I may be stupid, but how do i use this mod properly?
I made a shutdown zone and assigned it to group 1. Thats the group of my only mechanitor with all mechs in it, both combat and workers. Yet non of them seem to shut down even if nothing is going on.

Also, how do i switch their work modes?

thanks for the quick update!

the function to find a shutdown zone skips searching if the current map is not a playerhome. this works fine for vanilla, but is annoying when using mods that allow you to create your own pocketmaps (like the one that i discovered this behaviour through, "RV with built-in PD"), since your mechs will completely ignore shutdown zones, thanks to it not being considered a playerhome. would it be possible to add a check for this scenario, to allow mechs to seek shutdown zones while in pocketmaps?

@Sergkart Thanks for the answer.

@Device
One of the goals of this mod is to improve performance, for this mechanoids automatically shutdown in most modes, so they request less work node with its countless checks. If you do not use hive mind research or scavenging, then no, there is no impact on performance.

is there any impact on performance with this mod?

Is there a way to get the mech zone to work with gestalt engine? It doesnt give me the option to assign any mech groups from the engine only the 2 my mechanator has

All fixed now, just disabled and re-enabled the mod. Not sure what caused it, but I know its something on my end. I was indeed being stupid :,(

@Jogoat
Not confirmed. Repeat the bug on the modlist specified in the bug report discussion and send the log.

Mechanoids are aimlessly wandering when assigned off of escorting their mechanitor. For example: Work, Recharge and Escort > Work. It fixes when I restart, but when I do the same thing they go back to wandering aimlessly, even with obvious tasks that need doing. Theres nothing in the error logs. Am I being stupid?

ah! thats whats wrong my bad!

@Dinomyte
It only works with escort modes from the mod. And it is turned on manually on mechanoids.

the "smart escort" feature doesnt seem to appear when i have it active in the settings menu is there a chance it could be messed up by something?

@Mikado Biden DMS conflict was patched by AOBA yesterday evening

conflict with The Dead Man's Switch

Alright then, thank you for the answer!

@MRS0
This feature, like most mechanics in the mod, is only available for mechanoids inherited from vanilla mechanoids. If for some reason the mod developer decided that they should not inherit vanilla mechanoid comps, they will not be supported.

So this mod needs compatibility patches, but I don't have time to do this right now.

Hello, I am having an issue- Mechanoids from the "Mechanite Plague" mod do not have the option to become forced to use the shutdown zones of only THEIR group. The "Use only group zones" button does not show up.

I noticed this does not happen with the mechanoids from alpha mechs mod, as for other mechanoid mods I have yet to create any to test this with in my colony.

Is this a bug? or do you need to add some sort of compatibility patch to every mod's mechanoids?
Thank you for your support regardless!!!

@Sergkart No problem.

@Aqua
No.

Hi!

First, thanks for the mod!
Really cool way to play with mechs in biotech expansion.

Second, Is there a way to remove "Shutdown" feature from some "Work Modes" in the Settings?

The reason -> I use "Mechanoid Spots" and because of the "Shutdown" feature from your "Work Modes", even when i assign them to the spots they immediately shuts off, "Wait enemy" or "Work and wait" don't seems to work in this situation either.

@The Lord of Ebola
Maybe in the future.

any chance you could add the ability for mechs to escort another mech? I wanna have my diabolus escort the centurion so it follows it to combat within the shield automatically :D

Thanks。

@自古萝莉幸运a
Use modes without smart charging, there is no other way.

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I want to let Mechanoids idle directly instead of recharging when it is not working in version 1.5. I don't seem to see the idle setting in 1.4. How is it possible to achieve this in 1.5?

Ah thanks. Somehow I had it in my head that sycthers dont use "work" because.. .well they dont really work :D

@Nightfish
"Wait enemy" or "Work and wait"

Oooh. So what work mode would I use to get my scythers to behave? The one I use most of the time is "find and destroy" (this is why I installed this mod and it's working great!) but I don't want my scythers to just wander around while there are no enemies on the map, which is what they seem to do in this mode. When there is nothing to do, I just want them to go home and sleep.

@Nightfish
Vanilla modes do not work with the mechanics of the mod, they are intentionally left as is.

I can't seem to get my mechs to use the shutdown zones. Maybe I'm not understanding them correctly? I've out one such zone around my chargers and, let's say I have 15 scythers that I put on "recharge", I would expect them all to go to that zone and whoever gets a charger uses that and whoever cannot use a charger goes into shutdown mode in that zone? What happens instead is that 12 scythers just go to sleep wherever they are and the 3 that get a charger use that.

I was waiting for mechanoid idle optimization to be updated to 1.5 not realizing there was this whole different mod the whole time lmao

oh shit, cool

@Farbott
Resource spawner.

What does the scavenging mode actually mean? I am stupid and dont understand

That's a really good reason, thank you for the response.

@Jaggid Edje
The vanilla game does not allow mechanoids to go into shutdown mode in prison. There is no reason to allow a zone to be placed where a mechanoid cannot shut down.

Is there a reason I can't build a Shutdown zone inside a prisoner's barracks? I wanted to put a spot for my Paramedics to be idle when there's no work in the prison hospital, but the zone cannot be created in any room which is considered a prison.

recharge and patrol when enemy

I literally just want this so I can stop my idle mechs from constantly running in and out of the freezer for no reason, while still allowing my Lifters access to do their job. But I'll take the rest of it anyways, lol.

Found an unintended interaction with paramedic mechs:
If there's a paramedic set to "work and recharge" with a shutdown zone, then the mech will try to shutdown in the zone after using its jump (i.e everytime it approaches a colonist needing rescue) while the colonist is considered reserved by the mech the whole time, leading to bleedouts that would've been completely avoidable

So remember to set your paramedics to "work" to avoid that issue

This Mod should be part of VANILLA!
I mean, WHATS the point in killing a person to create a High-class Subcore, if it can only use 4 Commands?

@HanA
Okay, I'll check again.

I think that's weird, miho's mech seems to work as biotech mech does and I'm not using vefm.

@HanA
I didn't find any mechanoids in this mod. There are machines for VFEM, but the machines do not have integration with biotech.

@Sergkart https://steamproxy.net/workshop/filedetails/?id=2816826107 there's many mechanoids but not working with WVC at all.

@HanA
Don't know. Links?

could you make a compability with some mod mechaniods? especially, miho's.

@漆黑之梦
1) Yes, performance problems arise due to research. I'm still thinking about the optimal solution and in the future I may fix this problem, but for now this mode is not friendly with large modlists and a large number of pawns.

2) Yes, I can make them stand or lie down, it's not difficult. It's just that, for obvious reasons, this is not the main problem of this mode.

So it's easy to implement to have them stand up, but not move, when researching ?
It does feel like it's a bit of a mess to move around.