Can robots give you specific requested items?

[BenieTheDragon]

So, I believe I'm at mid-tier of the game. I've researched everything that doesn't require Blue Science. And I'm just wondering, am I at the stage that I can make robots, and can these robots (if I were to set up a series of chests (say Fast Inserters), give me these items?

I grow tired of seeing these "you should make these things automated as you won't need to craft them as much". But say I'm away from my base. I want to have robots give me what I need.

[Cyan]

Yes. You have a request panel in your inventory.

[BenieTheDragon]

Well, what would I need to set these up? Or better yet, any good videos that explain this well (as in, step-by-step)?

[NimrodAbsolution⁧⁧98]

Originally posted by Benie:

Well, what would I need to set these up? Or better yet, any good videos that explain this well (as in, step-by-step)?

Just left click a slot, choose the item you want, and then choose the amount

Unless you mean drones in general

[BenieTheDragon]

Right now, I haven't even built any of the robots (or drones as you call them). I did the research, but I never started in it. Did the research "because it was available".

[Rethok]

There are two different kinds of drones, Logistic and Construction drones.

Construction drones repair buildings in your construcion area (need repair kits in the roboport) and build your blueprinted areas for you [you can craft a blue blueprint to copy an area and paste it somewhere else, the drones will build the area if you have the buildings in a provider or storage chest (they wont interact with iron or wooden chests) in your construcion zone].

Logistic drones supply you with the items you want to have in your inventory (in the upper area of your inventory you have slots to determine how much of an item you want to have in your inventory, e.g. you put 100 Iron plates in there the drones will try to keep your Inventory filled with 100 Iron plates). They will only interact with active provider, passive provider, storage and requester chests in the logistic area (this means they will only give you the requested items if you are in the logistic zone and there is a storage or rovider chest within the area.

Both kind of drones will need a Roboport, the Roboport, if you hover your mouse over it shows you two areas around it, a green and a orange one.

The big green square displays your range for construction bots, so they will only build and repair in this area (if you want your drones to repair in this area you need to have repair kits in the inventory of the Roboport).

The smaller orange square displays your logistic range, so the logistic drones in this network will only supply you with items if you are in that area. If you have more than one Roboport you can place them close to each other (the yellow line between them displays they are connected, so the drones can fly to the other Roboport) to enlarge your drone area.

If you have more questions, feel free to ask :)

[BenieTheDragon]

Well, after finally being able to do a bit of searching, I've actually discovered I'm not ready for this (yet...). I still need to get into making Blue Science (which is oil and all of that other stuff).

I need Advanced Circuits just for the Requester Chest. Meh.. hopefully there's a video explaining how to do Blue Science.

[NimrodAbsolution⁧⁧98]

Originally posted by Benie:

Well, after finally being able to do a bit of searching, I've actually discovered I'm not ready for this (yet...). I still need to get into making Blue Science (which is oil and all of that other stuff).

I need Advanced Circuits just for the Requester Chest. Meh.. hopefully there's a video explaining how to do Blue Science.

There's no need for a video
It's pretty straight forward

[BenieTheDragon]

Originally posted by Tacomancer:

Originally posted by Benie:

Well, after finally being able to do a bit of searching, I've actually discovered I'm not ready for this (yet...). I still need to get into making Blue Science (which is oil and all of that other stuff).

I need Advanced Circuits just for the Requester Chest. Meh.. hopefully there's a video explaining how to do Blue Science.

There's no need for a video
It's pretty straight forward

When I'm a n00b to the whole system, there kind of is a need. Planning is the whole point of this game. Figuring out how to plan is also a point of this game.

Currently, I've gotten as far as to make Sulfur. Figuring out where it needs to go is the next step.

[NimrodAbsolution⁧⁧98]

Originally posted by Benie:

Originally posted by Tacomancer:

There's no need for a video
It's pretty straight forward

When I'm a n00b to the whole system, there kind of is a need. Planning is the whole point of this game. Figuring out how to plan is also a point of this game.

Wing it
That's what I do and it turns out fine
Once you start producing your very first drone infrastructure then you can tear down whatever mistakes you might have made much quicker, and then rebuild faster too

[KatherineOfSky]

Benie, One thing that others have not addressed is: having robots deliver things to you when you are away from your base. They will only deliver to you if you are inside the yellow logistics zone of a Roboport. So unless you build roboports all the way out wherever you go, they won;t deliver to you. (Having a huge network is not very efficient, in any case).

[[PPFT]Mrsqueaker]

You all make a good point, But what you forgot to mention is the amount of robots you will need to run other machines(if you have any set up) there will most likely be a buffer on delivery or take away if you do not have free robots or storage chests. Logistic robots dont use regular chests and need special storage. As for your blue science problems, It is a pretty straightforward system, if you do it neatly.