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Autonauts

Make and teach robots to automate the world! · By Denki

Possible bot updates

A topic by Daylighter created Aug 06, 2017 Views: 1,174 Replies: 6
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1. Decrease crude bot inventory size from 6 to 4 so that you can just say hands full when using the first tier stuff.

2. Change the wooden ax in the router to a metal ax (or I saw someone mention a stone ax), so that the basic bots are less immediately available

3. A way to teach within the repeat functions, and beyond that having new teach commands go to a certain point within existing commands

4. Generalized recharge for all bot types (I just use basics right now so doesn't matter without changes)

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I would think limiting instruction steps based on bot tier would be a good addition as well.

Developer

Great feedback,

1. and 2. We'll be making lots of balancing changes as we go. It's really early days just now so things are very place holder.

3. Yes this is a good idea. We'll be improving the entire scripting system as we go.

4. I'm not sure what you mean here. A recharging bot should go around recharging both kinds of bots just now. 

Thanks!

Hello,

i think another thing could be useful for the bot,  a repeat function "until ? storage half full" or "until ? storage % full".

At this time i say to my bot "craft until storage is full" that work pretty well, but if i take 1 pole from storage, crafting bot make 4 pole so 3 stay in place and i got the annoying stockpile touching the sky x) incinerator is a good addition but we waste a lot of resources.  With this new function we could stop the production with a good marge for storage.

Well i doodeled around in my mind jesterday with posting somtging for bots.It was in my mind for a next tier like basic steam bots, they need a bucket load of water and two charrcoal. they do work same as basic ones but hold about 30-50% longer, and as an upgrade the whole bot as an crafting part wuld be a steam pressurized bot, that is like its basic form but faster, they need a steam charging station nearby and go there at 10% so they don't run out of pressurized steam. If this happens the chargingstation can also set up to creat small steamtanks to recharge if one bot runs out and cant charge at it's on. eventually the charging cicle is a needed programmable part.

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How about a chip to increase command capability(Higher KB ) ? Possibly for a higher tier bot... Also how about an antenna  to increase sensing range.

Developer

Nice ideas! Thanks