how do you install on linux?
On no! Well hopefully I can help. The next time it happens can you send me a file called Autonauts_Data/output_log.txt found in your install folder please? That's for the PC version. If you're using a different version please let me know. You can just copy/paste the contents of the file in a reply here or send me the file using an online file transfer service.
Thanks
Hello,
I am trying to speed up the creation of butter in order to speed up the production of pastries, raw apple pies, and apple pies. I am wondering what I could do with dung that would speed up cows becoming full. Should I leave dung on the grass, or should I convert dung into fertilizer and then put the fertilizer back on the grass, or should I incinerate the dung, or should I do something else? Thank you.
Hmm I have some bad news for you :( As long as there's grass to eat, the speed at which cows produce milk can't really be increased. Clearing the Dung will help make sure there's grass to eat but you can't put fertiliser on it to make it grow faster and even if you could, it wouldn't affect milk production.
Other players have noted that there aren't enough cows in the world to make milk fast enough to keep up with the demand for pies. This is something we need to balance properly in the future.
Thanks!
I noticed that there weren't enough cows too. So, I used MS Notepad to update the save file and I changed most of the sheep into cows, since we only need enough sheep to be sheered a few hundred times to make all of the wool to create all of the clothes that would ever be needed, and I wanted more cows to produce more milk.
I will try to slow down the eating of the apple pies by the Folk with some "Wait" commands to the bots that give them the pies. I think that if there was about 30 seconds of waiting within the Repeat loop of those bots that perhaps the milking of the cows could keep up.
I would like to request that you add two more "Repeat" options: "until ? Storage empty" and "until ? Storage not empty". I would like to connect these options to pairs of bots that would be similar to the bots that shout "Stop" and "Go" so that other bots can wait until they hear those shouts. For example, I would like my bots that make Pastries to wait until they hear "Go Pastries" before proceeding and will stop when they hear "Stop Pastries", but instead of the shouting bots waiting until the Pastry Storage is full or not, they would wait until the Butter Storage is empty or not. By stopping the Pastry makers when the Butter Storage is empty and forcing them to wait several minutes before starting making Pastries again, the Butter makers would have time to make a large amount of Butter. Thank you.
We've been posting a few things here on Itch and on our Discord server about anything new but most of our work has been rearranging existing things into something new players can understand more easily, so it's not very exciting stuff for more experienced players. Having said that we're going to make more of an effort to post more regularly. Thanks!
Hey, thanks for the great Autonauts feedback.
Your problem with bots stopping : It's possibly a bug but more likely the bot's script that's at fault. If you can identify a specific bot that does this, send me a picture of the script and I'll have a look.
Your ideas are welcome and these are all things we'll be looking at in a future version, so thanks.
OK, here is a few bugs I've found.
1. Workbot can't find current beacon if another workbot is staying on it. (After start of algorithm left-bottom workbot will go to upper beacon)
2. Workbot can't find nearest water from lake (I don't know why, because another workbot can do this). From the other hand he can find water from sea.
3. And there are some artefacts on screen sometimes. I think it's when too many elements are on the screen at the same time.
You're issue 2 is probably due to the command "Find nearest Water ?" not being based upon a Beacon but instead being based on the location that the bot was when it was trained, as indicated by the ? symbol, while the bot is now too far from that training location and the training location being too far from any water. It could also be due to this bot being loaded with commands from data storage that had been saved from another bot whose own training location, as indicated by the ? symbol, is too far from this bot . You can retrain this bot and click on that ? symbol to use a nearby Beacon instead of the initial training location for finding the nearest water.
Another problem is that all of the Folk's huts are so close together that if the nearest water is on the opposite side of all of the huts from the bot that there is not sufficient time for the program to find the shortest pathway through all the huts to the water. When you place the huts, you should provide passage ways through them. Leave some gaps between the huts (and other buildings) so that bots can pass through them and the program can find a pathway.
I do not think that the lack of spaces between the huts will "prevent" all bots from walking to the water. I meant that where this bot is located relative to the water might be south of the huts. The red circle is showing the area that the program will search for the nearest water to find the shortest path, and that area includes about 100 huts. The program would calculate the lengths of the paths including those through the huts, but since the only paths through them are moving east-west between the rows (rather than moving north through non-existent gaps between huts), the amount of time to calculate all of those times for thousands of combinations of pairs of the 100 huts is so large that this bot doesn't move. If there were gaps, the program would find paths using them in a shorter amount of time and then could find the shortest path and thus the "nearest" water. The other bot that you mentioned no doubt has nearby water that is not reached by a path through the blockade of huts, and that long calculation and comparison of times would not be as great.
Спасибо!
Thank you for your enthusiasm, feedback and suggestions (and kind offer).
You might be pleased to hear that we have already implemented some of these (for example, the 'shared' storage has been taken out) and pretty much everything else is planned.
We hope to be sharing more news very soon.
All the best
Gary and Aaron
Those certainly were a large number of ideas. I hope that you put most of them on the 2019 list of programming tasks rather than the 2018 list of tasks. It's been over 4 months since the last update and I'm sure that most fans of Autonauts don't want additional delays. I recall that you said that your progress reports would appear on some other site. Would you please provide a specific link to the other site's post so that we can find them without a lot of searching. Thank you.
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?
In the latest released version 21.2, I have several Bots set up such as those shown below for my "Fishing" group. I have one Bot named "GoFish" (wearing a Party Hat) that waits "until Salmon Storage not full" and then will "Shout GoFish".
I have one Bot named "StopFish" (wearing a Guy Fawkes Hat) that waits "until Salmon Storage full" and then will "Shout StopFish".
I have seven Bots named such as "Fish1" that wait "until hear GoFish" and then will "Repeat until hear StopFish" the two steps "Find nearest Deep Sea Water" and "Use held item" (which is the fishing rod).
I have three Bots named such as "Fish>Stor1" that move the Salmon to the Salmon Storage.
I have two Bots (wearing Traffic Cone Hats) that rewind the other Bots.
Is it possible in the new version that new Bots such as "GoFish" and "StopFish" that never hold objects and never move might only need a "head" part?
Thank you for your information and for all of the great work you have done with Autonauts!
Thank you for this information. Can you list the "different abilities" for each body part for us? If each bot needs a head, a body and a drive, does that mean that different types of heads have different abilities, and likewise different types of bodies and different types of drives similarly have different abilities? I can imagine that perhaps some Bots have big heads with more memory than Bots with small heads, and perhaps bigger bodies can hold more than smaller bodies, and perhaps big legs are faster than small legs. Is that what you meant? Or did you mean something else? Perhaps like the current version has "Crude Bots" that can carry more than "Basic Bots", and "Steam Bots" can carry more than "Crude Bots"?
