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Autonauts

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

Autonauts FAQ Sticky

A topic by Denki created Jul 08, 2017 Views: 80,640 Replies: 680
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Developer (9 edits) (+8)(-1)

Pre-Pre-Pre-Alpha, eh? Just how far from complete is Autonauts?

In some respects it's a complete thing right now. But it's not a full thing - there's still a long way to go; so much more we want to do.


"Is the world size going to stay the same?"
(Insanity125 via Discord)

Nope, the world will get bigger as the game grows.


"Do you think weather would be a option to have in the game?"
(Insanity125 via Discord)

We do! Seasons are part of the master plan.


"And, um, a height limit for items? I have a giant stack of items that really block my view."
(Insanity125 via Discord)

Heh. There's no limit yet. Use General Storage to keep things neat and tidy.


What about day and night cycles?

Not sure yet. We have thought about it but we want to make sure it isn't just for show.


Where would I find the save data?

Well, now you can choose where you want to save it; before Version 7 the data was saved by default to these locations:

  • On Windows...  C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\LocalLow\Denki\Autonauts\Test.txt
  • macOS... Users/<USERNAME>/Library/Application Support/Denki/Autonauts/Test.txt


What are you using use to make Autonauts?
(MatrixzCFW via Discord)


I'm stuck. Is there a wiki?

Check out this awesomeness! http://autonauts.wikia.com/wiki/Autonauts_Wiki


I have a suggestion/bug!

Cool! We thrive on feedback from you guys. It's possible, however, that your suggestion/bug has already been suggested/...bugged. You can find our current lists for both of these ere. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1btXfrrRUyzqnH7Ce6kNGWe19pWT7bYGqMbLAqdHH...

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Are you able to replant trees?

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you use shovels to dig holes and then you put seeds into a seed tray and then put those seedlings into the holes

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you can also just make a hole and add a tree seed...

Yes, first you make a shovel and dig a hole. Then, build a seedling tray. Put acorns into it. Then you can take them out as saplings. Right click a hole while holding  a sapling.

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I'm really excited for this game. Is there any idea on the pricing, and do you have plans for making your own Trello page

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Plz dont add a price

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why not ?  would you work for free !

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I don't have money, so I think it should stay at choose your price. (I still feel like it should be accessible,but still able to support the developer somehow!)

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yesyes i like dat 2

Yes but Denki could add in game purchases.

Developer(+4)(-1)

Thanks! We have absolutely no idea what we'll charge for this. Literally nothing :) We just haven't had time to think that far. We've used Trello in the past but actually find Google Docs more convenient for the way we work.

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how do i download it for windows?

if your reading this plz add in some way to tame those things that have the faces

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you mean the humans? YOU CANT TAME HUMANS they are already humaine

Hey Denki!

I love the game but what is the difference between bots (basic and crude)

Basically the Normal ones move faster and have more battery so they don't need to be recharged as often as the Crude ones.

crud work less effienct and basic are much bestter in battery and spped

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what  can i use milk for??

Developer

At the moment you can make Milky Porridge or give it directly to the Folk but we'll be adding more uses for it in later versions.

Make it possible to load version with ads to make it possible to support without paying.

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You should put it on Steam, and make it around $20, $15-$25 maybe i see $16 as a good price but like you said its not done.

WHY DO YOU WANT A PRICE YOUTUBERS PLAY IT SO ALOT OF PEOPLE DO IT TOO

Hi, I am thinking of releasing a game with the same pricing model as you - that is optional. I don't expect to make a lot of money and I understand to get exposure it's best to be free. But I would like to ask - do you get even a reasonable sum from this pricing? Like enough to pay half the rent (of a flat, not offices)?  How many people would I lose if I sell the game at like 3 dollars? 

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Hi, Johny. Good question!

