PC How do I force spawn my Robotic Drone to me?

[Khalagar]

I was riding on a minibike to a destination with my drone following me and the game crashed. When I reloaded my minibike + drone were gone which sucks, but it happens. I spawned in a new one, but I can't place my drone because it says drone limit reached

• There's no marker on map indicating where it's at
  
• I've checked the area around where I crashed and can't find it
  
• I've used DM mode to telelport around but it doesn't appear next to me
  
• I can't place another one to replace the lost one
  

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[theFlu]

There's a command to manipulate it, I think it was junkdrone or jd for short. Check "help jd".

Sadly, the command didn't seem all that useful when I lost mine couple builds ago.. but they bug in different ways, might help you

 

[NekoPawtato]

"jd clear" will delete the drone so you can put down a new one (be careful if this is multiplayer bc I don't know if it deletes everyone's drones)

if you want to find the location of your drone, check the logs for "Drone PostInit" and see if there's anything in the coords listed

ex:
 

2023-07-01T20:01:17 264.106 INF 13730 Drone PostInit [type=EntityDrone, name=entityJunkDrone, id=332], (-1908.25, 57.75, 119.16) (chunk -120, 7), rbPos (-1908.25, 57.75, 119.16)

 

[Riamus]

I was riding on a minibike to a destination with my drone following me and the game crashed. When I reloaded my minibike + drone were gone which sucks, but it happens. I spawned in a new one, but I can't place my drone because it says drone limit reached

• There's no marker on map indicating where it's at
  
• I've checked the area around where I crashed and can't find it
  
• I've used DM mode to telelport around but it doesn't appear next to me
  
• I can't place another one to replace the lost one
  

Anyone have any ideas?

Shortly after loading into the game, your console will show the positions of all drones.  As long as it is a valid position, teleport to the exact location and you should find it.  If you can't find it, you can remove it from your ownership with junkDrone clear, but it will remain in the game.

"jd clear" will delete the drone so you can put down a new one (be careful if this is multiplayer bc I don't know if it deletes everyone's drones)

if you want to find the location of your drone, check the logs for "Drone PostInit" and see if there's anything in the coords listed

ex:
 

It does not remove drones from other players. Just dealt with that the other day. 

 

[Khalagar]

JD Clear worked, thanks!

 

[Scyris]

This is actually good info to know in case this happens.