Bots

At Cook level two (requires town level two), Chris in the tavern will sell the Thief Zapper, helper bots, and helper bot fuel.

At town level three, elf and orc delivery bots will arrive. Note: the quest can be picked up sooner, but the bots are not available until town level three.

## Helper Bots

* Head to the tavern and talk to Chris. Purchase your first helper bot from him for 35k Mun.
* The helper bot dock will be attached to the outside of the management building on the right side (northwest) if you're looking at the front door.
* As the bots perform tasks, they will use fuel. Purchase more from Chris every day or so, depending on how many bots you have and how active they are.
* Add more fuel to the dock by holding the fuel item in your hand and pressing [E] while looking at the cylinder sticking out of the right of the machine. It will say "Fill Fuel [E]" and visually fill up with orange liquid. It will still accept fuel when full, so stop before the cylinder reaches max.
* Interact with the dock by pressing E when the cursor says "Control Bots [E]."
	+ Purchase additional bots (up to 5 total) for 20k each.
	+ Click on one of the five modes under each bot to ask it to do said task.
* Each bot's chest can hold 40 unique items. If you want to auto-stock more items, then purchase more bots.

#### Bot tasks:

1. Idle: the bot will do nothing.
2. Stock: the bot will take items from the chest in front of itself and place them on displays in the store. It will go about this task depending on the imprint setting:
	1. If imprinting is disabled, it will fill as many displays as it can with everything in the box. It will not care about duplicate items on display, quantity of items on display, or the variety of items on display. It simply empties the chest into the shop.
	2. If imprinting is enabled, the bot will smartly fill any display that has an empty imprinted spot. To imprint an item: hold it in your hand, look at the display, and use [L Shift]+[right click] to imprint an item. From now on, if that spot is empty and the bot has that imprinted item in its box, it will go stock that item in that spot.
		* Place displays in your shop, imprint them all with where you want each item to be stocked, then keep the box in front of your bot full of those items and it will keep your shop stocked how you want it as the items sell.
3. Repair: the bot will repair displays that fall below 70% durability. This does not harm customers, unlike the player's repair hammer.
4. Clean: the bot will sweep garbage piles off the floor. It will not empty garbage cans.
5. Gather: the bot will pick up dropped items from the shop floor. This is currently bugged and the dev likely will not come back to the game to patch this. As of this writing (Jan 2024), the bot will not pick up items dropped outside of the shop and it will not pick up items dropped by slain thieves, even inside the shop.

## Thief Zapper

* Head to the tavern and talk to Chris. Purchase the Thief Zapper MKII for 50k Mun.
* Purchase fuses for the zapper from the order scroll. The zapper holds three charges at a time.
* Add fuses to the thief zapper in the management building. It is on the same north wall that the door is on.
	+ Sometimes there is a graphical bug that shows one charge left when there is in fact zero charges left.
	+ At Alchemist level 3, one free fuse is generated (and installed) about once every 90 seconds.
* When a thief tries to leave with an item, they will be struck by lightning and killed (if there is a fuse installed). The item they were carrying will drop to the ground and need to be picked up by the player before it despawns and is lost forever.

## Orc and elf delivery bots

* At town level 3, the orc and elf delivery bots show up. They will be floating in front of a new sign next to the daily report/event sign.
* The elves and orcs will each send one bot per day. They arrive at 0800 and depart at 2200.
* To earn credit for the current day's shipment request, all items must be put in the chest before 2200.
* If all of the requested items are not in the chest, the bot will return the next morning with the partial order.
* After about five days of sending the requested items, the player may travel to the elf and orc shops to purchase goods from that shoppe keep. The items may be sold in the player's shoppe.
* The bots will be there for the rest of the game, but you only need to give them enough items until they start selling you their merchandise; ignore them once you are able to purchase the elf and orc items from their shoppes.
* The orc shoppe will offer you a helmet, sword, mace, bow, and a shield.
* The elf shoppe will offer you a cowl, circlet, ring, staff, and a bow.
* Selling the elf and orc items in your shoppe will attract elves and orcs to town to purchase the items. The more items on display, the more orcs and elves are attracted to town. This is important for town level 4.
* If you need a higher percentage of elves and orcs, put down more displays and set out more items.
* The percentage of orcs and elves (and the family status of the three families) is displayed on a wooden board on the back wall of the management house. It is near Sir Poshington.