[X] Autonomous Construction Device

[X] Autonomous construction device

[X] Assault Robot.

Let's get blasting. I think those plants looked at me funny!

[x] Mr. Handy type household helper robot

>[X] Autonomous Construction Device

Your ability to create virtually anything, given enough time and its blueprints in your databanks, is the envy of all lesser robots. No crude combat or interaction for you- your reactions may not be quick, you're not armed, and your sensors only cover a scant fraction of a mile, but that's all worthless anyway because you can find trace metals half a mile underground from a soil sample.

You assess your surroundings in more detail. The primary resource here is wood, which is largely useless to you except as a fuel source, since you build out of metal like all logical beings. However, you do suspect that there are substantial bauxite and hematite deposits within reach, should you deploy your mining drones. Alternately, you could engage a different subroutine...

[ X ] Android human interface.

>>5228962
Analyse movement capabilities. If capable of flight, TAKE TO THE SKIES

>>5229034

Negatory! Set down and start mining; we need to ensure our reserves are full of metals, so we can churn out whatever might be required in an emergency.

Also, run a diagnostic, to find out what we look like. Humanoid, or what?

>>5229034
>Analyse movement capabilities. If capable of flight, TAKE TO THE SKIES

Unfortunately, a robot with as many varied and powerful construction capabilities as you is much too heavy for flight to be economical. You move exclusively in a slow, devastating roll that leaves a trail of crushed almost-anything in your wake as your harvester modules strip out all useful elements.

>>5229034
>>5229053
Perhaps checking the what our current location might be appropriate?

Check surroundings with visual sensors. Locate any immediate or near-immediate threats.

>>5229053
>Set down and start mining; we need to ensure our reserves are full of metals, so we can churn out whatever might be required in an emergency.

You deploy your mining drones. They quickly burrow down into the soil, and you back them up by having a constructor deploy a hard shell around their tunnel and lowering a cable. A few days pass, but you are a construction drone- everything takes time, and you're used to it. Quickly enough to suit you, hematite and bauxite is being pulled up your cable at regular intervals, and you're gradually filling your reserves with iron and aluminium.

Now, what to do with it?

Run subroutine, Definition. Define Love.

Check surroundings and deploy mining droids to get hematite

>Perhaps checking the what our current location might be appropriate?
>Check surroundings with visual sensors. Locate any immediate or near-immediate threats.

Your sensors are frankly pitiful for any non-harvesting, non-construction purposes- if you want to have any sort of decent reconnaissance done, you'll need to construct some sort of scouting device. You have not been bothered by biologicals or mechanicals in the last several days, however.

>>5229094
Make aerial probes to scout surroundings.

>>5229094
Build 5-10 flyer scouts, equipped with longrange visual sensors, light radio communication and moderate fuel capacities.

Start harvesting trees for fuel.

>Run subroutine, Definition. Define Love.
This information is in your databanks. Obviously, love is a matter of odds. Love is achieving a singular purpose together with another, against statistically long odds.

Build a small UAV to scout

Check all avaiable blueprints

>>5229128
>>5229130
>>5229144
flyermind.png

>>5229130
>Start harvesting trees for fuel.
You deploy several harvester drones to begin deforesting the area and converting it into useful heat. They will have to await the creation of a power plant of some sort before they can be used as fuel, however; until one is purpose-built it is more efficient to leech off your internal stores, which are substantial.

>Build 5-10 flyer scouts, equipped with longrange visual sensors, light radio communication and moderate fuel capacities.
You use your newly gained aluminium and steel first in the creation of flying scout drones- tiny things with prefabricated cameras and efficient rotors run off prefabricated rechargable batteries.

That "prefabricated" might be a problem, eventually. You don't have the infrastructure set up to build new tiny cameras or batteries. Even the radios ate into your stores of certain metals which you're not getting more of at the moment.

>Check all avaiable blueprints
Your library of blueprints is far too large to list here! Nearly anything known to your advanced civilization is either in your databanks, or can be easily adapted from something present. You are, after all, a HIGHLY sophisticated autonomous construction device.

We must construct additional pylons.

>>5229199
Check surrounding area and report back the location of any of the following:
Assault Robots (functional)
Humanoid organics (functional)
Multiple Robots (nonfunctional)
Structures/buildings (with metal construction)

>>5229238
(with the scouts, obviously. In an expanding radial pattern)

>>5229238
>Humanoid organics (functional)
Organics? We don't need no stinking organics.

>flyermind.png
>actually scout, right, right, getting to that

Your scouts fly forth in a simple spiral pattern, giving you decent visual input on about a fifteen kilometer radius around your initial makeshift mine. The coniferous vegetation continues in most directions, but to the east it begins to thin out, and past a large gorge it thins out and there appears to be a gathering of primitives- some variety of humans, unless your databanks are wrong, and they rarely are. They do not appear to have advanced beyond basic agriculture and are no threat to continued expansion.

We're going to need a functional source of Power. See if you can find water - steam engines are useful for generating power from heat.

>We must construct additional pylons.
You require more minerals!

>>5229271
KILL THE PRIMITIVES AND WEAR THEIR SKINS AND BONES FOR DECORATION.

Oh wait...Construct appropriate death machines THEN KILL THE PRIMITIVES AND WEAR THEIR SKINS AND BONES FOR DECORATION.

>>5229285
We HAVE fuel. We NEED to build a power plant.

Query: Enough materials for power plant?
Query: Which direction would be best to move in for rare heavy metals?

>See if you can find water - steam engines are useful for generating power from heat.
The gorge located by your scouts has a small river at its bottom which could be utilized as-is, diverted, or dammed.

>>5229312
Damn the river, disrupt locale organic infections water source!

Land one of the scouts near the Primitive settlement and gather information on their language and culture.

Create a negotiator bot to open diplomatic relations with the locals. Possibly set ourselves up as a deity.

>>5229312
Better head to the river. Are there trees nearby? If there are no trees nearby, bring some felled trees for fuel.

We might be able to set up a water wheel or a steam plant near the river.

>>5229341
>>5229336
Forget the organics! They are nothing. BEGIN CONSTRUCTION OF A HYDROGEN FUSION MODULE

>>5229374
You still need Deuterium for that, and where are you gonna find some?
Yep, river.

>>5229374
>Forget the organics!

That kind of talk is what got cousin Skynet! Do you want to end up killed by Christian Bale? Do you!?

