Try Planting just 2 random "sacrifice" plants out in front of the base in the center near the ramp sensors. Maybe by having just 2 plants Front and Center, will act as a measure to guarantee Raids will come in from the center. But you will have to sacrifice 2 plants every high level raid as they will be out in the open for the bots to destroy. But at least you'll know they will come from front center. Will be a cool experiment to try. Like so he can see!!!
Moses LMPS I hade a similiar idea a million videos ago, but my technique wouldn’t be sacrafices, they would be under the catapults (three of them) and then they would be priorities and they would get flung, combine our ideas, except but yours in a tier 3 metal box, and for bosses, warehouse keys, and then no sacrafices!
give hank a gun. im sure in hank's ability to kill one boss atleast and on a serious note: i don't know if this works but try to make a dummy/bait farm. make a 3*3 farm and maybe the boss bots target the small farm first. Also, do water turrets work on boss bots? because if they do maybe you can make sensors and water turrets so they get knocked automatically and then u can spuddle them. 3rd idea- why not make some temporary mines? one explosive can kill one boss. or maybe make a turret that shoots one explosive canister. it wud be hard to reload but, one boss can be long ranged( ik scrap mechanic is inconsistant so it would be hard but you can try). Edit: Try making the tires the bigger ones, idea from @Crash 354 from the comments of this comment. the bridge was being destroyed by boss running over it. and the boss bots might launch farther back now from the wheels because now the catapults are gone, i think they were hitting the catapults and stopping. thats all i got
@Computer Boy do you know what tiles are? it will be the same tile. i think u mean not connected to the farm, i think that a problem too thats why said try
Add a warehouse key on critical raid components like one on the engine and one on any sensor or button even if it takes more space it means those parts are less likely to be hit by a boss. Drawbridge parts could use one too. Don't want a tapebot hitting the wrong place like the piston and giving all the other bots acces
Scrapman: He’s not ragdolled! Ok now he’s ragdolled. Oh no he’s not! Me: on edge of seat Ad: FOLKS, I’M GONNA SHARE A STOCK WITH YOU THAT GOES UP ON THE SAME DATE EVERY YEAR!
Boss traps ideas: A) Explosion proof material. Maybe metal 3. Will be very expensive. B) Death far from the trap: wheel traps, catapults, turrets. (Fall damage / range damage). C) Corpse disposal via wheel traps or catapults. Basically when the boss dies you need to yeet it's corpse out. Seems inefficient.
Me: "Make a wall of warehouse keys in front of the base for ultimate protection." In my head: "I don't think he can do it, plus the bouncy floor will be useless unless they got through."
Scrap man u can upgrade your base by building auto turrets in front of your base for the farm bots and for the regular hay bots and greenies you can just use your traps because their hitbox is lower than farm bot pls like so scrap man can see
u know sensors have only 20 range , that means turret must be close to the bot but if this even kill boss his explosion will destroy turret . so… thats expensive and useless. :\
@@toast0mlg355 I use auto turrets in my base wall. They are non spinning so I have 16 mounted spudguns spaced out in a line. To protect them I built a Metal 3 wall around them and in front of them so the guns and sensors are 4 blocks recessed into the wall. The big red farm bots get right up to the wall and swing and do a little damage to the metal 3 wall, but all the while they are getting blasted from the guns. The guns and sensors are also safe from the explosions since they are just of reach. I just sit back and shoot the tape bots. It is very effective but was very expensive to make, and Scrapman would have to redesign the whole front of his base. So yes expensive, but if done right, not useless.
Great idea so great to the point everything you made is useless: *breathes in* *A WALL OF WAREHOUSE KEYS ON THE FRONT* Edit: everyone says a wall takes too much and a fence is better *bruh what did I mean*
Based on my rough estimates, his base is around about 120 blocks wide. Each warehouse key is two block wide and two blocks tall, so you would need about 60 warehouse keys for one layer, and you would need 4 warehouse keys tall to stop bots from going over it. This means you would need _at least_ (you would need more for the edges where the island widens out) 240 warehouse keys. If you assume that you could find 6 bosses per in-game day (24 minutes) , it would take you a total of *16 hours* to find all of the keys you needed. Considering he already has about 60 now he would still need to get 180, spending at least *12 hours* on it. These are all very rough estimates, and I don't think you could consistently find 6 bosses a day, especially due to their slow respawn rate, but yeah. That being said, it would be really cool to see a wall of warehouse keys
@@MrTurbo_ Count the wheels, there are like 50 or 60 of them, I wasn't including the drawbridges. Even if I did though it wouldn't be anywhere near 2000
Maybe setting up posts outside covered in Warehouse Keys that are spread out far enough from each other to let Farmbots and Greenies through, but not Bossbots?
They exploded your ramps in the front because you had the haybot leg/spine things right in front of the trap so they didn't travel far enough away to not explode the ramps
I believe the big reds should also drop random blocks ontop of what they drop. Like 250 lvl 2 metal or maybe 15 ramps, stuff like that. It would gove us a way to obtain certain blocks and give us more of a reason to hunt big reds.
1. Build retractable sentry turrets that can shoot faster and deal damage quicker than you can with tier 3 metal shields. 2. Build a wall out of tier 3 metal and possibly warehouse keys that acts like reverse bridge so it’s flat when you’re out during the day but up for boss battles/raids 3. Replace your front wall with tier 3 metal 4. Make another row of the wheel trap further out and lower so you don’t need the ramp pieces.
Mr. ScrapMan, when you place the haybot legs in front of the trap, the bosses hit it and then expose there. But if the legs aren’t there the bosses will fly farther back.
Use tier3 metals as ramps, that solves a part of the problem. (They can't get blown up and is replaceable anyway) Oh and use the spudling gun as a defense turret, if it works well on a vehicle it can work well in a base
great idea! the reason he needed the ramp pieces in the first place is that the greenies would attack the concrete steps he originally had, but greenies won't attack t3 metal, meaning they would either just walk up it or else they would just idle in front, being unable to actually attack the steps.
Dont leave the loose bot pieces in front of your wheels defense, because it was blocking the way for the bots to be flung back. This way if the Boss Bots get flung back they explode further away from your base. The vertical standing farm bot arms right in front of your ramps are in the way for sure.
Haven't seen anyone point this out yet, but both of the bosses that blew up the ramps were in front of the scrap spines. You can see them hit the spines, rag doll when they die, and roll back to the ramp. I honestly think since you cleared the area in front of the tire trap that you shouldn't have a problem with the bosses blowing up your base.