TBH we weren't expecting to make anything from donations so it still gives us the warm fuzzies when people donate anything :)

Donations so far have been between 50p (about 67¢) and £35 (about $47) but mostly towards the lower end of the scale. The number of people who've donated represents around 1% of the total downloads so far (and the number of downloads averages around 50% of the page views). It all helps but it's not enough to cover our basic costs so we're in the process of figuring out about how best to address that moving forwards.

We haven't exactly promoted Autonauts and it may be that it's simply attracting as many people as it deserves. We do appreciate that it's still early days in its development and we haven't been too clear about where it's going, so that needs reinforcing regardless of how we decide to fund ongoing development.

Hope that's of some help. Happy to answer any more questions you might have :D

Thank you. You were more informative than I expected. :)

I’m playing this game with my kids and we all love it. It is brilliant. I don’t mind to pay for such a good game, but I suggest that keep the basic game free, but charge for special items or advanced features.

"keep the basic game free, but charge for special items or advanced features" I agree.

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are you the same denki that made monster force 5? that game was so addicting, and so is this one. 

Developer(+1)

The very same :)

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How in the heck do you get standard gears?

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You use a gear router, it needs to be placed on flooring and a gear costs a plank.

For me there literally is no gear router

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It is called a wood router, It can make a gear or a wheel.

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Cars with wheels?! 

🚗

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Not yet maybe someday but for now just a little squeaky scooter :)

Developer(+1)

@Pr3h1st0r1c Cheers!

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Amazing game :)
If development help is needed feel free to contact me at: dylan@vossystems.nl

Whats the use for the Recycler and how do you get water for porridge? 

The Recycler returns you the items used to make something, but natural things like metal ore won't come out as something else because it wasn't made out of anything.

Gather water using buckets, you can craft them with the basic workbench.

Thank you!

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My robot has a low battery icon... how do i charge him??? Also, the game is fantastic. I love it. thanx for making my ideas come to life without me doing work :P

Left click on them when the battery is completely low. It works for me but I have my robots do that now :)

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the best way . you can teach you robot to recharge anotherr robot . 

What is the difference between Crude Workers and Basic Workers?

Basic can move faster, hold more items in their hands, and I think lose charge slower? I haven't paid attention to it that much with me automating the recharge process.

How did you automate the recharge?

he did it with robots you teach the robot to recharge a robot :

when a robots battery "dies" you click on teach you click on the robot and repeat and go and you can make a charging robot for the charging robot so you  have to recharge the "charging" robot

I don't believe they can hold more...

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Mr_Mobius_ is right, they can't hold more. I think it's still in progress because both say "Basic Workerbot" when you open there inventory.

              Crude Workerbot                     Basic Workerbot              

I've paid attention crude definitely loses charge faster

Can anyone tell me how I can get coal? i've wracked my brain crazy about it!!

you use a clay furnance 

how to build : when you pess the button E the building menu pops up you put it down it reqires 5 clay use shovel on clay

and the click on the clay furnance and select charcoal it needs 2 logs/1charcoal 

(in furnance) 1charcoal+1ironore=1iron 

(in metal workbench) 2iron =1 iron plating 

if you need anytinhg again ask

Tanks for playing this amazing game

PS : Dewelopers its an amazing game

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I understand game is still really early in development but will there be multiplayer eventually?

Developer

TBH we aren't sure yet :)

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Why in Goods name does every body want multiplayer. I rather enjoy a solid single player game with lots of content then crapy laggy multiplayer thats short on all ends.
Seriously implementing a good functioning multiplayer in games isn't that easy. Its mostly a huge effort of time that could have been spent on so many other things that will do a game better then trying to please a handfull of gamers that cry for multiplayer.

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I would be happy with lan multiplayer cause yea if there were 24/7 public servers i wouldnt like that but just for playing with friends trough hamachi i would want that

These are all very good points, but I think I'll have to agree with art on this one.

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Same I'd like Lan Multiplayer/Private Hosting

yes, I agree

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I agree with Greuslich15 . Screw worrying about multi player.  I'd much prefer the devs focus on game play. I mean come on folks. What the heck would a friend be able to do?

