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MyRobot Development Part 56

Added 2025-04-24 00:35:20 +0000 UTC

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

Bull Worms
Housekeeping

Bull Worms

So the desert, being its own biome, has to come with its own sets of challenges. As seen in the old builds, it's a high temperature zone so your robot needs to stay out of the sun to prevent overheating. But that's only during the day. During the night there were no dangers! Until now.

The bull worms are adult stage larva that grow into these enormous and aggressive nocturnal beings. They (although I think I'll only have 1) come out at night and immediately snake towards the player. You can't outrun them but you can outsmart them and curve around their movements. Still they are highly challenging and may definitely require a couple surfboard boost upgrades to make it easier for you. All you can do is run away.

This means the desert biome is just a transitory biome for the next biome, the forest biome! But before I do that I will be adding a few more caves and exploration zones here and there. Especially those filled with splats and larva puzzles!

Housekeeping

This is just a collection of things I did. Namely: