Starbound

Starbound

Gardenbot2 : Reboot Edition
Duxtorm Mar 30, 2020 @ 9:30am
Gardenbot2 Nitpick
To start with, I do love this mod, however, my love for it falls short sometimes and I'd like to explain why.

I'm a little confused about this mod for several reasons...
I guess my first nit pick would the three types of farming bots, aside from their extra functions they kinda all do the same thing, not only do I not have a use for their extra functions, it seems like their overall efficiency would be the same... which kinda makes having 3 pointless if there's no benefit. I feel like this is also a lost opportunity to simply make upgraded versions of the bots for different stages of the game.

My second concern is that they seem to have a leveling system... whilst it's a cool concept is feels like more of a gimmick.. the reason people get this mod is (for the most part) solely because they want their garden automated so they don't have to do it, on top of that, they're robots, they're designed to do one thing and they start of not even knowing how to do it properly? It just doesn't make much sense, I'd much prefer to just be able to place one down and let it garden efficiently... instead of breaking crops.

My third concern is that the the further away a crop is from the container, the longer it takes to get progress on it done. I've got a garden that's 120 blocks in diameter and the bots seem to journey all the way up to one crop, harvest it, then turn around and go all the way back to the chest even though there were plenty more crops to harvest ahead. I feel like it would be much smarter to just have them do a full sweep of the ground they have access to, collect everything they can, THEN go back to the chest and repeat, their method of gardening seems to be really inefficient. On several occasions I've seen one bot go past a single ripe crop about 4 times before actually harvesting it.

Fourthly, it seems that the only crop they have serious trouble with is coral creep. They take ages to harvest any of them and when they break it and plant new ones, they're usually not efficiently packed together and have a lot of random spacing. I thought this might be a water issue, but they have absolutely no problem with Reefpods, so I'm not sure why they mess up so regularly with Coralcreep.