Would it be possible to allow the Tile Scanner to return the 'health' of a block? ie. if a structure (and particularly a wall) is damaged, it'd be nice to be able to get that as a result.

At which point, I could dispatch a Chaingunner to make sure any biters are dead and a Warden to repair the wall ...

I also ran into this problem for Purple Science Packs, and rather than cheat, I've created a tiny mod that fixes the issues:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2w6utamgh1pfnsp/DQAPTweaks_0.1.0.zip?dl=1

Simply put the ZIP file in your mods folder.

This reactivates a recipe for Cobalt Oxide that requires ...