hello there =)
for some reason, when i install the game via the itch app, i am only getting the demo version

i can download the full version via the webpage just fine

(the page states that i purchased it and lets me download it via my library, but the game page itself does not turn the files for the full game into links) , but that means i will have to manually update, rather than getting them automatically

is that effecting anyone else? and is it something that can be fixed on your end, or is that something breaking on the itch side?

i give up. i have tried many time to get a good downloaded zip file, with no success, I also had to find the file and the download log because the downloaded filename gave no clue what it was.. just "x86_64-win32.0.69.2.itch.510,zip" which could have been a virus for all the name suggests...nothing to indicate this was craft-o-mation and not something else. i am really disappointed with the developer now--they took a great concept and working program and turned it in to utter garbage

This is the best automation, and programming game ive ever played!!! 

i managed to make the craftomates farm trees without the "Check plant" node lmao

im dying for the games release this is so cool

Just encountered a pathing issue after switching bots from regular code to pre-programmed functions. I switched out all of the fire-making code for a function that did the same thing and for most of the bots it was perfectly fine, but I had to re-reprogram 3-4 of them back to the regular code. They made sparks perfectly fine, but kept attempting to get coal from a source that was completely blocked off (all 3-4 chose the same one). The best part was that the coal they were trying and failing to get was surrounded by the largest quantity source blocks, so I couldn't make an opening for them to get to that block. 

I had to change them from the function I made (which used "Find and Pick" for all materials) to "Pick From" with a coal source that they could actually access. I didn't have this issue in the previous update of the game that I played 7 months ago, and only a few bots were effected by the change. I don't know if campfire placement was an issue, because I only thought to check the campfire location of one bot, but that campfire wasn't placed very close to that coal or anything.

In case it matters, the unreachable coal in question was at the bottom of a vertical 3-block line of coal. It was surrounded on all sides, unlike the other 2 coal blocks next to it, which had at least one uncovered side. The other bots used the top one in the line, and maybe the middle (but I didn't think to watch for that). I had to change the problematic bots to pick specifically from the top one in the line. The rest of the bots chose that block just using the "Find and Pick" code.

Massive Doodle god vibes. i love this !

I don't know what to put here . I'm the low key geek. I love the game ,will likely play more soon , Its lit & got my brain Freezing and buzzing pretty fun , Wish I didn't have to go to bed soon but have to stop so good Night and thanks for the amazing game

this is so cool ngl

It's got potential, there's a ton of game design balances that need to happen such as adjusting the length of time the fire burns (it's too short now), how long batteries last (too short - could be tied to a difficulty setting), and other QoL adjustments such as being able to drag to select multiple code-nodes.

I don't like how the connecting lines do that automatic squiggly look when connecting nodes. I do, however, like the idea of an node that doesn't do anything which allows you to organize the connections, make one of those that also works for the location data of variables and make the lines just be straight and that would be significantly better than it is now. 

Amazing game! Really fun and addictive, and everytime my factory messes up it's my fault not the game's, and i know exactly what went wrong lmao

10/10 would craftomate again

loved it. I would suggest to color swap the robots so you can spot them easily

Great idea but the beginning is incredibly annoying. The snow groing back resetting every progress in the area and freezing units is too much of a setback to actually enjoy the game. 

I wish there was a better way to restrict the area, maybe with connection beacons instead of campfires, it does not fit the mecha-aesthetic visually nor does it make mechanical sense when evrything else is futuristic. 

Too many things are happening at once and the floor is cluttered with items instantly. This game does not give the player the time to explore and make mistakes, it punishes and sets back the progress. 

The UI is pretty and intuitive, especially the programming part. In the same vein there needs to be settings to change the sizes, at least for the font.

UI and graphic style are great, UX and mouse controls need to be tweaked. In my opinion the whole point of programing-style games is to make mistakes and find out new things with time. So far the gameplay loop seems made only for people already proficient with it, new players are going to pick games they don't feel frustrated because they forgot to supply one campfire.

Can't wait to see how this develops!

Brilliant. Loving it. This is how kids will learn programming these days ;-)

Unfortunately it is quite a bit buggy. Hope you guys will continue working on it.

