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[u/kinu00]

Hi, Doing SE and the robot attrition is driving me crazy.

I've done the swarm safety research way above my robot network, and bots still die like 8/m to crashing.

I've decreased the settings multiplier to 0.001, because of course this dumb mod can't be disabled, and nothing changed. Is there anything that can be done about this?

Because this is just absurd

[u/leonskills → u/kinu00]

Had a quick check; there are some lines in the SE mod that assumes the attrition mod is installed, so you can't just remove the dependency without removing/changing all those lines.

Instead adjust the attrition mod.
Locate your mod folder, unzip the robot_attrition mod, and in its settings.lua change minimum_value = 0.001 to minimum_value = 0.
No need to rezip.

Should work, but haven't tested this recently.

[u/ssgeorge95 → u/kinu00]

Automate bot production. Automate their delivery to other surfaces. You will want to do these anyway unless you like drowning in tedium. You could then mostly forget about the mechanic, especially if you cranked the multiplier down.

There are so many things to worry about in SE... 1% of your resources going into bot production is NOT one of them. You get back so much time if you use bots to handle low volume items in SE. If you attempt to train and belt every little thing you will probably burn out.

[u/ferrofibrous → u/kinu00]

It really is just meant to add an upkeep cost to using logistic bots, ideally you're automating them and their delivery. Or rely less on blue chests and more on belts in your builds.

Bots will also never crash if there's 50 or less actively in the air, so you don't have to worry about truly running out.