Automated Fabrication?

[pheenix99]

If I remember correctly, some fabrication modules (USI for example) require personnel on board to function. What I'd like to do is land a drone ship on a planet and fabricate the required Material Kits/Specialized parts so they're available and ready when the Kerbals arrive on the site. 

Is there any sort of mod that would allow me to do this or do I need to go into the config files for the parts and remove personnel requirements?

 

[genericeventhandler]

Hi, 

As far as I am aware, you need kerbals, because it's hard coded into the dlls,  ( USI and Extraplanetry Launchpads ).  

There is nothing to stop you creating a part with a resource converter to create the Material Kits and Specialized parts from raw resources. 

 

Here's one I knocked up, not tested. 

Geh

 

@PART[*ISRU]:AFTER[Squad]
{
	MODULE
	{
		 name = ModuleResourceConverter
         ConverterName = MaterialKitsBuilder
         StartActionName = Build MaterialKits
         StopActionName = Stop MaterialKits

         AutoShutdown = true
		 GeneratesHeat = false
		 
		 UseSpecializationBonus = false
		 
		 INPUT_RESOURCE
		 {
			ResourceName = Ore
            Ratio = 0.1
		 }
		 
		 INPUT_RESOURCE
		 {
			ResourceName = ElectricCharge
			Ratio = 0.5
		 }
		 
		 OUTPUT_RESOURCE
		 {
			ResourceName = MaterialKits
            Ratio = 0.01
            DumpExcess = false
		 }
	}
	
	MODULE
	{
		 name = ModuleResourceConverter
         ConverterName = SpecializedPartsBuilder
         StartActionName =  Build Specialized Parts
         StopActionName = Stop Specialized Parts

         AutoShutdown = true
		 GeneratesHeat = false
		 
		 UseSpecializationBonus = false
		 
		 INPUT_RESOURCE
		 {
			ResourceName = Ore
            Ratio = 0.1
		 }
		 
		 INPUT_RESOURCE
		 {
			ResourceName = ElectricCharge
			Ratio = 0.5
		 }
		 
		 OUTPUT_RESOURCE
		 {
			ResourceName = SpecializedParts
            Ratio = 0.01
            DumpExcess = false
		 }
	}
}

 

[RoverDude]

FYI for the record, nothing in USI stops you from doing unmanned fabrication.  It's just going to be really slow.  And there are automated provisions for raw resource harvesting that do not suffer this penalty.

[genericeventhandler]

 

18 hours ago, RoverDude said:

FYI for the record, nothing in USI stops you from doing unmanned fabrication.  It's just going to be really slow.  And there are automated provisions for raw resource harvesting that do not suffer this penalty.

Thanks for the clarification RoverDude, I was under the impression that you needed engineers as I never got any progress ;-)

GEH

Edited September 6, 2017 by genericeventhandler

[Alshain]

I remember right (I might not), OSE Workshop is configurable through file editing to not require Kerbals.