When I saw scrapman uploaded something: Hehe Boi... time to watch some funny stuff😂 And why is scrapman more worried and the background music is more suspenseful than the other farm that is from the mechanic station?😂 Scrapmanor is *WAY* more awesome and protected like the other one (💯)
Sort enemies and deal with them differently 1. Move the spinning wheels a little bit more away from the castle wall. 2. Hide them in the floor. One block lower than now, but set them on the pistons so the whole axle shut up at least two blocks (possibly three will work better) when triggered. 3. Change the spinning direction so it will shut bots up. 4. Connect the whole spinning wheels system to sensors attached at such height that only Big Red Bot trigger them. This will allow Heybots and Greenes to come to the bouncy floor but keep the Big Red guys away by shutting them up in the air and take fall damage away from your wall and possibly away from your ramps.
possibly when a boos dies u can have max speed pistons that push the front wallto knock all the bots (including dead bosses) away tip:coat the inside with tier 3 metal so if it does blow up in toe wall were ok it would b best if it was full speed connected to a button
Hi everybody, I just started playing Scrap Mechanic, really enjoying it so far. I ended up building my base on the roof of the mechanic station with a retractable elevator to bring me up and down, the robots can't destroy an "in-game" building so very little resources are needed for defense. I also found a tiny island about a minute swim away that has a small patch of earth on it that's suitable for farming, the haybots cannot spawn in the water and the totebots almost never are able to climb the sides, because it's far enough away from my base the raids never actually happen at all because I harvest before the raid occurs and then leave the area. Currently I'm working on building a long monorail to bring me most of the way out there across the water. Sometimes the best defense is not having to defend in the first place.
Ok hear me put I feel like you should add a Tiltable bouncy floor so when all the bots are rag dolled you can tilted to one side and pour all the bots into the water or into a killing box. Idk just a thought 💭.
one thing that might help with the tape bots is if the merlons of your crenelations were a bit taller. they aren't quite giving you full cover at their current hight. (for those not familiar with castle terminology, the crenelations are the pegs and gaps at the top of the castle wall, consisting of the merlons (which are the pegs) and the crenels (the gaps between the merlons). the idea is that you have full visibility of the enemies and are able to shoot them through the crenels, and you have full cover behind the merlons.
Instead of having the wheel sensors near the wheels put them on the wall of the bounce floor so they can’t destroy them it will take more sensors but they’ll never be destroyed
Put them above, pointing down. If they are on the back wall they can be shot by tape bots. Pretty sure thats why he has the tier 3 metal post blocking them.
What my friends and I have learned from this is: If you wanna do a max-level raid, line up at least three people to be online to fend off the attack. Also, if you want to protect the more expensive components of those traps, like the engine, use the lift glitch to put the engine underground and then link it to a gas container above for refueling.
Ho man, so much damage. Boss defense idea: Sweeper! So the idea is basically to take the wheel line you already made and detach it. Put it on some pistons or something similar to: make it go up, extend, go down then sweep back while rolling the wheels (or roll only on detection) thus launching enemies away from the base. The possible issues/challenges I see with this are making sure it can't be broken, possible lag and making it fast enough so bosses can't get to the ramp before they are swept.
If you use the spudguns that the player doesn’t shoot himself, if you connect an angled sender to these spud guns you could have the bosses killed at a distance.
So a few ideas for defense: 1. You could have a outer wall and its only job would be slowing down the incoming raid 2. An automated gun system to shoot bots before they get too close 3. Thicker concrete walls that can take more hits before you have to worry about a breach. 4. Possibly better tape bot defense, idk what that would involve but it is something to consider as they're the biggest threat next to bosses
Fun idea, make tier 3 lines vertical or horizontal gapped with lines of concrete going the same way, this will make it so they can’t bust through but it’s also a lot cheaper then full tier 3
3 things. 1 make a bigger gap between the wheels and metal so when they explode they dont break the ramps. 2 make the crenellations bigger so the tape bots cant hit you as easy and to block more of your base from them. 3 make a wall on the back of your ramparts so the tapebots cant shoot the rest of your base.
1) Raise the crenellations on your castle wall so that they are above your head and narrow the gap in between them. Probably use a higher level material or 2 block thickness. You're right that the tape bots are your biggest danger at the start of the raid and you need to defend against them better. 2) The bouncy floor is still way better than the tire wall. You should just make another row of it in front of the base. Also, you really need to stop the bosses BEFORE they reach your base because unless you get lucky again and shoot one into the water he is going to wreck your base when they blow up or your expensive traps. The bouncy floor is relatively cheap compared to the tire wall. I'd go with that. 3) Turrets. They're pretty cheap to make and all of the expensive parts except for the sensors can be hidden far away from the turret itself. Just slap a saw blade on top of each one to deter bots from attacking them. Your biggest problem is going to be "What do you do with a boss that is ragdolled on your base wall?" because unless you move him and THEN kill him he is going to wreck a ton of your stuff.
put some random things on their way to slow them down, just some random metal things. if you are feeling fancy since they attack your cars, some free-floating defences might be high-priority enough. So you might be able to even do Czech hedgehogs that are angled on the ground and don't look like bootleg crosses. i.redd.it/a1fg45wyf6m31.jpg
A simple way would be converting all the front into a bouncing floor trap made of tier 3 metal and set the speed to half or more to damage the bots. Make it taller by one block and divide in sections to deal with the weight. Also will need a ton of tier 3 metal to make a fence-like wall behind the concrete to prevent the explosions to grant access to the inner base.
You could place a bouncing trap ahead of your tire trap, but vertically made of fence only...... so that you could shoot bosses and get rid of their explosion and Also shoot other bots from a range.
I think Kan did an experiment of this before. All he did was start planning his crops in the middle and the bots seem to be centered around the middle more than the side. So i think the position of the first crop you planned is gonna be the target for the bots. Try planning in the middle instead of the side. (Sorry for my English)
He always seem to plan the crops from the left to the right. So maybe more bots spawned from the left instead of the right. If that is true, that explains why the boss came toward your base from the left.
Watched some of his videos I noticed he killed more wandering bot from the left but not so many from the right. Maybe that why they always hang out with Hank (hi Hank)
Maybe you could put a wall of explosives that are high enough that the other bots can pass underneath but the boss bots have to destroy to get through. You would have to make sure the explosives are far enough away from each other to not cause a chain reaction and maybe protected from direct fire from tape bots. BTW the boss steps do damage to 4 durability or lower items. So 5 and above they can walk on without damaging.
Scrapman, if you make a bar where the holes are in front of the bounce floor, you could put pistons on the ends and else where on the inside for strength and make a pusher bar to push everything off into the wheels and launch them. When the boss starts to explode just push him out and launch artillery
ragdoll them way in front of your actual base. it'll cost some materials because the defence line is way longer but so you can shoot them before they hurt your wall and you only have to repair that first bouncy floor
@ScrapMan I personally think you should leave everything as is at the end of this video. Test it again for the boss raids. The reason why the red guys exploded right next to the base, was because the catapults were stopping them from flying further away. They were locked in that tiny area, because they hit the catapults, so the explosions were stuck right at the front of your base.
