One drone on the other side of a factory dies, ALL drones on the other side of a factory die.
I have this drone; the core deploys the main body via a factory, (backup system, and the core serves as a homing beacon for ore couriers) and then I can build and release sub-drones that carry ore to the hopper.
The problem is, the sub-drones self-destruct once they touch down in the hopper, to keep spare parts from piling up, and once they do, the ENTIRE main body of the drone goes dark. I can remanufacture it and find it again - the whole thing is there, dead and undamaged. I am attachi
Checked out your drone. it's not a bug. Rather a side effect of what the game considers debris.
When a block is destroyed, all the nodes using that block as parent (ie. all the stuff behind it) become debris (this works the same way a logic splitter does). It doesn't matter if it's physically connected.
Now, your drone...
- The main drone decouples from the core using a decoupler block, and then that decoupler block is let go by the factory. It falls into the hopper.
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