Bring back pets in the form of Compilatron!

[theorangeangle]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe the problem. We no longer have pets in the market.

Describe the solution you'd like A way to purchase Compilatron in the market.

Describe alternatives you've considered Alternative is not having a pet option😢 but i'm not sure this is possible in the first place

Additional context We used to have biters as pets that would follow you around, but they were removed because of desyncs. Not sure if Compilatron will fare any better.

[mheguy]

Did the allied biters fight on the behalf of players or were they neutral?

[theorangeangle]

Neutral, but would die either from other players shooting them or getting run over by train.

[grilledham]

The pets were on the player force global.player_pets[x].entity = surface.create_entity {name=entity_name, position=pos, force="player"} https://github.com/Refactorio/RedMew/blob/dev_ship/fish_market.lua#L260

[mheguy]

The compilatron itself would actually be problematic as a pet since they have (essentially) infinite health and infinite damage. You can't kill them and they can kill anything.

[SimonFlapse]

The compilatron is just a reskinned biter, so it wouldn't matter if we made the module for biters or the compilatron.

[theorangeangle]

slightly unrelated

does this mean we can change hail hydra to spawn compilatrons? 🤔

[SimonFlapse]

Yes, but they can't be killed