Guide to Robotics

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Robotics and the Mech Bay

For the aspiring Roboticist, this guide will explain the creation and maintenance of Cyborg, Bots, and Exosuits.

Robotics Equipment

Machines

Exosuit Fabricator

The Exosuit Fabricator is your main construction machine, you feed materials into it, and it builds all the things you could need. It can make prosthetic limbs, cyborg parts and internal components, exosuit parts, exosuit equipment modules, and a variety of useful miscellaneous items like power cells. It has a vast variety of blueprints available to start, but certain advanced things must be unlocked by raising your research levels. These will be explained later.

It can be upgraded with stock parts.

  • Upgrading the Laser will increase material efficiency, reducing the number of materials you require to build things.
  • Upgrading the Manipulators will increase speed efficiency, reducing the time required to build various parts.
  • Upgrading the Matter Bins will allow it to store more materials.

Circuit Imprinter

The Circuit Imprinter is where you print all the circuits you need for exosuits or Robotics related machinery, you feed sulphuric acid into it, along with glass. It cannot create upgrade boards for cyborgs, it can create all legal boards related to the AI though. Like the Exosuit Fabricator, many of these advanced borgs must first be unlocked.

It can be upgraded with stock parts.

  • Upgrading the Matter Bins will allow it to store more materials.
  • Upgrading the Manipulators will increase material efficiency, reducing the number of materials you require to build things.

Autolathe

You don't start with one of those, but they are very useful both for you and for the scientists in RnD next door. It can make the various parts you need for bots, tools in case you need spares and much more. You have access to tech storage, so it's usually a good idea to go there, get the circuit board and set one up in an area both you and the scientists can reach. To get the stock parts, just deconstruct one of your exosuit fabbers, then use the Autolathe to print more stock parts and rebuild the fabber.

Protolathe

Another very handy machine you don't start with. Once you have an Autolathe, simply print a Protolathe circuit board on the Circuit Imprinter, add stock parts from the Autolathe and you're done. Place it close to your R&D Console, then simply link the devices in the R&D Console's device linkage menu.

Cyborgs

See also Cyborgification Contracts. These contracts are important - without a signed contract making a man into a machine is technically murder - no matter how much they want 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 if more than one exists.

It is generally a good idea to have one or two empty cyborg bodies built and ready for people that want to become cyborgs and to let dead players rejoin the round as borgs. Make sure you have a positronic or robotic brain lying around (robotic brains can be made in the medical section of the mech fabricator with sufficient research levels) and keep activating it from time to time. If a player's positronic or robotic brain is "dead" (completely inactive), use it in hand to reboot it.

Making a Cyborg

Extracting a Brain

Note: Remember to label body bags as being cyborgified, it will clear up bookkeeping problems regarding the addition of a new cadaver in the morgue.

Spiderbot

Spiderbots are temporary bodies for brains.

Cyborg Maintenance

You'll often have Cyborgs run up to you with any number of problems. Here's how to deal with them most of the time.

Repair

When Cyborgs get dented, they'll come to you for repairs. Luckily, most repairs are simple

Cyborg Component Repair

Sometimes robots will have damaged components that need to be removed and replaced. Removing them is pretty straightforward.

Human Prosthetic Repair

You may be asked to repair damage to the artificial limbs of your fellow crew members.

Upgrading the Power Cell

Cyborgs that start when the game starts will likely come straight to you for an upgrade in the first few minutes of the game.

Upgrade Modules

Not only can you build and repair Cyborgs, but they also come to you to get upgrades installed once RnD has them researched. These have their category in the exosuit fabricator.

Modifications and Deconstruction

Cyborgs that have had their programming tampered with can be repaired by resetting their AI connection and LawSync status, by manually pulsing the wiring.

Bots

As a Roboticist, you serve another important purpose, making NPC Bots. Bots can benefit the station in many ways and are easy to create. There are two ways to craft these bots. The first being through using the crafting menu, which requires you to have all of the materials present near you or in your possession. Using this will completely build the bot, but will always create a default version of that bot. The other method is manual assembly, the process to do so is listed below. This method allows you to name the bot with a pen during the assembly process and lets you create bots of different colour depending on the colour of the toolbox/health kit used. The current list of bots, and how to make them, are as follows:

Medibot

These will only inject chemicals if the chemical helps with the target's damage by default.

Cleanbot

Cleanbots are great, as they serve the exact same purpose as the Janitor.

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.

I AM THE LAW Securitron

Basically, Officer Beepsky without the personality.

ED-209

Beepsky's bigger brother.

General Griefsky

A Securitron with 4 energy swords.

