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Drones of Peace
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Mantastic's Stranded: Alien Dawn Mods
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Description
Drones just aren't for shooting and hauling goods! They can also rescue and heal injured colonists, and assist with farming, construction, and physical tasks.

This sister mod to Drones of War provides you with Medical, Farmer, Construction, and Labor Drones.

Medical Drones
  • Rescues incapacitated colonists and delivers them to an available bed. As long as their power isn't cut while doing so, there will be no interruptions, unlike colonists who sometimes decide they want to do something else during said rescue.
  • If the survivor is awaiting treatment in a bed and healing items are available, it can also heal them with the same healing skill (5) as the Surgical Bed.
  • They can be drafted so you can strategically place them near combat areas for faster pickup, should you be fighting a particularly risky and dangerous battle.
  • They have no combat abilities, so keep them out of the line of fire. To compensate, they have higher HP at 300 so they can take a few hits if necessary.
  • Increased speed compared to other drones.
  • Research prerequisites - Delivery Drones and Surgical Automations. Located under Science in the taskbar.
  • Additional cost with added metal and some carbon due to their large frame.
  • They use the same amount of power as their delivery drone brethren.

Note that your colonists will still try to rescue their downed comrades (can you blame them?), but the drones can override them once they're directed. To avoid this issue, using Jaggid's Task Master Mod, you can disable Rescue from the Activities list on the colonists you don't want doing that.

Farmer Drones
  • Will automatically assist with planting, fertilizing, harvesting, and irrigating (if you have lukeh_ro's Irrigation mod).
  • As lightweight service drones intended to only carry seeds, water, and dung, they only have 50 HP and are very vulnerable to any kind of damage.
  • Research prerequisites - Delivery Drones and Service Bots. Located under Science in the taskbar.
  • They cost the same resources and use the same amount of power as their delivery drone brethren.
  • They do not carry harvested resources to storage. You still need to have your Delivery drones handle that. This is intentional to ensure efficient harvesting and not take away a vital function from Delivery drones.

Construction Drones
  • Will automatically assist with building, repairing, and disassembling buildings and items.
  • Operates at a skill of Construction 8, so anything requiring 9 or 10 will need human hands to do so.
  • As lightweight service drones intended to only carry some construction materials and build, they only have 50 HP and are very vulnerable to any kind of damage.
  • Research prerequisites - Delivery Drones and Service Bots. Located under Science in the taskbar.
  • They cost the same resources and use the same amount of power as their delivery drone brethren.

Labor Drones
  • Will automatically assist with mining, cutting trees and plants, scavenging, and salvaging tasks.
  • Operates at a skill of Physical 5.
  • As lightweight service drones intended to only carry internal tools to perform their tasks, they only have 50 HP and are very vulnerable to any kind of damage.
  • They do not carry harvested resources to storage. You still need to have your Delivery drones handle that. This is intentional to ensure efficient harvesting and not take away a vital function from Delivery drones.
  • Research prerequisites - Delivery Drones and Service Bots. Located under Science in the taskbar.
  • They cost the same resources and use the same amount of power as their delivery drone brethren.

To do list:
  • Add the ability to store medkits within a Medical drone and heal outside of beds. May require SAD_CommonLib adjustment to make that work.


Version: 2.11-032
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Mantastic  [author] 14 Aug @ 11:22am 
Labor drones can now butcher. Did some long and hard thinking and opted to add this as a function to help with later game mob harvesting.
Mantastic  [author] 23 Jun @ 1:33pm 
Lol, that's definitely one of the more annoying parts of the game. The engine just can't handle that many enemies, yet there they are. Slideshow mode.
_killjoy_ 23 Jun @ 1:29pm 
I will check that one out I have been laughing that the AI has given up beating my defenses and decided to cook my cpu instead.
Mantastic  [author] 23 Jun @ 8:57am 
That's totally normal towards the end of the game. The waves get huge. And a fair point since the drone typically isn't available to folks until mid/late game.

I'd recommend checking out Insects Level Up All Species by Ark Builder btw, instead of getting a massive hoard of week enemies, this mod levels them up into smaller, stronger mobs.
_killjoy_ 22 Jun @ 2:18pm 
By the time my labor drones are basically on standby the waves are big enough that I don't think it would put the unfortunate souls under my control at risk of loosing their jobs, however I can see the dilemma and it is likely most are not experiencing waves of 1200 scarabs at a time not sure if that is normal or I have some settings messed up.
Mantastic  [author] 21 Jun @ 9:23pm 
I'd actually considered that. Went back and forth between if it would take yet another task away from colonists and limit their activities even further. Goal is to have them be a big help, but not replace all physical type tasks.

But if it's something folks want, I can definitely look into it.
_killjoy_ 21 Jun @ 1:27pm 
Late game I find my labor drones kind of run out of things to do and was wondering if it would be possible to add butchering to their tool box?
Mantastic  [author] 17 Jun @ 10:37am 
Service Robots is unlocked after you research or loot AI Cores.
mousik2 17 Jun @ 1:05am 
Yes, Delivery Drones are researched. I don't see "Service Robots" to discover. Both of addons are enabled in menu - Drones of Peace and SAD_CommonLib. I'm not able to attach file here so please try to download it from this URL: https://1drv.ms/u/c/0ecb60e7c1e1d5f3/EVljL5yjsURKsBFHSDesouYBXVkhRilYRg1MfiUvlfc3lw?e=faafUF
Mantastic  [author] 16 Jun @ 11:19am 
To clarify, have you only researched Delivery Drones?

The ones in this mod have their own research entries. You must also research Service Robots to unlock them, except for the Medical Drone which requires Surgical Beds instead.

If you have researched those and they're still not showing, then can you send me your save file through Discord or here?