1.3 update: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?edit=true&id=2868725635

Does this work with 1.1 as well?

could you add some steampunk styles for the automatons?

I saw the thumbnail icon and instantly recognized the caravan palace bot, very excited to play with a full version of it!

If you're referring to the 'retro' head with the side cones, it's actually based off of Caravan Palace's mascot! Though if I add more head shapes at some point, I really should look to Futurama as inspiration...
Tribal automatons arrive in bad shape with numerous crude prostheses such as peg legs and wooden hands.
Nah, a toggle is beyond my abilities.

hehey, cool! looking rlly good! i love the monitor head xD the far right one makes me think about futurama.
"reasonable tribal integration"? like, warpainted skins for them, with feathers and bone trinkets and shrunk heads?
"Would you rather robots eat and not sleep or sleep and not eat?" why not a toggle?

yeah sorry the mod bug for me, i fixed and move some mods and now working without error consol msg, i dont remember what i do, now is ok

Umm... It is for 1.2?

need update 1.2 plz

In regards to backgrounds, I wasn’t able to come up with anything, due to me not being able to play the game all that much. I’ll offer up some ideas if they come to mind, though!
As for the additional question, I’d say this; not sleep, but require more food than other colonists, like Tiers’ Androids. That way, people can consider whether they should recruit one or not, rather than going “Hey, more efficiency!”.

Additional Question: Would you rather robots eat and not sleep or sleep and not eat?

Hello friends! I need ideas! The present backgrounds are incredibly limited and need expanding. If you have ideas on additional backgrounds, I'd be more than happy to hear your pitch!

The newest update to your mod made me finally give it a shot, and I gotta say, I think I prefer this one the most! Simple, not *too* broken, offering a proper lore-friendly explanation as to why they’re fully autonomous, a means of bypassing the steep cost of crafting one, let alone making crafting one a challenge... I think this might be a winner! Looking forward to seeing what else you might do with this!

More or less, yeah. Their design is pretty much an edited version of the power armor textures.

Looks like some crazy archotech slapped some robot parts into a suit of power armor.

Right on, my dude! Hopefully they get their bugs worked out, too!

I thought it would be something like that. I'll go tell the steampunk automatons author about it. Those automatons are probably missing other BodyGroups like legs or whatever.

Hooray! Oddly enough, it's because they didn't have the Teeth BodyGroup.

Yeah automatons won't wear multiple sets of bandanas or capes anymore, thanks for the quick fix!

I think I fixed the Bandanna issue, but y'all will have to tell me if I did or not.

Do any of us ever truly know what we're doing? We appreciate the effort though lol. Good luck!

I've got an idea as to why this might be happening, but I can't make any promises. I barely know what I'm doing.

The infinite bandanas also occurs with capes and another android mod I have, I just make a separate outfit for the offending pawns to use.

@ThePixel
That seems to be an issue from some other automaton-ish mods too, like this one. It's too bad. Who knows what kind of performance issues or even game breakage you'll get down the line if you never tell them to take those off. Imagine an automaton wearing thousands of items. Trying to open their gear tab might crash.

Anyway I hope the wonderful modders can figure out these issues.

Automatons seems to wear an infinite amounts of badanas from VFE settlers.

Back to tinkering with RimWorld! Good news is that I've updated and fixed this mod (I think)! Bad news is I forgot to make a backup and have no idea what I changed, so if you're using this on 1.1, that's my bad.

They seem to treat medical issues like they are nothing, had a one blow its coolant pump clean out and be fine, yet it wants to be medically tended to as a Human so you can't replace/repair items correctly

I want something like this but no random spawn, I want to research and build them or have a robotic trader/ship that comes by selling them and I want to pick what they will do, like cooking, cleaning, securtiy, etc...

can i craft them?

I can confirm they eat again if you clear out <chemicalSettings> contents from Races_Automatons.xml

Not ideal, obviously. Hopefully the races mod will fix it soon...

