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'''Goblins''' are the first creatures you meet. They come through the [[BlockFactory:Portal of the Ancient|Portal of the Ancient]] for worked metal, study your products at the Goblin Research Center and, from Epoch 2 on, fly items between your Logistic Chests like logistic robots. Their bigger cousins, the '''Hob-Goblins''', build for you.

== Trapped Goblins ==
[[File:BlockFactory_Trap_Stone_Goblin.png|32px]] The Goblin call at the portal gives a '''Trapped Goblin''': a Goblin in a crystal trap-stone, used as a crafting ingredient (stacks up to 10). See [[BlockFactory:Portal of the Ancient|Portal of the Ancient]] for what the call takes.

{| class="wikitable"
! !! Uses a Trapped Goblin !! Count !! Notes
|-
| [[File:BlockFactory_Goblin_Research_Center.png|32px]] || Goblin Research Center || 2 || Pays Gob points, see [[BlockFactory:Research|Research]]
|-
| || SlaughterHouse || 1 || See [[BlockFactory:Hunting and Farming|Hunting and Farming]]
|-
| [[File:BlockFactory_Goblin_Cart.png|32px]] || Goblin Cart || 1 || Rail cart, see [[BlockFactory:Railways|Railways]]
|-
| [[File:BlockFactory_Goblin_Hut.png|32px]] || Goblin Hut || 2 || Part of the recipe; the working Goblins go into its slots separately
|-
| [[File:BlockFactory_Trap_Stone_Hob_Goblin.png|32px]] || Trap-Stone (Hob-Goblin) || 1 || See [[#Hob-Goblins|Hob-Goblins]]
|-
| [[File:BlockFactory_Armor_Module_Goblin_Backpack.png|32px]] || Goblin Backpack || 1 || Module of the Modular Armor, see [[BlockFactory:Weapons and Armor|Weapons and Armor]]
|}

At the Goblin Research Center two Goblin Scholars stand in front of the building while it works and wander around when it is idle. They laugh when a scroll is done, murmur when you deliver something, and sound bored when its curiosity for an item has dropped below 50 %.

== Goblin Hut ==
The '''Goblin Hut''' is the base for flying Goblins, like a roboport. What a hut does depends on what you put into its slots:
* '''Trapped Goblins''' carry items between Logistic Chests.
* '''Hob-Goblins''' build ghosts, tear down marked parts and upgrade them.
Both can live in the same hut. Open the hut to put the trap-stones in.

{| class="wikitable"
! !! [[File:BlockFactory_Goblin_Hut.png|32px]] Goblin Hut !! [[File:BlockFactory_Big_Goblin_Hut.png|32px]] Big Goblin Hut
|-
! Epoch
| 2 || 3
|-
! Unlocked by
| Goblin Logistics || Goblin Logistics 2
|-
! Size
| 4 × 4 || 5 × 5
|-
! Range (radius)
| 32 blocks || 64 blocks
|-
! Slots
| 16 || 32
|-
! Goblin speed
| 5.2 blocks/s || 7.8 blocks/s
|-
! Items per flight
| 4 || 8
|-
! Goblin stamina
| 200 blocks || 400 blocks
|-
! Hob-Goblins out at once
| up to 10 || up to 20
|-
! Hob-Goblin speed
| 3.9 blocks/s || 3.9 blocks/s
|-
! Recipe
| 2 Trapped Goblin, 20 Wood, 10 Iron Plate, 5 Electronic Circuit || 1 Goblin Hut, 20 Steel Plate, 10 Advanced Circuit
|}
Huts need no power. A hut with neither Goblins nor Hob-Goblins inside, and none of its own out flying, shows the '''No Creature''' status icon.

=== The hut network ===
Huts of the same team whose ranges touch form one network:
* Goblins and Hob-Goblins work anywhere in the range of any hut of the network, not just their own.
* A job starts at the hut where the creature's trap-stone lies. Afterwards the creature flies to the '''nearest''' hut of the network.
* '''The trap-stone flies with it.''' It leaves the hut on take-off and lies in the new hut after landing, so the next job starts there. If that hut is gone or full, a Goblin flies on to the nearest hut with room (or waits in the air if there is none); a Hob-Goblin lands in the nearest hut of its team with room.
* If you tear down a hut, its creatures that are out keep working and land elsewhere. Trap-stones still inside fall out with the hut's contents.
* A creature in the air when the world saves is back in a hut after loading.

