Recovering friendly spawned units?

[The Martian]

Is it possible to recover a friendly unit at the end of combat that was spawned from an item via:

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items:
  - type: STR_EXAMPLE_ITEM
    spawnUnit: STR_EXAMPLE_UNIT
    spawnUnitFaction: 0
I have a remote controlled robot drone but at the moment X-Com just discards it if deployed in the field which seems silly.

[Filip H]

Using builtInWeaponSets to add a dummy item with recoveryTransformations to change it back to the original item could probably do it.
Something like this:

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units:
   - type: STR_EXAMPLE_UNIT
     builtInWeaponSets:
       - - STR_DUMMY_ITEM
items:
   - type: STR_DUMMY_ITEM
     fixedWeapon: true
     recover: true
     recoveryTransformations:
        STR_EXAMPLE_ITEM: [1]


[The Martian]

Great idea!

And since it is assigned fixedWeapon: true if the unit is destroyed it won't drop the item, perfect!

I'll try it out and post the result.

[The Martian]

Using builtInWeaponSets to add a dummy item with recoveryTransformations to change it back to the original item could probably do it.
Something like this:

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units:
   - type: STR_EXAMPLE_UNIT
     builtInWeaponSets:
       - - STR_DUMMY_ITEM
items:
   - type: STR_DUMMY_ITEM
     fixedWeapon: true
     recover: true
     recoveryTransformations:
        STR_EXAMPLE_ITEM: [1]


I just tested your solution and it worked perfectly!

Thank you for the help.

[The Martian]

Or at least I thought it was working but it appears that nothing was actually being recovered and that I had made a mistake when reading the base's inventory screen. 

I'm attaching the mod I'm trying to create that allows deploying of a small drone that is supposed to be recoverable at then end of battle:
Test-Spawn-Recover V0-1.zip


It would be kind of strange if X-Com threw away its functional equipment after every mission so I'm hoping that this is possible.


Has anyone got a spawned friendly unit to recover as an item successfully?

[Buscher]

In X-Com Files you can recover a scientist who is spawned with a spawner grenade.

The civilianRecoveryType statement seems to do the trick.

Spoiler:

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  - type: STR_DAVID_VINCENT
    civilianRecoveryType: STR_DAVID_VINCENT


[The Martian]

Thank you that got it.

I just ran a few test missions and civilianRecoveryType: appears to have caused it to recover as expected.