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.
	Lootable	This matches items that are lootable or has available items to loot (items in its inventory).
	Bot	This matches bots, or rather entities with a movement speed.
	Building	This matches buildings, or rather entities with 0 movement speed.
	Construction	This matches constructions.
	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. There is a code bug that prevents this from matching anything.
	Valley	This matches entities below the plateau height.
	Not blight	This matches areas of the map where it's below the blight threshold.
	Blight	This matches areas of the map that's above or equal to the blight threshold.

Recipe

Circuit Board	Metal Bar		Portable Radar
1	5

Produced by

Assembler	Time
	6 seconds

Required Technology

Basic Signals

Required Technology

Basic Signals