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Artifact Gathering - Obsolete as of Factorio 0.15 and Robot Army 0.3.0

A feature of this mod is the ability for your squads to gather artifacts while they are rampaging through the world killing the natives of Nauvis.

Seen in the image above is the new "Army loot chest" which is where the collected alien artifacts will appear (instantly). The chest is the chest-like object with the three alien artifact icons on the front - to make it obvious :). The artifact gathering will also pick up other mod's artifacts such as the small and coloured ones from Bob's mods. See proof below!

How does it work?

Your droid squads will go out and kill biters, and they will now "pick up" all alien artifacts within a certain distance (15 tile radius currently) and the artifacts they pick up will appear in the Army Loot Chest of your force. It's that easy!

Unlocking the loot chest

The Army Loot Chest is unlocked with Military 1 research, at the same time as the Clockwork Riflebot.

ONLY ONE LOOT CHEST PER FORCE IS ALLOWED

For now, at least, only one loot chest per team is allowed. If you try to build more than one, it will disappear and give an error message printed to the player's screen.

If the chest gets full, it will fail to put the artifacts in it, and will send a message to all players on the force telling them that the loot chest is full. It will waste artifacts if you let this happen, so make sure you are always pulling the artifacts out of the loot chest into some buffered storage so this never happens.