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Terminal Menus
PandaWorks AutoLoot uses in-game terminal menus for configuration and utility access.
The terminal system is the main control center for PWAL.
If you want to change what gets looted, where loot goes, or how PWAL behaves, start with the terminal.
The main terminal is the PandaWorks AutoLoot Terminal.
It is found in the Weapons section of your inventory.
Use this terminal for full setup and configuration.
The main terminal is where you control:
- Loot categories
- Loot destinations
- General settings
- Always Loot settings
- Utility menus
- Inventory access
- Transfer tools
If you are setting up PWAL for the first time, use the main terminal.
PWAL also has a utility terminal opened by the PandaWorks Utility Device.
The utility terminal is for quick access.
Use it for common actions like:
- Opening PandaWorks Inventory
- Opening Lodge Safe
- Opening Player Ship Cargo
- Moving items between supported containers
- Toggling looting
- Toggling logging
The utility terminal is not meant to replace the main setup terminal.
Use the main terminal for full configuration.
Use the utility terminal for quick actions.
Loot category menus control what PWAL is allowed to loot.
Categories are filters.
If a category is turned off, PWAL ignores that category.
Examples include:
- Weapons
- Armor
- Ammo
- Aid
- Chems
- Food
- Drinks
- Books
- Dataslates
- Resources
- Collectibles
- Junk
- Containers
- Corpses
- Scanner-based loot sources
- Supported space salvage, where exposed
If something is not being looted, check the category menu first.
Do not assume PWAL is broken because you left the category off.
Some systems may use backend support instead of exposing every tiny source as a separate menu toggle. That is intentional. Not every cursed Bethesda reference type needs its own button.
Destination menus control where loot goes.
Destinations are separate from categories.
A category can be enabled and still route somewhere other than the player.
Supported destinations include:
- Player
- PandaWorks Inventory
- Player Ship Cargo
- Lodge Safe
- The Void, where available
Example routing:
- Weapons → Player
- Armor → Player
- Resources → Player Ship Cargo
- Collectibles → Player
- Junk → PandaWorks Inventory
- Contraband → Lodge Safe
If loot is missing from your player inventory, check where you told PWAL to send it.
Supported space salvage routes into Player Ship Cargo.
Current contraband routing uses the Lodge Safe while PandaWorks Inventory scanner behavior is being reviewed.
The General Settings menu controls broad PWAL behavior.
This may include settings such as:
- Internal scan radius
- City scan radius
- Wilderness scan radius
- Lodge looting toggle
- Outpost looting toggle
- Player home looting toggle
- Ship-related looting settings, where available
Exact options may change as PWAL develops.
Space salvage may use separate backend detection behavior depending on the source. Do not assume normal ground scan radius settings control every space salvage source.
Supported space salvage is part of the PWAL framework.
Confirmed working in version 1.1.2:
- Asteroid deposits
- Space cargo
- Destroyed hostile ship debris
Space salvage is handled through its own isolated pipeline instead of being forced through the normal ground-looting scanner.
If space salvage options are exposed in your version, use those settings to control the related feature.
If a space salvage source does not appear as a normal category toggle, that does not automatically mean it is missing. Some support may be handled through backend framework behavior.
Supported space salvage routes recovered loot into Player Ship Cargo.
It does not normally route to player inventory.
The Always Loot menu controls categories that can continue being looted even when normal looting is paused.
Important:
Always Loot does not mean every item gets looted.
The filter still needs to be enabled.
If the category is turned off, Always Loot will not magically override everything.
The panda is trained. It is not psychic.
Space salvage may have separate rules depending on the source. Do not assume Always Loot overrides every space salvage requirement.
Inventory utility menus let you open supported storage locations.
These may include:
- PandaWorks Inventory
- Lodge Safe
- Player Ship Cargo
These are convenience tools.
They let you access PWAL-supported storage without physically walking to every container.
Transfer utilities move items between supported containers.
Common transfer actions may include:
- Send Cargo Hold to PandaWorks
- Send PandaWorks to Ship
- Send PandaWorks to Lodge
- Send Resources to Ship
- Send Valuables to Player
Transfers are not the same thing as auto-looting.
