drone questions

[Xyteno Sane]

just unlocked the drones haven't placed them yet but i had a few questions. there seems to be two diffrently colored zones around the drone home what do those mean. also if a structure is broken by enemies, i am talking beyond what a repair kit can fix, will i need to give the drones fully crafted buildings to replace the broken ones of with or can the build the buildings back up if they have the necessary ressources like iron, stone...

[god bless you]

• Only repair packs are necessary. You can put it in robot ports or in any kinds of logistic chest. Press "L", you can see what are inside the logistic networks.
  
• Your building must to be inside the green/yellow area on the map.
  
• Construction robots are needed, they have to be placed in robot ports.
  
• Construction robot can reconstruct buildings which is destroyed by any reason. But you have to keep it in that logistic network. Such as turrets, pipes, walls, landmines..

[Xyteno Sane]

Originally posted by god bless you:

• Your building must to be inside the green/yellow are on the map.
  
• Only repair packs are necessary. You can put it in robot ports or in any kinds of logistic chest. Press "L", you can see what are inside in logistic networks.
  
• Construction robots are needed.
  
• Construction robot can reconstruct buildings which is destroyed by any reason. But you have to keep it in that logistic network. Such as turrets, pipes, walls, landmines..

you might have answered my next questions but if you did i'm afraid i didn't understand that part. what is the diffrence between the green and yellow areas, can drones put ressources in buildings like furnaces directly or can they only drop stuff in logistic chests that will then need inserters to put thing in furnaces, if i have repair kits put in a logistic chest am i going to need a logistic robot to move it to the robot home and then the repair robots can use them or can the repair robots just take the repair kits and finally let's say i have a broken pipe beyond what repair kits can fix can the repair robots fix it if i give them access to iron plates or do i need to give them pipes already crafted.

[Nonotorious]

Logistics chests only work inside the red/orange zone and it is also the border by which droneports connect with each other.
The green zone is the area in which drones can place items, they cannot take anything from chests in the green zone unless you are deconstructing something.
They will automatically replace broken buildings and use repairs packs if they are available, meaning a provider chest or storage within the orange zone, well it will tell you anyway if a chest is not within logistics area.

[god bless you]

There are 2 kinds of robots.

• construction robot: can do construction, deconstruction, or repair.
  
• logistic robot: they only delivery items.
  
  • from logistic chest to anywhere. to request chest, to player. If you add items in normal chest, or ingredients slots inside machines by ghost mode manually, logistic robot will do the job.
    
  • If you trash something or delete items from chests by ghost mode manually(left click), logistic robot will recycle those items into recycle chest.
    

You can see supply area(yellow color) and construction area(green color) when hover the robot ports. Construction robots work inside the construction area, logistic robot work inside the supply area. So if buildings or chest is outside the area, robots won't do anything on that because it is not their duty.

[Xyteno Sane]

so for repairs it only works inside the green area right?

[god bless you]

Originally posted by Xyteno Sane:

so for repairs it only works inside the green area right?

yes. but green area is bigger than yellow, so yellow area are covered by green.

[Xyteno Sane]

Originally posted by god bless you:

There are 2 kinds of robots.

• construction robot: can do construction, deconstruction, or repair.
  
• logistic robot: they only delivery items.
  
  • from logistic chest to anywhere. to request chest, to player. If you add items in normal chest, or ingredients slots inside machines by ghost mode manually, logistic robot will do the job.
    
  • If you trash something or delete items from chests by ghost mode manually(left click), logistic robot will recycle those items into recycle chest.
    

You can see supply area(yellow color) and construction area(green color) when hover the robot ports. Construction robots work inside the construction area, logistic robot work inside the supply area. So if buildings or chest is outside the area, robots won't do anything on that because it is not their duty.

sorry but i need clarification since i am not a native english speaker when you said logistic robots can deliver items to anywhere you mean they can actually place for exemple coal and iron ore directly into a furnace as long as there is coal and iron ore in a logistic chest and that the chest is in the orange area of the base and the building is in the green area? and if i did get all that right which color of logistic chests?

[Warlord]

Originally posted by Xyteno Sane:

Originally posted by god bless you:

There are 2 kinds of robots.

• construction robot: can do construction, deconstruction, or repair.
  
• logistic robot: they only delivery items.
  
  • from logistic chest to anywhere. to request chest, to player. If you add items in normal chest, or ingredients slots inside machines by ghost mode manually, logistic robot will do the job.
    
  • If you trash something or delete items from chests by ghost mode manually(left click), logistic robot will recycle those items into recycle chest.
    

You can see supply area(yellow color) and construction area(green color) when hover the robot ports. Construction robots work inside the construction area, logistic robot work inside the supply area. So if buildings or chest is outside the area, robots won't do anything on that because it is not their duty.

sorry but i need clarification since i am not a native english speaker when you said logistic robots can deliver items to anywhere you mean they can actually place for exemple coal and iron ore directly into a furnace as long as there is coal and iron ore in a logistic chest and that the chest is in the orange area of the base and the building is in the green area? and if i did get all that right which color of logistic chests?

The red/orange zone is the Logistics zone. Anything that interacts with "Logistics" must be covered by a roboport zone for it to work. The Provider and Requester chests (red/blue/purple/yellow/green) must be within this area to work. Once within an area, items in Provider-type chests (red, purple, yellow, green) will advertise their contents to the network as available. Requester chests (blue, green) within this zone can broadcast any "requests" that they want fulfilled. Any logistic robot that is placed within a roboport will head out to take items from "providers" to "requesters".
-Note: As people have explained, roboports will ONLY connect to eachother if this zone touched/overlaps with the zone of another roboport. Look for a dotted line pointing to another roboport to tell if the roboport zone is touching.

Construction robots mostly care about the yellow/green zone, which extends beyond the orange/red logistics zone, but also includes the red zone. They will use repair packs within their or any connected roboport to repair damaged items within this construction (yellow/green) zone area. If no repair packs are in roboports, construction robots will look for a repair pack in a provider chest (red, purple, yellow, green) within the logistics (red) zone anywhere in its network, and can pick up a repair pack if needed. It will place the repair pack in the roboport if any is left.

Destroyed buildings (walls, turrets, etc) within the construction zone will be replaced by construction robots, but you must have an already-constructed item within a provider chest (red, yellow, purple, green) within the logistics (red) zone. It will NOT take iron/copper/gears to assemble a turret and place that.

I did not list any buildings, because robots cannot really interact with MOST buildings within their zone. They will not - for example - put coal into furnaces, ore into furnaces, or plates into assemblers. You must use chests with inserters to pull finished products from machines, and another chest/inserter to take raw ingredients to place them into assemblers. You will often see two chests (a provider, usually red. and a requester, usually blue) next to assemblers to be able to take in ingredients and take out finished products. You can pair up two assemblers on either side of these two chests.

If you want to do everything by logistics bots (which is a valid technique), you will need dozens or even hundreds of chests, and hundreds or even thousands of robots. Keep in mind that roboports can only hold so many robots (350?) within them, and can only charge 4 at a time. In a heavy robot-use area, put down extra roboports in an area to make sure that robots do not hover for long waiting to charge. A queued robot is a worthless robot.