User:Teyren
Going to set a personal guide for Synthetics and Robotics upon this page.
- pAIs may become bots excluding Sec type.
- Current meta reminder
- c+p .png of mech equipment and set up item lists.
- nanomachines can save countless metal stacks and can increase onboard Synthetics 10-fold as many don't do cyborgification due to the inconvenience. Have the RD upgrade the microwaves before doing this. Don't lose the bloody pills or mislabel them or bwoink death. Label them Nanomachines (u) (KILLS YOU DEAD) so there's no misunderstanding.
- Nanomachines can affect brains, destroying them, posibraining them, or keeping them intact (?). This is unconfirmed and needs to be tested through cyborg dismantling.
For the aspiring Roboticist, this guide will explain the creation and maintenance of Cyborg, Bots, and Mechs.
Cyborgs
See also Cyborgification Contracts. These contracts are important - without a signed, stamped contract, making a man into a machine is technically murder - no matter how much he wants it!
The Cyborg is the Roboticist's primary creation and upkeep. They are tasked with helping the station's inhabitants in their daily life and trying to kill everyone when the AI is insane. Each cyborg is required to follow the AI's laws, and may choose one of the AIs in the event that more than one exists.
pAI Bots
As a Roboticist, you may create a player-controlled bot by placing an pAI into these bots:
Medibot
These will only inject chemicals if the chemical helps with the target's damage by default. Note that these don't synthesize their own chemicals, except inaprovaline.
Cleanbot
Cleanbots are great, as they serve the exact same purpose as the Janitor, cleaning up messes like dirt, blood and vomit. Quite useful during the station's inevitable decline into violent chaos, as many of these can clean even the biggest mess. Even better is that it uses Space Cleaner to mop, so no slipping on everything!
Floorbot
Floorbots are nice to have around when some asshole starts crowbarring up floor tiles or some traitor has blown apart a section of the station. They zoom around and repair busted floor tiles.
Keep in mind that Floorbots have a limited number of floor tiles. This number can be observed by popping up their control panel.
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Roboticist
Superiors: Research Director
Difficulty: Medium
Guides: Guide to Robotics
Access: Robotics, Technical Storage, Morgue, Research Division, Maintenance
Duties: Create and maintain a cybernetic and robotic army and build impressive mech suits.
Primarily, the Roboticist's job is to make cyborg bodies, and generally maintain activated cyborgs. Secondarily, roboticists create helpful robots like Medibots and Floorbots. A skilled set of roboticists can even build a powerful set of mech suits, primarily useful for miners, but sometimes useful for security or medical personnel as well.
The Assembly Line
Robotics is your home as a Roboticist. It contains the Exosuit Fabricators for the creation of any robotic component you require, a few cyborg recharge stations, a few mech suit recharge stations, a chest with multiple sheets of metal, power cells, and a coil of wire, and scattered tables with a multitool, tool boxes, a few flashes, a crowbar, a proximity sensor, more scattered high capacity power cells, and a cell charger.
For Standard Operating Procedure for this role and other science roles, please see Standard Operating Procedure (Science).
THIS HAND OF MINE GLOWS WITH AN AWESOME POWER
You are going to be building some of the most powerful things on the station. There are a few things you should do once you spawn in your nice and clean Robotics office.
First, before you do anything else, run out of your office and go straight into Tech Storage. Tech Storage is full of things you are going to want to use, and you're going to want to try to grab:
- Both batteries.
- The multitool.
- One coil of wire.
- Both flashes.
- The insulated gloves.
It may be a good idea to stop by Primary Tool Storage as well, for the the batteries, the metal, the glass, the proximity sensor and the tool belt. It's usually the first area hit by your rival civilians though, so don't hold your breath.
Return to your den and meet the cyborg, replace its battery for it, and kick it out. It's keeping you from important work.
Now, it's time to start building robots. The first thing you are going to want to build is a cyborg, perhaps two. Fill the Exosuit Fabricators with metal and get them working. Outside of your office, by now you may have 1-2 assistants who want you to 'borg 'em. Oblige, this is what you are here to do after all. Take out their brains after you order Cyborg parts from the cargo department, which you can do with the Requests Console conveniently placed behind the Circuit Fabricator. Once they have been 'borged, it's time to make your first mech.
Assemble your Ripley while you are waiting for the boards, and hopefully by the time they arrive the whole station hasn't gone to shit.
Preparedness is next to Godliness
Build another cyborg. Try to keep at least 1 cyborg body on standby for the inevitable train of corpses that will be coming through your door. Now you can build the fun mechs, assuming Science has been doing their part. If not, keep busy by stealing a bucket from Hydroponics, or making tons of medical droids.
Synchronize up your R&D console to process any new semi-useful designs researched by your useless colleagues, set your Exosuit Fabricators to auto-sync, and get building. Feed the Circuit Fabricator the acid sitting on it. Make sure that mining has brought you the metals you need. You will have a love-hate relationship with the science division. On the one hand they will be inventing fun toys for you, on the other they are taking all that wonderful silver from you that could be going to making a Durand. Once you do get enough ores though, it's smooth sailing. Remember your Mechs are going to be the only thing that can fight some of the powerful things that end up attacking the station, so everyone is counting on you.
Other Tips
- Keep your metal organized, and understand how much each machine will take. (You will always need more metal.)
- Glass and flashes are important for your robotics work, as are various devices, security equipment and rare minerals. Don't waste them.
- Have a plan before you start building anything huge, like a mech suit. (Without the circuitry, they are useless.)
- Make sure to perform maintenance and power cell upgrades on cyborgs that come in; NanoTrasen usually doesn't load them with anything but the minimum required power cells.
- Tech Storage is your friend. It has two flashes, two power cells, and insulated gloves. Raiding tech storage can net you an extra cyborg exosuit before having to beg cargo for a robotics assembly. For bonus points, beg the CE/RD/AI to let you into secure tech storage to get a Robotics/Exosuit Control Circuitboard to control what you make, in case it decides to kill everyone.
- Ensure you have proper eye protection when you weld, or you'll become blind quickly.
- For the love of Darth Vader, unless you want people to get pissed off and break into your lab, (leading to a scuffle along with death, serious injury, and/or more death) listen for when someone calls you to your desk!
Notes
- Do
- Make cyborg bodies and install MMI's in them.
- Try to 'borg antagonists instead of the death penalty. They still fail, but are no longer a danger.
- Cut AI control when the AI is rogue.
- Make useful bots and leave them around the station.
- Make a Ripley before combat mechs, mining usually likes this (and hopefully will like you).
- Put beacons in all mechs lest they get stolen.
- Make a Cyborg and Exosuit Control Console.
- Try to make your own boards by getting acid from chemistry and getting R&D to sync the servers.
- Remember to periodically sync your own R&D console to get the most out of their research data
- Recognise that the QM might be more inclined to get you some metal/robot assemblies if you don't eat up all of their points with Ripley boards.
- Don't
- Put an MMI in a borg without making sure it isn't braindead (the MMI's can speak, you know).
- Blow all the borgs because one was emagged.
- Immediately blow all borgs in malf- instead, tell the RD to remove his console's screen, then lock the borgs and take off your console screen so the AI can't access it.
- Try to make a mech you don't have materials for, nothing is more useless than a pile Durand limbs while you beg for metal and silver.
- Go on mech rampages 'because you can'.
- Be an asshat.
- Build a mech for anyone who just comes by and asks for one.