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Skylimit:
Are there any bots eating the corpses?

Numsgil:
That's a rather involved question for something so ambiguously worded

First, you have to have corpse mode enabled for bots to leave corpses.  This is in the general tab in the options form, IIRC.

Second, bots have to use shots to feed from corpses.  -1 shots (which animal minimalis uses) can get nrg from a corpse, but it's hard, hard work and takes a long time.  The more effective strategy is to use -6 shots, which pull nrg primarily from body instead of nrg (dead bots have no nrg but a lot of body).

So any bot which uses shots can feed from corpses.  Any bot that uses -6 shots can feed from corpses effectively.  There are plenty of both types in the bestiary, if you want to look around.  Search the DNA for .shoot store and look at the number before it.  If it's -1, then it's not an effective corpse feeder.  If it's -6, then it is.

Skylimit:
So briefly put : yes, there are some (fabricated) bots out there that eat corpses

or : yes it is possible that a bot evolves into a corpse eater

What I'm basically trying to do is to build biodiversity, meaning, I see 1 species taking complete control of the screen, while I am looking for some kind of ecosystemlike environment where species depend on eachother.

If you put corpse mode on, one species that will be floating around are corpses, so if then we have corpse eaters, then we could have other species eating the corpse eaters, and so on, hence my question  

Numsgil:
Yes, it's possible to both evolve -6 shots and to find prefabricated bots that use it.  However, -6 shots are also effective against living bots, so I don't know that it's going to help creating an ecosystem.

Skylimit:
It seems that evy2 and evy4 have completely whiped out seasnake 1.31 in my space  

it is an evolved creature .... just can't remember what it evolved from

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