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.
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
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
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!
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
That would be awesome the game is still very early in devlopment so who knows what they might add
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15jpsnMEPXLqdnGom5YJm7pjcXntPzYX_bZccwRw3qCM/...
That is the error log, I also have a very slow/bad computer and it may just not be able to run on it, but if you could get it to work, thx
Autonauts is an ongoing project. We're adding in new content all the time and hopefully we'll continue to do so for some time to come!
Make a Fetilizer Storage.
Collect Dung. Put it there = Fertilizer
How to get dung.
Reload your game 1st. Quickly go to the cows and see they are eating grass. Wait until they poop. thats the Dung. Cows will became FAT after some eating. when you see "!" it stops eating and time to Milk it. Now make a WOODEN BUKCEt >milk the cow.
P.S you dont need to reload just milk the cow :P
Simply delete the storage and place it down again. Open your build menu and hit the delete key on PC or fn and backspace on mac.
I know how to teach(program) my bots kendric. Thank you for trying to be helpful. But I think the language barrier is causing a misunderstanding.
In programming some code is known as 'Control Structures'. Things that allow us to do things like:
if x=0 then
do this
else
do that instead
end
I'm asking if there are plans to introduce Control Structures to the teachings of our autonaughts.
We haven't really thought about it.... maybe? :) It's not planned but that's not to say we won't. However we certainly wont for some time. We're still making the game!
Thanks!
Our goal is to make the entire game automatable (except for the Blueprint placement). Also we really are just a very small slice into development so far so there's LOADS more to put in.
The look of the outputs is just coincidence :)
Fair enough, having wooden automatons do all of our dirty work for us is satisfying, lol. After all, who needs conveyors when you have log golems! :-D Any indication as to when we may see more variants of our mechanical helpers? Also, will you eventually add any sort of adversary to the game, as thus, the need for sentries?
The best way is to use the official Itch app which will always keep you up to date (it's like Steam). Thanks
A 'converter' is just our word for any kind of building that takes ingredients and turns them into something else (the workbench for instance).
We've not added that yet but it's something we'll be adding later. You can, however, give it a hat :)
15 seeds and 5 fertilizer anyway trees only drop 2 SEEDS you will really have to go through a lot of effort by yourself just to get that one tree planted. so instead i think it should be 1 seed and 1 water= a tree and the fertilizer should be used to speed up the growth of ready planted trees. and when you think about it its more piratical it does't rain yet and planted DON'T need fertilizer to get the minerals its already in the soil but they need water as well. PART 2 anyway i love the game but this is just something that bugs me, thankyou
They're called Natives and they're not used for anything yet. Right now, you can challenge yourself and try to make as many as you can happy at once. You add them to your population by constructing a hut and placing them in one, after which you must have them regularly fed. You can feed them foods as basic as apples, or prepare entire apple pies for them. The totem pole doesn't do anything to their happiness yet, nor does putting cute, little hats on them.
I think the creators have plans to make them useful for the future, but we probably need to wait until this game gets out of pre-pre-pre-alpha.
I figured out what was wrong with my game! Im not sure if it was user error or what but either way Waity5 shower me where the game was supposed to ask to save and i went there instead. Thank you for trying to help though it was very appreciated.
When i would try to save the game it would automatically take me to the game elements instead of asking where on to computer to store it. All is good now thank you for the help! :)
I have an issue with a code I'm trying to build. They keep getting stuck after adding to the foundation because it can't add anymore if it is already full. The only way around this is for the foundation to be completed so it stops trying to add to it. The issue is if I have a work order that exceeds the number of bots I have deployed: i.e. if I try to build 10 bridges with 3 bots each for each type of resource, then those 3 will be stuck adding to different foundations while waiting for the others to bring the rest of the items (they never will cause they are stuck too). The only way around this is to either have more bots per resource deployed than foundations I want to build or find a way to reset the "Find nearest Foundation" part before it gets stuck on "Add to Foundation". Maybe in the next update we'll get to have conditionals or a skip command, but I'm pretty much stuck on this. Also, even if the "Find nearest Foundation" were to loop, I am pretty sure it would just go back to the same foundation and get stuck again. Why can't I make a bot to automatically program bots, that would make copying and pasting between bots so much easier.
They do, yes. Crude bots are slow and strong, Basic are quick but weak.
