Some things are deliberately left out like cooking and crafting so your survivors still have tasks to do. A flying drone cooking food also seems a bit too silly to me. Sauce and steam would be flying everywhere with those rotary blades. Lol.

I recommend keeping ingredients, stoves, and meal storage nearby to a dedicated robot, if you don't have/want a survivor to do it. You can also use the mod here to alter the Service Bots' tasks, and set one or two to just cooking and nothing else.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3107758843&searchtext=task+robot

Hello, why can't my drone operate devices such as induction cookers? The walking speed of household robots is too slow.

Cool, thanks! I'll give it a try :)

Sure can. Peace First just prevents any spawned attack waves from occurring. You're still good to use and build whatever you like, even weapons and turrets, just won't have any real use for them aside from attacking map spawned insect hives.

No conflicts with any other game rules.

Can this mod be used with the Game Rule Peace First (assuming I purchase and download the Robots + Guardians DLC)? If so, any conflicts with any of the other Game Rules?

The Butchering Unlocked for Labor drones was worth it especially if you play Military outpost now i can Butcher almost 1K insects in no time whitout having Harvest sercices Bots to do it Huge thx from me

Labor drones can now butcher. Did some long and hard thinking and opted to add this as a function to help with later game mob harvesting.

Lol, that's definitely one of the more annoying parts of the game. The engine just can't handle that many enemies, yet there they are. Slideshow mode.

I will check that one out I have been laughing that the AI has given up beating my defenses and decided to cook my cpu instead.

That's totally normal towards the end of the game. The waves get huge. And a fair point since the drone typically isn't available to folks until mid/late game.

I'd recommend checking out Insects Level Up All Species by Ark Builder btw, instead of getting a massive hoard of week enemies, this mod levels them up into smaller, stronger mobs.

By the time my labor drones are basically on standby the waves are big enough that I don't think it would put the unfortunate souls under my control at risk of loosing their jobs, however I can see the dilemma and it is likely most are not experiencing waves of 1200 scarabs at a time not sure if that is normal or I have some settings messed up.

I'd actually considered that. Went back and forth between if it would take yet another task away from colonists and limit their activities even further. Goal is to have them be a big help, but not replace all physical type tasks.

But if it's something folks want, I can definitely look into it.

Late game I find my labor drones kind of run out of things to do and was wondering if it would be possible to add butchering to their tool box?

Service Robots is unlocked after you research or loot AI Cores.

Yes, Delivery Drones are researched. I don't see "Service Robots" to discover. Both of addons are enabled in menu - Drones of Peace and SAD_CommonLib. I'm not able to attach file here so please try to download it from this URL: https://1drv.ms/u/c/0ecb60e7c1e1d5f3/EVljL5yjsURKsBFHSDesouYBXVkhRilYRg1MfiUvlfc3lw?e=faafUF

To clarify, have you only researched Delivery Drones?

The ones in this mod have their own research entries. You must also research Service Robots to unlock them, except for the Medical Drone which requires Surgical Beds instead.

If you have researched those and they're still not showing, then can you send me your save file through Discord or here?

I can see drones. Researched and i have one, transportation drone - nothing more.

Should be working in any game after they've been researched. They're under the Science tab.

This mod is working only with new game? I've researched everything and i don't see them...

Discovered a recent bug where repair and deconstruction stopped working with the Construction Drone. Looking into it, not sure what changed.

All good. Enjoy! I recommend also getting the extended crash land scenario if you want a longer experience. Requires you to actually build shuttles to leave.

Ayt thanks dude just got a bit confuse well time to progress my research trying to prolong the crash land scenario to enjoy the survival vibe because I thought once I got to the point of unlocking the radio the game might end and won't allow me to continue playing :)

Also, Medical Drone needs Surgical Beds as an additional pre-req.

You need both the DLC and SAD_CommonLib as mod prerequisites, nothing else.

You need to research Delivery Drones and Service Bots first for them to appear, with those having their own prerequisites to appear as well.

Most definitely works, have done many playthroughs with no issues. :)

Hi uhh I just downloaded this mod and I have the prerequisite mod as well, also made new save research the drones but seems that the drones that are included on this mod is missing, there's non in the research window either so now I'm confuse how to unlock this. Do I need the sister mod of this or not? what am I missing?

P.S. already enabled the mods

Few things in the game are simple when it comes to modding and logic. Go figure. Lol.

I'm extremely grateful to injto4ka's for his help with deciphering a lot of it. These mods wouldn't exist without him and his adding support/fixes in SAD_CommonLib.

Ahh ok Complicated as hell XD

For whatever reason, troughs seemed to be tied to Handling and not Delivery, even though it's just putting resources in a "box", and I think it's because animals interact with it. Weird logic, but it is what it is.