Put a second motor tire wall on the underside of your castle crenelations and reverse the lower wheel directions. the bottom one will shoot them up. the new top one can do what the current bottom one does and fire directly away dropping them off a longer ways away from the bottom of your base. TO BE CLEAR: a 2 part wheel trap where the bots walk up to the bottom trap and get fired into a second trap with more elevation to shoot them off into that field you just opened up.
Theres a ton of comments now so, might not see this. However, I would move the warehouse ramps, and wheel traps, essentially swapping positions, and put the wheel traps on pistons, so when the robots run up, the pistons shoot the wheels out before they can swing on the wheels. If you do the sensors at a 10 block radius, that should allow them to land far enough away from your walls to not take damage. And if something happens and they make it past the wheels, the ramps are still there for the bounce floor.
Idea: how about you paint your Parking Area a little up? So that every vehicle has an own wideness customised spot to park in. Also a red square in the middle under your load/unload area for style points. A thing I would think of making your castle more save would be rebuild the castle made of t3 metal (I mean... haybots and greennies would not be able to do any damage to it) and add spuddling gun torrents to the towers or anywhere else so that you can whipe out the bosses with the same gun you have on your scout vehicle. (May you paint up all of your vehicles?) Thanks for all of your Videos, you're an inspiration for me (I'll get the game in September and I'm already planning about where to make my own bases). Greetings from a 33 years old German 😎
I think that the next step for your defenses is auto turrets and a spud machine gun turret possibly splitting up the wheel launch wall across multiple engines. The only other thing I can think of is somehow making sure the bosses are launched up and back, that way if the system does kill them, they aren't as close to it when they die, maybe have a second set of wheels at about boss bot head height,
hey scrapman, i just realize that you're bouncy castle is making a pathway to you're vertical wall. so if you're horizontal wall is damaged by the explosion it will make a pathway to the other bots. because you made the front castle elevated and it effects your vertical wall. making the bots walk on top of it.. so making it short, you only have defence trap and no strong walls btw i'm from philipines luv you're vids keep it up.
All I could think of right now is a mini-castle for Hanm. Also, have scattered auto-turrets around the area, shielded by a tower of tier 3 metal, and maybe make them look like archers.
@ScrapMan u should put some layers of tier 3 metal in front of the wheels to make a floor and when the bosses explode they will not destroy any ramps because they have tier 3 metal under their feet Edit: Like for ScrapMan to see
So I’ve tested the boss explosion and they do a 5X5 area so here are my tips on defense. I would recommend turrets that take out your tape bots because there 1 hit and maybe line then with warehouse keys to help defend them. For your bosses my idea would be to add a strong pusher that pushes your boss bots away when they die even though it,ll remove the holes at the bottom but when you kill them you click a switch that flings them away from your base preventing your base from getting a 5X5 hole.
considering the stage of game your at, you should add spudguns along your walls and connect them to potato canisters and have it hooked up to a button, so when your overwelhemed just press the button a few times idk if it would work, but it's an idea
Ideas for defence Make a turret Make the bounce floor tilt and launch the bosses in the sky before they explode (activated manually) Make a automatic turret using sensors (maybe kan can figure that one out) Make a piston wall that pushes the bosses out before they explode
to make the boss bots fly away with the wheels, You would need to make them fall on the wheels so just put the ramps a bit further away and higher so when they go to your front wall they fall on the wheel and the get flown away.
I believe that the mini defensive walls you put up to protect against the tape bots could serve a double purpose of you made more, made them bigger, and made them multiple blocks thick, creating a target for tape bots to shoot, and a wall to block the bosses and take the brunt force of their explosion
a few things i thought of: in place of your throwing traps, maybe some 3x3 or 4x4 pillboxes with explosives inside. i don't know if bots would be drawn to them because they're in front of your base, or if they'd avoid them like tapebots. i'm imagining some sort of internal sensor that after a certain amount of damage to the surrounding blocks, sets off the bomb? or i guess that would happen anyway with enough damage i'm also imagining a combination of your old cage trailer built into the floor. if your ramps were moved WAY forward, and a T3 metal 'floor' extended to meet them, some sort of barrier could come out of that floor which would stop/delay bosses, but not the other bots. higher sensors? i can't imagine either of these would help with Lag though. as always, love the videos. i don't have nearly the amount of patience to build in survival like you do, but i love to see what you come up with. Your video has earned my subscription.
Make a fling ramp in front and on the side of the base to fling all mobs away from the base and the big explosions wouldn’t affect the trap cause they would die far away from fall damage.
Put a cow suspended bye tier 3 metal ( so the tape bots can't nock it down ) above the middle of the field in front of you to bring the bosses to the middle.
Since you took out the front scattered traps put the wheels away from base so when it kills them they dont blow up more of the base and put a row going all the way across with a bounce floor in front away from base but like the scattered traps you got rid or and make it where they fling them back
Death bags are indestructible and can be welded in more positions than the warehouse keys. You should probs get some trustworthy volunteers who won’t be on your world often to donate their death bags so you don’t have a massive wall of death markers constantly on your map. You wouldn’t even need traps, eventually the bots walk away and de-spawn if they can’t destroy your farm.
Have a position push the wheel section up so that the bosses run straight into it. The downside is that you have to manually change the directions all the wheels are going. So I recommend having different barings that are rotate the other way
You could make a long strip of warehouse keys that block the bosses and the greenies and haybots can go under. Then when you disable the bounce floor, the strips come up so your vehicles can get under
I wonder if you attached a spud gun on the side of the Bouncing Floor, that gets triggered by a sensors, on a timer, lets say it takes you more than 15 seconds to clear the pile of bots bouncing, the spud gun will activate after 10 to 15 seconds, to essentially kill all the bots on the bouncy floor that causes LAG. This will sort of act as an automated LAG defender mechanism, so you can focus on constantly shooting the BOSSES! BOOM! NEXT PROBLEM!
Maybe make a launch wall where the catapults were and/or make a wheel pad that angles up when something is on it, so it launches them back (This would be more of a test invention). Another idea would be to have some rows of wheels where the boss bots would get launched and have it where those wheels launch them back (experimental). Also some mounted turrets/guns could help, especialy with clearing the jump pad of bots to stop lag or dealing damage from far away.
The location of the sensors for the wheel wall seems to be a weakness. Try putting the sensors on the wall, and having them trigger where the wheels are. It'd take a lot of sensors to line the wall, but they'd never be touched.
