SPRT Antenna names :"Play with enemy Drones"

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, create your enemy station with the proper antenna name set (all blocks) to SPRT Faction if you want to play with the in-game Drones.

It only needs a station antenna (+NAME) and power source.

Large antenna names to create a "Drone spawner" :

"MoonMiningOperationSite" --> spawns Spur, Fleeting Rival, and Stinging Adversary.
(and Tusks removed)

"MiningOperationSite" --> spawns FleetingRivals and StingingAdversaries

"RemoteDroneAssembly" --> spawns DriftingPursuants, FleetingRivals, SpitefulAggressors, and StingingAdversaries

"Headquarters" --> spawns DriftingPursuants, SpitefulAggressors, and StingingAdversaries

"Scanning Antenna" --> ?

"Detection Range" --> ?

New

All SPRT Antenna names updated by Spaceman Spiff, here :
https://steamcommunity.com/app/244850/discussions/0/4627984302692576783/


Must do this in creative mode or use the Admin menu Alt+F10 and enable creative in survival to create the SPRT enemy station.


Have Fun, Engineers!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1929248048
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1897738456


Edit

Detailed :

Moon Pirate Antenna:
Antenna Name - MoonMiningOperationSite
Spawns - Spur - Tusk

Small Earth Pirate Antenna:
Antenna Name - MiningOperationSite
Spawns - FleetingRival - StingingAdversary

Medium Earth Pirate Antenna:
Antenna Name - RemoteDroneAssembly
Spawns - DriftingPursuant - FleetingRival - SpitefulAggressor - StingingAdversary

Large Earth Pirate Antenna:
Antenna Name - Headquarters
Spawns - DriftingPursuant - SpitefulAggressor - StingingAdversary

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Big Boss of "Learning to survive" scenario :

Argentavis (see Wiki for more info)
Antenna names :
Heavy Drone Manufacturing Started
Raid in Progress
= spawns Dyad + Barb Drones

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Correction / update / news :

ShadedMJ :

I think pirate antenna "MoonMiningOperationSite" spawns different drones now. Dan2D3D says Spur and Tusk are spawned, but I think that changed. I've been testing and I see Spur, Fleeting Rival, and Stinging Adversary, but NOT Tusk.

Spaceman Spiff :

"SPRT Mining Outpost" = Those antennas spawn SPRT Hostile Miners.

[Quickshadow10m]

is it possible to farm drones and grind them down?

[Dan2D3D]

Originally posted by Quickshadow10m:

is it possible to farm drones and grind them down?

All is possible and it just need a Engineer trying

[Dan2D3D]

+ Cool thing to know!

Create more

We can copy/paste one of the in-game Drones like the Atmos ones for example :
DriftingPursuants, FleetingRivals, SpitefulAggressors, and StingingAdversaries

Paste it in space (so it can't move/fly) using the God mode :

> Enable : "Creative", "Keep owner on pasting", "invulnerable" and "untargetable" from the Space Master menu Alt+F10.

1 - Enable the God mode.
2 - Copy/paste the enemy Drone.
3 - Build over it or at least keep the **Remote control/Prgrammable/Timer blocks.
OR > simply copy/paste the remote control (Drone Brain).

= Pasting with "Keep owner on pasting" to be sure all blocks are set to SPRT Faction and it will start following you.

** Make sure you set all blocks to SPRT Faction if you create a new Drone adding the remote.

Stinging Adversary's Brain to keep and paste in your Drone :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2060385021

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Hey dan any chance you could put the brains on the workshop. Also is there a large grid brain?

Im thinking if i paste in one of my ships, turn owner to pirates then paste in a brain i could make my big battleship come to life and chase me?

Iv wanted this for so long, i really think the devs are capable of compressing these brains into a single block we could add to our builds. Add it as a real feature sort of thing, im sure man many people would love that. I know i would, it would make for loads of interesting gameplay wwithout them even having to make scenarios.

If you could pass it on because the registration for keens site still doesnt work for me, even after years of trying :(

PS - sorry for the necro, but this thread does still seem relevant and good info for people :)

[Dan2D3D]

It just need a Engineer to take the "Brain", I succeeded and I'm not the best Engineer so I recommend to do it to gain pure XP (that is one part I like in SE)

I now have 3 different Brain Blueprints and I did not worked so hard to have :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2070883611
The purple one is way more agressive with better aiming.

Hint
> Notice there are no Scripts on the purple one cause all is in the Remote Control block.

I am still testing (first time I try) and I will share later when I have tested all the in-game Drones to find the best one.


Edit

Another hint

=> Enable "Keep owner on pasting" from the Space Master Alt+F10 to paste in as SPRT.

[ShadedMJ]

Note to Dan2D3D : The pirate antenna need to be large-grid antenna, and small-grid do not work. You may want to update the original.

[Dan2D3D]

Good point, I will edit specifying that it need a "Large station antenna" to create a Drone spawner.

[Cuervo]

how often does it spawn the drones?

[CelticChaos]

Thanks Dan for making this post, I will need to give this a try. Will this work in a DS environment?

[Dan2D3D]

Originally posted by Cuervo:

how often does it spawn the drones?

The default setting = Spawns one every time you enter the antenna range.

It goes with the player inside the antenna range!

I also use 2 Timer blocks to create a "Loop" that will trun ON and OFF the antenna every X minutes and that will spawn a Drone every time the antenna is turned ON.

LIke those two are not in range of each other and spawns a Drone every 1 and 2 minutes :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2198465860
this one every 2 minutes :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2196660675
So you enter the range of one antenna that will spawn a Drone and a second one when entering the second antenna range.

Cool setups can be done and it just need a Engineer to test different ones.

Originally posted by CelticPhilosopher:

Thanks Dan for making this post, I will need to give this a try. Will this work in a DS environment?

Yes it works in all worlds, local or DS.

[Dan2D3D]

Here is another setup with 6 SPRT antennas that spawns 6 enemy Drones every time you enter the antennas range because there are 6 enemy antennas :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1905334109
You can set some to be indestructible by adding admin Safe Zone with proper setup/permissions.

[Dan2D3D]

It's fun but needs practice in creative to become better :)

I mean, took some time for me to find a good way to mess with those, find the best in-game Drone Brain and paste in my creations.

My best and very aggressive Drone is using the "MULE" Brain :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2072916699

[ShadedMJ]

I was the one resurrecting this earlier. I think pirate antenna "MoonMiningOperationSite" spawns different drones now. Dan2D3D says Spur and Tusk are spawned, but I think that changed. I've been testing and I see Spur, Fleeting Rival, and Stinging Adversary, but NOT Tusk.

I'm updating my pirate antenna control script.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Originally posted by ShadedMJ:

I was the one resurrecting this earlier. I think pirate antenna "MoonMiningOperationSite" spawns different drones now. Dan2D3D says Spur and Tusk are spawned, but I think that changed. I've been testing and I see Spur, Fleeting Rival, and Stinging Adversary, but NOT Tusk.

I'm updating my pirate antenna control script.

That would be weird since both the Stinging Adversary and Fleeting Rival require an atmosphere to fly. It would work on Europa and Titan, but not on the Moon.

[ShadedMJ]

Good point. My test was the pirate antenna in space that I set up. I'm now testing on the moon custom start.

Note: Without in-game scripts, the Spur just sits there doing nothing.