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It seems that LuaForces::worker_robots_battery_modifier is restricted by max_energy and only affects the initial energy for when a robot entity is spawned, which if intended behaviour (seems so, but...) leads to some really weird behaviour. As in (replication steps):

1. Start a brand new world (no mods needed, vanilla is enough to replicate)
2. Run the following to increase a robot's storage from 1.5MJ to 3MJ (+100%)

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   /c game.player.force.worker_robots_battery_modifier = 1

3. Spawn a construction-robot (without any roboport around) and select it (notice it'll most likely be at 2.9MJ)
4. Run the following to attempt to charge a bot to its initial charge

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   /c game.player.selected.energy = 3000000

5. Notice that the robot's charge instantly drained to 1.4MJ (1.5MJ with some idle drain)

This is troublesome because if any mod or script tries to change a bot's energy, it won't be able to make it resume its initial levels and instead be constrained by max_energy, leading to potential energy losses as above. I didn't add a savegame as this can be quickly replicated on the sandbox, hope that's okay.

Thanks, this should be fixed for the next version of 0.15.

Rseding91 wrote:Thanks, this should be fixed for the next version of 0.15.

Thank you so much for the quick fix!