Plumbot

Plumbot is a life state that is introduced in The Sims 3: Into the Future.
Sims are able to buy pre-made and pre-programmed Plumbots. There is a "Create a Bot" feature, accessed through Reventlov's Bot Workshop, which allows players to create Plumbots and customize existing ones. Plumbots can have up to seven "trait chips", which allow them to have a variety of features, abilities and skill sets. The number of trait chips a Plumbot can be equipped with depends upon its creator's Bot Building skill. Any Sim with high enough skill can upgrade a Plumbot to give it more trait chip slots. Sims are able to buy trait chips, or design and make them; and are able to buy materials needed to make them.August 13 blog post by SimGuruBritt Sims are able to build a Bot Building skill which allows them to make better Plumbots, upgrade existing ones, and make more advanced trait chips.The Sims 3 Live Broadcast - July 23, 2013 on "The Sims" YouTube Channel. Mention of Plumbots starts at around 25:00
Plumbots can also scan Sims or other Plumbots. This has a small chance of revealing their traits or trait chips.
Since Oasis Landing is set in a future world, relative to the other worlds in The Sims series, they can be considered as the successors of Servos and SimBots.
The origins of Plumbots are told by Emit Relevart during one of the quest lines the player Sim can receive when choosing "Assist with Research" with him: Plumbots evolved more or less naturally from nanites made by hobbyists that they had released in the wild. In their earliest days the Plumbots competed against each other, and then became social domestic assistants, before trait chips were invented to modify them much more.
Unlike SimBots or Servos, Plumbots are immune to water, and even enjoy it.
==Simology==
A Plumbot's Simology panel will show the bot's name, gender, and quality (on a scale of 0 to 10). It will also show which trait chips are installed.
A Plumbot can gain Lifetime happiness points from high Mood if the Simulated Emotions or Sentience trait chips are installed.The Sims 3 Into the Future: Trait Chips at Carl's Sims 3 Guide. They may also have wishes, even without specific trait chips, which can be promised and fulfilled for happiness as normal.
In the Q&A on July 30, 2013, it was mentioned that Plumbots do not age, but can have accidents. It was implied that Plumbots that are kept maintained will last indefinitely. A bug causes some Plumbots to actually have a birthday and age up, causing their bodies to disappear. A guide for restoring them if this happens is here.
===Robot Quality===
Scale	Quality
0 	Unstable
1 	Fragile
2 	Duct Taped
3 	Weak
4 	Average
5 	Decent
6 	Awesome
7 	Fantastic
8 	High Tech
9 	Next Gen
10 	Future Tech
Plumbots have a quality rating that ranges from 0 to 10. Skilled bot-builders can increase a Plumbot's quality by tuning it up or by upgrading its trait chip slots. Increasing a Plumbot's quality increases the amount it can be sold for, and higher quality Plumbots lose Battery Power and Maintenance more slowly. 
A Plumbot is unable to increase its own quality level, though with sufficient skill in Bot Building, it is able to randomly increase the quality of other Plumbots just as a normal Sim can.
===Motives===
Like Servos from The Sims 2: Open for Business, Plumbots have 4 needs. Those needs are: Battery Power, Maintenance, Social, and Fun. Whether or not Social and Fun are greyed out depends on which trait chips are installed. Plumbots have a mood meter, but it will be greyed out unless an appropriate trait chip is installed. Plumbots do not need to eat, and will not want to eat.
While they have no bladder or hygiene motives under any circumstances, not even greyed-out ones, a Plumbot with the Fear of Humans trait chip is very likely to wet themselves and release an oil puddle beneath them when they see a human.
====Battery Power====
This is the Plumbot equivalent of energy. The quality of a Plumbot affects how quickly this decays. The higher a Plumbot's quality is, the longer its battery power will last.
Plumbots can recharge at the Nexus-9 Non-Organic Charging Station, which can be bought in Buy mode for §710. They can also syphon power from electrical appliances, though this will greatly deplete their Maintenance motive and very often break the appliance. Plumbots can be shut down, and will replenish power while shut down.
The Solar Powered trait chip allows a Plumbot to use solar power when outside during daylight, and the Efficient trait chip lets Plumbots use power more efficiently.