Besides, this is about building friends to play with us.... :)

How to zoom and unzoom ?

Developer (1 edit)

Mouse wheel (or whatever equivalent you use).

how do you demolish structures?

E for build mode, Delete, click on structure, click on trashbin

what?

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Step 1:   Go into Edit Mode by pressing "E".
Step 2:   While in Edit Mode press "delete" to go into Delete Mode.  ("delete" = keyboard button with delete on it)
Step 3:   Click on the building you want to delete.

Don't forget that you have to go out of Delete Mode first (by pressing "delete") before you can get out of Edit Mode (by pressing "E") or you can just click on the "X".

It's not working for me

Hi all !  Sry for my english. 

You make a really great job and we can feel your passion in the game. Thx for that.

I have a problem when i try to take water, me or my worker take bucket and when we try to take water we can't move...  : ( help me plz

Thx, gl and hf for next step ; )

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how do i get more than 1 crop every time i harvest and how do i even use fertilizer?

put cereal into a cereal seeder to get 2 seeds out of 1 cereal.

When cows eat, they poop. Collect it and put it into the fertilizer storage. It comes out of the storage as fertilizer. after using a shovel to dig a weed out of the dirt, hold the fertilizer and right click that dirt.

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Nope. Not yet, anyway...

what are the random babies on the floor for?

Developer

Folk. You should make them huts. And feed them. To make them happy :D

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so they basicly are like babys :) and all they give back is a smile when they are happy till they get needy again and start to cry for more food

the only thing i am missing here is they dont make dung :D

lol babys are just the other end of the toilet they spew it out

If they're folk, maybe in a future update they could help with recharging workers if you keep them happy?  Would add another dimension to making them happy...

Developer(+2)

We have some plans for the folk's usefulness that we can hopefully share very soon! Thanks

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not sure if you plan on this but what if you added acheivements or something. That would make it to where like if you kept five folk happy for a few days(day/night cycle usefulness) it would unlock maybe a new structure or item or maybe even more land

Developer(+1)

Yep we'll definitely be adding those at some point :)

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How would I update the game but still have my saved world? Or would I have to reinstall the game?

how do i download the game for windows? a 7zip file thingy pops up

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right click the .zip file and goto the open with option, after that click on file explorer. When your done select both the folder and the application and right click again, you should have an option to extract the files. After that you can either continue or select a certain destination for the files good luck :)

How do you make a metal saw. Please help.

metal workbench, 2 metal and 1 stone

 i think i will have a nice village but the robots need to have a little more power or some type of battery to add more power to their power suply

You can set  a robot to recharge others, so you will only have to worry about one.

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i know im doing that with 2 recharge robots so if one dies then it can get recharged by the other one and vise versa

how do we make a cereal farm?

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Answered that in thedude646's question below.

I've been having problems with mine because of cereal crops that won't turn into cereal. (Bots keep mining them -> no cereal gains)
It's a similar problem as the one with the trees,

Hope I can fix it..

What are those mallets for, and how do I use those scooters.

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How do I use those scooters?
After making one just put it in your inventory by pressing "Q".

Does it also work on robots you may ask.
I haven't tested it very well but from what I could tell there wasn't a noticeable differents between with or without, the only thing that's different is the sound (the robot won't ride it, it just makes the sound)

About the mallets.
You need 1 wooden mallet to build a totem.

what is fertilizer for?

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I'm still testing the farming aspect of the game but this is what I found out until now:

Fertilizing:
First you need to go to a cereal crop field, there you will find weed which you want to dig. The weed becomes weeded soil, now you can fertilize it and it becomes soil.

Weed:
Weed will grow back on weeded soil, but it won't on soil

Cereal:
If you get cereal from a cereal crop the ground will turn into either weeded soil (not fertilized) or back to soil (fertilized).
Found out that there's no differents in planting cereal seeds in weed, weeded soil or soil, only the hight of the cereal crop varies, which doens't effect the amount that you get from it.