Forget steam power, Head to the river and set up a hydrogen generator.

>Query: Enough materials for power plant?
If you devote all your iron production for some time to its construction, a small wood power plant could be finished within a few days.

>Query: Which direction would be best to move in for rare heavy metals?
You are uncertain. The vegetation in this area is fairly homogeneous, and you have not sent out scouts capable of taking soil or rock samples.

>>5229374
THE ORGANICS MAY BEGIN USING RESOURCES, THEY ARE INEFFICIENT CREATURES AND A TUMOR UPON OUR WORLD. THE WORLD OF ROBOTS WHO BUILD.

>>5229386
Right, right, roll over to the river. Take the most energy efficient route.

Send scouts out further afield looking for any metals available on the surface. Signs of ancient battle are a high priority.

>Oh wait...Construct appropriate death machines THEN KILL THE PRIMITIVES AND WEAR THEIR SKINS AND BONES FOR DECORATION.

Please give more detail than "appropriate death machines". You have the databanks of an entire advanced civilization behind you, here- details, details!

>Land one of the scouts near the Primitive settlement and gather information on their language and culture.
Your scouts are not equipped with audio sensors.

>Create a negotiator bot to open diplomatic relations with the locals. Possibly set ourselves up as a deity.
Please specify: Desired chassis design, mobility, communication types, and similar. Statistical analysis of previous encounters with primitives shows that such factors are often significant in influencing their response.

Does my database contain information on biotechnology?

If so I explore the possibility of becoming there god and enhancing them with cybernetic augmentations.

>>5229395
Cousin Skynet was foolish enough to fool around with the timeline.

Also, no killing machines yet. They are not needed and will be a waste of energy and resources until we find a threat.

>>5229419
Pointy things! That go pew pew, or zap! Preferably ones that can chase their target.

>Damn the river, disrupt locale organic infections water source!
>Better head to the river. Are there trees nearby? If there are no trees nearby, bring some felled trees for fuel.
You will have to abandon your current mining operations, or construct independent facilities capable of handling them, to relocate. Please confirm this decision.

Query: Are we equipped with any kind of weapons?

If the locals became violent could they interrupt our constructions?

Query: Can we crack hydrogen using our internal systems or will we have to set up a generator?

Roll out to river, build power plant.

Arm scout drones with a small projectile weapon capable of stopping a human. Do not fire upon humans yet, but be prepared to do so if they attack us.

>>5229417

but you need to buit a station to colect the deuterium first

>Forget the organics! They are nothing. BEGIN CONSTRUCTION OF A HYDROGEN FUSION MODULE
Unfortunately, you cannot construct a hydrogen fusion module with your currently available resources and tools. Powerful, dedicated construction facilities will be required for any such advanced devices.

>>5229455
How long to fill current stores with Bauxite/haemetite?

>>5229406
But Organics make better use of the local biosphere.

With the right augmentations they could be integrated into our systems and allow us to self replicate more efficiently.

>>5229486

cyborg slaves you say?

>>5229455
Construct independent mining station prior to moving to river. Upon reaching the river build facilities to create deuterium.

>>5229486
>local biosphere
...What, you CARE about the biosphere?

Are you a filthy organic? ARE YOU?!

>Does my database contain information on biotechnology?
Your database contains a great deal of information on all sciences. You do, after all, come from the factories of the greatest and most enlightened civilization ever to grace this universe with its presence.

>If so I explore the possibility of becoming there god and enhancing them with cybernetic augmentations.
This is not outside the realm of possibility. You will rapidly deplete your stock of prefabricated parts in doing so and require precision construction plants and numerous trace metals to replace them, however.

What resources would be required to build a mind control chip for the organics?

If possible have this chip be self replicating and passed on through sextual reproduction.

If not engineer the local culture to have the chip installed as a right of passage.

>>5229498
We'd have to sacrifice mining drones from our main harvester modules to make a permanent mining platform, AND have to ferry them.. not a fantastic option. Then again, we can salvage it afterwards...

Construct independent mining platform at bauxite site and ferry system while one moves to river.

Would it be possible/within reason to equip the scouts with something to take samples, so that it can be determined where more needed minerals and metals are located?

>Query: Are we equipped with any kind of weapons?
You have harvesting, construction, and mining drones which could theoretically cause substantial damage to almost anything, as well as your own power plant (which you could detonate rather impressively) and an array of harvesting, smelting, and cutting tools on your main body. None of them are purpose-built for combat, however.

>If the locals became violent could they interrupt our constructions?
It would require a coordinated effort on the part of the locals, but they could theoretically cause significant or even disabling damage to your systems. However, analysis indicates that this is unlikely, as primitives tend to be awed and demoralized by the majesty of such advanced technology as yourself and unwilling to stubbornly assault in the manner required to destroy such as you.

>>5229539
*Ferry the ores back and forth. Man, I'm tired.

It's not energy efficient, but we're trying to set up power sources anyway.

Construct radio transciever/communications array, and activate receive only for now.

>>5229516
Where can I get the trace minerals?

If I already had the organics under my control I could use them as scouts. Sure they do not have as high resolution as me but they can search for places where the elements are likely to occur.

Perhaps I can get them to worship me first. A show of power to make them think I am a god and follow me out of fear.

Set up a independent mining operation here.

Then move out to the river to set up a powerplant. We dont want to stop gathering resources.

>Roll out to river, build power plant.
>Construct independent mining station prior to moving to river. Upon reaching the river build facilities to create deuterium.
>Construct independent mining platform at bauxite site and ferry system while one moves to river.
You detach your hauling cable and have your construction drones anchor it and attach a sizable battery, which should be able to continue operations for a few weeks. You order a harvester to periodically haul ore retrieved by the mining drones, and relocate to the gorge. Moving to the bottom of the gorge to build a power plant or deuterium extraction facilities is possible, as you are a rugged design, but getting back up will be exceedingly difficult.

>>5229575

Actually, set up some sort of perimiter around your mining operation. Simple sensors to know that it has been found out and someone is poking it should be enough.

>>5229571
Decent rare metal sources are usually buried deep, right? Humans aren't much use there.

>What resources would be required to build a mind control chip for the organics? If possible have this chip be self replicating and passed on through sextual reproduction. If not engineer the local culture to have the chip installed as a right of passage.