=== Seeing the range ===
* On the world map, the '''Goblin Hut range''' layer paints the range of all huts. It is off by default; switch it on in the map layers window (<code>/maplayers</code>). The setting applies to everyone in the world.
* While you hold the [[BlockFactory:Goblin Planner|Goblin Planner]], a ring of sparkles shows the range of huts near where you look.

== Carrying: Goblins and Logistic Chests ==
Goblins carry between three kinds of '''Logistic Chest''' (32 slots each; recipe 1 Steel Chest + 3 Electronic Circuit, unlocked by Goblin Logistics):

{| class="wikitable"
! !! Chest !! Role
|-
| [[File:BlockFactory_Logistic_Chest_Provider.png|32px]] || Logistic Chest (Provider) || Gives everything inside to the network
|-
| [[File:BlockFactory_Logistic_Chest_Requester.png|32px]] || Logistic Chest (Requester) || Asks for items; Goblins fill each request up to a full stack
|-
| [[File:BlockFactory_Logistic_Chest_Storage.png|32px]] || Logistic Chest (Storage) || Stores items and gives them out again; Hob-Goblins put torn-down parts here
|}
To set up a Requester, put one of the wanted item into it as a sample: it remembers every item that has been inside. Or crouch and use it to open the '''Requests''' window: search for an item and press '''Request''', or '''Request item in hand'''. '''Strike''' removes a request; a struck item is not requested again just because it is still in the chest.

How Goblins fly:
* A request goes to the free Goblin with the '''shortest path''' from where it is, to a chest holding the item, to the Requester. Free means fully charged and resting in a hut, or out and just done with a delivery. Provider chests are used before Storage chests.
* Each flight carries up to the hut's load (4 or 8 items).
* Goblins fly about two blocks above the ground, with a propeller on their back.
* '''Stamina:''' flying to a chest and on to the Requester costs stamina per block. After a delivery a Goblin takes the next job straight away if its stamina covers the whole way. When it runs low, it flies home at half speed; with no work left, it flies home at full speed. The way home costs nothing.
* In the hut, an empty Goblin recharges to full in 5 seconds.

== Hob-Goblins ==
[[File:BlockFactory_Trap_Stone_Hob_Goblin.png|32px]] '''Hob-Goblins''' are the builders. They work from a Goblin Hut like construction robots.
* '''Recipe:''' 1 Trapped Goblin + 2 Rune Slate + 1 Processing Unit in a Fabricator (10 s). The item is called '''Trap-Stone (Hob-Goblin)'''.
* '''Unlocked by''' Hob-Goblin Construction (Epoch 4), together with the Cut, Deconstruct and Upgrade modes of the [[BlockFactory:Goblin Planner|Goblin Planner]]. '''Hob-Goblin Construction 2''' (Epoch 5) makes them 50 % faster.
* They build ghosts, tear down parts marked for deconstruction and replace parts marked for an upgrade.
* '''Material comes from the network:''' a Hob-Goblin takes the part from the Provider or Storage chest in the network that gives the shortest path hut → chest → target. Requesters are never used.
* '''Torn-down parts''' and their contents go to the nearest Storage chest with room in the network, otherwise into the hut; what does not fit there drops at the hut.
* A job goes to the free Hob-Goblin with the shortest path, and the shortest job of all starts first.
* Hob-Goblins fly like Goblins, sink down at the target to work for a second, and fly to the nearest hut of the network.

If nothing happens after you place ghosts or marks, the chat tells you why: no Goblin Hut in reach, no Hob-Goblins in the huts there, or parts missing from the chests.

The '''Goblin Backpack''' module of the Modular Armor is a personal builder: it builds ghosts within 8 blocks of you from the parts you carry, without a hut.

== See also ==
* [[BlockFactory:Goblin Planner|Goblin Planner]]
* [[BlockFactory:Portal of the Ancient|Portal of the Ancient]]
* [[BlockFactory:Storage|Storage]]
* [[BlockFactory:Golems|Golems]]
* [[BlockFactory:Outlanders|Outlanders]]

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