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Weeder

Changed in 0.2.0

Makes a BuildingType the structure vein harvesters dock at, or a UnitType a vein harvester.

Weed refinery

Specification — Weed refinery
Applies to
BuildingType
File
rules.ini
Section
[<ObjectType ID>]
Value
boolean
When omitted
no

Weeder=yes makes a BuildingType a weed refinery, the structure where vein harvesters unload. A vein harvester is a vehicle whose UnitType sets Weeder=yes. The building needs no DockUnload=yes, but a harvester returning on its own looks only for types named in its Dock list, so name the refinery there.

rules.ini
[NAWAST]        ; Tiberium Waste Facility
Weeder=yes

The refinery takes one harvester at a time and refuses others while one is docking or unloading. It also refuses harvesters while it is switched off, being built or being sold. A harvester of another house may dock only when each house is allied with the other.

Each load goes into the weed pool of the harvester’s house. Docking and unloading covers the dock cell and the unloading rate, and the weed pool covers what the weed is used for.

A computer house adds such a type to the base plan it generates only while the map has a veinhole monster. This affects only the computer’s plan; a player can build the type on any map.

Vein harvester

Specification — Vein harvester
Applies to
UnitType
File
rules.ini
Section
[<ObjectType ID>]
Value
boolean
When omitted
no

Weeder=yes makes the vehicle a vein harvester. It collects mature veins from cells of the Weeds land type, up to its Storage capacity. When it returns without an order, it unloads at a Weeder=yes building of its house whose type is in its Dock list. Each unload adds to the house’s weed pool.

A weeder starts harvesting when it is placed on the map, including when it leaves a factory or a repair bay. When it later goes idle, it resumes harvesting if its house is computer-controlled or it is standing on veins. A player-owned weeder that goes idle anywhere else takes guard until it is given another order. An armed one may take area guard instead, as other armed vehicles do.

Weed harvesting covers the patch search and the load and unload cycles. Tiberium harvesting covers the harvest mission that weeders and Tiberium harvesters share.

rules.ini
[MYWEEDEATER] ; a UnitType registered in [VehicleTypes]
Weeder=yes
See also — ai-base-building, veins, tiberium, Harvester, Storage, Dock

History

  1. Changed0.2.0In development

    Send a harvester to work when it leaves a factory — unittype