How to get bots to help you to construct

[jonbrave]

I find myself frequently wanting to place a one-off construction, not something I want to build lots of. Even if I construct near storages, there's still quite a bit of fetching/clicking each log/plank/pole etc. Or, I suddenly want to build some one-off tool at an unused workbench, that kind of thing.

Is there supposed to be simple way (for people like me) of automating this? Do you somehow set up so that bots are always available to fetch the materials and dump them whenever you place a new structure, and if so approximately how, or what? I have automated my supplying but not my building.

[BeauNiddle]

Robots recognise blueprints as targets so you can train them the same way you do for any task.

For example I have a plank pallet in my base.

I train the robot to:

repeat always
go to plank pallet
repeat until hands full
take plank from pallet
repeat until hands empty
find blueprint in area X
go to blueprints
place item


I have one for planks, one for logs, one for stone & one for sand (not done poles, straw or others yet but the idea is the same)

You can't really train a worker to build a full building but you can train multiple robots to supply all the stuff needed.

Every so often you stop them and move area X to wherever you are building next

[ShutEye_DK]

Ursprungligen skrivet av BeauNiddle:

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Every so often you stop them and move area X to wherever you are building next

Or just have a construction site where you then build what you need (or will be needing), then deconstruct the building and place it or keep it in your inventory.
Feels a little cheaty as you can carry a whole damn city in your pockets :)

Edit: Still let the bots do the building, if that wasn't clear.

[Geothermal1159]

Ursprungligen skrivet av BeauNiddle:

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Every so often you stop them and move area X to wherever you are building next

You can connect all of the bots search area to signs so that you don't need to pause the bots & change each bots search area individually.
At the moment using the same method you are using I have about 16 bots for the various materials & I am certain I will be making more.

[jonbrave]

> find blueprint in area X

This is the one I did not know about. Soooo.... when training him, I should do it to one blueprint myself, then that generates this instruction (which I haven't seen) in a bot? And it's for any blueprint, not just the one I did? Is that how it works? And then that's in an area, I can keep doing new different blueprints in that area? Please don't tell me about Signs yet, I am having enough trouble with the basics as-is!

[Phaxtolgia]

Unfortunately there's no way to entirely automate building. If you want them to build in a different area, you have to modify their code to do so.

[Geothermal1159]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Phaxtolgia:

Unfortunately there's no way to entirely automate building. If you want them to build in a different area, you have to modify their code to do so.

Ursprungligen skrivet av BFTPaul1159:

You can connect all of the bots search area to signs so that you don't need to pause the bots & change each bots search area individually.
At the moment using the same method you are using I have about 16 bots for the various materials & I am certain I will be making more.

You literally do not have to do that if you connect them to signs are all you would have to do is adjust the 1 sign to update the search area of all the bots attached to it.

Also if you use the method that ShutEye_DK mentions then that means you have an army of bots able & ready to build any blueprint anywhere you want by, just adjusting 1 sign.