This game is my kinda jam. I'll probably never stop playing this!

Could somebody please tell me how to fix my craftomate's arms? They're flashing red!

Cool game! I personally find it lots of fun for a browser game - like a modern day Flash type of game that we never saw follow up on the deprecated support of Adobe Flash!  Millions of children would open a browser in their school's computer lab and spend  countless hours of lunchtime, free periods, afterschool and any free moments between classes playing their favorite Flash game by themselves or against their classmates! However, once Flash was discontinued, decommissioned, deprecated and disappeared, or whatever, from modern day implementation I feel like this once new found gaming platform was dropped and disappeared rather quickly without any eagre successor in line to make use of these newly unplatformed young gamers and the genre of browser games just sort of faded in to obscurity? (Not sure Zynga or Facebook really counts as an attempt at housing this population)  Why another technology or company was not quick to take up the slack in supplying even the most basic crossplatform browser game engine or something I can't say - But with games like Craftomation 101 available and playable as it is, I find it even more peculiar to have felt browser games seem to have died out like they did because if games like this can be made I'm sort of surprised developers didn't just transition to whatever this is built on and continue the browser game genre I felt played such a big part in my generation's initiation with computers and internet technologies  of the sort? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

my game isn't loading  

How do you make wires? I have phosphorus but I have no clue on how to make wires. Surprised you didn't include it in the tutorial considering that batteries were.

how to make magnet please tell me

game completely froze yesterday when arranging a program. i had to use Alt+F4 to close it.

the fires don't burn long enough. in most cases not even long enough to supply them by a production chain with dedicated jobs.

Whoops, seems I found a bug. When copying a program to another CM, the current program execution position does not get reset (I have not checked if run/pause state changes).

Most likely, the program position _should_ reset to idle and enter paused mode for the CM.

After being away for awhile, I got in to a discussion with someone on another game, and this game was mentioned. So I reloaded it to see what, if anything, the developers have done since I last played. I was very happily surprised to see they have done a lot of work on the game, ranging from general tweaks and improvements to adjusting and correcting previously reported issues, to adding user suggested features. Kudos to the developer, and two thumbs up (more if I had more thumbs!)

Very short of stones and hard ice can't melt even around with fire.

Super addictive game. It is very nice, it was very fun until it was just trying to keep them all fed and to keep bonfire active. I would suggest extending the bonfire lifetime, and maybe extending the food meter for the bots. I also struggled in the beginning to find the recipe for the storage, the icon for the storage in the menu is small making it miss-able. Maybe you could reorganize or even categorize the recipes to make them more logical.

Could you take the phone number restriction off of your discord please, I do not have a phone.

Will not execute in Debian 10 (Linux), with the following error:

./Craftomation101.x86_64: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by ./Craftomation101.x86_64)

Also, in the Itch.io web version, if I right-click any time, the interface goes weird -- It moves the map around instead of picking up objects. The only way to fix this is by saving the game and reloading and starting the web page entirely.

could you add a thing in the program editor where you can store code parts, like a low battery eating part that you can transfer between CraftoMates.

also what can you do with mushrooms?

i love this game but how to but how to charge the battery when the battery is about to run out???

I love this game! But may I suggest allowing us to both program or give them jobs? I like the idea of jobs (that i got from reading Schifty's comment) But The programming is so much more personal

cool game - I would buy a full version on Steam! couple of ideas:

- instead of programming robots you should make 'jobs' and assign the robots to jobs as this would cut down on script maintenance! 

- I don't use fire pits as they require coal and simple flames are free forever; you probably need 'ice levels'; higher ice levels can only be melted by stronger flames; or you can make fire pits revert to lower heat when not maintained

- add a checkbox "2x" to most nodes meaning a robot would pick up, eat, drop up to 2 items

- don't know if that was a bug or not but scripts should automatically trigger idle / restart if they are done; I currently have to build a main loop in idle and revert back to idle after 'low battery'

Its a good game but, its incredibly hard to keep the ice from coming back and every time you click on the robots, it pulls up their programing, another thing is that once you put something in a storage you cant move the storage anymore. That's the only stuff i got annoyed at, other than that, good game.

wow great game, It makes me play more than 30 minutes.