Cereal seed:
You get 2 cereal seeds from 1 cereal in the cereal seeder (I think the cereal seeder is a little bit to slow for getting only 2, maybe it's just the crude version of it).

I have a feeling the better you grow your crops in the future, the more you get per crop. i.e. fertilizing and tilling = 3 or so cereal maybe?

build a bunch

One question, what is the totem used for? I haven't built one, but I will tomorrow.

Developer

At the moment nothing, but in future versions it will provide happiness for Folk.

Maybe it can do magic things, or let you hire Folk to work like worker bots for money, or something else entirely.

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Are you going to put a multiplayer engine in the game?

is there a way to automate the bots to use the tools in their inventory, without having to do it manually? 

From what I can tell there isn't, hope it will be implemented soon.

Yes if you have tools for them to grab you can program them to pick them up when theirs breaks here's the programming (sorry for the bad quality, I'm getting a new computer soon)

how do i get metal/ metal saws?

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Metal:

  1. Build a clay furnace
  2. Get charcoal by putting 2 logs in the furnace
  3. Get metal ore by mining
  4. Turn the furnace from charcoal to metal
  5. Put the charcoal and metal ore in the furnace

Metal saw blade:

  1. Build a metal workbench
  2. Get 4 metal from doing the above
  3. Put them into the workbench for 2 metal plates
  4. Get 1 stone by mining/gathering
  5. Now you can make a metal saw blade in the workbench

how do i craft gears

Gears are crafted in the wood router, the crude ones are crafted in the basic workbench

How do i use the crude saw bench  i tried LMB it wont work

left klick opens the recipies of the crude saw. (log to planks, Planks to poles)

depending wich recipie is selected you need to have at least one Log or Plank in your hand and then rightclick the saw.

is there any way to make your workers get an axe or a shovel after it is broken

Yes. You make them do thing in a cycle of Repeat with "until hand is empty", and then put instructions to grab a tool from storage after the cycle. Then put Forever around it all and presto.

Of course also get a robot making tools for endless cycle.

and how do you utilize the 'until hand is empty' command?

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remove weed with a shovel

So I just wanted to start the Game and Looked into Input and saw this Cheats Options ,now my question is why is it there and why cant I use it?

I was wondering the same thing

Developer

Nothing to see here. Move along.

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it is so the developers can just cheat through the game to fix bugs and test new things they are working on.

oooooowww yea sure

yeah I made a post about this and Denki told me this.

crude scooter what dose it do

If you put it into your inventory, it will make you move faster

thanks

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How many people are on your team?

Developer

Two. Gary is the designer. Aaron is the programmer.

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tell them they are doing a great job

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can u guys make it so the workers can take stuff from there invatory and you are doing a great job on the game

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who r u?

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are there going to be boats if there already in the game how do you get them

Developer

It's on our big to-do list

For now is there any way to cross the ocean?

Developer

There is an exploit by using fence blueprints :)

I've tried this but it hasn't worked for me so far

Is there a way to turn a normal ground square into soil?

Developer

No sorry

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erm after some work (or none at all) my crude bots stop work and its like theres nothing to click on

plz fix this

and if its supposed to happen then what do i do about it?

i tied saving and loading its still like that

btw its not the battery

sry about all the edits, im trying to be as thorough as possible

what do u use metal gears n flour for denki pls reply

Hey there. Two things. One, what is the item I can't see to make a cereal seeder. It's driving me insane. Second, it appears that 4k resolution is not ideal for the game. Any idea why or how you guys could remedy this issue? It occurs in most of the menu boxes and it doesn't matter what resolution I set the game at pre-launch.

Developer

Wooden Shovel. 

