Construction robots not completing blueprint anymore

[Thom Blair III]

I've been using a blueprint of the fully proportioned solar array and my construction robots have been building them fine so far--they've built 9 or so already. But, for some reason, even though the supply chest they have been getting their supplies from has *plenty* of materials to finish the blueprint, they now stop after only building part of the top half of the blueprint, as seen here.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why they do this?

[KatherineOfSky]

Could it be that robots are coming from the other side of the base to place things?

Are the robots all charging?

Is the chest still within the network? (was a roboport deleted?)

Was it your own robots that placed the substations/accumulators, and now the robots from the network are taking over, (and are far away)?


(Also, there is a slight error in your blueprinted design -- there needs to be a bank of accumulators just above each roboport).

[Thom Blair III]

Originally posted by KatherineOfSky:

(Also, there is a slight error in your blueprinted design -- there needs to be a bank of accumulators just above each roboport).

Thanks! I'll check on the other things you mentioned. :)

[Thom Blair III]

Thanks for your suggestions! They worked! Yay!

[KatherineOfSky]

Originally posted by Thom Blair III:

Thanks for your suggestions! They worked! Yay!

Woohoo!

[!?!]

The bots wil sometimes not place a roboport that is half inside the green building zone.
To prevent this, just have a personal roboport and walk near the center so your robots will place the roboport if the other ones derp out.

[Thom Blair III]

Originally posted by chris:

The bots wil sometimes not place a roboport that is half inside the green building zone.
To prevent this, just have a personal roboport and walk near the center so your robots will place the roboport if the other ones derp out.

Ok, thanks!

[The Chaotic Coder]

In the screenshot it looks like the new roboport WAS placed, but none of the substations were placed yet so it wasn't getting power. With the port unpowered, the bots can only build things in the ranges of the pre-existing ports.

[Thom Blair III]

Originally posted by jchardin64:

In the screenshot it looks like the new roboport WAS placed, but none of the substations were placed yet so it wasn't getting power. With the port unpowered, the bots can only build things in the ranges of the pre-existing ports.

Ok, thanks, that makes sense.