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Tapebot

BOT PROFILE

Tapebot

Hits as hard as a Farmbot, from 40 m, on 40 health.

RangedHealth 40

Attacks

1
AttackDamage to youReachRepeat
Tape shot0.1 s wind-up · 40 m/s, 3° spread35Easy 17.540 m1.5 s

3 hits of 35 empty a full health bar on Normal.

Counted against the 100 health a player starts with, using only the hardest attack. With the extra health perk earned it takes 4.

Repeat is the longest of the released cooldown gates that apply to the attack, not the sum of them.

How to handle it

  • Its shot takes 35, the same as a Farmbot swipe, from up to 40 m away. 3 of them end a full bar and the wind-up is only 0.1 seconds.
  • It has 40 health, which is nothing. The fight is about closing the distance rather than trading, and at maximum range the projectile's 40 m/s travel gives you roughly a second to break the line.
  • Its arm survives as a mountable part that fires for 20, against 5 for the red model. That makes this the Tapebot worth going out of your way for.

Every number quoted here is the current version's own figure. Where a line reads as advice rather than a fact, it is a conclusion drawn from those figures, not a claim about what the game guarantees.

What it can see and hear

What it can see and hear
Off centreRange
up to 20°40 m
up to 40°26 m
up to 80°16 m
Running machinery within
40 m
Alerts others within
20 m

Each band is the distance the bot sees at that angle from straight ahead. The widest band is the one that decides whether you can walk around it.

This range is measured against blocks that are running, never against you. Walking up to this one on foot sets nothing off.

What it drops

2
ItemChanceAmount
Component Kit50%1
Schematic box25%1

Each figure is the chance of one roll, not the chance per run. A source rolls several times and some rolls can come up empty.

Chances assume every seed tier and quest unlock is already earned and nothing has been drawn yet. An unmet condition removes entries and raises the chance of what is left.

Where it shows up in farm raids

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Raid level is set by what you have planted. These are the levels whose drop groups include this bot, and the crop value each level starts at.

Raid levelFrom crop valueHow it arrives
51,000In later drop groupsup to 2 at once
65,500In later drop groupsup to 2 at once
710,001In later drop groupsup to 2 at once

Later groups are bought out of the raid's budget, so the number that turns up depends on crop value and player count. The raid calculator works out the full forecast.

Salvageable part

Its arm survives as a part you can mount on a build. Fired from your own creation it deals 20 a hit.