Nanites working as intended?

[AngryRedMidget]

I see that there's been at least one update since le guin and I noticed that you can still get nanite transmuters from caravaneer wrecks, and there's no actual requirement to have nanites at any point to use them.

I'm not sure if it's working as intended or not (I doubt it is) but as you can see going into the red in nanites doesn't generate a malus.

I've gotten this in all 3 games I've played of stellaris since le guin, so idk, it's kind of boring to just have unlimited resources all the time.

 

[Losttruppen]

I've noticed I get a portion of this tech from the caravaneers but the flavour text is in reference to crystal or gas technologies. Probably a bug that you can get it from them before you have access to nanites but definitely a bug if you don't even need them to run the building.

 

[RageOfAnubis]

I thought the building had a nanite upkeep. has that changed/become bugged?

 

[SpectralShade]

i must admit I never tried using the building without having an income of nanites. But yeah, if you get output from them without being able to feed them nanites, then it is clearly broken.