Ranching seems to imply the handling function for it, since I can enable that activity on the drone and it will now be able to deliver food to the trough, but again, also flips on everything else related to Ranching.

I'll see what I can figure out, but no promises.

From what I've been able to determine, it's a task handled by the Handling and Ranching activities.

Handling differs from Delivery, and Delivery Drones are only capable of Delivery. Service Bots, however, have both (and more) as an available activity.

Handling is dedicated to providing resources to interactive storage where recipes are involved or devices that can be toggled in some manner, so crafting benches, furnaces, flipping power on/off, changing a power circuit, etc. Delivery is intended for static storage where an item is just put in a "box" and nothing more, so Freezers, shelves, lockers, unfinished construction items, etc.

Filling food troughs can be done also by delivery drones in theroy they don't don't it however automatically i Rember that only the service Bot can't do it for whatever reason so there's a code inside delivery drones and Harvest bots to fill troughs Up if there's a way to implying it to Farmer drones and also make it Automatically Would be in my eyes already enough (I myself can't really see that Drone's can train tame since it's more unrealistic but you already sayed you thinked about it and i will be happy to see the results):)

I tinkered with it and adding the Ranching skill does allow them to basically do any of the Ranching skills, i.e. filling food troughs, training/taming animals, directly feeding them.

Seeing if i can limit it somehow. Weirdly you can have taming and feeding as they're own separate activities, but not filling troughs...

i wish you the best output of the idea :)

I've actually been thinking about that myself recently after using the Insects Level Up mod, and thus having a much, much larger herd of tamed animals to feed.

In theory I should be able to just add the "Ranching" activity to it, but I don't want them to be able to train animals if I can help it because it's a bit silly and would take away from their main task if there's a bunch of animals to train.

I was also wondering about just doing a property change to Delivery Drones, being that delivering/transporting stuff is their bread and butter.

I'll play with it. Appreciate the idea!

Stupid Question about farmer Drones even though they cant transport resources i would like to see them fill up those aniaml feeders (since its also a farming Task normally) bc those harvest bots dont do this automatic (unfortanly) its just again a small idea of mine =)

Sure thing! Credit goes to injto4ka and his big ol' Lua coding brain. :)

Roger Roger thx for the Fix

The latest version of SAD_CommonLib fixes the labor drone/mystical tree infinite loop crash. Make sure to unsubscribe/resubscribe to it so you have the latest version.

Ahh ok i will Wait im very exicdet to see what this could look like (i know bad english)

I honestly haven't put work into it yet, but plan to soon.

Ok cheers Man btw hows the other idea going? im curios

@Twini-Kini, Sure enough, I was able to replicate it. For some reason it's causing an infinite loop, generating an error for that and also something related to "straight line pathing" Never come across that one before.

Will research and see if other smart modder folk have some suggestions, be it either fixing the activity, or barring the drone from being able to interact with it. In the meantime, I would advise caution when using both at the same time until a solution can be found.

@Twini-Kiwi Oof, that's a doozy. I'll try to replicate it and find a fix. Thanks for letting me know!

i found a Bug for an other mod of yours (Cyberpunk weapons amor buildings only) if the Labor drone tries to cut the mystical tree it resolves into a frezze a hard Frezze alt F4 doesnt work then anymore

That's actually not a bad idea at all. I like it. I'll see what I can do.

Should be fairly simple as it should just involve some code to alter the efficiency rating.

small funny idea came into my mind: What about an breaktrought that each drone can makes their Job faster? (the medical drones heals already super fast if survivors are under a roof) so that farmer Construction and labor drones makes mabby 2 or 1,5 times faster at their Tasks. (i dont knw if something like this can work since i cant mod myself xd its just an idea)

Woo hoo! Appreciate you being patient while I sorted it out. Enjoy!

Can Happliy confirm Labor drones now do salvage now not a single wreckage was left behind 10 out of 10 Mod These 4 drones are soooo coool :)

Salvaging wreckage should work now. Squashed another missing animation bug. Had them salvage 10 different wreckages juuuuust to make sure.

Also did a bunch of tree cutting with different types of trees to see if I can could create some issues, but it worked fine for me.

Hey Mantastic Your cute Labor drones still have the issue to Salvage the big obstachels anything else is working Very smooth

Labor drones don't build, you need the Construction drone for that. They're limited to "Physical" stat tasks, so cutting, mining, and scavenging/salvaging.

Make sure you unsubscribe and resubscribe to verify you've got the latest version. You may have to start a new save, but generally updates to the mod don't require one.

FWIW the labor drones in my save have been performing their tasks without issue after the latest update.

If they're still not scavenging wrecks or cutting trees after you've done the above, let me know and I'll see what I can find.