PocketBots:Mechanics

This page explains how bots behave once they are out.

Deploying and recalling

• Right-click a bot capsule to deploy the bot: "{name} is out!" Right-click again to pack it up: "{name} is packed up."
• One bot at a time: deploying a bot packs up any other bot you have out.
• The capsule of your active bot has to stay with you, in your hotbar, storage or backpack. If it is gone for more than 3 seconds, for example because you dropped it or put it in a chest, the bot is packed up.
• Only the owner can interact with a bot. Pressing the use key on your own bot opens Lugg's chest; other bots just beep at you.

Following

• Bots follow you in Survival and in Creative.
• A bot walks after you and stops a couple of blocks away.
• If it falls more than 24 blocks behind, it teleports to you. A bot that ends up more than 48 blocks away respawns right next to you.
• Bots are invulnerable, so they never need to be healed or protected.

Logging out and changing worlds

• When you log out, your bot disappears. It comes back when you log in again.
• When you change worlds, the bot is recalled in the old world and appears with you in the new one.
• Bots are never saved into the world itself, only into their capsule.

HUD

• Your active bot's icon and name are shown to the right of your hotbar.
• Each active bonus is shown as an icon on the left edge of the screen.

Voices and thoughts

• Every 12 to 40 seconds, your bot beeps in one of five droid-style sounds: happy, questioning, chattering, sad or excited. Each bot type has its own pitch.
• Every 45 to 120 seconds, your bot shows one of 50 thoughts in a bubble above its head for a few seconds, for example:
  • "Beep boop. I mean... hello!"
  • "Error 404: snack not found."
  • "Please don't forget me in a chest."
  • "I'm the best bot. Don't tell the others."