Droid Assembling Machine

The Droid Assembling Machine is used to automate the robot army deployment process. The current appearance is a standard looking blue Assembling Machine 2 with the pipes always showing on the sprite. The rotation of the building determines where the droids spawn - they will spawn about 5 tiles away from where the arrows are facing, in a ~5x5 tile area.

You can see the new graphic as of v0.1.42 above in the image. The building is on the right.

What it spawns

The droid assembler allows for automated deployment of all of the currently available droids. See here for the droids you can spawn

Recipe

The recipe to create this building is basically the same as an Assembling Machine 2, but with slightly increased costs because this one is doing something more specialized (that's my excuse anyway).

Hints

I suggest you place these about 1 assembler's distance apart in lines, all facing the same direction. A reasonable "barracks" design might be 4 or 5 Droid Assemblers getting fed by multiple droid-producing assembling machines or by belt-fed supply.

DO NOT fence the droids in, their spawn area must have at least one opening for the pathfinder otherwise they can bug out and disband the squad and become wanderers...

Ship droids out to far-away bases and build a few Droid Assemblers - squads spawned out there are more likely to go and attack biters nearer to that area, and may intercept/delay biter swarms to help defend your outposts.

This mod allows you to win a battle of attrition - any new biter bases spawned in the "no mans land" will be targeted first and help squash their ability to grow back after all your hard effort in the battlefield.