Are the vacuum robots worth it?

What the six-arm unit needs

It cleans nearest dusty hex first and throws 20 kg capsules at a catcher. The catcher is $1,500, groups at 100 meters, and stalls the robot when it is full. Seconds per hex are not published. Upgrade prices for the arms are not published either. Against Mk I and Mk II vacuum rows, this is the late purchase. Those Mk rows sit in the machine table with their own prices once the table loads. If a guide calls a roomba the same object as the six-arm unit, that guide is ahead of the two pages I read.

A tips video from 25 Oct 2026 walks the late game. I treat it as a tour. It does not become a stopwatch for the missing hex time.

Whether small vacuums pay

Players ask if the little vacuums are worth it once a rover exists. The rover still needs you in the seat. A docked vacuum does not. I would add a small vacuum when you are tired of parking the Lunar Sweeper, and I would read its price off the table rather than from this paragraph, because the short fields I trust are the ones rendered in the list. Payout rules from the Roblox game, crew versus owner, do not transfer. This is a Steam save.