all that will quickly reset as soon as they attempt to deliver a module. This thing is "hard" to fix properly because for example you could put efficiency modules instead of speed modules originally blueprinted, or keep 1 of slots empty. and you could put those modules by mistake, and now - surprise, you have no way to cancel it and order modules from bots if that thing would disappear. So solution to your situation is to right-click that blue thing in the center after placing all modules or doing that before.