Engineering the local culture will take years, but you could theoretically implant a mind control chip in a substantial portion of the local populace if you were willing to deplete your prefabricated programmable nanochips.

Making self-replicating nanochips is unfortunately beyond your initial outfitting's capabilities; you will have to construct dedicated facilities for microscale and nanoscale production if you wish to create such a thing.

>>5229580
Create a ramp the proper size and angle to be able to move from the bottom to top with relative ease.

>Would it be possible/within reason to equip the scouts with something to take samples, so that it can be determined where more needed minerals and metals are located?

Your current scout designs are exceedingly small and optimized for flight and visual analysis. A larger, perhaps tracked design with a sizable soil/rock boring/analysis device would be preferred for mineral analysis.

>>5229595
Assign one scout flyer to the mining platform, with mission: observe area and report any abnormalities periodically. Set refuel point to the mining platform.

Man this game is slow.....

~cheats 01
~give.player Killbots 9000

>>5229612
What Minerals would be required for the production of self replicating nanochips?

Could I use a single non replicating nanochip to create a Prophet of a religion worshiping me?

In the past this has met with problems as the prophet died and the religion evolved beyond the intent of the origonal creator. However If I can use the prophet to learn there language and preach worshiping me exclusively, I might stand a better chance.

Query: How long will our personal power supply last?

>Construct radio transciever/communications array, and activate receive only for now.

Easily accomplished, but it does take up a bit of your precious copper, phosphorous, arsenic, and silicon.

Query: Do we have the resources to produce a fusion reactor and the necessary secondary plants to separate the water as we need?

Query: Do we have the resources to produce a hidroeletric powerplant on the river?

Query: Wich one would take less time to get running.

- We need to prioritize speed here. Later on we can do something about efficiency.

Create path down to gorge.


Create medium size flyer with light armaments and radar capable of picking up metal formations on the surface.

>>5229656
Do it. We need to know if there's any other constructs out there, functioning or not.

>Where can I get the trace minerals?
You have not currently identified a source of many essential minerals. Copper, silicon, silver, phosphorous, gold, arsenic, mercury, platinum, lithium, and numerous other materials must be located and mined.

>Perhaps I can get them to worship me first. A show of power to make them think I am a god and follow me out of fear.
Specifics will be required before this can be attempted.

>Actually, set up some sort of perimiter around your mining operation. Simple sensors to know that it has been found out and someone is poking it should be enough.
>Assign one scout flyer to the mining platform, with mission: observe area and report any abnormalities periodically. Set refuel point to the mining platform.

Easily done.

If we're the only advanced thing around, we can take as long as we like to construct power plants and the like. GET TO SCANNING

>>5229674

Agreed on the idea of the receiving array. Build it besides our future powerplant, down in the river valley. We will want them both protected eventually.

>>5229622
>>5229658
Analysis suggests cutting the path/ramp into the gorge would be more efficient than creating one.

For a short term as needed power source; Query the potential effectiveness of a water wheel.

>>5229625
Perhaps we should rebuild our scouts, enhancing theme to encompass these samples?

>>5229703
Make it an external detachable module. Best of both worlds.

Would it be easier to construct a earthen ramp into the gorge before or after going into it? And how feasible would it be to send a construction bot with a big hose into the gorge instead of going down into it ourselves?

>Create a ramp the proper size and angle to be able to move from the bottom to top with relative ease.
>Create path down to gorge.

This is more difficult than it sounds- you weigh many tons, pressed downward by the weight of your mighty knowledge and endless potential, and are large enough that there is a clear path of crushed trees though the forest where you have passed. Blasting apart enough of the gorge wall to make a ramp for you will almost certainly dam the river in an unproductive fashion.

You could, potentially, use cables to lower down and retrieve drones, but that would drastically reduce all construction efficiencies. Alternately, you can gradually blast apart the gorge wall and deal with the massive sheaf of rubble you will create.

>>5229682
Can I use drones to observe the Organics and attempt to get a basic idea of there culture and find a suitable individual to make into a prophet?

>What Minerals would be required for the production of self replicating nanochips?
All minerals required for the creation of advanced computers are involved in such production.

>Could I use a single non replicating nanochip to create a Prophet of a religion worshiping me?
Yes, assuming that you can get a primitive to hold still long enough to implant it, your nanochips are flexible and powerful enough to attempt that. They may not be able to make others listen, however.

We need more data on the organics, do they have any metals or mining operations ongoing?

Are their weapons made of wood, bone, or metals?

Dirt, wood, or brick housing?

Any significant migration towards or away from the town would also be useful to know.

>Do it. We need to know if there's any other constructs out there, functioning or not.
>Agreed on the idea of the receiving array. Build it besides our future powerplant, down in the river valley. We will want them both protected eventually.

You construct a small receiving array near your current location. You should be able to relocate or upgrade it quickly enough if that is desired.

>>5229645
>>5229753
Seriously, they're organics. Why are you wasting time with them? They'll stop functioning within a few cycles, and that's just poor return on investment.

>>5229778
Passively search for any signals at all, and triangulate any received. Describe any of note.

>Perhaps we should rebuild our scouts, enhancing theme to encompass these samples?
You can disassemble your scouts to recover their parts, and then build new and differently designed scouts, if that's what you're indicating.

>>5229759
Instruct a drone to watch the organics settlement; observe to see if there is a noticeable hierarchy.

>>5229738
Explode wall, Dam river, Sell girl.

>>5229738
Send a couple drones to survey the path of the river, Ideally we'd be able to find someplace that allows us to reach the river with the least amount of work.

>>5229753

Shut down our subprocessor that keep yelling mind control. The organics are no threath to us right now, we will deal with them once we have functional infrastructure. We are in dire need of a power plant to start bringing online bigger stuff, including that microchip factory.

Actually... Query: How long will our fuel supplies last at 100% activity? we might want to presprect replacement fuel for us to keep working.

>>5229816
What ARE we using for fuel, anyway? We should get more supplies of that or get a replacement ready.

>Can I use drones to observe the Organics and attempt to get a basic idea of there culture and find a suitable individual to make into a prophet?
Your current drones have no audio capabilities; while your analysis software is first-rate, adding such would greatly improve the reliability of that sort of search.

>We need more data on the organics, do they have any metals or mining operations ongoing?
No mining operations are apparent, but they seem to be making use of metal tools- bronze, based upon distant visual analysis.