Auto-looting collects nearby loot.
Transfers move items that are already stored.
If a transfer does nothing, check whether the source container actually has anything to move.
If a transfer involves ship cargo, make sure you have a valid home ship and that ship cargo is available.
Some menus use toggle states.
A toggle usually means the menu item cycles between enabled and disabled states.
If a terminal item says something like ON or OFF, read it before clicking like a caffeinated raccoon.
The text is there for a reason.
Some terminal menus refresh after you select an option.
This is normal.
PWAL uses refreshed terminal text to show updated values.
Examples include:
- Toggle states
- Radius values
- Destination names
- Always Loot states
If the menu redraws after clicking, that does not mean it crashed.
It means the terminal updated.
Some menu text uses replacement tokens.
These are the dynamic values shown in terminal entries.
Examples:
- Current toggle state
- Current destination
- Current radius setting
- Current enabled/disabled state
If a token looks wrong, report it as a terminal display issue.
If the setting still works, say that too.
Display bugs and functional bugs are not the same beast.
PWAL gives players control.
That means your terminal settings matter.
Before reporting a bug, check:
- Is looting enabled?
- Is the category enabled?
- Is the destination correct?
- Is the location allowed?
- Is the scan radius high enough, if range applies?
- Is the storage destination available?
- For space salvage, did you check Player Ship Cargo?
- For contraband, did you check the Lodge Safe?
Most “PWAL lost my item” reports are really “PWAL sent the item exactly where the player told it to go.”
Use the correct tool.
- First-time setup
- Loot category configuration
- Destination configuration
- General settings
- Always Loot setup
- Full framework configuration
- Quick storage access
- Quick transfer tools
- Opening PandaWorks Inventory
- Opening Lodge Safe
- Opening Player Ship Cargo
- Toggling looting/logging during gameplay
If you are configuring the framework, use the main terminal.
If you are just managing storage, use the utility device.
Check what the option is supposed to do.
Some options depend on game state.
Examples:
- Ship Cargo requires a valid home ship.
- Lodge Safe requires the Lodge Safe reference.
- Transfer options require items in the source container.
- Some location settings only matter in specific locations.
- Disabled categories will not loot, even if destinations are set.
- Space salvage requires a supported space salvage source.
Do not assume a button is broken just because it had nothing valid to operate on.
Check installation first.
The main terminal should be in the Weapons section of your inventory.
If it is missing, check:
- Is PWAL enabled?
- Did the scripts install?
- Did the plugin load?
- Did the quest initialize?
- Are you using the current release?
If the terminal never appears, that is likely an install or initialization problem.
The Utility Device is separate from the main terminal.
If the main terminal works but the Utility Device does not, report it as a Utility Device issue.
If neither works, check installation first.
For first-time setup:
- Open the PandaWorks AutoLoot Terminal from the Weapons section.
- Enable the loot categories you want.
- Set destinations for those categories.
- Review general settings.
- Enable looting.
- Test with a small amount of ground loot.
- Check the destination where the loot was supposed to go.
- Test space salvage separately with one supported source.
- Use the Utility Device later for quick access and transfers.
Do not start by enabling every category, maxing every radius, and looting half a city.
That is how you summon the Bethesda goblin.
For space salvage testing:
- Make sure looting is enabled.
- Enter space with a valid home ship.
- Test one supported source at a time.
- Use one asteroid deposit, one space cargo source, or one destroyed hostile ship debris source.
- Wait briefly for PWAL to process the salvage.
- Open Player Ship Cargo.
- Confirm the recovered items are there.
Do not test space salvage by stacking three space looters and blowing up half the system.
If multiple mods try to process the same inventory source, whichever one runs first may drain the loot before the other one sees it.
Terminal menus are the control system for PWAL.
Categories decide what can be looted.
Destinations decide where loot goes.
Settings decide how the framework behaves.
Utilities give quick access to storage and transfers.
Supported space salvage routes into Player Ship Cargo.
Current contraband routing uses Lodge Safe.
Read the menu text.
The terminal is trying to help you. Mostly.
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