Drones

A Drone is an item deployed by the player and is stored in Drone Bays or Pilot Pods. They allow players to excavate Mines and Shipwrecks, as well as battle Guardians and other Enemies.

## Obtaining Drones

To obtain Drones, you can:

* Buy them at the Drone Shop for 25 Gems and 500 Credits.
* Receive them from Supply Drops .
* Get them from the Leviathan Core.

## Drone Usage

You can click on a Mine, Shipwreck, Enemy, or similar to send out a single Drone against the target, subsequently for every click after it too will send an additional Drone.

If you hold click on a target and release, it will deploy all Drones of that selected type, Lava, Aqua, Spark, or All.

There are shortcut Keybinds to the specific Drone Types, for that information, please see that page.

## Drone Types

You can tell how effective a given Drone type is against another element by how powerful the beam is. There are 3 strengths to beams; Weak, Neutral, and Strong. Drones will also fly faster around the enemy the more effective they are against it.

Another incredibly easy way to tell what Drone is strong against what is just hovering over the Enemy, one of the 3 Drone element icons at the bottom of your screen with start flashing, indicating that is the one that is strongest against that type. This is incredibly useful against Leviathans as it can be hard telling which part is what element.

When a drone attacks, the speed it spins around and strength of beam indicates whether it is strong or weak against the target. Being strong against the target will allow the drone to spin at normal speed, similar to speed when excavating a mine, while emitting a strong beam brighter than when excavating a mine. Being neutral will be slower and beam will be dimmed, and being weak will be very slow with a very dimmed beam.

### Element Chart

 Aqua
 Spark

It is advised to only battle Guardians with Drone Types that are effective against that Guardian type, if you don't follow this then make sure to keep track of your Drone health and withdraw them if they get low Any type that is not effective will deal less damage to the Guardian and take more damage from them in return.

If a Drone is not effective or weak against against a certain element type, it does neutral damage and gains no bonus or debuffed amount of damage, so it will do exactly the amount of damage it says it does.

## Upgrading Drones

You can evolve Drones with an Elemental Core if it's at 4 stars. When you do so it will evolve into a random different 5 Star Drone, ones with higher rarity are more powerful. You can access this menu by clicking the info circle in the bottom left and corner of the screen and then clicking on the icon with all 3 Drone types on it, from there select the 4 star Drone and click evolve.

You can also fuse 2 evolved Drones of the same name together to get a slightly buffed version, which can be used to improve your more common 5 Star Drones.

## Reviving Drones

Drones may get destroyed by Enemies. To revive Drones go to the Drone Shop and pay the fees needed to revive them. If you do not revive your Drone in the allotted time then it disappears forever and you can no longer retrieve it.

## Trivia

* There used to be a Glitch used to let your Drone sit outside idle, many wanted it as a feature but it was removed nonetheless.
* Drones behave nothing like their real world counterparts, also known as Quadcopters. This may be due to the fact in-game Drones have extremely effective and deadly laser weaponry capable of destruction on a global scale if deployed in mass, while real life Drones do not yet have such capabilities.
* In Settings you can turn On/Off Auto Repair Drones.
* All Drone sprites change at 3 stars.

## References

1. ↑ Drones from Supply Drops are a higher level than what you get from the Drone shop, however you don't have any control over what is in them, so it isn't recommend to use this method as your main way to obtain more Drones.
2. ↑ Not available on Mobile.
3. ↑ To do this click the correct type of Drone you need to withdraw on the bottom of your screen and then click anywhere on your Exocraft, it will recall the first deployed drone of the matching type.
4. ↑ Take note that this will consume the core and this process cannot be reversed
5. ↑ The other Drone that was fused into it disappears and can no longer be used, this is permanent and cannot be undone.