Hi again, 

Before I continue a little info. I am a videogame addict  for many years now, I will soon become an old man hehe but I still play for many hours a day. II really like strategies and resource managment games. Amoung my favorites are Sim City, Civilization, Age of Empires, Starcraft, Railroad Tycoon and many others. I also liek Minecraft, and what I like about it the most was automation of certain tasks, using  red stone circuits and stuff, but it  was lacking something I couldnt really put my finger what it is. So i built a giant self processing, self sorting rail station, got bored with it and never touched it again.  Thne I discovered Factorio wich also a really nice mining crafting production chain game. But somehow out of all of these your game  has the most potential to be the most fun in my personal top 5 list. 

I understand that it is hard work and it is still work in progress, so I decided to make your life even harded and to give you a ton of suggestions!

I made a list of suggestions and added some explanations to it, sorry it is a bit long . 

Containers

• no teleportation between containers

jI think no teleportation between containers would add functionality and gameplay, as player would have to design material hubs with warehouses as well as transport paths using wheeled carts and such to deliver raw items to construction sites and production areas.

• Various sizes for different size items

It is weird to be able to insert a 100 logs into a small container, I think logs could be stored in a stack on the ground or in a special roof covered building, kinda like bot storage. Metal ore and other raw material for example could be stored in a pile inside a concrete semi fenced area like in real factories. 

• warehouse building

a special warehouse building that can store several types of res at a time to save space and could also be connected to rail system. For example it could have a loading dock. Now that I think of it, it would also be fun to have to build a cargo barge as an alternative to a bridge between water separated areas.

Items

• items have weight

Items should have weight, as it would be difficult for a player to lift and carry an entire tree trunk, and store additional six of em in inventory. Actually, when I first saw the game several weeks ago, I was finally happy to see someone implementing something similar to carrying capacity in the game (that is before I learned that you could put six more trees in your inventory and still run around) I like games like Minecraft and Factorio bur it is so weird to be able to carry three tons of processed metal in ones pocket.

• dimensions

I think similar rules could apply to item size. Inventory could be represented as a grid of tiles and different items could occupy different amount of tiles.

transportation

• various transport equipment for different tasks

As was mentioned earlier, if magic teleportation between containers was removed an additional fun element in the game could be implemented. It would be great to have wheeled carts, pump trucks or something like that.

• vehicles for bot crews, folk and player

A type of truck could be added that could transport certain amount of resources as well as several bots. For example a bot construction crew loaded with material could arrive at the site to start building.

• rail system

Fastest way to deliver items across the map. Also transportation capacity is significantly larger.

equipment

• may malfunction

It would be fun to have to manage equipment, For example a saw blade could wear off with usage. Or a random malfunction could take place which would require a maintenance bot to service it using specific tools.

Electricity

- Electricity would be nice to have for additional morbid fun! Wind turbines or coal burning generator or water wheel operated. But all equipment should have a source of power including bot batteries.

bot batteries

• Bots need to connect to charge station or require battery replacement

Bots may need to work in shifts on the same task as it takes time to recharge abatttery at the charging station.

starting setup

• at the start player has some essential items

If you do decide to implement some of the thing mentioned. I think it would make sense to give player some processed resources at the start of a game, For example a Basic wind turbine module packaged in a container that a player can unpack and install.

• tools and material to build basic machinery

Also, a player could receive not only material like planks and poles and some gears to assemble initial workshop equipment there would also be essential tools like hammers and wrenches or screwdrivers.

• player chooses initial drop zone for starter items

Maybe it would look like an air drop or delivery from space. But at the start of a game player could choose and area where starting gear would land.

Folk

• folk can wander into dangerous areas and become victims of own curiosity
• depressed folk can display aggressive attitudes and engage in vandalism

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bot programming

• ability to extend bot memory with upgrades like data storage
• IF ELSE OR AND capability and nesting
• algorithm DB for command reuse and code assembly

for bot programming purpose it would awesome to have a database where you could choose to copy commands a bot has learnt. Initially you would have to show a bot what to do by example, but as you colect  more code snippets you could reassemble it, produce a script load it onto a drive and load it into a nex bot. 

Of course these suggestion are soming from someone who is into strategies and stuff, I undersand that sometime for the sake off fun many things are not included in a game just so people dont start yawning. 