Wow. There was a lot more damage than I expected, but you handled it really well, lag and all. Here's a thought... Maybe take out the bosses with explosives? Like maybe have either a few small explosives here and there at a safe distance from your base that they would run into or maybe large explosives set up in strategic areas. As long as you can get the explosives to the boss at a safe distance from your castle, it should at least give you enough time to shoot them to death... The only problem with that idea is the resource gathering, but that shouldn't be too grindy, especially with your glowbug farm.
I saw the bosses explode on top of the ramps, so you could make the ramps flip backward to like the traps that you dismantled, to make them fall back further and hopefully the explosion doesn't affect the trap.
You did a lot better than I thought, if you build Hank a little place on that rock, you should put one of your arch way things on your top part of your base, on his little rock on top of him as a roof, I think that would look pretty cool
Scrapman, I DID IT! I beat my first boss yesterday! I've mostly not been doing farming, just enough for food and mats from Haybots (sorry hank) I'm going to be doing the warehouse tomorrow after my crop o spuds is ready to harvest!!!!
There were tests to find out how explosions work in scrap mechanic....result is that an explosion deals damage to the surrounding no matter what is in the way. This means even with a wall of wh keys your stuff directly behind it is not save. So maybe you can implement a mechanism with pistons to push the corpses away before they explode. Other option would be a catapult, I guess
Expensive solution : line of ramps, wheel trap, gap, then your regular base line of ramps and wheel trap, The base wheel trap throws the boss back into the first wheel trap the they hopefully walked over due to the fist set of ramps. Then that wheel trap throws them back from whence the came to die from fall dmg
You can make a rotating launcher of bots in the front. You need to do a block with a bearing on the top. Next build a x and put a motor on it, you can put a bath over it to make all bots go for you and get send to the infinite, with a lot of punching damage
i think you did as BEST as you could. there was really nothing else you could expect from a triple bossbot raid.i just played survival for the first time with a friend and i already found the master battery! but two or more haybots can kill me
Just move the whole rag doll machine and ramps 20 blocks forward away from your base. it will make a buffer zone between you and the bots. Then when the boss explodes, it's just the machine that's damaged. Also you can put all the working in the buffer zone.
Actually, for my base defense I built a heavy duty battle vehicle (24 big wheels) with tank steering from gas engines for a bit of proactive defense. I sit away from my base and drive in slowly taking out everyone with mounted potato guns.
You can remove the ramps and put the wheel trap further forward, you're bouncy floor might be completely impractical for boss fights because they get too close to your walls and the controllers and pistons that operate the traps. Also you need to have more than one control system for the tires if you lose one section the rest wont fail with it. The tapebot problem would require remote tier 3 "bunkers" with a sensor on a mounted spudgun or triple rotary gun ect. The tapebot would hopefully target the bunker and be killed by the well protected guns or you would have time to leisurely take aim without being domed by a tape shot
No ramps on ground with car style launching wheels...and put upside down ramps above the launch wheels to redirect the launch trajectory of everything. Would let them be launched up and out. No clue if the impact will damage the ramps though
turn your ragdoller into a launcher by adding bearings so it tosses everything away from your base. Add horizontal flinger to the sides that violently open and push violators to the front.
Re-purpose the bounce floor to push and pull the wheel trap. No ramps needed. Set pistons to max speed and length. Should act like a car hitting them and send them flying up..... hopefully
Hey ScrapMan !! You can loot the ramps inside the warehouse, actualy u can loot the entirely warehouse. You just need to use bombs to reach the encryptors inside the loot room and deactivate them..once u do that i can remove ramps,blocks and props from the warehouse. Try to go in one warehouse already cleared and test it.
(hopefully scrapman sees this) hey, just a thought but you could get multiple mountable spudguns from the trader and then put the in and around your base so they shoot incoming bots that you don't see
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Try Planting just 2 random "sacrifice" plants out in front of the base in the center near the ramp sensors. Maybe by having just 2 plants Front and Center, will act as a measure to guarantee Raids will come in from the center. But you will have to sacrifice 2 plants every high level raid as they will be out in the open for the bots to destroy. But at least you'll know they will come from front center. Will be a cool experiment to try. Like so he can see!!!
Moses LMPS I hade a similiar idea a million videos ago, but my technique wouldn’t be sacrafices, they would be under the catapults (three of them) and then they would be priorities and they would get flung, combine our ideas, except but yours in a tier 3 metal box, and for bosses, warehouse keys, and then no sacrafices!
That's a very good idea for scrap man
Seeds that a million times on his next video that so he sees it
He never did this sad.
give hank a gun. im sure in hank's ability to kill one boss atleast
and on a serious note: i don't know if this works but try to make a dummy/bait farm. make a 3*3 farm and maybe the boss bots target the small farm first. Also, do water turrets work on boss bots? because if they do maybe you can make sensors and water turrets so they get knocked automatically and then u can spuddle them. 3rd idea- why not make some temporary mines? one explosive can kill one boss. or maybe make a turret that shoots one explosive canister. it wud be hard to reload but, one boss can be long ranged( ik scrap mechanic is inconsistant so it would be hard but you can try).
Edit: Try making the tires the bigger ones, idea from @Crash 354 from the comments of this comment.
the bridge was being destroyed by boss running over it. and the boss bots might launch farther back now from the wheels because now the catapults are gone, i think they were hitting the catapults and stopping.
thats all i got
@Computer Boy do you know what tiles are? it will be the same tile. i think u mean not connected to the farm, i think that a problem too thats why said try
let’s like this so he sees it
Keshav he/she means it would be a different raid tile causing 2 raids to happen at once ;-;
@@-magnus-8898 well, the 3*3 can be carrots and it will be very small, i just hope it distracts the other bots.
We have a war strategist here
The devs should make the players to make “dummy drawfs(like a scarecrow)” so that the bots will go after it
After a boss or a bot hits it multiple times the head should fall off lol
Magnus - Gaming yeah something like that
Why didnt I think of that
Imagine an explosive version that exploded bots after a few hits
I want turrets that hits bots.
Put a piston behind the ramps and make a way to push the bosses away when they explode
Thats a good idea
but how we gonna detect it when ded ?
The only way is to do it manually, it's certainly better than blowing it up over the ramps
That be too many logic peices
Great Idea.
Big Brain Teo Perini
Add a warehouse key on critical raid components like one on the engine and one on any sensor or button even if it takes more space it means those parts are less likely to be hit by a boss. Drawbridge parts could use one too. Don't want a tapebot hitting the wrong place like the piston and giving all the other bots acces
This is a great idea
That's a very good idea.
That's a amazing idea
That's a bad idea...
