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Should Construction Bots use my inventory? (feddit.org)
submitted 3 months 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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[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 3 months ago

Just to add to what everyone else says, you can also put your items in your trash slots (Ctrl+Click an item in your inventory when you're not accessing a chest). The base's bots will be able to build from your trash slots.

This only works up until you get logistic bots, because the logistic bots will "steal" from there and put the items into storage chests (which, tbf, is the intended behaviour of trash slots).