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Ok, so.... did they sneak in a change to personal roboports in .71? I have some solar panels in my suit which are generally enough to build large projects in medium-ish bursts. But after a bit of nest and tree clearing suddenly my robots stop working. Turns out it was just turning to dawn, and all my energy was gone.

Normally, when I run out of energy, the robots get sent out with free energy, and simply hover around you when attempting to recharge. Now, they won't even deploy unless the roboports have ~10% energy in reserve.

This is now fairly close to how roboports perform on the ground, but I kind of liked the option of mining up robots when my energy was drained.

0.17.70 changelog:

FactorioBot wrote: Tue Oct 15, 2019 8:19 pm Bugfixes

• Fixed that personal roboports would function with literally no power.

Ah, under the Fixes section? I usually skip over those since they are rather obscure "bugs" that get fixed.

I'm going to miss my early robots.

They were not really working since they did not recharge the bots. But it was a helpful feature nontheless.

Always thought you “hand cranked” the bots when you mined them up by hand.

Shouldn’t a no-power personal roboport have a range of zero though? That’s what would make sense to me. No power, no ability to control the bots at range.

I mean hand mining bots to recharge them was kinda exploit-y but so far the only thing they've done to personal bots is a passive nerf.
What happened to making them accessible earlier?