Don't Mine Bots When Mining Buildings

[E-37]

Have you ever noticed when you finish mining a building on an ore patch, you don't start to mine the ore beneath it? Even if you move your cursor around, you won't start to mine the ore until you let go of right click and press it again. And it's a really nice feature since automatically switching to mining the ore beneath when you wanted to collect more buildings would be pretty annoying.

Now, have you ever been mining a building and a robot flies over your cursor? You mine it and take whatever it was carrying (if it had anything) That can be annoying if you have to collect a building under a busy airline and don't want to use construction bots. So... It would be nice that if you start to mine a building you can't mine any bots until you let go of right click similarly to how you can't mine ore after you mine a building.

[Tekky]

Related suggestion with a different solution to the problem:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=50172 Suggest UI button to hide robots and prevent mining them

I like that solution more, because your suggestion does not prevent the the first mining action from mining bots instead of the building. Your solution only protects all subsequent mining actions from accidently mining bots.

[bobingabout]

Honestly, I'd just be fine if you couldn't mine robots.

The only time I'd really want to is when upgrading my bots (with my mod), I grab em as they fly in/out of a roboport, but you could just as easily grab them from within the port.

[Optera]

Honestly, I'd just be fine if you couldn't mine robots.

The only time I'd really want to is when upgrading my bots (with my mod), I grab em as they fly in/out of a roboport, but you could just as easily grab them from within the port.

I totally agree.
The only time I ever want to mine bots is when they glitch out after having their roboport mined while in queue for charging.

[Koub]

The only time I want to catch my bots is when I have to power a couple of personal roboports with those unbelievably insufficient portable solar panels. You know, the ones that need a couple days to fill the inner battery of your roboports + couple additional spare batteries.

[E-37]

The option to turn off logistic bots would be nice. It would be weird if you couldn't see construction bots as stuff would appear and vanish. The FPS/UPS gain wouldn't hurt anything (that is if any is gained)