Drone

Drone
Type	Robot
Aggression	Aggressive
Attack method	Shooting
Drops	Components Pistol Round
Location	Aestus Aitis Akua Dobra Elia Maiy Masperon Merr Ningues Omicron Oscutune Phan Sienna Skillon Zeyhines
Gamemode
Survival
Creative

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
• Pistol Round

Experience (XP)

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

Difficulty	XP
Easy
Medium
Hard

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

Location

Drone 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)

Variations

Light Drones			Heavy Drone			Super Heavy Drone
Name	Image	Location	Name	Image	Location	Name	Image	Location
Minigun Drone		All Planets	Heavy Minigun Drone		All Planets	Heavy Double Minigun Drone		All Planets
Plasma Drone	File:Plasma Drone.png	All Planets	Heavy Plasma Drone	File:Heavy Plasma Drone.png	All Planets	Heavy Double Plasma Drone	File:Heavy Double Plasma Drone.png	All Planets
Cannon Drone	File:Cannon Drone.png	All Planets	Heavy Cannon Drone		All Planets	Heavy Double Cannon Drone		All Planets
Rocket Drone		All Planets
BaseAttackDrone	File:BaseAttackDrone.png	All Planets

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