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[AV] Mechanoid Spots

This mod is about controlling where your mechs guard or chill at, by giving them their own special spots.



New powered buildings which can be assigned to a specific individual mechanoid.




Sockets are buildings which can be assigned to mechs and give them a special buff as long as the mech stays on them. They need to be researched first.

Socket buff:
- consciousness +35%
- energy usage multiplier x75%


Socket buff:
- consciousness +20%
- aiming time -20%
- shooting accuracy x180%
- energy usage multiplier x10%


- charges mech energy based on the pulse interval / power usage of the socket (3-12%/day)
Socket buff:
- global work speed x10%
- energy usage multiplier x1%
Socket buff when the mech has full energy (lasts 4 hours):
- moving speed +10%
- global work speed x105%
- energy usage multiplier x110%




- charging spots require more previous research and building them requires different resources




An assigned mechanoid will use its spot when all of the following conditions are met:

• the mechanoid is in work mode and has nothing else to do (besides patrolling)
  
• the assigned spot is powered and there is no solarflare or EMI-dynamo
  
• the assigned spot is within the mechs allowed area and reachable
  
• the assigned mech is using the default mechanoid thinktree / KI (~95% of all modded mechs)

A mechanoid on its assigned spot will use the following beheivior:

• Combat mechs will guard their spot and engage in combat, before looking to use rimworlds patrol system
  
• Work mechs will move to their spot if they have no more work to do
  
• Mechanoids will move away from their spot to recharge according to the assigned recharge settings in their mech group

Additionally when a setting on the spot is checked the mech is allowed to self-recharge on them with the following beheivior:

• Work mode: mechs will dorment self-charge on their spot according to their groups recharge setting when no recharger is avaiable
  
• Dormant self-charge mode: mechs will prefer to dorment self-charge on their spot if their energy is above 2%
  
• Recharge mode: mechs will dorment self-charge on them when no recharger is avaiable

Guarding mechs which spot an enemy will use the normal rimworld combat KI - which is dumb - controlling them via drafting is always way more efficient.

• The list of assignable mechs can be filtered before assiging
  
• The guard or "look at" direction when on the spot can be changed
  
• Spots have a button to move the camera to the assigned mech and vice versa
  
• Spots have a button to copy and paste their settings

About 95% of modded mechs can use the spots from this mod.

Some modded mechs might not guard at their spot and instead just chill there, even if we as players perceive them as combat mechs, the game might not.
Just like all jobs, you can see that in the inspection tab.

Mods which...

• assign/disassign meditation spots to mechanoids (this is how this mod actually works)
  
• change mechanoid beheivior

Yes.

Yes, but make sure no mechs are using their spot (just draft them).




Great! Please post it in the pinned discussion for feedback.

Not so great... Please post it in the pinned discussion for bugs.

It probably is working, check the info-field on the charging socket. The charging from this mod just works differently from rimworlds normal charging stations. It will charge the mech in defined intervals.

Yes, sadly all mechanoid have a different lowest point.
This mod used the fabricator as a base for all spots, as I only wanted to add a special chair for them when this project started. The guarding function was actually just a byproduct.
If you don't like the offset, there is also a setting to place the spots more in the centre.

I believe that things should be in balance. If you have the upside of controlling where your mechs are, even if you mechanitor is downed, there has to be a cost.

Yes and [WVC - Work Modes] is great! However, this mod allows for much more direct control of each individual mech, while [WVC - Work Modes] works on a group basis.
They can also be used together, although modded work modes ignore the spots.


Me, myself and I.
Special thanks to the official rimworld discords modding-channel, the people running it and its precious search function.
Without this awesome community this mod would not exist.