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DIY Drone: Item Assembly and Example Subs

Ever wanted to design your own remote drone in Barotrauma? No? Well now you can! I've taken the liberty to lay out all critical components for both the remote drone and the control station to make it as easy as possible to make a drone. All components are already wired and ready to go for your convenience. This workshop item also includes a fully built drone and control sub as examples. Follow the directions on the labels in-game (or down below) and soon you'll be commanding a whole fleet of autonomous killing machines to wipe out all life under the sea. Onward to the depths of Europa, and then, the Galaxy!

• A fully functional drone: "Beta Fish drone"
  
• A fully functional control sub: "The Olive Mk. II"
  
• An item layout containing all necessary components for creating a drone and control sub: "Critical Drone Components"
  
• Excessively wordy instructions

They're yours to use both in-game and in the editor to make more drones and subs! All critical drone components have descriptions for usage and explanations of what they do to make designing drones a little bit easier. Still stuck? See the instructions below or post a comment!

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1. Open the in-game sub "Critical Drone Components". This has all the critical components for the remote drone and the control station on board the main sub already wired (mostly! see below).
   
2. Use box select to select each group of components and save them as an item assembly (separately). This makes it easy to make more drones or add more drone control stations in the future.
   
3. Once they are saved, create a new sub from the editor and begin! For more detailed instructions, see the following sections.
   
4. You can open up the "Beta Fish Drone" and "The Olive Mk. II" subs in the editor if you'd like to see how the item assemblies are integrated into complete subs.

Drone:

1. Create a new design in the submarine editor.
   
2. add the saved item assembly for the remote drone sub parts.
   
3. add shells, hulls, gaps, lighting, and decoration as you desire.
   
4. drag subassemblies of the drone components to wherever they need to be
   
5. Wiring is not necessary for the remote drone item assembly, but you can change or organize the wiring by going into the wiring view using the button near the top center-right of the screen. Select a wire, then press "Control+Left Click" to add a new node, then drag the node wherever you want to get the wires out of the way.
   
   
6. To add new items, follow the instructions in the labels. Take note of the following though:
   
   • Adding engines only require adding the engine and connecting the "Set Force" signal to the existing "signal_out" signal from the engine wifi component. Then just add power to the new engine from the junction box.
     
   • Adding new weapon assemblies is a bit more complicated, as it needs a new gun, periscope, loader, and two new wifi components (plus a super capacitor if you want to keep power separate for weapons systems. You can copy-paste the weapon assembly already provided, but remember to change the channel value in the wifi components! The control sub will also need a new periscope with two wifi components; the channel values of the wifi components must match the channels in the new remote drone weapon assembly!
7. Once everything is placed, delete the text labels and you're done with the remote drone. On to the control sub!

Control Sub:

1. create a new design in the editor, build a sub as normal making sure to leave a space for the drone control item assembly
   
2. add in the drone control item parts wherever you'd like. Take care to keep the subassembly items together (such as the logic components, wiring, and buttons that go along with the drone docking hatch).
   
3. Note that the control sub item assembly does need some wiring:
   
   • The shuttle terminal needs to be powered by wiring the "Power" input to a junction box or battery.
     
   • The drone docking hatch needs to be powered by wiring the "Power" input to a junction box or battery. Note that the background dock item needs to be wired, not the physical access hatch/door itself. This is also not strictly necessary, but wiring the docking hatch will allow the drone to be charged while it is docked with the control sub.
4. The drone needs to be added to the design of the control sub. Click the "add sub" button at the top of the screen, sleect the drone from the drop down menu, and place the outline of the sub approximately where it would be if it were docked to the control sub.
   
5. Link the drone with the docking hatch by selecting the drone outline, then holding the space by while selecting the docking port (again, select the background, and not the physical hatch).

• Q: Why? A: I don't know.
  
• Q: How? A: Using in-game drones as examples, all necessary components were isolated and connected.
  
• Q: What if I have more questions now in the FAQ? A: Leave a comment and I'll help if I can!

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