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Steps to recreate:
1. Create modular armor and install a personal roboport, but nothing else.
2. While wearing that armor and carrying some construction bots, designate some work to be done, like cutting down a big swatch of trees
3. Eventually the robots will return to recharge, but never actually gain charge because there is no power source in the armor.
4. Right-click a robot that is trying to charge

Expected: Robot still needs charging, but is now in your inventory.
Actual: Robot is fully charged and may pop right back out of your inventory to resume cutting trees.

This is excually something i always use in early game while not having mutch power/battery's, i don't let them charge, i just click them al out of the air, en they just pop out of you again and start working.

rorror wrote:i always use in early game while not having mutch power/battery's

Exactly. Me too. It feels like an exploit. If I don't have a power source, I'm exploiting a bug to get those bots back to work.

I admit I'm exploiting this too. recharging your portable roboports is soooooooooooo long even with your early modular armor full of solar panels.

Its an exploit, but I honestly think it is more like how you can craft items manually without using any energy, while using an assembly machine uses energy. Sure, its an exploit and wierd mechanic-wise, but its not a huge deal. I suppose you can manually pick up robots when they are done, but that takes time and effort, while letting them charge (At least once you have some energy) is much easiser on the player.