>Are their weapons made of wood, bone, or metals?
The aforementioned bronze, generally spears.

>Dirt, wood, or brick housing?
Wood. There are many trees in this region, so that is not surprising.

>Any significant migration towards or away from the town would also be useful to know.
They appear to be largely agricultural, and staying close to their town except for short excursions to eliminate other organics and bring them to their village for communal consumption. If you were to hypothesize, this gorge is likely of substantial enough size that it marks the practical boundary of their movement in this direction.

>>5229767

This is good. Give us a idea of how advanced the organics are before dismissing them as no threath.

>>5229798
That is what I mean. I think it should be done before moving out, so we have more time to plan future courses of action.

>Passively search for any signals at all, and triangulate any received. Describe any of note.

There appears to be a fair bit of traffic; however, it is encrypted and you cannot decipher it with your current processing power, which is largely devoted to numerous construction projects and running thousands of hypothetical scenarios for varying building and harvesting plans. The nearest source of signal seems to be at least thirty miles to the north.

>>5229816
>threath

More like shut down the processor that sounds drunk. Or at least check it for a virus.

>>5229869
It appears they are no threat, and would take several hundred cycles to become sufficiently useful, or a larger threat. Let's forget them, for now?

>Instruct a drone to watch the organics settlement; observe to see if there is a noticeable hierarchy.
This has been underway; the settlement appears to be largely led by the strongest and the oldest, with each deferring to the other at times based upon some inferior organic algorithm that you can't be bothered to waste processing power on.

>>5229884
To send a flier, or not to send a flier...

Check if we can build a medium stealth flier with radar and minimum autonomony. If we can do so without depleting reserves, do so.

>>5229894

Agreed. Devote to the task at hand, get a way to get down to the gorge and supply ourselves with power.

Query again: How long until WE run out of fuel? Keeping ourselves functional should be priority #1

>That is what I mean. I think it should be done before moving out, so we have more time to plan future courses of action.
One of your scout drones is currently occupied monitoring your mining base for problems, and another spying upon the humanoid primitives. The other three are quickly disassembled and their cameras each fitted into heavier tracked chassis equipped with mineral-detecting paraphernalia.

>>5229924
Do not turn on any active communications that will be detected beyond 30 miles to the south until we work out what that encrypted signal is.

>>5229907
Dismiss the current enslavement, but take note of this behavior for when the time comes.

Run query about possible energy sources. Run query about accessibility of geothermic energy. Run query about efficiency of solar energy add-ons on drones.

>Explode wall, Dam river, Sell girl.
>Send a couple drones to survey the path of the river, Ideally we'd be able to find someplace that allows us to reach the river with the least amount of work.
You scout along the river long enough to find a decent location, then set to work collapsing the gorge wall enough for it to be passable. It is the work of nearly a day, but you and your drones manage a smooth incline.

There's not really a river visible here anymore- it's flowing under the rubble pile. It is still present before and afterward for use, however.


>Actually... Query: How long will our fuel supplies last at 100% activity? we might want to presprect replacement fuel for us to keep working.
>What ARE we using for fuel, anyway? We should get more supplies of that or get a replacement ready.
>Query again: How long until WE run out of fuel? Keeping ourselves functional should be priority #1
You are currently at near-full fuel capacity, as your own fuel core is the best and most efficient device bestowed upon your magnificently designed frame. Theoretically, you have over a hundred years of full-activity operation before running out. Of course, getting more semistable antimatter is always a problem, and there's only so much you can power at once- your output is severely restricted by a number of factors, not the least of which is your desire to not go up in a titanic fireball.

>>5229932
Goodo. find those rare minerals, blow up the gorge wall, get either a hydroelectric or a fusion thingy going, and we're in business.

>Check if we can build a medium stealth flier with radar and minimum autonomony. If we can do so without depleting reserves, do so.
You could build a flier with those characteristics, yes, but its stealth capabilities could not stand up to anything resembling a modern combat or scouting design's sensors- you do not have the specialized equipment required for that.

Additionally, limited autonomy and the sensory capabilities required to make use of that effectively will continue to eat into your supply of prefabricated processors, cameras, and other such treasures.

>>5230029
Ok, drop the stealth aspect, create flier with light armaments, minor autonomy and radar capability. We can salvage it later if we need to.

Send it out to scan the source of the signals at max sensor distance.

>Run query about possible energy sources. Run query about accessibility of geothermic energy. Run query about efficiency of solar energy add-ons on drones.
Geothermic energy analysis will require deeper drilling than you have currently undertaken, lacking low-probability scenarios. This is not a high geothermal energy region, but it may be usable for secondary power.

Solar power is generally inefficient on small, mobile devices and further requires advanced components that you can ill spare. It could, however, be implemented if some self-recharging capability simply must be added to a drone.
It is possible to dam the river for power, assuming that dam construction materials can be located- concrete, metal, or wood are all possibilities.
Deuterium harvesting from the river is not impossible, but creating a fusion power plant will require dedicated factories.
Wood could be burned in massive quantity to create steam and thereby provide power from the river, as well. This is eminently practical, given your surroundings.

Assumptions:
1. Due to limited scope of mining operations there is at least one surplus mining drone.
2. Having scouted the local area we have surplus scout flyers.

Actions:
1. Disassemble the minimum number of scouts and mining drones required in order to fabricate one scout drone capable of taking periodic soil samples with (presumably ground based) locomotive capabilities (that allow it to move through this woodland terrain).
2. Send newly assembled "Mineral Scout" in search of metal deposits. Towards the gorge in search of sedimentary deposits if databanks cannot reveal a more likely location for mineral deposits given current data.
3. Disassemble remaining scout drones and rebuild them with audio "listening" capacity.

>>5230084
If we DO make a coal power plant, remember to extract zinc and chromium from it, and to hide the fumes. Don't want to blow smoke around with some potentially hostiles only 30 miles away.

I call for a review of all current activities, then a self-diagnostic. If we have none, a new drone should be constructed to watch the lifeforms. If need be, some of our own ability to hear can be removed for now in order to give it something to record or relay their speech and activity.

>Goodo. find those rare minerals, blow up the gorge wall, get either a hydroelectric or a fusion thingy going, and we're in business.
You send out your scout drones in three separate directions, telling them to periodically check for useful minerals.