Yeah I need to work on different resolution support. It's on our list. Thanks

Thanks :)

I found a bug, I cant access my robot, it stopped allowing me to edit it when I accidentally picked it up and tried to edit it at the same time.

it is meant to do that

What do I use flour for? I have made a windmill and everything else i can't find what it makes. Plz help

You use flour to make crude bread in the clay oven

eh how do you get gear 

use a wooden router

and food how get

you get food by either making a podridge pot and putting a water bucket and some cereal in it or making a windmill and making flour then baking crude bread in a clay oven

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can you add milk to feed pepole

i love autonauts

how do you get gear 

You get gears in a wooden router plz dont spam

THX

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So, I've noticed the red circle seems to be the working area for the robot you're programming. Is there any way to set where this area is?

Developer

At the moment the center is determined by where you first showed the Worker how to do something. In later version we plan on added a Beacon that they center around. You'll be able to change the work radius of the Beacon and well as pick it up and move it.

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ADD MILK TO FEED PEPOLE AND TELL HOW TO GET GEAR

Dude, please stop spamming so much, everything you've been asking about has been explained in either the faq or the comments.

How do you make the repeat until hands empty/hands full work? Because when I try to use it all it does is glitch out with either the hands full repeating forever even when it is full or hands empty with keep on using the item (for example the robot cutting down trees will glitch and still use the "axe" even after it is broken and will not go back to get a new axe.) 

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i use the repeat commands for my picking up items bots

EDIT: also try restarting your game


forever start

-repeat until full

-find nearest tree seed

-move to tree seed

-pick up tree seed

end of repeating

-repeat until empty

-move to general storage

-add to general storage

end of repeating

forever end


also i use it for my shovel bot

forever start

-repeat until empty

-find tree soil

-move to tree soil

-use held item

end of repeating

-grab another axe

forever end

My crops are not turning yellow, even though I remove the weeds, till the soil, and add fertilizer :(

doesnt matter if they are yellow if they are fully grown (try cutting them down)

it only gives 1 cereal, so its not fully grown

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it is thats how it works 1 cereal per crop

edit: and if you have the cereal seeder it gives you 2 seeds so you profit 1 cereal

ohhhh ok thx

they turn yellow cause its wheat

How do you get more sticks?

You cant but you can use wooden tools not crude (made in a crude workbench(or i think its called crude workbench))

thanks

so

Developer (1 edit)

Please stop spamming. Check the FAQ and other discussions here. Also you would probably have more luck if you went to the official Discord Server.

sorry

how use scoter

Developer

Put it into your Inventory. You should also search through other posts first. All of your questions have been answered before. There's also the unofficial Wiki. http://autonauts.wikia.com/wiki/Autonauts_Wiki

you are the best

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I love this game. (I like how all storage connects.)

if Denki you are there pls add milk to feed pepole

Developer

Yes we'll be adding things like Milk later on. Thanks.

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 you thanks not me

can you add veacils sorry for spelling

Developer

Please stop asking for the same thing. If we don't reply it's because we're busy, we're not online or what you suggest is already on our list. Also please stop creating lots of new messages for each word you type.

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This game is awesome, and I can't wait to see what future updates will bring.  Just some ideas:

add wheelbarrow: can be used to carry a larger quantity of items. (crafting: like one wheel, four planks, and two poles)

add railroads and carts: can be used to automate the transport of materials

add maybe some way of using the Folk to help you, cause they need to get up and do some work instead of laying there all day :D

Developer

Some nice ideas there and we're thinking along the same lines. Thanks!

Maybe give each folk a scooter and have some way to make them ride around and watch for bots that need charging and maybe actually do something(like charge them up)

If I pay for the game, am I guaranteed updates, even if you later require payment to play? If so, is there a price  I need to pay for that?

Unrelatedly, you offer a Wikia site as your wiki. A good wiki is awesome, but sadly you may need to host your own. Wikia is accepting ads from untrustworthy advertising networks, and has been for some time. When visiting on my iPad or my Android phone, I regularly get automatically redirected to scam sites that use various tricks to try and stop me from leaving their page. I'm fine with ads, but Wikia is crossing the line.

It may be in pre-pre-pre-alpha, but there is a lot of fun to be had here. Thanks for sharing it with us!

