What Are Bots For?

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So I keep contemplating the question of what the original purpose for every bot was, here’s a chart that I made:

Haybot in wilderness? Nope, it’s a HAYbot-there aren’t even any barns that store hay! There isn’t even a hay block!

Totebot in wilderness? I have no idea! What is a Totebot even for!? Security?

Red Totebots? What is the use of a robot with explosives on it’s head? Mining?

Tapebot in warehouse? Nope! The warehouses store food, appliances and parts! There is nothing that Tapebots could tape before they went haywire!

Farmbot in water treatment plant? Nope! In a city of scrap (Scrap City)? Nope! Wilderness? Nope!

Trash Bot on top of warehouse? Is it some sort of cleaner or something?

Please tell me the use of these bots before they went crazy!

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Anyone?

[AlexTECPlayz]

Originally posted by JustAWarper:

So I keep contemplating the question of what the original purpose for every bot was, here’s a chart that I made:

Haybot in wilderness? Nope, it’s a HAYbot-there aren’t even any barns that store hay! There isn’t even a hay block!

Totebot in wilderness? I have no idea! What is a Totebot even for!? Security?

Red Totebots? What is the use of a robot with explosives on it’s head? Mining?

Tapebot in warehouse? Nope! The warehouses store food, appliances and parts! There is nothing that Tapebots could tape before they went haywire!

Farmbot in water treatment plant? Nope! In a city of scrap (Scrap City)? Nope! Wilderness? Nope!

Trash Bot on top of warehouse? Is it some sort of cleaner or something?

Please tell me the use of these bots before they went crazy!

1. Haybot - CLEARLY used to harvest and tie Hay, which is seen as ballots in the game, even though there's no Hay Block.
2. Totebot - Most likely for security purposes, from making alert sounds to chasing animals that want to steal the hay.
3. Explosive Totebot - Most likely an explosive transporter, with the SM concepts showing more than 1 of these on their heads.
4. Tapebot - Uses tape to tape boxes, the cardboard boxes that can be found in the Creative menu are taped.
5. Farmbot - Again, used for harvesting crops, especially Hay, but we all know the bots went hay[/]wire, they developed somehow a mind of their own and have free reign over where they want to go.
6. Trash Bot/whatever its name will be - Yes, used to dump expired fruit and vegetables or just trash in general.

It's all pretty darn self-explanatory to be honest.

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THANK YOU! I just needed to have someone else explain!

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I'm planning of suggesting a 'Wocbot' that has a lead, a sunshake logo branding iron, a whip, a hand, and 2 strong legs to chase Wocs.

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WAIT

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The Totebot Obviously Has A Snapped Wire On It's Head Right?

[Illumina♥]

The wire of Totebot probably been damaged by themselves, would act as taser wire to scare wocs but became more dangerous since wire is exposed. The red Totebot has wire for transporting purposes (plates of fruits or veggies or even crates) that can extend up and down for multiple things. Blue and Yellow are unknown for now but blue was probably made for planting purposes. The yellow would probably alert others in case of danger, it seen to have mic for talking purposes.

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thanks!

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a simpler way of putting it, they were for farming. now that they try to kill you on sight, it probobly means that they went hay-wire (old joke) and that explains why they're scattered in fields and random spots.

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there are only 2 types of totebot...

[Emerald Engineer]

My theory on tote bots is they were used as herding dogs to protect cattle and then the robots went rouge.

[DC-GS]

Originally posted by JustAWarper:

there are only 2 types of totebot...

Right now only 1, the second was announced in devblog.

There are 4 different Totebot heads in creative. So there will be 4 totebots in total. Probably.

[YetiChow]

The totebots are probably transport drones originally -- "tote" means to carry (and is also the name of a style of bags or bozes used for carrying items more easily); their "all-terrain" legs kinda back up that intended use.

Haybots have a clear purpose; and there are hay fields as well as the hay piles within buildings. I imagine that they'll eventually become more constrained to certain biomes where hay/farming is more common, and be joined with other kinds of bots.

At the moment, the bots exist just to add some "life" and challenge to the ruins and different areas. The Farmbots were the "boss monster" up until the Scrapbot gets implemented for the Junkyard Biome (its current placement on top of factories is just a placeholder), hence their use as guards for the big locations -- they'll presumably get replaced with more appropriate enemies when that becomes the priority.

The thing to understand about Early Access is that it's about testing systems, not making the whole game "one step at a time." Once the devs have a couple of working enemies, they can use them to test out a bunch of features; they don't need to build every single robot at the start before they can start testing enemy spawns and that saves a LOT of time. Now, the artists can work on new enemies while the coding team work on new features and logic for enemies to use; and they can use the existing few enemies to test a bunch of that stuff while the artists are still designing the assets for those future bot types.

Once the game has its full story figured out, all the enemies are made, all the biomes are made, etc. I'm sure that everything will make a lot more sense. Right now, we're staring at a jigsaw that only has a few pieces in place; the more pieces that snap in the better we'll be able to see the bigger picture.

[WittkopDotz]

the totebot was made for taking care of wocs, the haybots to probably stoe titems in what today is a ruin also hay there that the farmbots gather from those fields, the tapebots uses their tape to package with tape stuff, the garbage bot i think was ment to use those LARGE doors to come down and clean stuff, and then gather them up, and the red totebots..... idk mining, or ground clearing (deleting trees and cube rocks) for building structures

[castod595]

i thought that tote bots, since they have legs similar to the farm bot, were used to carry hay and other items, wrapping their cable around the cargo.