Inserting robots into Roboports

[Firefinch]

Is it possible to have robots directly inserted into a Roboport? It looks like they are not being inserted into my logistic network even though there is space

[hN@S]

Yep, its possible. Maybe the roboport where you insert the robots is full. robots will not automaticly fly to other roboports just to fill the network.

[Name Lips]

Once built, a robot sits in a chest, deactivated until it is inserted into a roboport. Either manually, or using belts and inserters.

You can automate it with robots once you have some in the air. Just make your robot factory drop completed robots into a passive provider chest. Then put a requester chest (requesting logistic and construction bots) next to a roboport with an inserter to take robots from the chest and drop them into the roboport. Then every time a robot is finished, a logistic bot will pick it up and carry it to be inserted into the network.

Stop paying attention for a while and you can end up with thousands of them flying around.

[Nailfoot]

I always manually release my robots into the wild, usually a few hundred at a time. I don't want to return to my main base to find out I have thousands of robots in the network.

Eventually I do end up with thousands, but it is a conscience choice and I add them as the system needs them.

[impetus_maximus]

you can wire an inserter to the roboport, right click the roboport and click 'read robot statistics'.
then just set your enable inserter condition for availible, or total robots etc.

[Roxor128]

Originally posted by impetus maximus:

you can wire an inserter to the roboport, right click the roboport and click 'read robot statistics'.
then just set your enable inserter condition for availible, or total robots etc.

I tried this on my last game. I ended up with nearly 2000 of each, with slightly more construction robots, though to be fair, I did tend to do large sections of clearing trees or building long walls.

[impetus_maximus]

yeah, i don't suggest using 'enable if availbile robots <. it WILL get out of hand. i normally use if total <