=====Safe objects to syphon power from=====
Without having a high chance of breaking the objects, as the objects are unable to break in general.
*Charging station.
*Reventlov's Bot Workshop.
*Refrigerators.
*Stoves.
*Some large indoor lamps.
*Public Sounds Stereo.
*Arcade games.
*Science research station.
*Cerebralizing Brain Enhancing Machine.
*Vending machines.
*Houseboat helm.
====Maintenance====
Unlike Servos and SimBots, Plumbots will require maintenance. The quality of a Plumbot affects how fast this decays (the higher the quality the slower it decays). If a Plumbot's maintenance bar is empty, it will begin to malfunction. Plumbots are able to maintain themselves. When a Sim or Plumbot with a medium or high Bot Building skill tunes a Plumbot, its quality may rise. The Plumbot's quality can only increase if it was lower than the tuner's Bot Building skill. A Plumbot that accrues 15,000 Lifetime Happiness Points can purchase the Maintenance Master reward, slowing down the Maintenance motive.
===Trait Chips===
Plumbots do not have traits as Sims do. Instead, they can be equipped with special chips, called trait chips, which give them various skill sets, abilities, and features. A Plumbot will have between 3 and 7 trait chip slots, depending on its quality, and players can fill as many slots as they wish. Unlike traits, trait chips can be removed and replaced at any time, though there is a chance that removing a trait chip will damage it, when removing one from a Plumbot not in the household. When this happens, it will also make the Plumbot dislike the Sim who removed the chip, if the two are not already friends or better.
===Plumbot immunities and deaths===
====Immune to dying from====
*Age.
*Electrocution.
*Drowning in swimming pools or open water (as they do not ever get the Stale moodlet).
*Any variety of hunger, thirst, or hydration.
*Jelly Bean (as Plumbots are unable to eat anything).
*Freezing.
====Can die from====
*Fire.
*Falling from the sky when using a jetpack.
*Empty battery power.
*Empty maintenance.
*Being crushed by a meteor.
*Ranting.
*Drowning while scuba diving (despite them not needing air due to being robots, and that they aren't wearing air tanks during diving).
==Create a Bot==
Create-A-Bot.png|Create-A-Bot
Reventlov's Bot Workshop.jpeg|Reventlov's Bot Workshop is used for creating and customizing Plumbots
Create-A-Bot Basics.png|Create-A-Bot Basics
Create-A-Bot Head.png|Create-A-Bot Head
Create-A-Bot Body.png|Create-A-Bot Body
Create-A-Bot Arms.png|Create-A-Bot Arms
Create-A-Bot Legs.png|Create-A-Bot Legs
The announce trailer suggested that it would be possible to create Plumbots inside a special machine. The live broadcast from July 30, 2013 indicated that clicking on the machine would allow the player to enter Create a Bot, which is similar to Create a Sim, but oriented toward building robots.
This machine is Reventlov's Bot Workshop. It can be purchased in Buy mode for §1,750. In addition, the Bot Emporium in Oasis Landing has a Bot Workshop that Sims can use. Access to Create a Bot requires at least level 2 of Bot Building skill, and is not free. Creating a Plumbot costs §250, and customizing an existing Plumbot costs §100.The Sims 3 Into the Future: Bot Making at Carl's Sims 3 Guide Create a Bot creates Plumbots with no programming. Trait chips must be bought or made separately and installed after the Plumbot is created.
Create a Bot allows the player to customize the Plumbot by choosing a head, body, arms, and legs. The player can color the parts with Create a Style. There is a "randomize" button, as there is in Create a Sim.
===Basics (Name, Gender, and Voice)===
The very first of the five tabs is Basics. This is where the player chooses the Plumbot's name and gender.The Sims 3 Live Broadcast - July 30, 2013 on "The Sims" YouTube Channel
Name: Type in the Plumbot's name. Players can have up to 13 characters.
Gender OS: Choose either Male or Female. The Male (♂) or Female (♀) will be used as an icon for Basics
Voice: Choose one of three voice types. A slider and buttons indicates the controls the pitch of the Plumbot's voice.
===Head===
The player can choose a head from the collection. The color and pattern of the parts can be chosen by the player with the Create a Style tool.
