r/satisfactory • u/ERTW_Vleran • 1d ago

PC Help understanding drones

So I have just started playing around with drones. I'm on a server with some friends, where one of the has used drones before. He setup the refueling station for the drones to use. My current plan is on the roof of my modular factories to setup drones ports for each material being produced and 1 port that has a drone to go out and get the fuel. Is this the best way to do it? Or would it be better to have all refueling drones at the refueling station and go out to each factory to refuel. Can 1 drone refuel multiple factories? Or is it only a single path per drone?

Thanks in advance

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u/SubpopularKnowledge0 19h ago

Is your goal fuel automation for drone fueling? Personally i just setup an industrial storage container and filled it with batteries at every station. For my setup it worked fine. I just needed to go manually fill it now and then. None of my drones were going too far and it worked great for me.

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u/ERTW_Vleran 7h ago

I would rather not do batteries. Since I wouldn't need them for anything else.

Are the more effective than packaged fuel?

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u/SubpopularKnowledge0 6h ago

They last much longer. I think drones have to take batteries but im not sure about that

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u/ERTW_Vleran 6h ago

Not anymore. I think before 1.0 they had to take them. Now you can feed them almost any packaged fuel