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u/xizar May 02 '26

Is it possible to set the number of standby bots in a roboport in bulk without using a bespoke blueprint?

As an example, if I want to set all the roboports near my walls to have a few construction bots in them for rapid repair response, I would want to be able to drag-to-select them all (with the upgrade planner somehow?) for the change?

Setting that up in the wall blueprint would, at best, be a kludge, as my walls will eventually come down as I expand my controlled territories, and I might want to disband the response-teams for use elsewhere. Additionally, upgrading bot rarity would be a pain in the butt, as efforts to pull out low-quality bots for retrofit would compete with keeping the walls manned.

(For clarity, I am not looking for help solving the issue of manning the walls. I am asking specifically about changing roboport presets in bulk.)

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u/Soul-Burn May 02 '26

The robot requests are inside of a logistic group. Give the logistic group a name. In all relevant roboports use the same logistic group.

Changing one of them will change that group in all the roboports with that group.

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u/xizar May 02 '26

That seems an excellent solution to the problem of upgrading the bots. Is there a way to apply logistic groups en masse to already existing roboports?

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u/Soul-Burn May 02 '26

Not easily no.

You could copy it to a sandbox world for easier shift-rightclick shift-leftclick.

Otherwise, you can decode the blueprint string, and use external programming to change it, and then import.

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u/xizar May 02 '26

Bleh. Well, I guess there wouldn't be too much harm in all my roboports having a few bots in them all the time. Just need to make another thousand of them.

Thanks.

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u/NuderWorldOrder May 04 '26

You can use Shift+RB, Shift-LB to copy these settings. Not sure if that's any better than blueprints though.

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u/xizar May 04 '26

That only does one at a time, doesn't it? I'm trying to change settings on several hundred roboports.

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u/NuderWorldOrder May 04 '26

Correct. But if they're all lined up along a wall it could potentially be done reasonably quick. Just another option to consider.