Buzzy Drones

Buzzy Drones is a mod that adds bee-like drones to move items around

Drones can be crafted and placed in the world, they can detect nearby stations and move items between them.
They don't need to be configured in any way, they can figure out what you want them to do by themselves.

Drones are not more efficient than conveyor belts or item pipes, they are just a fun way of doing a simple task like moving items between containers.

— Drones and stations crafting ———

Drones and stations can be crafted with these recipes.

Different types of drones and stations can be crafted by placing them in the crafting grid to cycle through the different types.

— How to use drones ———

Drones once placed can detect nearby drone stations. There are currently three types of them:

• Source station: Drones once placed will look for a nearby source station they can pick up items from.
• Target station: When a drone is carrying items, it will look for a nearby target stations and if it's valid it will deposit its items there.
• Idle station: Not mandatory, but when drones don't have a job to do, and they detect an idle station they will fly around it instead of laying on the ground.

The mod also adds another type of drone: the "pick up" drone.

In contrast to regular drones, these will pick up items from the ground instead of source stations.

— Drone status ———

You can tell what a drone is currently doing by looking at its eye's color:

• Blue (working): The drone is working correctly.
• Green (idle): The drone is functioning correctly, but it currently has no work to do.
• Orange (warning): The drone cannot find a valid station, maybe it's occupied by another drone or it has a different filter.
• Red (error): The drone cannot find any station.

— Sorting items ———

Target stations can also filter items.

If a target station has a filter, drones will only bring a specific item there.

If there are multiple target stations around, the drone will figure out where it should bring items by itself.