Dronefin

Dronefin

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"Featured in the Hourglass, the Dronefin serves as an all purpose drone to assist the crew in scouting, exploration, mining, nest clearing and pirate missions!"

Features:

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• Shoots lasers from its eye!

• Will follow you!

• Will carry items for you!

• Will refill oxygen tanks for you!

• Will charge battery cells for you!

• Will drop a nuke/decoy for you!

• Will shock enemies for you!

• Will ram other subs for you!

• Will smash ice spires for you!

• Will play music!

• Mineral scanner!

• Is a great companion!

• Is magnetic (swim to its eye to get magnetised to the drone movement and become immune to electrical discharge coil)!

• Can bait enemies!

• Can be ridden on!

• Can fit through the smallest gaps in caves!

• Can be driven and controlled directly or remotely!

• Both periscope controls and navigation terminal controls directly and remotely (4 ways)!

• Automatically docks when not held down and undocks on holding down!

• Has automatic braking when not held!

• Has monster detection indicator!

• Can be parked instead of following with navigation terminal (Drone Control + Autopilot, hold in periscope to revert)!

• Can be both driven (navigation terminal) and shoot lasers (periscope on laser mode) at the same time!

• Hold to steer or shoot laser depending on mode (red eye = laser mode).

• Double click to switch modes (drive, laser)!

• Only one steering method can be active at a time, click "Drone Control" in navigation terminals to gain control or hold down on drive mode in periscopes.

Dronefin + Chaingun Variant

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• Chaingun from its mouth!

• Double click to cycle modes (drive, laser, chaingun)!

Setup

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Simply link the Dronefin to a docking port and its direct controls should work fine! Use the included "Dronefin Remote Setup" item assembly to optionally enable remote controls or manually wire:

• NBL = 0.2428

• WiFi:1000 = Navigation Terminal's transducer_in

• WiFi:1001 = Periscope's position_out

• WiFi:1002 = Periscope's trigger_out

• WiFi:1003 = Navigation Terminal's signal_out_1 (Drone Control)

• WiFi:1004 = Navigation Terminal's signal_out_2 (Discharge coil)

• WiFi:1005 = Navigation Terminal's signal_out_3 (Launch Depth Charge)

• WiFi:1006 = Navigation Terminal's toggle_docking

• WiFi:1007 = Concatenation signal_out (velocity_x_out,velocity_y_out) of Navigation Terminal's

• WiFi:1008 = Camera

Real Sonar Compatibility

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Make sure the drone & sub is below real sonar in the mods order and its setting is configured to:

{
"navterminal":{"damage":"high","sounds":"default","range":12000},
"shuttlenavterminal":{"damage":"medium","sounds":"shuttle","range":10000},
"sonarmonitor":{"damage":"low","sounds":"default","range":8000},
"subdronenavterminal":{"damage":"low","sounds":"shuttle","range":10000},
"dronenavterminal":{"damage":"low","sounds":"shuttle","range":10000}
}

To disable sonar damage from drone terminals specifically, untick custom sonar in the setting.

Credits

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• Zyleand Shipyard Drone Collection - Referenced brakes and following systems.

Notes

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'Magnet' Wall HP has been changed from 0 to 0.1 to address the issue of it blocking plasma cutter however now requires it to be broken once to 0HP manually to allow turret to shoot through.

• Leave the Dronefin enabled in mods for it to function correctly.

• In order to ride or swim along the Dronefin, you have to become 'magnetised' (it basically acts as if you're in a flooded hull) by swimming to the eye where the effect lasts until you leave the 'magnetic zone' of the large gap. It's best to swim up to the eye then pause a bit but it's not always as reliable where it may take a few attempts.

• You have to refill the ammunition box and depth charge outside on the drone after each use.

• The supercapacitor has 120w capacity where the oxygen tank shelf, charging dock, navigation terminal and active sonar all drain 1w each. When undocked, it will last 40 mins or 30 mins with active sonar on although using the turret and electrical discharge coil will also drain the supercapacitor as well. The navigation terminal will still function on 0% charge but the oxygen tank shelf, charging dock and active sonar will no longer work where the supercapacitor needs to be charged (60w, 2 mins) at a docking port.

• There is an invisible deconstructor linked to the large steel cabinet (remote access on the sub) precisely positioned while docked for the Hourglass at the star trophy middle shelf in the Sub Center Right room near the Armory. On other subs, you could adjust its position or remove the deconstructor.

Take good care of the Dronefin and enjoy!