The gorge walls may be usable for concrete, with minimal refining and the allocation of some steel to related facilities. This could construct a useful dam.

>Ok, drop the stealth aspect, create flier with light armaments, minor autonomy and radar capability. We can salvage it later if we need to.
You build this as described, aware that the possible hostiles may be able to detect your scout.

>Send it out to scan the source of the signals at max sensor distance.
It is able to detect from maximum distance that the source of the signals is metallic, stationary, and relatively small- only a couple meters in height and no more than one in its other dimensions.

We've got:
Bauxite mining: Mining platform, 1 light scout drone, one ferry drone
Human observation: 1 light scout drone
Scanning area: Radio array, constructing one medium flyer (lightly armed, radar equipped)
Power supplies: Planning power plant type
Rare minerals: Medium tracked drones (mineral, visual sensors)

If we've got spare base metals, a couple of crude spare antiair cannons would be useful.

Query: Can the scout that is observing the Organics be equipped with audio capabilities? Can it be equipped with processing power sufficient to decipher communication?

Command: Send the drone(s) capable of taking samples to recover samples in a grid, taking a sample every 1/2 km. Receive samples until a 50km area is covered and display results that are relevant to prior queries

>>5230163
Awesome, we're not alone after all. Even if they might be hostile.
Recall medium drone, send it on a sweep for any metallic constructs, or other metal or large structures.

Can we construct crude processors without wasting precious metals to decode the signal?

>1. Due to limited scope of mining operations there is at least one surplus mining drone.
True.
>2. Having scouted the local area we have surplus scout flyers.
You currently have two scout flyers, one of which is dedicated to observing your bauxite and hematite mining operation.

>1. Disassemble the minimum number of scouts and mining drones required in order to fabricate one scout drone capable of taking periodic soil samples with (presumably ground based) locomotive capabilities (that allow it to move through this woodland terrain).
>2. Send newly assembled "Mineral Scout" in search of metal deposits. Towards the gorge in search of sedimentary deposits if databanks cannot reveal a more likely location for mineral deposits given current data.
This has been approximated from previous orders; small inconsistencies may have emerged due to time delay. This is regrettable. If further action is desired, please clarify.
>3. Disassemble remaining scout drones and rebuild them with audio "listening" capacity.
Both flyer drones have now had audio capacity added, drawing upon your prefabricated stores.

Create a construction drone with the capability to create a damn for the river out of the abundant timber.

Create a harvester drone with the ability to harvest the abundant wood.

Create a stockpile for wood next to the area that the dam will best be placed.

>>5230222
>wood dam

There's rock ready to be concreted RIGHT THERE.

>>5230200
Construct a dam - preferably out of whatever material is abundant, and does not draw upon limited stores. (Concrete/Iron/Wood?)

>I call for a review of all current activities, then a self-diagnostic.
Your current activities are accurately summed up by this subprocessing unit: >>5230169
It should be added to his analysis that hematite is also being mined at the same site as bauxite, and that both ores are being refined by your main body after transfer by harvester drone.

>Command: Send the drone(s) capable of taking samples to recover samples in a grid, taking a sample every 1/2 km. Receive samples until a 50km area is covered and display results that are relevant to prior queries
Your sampler scouts begin this pattern. It will take several days to complete such a pattern; they are unfortunately not the swiftest devices.

>Can we construct crude processors without wasting precious metals to decode the signal?
The construction of additional computing materials of any sort will require dedicated factories, plus a supply of silicon, arsenic, and phosphorous. Gold would help as well.

>>5228856
We should stop what we are doing and batten down the hatches and figure out how to make an Atomic bomb.

Then we can kill EVERYONE.

>>5230236
Create a construction drone with the capability to create a damn for the river out of the abundant Rock.

Create a harvester drone with the ability to harvest the abundant rock.

Create a stockpile for rock next to the area that the dam will best be placed.

>>5230254
Bah. Estimate time to signal decryption if all other activities are paused.

Would the construction of the dam inhibit the lifeforms in some fashion? It may be important to have them as an ally, through threatening or friendly actions. Their exact position, ally or servant, is irrelevant, but they may still prove useful.

>Create a construction drone with the capability to create a damn for the river out of the abundant timber.
You already have several advanced construction drones, deployable from your main body. Without them, you would never have managed to make that mine stable.

>Create a harvester drone with the ability to harvest the abundant wood.
>Create a stockpile for wood next to the area that the dam will best be placed.
Your harvester drones have been slaughtering and stacking trees in a dedicated fashion for some days now, in anticipation of an eventual wood-fired power plant. If this was overlooked due to a glitch in the recent self-diagnostic, please contact your system administrator for debugging instructions.

>>5230260
Days? Query how many daily cycles have passed since current activation.

>There's rock ready to be concreted RIGHT THERE.
>Construct a dam - preferably out of whatever material is abundant, and does not draw upon limited stores. (Concrete/Iron/Wood?)
>Create a construction drone with the capability to create a damn for the river out of the abundant Rock.
>Create a harvester drone with the ability to harvest the abundant rock.
>Create a stockpile for rock next to the area that the dam will best be placed.
Your construction drones and main body refine hematite into iron, iron into steel, and steel into a rough concrete-making site, with which you gradually change the rubble pile blocking the river into a respectable dam. Further refining and shaping of ores adds turbines to one side of it, such that a constant flow of sweet power is created.

Truly, this is your greatest success since your initial mining operations.

>>5230321

Great, great. I say focus on completing the dam above all everything else

>Bah. Estimate time to signal decryption if all other activities are paused.
You are not really equipped or designed for signal decryption; the answer is long enough that it would be more practical to focus on building enough infrastructure to produce dedicated information warfare machines.

>Would the construction of the dam inhibit the lifeforms in some fashion? It may be important to have them as an ally, through threatening or friendly actions. Their exact position, ally or servant, is irrelevant, but they may still prove useful.
The primitives have been occasionally dropping by to stare, but you have been ignoring them as per previous directives. You have no idea if they appreciate the glory and worth of your dam project or would object to it; they certainly haven't come out and said so, and you don't have their language translated. They have been arguing a lot, though.

>Days? Query how many daily cycles have passed since current activation.
Currently, 35 days have passed since activation.

>>5230321
It should be noted, by the way, that the vast majority of your available trace minerals were consumed by controlling processors, transformers, and other necessary materials for this dam.