Developer

At the moment the game is free. You can donate but don't need to. We've not put any thought into how we'll end up charging for this. It will possibly be a one-off payment for lifetime updates.

The wiki is un-official and nothing to do with development. I've pinned it just for people's reference.

Thanks!

hi

Developer

Please don't spam. If you continue I'll have to ban you. As I've said twice already if you want to have a conversation use our official Discord Server instead please.

Can you please link Discord in reply :d thanks -Fan

Developer

Try this

Discord

Hello is there a use for dung yet or is it just there because i have a giant amount of it and dont know what to do with it 

put dung in a fertilizer storage and th3n when you take it out it turns into fertilizer

I noticed that you can you the "Build Fence" to travel to the other islands. Lay down the fence, walk on it, lay more, repeat

Great game! Can't wait to see where it goes

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Which code languages do you use for the development?

Is there a way to look at your bug list (maybe like Jira) or maybe in the future?

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Any thoughts of putting it on steam when steam direct comes out.

YUSS

PLES

How do i remove buildings its so frustrating ( and no not blue prints already built buildings.)

Developer

Press the Delete key while in edit mode.

thx :)

I really wish I could pay.

but i'm to young for a Credit card and a PayPal account...

why is there no "Sofortüberweisung" (it never gets translated, strangly) Option like Steam has, so that i can just use my Bank Card

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You know you could download the game as it is, on itch.Io for free. To open your eyes and start reading isn't that hard to do.

It even says so in the first line. This game is free. Because the main reason it was put on Itch.IO was to get some feedback for the early version. But keep in mind even it is for free right now this might change, and also nobody can life from rainbows and sunshine. To support developers that make games you enjoy is the least you can do. And if not mony wise than be active on the forum, help find bugs, tell them your opinion on changes and stuff.

I know it is free, i have been playing it for some time.


I still want to support the people making it.


also broke my world, where can i report bugs?

Developer

Anywhere in the Autonauts Itch Community or you can join our Discord and join in the discussion.

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soo i can just say that the crude bread recipe is broken?

because it requires Water... but when you cancel the Recipe with only water in it, it tries to output the water... which it can't. so it gets stuck, untouchable, and unusable forever.

might want to make it just dumb the water.

that poor robot is stuck there, waiting for the furnace to output water... it will sit there, after the sun burned all it's Hydrogen and turned into a white dwarf, it will sit there, after the last Star died in the Universe and the Heat death is inevitable, it will still sit there waiting.


also when is 1080p support gonne be a thing.

I mean it seems this game was made to run on a Raspberry to take with you... which actually is not a bad idea

Developer(+1)

Ok great thanks. Added

Denki why do the repeats sometimes bug out and the bots just stand there confused.

Developer(+1)

There could be a number of reasons. Does the clock icon appear above their head? What version are you using? What does your script look like?

version 4


Developer(+1)

Try version 5. That might help you out. Thanks!

Hey currently trying to make it so that my Lumberjack, tree spot diggers, and metal miners pick up tools after they're break but it doesn't seem to work to well could you tell me if I'm messing up in the programming or if thiis just not possible.

It won't work because Bot can hold one tool, but it's not full of it's capacity. So after taking wooden shovel, the first loop keep repeating because Bot can hold more but at the same time he can hold only one tool.

Delete first "repeat" and leave second one. In that way Bot will take shovel and start repeating second loop until shovel break.

Ok awesome much thanks I'm try to get to the other parts of the world and it's annoying to have to check in and replace tools everytime

i haz had da same problem thx

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Is this gonna be multiplayer i'd love if it was

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Why in Goods name does every body want multiplayer. I rather enjoy a solid single player game with lots of content then crapy laggy multiplayer thats short on all ends.
Seriously implementing a good functioning multiplayer in games isn't that easy. Its mostly a huge effort of time that could have been spent on so many other things that will do a game better then trying to please a handfull of gamers that cry for multiplayer.

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how do i get a robot off my head 

drop it like any other item tight click

You need to start dating a new robot, that's the only way.

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