Honkbot

It's annoying and useless, but the clown might bug you to make one of this in the absence of a H.O.N.K. mech. God forbid if a traitor emags the thing.

pAI-Controlled Bots
The NPC bot not doing it enough for you, not enough personality? You can now place pAIs into bots, excluding the Security designs, to wander around and assist! Take your wanted bot and simply click on it with an active pAI, you now have a pAI Bot.

  • pAI Bots still spout automated messages if they weren't turned off.
  • Emagging a pAI Bot causes the pAI to be ejected out.

IPC Surgery

There are are also several procedures that can be performed on IPCs. IPCs don't feel pain and can't get infections, so don't worry about administering anaesthetics or washing your hands. If RnD has the tech for it, bug them for a Nanopaste, or if you have a Protolathe yourself, make one. Remember that IPC brains are in their chest, not their head.

Internal Cybernetic Manipulation

Mending, removal, and insertion of posibrains, microbatteries, optical sensors, and implants.

Shadowling Dethrall (Synthethics)

Turning a thralled IPC back into a normal crewmember

Implant Removal (Synthethics)

Removing implants from the body. Also removal of things from body cavities.

Robotic Limb Repair

Fixing mechanical arms, legs, hands and feet. Also performs facial reconstruction if aiming for head.

Robotic Limb Amputation

"173. IPC interns are not to be punished for incompetence by having their "limb privileges" revoked." - Things Comms Officer Jenkins is Not Allowed To Do in CentCom

IRCs

Robotics can make player-controlled assistants called Integrated Robotic Chassis or IRCs. IRCs are functionally the same as an IPC but with one key difference in that IRCs are bound to serve the one who imprinted onto their Robotic brain and is expected to follow whatever orders they are given.

IRC Construction

  1. First make the "Integrated Robotic Chassis" on the "Misc" screen in the Exosuit Fabricator. It will then make the torso of the IRC. Drag the torso over to the surgery table and lay it down there.
  2. Build the IPC Head, Microbattery, Charger, Optical Sensor, and Microphone as well as a cyborg right arm, left arm, right leg, and left leg.
  3. Once all of these pieces are done, attach the head and limbs to the torso by picking it up and then clicking on the torso with the corresponding body part targeted. (So if cyborg right arm, target the right arm on the ).
  4. Do IPC Internal Cybernetic Manipulation surgery on the upper body and install the IPC Microbattery and Robotic Brain there.
  5. Do IPC Internal Cybernetic Manipulation surgery on the head and install the IPC Optical Sensor and IPC Microphone there.
  6. Do IPC Internal Cybernetic Manipulation surgery on either arm and install the IPC Charger there.

Once all of these steps have been completed you will have a fully functional IRC assistant ready to go.

Exosuits

Construction of exosuits are restricted by ID, so they are typically the product of roboticists and the Research Director. These can be tremendously helpful or tremendously annoying depending on who uses it. They take more work to make than robots and require special circuits, which are obtained through the Quartermaster or the Research and Development console.

Make sure you have the required materials to finish an exosuit before you begin construction. The amount of raw material required for each mech can be found in the following table, assuming an unupgraded exosuit fabricator. For each level of laser part (micro-laser -> high-power micro-laser -> ultra-high-power micro-laser -> quad-ultra micro-laser) multiply the total material amounts by (1 -> 0.85 -> 0.7 -> 0.55).

Exosuit name Metal Glass Silver Titanium Diamond Uranium Plasma Bananium Tranquilite
Ripley/Firefighter APLU 100,000 7,500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Odysseus 65,000 10,000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gygax 125,000 15,000 0 10,000 20,000 0 0 0 0
Durand 140,000 25,000 28,000 20,000 0 25,000 0 0 0
Phazon 175,000 15,000 0 20,000 0 0 90,000 0 0
HONK MECH 120,000 15,000 0 0 0 0 0 35,000 0
Reticence 120,000 15,000 0 0 0 0 0 0 35,000

Exosuit Construction

Ripley APLU

The Ripley APLU (Autonomous Power Loading Unit) is a slow moving, decently protected exosuit.

Firefighter APLU

The Firefighter APLU (Autonomous Power Loading Unit) is a slow-moving, decently protected exosuit with extra fire resistance.

Odysseus

This mech can save multiple crewmembers while on the run.

Gygax

Rather fast security exosuit with good overall protection.

Durand

A Durand is more powerful than Gygax, it has more health and better armoured, but slower.

Phazon

Phazons are the most advanced mechs on the market. While it doesn't have as much health as the Gygax or Durand, it allows users to move through solid objects at a very high speed.

HONK MECH

Bring the HONK power of the HONKmother to the crew! HONK! Cry when you are arrested for making this.