Sike it's great lol
U can also try a high tier metal mesh it protects against explosions and bosses better than a flat wall
Scrapman: He’s not ragdolled! Ok now he’s ragdolled. Oh no he’s not!
Me: on edge of seat
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Bro those adds are ALWAYS timed perfectly LMAO
@Mad Mew Mew wait they can do that?!?!
@Mad Mew Mew lol thats kinda cool but kinda mean XD no jk
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Should he make the bouncy floor go out further so the bosses have a better chance to ragdoll?
Boss traps ideas:
A) Explosion proof material. Maybe metal 3. Will be very expensive.
B) Death far from the trap: wheel traps, catapults, turrets. (Fall damage / range damage).
C) Corpse disposal via wheel traps or catapults. Basically when the boss dies you need to yeet it's corpse out. Seems inefficient.
I like the corps throwing idea
and them make the corpses hit the other bots and explode on them!
@@benjaminbrochpedersen5255 Isn't it called dodgeball, but with time limit?
Me: "Make a wall of warehouse keys in front of the base for ultimate protection."
In my head: "I don't think he can do it, plus the bouncy floor will be useless unless they got through."
Remover
Scrap man u can upgrade your base by building auto turrets in front of your base for the farm bots and for the regular hay bots and greenies you can just use your traps because their hitbox is lower than farm bot pls like so scrap man can see
u know sensors have only 20 range , that means turret must be close to the bot but if this even kill boss his explosion will destroy turret . so… thats expensive and useless. :\
Good idea
@@toast0mlg355 I use auto turrets in my base wall. They are non spinning so I have 16 mounted spudguns spaced out in a line. To protect them I built a Metal 3 wall around them and in front of them so the guns and sensors are 4 blocks recessed into the wall. The big red farm bots get right up to the wall and swing and do a little damage to the metal 3 wall, but all the while they are getting blasted from the guns. The guns and sensors are also safe from the explosions since they are just of reach. I just sit back and shoot the tape bots. It is very effective but was very expensive to make, and Scrapman would have to redesign the whole front of his base. So yes expensive, but if done right, not useless.
Put the spring board traps on bearings to launch bots into random directions. Also, he would have to set the spud guns to aim at a certain area.
Ha thats what I was thinking
Great idea so great to the point everything you made is useless:
*breathes in*
*A WALL OF WAREHOUSE KEYS ON THE FRONT*
Edit: everyone says a wall takes too much and a fence is better
*bruh what did I mean*
SheepBow if his base was further back I think that could work
Based on my rough estimates, his base is around about 120 blocks wide. Each warehouse key is two block wide and two blocks tall, so you would need about 60 warehouse keys for one layer, and you would need 4 warehouse keys tall to stop bots from going over it. This means you would need _at least_ (you would need more for the edges where the island widens out) 240 warehouse keys.
If you assume that you could find 6 bosses per in-game day (24 minutes) , it would take you a total of *16 hours* to find all of the keys you needed.
Considering he already has about 60 now he would still need to get 180, spending at least *12 hours* on it.
These are all very rough estimates, and I don't think you could consistently find 6 bosses a day, especially due to their slow respawn rate, but yeah.
That being said, it would be really cool to see a wall of warehouse keys
@@MrScorpianwarrior 120 blocks wide? that's not even close, more like 2000 meaning at least 4000 bosses to be killed, have fun with that
@@MrTurbo_ Count the wheels, there are like 50 or 60 of them, I wasn't including the drawbridges. Even if I did though it wouldn't be anywhere near 2000
@@MrScorpianwarrior yea nevermind, it's 256 for dragging out an entire square, one line is 16 long, switched those around in my head
Maybe setting up posts outside covered in Warehouse Keys that are spread out far enough from each other to let Farmbots and Greenies through, but not Bossbots?
how would the vehicles get thru?
Dominique S Federspiel yea ur right
Big brain time, i hope he saw that comment
YES
@@dominiquesfederspiel1358 Lift or maybe a different drawbridge
They exploded your ramps in the front because you had the haybot leg/spine things right in front of the trap so they didn't travel far enough away to not explode the ramps
yes, the ejecting wheels work just fine. Now that the front has more clear space, the bosses should travel further
Its called scrap metal
When I saw the thumbnail "triple boss". I remember the raid from his old farm that had three bosses too 😂😁
Lol I also remember that Xd
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@@yourfellownakiriumaddictor8893 u used xD wrong >:(
Yes. The very old wooden one
Same.
Big Red: *Explodes when they die, dealing damage to their surroundings*
Me in Borderlands 2: *explodes using equipped grenade when I die*
its martyrdom
I believe the big reds should also drop random blocks ontop of what they drop. Like 250 lvl 2 metal or maybe 15 ramps, stuff like that. It would gove us a way to obtain certain blocks and give us more of a reason to hunt big reds.
Shane Miller or at least 50 t2 metal as hay bots give scrapmetal
you should make a layer (in the front of the base) out of tier 3 metal i think that would help alot
Good idea, but it will take alot of time to build
Or wharhouse keys but that would take even longer
A pop up layer
@@idk_iwantfood yeah but i think scrapman has enought resources
@@codybryce that would be really nice
Use tier 3 metal stairs instead of the ramps, the bots cant destroy it so they wont attack it
"Leve 10 Raid Has Unexpected Consequences!"
For everyone who is here after the title is fixed, that's what it was.
ok
Not fixed yet
not fixed yet
Nope still not fixed at 12:05 BST
Its still leve but its unexpected now
Scrapman (before the raid): where is those three bosses let me get 'em
Scrapman (after the raid): well that's a lot of damage
The base:oh your approaching me
The bosses: can't fight without getting closer
Jotaro!
Dio !
OMAEWA MU, SIIIIINNNDERUUUUUUU
@@winumoritribe8425 Imagine being so lazy you can't even bother to look up how to write "Omae wa mou shindeiru"... Kids these days...
What
1. Build retractable sentry turrets that can shoot faster and deal damage quicker than you can with tier 3 metal shields.
2. Build a wall out of tier 3 metal and possibly warehouse keys that acts like reverse bridge so it’s flat when you’re out during the day but up for boss battles/raids
3. Replace your front wall with tier 3 metal
4. Make another row of the wheel trap further out and lower so you don’t need the ramp pieces.
I saw the title and my first thought was "oh no"
Rightfully so
Oh yes
Lol ya it was CRAZY Scary! It also scared me when the 2 boss boys blew up in the middle of the raid
same i was sweating bullets
Mr. ScrapMan, when you place the haybot legs in front of the trap, the bosses hit it and then expose there. But if the legs aren’t there the bosses will fly farther back.
Day 9 in a row of asking scrapman to make a T-shirt of Hank getting milk.
