Cleaning Bots

[hector212121]

In the early stages of my colony, I never have enough time to deal with dirt, blood, etc. A natural counter to this would be to have robots to do it! Maybe they could require parts from a machining bench--I can accept that! Even if it took 500 work to build the bots, it'd make my guys much happier and free them up for other things.

[Dran]

That is something that should be very expensive and shouldn't be an early game thing. I mean why not a mining bot? or a farming bot? Because in the early days of a colony you have to struggle. I'd say only have this very late into the game and something you can not build but you have to buy from a trader for like 20,000 Silver. I personally am not in favor of this idea when I have trouble cleaning I take newly recruit members and make them earn their worth by cleaning and hauling.

Also a polite request. Since you seem to be brimming with ideas that tend to be very short could you put them in the your cheapest ideas thread or just make a combined thread of all your ideas. That way we don't have 20 threads of your ideas.

[Mathenaut]

This isn't really a slippery slope. Mining and farming are far more complex and labor-intensive tasks than sweeping.

Though, given what would go into such a thing, you may be better off just getting an  prisoner/slave/colonist and setting them to just clean and haul.

[hector212121]

Well, I have no idea how easy any of  these are to program. The spine/body thing I put in there, i figured would be simply because they already have bionics. Some of these would require behaviors, which has been stated to not be a cheap thing. Maybe a combined thread, though...

Also, the problem with 'just' getting someone to do stuff is that another person is another mouth to feed.

As for the mining/farming bots, those would be more complex than a simple cleaning bot. We already have, for instance, the Roomba, which costs less than a smartphone...

[REMworlder]

Mining and farming are far more complex and labor-intensive tasks than sweeping.

My colony totally isn't covered in vomit from my 4 chemical-loving colonists and poorly-cooked meals. And where'd all that raider blood come from?

[Kagemusha12]

You have cleaning bots ... they are called Colonists

[BetaSpectre]

Roomba's exist IRL.
They aren't expensive.

Mining bots should be crazy complex. Farming bots should be sorta expensive. (Tractors pls)

[Zipko]

You want bots? Use mechanical defense 2 , it has droids , and particularly, logistics droid , that hauls and cleans. They require a bit of research and some crafting though.

If you want just cleaning robot, then go with Clutter mod. It has Trashbin (auto), and it comes with short range roomba-like bot. It doesn`t require any research, but it costs 200 steel, and you need one in every room.

[hector212121]

This is stuff that could be core, though.

Let's say 100 steel for a Charging Station, and another 100 per Cleaner. 400 for Farmbots, and 2000 for Miners.

[Kegereneku]

I would totally repurpose a Mechanoid to clean things.
Just make it a rather high-level research and require some task to build one (if not a structure)

[Joshuasca]

Sounds like a good way to use an ai core.  I don't want to build a ship unless it lets me start a new game with the colonists i put on it.

[Birdie]

You're telling me you want to shove an ancient, murderous, psychic AI into a roomba and tell it to go clean?
I can get behind this.

[hector212121]

Why would we use AI cores for that? Much easier to just program AS's.... Artifical Stupidities. You really don't need much intelligence for a cleaning 'bot

[ja7833]

Roomba's exist IRL.
They aren't expensive.

+1 to cleaner bots; however only if colonist still have to clean the cleaner bots

[hector212121]

You just need 2  one can clean the other