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Elite:
I'm using version 2.37.6 - the recomended version at the FTP

BTW Endy - I have a body checker for extra energy in there - it's near the end

OK - If it qualifies I'll enter it as it is and improve it (ie. v3.0) if it gets beaten

This little bot can do alot of damage for an MB, with some of the new coding MBs needn't be weak anymore. I managed to mod Animal Minimalis to catch a veggie like symbioticus in minutes (although it wasn't very good). It should open up all sorts of interesting possibilities.
There's alot of fun things that you can do with a 'battery'.

PurpleYouko:
I have been meaning to make a bot-veggie version of "Inchworm"
Just haven't had the time to get around to it.

I could make both the bot and the veggie reproduce at the same time, then instantly recombine to make another Inchworm paralel to the first.

All fixpos commands and the like, can be controlled through the tie by the bot part of the MB.

What I would really like to make is a giant ring with multiple veggies in the center. Maybe a version of "Devincio Hexagonis". Motility becomes a major issue though. Perhaps it could just be defensive or maybe a lure hunter (when we get bio-luminescence working) like a jelly fish. Low overhead costs and most of the energy taken from the veggies.

Elite:
A batterybot doesn't strictly need to feed
My symbioticus only attcks to wipe out the competition (and because it can). Any attackers that get a shot off at it end up on the wrong side of an exceedingly powerful counter-attack

The veggie on the end actually repros and forms (unfixed) 'colonies' like a normal Alga Minimalis - you can see them drop off the end of the symbioticusses in sims when symbioticus starts culling the other vegs and lowers the veg population.

When Symbioticus repros the baby just flies off at the nearest veg (that isn't part of another symbioticus) and ties.

It repros once in a blue moon though - good at keeping mutations down.

A batterybot Inchworm would be good - is this the beginning of a whole new catagory of bots?

Old Henk:
I reckon a well-programmed bot using vegs as batteries would indeed be a major improvement over current bots, because it would essentially have an indefinite  energysource on-board.  ^_^  :idea:

PurpleYouko:

--- Quote ---A batterybot doesn't strictly need to feed
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That would depend largely on it's activity level.


--- Quote ---A batterybot Inchworm would be good - is this the beginning of a whole new catagory of bots?
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Not really. Battery bots as a concept, has been around for quite some time.
If you check some of the archives you will see that I have posted a number of different battery bots over the last few years. None of them have ever been really that great though since the standard alga feed rate has never been high enough to keep a good MB powered up without extra food supplies

I don't think it has been tried recently though. Some of the changes made for 2.36 may have made it a more viable concept. Very interesting field for development.

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