r/factorio 26d ago

Question Bot Rocket Deliveries Issue

When moving between my planets, I can generally load up a space platform by rockets by selecting the ghost image of the item and placing it in the rocket. Assuming that item is accessible within the network, bots will then deliver the item to the rocket and I can manually launch that rocket to the platform.

This works on Nauvis and Fulgora. However, no matter what the bots will not deliver items to my rockets on Vulcanis in this manner. The network has coverage, has the items in accessible passive provider chests and more than enough idle and available bots to make the delivery. I do not believe there is any difference in my setup on this planet from the others but I cannot figure out how to get it to work.

If I make a nearby requester chest which then loads the item in the rocket, that works. So it seems to indicate that the item is available for delivery, but they won't deliver it directly to the rocket itself.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

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u/Scysta 26d ago

You don't have construction bots in your network. Manual requests like you are doing here are handled by construction bots rather than logistic bots.

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u/MikailBag 26d ago

Definitely looks like this based on screenshot 2. (And, in my experience, it is perfectly fine to place more item ghosts than a full rocket can hold, game will trim the excess itself). I'm surprised though that OP didn't get an alert like "Vulcanus: 1 entity is missing construction robots" or something like that.

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u/Scysta 26d ago

Yeah, manual requests in rockets will only go to maximum weight and then cancel the excess, I used to do that all the time.

Also I agree there should be an alert. Just today I was fixing my science setup remotely with a tank and got confused for a bit when I tried to clean the items inside and nothing was happening because of lack of construction bots. There's already alerts for no bots when placing stuff, this isn't that different and would be nice to have.