Drone Port

The Drone Port is a late-game building used for long range, low-throughput item transportation. A Drone can be built on it. Dismantling the Drone Port also removes its nested Drone.

Usage
Drone Ports are used for nesting Drones to load/unload cargo and supply. Only one Drone Port needs to supply batteries. In case it's the Drone's destination port, it needs to temporarily be loaded with Batteries from its home port. It has one input port, one output port and a separate input port for Batteries. The Drone Port's inventory is divided into two separate inventories of 18 slots (twice as much as a Drone's 9 slots) for outgoing and incoming cargo.

The Drone Port's UI shows information about its Drone: The Drone's destination port can be configured in the second tab. The status of other Drone Ports/Drones can be viewed in the third tab.
 * Drone status (No Drone/Docking/Docked/Loading/Unloading/Cannot Unload/Insufficient Batteries/Takeoff/En Route)
 * Destination port
 * Battery consumption per trip and per minute
 * Round trip duration
 * Cargo throughput (maximum, outgoing and incoming transfer rate)

Drones only fly between their respective home and destination port. A Drone Port can be the destination port of any amount of other Drones. If multiple drones arrive at the same Drone Port at once, they will circle above the port until it frees up. As Batteries are consumed only by distance, prolonged waiting times don't increase their consumption.

Similar to, , Drone Ports can be renamed.

Tips

 * A Drone Port always consumes 100 MW regardless if a Drone is docking or not. This makes it the third highest power consumer not considering overclocking, only behind the and.
 * To remedy this, turn off unused Drone Ports with the standby switch (or cut their power suplly entirely).

Trivia
As the platform height of the Drone Port is about 4 meters, foundations elevated 4 meters from the base will be able to flush with the platform level, as well as concealing the belts below them.

History

 * Patch 0.4.0.7: Fixed Clients not being able to see Information in Drone Ports
 * Patch 0.4.0.6:
 * Fixed Drone Station Inventory not working for Client
 * Fixed crash related to Drone Stations when loading the game
 * Drone Status should now show the proper name
 * Patch 0.4.0.5: Drone Port names cannot be blank anymore
 * Patch 0.4.0.4: Fixed a bug where Drones would teleport when dismantling a Drone Station they are about to dock on
 * Patch 0.4.0.0: Introduced