Hello There
I have to say i love games about Automation, even more so if there is any form of control logic available. As in this case the programming of the worker bots. I know that this is an early build and theres is probably more to come but as of now I wish there where some easyer ways to program bots. While teaching by performing the actions in sequence is very intuitive it proves to be unwieldy if you try to do anything complex.
A simple box where we could drag any command available (use item, drop, search for nearest...) to the current programm would be helpful. Also Copy and paste would be a very nice thing, but the thing I miss the most is a basic "For" loop and more conditions for the current "While" loop (repeat).
I also noticed some bugs with current programms. I had a programm
do forever
repeat until hands emty
-do stuff--
end repeat
pickup new tool
end forever
But after the tool broke the bot sat ther beeping at me never breaking his "repeat until hands empty" loop. Another odd thing I noticed was in my first treefarm atempt. I had a programm for my shovel bot like this.
do forver
go location 1
use tool
go location 2
use tool
go location 3
use tool
go location 4
use tool
end forever
the bot did indeed go to all locations as expected but never used his shovel.