We'll be adding more bot types in a later version which will make is less like "hell" :)
In the mean time you can experiment with getting the bots to "Stow" and "Recall" the logs into their inventory which can carry a lot more. Use "Q" and "?" to Stow and "," and "." to Recall.
if you use windows then download the new version, go to C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\LocalLow\Denki\Autonauts amd take take <your world's name>.txt and put it in the Autonauts file, under the app and not in the data.
if you use macOS then you will need to right click (or press with 2 fingers on the trackpad) on the old version, select the second option (Show Package Contents) and then select <your world's name>.txt
put that in a place that you would be able to find it, download the new version, right click on it, select the second option and put <your world's name>.txt BELOW the file called contents, NOT in it.
if you use linux, well, i don't know.
I thought it might be best to share my experience so far with Autonauts and the different tips, tricks, bugs, and issues that come with it. Hopefully this helps make the game even more awesome than it already is. This is my current world so far. The spot with 40 storage containers is where I plan to have my automated builders later on. I also plan to have automated world cleaners when I have my whole world beaconified and last, but not least, a food hub with all my villagers somewhere.
This is where I make every single item in the game.
This is my beacon factory. More on that later.
This is the infinite resource runoff with automated balancing.
And finally I have my resource production.
Major Bugs:
Long loading times the bigger the file - I barely got this file to load (2.5 megabytes). It took about 2.5mins and I have an Nvidia GTX 970 and an i7 6700k with 32gb of ram.
Load save file while playing it crashes - I am not sure if I was just not patient enough for it to load, but when you try to load the save file (or maybe even a different one) while you have that same save file open, the game hangs endlessly forcing you to close it. Not only that, but if you try to load it normally from a blank slate after that, it won't open. The amount of time I waited for the corrupted file of 2mb was longer than it took to load my newer save of 2.5mb. Maybe someone can try this and do an md5 checksum to try to get to the bottom of this. It could just be that I didn't wait long enough for it to load and the act of closing the game while loading the save file corrupts it, I am just not sure. Just goes to show, always make a backup of your saves.
No name bots - I sometimes get bots with no names that I can't program or control in any way. I think I heard others talking about this before on the forum. I believe they said it was when you get a bot to make the bots for you that it sometimes does this. The way I got around this was to make bots in batches and save before just in case.
Holes - Sometimes bots will avoid certain spots they are programmed for for no apparent reason. Bots will endlessly wait even if they can shovel, plant, or mine. Pausing/Unpausing the bot and even digging the hole yourself is not enough to fix them. Reloading to an earlier save fixed my problem.
Minor Bugs:
Unreachable Ghost Bridge - You are able to build/take away bridges that extend into the undiscovered parts of the map, but the un-built bridges you are not able to demolish. The way around this is to discover that chunk the ghost bridge is in.
Code Upload Overlay - When uploading a longer code from a Crude Data Chip onto a bot with another long code, There is sometimes a visual bug where the old code can be seen behind the new code. This does not upset the function of the new code, but to get rid of it anyways, just clear the code and re-upload.
Aren't cows suppose to eat straw? - If they are suppose to eat the straw...they aren't doing it.
Issues:
Can't rename crude data chips - It would help to remember which code is which by a different name other than "Bob" and "Darrel"
Copying/Pasting between bots is tedious - Select Bot, pause, open inventory, give data chip, exit out of inventory, download code, open inventory, retrieve data, exit out of inventory, unpause, Select another bot, pause (skip if copying to new bot), open inventory, give data chip, exit out of inventory, upload data, open inventory, retrieve data, exit out of inventory (Repeat "Select another bot" through "exit out of inventory" for every new bot).
No easy way to see beacon range/Inaccurate Beacon Shift - The only way to see a beacons range (inaccurately) is by holding it in your hand or looking at it through the record code screen. When you hold the beacon in your hand, or more specifically, when a bot holds it in his hand, there is a minor shift in where the beacon's range is relative to a beacon on the ground in the same location. This depends on which direction the bot faces because the bot holds the beacon slightly in front of him. I think the player also does this as well, but I couldn't tell.
Stand alone beacon factory - I have to separate the beacon factory because the bot that delivers the beacons to storage hinders with the beacon that is already in place at the main factory.
Food Balancing: Maybe the apples could grow slower. I already have an infinite supply to last more than twice the number of total citizens on my world, and that's just 1 apple farm. There are also problems with the other food sources as well, but the apples are already OP so that doesn't matter as much.
