Robot parts mechanics in 0.11 are confusing

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Right now jobs that robot can do restricted by its core, but there are no way to know about this in advance, as result i have robots that reject to build and craft and there are no ways to know why and how to solve it.

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also if you put proper core into carrier drone it will start building and crafting that is crazy confusing

[msor]

For me, most confusing part, was requirement to have human to replace lost part of a drone.
I have drone, that have "robotics" skill. Why I need a meet-bag for this job?

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sometimes for some reason robots do not have specific job types, especially confusing when robot do have two manipulators but loss of just one completely disable all jobs.

in some other games, entire reason to have multiples of one "organ" is to prevent such situations, in Rimworld if your pawn got hand or ever entire arm removed, it will continue to do job at half speed, removal of both arms is deadly, but you can install hook made from wood and it will do jobs at 25% of speed.

entire concept of parts was to prevent loss of robot from single micrometeoroid, but in reality, you can somewhat lose robot from single shot and won't ever notice this, it will simply idle forever and reject all jobs.

[spajus]

Ursprungligen skrivet av msor:

For me, most confusing part, was requirement to have human to replace lost part of a drone.
I have drone, that have "robotics" skill. Why I need a meet-bag for this job?

To perform robot part replacements a being needs robotics skill + operate ability. Operate ability is provided by human hand and by manipulator for robots.

Since a recent build the construction robot can do the job because it spawns with manipulator that enables the bot to do operate devices like human hands can. This only applies to a newly started run though, for older runs you'll have to install the manipulator yourself.