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Support Drones

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Description
Adds a friendly drone that follows you around and can be told to do various things.
Features custom Lua-based pathfinder that works much better on the drone than the vanilla one.

The drone can defend you from enemies, mine for resources, and more.
It also has an inventory with about the size of a small chest. (16 slots)
It also teleports with you.
Using a command unit item, you can even order it to do various tasks, which include:
- Clearing an area of blocks
- Constructing a previously saved blueprint
- Emptying its inventory onto you

Most items from this mod are crafted in anvils.

The Support Drone is designed as a companion to accompany you and be useful to you.

This mod is a work in progress.
While the Command Unit is functional, you will have to manually remember the names of the blueprints you have saved.
There is also no way to delete a blueprint.

I am planning on adding a way to transfer a blueprint to an item that you can pass to another player, however.

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63 Comments
Bottinator22  [author] 29 Aug @ 1:08pm 
I'll probably rework how the drone AI works eventually.
☯ James ☪ 29 Aug @ 1:02pm 
It can ignore the ore drops too, which is why I mentioned this.
Bottinator22  [author] 29 Aug @ 12:53pm 
I think I made the drone purposefully leave worthless materials on the ground in order to save on inventory space when mining.
☯ James ☪ 27 Aug @ 3:38am 
An automatic pickup for mined items would be better for this because often-times it will just leave the item on the ground instead of moving to pick it up manually. Having this be tied to a module could make it balanced, but either way this functionality should be somewhere in the mod. It could also be helpful to have a forced line of sight toggle when mining so it can't tunnel into liquids or other potential hazards.
omba 26 Dec, 2024 @ 6:08am 
On holiday so i have absolutely no clue
Bottinator22  [author] 26 Dec, 2024 @ 1:38am 
Does it still do this?
omba 25 Dec, 2024 @ 9:52pm 
@Bottinator22 sorry for not responding earlier lol, uh yes, it explodes and removes whatever is in it but it doesn’t die
Dudeknightz 19 Dec, 2024 @ 12:18pm 
Now we need a patch that gives us drone armies (joking)
Bottinator22  [author] 18 Dec, 2024 @ 3:06pm 
uploading a fix, also includes some improvements to pathfinding
Bottinator22  [author] 18 Dec, 2024 @ 12:27am 
does it explode when you try? I might have forgotten to update this mod to account for the newer Lua sandbox changes in TerraLib (this mod uses TerraLib's Lua sandbox really weirdly)