Spawners and Drones

Adds purchasable spawners to the game that automatically produce security drones for your colony

Recommended for:

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

• people who think killboxes are lame and open combat is cool

Assemblers appear on various trader types for expensive premium prices

• Exotic traders

• Combat suppliers

• Pirates

Drone assemblers can also appear as exotic quest rewards

Current variations:

**Mechanoids**


	

• Lancer

• Scyther

• Centipede

• Pikeman

  Homers Small fast drones with explosive charges attached, chases enemies

• Chaperone

  Scouts Medium sized drones carrying light to medium weapons, lightly armored

• Scrappie - mid to close range scattergun

• Pepper - long to mid range autocannon

• Logger - medium range machine gun

• Tokamac - mid to long range rifle

  Specialists Medium sized drones carrying weapons designed against certain enemies, medium armored

• Cinder - sets living enemies on fire, without immediately causing a forest fire

• Cutram - low damage, high accuracy, firerate, penetration and hit chance

Properties of spawners AKA, boring technical stuff to explain how rimworld spawners work

Rimworld spawners (from mechanoid clusters) come with a point system that determines the interval it spawns pawns. Each pawn type has a different amount of points. The more pawns belonging to a spawner, the slower it will spawn. When the amount of points belonging to a spawner is slightly over or reaches max it will stop spawning pawns until some die.

ie a Lancer has 150 points and a default spawner has 500 points max, the spawner will produce at maximum 4 Lancers at any given time

• The maximum points can be configured in the settings

Individual spawners have their own individual point system so you can still raise a robot army given enough spawners

• Tynan may have changed how the mech assemblers work now but these ones follow these old rules

Often asked questions

• Q - Are the drones CE compatible? A - Unfortunately, not at the moment

• Q - Is there a way to control the drones? A - They listen to door restrictions, aside from that, they can't be controlled right now. I hope to add some sort of ability to better control them, someday

• Q - Can this mod be added midgame? A - Yes

Open to suggestions (balancing, ideas, etc)