Robots not charging

[Techsuport]

had 2 robots not charge and run out of energy then idle early on on in the story, thats a restart...
Even built a charging station directly under one.

[Mister Fabulous]

Same. I have 9 not doing anything in a new game after salvaging a few things. Not sure how to get them moving again. Tried building some things all over the surface and changing priorities on existing buildings.

[Bludmeister]

I currently have three robots stuck on the surface. One is sitting right in front of the charging station.

[[MaD]]

Go to a save where you have not researched the 3th battery upgrade for the drones.
Do not research it.
Fixed it for me.

[BoilermakerU]

Same issue here. Not only won't they charge, they ignore priorities more than ever, and I'm not sure where a bunch of them even are - they aren't doing any work! lol The last couple of updates have set this game back light years in playability.

[TheWyatt]

Originally posted by MaD:

Go to a save where you have not researched the 3th battery upgrade for the drones.
Do not research it.
Fixed it for me.

I don't even have the first battery upgrade and i'm having this issue. They are just randomly getting stuck until they die.

[Lynxs1981]

Same issue here, only seems to affect the basic robots. Bought new, they ran off and died somewhere.

[LsdCry]

same here ! since last update all my drones are getting stuck i did not have the 3rd battery research so i beleive it's a global bug.
The game is now unplayable since i hast most of my drones on 'basic mode' and i'm only at the begining of the game with 15 drones.

[Faisca_83]

Same here all drones in standard are lost all over the place. not moving

[spencey89]

I had one night where power ran to zero and the basic bots stopped charging after that event. Still early game with no battery upgrades. My base ended up crashing because nothing was getting repaired.

[Stilgar]

It seems in my game the number of rover's running out of power is growing. Not sure I can continue the game without a quick-fix/patch soon

[Misakihime]

Hey everyone! I'm sorry you've encountered this issue.

We've released Hotfix 0.93.18 that would help with the stuck drones.

[[F.O.E.] Ragnarr Lothbrook]

I was at 4, but now only 1 is left without power. Tried resetting the drone by building enough Hauling Drone Reconfigurators and then reconfiguring the drones. Didnt work. It says the robot is moving an iron ressource. The other robots where deconstructing something when they ran out of power.

[BoilermakerU]

Originally posted by Misakihime:

Hey everyone! I'm sorry you've encountered this issue.

We've released Hotfix 0.93.18 that would help with the stuck drones.

While you are working on the robots, I've seen a few comments regarding setting items on the hlils to be salvaged that may be a contributing factor. I would think that anything that is not in a buildable area should also not be salvagable. So seems like it would be easy enough to just not allow those items to be marked for salvage in the first place.

[Misakihime]

Originally posted by BoilermakerU:

While you are working on the robots, I've seen a few comments regarding setting items on the hlils to be salvaged that may be a contributing factor. I would think that anything that is not in a buildable area should also not be salvagable. So seems like it would be easy enough to just not allow those items to be marked for salvage in the first place.

You are correct - there was a bug that allowed to dismantle modules there weren't supposed to be dismantled. That part was fixed in the latest patch, along with a few more reasons that could make drones stuck

[Shnoze Shmon]

Didn't experience a drone getting stuck until after the patch was installed. lol

It was trying to fix a regolith or whatever for turning raw ore into powder. Only way to solve it was disassemble the processor and build another.