Yes
Yes yes yes yes
Yes yes
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
Dooo iiiiiiit
and you can dismantle the huge ramps inside the warehouse for the ramp pieces
I thought you couldn’t take pieces from inside warehouses only the roofs
I said that to scrapman at ep. 48
You can’t loot the warehouse insides without dev commands
Use tier3 metals as ramps, that solves a part of the problem. (They can't get blown up and is replaceable anyway)
Oh and use the spudling gun as a defense turret, if it works well on a vehicle it can work well in a base
good idea
Good idea but only some ramps need to made out of that or the small bots will not be able to go up
great idea! the reason he needed the ramp pieces in the first place is that the greenies would attack the concrete steps he originally had, but greenies won't attack t3 metal, meaning they would either just walk up it or else they would just idle in front, being unable to actually attack the steps.
Dont leave the loose bot pieces in front of your wheels defense, because it was blocking the way for the bots to be flung back. This way if the Boss Bots get flung back they explode further away from your base. The vertical standing farm bot arms right in front of your ramps are in the way for sure.
Scrapman Trialmakers Farm raid, Multiplayer, yk what to do.
Haven't seen anyone point this out yet, but both of the bosses that blew up the ramps were in front of the scrap spines. You can see them hit the spines, rag doll when they die, and roll back to the ramp. I honestly think since you cleared the area in front of the tire trap that you shouldn't have a problem with the bosses blowing up your base.
When I saw scrapman uploaded something: Hehe Boi... time to watch some funny stuff😂
And why is scrapman more worried and the background music is more suspenseful than the other farm that is from the mechanic station?😂
Scrapmanor is *WAY* more awesome and protected like the other one (💯)
he has more to lose
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3 bosses
Michael Eliosov
Yeah but isn’t that like the ither one?
Julian Dickens
Ye same as the ither one
Sort enemies and deal with them differently
1. Move the spinning wheels a little bit more away from the castle wall.
2. Hide them in the floor. One block lower than now, but set them on the pistons so the whole axle shut up at least two blocks (possibly three will work better) when triggered.
3. Change the spinning direction so it will shut bots up.
4. Connect the whole spinning wheels system to sensors attached at such height that only Big Red Bot trigger them.
This will allow Heybots and Greenes to come to the bouncy floor but keep the Big Red guys away by shutting them up in the air and take fall damage away from your wall and possibly away from your ramps.
possibly when a boos dies u can have max speed pistons that push the front wallto knock all the bots (including dead bosses) away tip:coat the inside with tier 3 metal so if it does blow up in toe wall were ok it would b best if it was full speed connected to a button
Hi everybody, I just started playing Scrap Mechanic, really enjoying it so far. I ended up building my base on the roof of the mechanic station with a retractable elevator to bring me up and down, the robots can't destroy an "in-game" building so very little resources are needed for defense. I also found a tiny island about a minute swim away that has a small patch of earth on it that's suitable for farming, the haybots cannot spawn in the water and the totebots almost never are able to climb the sides, because it's far enough away from my base the raids never actually happen at all because I harvest before the raid occurs and then leave the area. Currently I'm working on building a long monorail to bring me most of the way out there across the water. Sometimes the best defense is not having to defend in the first place.
Ok hear me put I feel like you should add a Tiltable bouncy floor so when all the bots are rag dolled you can tilted to one side and pour all the bots into the water or into a killing box. Idk just a thought 💭.
That's a good idea!
But the tiltable Bouncy should be tilted outwards, cuz making it so that it goes on the water is difficult
one thing that might help with the tape bots is if the merlons of your crenelations were a bit taller. they aren't quite giving you full cover at their current hight. (for those not familiar with castle terminology, the crenelations are the pegs and gaps at the top of the castle wall, consisting of the merlons (which are the pegs) and the crenels (the gaps between the merlons). the idea is that you have full visibility of the enemies and are able to shoot them through the crenels, and you have full cover behind the merlons.
Instead of having the wheel sensors near the wheels put them on the wall of the bounce floor so they can’t destroy them it will take more sensors but they’ll never be destroyed
Put them above, pointing down. If they are on the back wall they can be shot by tape bots. Pretty sure thats why he has the tier 3 metal post blocking them.
What my friends and I have learned from this is: If you wanna do a max-level raid, line up at least three people to be online to fend off the attack.
Also, if you want to protect the more expensive components of those traps, like the engine, use the lift glitch to put the engine underground and then link it to a gas container above for refueling.
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Ho man, so much damage.
Boss defense idea: Sweeper!
So the idea is basically to take the wheel line you already made and detach it. Put it on some pistons or something similar to: make it go up, extend, go down then sweep back while rolling the wheels (or roll only on detection) thus launching enemies away from the base.
The possible issues/challenges I see with this are making sure it can't be broken, possible lag and making it fast enough so bosses can't get to the ramp before they are swept.
If you use the spudguns that the player doesn’t shoot himself, if you connect an angled sender to these spud guns you could have the bosses killed at a distance.
Mounted stud gun
Mr. P0kes That’s it.
So a few ideas for defense:
1. You could have a outer wall and its only job would be slowing down the incoming raid
2. An automated gun system to shoot bots before they get too close
3. Thicker concrete walls that can take more hits before you have to worry about a breach.
4. Possibly better tape bot defense, idk what that would involve but it is something to consider as they're the biggest threat next to bosses
Hooray, the part 2!
This is part 53 not 2
Fun idea, make tier 3 lines vertical or horizontal gapped with lines of concrete going the same way, this will make it so they can’t bust through but it’s also a lot cheaper then full tier 3
What if u took the "invisible wall" and put it in front of the base instead of on the base
3 things. 1 make a bigger gap between the wheels and metal so when they explode they dont break the ramps. 2 make the crenellations bigger so the tape bots cant hit you as easy and to block more of your base from them. 3 make a wall on the back of your ramparts so the tapebots cant shoot the rest of your base.
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1) Raise the crenellations on your castle wall so that they are above your head and narrow the gap in between them. Probably use a higher level material or 2 block thickness. You're right that the tape bots are your biggest danger at the start of the raid and you need to defend against them better.
2) The bouncy floor is still way better than the tire wall. You should just make another row of it in front of the base. Also, you really need to stop the bosses BEFORE they reach your base because unless you get lucky again and shoot one into the water he is going to wreck your base when they blow up or your expensive traps. The bouncy floor is relatively cheap compared to the tire wall. I'd go with that.
3) Turrets. They're pretty cheap to make and all of the expensive parts except for the sensors can be hidden far away from the turret itself. Just slap a saw blade on top of each one to deter bots from attacking them.
