Mech energy

[Ashley Graves]

Can't find anything for this so I'll ask here. If a mech runs out of energy due to active (damage) or passive energy drain, is it removed from the game entirely or can it be deployed again? Wanting to know so I can figure out if I should plan ahead in terms of creating mech parts.

[Astrolabe]

You can deploy it again with no limits

[Ashley Graves]

Cool, thanks.

[Azure Fang]

As first reply said, you can just redeploy. However, when you run out of energy your mech explodes, causing enough damage to outright kill you except in extreme instances. I don't know if this causes inventory drop in survival difficulty, but if it does go back and get your stuff immediately as anomalies and ships despawn after a time, erasing their contents.

[QuaestComm]

Originally posted by Azure Fang:

However, when you run out of energy your mech explodes, causing enough damage to outright kill you except in extreme instances. I don't know if this causes inventory drop in survival difficulty, but if it does go back and get your stuff immediately as anomalies and ships despawn after a time, erasing their contents.

Drops on death are disabled in all space encounters (I looked in unpacked game assets for this).

Also, the mech only explodes if it's brought to 0 energy by damage or contact with lava. If it runs out of energy naturally, it simply gets beamed up to your ship without exploding.

[Mellowdy]

what are those things that refuel the energy called though?

[Rich]

The small cylinder sized objects that you put into electronics today called "Batteries"

[Mellowdy]

-_- the things I'm talking about are not batteries, I already tried those.

[Rich]

The batteries are the only ones that refill it, and that's only in space, nothing else can be used ingame yet

[Mellowdy]

ok but why the mean reply that wasn't called for

[Ashley Graves]

To be fair it was kinda in the mech tutorial quest.

[Mellowdy]

where? I read what aggy said but I never saw him say anything about batteries

[Mellowdy]

and whether it was or not isn't a reason to reply so harshly

[Ashley Graves]

Well that escalated quickly.

[Robby Magnus]

There are larger battery like objects that if destoyed will grant a very large amount of energy

[amyy]

Originally posted by WolfeDracko:

what are those things that refuel the energy called though?

it's called mechenergypickup in the game code.