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Solved Automatron bots, provisioners, and Outposts

spacefiddle

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I built an Automatron bot in my HQ Outpost.
I just did Taking Independence, and have control of the Castle as a "normal" settlement.
I went into workshop mode to order the bot to move to the Castle - and can't.
I can't order the bot to move anywhere except other outposts.

Is this intended? Or maybe just unavoidable? My usual thing for building-component supply lines is to build a bot wherever I have my workstation, then assign it to the target so the source doesn't get overloaded with bots, and before it runs away from me, make it a provisioner. In this way, each settlement is only supporting 1-2 bots.

However, the menu that pops up when I go to R) Move the bot only has other outposts as options. I can understand why it wouldn't have Vassals, but the Castle ain't a Vassal. (the vessel with the pestle has the pellet with the poison....)

Followup thought:
When I want to make the Castle into an Outpost, what effect will this Automatron / Vanilla Provisioner line have? Will it muck things up? Should I take the bot off the provisioner route to the castle before converting it? Or will it continue to just be a component link?
 
I built an Automatron bot in my HQ Outpost.
I just did Taking Independence, and have control of the Castle as a "normal" settlement.
I went into workshop mode to order the bot to move to the Castle - and can't.
I can't order the bot to move anywhere except other outposts.

The above is correct. It is working as designed.

There are 2 Machnicics:
1. The Vanilla
2. The Conqueror

Followup thought:
When I want to make the Castle into an Outpost, what effect will this Automatron / Vanilla Provisioner line have? Will it muck things up? Should I take the bot off the provisioner route to the castle before converting it? Or will it continue to just be a component link?

It depends, on the type of supply line?

IDK about pure vanilla. I always use the IDEK logistic station.
Conqueror will link automatically without assigning a provisioner.
I do still link some settlements with the logistics station just for the shared storage.
:acuteThat is all I know. :friends
 
IDK about pure vanilla. I always use the IDEK logistic station.
I don't know what that means. IDEK automatically creates optimized provisoner links, but they're still provisioner links, aren't they? Does all of this bypass the Workshop Update system entirely?

It is actually probably safe to leave the bot alone, if this is the case, because it would mean both systems are working entirely in parallel and unaware of each other. The only thing that would theoretically be happening is two different systems are calcuylating available resources at different times and you get two daily updates instead of one.

In theory.

And, lastly, once I convert the Castle into an Outpost, it should then be a valid target for me to rehome the bot to, yes?
 
UPDATE: There's a simple workaround to this, which just occurred to me. Tested and confirmed, works perfectly.

Simply take the bot you just made as a companion, before you make it a provisioner. Then it is no longer considered a "faction soldier" due to its creation in your outpost; it's just a robot. Talk to it and dismiss it; all your owned workshops are valid targets, whether Conqueror, Vanilla, whathaveyou. Wait a few seconds after you dismiss it until it processes and starts to head there - and then you can make it a provisioner as intended.

(I do this so that the single location with my Workbench doesn't get clogged with Happiness-nerfing bots taking up population slots; I always re-home them to the new target first, then assign them as a provisioner from the new location. This way each location only needs to support a single bot, maybe two if you're making a chain.)
 
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