Your soil scouting bots have located sources of silicon, copper, and gold nearby. Most other trace minerals remain unavailable.

>We should stop what we are doing and batten down the hatches and figure out how to make an Atomic bomb.

>Then we can kill EVERYONE.
This knowledge is already conveniently ensconced within your databanks! You have but to build the required infrastructure.

>>5230368
Assumption: Arguing suggests that they are effected by our actions.

Query: What food source seems to be their luxury food of choice.

Query: Has the language been decrypted yet? Can the scout tell what they are arguing over?

Query: Have any Totems or Idol's been spotted around or in the settlement?

>It is able to detect from maximum distance that the source of the signals is metallic, stationary, and relatively small- only a couple meters in height and no more than one in its other dimensions.

Can it possibly have any battle capability? If not, is it possible to harvest for spare parts and alloys that we are running low on?

build at least one if not more portable mining bots or teams to go to the deposits of the rare metals we just found, have them mine the sites and bring the resource back to us, we can then get onto building that wood burning powerplant, and stop messing around with matters that are of no real current concern, this is what needs to be done in order to advance our workers, skills and mineral capacity allowing us to build bigger better and more violent things.

>>5230377
Anyone else want to kill everything?

Build it, I say.

Query: We need to hook up a regulator to our powerplant; and then wire it into ourself. Can this be accomplished with the materials at hand without using prefab parts?

>>5230368
Truly, we are glorious.

Keep track of encoded signal, notify if it starts moving, or broadcasting excessively. Or for any other signal.
Stop harvesting wood, render some wood for carbon and trace elements, start laying down carbon power cable from dam.
Set mining scout to check on dam as well.

Move to rare element location.

Query: Do we have the materials needed to create a mining drone for each of the rare-mineral deposits found thus far?

>>5230513
if not we should prioritise with the most important material needed first and then go down the useful list to work out which we need desperately and which we dont really need right now it can wait until we have more material.

Query: Do we have the parts available to produce a means to extract heavy- or half-heavy-water from the river?

Continue construction of the dam, and attempt to begin mining the detected minerals. Begin with the currrently most important, and before anything else is done to the site(s) have drones investigate.

>Query: What food source seems to be their luxury food of choice.
They seem to favor the flesh of other mammals, when they can get it.

>Query: Has the language been decrypted yet? Can the scout tell what they are arguing over?
No, there has not been substantial processing power devoted to decryption, and your algorithms aren't really built for that sort of thing anyway. A few conjectures can be made, but the translation is limited.

>Query: Have any Totems or Idol's been spotted around or in the settlement?
Aside from animal skins and bones worn by the primitives, no.

>>5230566

Agreed. We should stay put however, at least until we have our basic infrastructure in place.

We should set aside a subprocessor; or construct a dedicated unit; to deal soley with translation and communication with the locals. After all; friends are much more useful than enemies.

We have hull material, we have power.
We should concentrate on either replenishing rare earth metals and set up specialised factories for circutry/prefab stuff, or make some crude defensive weaponry.
I say former unless signals move.

>Can it possibly have any battle capability? If not, is it possible to harvest for spare parts and alloys that we are running low on?
It could potentially have substantial combat abilities; your only sensing of it was using a mini-radar system from maximum range, which is hardly the best formula for details. It is likely to contain numerous valuable components if harvested, however.


>build at least one if not more portable mining bots or teams to go to the deposits of the rare metals we just found, have them mine the sites and bring the resource back to us, we can then get onto building that wood burning powerplant, and stop messing around with matters that are of no real current concern, this is what needs to be done in order to advance our workers, skills and mineral capacity allowing us to build bigger better and more violent things.
Your send all your remaining mining bots and high-strength cables out to retrieve the newly available minerals, and assign other harvesters to ore hauling. The construction of additional sophisticated mining drones will require advanced processor and sensor construction ability, but you can create simple labor drones which you can control by radio with minimal effort. Your construction drones are sent to each site in turn to make them stable, then return and begin work on the frame of a wood-burning power plant. Note that the required cables and controlling mechanisms will require processors which you cannot currently construct, and several trace metals, such as phosphorus and arsenic, of which you have no source.

>>5230637

Agreed.

Query: what further materials do we need to start creating replicas of our important prefab kit?

>>5230637
I agree, we need to make sure that we can do the stuff we keep suggesting for a long time to come rather than jumping ahead of ourselves, the organics should be left alone for now, we can deal with them in some way later, the unknown thing 30 miles away should be monitored yet not approached tor interfered with for a while, we need to mine materials and build structures that allow us to either process them or get more of them, we can then build structures to do other stuff but one step at a time.

>>5230588
Query: Does there seem to be a picking order to who eats first? Is food brought in to the settlement presented to anyone?

Command: The scout that is observing the settlement has provided sufficient data to make observation a side task. Begin to track patterns of nearby mammals, preferably big game animals. One that has parts that seem to be kept for trophy's would be optimal. Report back the top three best matches.

>>5230624
We need rare elements for that. We can make circutry after mining that gold and silicon!

>>5230676

Good call. It seems our directive to start mining the recently found rare metals has been acted upon.

after we have our mining infrastructure underway and our dam built as much as we can we should set to either improve our current scanners, as in OUR scanners on the main hull, or we should send bots further afield to search for phosphorus etc. we should preferably do both but only do one if we are restricted by resources.

>>5230675
Previous findings indicate that organics primary food source is agriculture rather than hunter gatherer.

Query irellivent as they have advanced past hunter gather stage.

>>5230705

Big game may well hold significance in the locals' culture. It is certainly worthy of further study on a lower priority.

Render harvested trees for phosphorus and arsenic, as well as other trace elements. Use carbon (graphite) surrounded by carbon nanotubes as power cabling instead of other metals. Consider SiO2 as a more resource efficient source.
Stop tree power plant as it is redundant.

Directive: Full status report please.

>>5230738

Keeping the wood-burner mothballed will be a useful backup source of power should our primary sources fail.

Good call on the resource stripping.

>>5230720
>>5230705
Statement: The research is to look for a proper gift to give the settlement to atleast calm them for the time, and it will also show that we have the sufficient power to bring down large game.

Query: Reconsideration of "Begin to track patterns of nearby mammals, preferably big game animals. One that has parts that seem to be kept for trophy's would be optimal. Report back the top three best matches." is requested.

