Portable Radar

Portable Radar
Short range detection of resources and other objects in the world. All conditions must be met. Lua ID c_portable_radar Size Internal Power -5 Range 30 tiles Visual Radius 6

The Portable Radar is an Internal-sized component used to search for specified targets in its detection range.

Tips:

• One of the simplest early uses of a Radar is to automatically gather loose Crystal Chunks with a bot. Set the Radar to search for the resources and bind the output register to the bot's Go To register. As with any automated movement, be careful that your bot doesn't run afoul of Bugs while you aren't looking!

Radar Filters

The radar has a number of filter which is important in understanding how to detect things in the world.

Radar Filters

Icon	Text	Description
	Owned	This matches anything you own, including units, buildings and foundations.
	Enemy	This matches enemies of your faction in multiplayer, and some NPC factions. Bugs start as enemies in Aggressive/Hostile, and Neutral in Passive. The other NPC factions start as Neutral.
	Ally	This matches allies' units (also seen in the faction screen). You are not your own ally.
	World	This matches anything that is part of the world faction. Dropped items, and resources are skipped for this filter.
	Alien	This matches the alien explorable race (currently just their explorables).
	Human	This matches the human explorable race (currently just their explorables).
	Bug	This matches bugs, their units and buildings.
	Robot	This matches the robot explorable race (currently just explorables).
	Solved	This matches solved explorables.
	Unsovled	This matches unsolved explorables.
	Can Loot	This matches items that are lootable or has available items to loot (items in its inventory). This applies to items dropped on the ground including scattered resources.
	Unit	This matches bots, or rather entities with a movement speed.
	Building	This matches buildings, or rather entities with 0 movement speed.
	Construction	This matches construction blueprints (they are transparent and blue).
	Dropped Item	This matches dropped items (both scattered resources and manually dropped items).
	Resource	This matches resource nodes and scattered resources.
	Mineable	This matches only resource nodes.
	Plateau	This matches entities above the plateau height.
	Valley	This matches entities below the plateau height.
	Not blight	This matches areas of the map where blight is not present.
	Blight	This matches areas of the map where blight is present.
	Damaged	Health is not 100%
	Emergency	Health is below 75%
	Broken	Health is below 25%
	Powered Down	A unit that is powered down using the interface or as a result of glitch virus infection may have this state.
	Path Blocked	Any unit attempting to path-find may enter a path blocked state if it becomes obstructed.
	In Power Grid	Anything within a power grid.
	Moving	Any unit that is in motion.
	Idle	Any unit or building that is not performing a logistics task may be considered idle (notably, moving units may be idle).
	Infected	Any unit infected with the glitch virus.
	Foundation	Any foundation tile including those found at human ruins.
	Unpowered	All batteries are depleted and/or has no source of power (most buildings don't have internal batteries).

Recipe

Circuit Board	Metal Bar		Portable Radar
1	5

Produced by

Assembler	Time
	6 seconds

Required Technology

Basic Signals