Suggestions:
A Manageable Interface: Re-nameable Beacons, Crude Data Chips, Bots, Character, Cows, Sheep, and Citizens. Menu with a list of beacons - Click on the beacon to open a list of bots connected to it - In this menu the bots could have an icon of what item they are currently holding , what hat/clothing they are wearing, and also the name of the bot - Also In this menu you could press a "copy" , "paste", or "clear code" button near the top where it then opens your inventory and asks you to choose which data chip to use if you have more than 1 in your inventory - After choosing "Paste", you could then select multiple bots in the list - You could also click on any bot in this menu to get to the bots normal screen.
Beacon Range Finder - Keyboard shortcut to see an overlay of every Beacon's range
Vehicles - Pfft obviously
Bot Storage - The best way to automate production of bots. This could solve the issue of overproducing bots. Putting them in storage could reset them like how Crude Data Chips work so as to not cause bugs or incompatibilities.
Programmer Machine/Building - Put a Crude Data Chip in to select your code then have another bot deliver more bots to automate programming
Replace Incinerator with Market (or just add)- Allows you to sell excess resources for Mons and select items to buy. Also allows you to see average money earned over a period of time.
Lockable Beacons - A switch that prevents bots from moving a beacon.
Breed-able/Sell-able/Purchasable Animals - We need more poop!
Boat - Can be made out of wood.
Renewable Sticks/Stick Uses - A pole can be made into 2 sticks. Maybe sticks could be useful for something.
Sand/Glass - Shovel the sand. Put sand into clay furnace to make glass. Glass could be used to make a better houses for the citizens.
Farm-able Mushrooms and Berries - 2 small mushrooms for each full grown mushroom and 2 berries for each bush.
Local Multiplayer - I'll leave that idea planted here for way into the future.
Farm-able Flowers - I'm not sure if they are already farm-able or not.
Safebox - Store Items here to separate them from the main production line. In case you run out of tree seeds, apples, or cereal from the general storage, then you don't have to restart your game to get them back
Follow Player or Move to Player Command - For when you want a robo companion.
Conditionals - If...True...Then...Do...While
Besides the market, boat, and glass, I am not trying to add anything that isn't already a part of the game. I will leave those up for you to decide.
Questions for the Dev:
Is there Beta or Nightly builds I could try?
How do I support the cause, will there be a Patreon later or a place to donate?
That's some wonderful feedback right there!
The load times are becoming an issue so I've noted that one down and will look into it.
Your problem with the Beacon factory. Tell the bot to stand on the output tile of the beacon maker first, then tell it to pickup a beacon. That way it will only ever pick up the correct one (assuming there is one ready to pickup).
Most of your bugs and suggestions have already been noted but I've added your new ones. If you're interested you can find our lists here.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1btXfrrRUyzqnH7Ce6kNGWe19pWT7bYGqMbLAqdHH...
Thanks!
Yep we'll definitely be doing more with straw in the future. You used to be able to feed it to cows but there was a bug that meant I had to stop that. We'll be bringing that back when i fix the bug :)
Not sure about automatic blueprint building. We don't want to make things TOO easy to automate :)
Make sure you've got a paddle in your hands then right click on the canoe. To get out of the canoe use right click on any adjacent tile.
We're aiming for a minimum of three tiers for everything, so more saw for sure! When is another matter entirely :)
Sorry about that. Sometimes we need to make changes like this because the game is still really early in development. I realise it's a pain to rejig things all the time but hopefully we can add features which make the process not too painful :)
In answer to your question use a Mallet on a tree.
At some point we'll be adding full character customisation in so you can keep your frog suit :)
Thank you, Denki, for your response and for developing such a wonderful game. I had downloaded V17 and then V19, so I missed out on V18. I look forward to creating foods from pumpkins such as pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, and maybe even pumpkin soup, pumpkin cake, or even baked or roasted pumpkin. We need to keep our Folk happier for longer times. Our players too. ;)
It can be used in a few different ways.
Use LMB on a Folk to remove their dirty clothes then RMB on a Wash Tub to put the clothes in. When the wet clothes comes out use LMB to pick them up then RMB on a clothes line to dry them. Then LMB on the dry clothes and RMB on a clean folk to re-dress them.
It can also be used to collect dirty and clean dishes.
Yes the game is still in full time development, we've just stopped weekly updates so we could concentrate on some big changes. If you want to keep updated with the latest development keep a look out for our semi-regular posts here on Itch or on our Discord server.
Thanks
It's used to cross over to the other islands. Put the Canoe into the water, make a Paddle and then RMB on the canoe with the Paddle in hand. If you want to get out of the Canoe you can RMB on it again.
i made little hats for my charge bots :D
my metal factory :D