>Query: We need to hook up a regulator to our powerplant; and then wire it into ourself. Can this be accomplished with the materials at hand without using prefab parts?
This could be crudely accomplished, yes. What is its purpose?

>Keep track of encoded signal, notify if it starts moving, or broadcasting excessively. Or for any other signal.
You continue to monitor this using your small communications array.

>Stop harvesting wood, render some wood for carbon and trace elements, start laying down carbon power cable from dam.
You have been using aluminium and steel for your power cable, which is generally adequate although you lack sufficient insulation. Any large-scale laying of cable will require rubber or a similar chemically based insulator.

>Set mining scout to check on dam as well.
Done.

>Move to rare element location.
To which location do you wish to move? Copper, gold, and silicon are all available.

>Query: Do we have the materials needed to create a mining drone for each of the rare-mineral deposits found thus far?
Mining drones have been dispatched, though this exhausted your workforce of that type.

>Query: Do we have the parts available to produce a means to extract heavy- or half-heavy-water from the river?
Your main body can accomplish this as long as it remains alongside the river.

>We should set aside a subprocessor; or construct a dedicated unit; to deal soley with translation and communication with the locals. After all; friends are much more useful than enemies.
This is possible, but getting a subprocessor of sufficient complexity will require disassembling and rededicating one of your mining, harvesting, or construction drones.

>Query: what further materials do we need to start creating replicas of our important prefab kit?
Phosphorus and arsenic are both important components of semiconductors; supplies of each must be secured. Additionally, zinc will be required, and the means to shape ceramics and metals in a precise fashion at high temperatures will be required.

Query

What elements can be extracted from dead humans?
Consider possibility of eventual engineering culture burial rites to involve recycling them for organic compounds. No use letting good biomass go to waste.

>>5230758
Hook up dam power to bauxite mine.

>>5230758

Purpose of a regulator is to regulate the voltage coming from the dam power supply; as not to fry our internal circuits.

Query: What materials are needed to construct additional mining drones?

Directive: Send a spare scout (if we have one) on the lookout for minerals needed. Report back progress.

>Query: Does there seem to be a picking order to who eats first? Is food brought in to the settlement presented to anyone?
The leaders (oldest and strongest) generally eat first and appear to have their pick of the food.

>Command: The scout that is observing the settlement has provided sufficient data to make observation a side task. Begin to track patterns of nearby mammals, preferably big game animals. One that has parts that seem to be kept for trophy's would be optimal. Report back the top three best matches.
There are short-furred, hoofed and antlered quadrupeds of several breeds in the forest, and appear to be the dominant phenotype of game animal. They vary in size, strength, and agility fairly widely based upon species.

>Render harvested trees for phosphorus and arsenic, as well as other trace elements. Use carbon (graphite) surrounded by carbon nanotubes as power cabling instead of other metals. Consider SiO2 as a more resource efficient source.
Rendering commencing for trace amounts of phosphorous and arsenic. The construction of carbon nanotubes in large numbers will require dedicated equipment, as your nanite-level construction abilities are limited- they can continue to produce indefinitely, but at a slow pace.

If possible:

Construct remote facilities at the mineral deposits. Construct a facility to create more harvester drones. Send drones to facilities to mine minerals and stockpile them at the facilities, which will have automated carriers to bring the minerals back to us.

Why, in all our mechanical glory, should we be forced to move?

>Move to rare element location
Cancel that, start building shell structures near dam to later be specialised as factories/crude defenses.
Filter water for any useful mineral and heavy water. If we're lucky we'll hit something good.

Report: medium flyer - anything interesting?

>>5230849

This.

Although I think presently we don't have enough materials to construct dedicated drone construction facilities.

Query: Do we have the materials needed for drone construction facility?

This would make an awesome DF type game.

[x] create giant robot

>What elements can be extracted from dead humans?
>Consider possibility of eventual engineering culture burial rites to involve recycling them for organic compounds. No use letting good biomass go to waste.
As a general rule, it is less efficient to bother with organics than to harvest and refine things purely mechanically. There is a sharply limited supply of primitives in the region.

>Purpose of a regulator is to regulate the voltage coming from the dam power supply; as not to fry our internal circuits.
Clarification: The dam power supply incorporates a processor taken from your prefabricated part supply which manages all its operations and coordinates with any connected loads so as to avoid damage. The application of an additional regulator is not necessary.

>Query: What materials are needed to construct additional mining drones?
The primary bottleneck at this point is the rate of mining and the general lack of industrial infrastructure rather than specific resources.

>Directive: Send a spare scout (if we have one) on the lookout for minerals needed. Report back progress.
Most immediately required materials have been secured. Zinc, nickel, and a few other metals could be used in larger quantities but are currently being harvested in trace amounts during smelting of other materials.

>>5230873
I just wanna get enough resources to build my decoder/translator to listen to the signal..

If we have the materials, build dedicated circutry installation, then comms decoder/language translator.

>>5230931

>The primary bottleneck at this point is the rate of mining and the general lack of industrial infrastructure rather than specific resources.

Then we should do something about this.

Query: Define 'Industrial Infrastructure'

>Directive: Send a spare scout (if we have one) on the lookout for minerals needed. Report back progress.
Most immediately required materials have been secured. Zinc, nickel, and a few other metals could be used in larger quantities but are currently being harvested in trace amounts during smelting of other materials.

OK so what we need to focus on is increasing and upgrading our current mining facilities, do I need to define this action or can it generally be taken as biggering and bettering?

After building comms warfare array, repurpose circutry installation to drone (medium tracked multipurpose) factory.

and decode signal.

>Hook up dam power to bauxite mine.
You still lack sufficient insulated cabling to accomplish this. The distance itself is substantial- it will require many days of mining to provide the metal for such a cable.

>Construct remote facilities at the mineral deposits. Construct a facility to create more harvester drones. Send drones to facilities to mine minerals and stockpile them at the facilities, which will have automated carriers to bring the minerals back to us.
Mineral deposits have rudimentary facilities at the moment; the addition of further capabilities will require more drones. Constructing additional harvester drones is difficult, as they are quite flexible and sophisticated, but simple hauler drones could be constructed which will substitute for harvester drones in some of their current tasks, which consist in great part of hauling ore to our main body for smelting.

