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)