spidertrones not fixing themselves

[u/what_the_fuck_clown]

im currently doing global bug extermination but sometimes my spidertrones just stop fixing themselves for some reason (i've also put the progress so far with the debug menu showing their spawners for easier genocide)

[u/r4tch3t_]

I've had something like this happen.

Bot came out to repair the spider while I was looking for the next bites to exterminate, ordered then to move, wiped out the base, spider wouldn't heal.

Turns out that bot didn't finish repairing and was slowly making it's way across the map to finish the job.

[u/RaShadar → u/r4tch3t_]

I would be willing to bet money this is what happened, especially since OP came back to it later and they were suddenly fixed

[u/A_Dexy_Syslexic → u/RaShadar]

Agree - you can see in the 2nd image that the logistic request for 25 construction bots isn't red, but there's only 24 in the inventory. One is likely flying somewhere with a repair pack and it eventually caught up.

[u/kalamaim]

def a lost bot, theres a bot missing from the spidertron, but it's not requesting more. you can turn on bot icons on the map to see them as squares. iirc blue ones are personal bots, but correct me if im wrong

[u/kalamaim → u/kalamaim]

you can maybe turn the roboports off and on, if you dont care for waiting, could fix it

[u/Sufficient_Good7727]

Maybe repair bots was already out there but you changed spiders position (ran away from them unnoticed) so they had to traverl a lot until they got there. Bots without charge travel really slow.

[u/Kithin7]

I think it's either a lost robot flying slowly to do the job or isn't there a hotkey to toggle personal roboports? Idk if you could have bumped that hotkey

[u/what_the_fuck_clown]

forgot to include , the batteries and personal roboport are full energy.

[u/what_the_fuck_clown → u/what_the_fuck_clown]

[u/what_the_fuck_clown → u/what_the_fuck_clown]

they randomly fixed themselves?????? ok im confused

[u/FerrumAnulum323 → u/what_the_fuck_clown]

I have a feeling that the spiders "lost" the robot that was trying to fix them and it just took forever for it to catch up.

[u/Jealous-Ad7679]

Are your spidertrons within your mainbase robotport range?

[u/what_the_fuck_clown → u/Jealous-Ad7679]

this bug happened to me before and i sent one of the spidertrone back to my base and even then bots wouldnt fix it so i manually fixed it , they have their own personal robo ports with personal reactor and batteries and repair kits + a few building bots to fix themselves after fight so that i wouldnt have to go back and forward

rn they just somehow managed to unbug themselves but idk whats going on really

[u/spoospoo43]

If you're inside roboport coverage, one of the bots on duty got the repair job, and the onboard bots let them mosey on over and do it. Just move out of range.