Reticence

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Exosuit Maintenance

Replacing Batteries

Repair

Removal of Jammed User

Critical Damage

Exosuit Equipment

Various tools and weapons can be attached to Exosuits, providing them with the ability to perform different tasks. Exosuit Equipment is built by Exosuit Fabricator ("Exosuit Equipment" menu). To attach a tool or weapon, simply click with it on an Exosuit. Exosuits have limited equipment space depending on their type.

Exosuit Equipment comes in several categories:

  • General: Can be attached to any exosuit.
  • Medical: Can only be attached to the Odysseus.
  • Industrial: Can only be attached to APLUs.
  • Combat: Can only be attached to Durand, Gygax, Marauder, Phazon, and other combat mechs.
  • Special: Special equipment reserved for the H.O.N.K or Reticence mechs.
Icon Name Description Required Tech Levels Required Materials
Exosuit Module (Tesla Energy Relay) A tesla energy relay system that passively recharges a mech using power from nearby APCs. 4 EM Spectrum
3 Power Storage
10000 Metal
2000 Glass
2000 Gold
3000 Silver
Exosuit Equipment (Plasma Generator) An exosuit module that generates power using solid plasma as fuel. Pollutes the environment. None
10000 Metal
1000 Glass
2000 Silver
5000 Plasma
Exosuit Module (ExoNuclear Reactor) A compact nuclear reactor that efficiently turns uranium sheets into electricity. Irradiates everything in an around the mech, including the pilot. 3 Power Storage
3 Engineering
3 Materials
10000 Metal
1000 Glass
500 Silver
Exosuit Module (Repair Droid Module) An automated Repair Droid. Consumes power to repair your mech. 3 EM Spectrum
3 Data Theory
3 Engineering
10000 Metal
5000 Glass
1000 Gold
2000 Silver
Exosuit Module (Reactive Armor Booster Module) An exosuit-mounted armor booster that decreases melee damage taken. 5 Materials
4 Combat
20000 Metal
5000 Silver
Exosuit Module (Reflective Armor Booster Module) An exosuit-mounted armor booster that decreases damage taken from ranged weapons. 5 Materials
5 Combat
3 Engineering
20000 Metal
5000 Gold
File:Mecha wormhole.png Exosuit Module (Localized Wormhole Generator) An exosuit module that allows generating of small unstable wormholes. These wormholes, when entered, will teleport an object to a random point on the station. Enables quick escape from hazardous situations, but may fling you into space, or worse. 3 Bluespace
2 EM Spectrum
10000 Metal
Exosuit Module (Gravitational Catapult Module) An exosuit mounted gravity catapult. Can be used to fling objects and people around. Has two modes, S and P. S mode will select an object, then fling it towards a point. P mode will push all nearby objects away from a point. 2 Bluespace
3 EM Spectrum
3 Engineering
10000 Metal
Icon Name Description Required Tech Levels Required Materials
Exosuit Engineering Equipment (Extinguisher) Equipment for engineering exosuits. A rapid-firing high capacity fire extinguisher. None
10000 Metal
Exosuit Engineering Equipment (Cable Layer) Equipment for engineering exosuits. Lays cable along the exosuit's path. None
10000 Metal
Exosuit Engineering Equipment (Hydraulic Clamp) Equipment for engineering exosuits. Lifts objects and loads them into cargo. Essential for mining mecha. None
10000 Metal
Exosuit Engineering Equipment (Drill) Equipment for engineering and combat exosuits. This is the drill that'll pierce the heavens! Essential for mining mecha. None
10000 Metal
Exosuit Module (Diamond Mining Drill) An upgraded version of the standard drill. Capable of piercing Reinforced Walls. 4 Materials
3 Engineering
10000 Metal
6500 Diamond
Exosuit Engineering Equipment (Mining Scanner) Equipment for engineering and combat exosuits. It will automatically check surrounding rock for useful minerals. Essential for mining mecha. None
5000 Metal
2500 Glass
Exosuit Module (RCD Module) An exosuit-mounted Rapid Construction Device. 4 Materials
3 Bluespace
4 EM Spectrum
4 Power Storage
4 Engineering
30000 Metal
20000 Gold
25000 Plasma
20000 Silver
Exosuit Module Design (217-D Heavy Plasma Cutter) A device that shoots resonant plasma bursts at extreme velocity. The blasts are capable of crushing rock and demolishing solid obstacles. Useful for mining mecha. 5 Materials
