BotFriends v2.0.0
Spawn a squad of colorful bot friends that follow you around, grab nearby valuables, and haul them to the extractor like loyal little loot goblins. Singleplayer only. WIP: more personality, behaviors, and features coming soon.
Singleplayer Only
BotFriends works exclusively in singleplayer.
The mod includes built-in checks to prevent bot spawning in multiplayer, protecting lobbies.
Important Note
You may see NavMesh-related warnings in the log. These do not matter and can be safely ignored.
What the mod does
BotFriends spawns one or a small crew of player-avatar bot friends that:
- Follow you around or wander near you, depending on your config.
- Scan for nearby valuables in a configurable radius and pick them up.
- Carry valuables toward extraction using the game's real extraction logic.
- Activate extractors. It may not be instant, but they will do it.
Extractor behavior
- Bots will place valuables into the nearest active extractor.
- If no extractor is active, they carry loot into the next extractor and wait there for activation.
- If you activate a different extractor instead, bots will change targets automatically.
- Once all extraction points are completed, they head to the truck area.
Bots sometimes seem to have their own personalities:
- One that listens
- One that wanders off
- One that feels cursed
- One you learn to hate
Not intentional, but funny, so it stays.
Best experience: install RepoConfig so you can tweak all BotFriends settings from the in-game Mods menu instead of editing the config file manually.
Multiplayer is blocked for safety.
Config options
BepInEx/config/Empress.BotFriends.cfg
Bots
- ExtraBots - How many friends spawn (0-5)
- BotSpeed - NavMesh move speed
- FollowPlayer - True = they follow, False = they wander (defaults to False)
- Enable Physics Ragdoll - True/False
- Ragdoll Impact Threshold - How easily they topple
- Ragdoll Recovery Time - How fast they get back up
Carry / Valuables
- FetchValuables - Enables item pickup
- PickupSearchRadius - How far bots scan for loot
- ExtractorStopDistance - How close a bot tries to deliver items
- HoldOffsetY - Visual hold height
Credits
Coded by:
Extra fix help by:
Bot name permissions:
- s1ckboy
- Zehs / CritHaxXoG
- Goat
- 753
- Impboy
- Swaggies
- Sizzlium
- Jettcodey
- Bocon
- Friendly
- gaymer
- Endershade
- 1A3
- BLOKBUST
- Doppelclick
- Adalade Kasner
- Skript
License and third party notes
- This Thunderstore package includes binaries from 80speak which is licensed under GPL 3.0
- Because 80speak is included, this mod package is distributed under GPL 3.0
- 80speak source and license: https://github.com/connornishijima/80speak/tree/master
- The GitHub repo for this mod contains source code only and does not contain third party binaries
Have fun.
"You all exist forever as small chaotic player-avatar creatures. Enjoy"
Changelog
Update 2.0.0
- The bots are now player avatars!
Update 1.3.0
- Bots can now talk.
- They can say what valuables they pick up and also chat with each other.
- Added RepoConfig as a dependency so it installs with this mod.
- You will have a Mods button to edit configs at the main menu.
- They may talk in the main menu a bit if you toggle it on. This is a feature. LOL
Update 1.2.1
- Ragdoll mode has been added.
- Not perfect, but it is funny.
- Enabled by default.
Update 1.1.0
- Bots now properly wander the entire level by default if Follow Player is off.
- Follow Player is OFF by default now.
- Bots will now activate extractors.
- It may not be instant, but they will do it.
- Removed unnecessary Photon call.
