Hi Denki,
Thank you for answering my questions to you regarding the new version of Autonauts.
I recall that several months ago I had asked if "New Autonauts" would contain a bot similar to the Steambots of version 21.2. At that time, I believe you said that the initial release of New Autonauts would not include Steambots. I would like to suggest that a future release include some type of "Self-Powered" bot (similar to the Steambot). Please allow me to describe how and why I see them as a very useful type of bot.
As shown above, I have several Workerbots wearing "Baker's Hats" which will collect ingredients to bake bread and stored it into a Bread Storage bin. There are two bots wearing a "Party Hat" and a "Guy Fawkes Hat" that watch the Bread Storage bin and Shout "GoBread" or "StopBread" when it is not full or is full, controlling the baker bots.
Significantly, there is one Steambot wearing a "Traffic Cone Hat" named "Wd@BreadS" that is responsible for winding/recharging the Workerbots at the Bread area.
It is also coded to be "Self-Powered". It will move to the Log Storage bin (at the left hidden behind the "My Brain" window), take a log from the Log Storage, and stow that log into its inventory if possible. If its inventory is full, the log is still in its hands and the bot will put it back into the Log Storage. If its inventory is not full, its hands are empty and the command to put the log into storage will be skipped. It will then find, move to, and recharge Workerbots 15 times.
I have coded all of my recharging bots to be "Self-Powered" because I found that if instead I simply used two or three Workerbots to do that task, eventually some area would have all of its recharger bots be out of power at the same time and I would need to manually recharge at least one of them. My goal is to have a fully self-sufficient world that would run correctly without my having to manually fix something. I believe that many players of Autonauts have a similar goal, along with getting all of the folk to be extremely happy at the same time.
I hope that this will encourage you to consider adding a "Self-Powering" feature (possibly as a bot enhancement object) similar to the Steambot to a future release of New Autonauts. I can imagine that you may already have in mind something different that will solve the issue of multiple recharging bots failing at the same time.
Thank you for your consideration of my suggestion.