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Autonauts

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

Hat slots for robots?

A topic by ulysses_genesee created Aug 26, 2017 Views: 616 Replies: 4
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Would it be possible to have a dedicated hat slot that robots will not cycle through as inventory? Once you've got hundreds of the little guys running around, it gets difficult to tell what robot is doing what so I've been using hats to identify what role they're performing (farmer hats for farmers, top hats for rechargers, etc). The problem is that any robot set to haul to stockpiles using "until hands are empty" will cycle through the hat as well and break their script by trying to put it in storage with their haul.

I'm sure better methods are on the way to search through your robots and their scripts but it would be a nice quick fix until something more robust can be ironed out.

Love the game so far, by the way.

Easy solution:  no hat = haulerbot. ;)

But i can imagine that additional slots for hats and tool (maybe batterys) were kind of useful.

Developer

Yes this is something we'll be adding in the future. Also we'll be adding methods of listing and identifying bots more easily.

Thanks

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I'm assuming that allowing us to rename the robots, preferably in the programming screen, will be implemented.  That way we can name a robot "Tree Cutter" and "Cow Milker" to make their tasks more obvious when together with several robots without having to memorize them.

And I think allowing the players to make lists or categories themselves and organize the bots into those categories manually is also preferable. Like, we can organize them according to the process/assembly line they're working on, so that all 5 robots working in the wood farm can be kept in the "Wood Farm" list.

Developer

Yep we're definitely allowing bot renaming. 

And yes we'll have a way of listing and finding them too.

If you're interesting you can find a big list of current suggestions here 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1btXfrrRUyzqnH7Ce6kNGWe19pWT7bYGqMbLAqdHH...

Thanks!