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Should Construction Bots use my inventory? (feddit.org)
submitted 1 week ago by Don_alForno@feddit.org to c/factorio@lemmy.world
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This is a noob question, hope you don't mind.

Should construction bots from roboport buildings use items in my inventory to build? They're not, but maybe I am doing something wrong?

I'm wearing a powered personal roboport and am standing inside the orange area of the roboport building, yet only my 10 personal bots are working. As soon as I put some of my inventory into a yellow chest, the "outside" bots start using items from the chest to help.

Constructing big blueprints kind of takes ages this way, having to switch my inventory over fixes it but is annoying. I thought all bots should consider me part of the network, so they should use my inventory.

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[–] HailHydra@infosec.pub 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fun fact:
Construction robots in the roboport area youre standing in can use items in your logistics trash slots in your inventory to build things since your logistics trash slots effectivley act as an active provider chest within the logistics network you're standing in.

(But your personal construction robots cannot use items in your logistics trash slots since theyre considered not part of your inventory)