[feature] Personal Robo Bees

[Wallemations]

Issue to fix

I'd love to use the Robo Bees to send items back to my base without having to go all the way back, but two things get in the way of that:

1. The Mobile Packager does not autofill from clipboards
2. If I manually send a bee to a beeport then it doesn't come back, which means I need to manually go empty the beeport of bees every once in a while in order to both keep stocked and make sure they have somewhere to actually path to

Describe the solution you'd like

Combine a Mobile Packager and a bee to create a Personal Robo Bee, which combines the functions of the two. Right-click with the bee and it'll open the same interface as the Mobile Packager, except this time when you hit send it will immediately send the bee. This bee will always return to you no matter where you send it, saving space in beeports and making sure you don't need to do manual restocking. The downside to these bees is that they couldn't be placed in beeports directly, meaning they're just for players to use.

Describe alternatives you've considered

One thing I considered was just removing the Mobile Packager and using the combined functionality I mentioned before, except if you have a package in your offhand it skips the UI opening and just sends it like it does now.
In order to get a bee that returns to you, you could just craft the bee on its own to toggle it between a Personal Robo Bee and a normal Robo Bee (similar to how the Packager & Re-Packager work in a crafting table).

If you wanted to you could still keep the Mobile Packager, since it would let you pack stuff up on the go to put on Chain Conveyors or something.

[timplay33]

Just implemented TrashSlots (#299).

please take a look at them and see if that matches your need

[Wallemations]

Just implemented TrashSlots (#299).

please take a look at them and see if that matches your need

Is it bees from the beeport that come to pick up the trash packages or is it bees in your inventory that go out to put them back?

If it's bees from a beeport, is it only bees from the specified beeport that make their way to you?

My main concern is if it's bees from random beeports, then the same issue of having to take the bees out of the Trash beeport manually still arises, since if you just keep trashing items then they'll eventually just back the port up and no more bees will be able to go into it.

[timplay33]

@Wallemations, that's a great point. Haven't thought about that. Thanks!

[Wallemations]

@Wallemations, that's a great point. Haven't thought about that. Thanks!

No problem
I can tell you took huge inspiration from Factorio's roboports and it's honestly a huge part why I love the mod so much because it feels so much like them.

The limitations of the fact it's in Minecraft using Create mod means bees can easily get clogged in bee ports if you have more than 64 of them in a single logistic network, or if you have (as an example) 16 bees in a network of 2 beeports, it's really easy to end up in a situation where one beeport loses all its bees because the other beeport took them all

Edit: realized the first one only happens if you try to overfill a network with just a single beeport which is a normal behavior so nvm on that, but the second example still applies

[timplay33]

@Wallemations but with 16 bees, the port missing a bee would request one from the other port. I know that takes longer, but it's better than nothing. In the future a button or upgrade (see #88) might allow the player to say a bee from this port will always return, but I'm not yet sure about this.

[Wallemations]

@Wallemations but with 16 bees, the port missing a bee would request one from the other port. I know that takes longer, but it's better than nothing. In the future a button or upgrade (see #88) might allow the player to say a bee from this port will always return, but I'm not yet sure about this.

They request bees from other ports when they're empty?
Damn how the hell did I not notice that, that's my bad then lol