===Body/Torso===
The player can choose a torso from the collection. The color and pattern of the parts can be chosen by the player with the Create a Style tool.
===Arms===
The player can choose arms from the collection. The color and pattern of the parts can be chosen by the player with the Create a Style tool.
===Legs===
The player can choose legs or a hover bottom from the collection. The legs is used for walking and running while hover bottom is used for floating in the air, however the movements are much more like the legs. The color and pattern of the parts can be chosen by the player with the Create a Style tool.
==Selling a Plumbot==
Unlike activated Servos from The Sims 2: Open for Business and SimBots from Ambitions, Plumbots can be sold. Selling a Plumbot requires a TechnoTycoon Plumbot Stand, which is available in Buy mode for §1250, or going to the "Nuts n' Bolts Bot Emporium" in Oasis Landing. A Plumbot cannot be sold unless it is present.
==Things Plumbots cannot do==
Despite being designed later than SimBots (both by expansion pack and in the Sims 3 timeline), Plumbots have substantial limitations on which activities, objects, and interactions they can do. They generally cannot do the following, regardless of trait chips:
*Eat food (Some narrow exceptions for Store objects applyThey can however eat from the Frost-Bite Pro Ice Cream Machine, the chocolate fountain, the World of Wonder Popcorn Machine, and the World of Wonder Cotton Candy Maker. Doing so will not increase any of its motives, but they do get the moodlets associated with the food ingredients, e.g. Buzzed! from the Java Bean Dream ice cream flavor. Although they can buy from the food truck, the food plate will instantly disappear after being purchased.).
*Consume drinks (except 88w55 Classic from a drink synthesizer).
*Shower (except with Keep Me Clean Outdoor Shower or It's Not Gross Public Shower Station).
*Use a bathtub (They can however use hot tubs, swimming pools, saunas (incl. hydrotherapy and mud bath), and do ocean swimming).
*Use toilets (except the Uber Sani-Sim Toilet).
*WooHoo with a Sim.
*Sleep or nap (They can sleep in the Sharper Sim's Super Sleeper, in which they'll wake up minutes later with a Well Rested moodlet that lasts indefinitely).
*Become celebrities.
*Be stung by bees, thus making them perfect beekeepers.
*Become fatigued or drowning (Although they can immediately continue using gym equipment after reaching the point where Sims would've become fatigued, there is a gradual cooldown of the point's timer, so a Plumbot immediately continuing would stop again after mere minutes).
*Vomit (They can get Visceroidal Nausea from Tiberium, but the countdown will freeze at the 2-hour mark.)
*Get tattoos.
*Buy from a vending machine (They can however shake or slam the vending machines).
*They do not have zodiac signs in their info panels, but their sign will get shown in a notification if they use Lunar Horoscope from the moondial).
*"Change appearance" with a mirror.
*Get spray tans.
*Sing with a karaoke machine.
*Use a dresser or otherwise use clothes.
*Visit a face painting booth.
*Brush teeth.
*Buy clothes from mannequins.
*Attend school, as child or teen Plumbots don't exist (They can attend university).
*Wish for Happiness or Child from the wishing well.
*Use Leon's Fountain of Youth.
*Pick fruit from the Tree of Prosperity.
*Donate plasma, saliva, or giggles at the Busche School of Science.
*Transform into any other occult state or species without cheats.
*Pick the forbidden fruit.
*Eat from the jelly bean bush.
*Plumbots must have legs in order to kick garden gnomes and the flamingo object, or to play soccer, i.e. hovering legless Plumbot models cannot do them.
==Trivia==
*Plumbots were originally called ServoBots during development.http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/719602.page
*Some of the plumbot parts are from Servo in The Sims 2: Open for Business.
*Plumbots' voices are just like regular Sim voices, but robotized.
*One of the Plumbot heads looks similar to a Geth head. This could be a possible reference to another game published by EA, Mass Effect.
**Another head looks like EDI, from the same game.
*The name "Reventlov's Bot Workshop" may be a reference to R. Giskard Reventlov, a robot character from Isaac Asimov's Robot series.
*There is a Plumbot by the name of KH-48, this is likely a reference to HK-47 a Hunter-Killer assassin droid from the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic series.