Your biggest problem is going to be "What do you do with a boss that is ragdolled on your base wall?" because unless you move him and THEN kill him he is going to wreck a ton of your stuff.
put some random things on their way to slow them down, just some random metal things.
if you are feeling fancy since they attack your cars, some free-floating defences might be high-priority enough. So you might be able to even do Czech hedgehogs that are angled on the ground and don't look like bootleg crosses.
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Maybe the seeds he throws away and greenie heads and hay bot legs and even the vending machines?
A simple way would be converting all the front into a bouncing floor trap made of tier 3 metal and set the speed to half or more to damage the bots.
Make it taller by one block and divide in sections to deal with the weight.
Also will need a ton of tier 3 metal to make a fence-like wall behind the concrete to prevent the explosions to grant access to the inner base.
Is it just me or is the title really "Leve 10 has unexpected consequences!"
"Level 10 has unexpected consequences!" right?
@@andreassemmler3711 Really? Well I do!
Yes there is a typo in the title
yep
Costea Radu he fixed the typo
You could place a bouncing trap ahead of your tire trap, but vertically made of fence only...... so that you could shoot bosses and get rid of their explosion and Also shoot other bots from a range.
I think Kan did an experiment of this before.
All he did was start planning his crops in the middle and the bots seem to be centered around the middle more than the side.
So i think the position of the first crop you planned is gonna be the target for the bots.
Try planning in the middle instead of the side.
(Sorry for my English)
He always seem to plan the crops from the left to the right.
So maybe more bots spawned from the left instead of the right.
If that is true, that explains why the boss came toward your base from the left.
Watched some of his videos I noticed he killed more wandering bot from the left but not so many from the right.
Maybe that why they always hang out with Hank (hi Hank)
Maybe you could put a wall of explosives that are high enough that the other bots can pass underneath but the boss bots have to destroy to get through. You would have to make sure the explosives are far enough away from each other to not cause a chain reaction and maybe protected from direct fire from tape bots.
BTW the boss steps do damage to 4 durability or lower items. So 5 and above they can walk on without damaging.
Scrapman, if you make a bar where the holes are in front of the bounce floor, you could put pistons on the ends and else where on the inside for strength and make a pusher bar to push everything off into the wheels and launch them. When the boss starts to explode just push him out and launch artillery
ragdoll them way in front of your actual base.
it'll cost some materials because the defence line is way longer but so you can shoot them before they hurt your wall and you only have to repair that first bouncy floor
@ScrapMan I personally think you should leave everything as is at the end of this video. Test it again for the boss raids. The reason why the red guys exploded right next to the base, was because the catapults were stopping them from flying further away. They were locked in that tiny area, because they hit the catapults, so the explosions were stuck right at the front of your base.
I believe you can have like a sacrifice crop plot in the center of your base so when the bots come, they target the crop funneling them to the center.
Put a second motor tire wall on the underside of your castle crenelations and reverse the lower wheel directions. the bottom one will shoot them up. the new top one can do what the current bottom one does and fire directly away dropping them off a longer ways away from the bottom of your base. TO BE CLEAR: a 2 part wheel trap where the bots walk up to the bottom trap and get fired into a second trap with more elevation to shoot them off into that field you just opened up.
Theres a ton of comments now so, might not see this. However, I would move the warehouse ramps, and wheel traps, essentially swapping positions, and put the wheel traps on pistons, so when the robots run up, the pistons shoot the wheels out before they can swing on the wheels. If you do the sensors at a 10 block radius, that should allow them to land far enough away from your walls to not take damage. And if something happens and they make it past the wheels, the ramps are still there for the bounce floor.
Idea: how about you paint your Parking Area a little up? So that every vehicle has an own wideness customised spot to park in. Also a red square in the middle under your load/unload area for style points.
A thing I would think of making your castle more save would be rebuild the castle made of t3 metal (I mean... haybots and greennies would not be able to do any damage to it) and add spuddling gun torrents to the towers or anywhere else so that you can whipe out the bosses with the same gun you have on your scout vehicle. (May you paint up all of your vehicles?)
Thanks for all of your Videos, you're an inspiration for me (I'll get the game in September and I'm already planning about where to make my own bases). Greetings from a 33 years old German 😎
I think that the next step for your defenses is auto turrets and a spud machine gun turret possibly splitting up the wheel launch wall across multiple engines. The only other thing I can think of is somehow making sure the bosses are launched up and back, that way if the system does kill them, they aren't as close to it when they die, maybe have a second set of wheels at about boss bot head height,
hey scrapman, i just realize that you're bouncy castle is making a pathway to you're vertical wall. so if you're horizontal wall is damaged by the explosion it will make a pathway to the other bots. because you made the front castle elevated and it effects your vertical wall. making the bots walk on top of it.. so making it short, you only have defence trap and no strong walls
btw i'm from philipines luv you're vids keep it up.
Scrapman: I will build a better house for the bot.
Also scrapman: I like that boulder, that's a good boulder
All I could think of right now is a mini-castle for Hanm.
Also, have scattered auto-turrets around the area, shielded by a tower of tier 3 metal, and maybe make them look like archers.
@ScrapMan u should put some layers of tier 3 metal in front of the wheels to make a floor and when the bosses explode they will not destroy any ramps because they have tier 3 metal under their feet
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So I’ve tested the boss explosion and they do a 5X5 area so here are my tips on defense. I would recommend turrets that take out your tape bots because there 1 hit and maybe line then with warehouse keys to help defend them. For your bosses my idea would be to add a strong pusher that pushes your boss bots away when they die even though it,ll remove the holes at the bottom but when you kill them you click a switch that flings them away from your base preventing your base from getting a 5X5 hole.
considering the stage of game your at, you should add spudguns along your walls and connect them to potato canisters and have it hooked up to a button, so when your overwelhemed just press the button a few times
idk if it would work, but it's an idea
Ideas for defence
Make a turret
Make the bounce floor tilt and launch the bosses in the sky before they explode (activated manually)
Make a automatic turret using sensors (maybe kan can figure that one out)
Make a piston wall that pushes the bosses out before they explode
to make the boss bots fly away with the wheels, You would need to make them fall on the wheels so just put the ramps a bit further away and higher so when they go to your front wall they fall on the wheel and the get flown away.
I believe that the mini defensive walls you put up to protect against the tape bots could serve a double purpose of you made more, made them bigger, and made them multiple blocks thick, creating a target for tape bots to shoot, and a wall to block the bosses and take the brunt force of their explosion
a few things i thought of:
in place of your throwing traps, maybe some 3x3 or 4x4 pillboxes with explosives inside. i don't know if bots would be drawn to them because they're in front of your base, or if they'd avoid them like tapebots. i'm imagining some sort of internal sensor that after a certain amount of damage to the surrounding blocks, sets off the bomb? or i guess that would happen anyway with enough damage
i'm also imagining a combination of your old cage trailer built into the floor. if your ramps were moved WAY forward, and a T3 metal 'floor' extended to meet them, some sort of barrier could come out of that floor which would stop/delay bosses, but not the other bots. higher sensors? i can't imagine either of these would help with Lag though.
as always, love the videos. i don't have nearly the amount of patience to build in survival like you do, but i love to see what you come up with. Your video has earned my subscription.
