@Atomic Dash FU's BYOS is a little funky when making the SAIL in that it doesn't have the proper pet type. If you're using this mod in conjunction with my version of the drone, I've made some compatibility patches. However, if you installed the mod after creating a BYOS ship, you'll need to switch your SAIL with a properly generated one. I've made a workaround for that, namely a reward bag you can craft from the avali nanolathe.

Heck, just found this today, good stuff you have here! You've got everything pretty much fixed for the drone here, so not sure what else you'd need from my version. That said, go ahead and strip out whatever you need from mine to make this standalone if you ever so desire.

Do you make the mod also FU compatible? It works with a normal ship but the BYOS from FU does not take over the drone.

That last bit about not being able to ignore pethouses w/out compatibility was a lie, apparently.
Fixed that bit now too. Place all the pethouses you want, and your drones *should* ignore them all!
(if they don't let me know)

@SeaStorm
Good news! I've fixed the invisibility!
I was mistaken at where the code is - the pets never actually interact with the pethouse; it's all in their action coding to go invisible.
This means couldn't add a second frame to the pethouse without *severe* recoding, but it also means the the fix was a lot simpler than I thought. Granted, it wasn't easy , but by having the pet use a modified sleepaction script (new one added, does not overwrite original) I could get it to stay visible when docking while still going invisible at a regular pethouse.
I can't stop it from sleeping at regular pethouses without breaking compatability, but just don't place a pethouse and you'll be all set.

@Phoenix
Huh.
Seems like the Avali team only recently (Nov. 2019) added the cleaning drone. (I've had Purchasable Pets for forever so I never noticed)

@SeaStorm im not using any mods that change pets in any way.

ok, thanks anyways!

@SeaStorm
The way the pethouses are coded, pets that sleep in them turn invisible, and the pethouses themselves don't have a secondary sprite.

I'm looking into giving the dock a second sprite, but the game is being difficult.
Doesn't help that I'm new to modding

Using the Cleaning drone charger as a pethouse unfortunately doesn't solve the pets turning invisible.

Could the drone either, A. show on the dock when it's sleeping on it or, B. use the Cleaning Drone charger instead?

Now my ship pet is just gone

@Phoenix
Do you have Purchasable Pets (or any other mod that disables vanilla pet spawns) installed?

Or are you using the original Avali Drone Pet mod from Leinglo?
Leinglo's mods broke after a while, so the drone wouldn't spawn without a fix.

oh i had no idea. the drone never worked for me i suppose

@Phoenix
The Avali Race mod comes with a cleaning bot for a pet.
The mods this patch is for change that pet to be a floating drone.

wait the avali have a pet

This patch should be compatible with both the standalone and purchasable pets versions of the Avali Drone Pet mods.
This is NOT a standalone mod.

Purchasable Pets version too?