* Some pre-made Plumbot models at the Bot Emporium will have the name Elita, which could be a reference to a female robot named Elita-One from The Transformers: Generation One cartoon.
* Plumbots may have Sim-like names (for example, 4NN4 for Anna) if the randomizer is used.
*The name of the "Steel Chef" trait chip may be a reference to the Iron Chef cooking shows.
==Notes==
*Plumbots have their own gravestone and urn. The gravestone has a holographic plaque of spinning gears.
*Plumbots sometimes speak like normal Sims while choosing body parts in Create-a-Bot. Their pose and posture are also similar to Sims'.
*Plumbots will trigger the Technophobia moodlet on a Sim with the Technophobe trait.
*Plumbots, like Sims, can obtain degrees. This can give them a headstart in whatever the player aims to do with it.
*They do not suffer from the hygiene drop caused by martial arts and can break space rock blocks indefinitely for gems.
*Plumbot couples choosing to adopt a child are referred to as "Family Plumbot" in the relationship panel, and not "Mother" or "Father".
*Plumbot stands in bot emporiums will automatically restock new Plumbots once per day.
*When a Sim is doing a tune-up on a Plumbot, the Sim has a chance of saying "Time for buzip!", hinting that "buzip" could be the Simlish word for tune-up.
*If the player kicks a Plumbot out of the household, they will automatically have the Limitless Learning trait chip.
*There's a glitch when the player creates or edits Plumbot from the future. When arriving in their home world, their body or head change back to the original ones. This also occurs when moving the Plumbot's family into the library and putting that copy in a world.
*It appears that sometimes a glitch will occur that will result in the Plumbot aging. (See the gallery for screencaps.)
*Plumbots tend to not be particularly happy about having their trait chips removed during adjustment by someone who are not in their household (usually finding it quite rude). If done on a stranger Plumbot, the relationship will go down from 0 to -20. Adding trait chips without removing any of the existing ones, won't cause such a relationship drop.
==Gallery==
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Screenshots=
TS3ITF Gallery 5.jpg
TS3ITF Gallery 6.jpg
ITF Plumbot_scanning_Sim.jpg|A Plumbot scanning a Sim
Plumbot cover.jpg
simsFuturePlumBot.png
PlumbotRechargingStation.png|A Plumbot using a recharging station
TS3 live broadcast 20130730 Plumbot.png
Sims 3 Into the Future YouTube trailer screenshot.png
Red Plumbot and Sim.jpg
Bots_Screen1.jpg
Bots_Screen2.jpg
Bots_Screen3.jpg
Bots_Screen4.jpg|Robo kiss
Bots_Screen5.jpg|A Plumbot using the Holo-Projector chip.
Plumbot-Geth-Head.jpg|Plumbot with a head similar to a Geth from the Mass Effect series.
Female-Plumbot-Female-Sim-Relationship.jpg|Plumbot cuddling with a Sim
Female-Plumbot-Female-Sim-Relationship-2.jpg|Plumbot eye(s) change to a heart when preforming a romantic action (cuddling on the couch, etc.).
Female-Plumbot-Female-Sim-Relationship-7.jpg|A Plumbot proposing to a Sim
Plumbot soon about to try to age up.png|Birthday of a Plumbot (either they age or this is a glitch)
The Sims 3 (2).png|Scene 2 of 4 (Birthday of a Plumbot)
Plumbot trying to age up.png|A Plumbot's birthday (3 of 4)
The Sims 3 (4).png|Plumbot birthday (4 of 4 which means they can age up)
The Sims 3 (5).png|This is the end result of Plumbot birthday (1)
The Sims 3 (6).png|The end result of the Plumbot birthday (2 of 2)
Plumbot green ghost.jpg|Plumbot ghost
Plumbot Gravestone.jpg|Plumbot's gravestone
my robot.jpg|A Plumbot building a snowman with his creator
Public Plumbot unhappy about trait chips adjusted.webp|A notice about a Plumbot not feeling pleased about a stranger removing some of their trait chips.
TechoTycoon Plumbot Stand by Arasika Industries.webp|A Plumbot shopping stand.
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TS3ITF Render 5.png|Creating a Plumbot
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