If your "bot making bot is supposed to stop working if bot storage is full of bots but the bot making bot stops while the bot storage has 9 bots instead of 10 bots", that is because "Repeat until Bot Storage full" is satisfied (like all Storage) when it reaches about 95% full rather than 100% full. If you only have one Bot Storage that holds 10 bots when full, then 95% of 10 bots is 9 instead of 10. Once you add a second Bot Storage, then 95% of 20 bots will be 19 bots, etc. "Full" will always be less than "all". Similarly, "empty" is satisfied at 5% full rather than 0% full.
Greetings! I have a suggestion that I believe will help with players who are training their bots. I suggest that in the next version of the software, have the bot's "My Brain" listing that includes "Repeat" loops show the "current value" that the Repeat is testing and also show the "goal value" that must be reached to satisfy the loop. For example, if the listing includes "Repeat until Log Storage full", show in the yellow bar immediately below the word "Repeat" the current numbers of logs in storage, and also in the yellow bar below that show the value for Log Storage full. As another example, if the listing includes "Repeat 15 times", show the current value of the number of times the loop has repeated and below that the goal value of 15.
Below is an image that can illustrate this suggestion. In it is shown a Steambot wearing a Traffic Cone hat. Its listing shows that it is responsible for recharging Basic Workerbots in the area 15 times, and before it does that, it has taken a log from Log Storage and stowed the log in its inventory to recharge itself. (It also will return the log back to Log Storage if the "stow" command failed because its inventory is full.)
It would be helpful to see that this Steambot was on its 3rd repeat of 15 (for example). It would also be helpful to see for a 2nd bot that had the "Repeat until Log Storage full" loop that there are currently 1996 logs in Log Storage and that "full" is equal to some value, which I believe is 95% of the total capacity of 2100 logs and therefore is 1995 logs. For the 2nd bot, the Repeat loop would show that it was satisfied. Please show these numbers in the Repeat loop's yellow bar. Thank you.
If you give your bots Name Tags and then name each bot by their beacon group and their job, you can then find them easily. For example, I have my 100 Folk grouped into 6 "Neighborhoods" and the bots that support the Folk in Neighborhood 1 have names such as "N1Home1" which indicates that this bot in "N1" takes Folks that have just been cleaned back to available homes, as shown below.
So far I've been doing exactly that to try to arrange the huge list of bots in some meaningful way, though with a list of bots as long as yours and mine the list can still be a bit difficult navigating when searching for that one specific bot. Organizing the bots this way works but imho it is not optimal. I still beleive that having the added option of bots also being arranged by the beacon they are linked to, would make it easier for us as players and managers of this army of bots :)
Can someone clarify for me what the "Container" is that is tested for being empty here? I don't thing it is a "Storage Container" because if it was, I think there would have to be a question mark ? that we could click onto to identify which "Storage Container". I don't think it is a "Crude Backpack" because the Backpack only really works when it is in the "Upgrade" slot for the Farmer, and it cannot be added to the "Upgrade" slot of the bots.
I found in the Change Log that "A container at the moment is a Basket".
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s2nIsLg-suLVX_O6MgDGtxZDLgmVXvwIzwauNDpU...
Well, I tried that link but I could not get it to work very well. I was too hard to scroll through all of the responses since the scroll controller was just a tiny point. I guess unless you already know how something out there works, it's a challenge. If there were some instructions for using it, I might try it. I like the way that itch.io works instead.
Okay, I have now posted to Discord with a new image of my Island and a save file if anyone is interested in loading it.
https://discordapp.com/channels/331886561044201473/331886561044201473
Hello!
1. No but you can stack them 3 high now achieve the same thing.
2. In the next version you can!
3. All artwork is considered placeholder. We'll be hiring a professional artist soon hopefully :)
4. Wow! Your level file must be huge. Yes, you can post it here or we have a place on our Discord channel called #show-off-here which would be perfect too.
Thanks
Found a Bug. I still don't like how the "find nearest" command works. It should be location based and remembered by the bot (like a global variable) until it is overridden with another "find nearest" command. Instead, it seems to go by each individual item's location. When the "problem" bot is in the right location, it will repeat "find nearest" and "pick up" until it's hands are full, however, it will not pick anything up. Another bot with the SAME EXACT CODE will work though. I have a theory of why this happens. When the problem bot finds nearest item:X, it remembers the location of that same item. This happens even if it repeats with another "finds nearest" command and even when the bot is stopped and started again. What the bot could be finding is another stack of the same item in a different location that I intentionally did not want him to move to. The "find nearest" command is meant for a bot to move to that item, but what if the items are all in one stack? I propose a new line of code to be added. It should be "Pick up Item" and be given a master list of all items (or however it's programmed). This would solve the issue of having to repeat a find nearest command and waste time repeating unnecessary code. I am open to other suggestions/solutions so please msg me back if you find something.
Unfortunately we've been so focused on other game elements that the "Brain" screen hasn't really changed much since the last version. With so little development capacity we don't plan on doing much to it for the next public release. However realise this is an important part of Autonauts and we will DEFINITELY be giving it a complete overhaul at some point to include things like If/Then and arithmetic operators so you'll hopefully be able to make really interesting scripts :)
Thank you for replying. I was not asking for any changes to the "Brain" and I don't expect that you would make changes there at this time. Actually, I was scared that there might be too much done there that would make the game "simpler" for many new users that don't understand scripting. Please just give us one ordinary screenshot that would reassure us that the current layout of scripting remains mostly the same. Thank you.
allready tried it.After freeze and turn white i can still open menu like normal.
i forgot to save the crashed log file but i give log file before crash http://pasted.co/382f489b
Just has one output_log.txt http://pasted.co/d95f6074. Just ignore other word.its just other language.
