Implement an early game drone that assists with deconstruction

[PintOfBass]

And it can kill trees. Perhaps at most it can carry a few inventory slots as well. Call it "entropy aggravation tech", or EAT for short.

[Koub]

Don't expect any robotics to come earlier in vanilla. If you want earlier robot, you'll have to rely on modding.

[Yoyobuae]

Early tree deconstruction = Grenades

Early entity deconstruction = Also grenades

[wobbycarly]

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Nanobots

Not an endorsement, but I've seen others use this mod.

[nosports]

i like this mod : https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Construction_Drones

i feel its perfectly in style for early bots.....

[adam_bise]

I've always wanted to see a mod that has compilatron as a companion follower with inventory and construction abilities, albeit slowly. I don't personally know near enough about modding to attempt that.

[wobbycarly]

i like this mod : https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Construction_Drones

i feel its perfectly in style for early bots.....

Yeah, another good one - I forgot about that.

[ptx0]

i like this mod : https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Construction_Drones

i feel its perfectly in style for early bots.....

it's heckin OP. those bots are way too fast. they don't recharge. they're too powerful for vanilla.

[ssilk]

I love, what they’re doing, could look at them for minutes. yes, overpowered, but only a bit.

[Kyralessa]

This is another good early-game drone mod:

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/TinyStart

Unlike some of the others, it doesn't strike me as wildly overpowered. I think you only get 10 construction bots (and can't make more until you get the technology), and they're fairly slow, but they do save you the trouble of building/deconstructing everything by hand.

I'm not aware of any mod that has bots only for deconstruction, though.

[ptx0]

This is another good early-game drone mod:

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/TinyStart

Unlike some of the others, it doesn't strike me as wildly overpowered. I think you only get 10 construction bots (and can't make more until you get the technology), and they're fairly slow, but they do save you the trouble of building/deconstructing everything by hand.

I'm not aware of any mod that has bots only for deconstruction, though.

rseding91's termites mod helps with forests in a pinch