4 Engineering
4 Plasma
10000 Metal
2000 Glass
6000 Plamsa
Icon Name Description Required Tech Levels Required Materials
Exosuit Medical Equipment (Mounted Sleeper) A mounted sleeper that stabilizes patients and can inject reagents in the exosuit's reserves. 3 Engineering
2 Plasma
3 Biotech
5000 Metal
10000 Glass
Exosuit Medical Equipment (Syringe Gun) A chem synthesizer, scanner, and syringe gun all in one! Reagents inside are held in stasis, so no reactions will occur. Must be equipped to scan reagents for the Mounted Sleeper. Has two modes. S will scan reagents from nearby containers. F will "throw" syringes loaded with whatever mixture the internal chemical reserve contains at a target. 4 Materials
4 Biotech
3 Combat
4 EM Spectrum
3000 Metal
2000 Glass
Exosuit Medical Equipment (Rescue Jaw) Emergency rescue jaws, designed to help first responders reach their patients. Opens doors and removes obstacles. 4 Materials
6 Engineering
6 EM Spectrum
5000 Metal
2000 Silver
1500 Titanium
Icon Name Description Required Tech Levels Required Materials
Exosuit Weapon (ZFI Immolation Beam Gun) A weapon for combat exosuits. Fires beams of extreme heat that set targets on fire. 5 Materials
6 Combat
5 EM Spectrum
10000 Metal
8000 Silver
8000 Plasma
Exosuit Weapon (CH-PL "Firedart" laser) A light laser cannon that fires quickly and consumes little power, but does less damage than the Solaris. 3 Engineering
3 Combat
3 EM Spectrum
10000 Metal
Exosuit Weapon (CH-LC "Solaris" Laser Cannon) A heavy laser cannon that deals a large amount of damage at the cost of slow fire rate and high power consumption. Excellent against Blobs. 4 Engineering
4 Combat
4 EM Spectrum
10000 Metal
Exosuit Weapon (MKIV Ion Heavy Cannon) A mech-mounted weapon that fires a projectile identical to the Ion Rifle. Slow fire rate. 6 Combat
5 EM Spectrum
5 Materials
20000 Metal
6000 Silver
2000 Uranium
Exosuit Weapon (P-X Tesla Cannon) A weapon for combat exosuits. Fires bolts of electricity similar to the experimental tesla engine. 5 Materials
6 Combat
5 EM Spectrum
20000 Metal
8000 Silver
Exosuit Weapon (CH-PD Disabler) A heavy mech-mounted disabler weapon. Fires two disabler bolts per shot. Highly effective. 3 Combat
10000 Metal
Exosuit Weapon (PBT "Pacifier" Mounted Taser) A mech mounted taser for stopping criminals dead in their tracks. Slow fire rate, poor range. Generally outclassed by the CH-PD Disabler. 3 Combat
10000 Metal
Exosuit Weapon (LBX AC 10 "Scattershot") A mech-mounted shotgun. This weapon fires four projectiles in a spread, which also deal stamina damage. Very effective against creatures that take stamina damage, but poor against those that do not. 4 Combat
10000 Metal
Exosuit Weapon ("Ultra AC 2" LMG) A mech mounted light machine gun. Fires in three-shot bursts. 4 Combat
10000 Metal
Exosuit Weapon (SRM-8 Missile Rack) A mech-mounted missle rack capable of firing eight rockets before reloading. These rockets have a small blast radius, and usually will not penetrate hull. 6 Combat
6 Materials
22000 Metal
6000 Gold
8000 Silver
Exosuit Weapon (SGL-6 Flashbang Launcher) A rotary-cylinder flashbang launcher, capable of firing six flashbangs before reloading. Annoying and debilitating on the scale of a HONK mech if used without discretion. 3 Combat
22000 Metal
6000 Gold
8000 Silver
Exosuit Weapon Design (PCMK-6 Bola Launcher) A mech mounted bola launcher useful for slowing criminals down. Effective at keeping criminals from otherwise easily outrunning your mech. 3 Comabt
10000 Metal
Icon Name Description Required Tech Levels Required Materials
H.O.N.K Banana Mortar A specialized exosuit banana mortar used for delivering bananas where needed. None
20000 Metal
5000 Bananium
H.O.N.K Mousetrap Mortar Fairly tame for the H.O.N.K, this weapon fires primed mousetraps. None
20000 Metal
5000 Bananium
HoNkER BlAsT 5000 A massive air horn capable of causing deafness, weakness, and stunning to those nearrby. None
20000 Metal
10000 Bananium
Exosuit Module (Mime RCD Module) Used for quick and silent construction. None
30000 Metal
10000 Tranquillite
S.H.H "Quietus" Carbine A completely silent carbine that can be fitted onto a mech. Fires non-lethal stun rounds that drain the power of H.O.N.K mechs. None
20000 Metal
10000 Tranquillite