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

[Suggestion] bot commands

A topic by GDavid created Sep 10, 2017 Views: 1,032 Replies: 2
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It would be nice commanding bots  with text commands or custom hotkeys. (for text commands, a chat is needed)

Text commands example:
Write /make_new_bot into the chat and a bot that listens to this command creates a new workerbot.
Another example:
Write /craft axe 3 to the chat and a bot makes 3 axes for you.

Hotkey commands example:
Press 1 and a bot chops down a tree

New bot commands would be:
Repeat until <command> command recieved
Repeat <id>. argument of command times
If <command> recieved
if <id>. argument of last command was <value>
Repeat until <key> key pressed
If <key> key pressed

It would be really useful (the most useful would be text commands with arguments), it's not the best thing that every time i want to make a new bot (i have a bot for that) i need to press space, select the bot and click play instead of just pressing a button or writing a command and i need to always send that bot to a specific location or it becomes hard to see if it's that bot or not.

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This would be so much work to implement just to save a few clicks, and goes against the entire idea of manually teaching your bots or using the floppy disk. I would say no.

(-1)

Conditional branching will be needed at some point though. Whilst I agree that was a pretty terrible idea, it's something to think about.