Drone

are autonomous flying robots armed with a variety of offensive weaponry. They usually guard alien Points of Interest and random ore deposits. They will attack the player's base once a generator is placed.

Drops

 * Components

Experience (XP)
In Empyrion there are four different settings for difficulty which has an effect on the XP of a fauna. The table below will show you what the XP values are per difficulty.

Note: XP values will vary based on Custom settings done by Player or Admin

Location
are found guarding POIs on of the planets. They are also found guarding ore deposits on both planets.

Point of Interest

 * Drone Base (Akua)
 * Drone Base (Omicron)

History

 * Pre-Alpha 1.0.0 : Introduced (current heavy drones were light drones and current super-heavy drones were heavy drone)
 * Pre-Alpha 1.0.5 : Respawn time and health increased, impact effect changed, bugfixes
 * Pre-Alpha 1.1.0 : Spotlight color changed depending on drone weapon type, destruction explosion effect changed ,bugfixes
 * Pre-Alpha 1.1.1 : Bugfixes
 * Pre-Alpha 1.2.0 : Added rotor sound
 * Pre-Alpha 3.2.0 : Drones guard random ore deposits
 * Pre-Alpha 3.3.0 : Drone attack power increased, drone don't spawn near beginning spawn point of player
 * Pre-Alpha 3.4.0 : Drone attacking of player base introduced
 * Pre-Alpha 3.5.0 : New light drone introduced (old drone models name changed to heavy and heavy double), Drone base introduced, Drone behavior changed, minigun sound changed
 * Pre-Alpha 3.6.0 : Bugfixes
 * Pre-Alpha 3.7.0 : Weapon damage increased, range decreased, bugfixes
 * Pre-Alpha 4.0.0 and Pre-Alpha 4.0.1: balance drone amount on planet, destruction sound changed, Drone attack on base alert message introduced, bugfixes
 * Pre-Alpha 4.1.0 : Bugfixes
 * Pre-Alpha 5.0.0 : Drone weapon model changed, bugfixes
 * Pre-Alpha 5.1.0 : Drones shows on radar map