diff --git a/src/main/java/com/hbm/tileentity/network/RequestNetwork.java b/src/main/java/com/hbm/tileentity/network/RequestNetwork.java
index d9b710bfd..94e96b317 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/hbm/tileentity/network/RequestNetwork.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/hbm/tileentity/network/RequestNetwork.java
@@ -70,10 +70,11 @@ public class RequestNetwork {
 	public static class PathNode {
 		public BlockPos pos;
 		public long lease;
-		public HashedSet<PathNode> reachableNodes = new HashedSet();
+		public boolean active = true;
+		public HashedSet<PathNode> reachableNodes;
 		public PathNode(BlockPos pos, HashedSet<PathNode> reachableNodes) {
 			this.pos = pos;
-			this.reachableNodes = new HashedSet(reachableNodes);
+			this.reachableNodes = new HashedSet<>(reachableNodes);
 			this.lease = System.currentTimeMillis();
 		}
 		
@@ -108,7 +109,6 @@ public class RequestNetwork {
 	/** Node created by requesters, lists requested AStacks */
 	public static class RequestNode extends PathNode {
 		public List<AStack> request;
-		public int droneCount;
 		public RequestNode(BlockPos pos, HashedSet<PathNode> reachableNodes, List<AStack> request) {
 			super(pos, reachableNodes);
 			this.request = request;
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/hbm/tileentity/network/TileEntityDroneDock.java b/src/main/java/com/hbm/tileentity/network/TileEntityDroneDock.java
index 9ae25a045..0ab0a73b7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/hbm/tileentity/network/TileEntityDroneDock.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/hbm/tileentity/network/TileEntityDroneDock.java
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ public class TileEntityDroneDock extends TileEntityRequestNetworkContainer imple
 				
 				// simply pick the first request node that has unfulfilled requests
 				for(RequestNode request : requests) {
-					if(!request.request.isEmpty()) {
+					if(request.active && !request.request.isEmpty()) {
 						firstRequest = request;
 						break;
 					}
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ public class TileEntityDroneDock extends TileEntityRequestNetworkContainer imple
 					outer: for(OfferNode offer : offers) {
 						
 						for(ItemStack stack : offer.offer) {
-							if(stack != null && request.matchesRecipe(stack, true)) {
+							if(offer.active && stack != null && request.matchesRecipe(stack, true)) {
 								if(tryEmbark(own, firstRequest, offer, request, localNodes)) break attempt; // if the drone can be pathed and spawned, stop doing more attempts
 								break outer; // if not, simply continue iterating over offer nodes
 							}
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/hbm/tileentity/network/TileEntityRequestNetwork.java b/src/main/java/com/hbm/tileentity/network/TileEntityRequestNetwork.java
index 645374a1e..9da1cfa2a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/hbm/tileentity/network/TileEntityRequestNetwork.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/hbm/tileentity/network/TileEntityRequestNetwork.java
@@ -37,14 +37,18 @@ public abstract class TileEntityRequestNetwork extends TileEntity {
 			
 			if(worldObj.getTotalWorldTime() % 20 == 0) {
 				BlockPos pos = getCoord();
+
+				PathNode newNode = createNode(pos);
+				if(this.worldObj.isBlockIndirectlyGettingPowered(xCoord, yCoord, zCoord)) newNode.active = false;
 				// push new node
-				push(worldObj, createNode(pos));
+				push(worldObj, newNode);
 				
 				// remove known nodes that no longer exist
 				// since we can assume a sane number of nodes to exist at any given time, we can run this check in full every second
 				Iterator<PathNode> it = knownNodes.iterator();
 				HashedSet<PathNode> localNodes = this.getAllLocalNodes(worldObj, xCoord, zCoord, 2); // this bit may spiral into multiple nested hashtable lookups but it's limited to only a few chunks so it shouldn't be an issue
 				localNodes.remove(pos);
+
 				while(it.hasNext()) {
 					PathNode node = it.next();
 					if(!localNodes.contains(node)) {