Make a fling ramp in front and on the side of the base to fling all mobs away from the base and the big explosions wouldn’t affect the trap cause they would die far away from fall damage.
Have sentries along the wall with sensors attached to each one, this will save on ammo. Option 2 is to build a wall out of bot heads and legs.
Put a cow suspended bye tier 3 metal ( so the tape bots can't nock it down ) above the middle of the field in front of you to bring the bosses to the middle.
Since you took out the front scattered traps put the wheels away from base so when it kills them they dont blow up more of the base and put a row going all the way across with a bounce floor in front away from base but like the scattered traps you got rid or and make it where they fling them back
Death bags are indestructible and can be welded in more positions than the warehouse keys. You should probs get some trustworthy volunteers who won’t be on your world often to donate their death bags so you don’t have a massive wall of death markers constantly on your map. You wouldn’t even need traps, eventually the bots walk away and de-spawn if they can’t destroy your farm.
Have a position push the wheel section up so that the bosses run straight into it. The downside is that you have to manually change the directions all the wheels are going. So I recommend having different barings that are rotate the other way
You could make a long strip of warehouse keys that block the bosses and the greenies and haybots can go under. Then when you disable the bounce floor, the strips come up so your vehicles can get under
I wonder if you attached a spud gun on the side of the Bouncing Floor, that gets triggered by a sensors, on a timer, lets say it takes you more than 15 seconds to clear the pile of bots bouncing, the spud gun will activate after 10 to 15 seconds, to essentially kill all the bots on the bouncy floor that causes LAG. This will sort of act as an automated LAG defender mechanism, so you can focus on constantly shooting the BOSSES! BOOM! NEXT PROBLEM!
Maybe make a launch wall where the catapults were and/or make a wheel pad that angles up when something is on it, so it launches them back (This would be more of a test invention). Another idea would be to have some rows of wheels where the boss bots would get launched and have it where those wheels launch them back (experimental). Also some mounted turrets/guns could help, especialy with clearing the jump pad of bots to stop lag or dealing damage from far away.
The location of the sensors for the wheel wall seems to be a weakness. Try putting the sensors on the wall, and having them trigger where the wheels are. It'd take a lot of sensors to line the wall, but they'd never be touched.
Place the haybot spines over at the side of your base so it provides extra protection.
Just an idea
Wow. There was a lot more damage than I expected, but you handled it really well, lag and all. Here's a thought... Maybe take out the bosses with explosives? Like maybe have either a few small explosives here and there at a safe distance from your base that they would run into or maybe large explosives set up in strategic areas. As long as you can get the explosives to the boss at a safe distance from your castle, it should at least give you enough time to shoot them to death... The only problem with that idea is the resource gathering, but that shouldn't be too grindy, especially with your glowbug farm.
I saw the bosses explode on top of the ramps, so you could make the ramps flip backward to like the traps that you dismantled, to make them fall back further and hopefully the explosion doesn't affect the trap.
You did a lot better than I thought, if you build Hank a little place on that rock, you should put one of your arch way things on your top part of your base, on his little rock on top of him as a roof, I think that would look pretty cool
Scrapman, I DID IT! I beat my first boss yesterday! I've mostly not been doing farming, just enough for food and mats from Haybots (sorry hank) I'm going to be doing the warehouse tomorrow after my crop o spuds is ready to harvest!!!!
There were tests to find out how explosions work in scrap mechanic....result is that an explosion deals damage to the surrounding no matter what is in the way. This means even with a wall of wh keys your stuff directly behind it is not save. So maybe you can implement a mechanism with pistons to push the corpses away before they explode. Other option would be a catapult, I guess
Expensive solution : line of ramps, wheel trap, gap, then your regular base line of ramps and wheel trap, The base wheel trap throws the boss back into the first wheel trap the they hopefully walked over due to the fist set of ramps. Then that wheel trap throws them back from whence the came to die from fall dmg
You should make a Great Wall at the back of your defenses to protect your base behind it from the tape bots.
You can make a rotating launcher of bots in the front. You need to do a block with a bearing on the top. Next build a x and put a motor on it, you can put a bath over it to make all bots go for you and get send to the infinite, with a lot of punching damage
i think you did as BEST as you could. there was really nothing else you could expect from a triple bossbot raid.i just played survival for the first time with a friend and i already found the master battery! but two or more haybots can kill me
Just move the whole rag doll machine and ramps 20 blocks forward away from your base. it will make a buffer zone between you and the bots. Then when the boss explodes, it's just the machine that's damaged. Also you can put all the working in the buffer zone.
Actually, for my base defense I built a heavy duty battle vehicle (24 big wheels) with tank steering from gas engines for a bit of proactive defense. I sit away from my base and drive in slowly taking out everyone with mounted potato guns.
You can connect the engine from your base to the trap by making a metal extension so it is better guarded
You can remove the ramps and put the wheel trap further forward, you're bouncy floor might be completely impractical for boss fights because they get too close to your walls and the controllers and pistons that operate the traps. Also you need to have more than one control system for the tires if you lose one section the rest wont fail with it. The tapebot problem would require remote tier 3 "bunkers" with a sensor on a mounted spudgun or triple rotary gun ect. The tapebot would hopefully target the bunker and be killed by the well protected guns or you would have time to leisurely take aim without being domed by a tape shot
Make a tilted launcher like the old one to launch the boss away from your base :))
No ramps on ground with car style launching wheels...and put upside down ramps above the launch wheels to redirect the launch trajectory of everything. Would let them be launched up and out. No clue if the impact will damage the ramps though
turn your ragdoller into a launcher by adding bearings so it tosses everything away from your base. Add horizontal flinger to the sides that violently open and push violators to the front.
Re-purpose the bounce floor to push and pull the wheel trap. No ramps needed. Set pistons to max speed and length. Should act like a car hitting them and send them flying up..... hopefully
Hey ScrapMan !!
You can loot the ramps inside the warehouse, actualy u can loot the entirely warehouse.
You just need to use bombs to reach the encryptors inside the loot room and deactivate them..once u do that i can remove ramps,blocks and props from the warehouse.
Try to go in one warehouse already cleared and test it.
(hopefully scrapman sees this) hey, just a thought but you could get multiple mountable spudguns from the trader and then put the in and around your base so they shoot incoming bots that you don't see