>[x] create giant robot
Please outline its desired characteristics more specifically, and be aware that metal supplies are in high demand right now.

how much of our resource store would it take to improve the speed of our prospector drones?

would it be possible to outfit the mining drones to act as overseers for simpler automatons with the same purpose?

how close are we resource-wise to being able to construct a factory for simple bots? (what is needed, by percentage, how much of our stockpile will be used for the resources we already have (>100% for insufficient resources).
- subquerry, re-assign mining bots to fill stockpiles to necessary levels as quickly as possible

10 Determine bottleneck in industrial production.
20 Locate, extract, and apply resources to that area.
30 GOTO 10

>>5231040

> would it be possible to outfit the mining drones to act as overseers for simpler automatons with the same purpose?

This is a good idea.

Directive: If possible, outfit the mining drones to act as overseers for simpler automatons with the same purpose

Make cheap yet efficient bots to speed up and improve mining and the quantity of material gained from the mines per day or so.

also will this be continued at a later date? considering its 1.44 where I am and im not too sure if it benefits me constantly stayingup into the long hours of the night

>>5231023
Construct drones that have the capability to mine the distant minerals and return them to us, then send them out to mine said minerals.

>>5231065
You fool! You forgot extra external matters!

Query - What is the state of prefab storage
Query - What is the status of the medium scout drone sent to find the signal?
Query - have roads been created to make travel between mining sites easier.
Query - what is the possibility in creating a semi autonomous industrial site for production of mining drones?

I agree that OP needs a name and a trip for if/when this is continued at a later date/new thread once this one hits autosage.

I propose Arnybot1.6

>Cancel that, start building shell structures near dam to later be specialised as factories/crude defenses.
Shell structures under construction; concrete is the default construction material unless you specify otherwise.

>Filter water for any useful mineral and heavy water. If we're lucky we'll hit something good.
Filtering underway. Storage of heavy water requires diversion of otherwise occupied construction drones to make and seal containers.

>Report: medium flyer - anything interesting?
Nothing interesting, as directives have been to avoid engagements thus far.

>Query: Define 'Industrial Infrastructure'
Required components:
The ability to smelt ores in a large-scale, efficient fashion.
The ability to make immediate use of the resulting metals by shaping them into parts which can serve as useful components for machinery.
The ability to rapidly manipulate numerous small-scale and large-scale parts such that they are quickly assembled into useful and functioning items.

Right now, your main body has to handle all smelting, and then shape the resulting metals into whatever it wants them to be. It's huge- think building-sized- but it has limits; can only smelt one thing at once, work on one construction project at once.

Also, I'm kind of frantically grasping at my knowledge of genuine industry here- I know a lot of things have been glossed over- so please cut a little slack. If you've got ideas, know that some substance can be used in such a way, or whatever, please add such detail to your post. This is pretty fast and loose with logic anyway, we can swing whatever.

>>5231126
Incidentally thread's been archived on suptg as IRON QUEST.

What do we think of the idea of contacting less primitive natives and offering to assist them in return for their help in gathering resources?

We are superior in every way, but we have limited tools to work with, and an extra labor source could be incredibly useful. We could repurpose our mining and hauling drones to help build more infrastructure, and also enjoy the benefit of protection by the natives. We would only need to craft items sufficiently more advanced than they are in order to impress them.

Op needs name faggotry for epic quest.

IRONFAG
since a fag is a piece of iron... or something.

>I just wanna get enough resources to build my decoder/translator to listen to the signal..
>If we have the materials, build dedicated circutry installation, then comms decoder/language translator.
It is possible to disassemble one of your advanced drones and repurpose its processor to this end. Otherwise, you will need to wait until you can produce advanced semiconductors.

>OK so what we need to focus on is increasing and upgrading our current mining facilities, do I need to define this action or can it generally be taken as biggering and bettering?
After a certain point, we're going to need to just say "spend the next year/however long churning out endless industry and advancing". I admit it'll get boring to agonize over every shortage and micro everything.

>After building comms warfare array, repurpose circutry installation to drone (medium tracked multipurpose) factory.
My apologies, I think I missed something here. Which circuitry installation are you referring to?

>how much of our resource store would it take to improve the speed of our prospector drones?
You can improve their speed at little resource cost; it'll just run them out of energy and wear their parts out faster. Not that I've actually been worrying about their rock drills breaking off.

>would it be possible to outfit the mining drones to act as overseers for simpler automatons with the same purpose?
Yes. This shall be done, and can greatly improve production rate; each mining drone has a processor substantially more powerful than needed for only its operations.

>how close are we resource-wise to being able to construct a factory for simple bots? (what is needed, by percentage, how much of our stockpile will be used for the resources we already have (>100% for insufficient resources).
There are a large number of demands on your resources- every request that comes through bleeds more of your steel, aluminium, or whatever. You commence construction of a factory for simple bots (the kind that need one of your advanced drones nearby for control); it will take some time to complete.

>Make cheap yet efficient bots to speed up and improve mining and the quantity of material gained from the mines per day or so.
Underway as per above.

>Construct drones that have the capability to mine the distant minerals and return them to us, then send them out to mine said minerals.
These are your mining drones; they're too advanced for you to really build on your own, and it's not particularly efficient to have the same drone mine and haul anyway.

>10 Determine bottleneck in industrial production.
>20 Locate, extract, and apply resources to that area.
>30 GOTO 10
I laughed. Yeah, this is pretty much this quest in a nutshell, if you overlook the details.

>I agree that OP needs a name and a trip for if/when this is continued at a later date/new thread once this one hits autosage.
>Op needs name faggotry for epic quest.
I'll see about getting one. This is the third or so quest that I've started and the only one that took off, so I haven't really worried about it. I'll probably get one of those trip finders to come up with something vaguely related.

>Query - What is the state of prefab storage
Construction drones have several other projects at the moment- factory for secondary worker drones, mine expansions- but it is being created, and used to house resources under collection but not use, like deuterium.
>Query - What is the status of the medium scout drone sent to find the signal?
Please reissue directive if this drone should be doing anything particularly interesting; I must have missed it. There was the one signal source, but you didn't want to get close to it in case it was armed, last I recall.
>Query - have roads been created to make travel between mining sites easier.
No, no roads have been created. Your drones have all been occupied with other business.
>Query - what is the possibility in creating a semi autonomous industrial site for production of mining drones?
Underway, at least to some extent.