I'm seeing discussion that the lack of eating involves 'chemicalRestrictions' definitions, if you're interested in fixing. : )

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/839005762/2280456883461709533/

The anorexia bug is likely due to the game's recent update, but I can't confirm or deny it either way. Regardless, as I'm not presently on a RimWorld kick, assume that this mod and any of my others will not be updated. However, should anyone be so inclined to take the wheel and update/fix any of my mods, go for it. All I ask is that you let me know.

Automatons don't seem to be eating anymore and will just starve, is this a conflict with other mods or something that broke in an update to the game?

Yup, my automatons cant interact with any food, they still can drink beer, but cant eat, pick up, haul or do anything with food.

anyone else getting an issue where they wont eat anymore? my automatons are just starving to death for some reason

the question here is....
do they survive in space?

@nekobobby Thaanks! I'll have a look. I did just have a rich pristine ruins event that yielded over 60 healer mech serums, those work too!

need BIG machines !

Any chance we get a simple way to craft/create them?

@smokestack jones, I'm running a few surgery mods, like DE's and Xeno patcher, and somewhere between those, I'm able to fix them up.

'Diseases? They shouldn't get those... I don't think they do, but let me know if I'm wrong.'
perhaps they can have their own set of "diseases" aka computer viruses :)

I'm really loving this mod as I was a getting tired of the bloat of some of the Android mods available. The one issue I'm having is, how do I fix them??? I have One guy with a missing toe and another with damaged CPU, I have pretty much all the medical/bionic research complete but the Automatons do not allow for operation bills other than Archotech & wooden replacements. I have piles of advanced bionic arms at this point & wish I could use them to fix up my struggling bots. HALP!

The below happens when automaton is hurt and in sleeping spot. It was for prisoners. Once I remove bed or spot it stops. One my automaton pawns rested on medical sleeping spot and this error did not spam. Think it is just when they are hurt in medical bed/spot.

Exception ticking QI (at (103, 0, 142)): System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at RimWorld.RecordWorker_TimeInBedForMedicalReasons.ShouldMeasureTimeNow (Verse.Pawn pawn) [0x0001a] in <c8e8d421567e4ee5864626a429a27a37>:0
at RimWorld.Pawn_RecordsTracker.RecordsTickUpdate (System.Int32 interval) [0x00024] in <c8e8d421567e4ee5864626a429a27a37>:0
at RimWorld.Pawn_RecordsTracker.RecordsTick () [0x0001d] in <c8e8d421567e4ee5864626a429a27a37>:0
at (wrapper dynamic-method) Verse.Pawn.DMD<DMD<Tick_Patch2>?-526147456::Tick_Patch2>(Verse.Pawn)
at (wrapper dynamic-method) Verse.TickList.DMD<DMD<Tick_Patch2>?1099590144::Tick_Patch2>(Verse.TickList)
Verse.Log:Error(String, Boolean)
Verse.TickList:DMD<DMD<Tick_Patch2>?1099590144::Tick_Patch2>(TickList)
Verse.TickManager:DoSingleTick()
Verse.TickManager:TickManagerUpdate()
Verse.Game:UpdatePlay()
Verse.Root_Play:Update()

could you give them robot specific backstories?

hello dude, i am interested in your project since i like robots, but android and tiers, add to much content for my taste, do you have the project on github?? i would like to help you or maybe fork to make a mod in my taste

However i am willing to give it a chance and ill mess around with it for awhile

I wish you could craft this like you can in the android mod and how there all different in a sort of way like how you can upgrade them to make them better and for this mod I wish there was a way to craft them and sort of upgrade them like you can in the other version or where they have there own kind of medical problems and parts and upgrades you can do but I don't see a point of downloading it now and im not trying to hate on the author or anything and i really like the art and effort he/she put into this but I really do think if they fixed the small issues where the road ends and added more options to it I think more people would download this mod and if I see that there is more added I will of course 100% download this and add it to my messed up colony but @Verrigan Holmes I want to say that I love the way it looks I just wish there was more

Alright. Maybe you could ask the creator of one of the other android mods how they did it?

I agree, but that's something that's presently beyond my skill level. Maybe if I dig around, I can make something like that work, but I don't know.
For now, the robots get their energy the same way people do.