Also if you ever need a Russian or Ukrainian localization I would be happy to translate it for you free of charge. 

Vladimir

I have some questions about the new version being developed.  I saw your image shown below from the "Wotta Lotta Botta" post that you said "This is what happens when you mess around with the new Bot construction system to mix up the baskic Mk1, Mk2 and Mk3 parts :)".
I presume that perhaps Mk1 might be the head part, Mk2 might be the chest with arms part, and Mk3 might be the legs part.  Do we need all three parts for every Bot?
I guess that for a Bot to be able to "Shout" and to "Repeat until hear" that it must have a "head" part. Is that right?
I guess that for a Bot to hold objects that it must have a "chest with arms" part.  Is that right?
I guess that for a Bot to move that it must have a "legs" part.  Is that right?
Is it possible that for some situations, a Bot might function without a "head" part?  What might be some such situations?
Is it possible that if a Bot does not need to hold objects that it might not need a "chest with arms" part?
Is it possible that if a bot does not need to move that it might not need a "legs" part?

There's a bug in the latest version where, i'm not sure about the cause though, if a steambot has this script then after maybe 2-3 repeats it stops picking up charcoal even though it goes over the script.

If you put items with durability into a storage crate, and take them out again, they will recharge all durability.

I am very proud to say that my Autonauts has 100 Extremely Happy Folk!  :)

I have found a bug where general storage (any category) have turned to 0. Even when you (or bot) put new stuff in them they turned 1 to 0 instantly. But somehow they are there (I think), because one bot was accessing from them. I don't have old saves so I can't check how exactly it occurred.

my 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 in stead of 10 bots

not a bug, but my storage is getting a little out of hand. Would it be possible to for you to make an upgrade for the storage? Maybe a warehouse or something?

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.

I have been thinking about ways to better organize the list of in-world bots. I primarily use the bot list panel to find and access bots but as the list grows bigger and bigger it becomes more troublesome finding the right bot.

Here's my suggestion for a better way of organizing the bot list:

Once at least one named beacon is placed in-world, add a third tab to the list panel using the beacon icon for the tab.

When that tab is active, list all named beacons as expand/collapse headers (similar to how the Visual Studio toolbox groups WinForms controls for example) (ordered by name ascending/descending - the current arrow button can work there too).

Under each of these beacon name headers, list all bots that have at least one link to this beacon. 

At the bottom of the list add another header for all remaining bots that are not linked to any beacon.

This way the list of bots is grouped the same way we have grouped them to their beacons, thus making it easier to find and access the bots that belong to a certain area - for example all the tree farming bots would be linked to a single beacon that covers the tree farm (beacon: "Treefarm").

I think adding this organizational feature would greatly improve the overall management of our bots while still staying in-sync with the spirit of simplicity :)

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 accidentally found a glitch while playing. So i was trying to create a new world but realized that all of the worlds were the exact same no matter how many times i clicked the new game button. Hilariously though it took me about 10 minutes to figure out they were the exact same.

Can you believe it?  There is a new island in the fresh-water lake in Autonauts.

Does anyone know if we can plant flower seeds in the ground somehow?  Do we need a certain tool or a certain soil to plant them?  Thanks.

Hi Denki,

Thank you for responding to all of my questions.  You have greatly help me to enjoy Autonauts and to understand how it works.  I have another question for you about the Save.txt file.  I see that after the large section of "Tiles" in it, the next section starts with "TileExtra":[{"x":324,"y":26,"T":0},{"x":325,"y":26,"T":0}, and there are very many of what I call these "Pair-Triplets".  The "Pair-Triplets" all contain {"x": followed by a value and then ,"y": followed by a value and then ,"T": followed by a value followed by }, .  I presume that the "x" value refers to the column location and "y" value refers to the row location and "T" value might refer to a type value.

Would you please clarify the actual meanings and uses of the "TileExtra" information?  If the "T" values refer to types, what are those types and how are the used?  Thank you.

Hi Denki,

Thanks for the great game

1.  In the new update, will you be able to connect together storages that are right next to each other?

2.  I really think you need to need able to remove grass (maybe in a similar way to flowers)

3.  I think the connected texture of bridges really needs to be improved it looks super weird at the moment

4.  I am super close to a game with every single item automated would you like me to post the save  file?

Thanks

Dragon