Here's some additional intel; when my colonist is going to pick up the corpse of a bugged mech (to haul it into my stockpile zone or to the machining table to shred it), I can see the following message in the colonist's info window at the bottom left of my screen:

GetInspectString exception on <colonist's name>:
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
[Ref A25297CF] Duplicate stacktrace, see ref for original

Hi there. I seem to be having the same issue as Midnight. Whenever I try to look at a bugged mech (which landed on the map as part of a hostile cluster) and its nearest surroundings, all humans, doors, animals, insects and robots aren't being rendered, and even my passenger shuttle turns invisible. It doesn't matter if the mech in question is dead or alive. Also, when I tried to zoom the camera out as far as possible, I could see some graphical glitches beyond the map edge; they were somewhat similar to the "Hall of Mirrors" effect.

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I hope that CE compatibility will be added in the future. For now it is funny to see the drones get oneshot by everything

Recently i've come across a strange bug with a specific mech, being the Drone Lancer when it's dropped by enemy mech clusters. Strangely, all mechs turn invisable along with turrets and anything that i'm viewing near the Lancer.. The lancer itself likewise being invisable, having no name or tag so making it an annoyance to locate it and deleting it via the dev menu. Second it's gone, goes back to normal Only found out it was the lancer via checking the unit in inspector. I'll assume it's a compatibility error but i'm still investigating why it's only the drone lancer.

Far as i'm aware, i've not touched that specific mech and since the Drone Lancer should be it's own unit..? It shouldn't have been changed by any other mech mod.

I'm not sure if anyone else have this problem, but some drones seems to ignore enemies on the map. Like, only half of the robots attacks them, rest seems to ignore them. Also, robots tends to rush enemies in melee, even long range attacks stops at best few tiles away from enemies. Can anyone confirm to have the same problem, or is it just me?

is there any plan to fix the incompatibility with biotech?

I believe there is a setting in their settings for that feature

This mod is a must have. Is there a way to make them spawn more often? Or manually?

сentipedes are not charged at charging stations. should we wait for a patch of compatibility with biotech?

yeah there seems to be incompatabilities with biotech atm, sry

Just got a lancer spawner, first time using this mod since i downloaded biotech, and the game is assuming the mechanoid has no mechlink so the lancer is uncontrolled+ will become hostile lol

Any inspiration to make it compatible with "Kill For Me" or to allow us to zone the drones?

will look into it, thanks

Mechanoid drones seem to be broken atm, game assumes they are missing a mechlink and go haywire, become hostile after some time.

Weird thing with this mod, pikeman and scythers from the spawners don’t want to stay on the mech rechargers, leading to colonists trying to put them on over and over again before they wander off. Any ideas how to fix?

I get an error when I try to open mod settings. Posted it in debug discussions.

"people who are too attached to their pawns to let anything part of the colony die."

You know me.

Some reason no spawners are outputting the drones, I've tried setting the points available to max in the settings
I have What the hack, draftable animals and VFE mechanoids if those would conflict in anyway

When you remove the mod mid game it f-up whole Rimworld, now it won't even start and i need to go version back to do the damage control.

If they at least could be zoned or something like that.
I like this mods concept. And that they are not fully controlled units like in Biotech or What the hack and the like.

They are unreliable for defense etc. though, because they seem to charge whatever, whenever. and likely one at a time at that. Just had a stage then attack kind of raid, and my replica lancers just made their way across the map to one of the groups and got picked off one by one. It was not even necessary to charge the enemy like that and if I had relied on them for defense...
Or the drones wandering around the map-> too far away to arrive in time when a raid shows up close by.

With something like zones, we could at least coordinate them to specific area.

Again, i really like the different take on mechanical units this mod offers.

Is there an option to disable mechanoids spawning (not just to not spawn them)?
Do drones cost anything to craft?

Yeah having the same issue hopefully it can be fixed maybe just making a different mob identical to the lancer, sycthers, centipedes and pikemen,, called Lancer drones, sycther drones ect...?

+1 to @AFGHAN PSYCHO can you give it an update @Alkolyte so they don't go feral? the rest of the mod is amazing, a must have in any of my playthroughs.

The mechs go feral if a mechinator does not take control of them, which leads to a bunch of mechs in your base going hostile and wiping you out. Please update.

I think thats a bug relating to mechs retreating, you have to have the map clear of all drones before they just start working again

I had a question about a potential bug/feature. One of my scrappie spawners keeps spawning drones(2-3 a second) and they just run off the map, is that an intended feature of just a byproduct of me modifying the point amounts (1500-2000) and halving spawn times?

@Alkolyte If you want to make drones draftable, maybe take a look at the Draftable Animals mod, see how they coded that part. Good luck!

Me: uses this mod
When i play the game and Mechnoids raid
Me who has the Mechnoid Assembler
Me again trying to figure out which one is which

Is it possible to have the drone stay around a designated target point?

I would suspect some sort of mod incompatibility, or try fiddling with the slider in the settings, you would need to restart after the settings are applied

So I bought some centipede assemblers and there is no assembly timer at any point setting, and I cannot force spawn centipedes via debug mode.

Ill see what I can do about direct drafting, not too sure how cleanly I can fork over VE's code at the moment but its a maybe

At the moment I am more geared towards balancing these things and adding more features, they are a little strong

So reading through this, you mention not being able to control the drones, but then I thought of VFE Mechanoids expanded, and how droids can be drafted. Maybe you could use their code as an example and learn off of that?

THANK

Be aware that this mod (and any other mod that spawns job restricted minions) breaks the Archonexus resettlement. If you try with any of these spawned on your map you will just be kicked back to your original colony. You have to remove all spawned creatures, including any corpses of them on your map to proceed.

Well. If its outright not working then i guess I have more questions than answers

Are there any errors that appear relating to the mod?

If you have had the mod for more than 1 month then it may be some sort of glitch regarding a recent update of the settings, at that point I would try
- reinstalling the mod
- resetting the settings

Otherwise I don't know what the problem could be, hope this helps

sorry for the trouble

My mod settings are all right

Yeah it needs harmony to work, your saying its not working with just that mod and harmony?

Thats really strange.... Have you tried fiddling with the mod settings?

and no red in game

not alone, I add Harmony

hrm.... does the mod work alone? I suspect its an incompatibility

I have a low wall,no ceiling,normal count, but just won't show up

They do listen to door restrictions, I would reccomend locking them in a room

How can I stop my machines from coming into my house？ I mean, they are pretty much useful when fighting outside the base -but you'll never want a chaperone fly directly into your room and explode when you try to deal with a slave breakout.

@Alkolyte yes，timer working and I can't see anything out

Is the timer on it when you click on it working? Is it just not spawning them?

I put this thing around the base, but several times it didn't work, I just put a circle of low walls around it, please ask what this situation is

oh, yeah, thats definetly part of the default faction settings, I might be able to add some sort of option for that but no promises, sorry