VRobot - Visually Programmable Robots

VRobot is a unique mod that allows you to create and program specialized robots for resource gathering and construction. Programming is done through a visual development environment provided by the Visibilis API.Requirement for operation: To use VRobot, you must install the Visibilis mod.

Features and Capabilities

Resource Gathering Robots

• Use tools for resource collection, accounting for all their features
• Effectiveness depends on enchantments (such as silk touch)
• Compatible with mod tools (like hammers from TiC!)
• Require energy to operate (any furnace fuel can be used - IN DEVELOPMENT)
• Cannot pass through walls (FUNCTIONALITY BEING IMPROVED)

Construction Robots (IN DEVELOPMENT)

• Have the ability to pass through walls
• Can place various blocks
• Also require energy - IN DEVELOPMENT

Programming Principles

Robot States

The robot can be in one of two states:

• Idle mode - the robot is inactive, waiting for activation by a player, redstone signal, or other external factors
• Working mode - the robot performs programmed actions until stopped or interrupted

Switching between states is done through special commands:

• "start" or "continue" commands switch to working mode
• "pause" or "end" commands return to idle mode

Execution Cycle

The robot operates according to the following scheme:

• Visual code is executed (Tick node)
• All queued robot actions are processed
• The process repeats

Special feature: during initial startup, the Initialize node is called instead of the Tick node - it triggers only once when the robot is activated, but not when work is resumed.

Programming Strategies

Basic strategy using only the Initialize node: development of simple, predictable scenarios where all actions are added to the queue once during initialization and executed sequentially.

Advanced strategy using the Tick node: allows creation of more complex programs with the ability to dynamically change behavior and use the Immediate function.

Programming Node Types

Immediate (instant actions)

• Executed immediately without energy cost
• Take no execution time
• Processed at the time of code compilation

Robot Actions

• Added to the robot's execution queue
• Require energy consumption
• Have a certain execution duration (depends on action type and external conditions)
• Executed strictly sequentially

Other Nodes

Additional nodes for performing auxiliary operations: calculations, variable work, and other utility functions used in combination with Immediate or Robot Actions.

The modification is in active development and testing. Advanced users can obtain a robot using the chat command:

/give @p vrobot:robot