The Möbius Automata

Capabilities

• Möbius Automata can be spawned using the /bot command, by any player, both on servers that have the mod installed and in singleplayer worlds
• The Automata traverse the world around them through the A* pathfinding engine, very similar to what baritone uses.
• The bot is controlled either in chat via suffixes of the /bot <name> command, or through a full menu opened with /automatamenu or by right-clicking the bot — no client mod needed for either
• A bot answers only to the player that spawned it, and to anyone that player chooses to share it with. Nobody else can command it, take its items or so much as make it walk — server operators included
• You can only spawn bots that are not in the world yet
• Multiple bots can be put into a group and then all be commanded at the same time with /botgroup <group> in place of a bot name
• Bots climb ladders, vines and scaffolding, and build their own way out of deep water
• Bots jump off a ledge or the end of their own bridge into water below rather than getting stuck, and place their own water to land in if there is none
• Spear related commands and actions only available in 1.21.11 and future
• All normal carpet player commands are also supported, and every one of them is a button in the menu as well
• Actively defends itself from mobs during processes
• Looks after itself without being told to: digs itself out when buried by falling gravel or sand, raises its shield when a creeper corners it with nowhere to back away to, and keeps swimming toward where it was going while it comes up for air
• Looks after its own gear too: swaps to a spare tool before one shatters, repairs its Mending equipment itself, and keeps everything it is not using in its own ender chest
• Says what it is missing before it starts. No pickaxe for that block, a bow with no arrows, no fishing rod, no storage set, an inventory that filled up with nowhere to put things — you hear it once, up front, instead of watching a bot achieve nothing

Significant features

The Control Panel

• Every command in the mod is also a button. /automatamenu opens a menu of every bot you own, each one wearing its own skin and showing what it is doing, its health and where it is. Your groups sit on the row underneath.
• Opening a bot gives you its whole panel: health, hunger, position, inventories, take control, and a button for every job — mine, mine area, build, craft, drain, fish, hunt, go to, place, bodyguard, workflows, command chains, the carpet controls and all three storages. Its rules are a page of levers sorted into _Combat_, _Staying alive_, _Working_, _Crafting_ and _Control_.
• The carpet controls are their own page: attack, use, jump, drop, drop stack, swap hands, every direction of movement, sneak, sprint, look, turn, hotbar slot, mount and dismount. The repeatable ones ask how you want them — once, held, or a number of ticks between goes — and the button says so while it is running.
• The inventory button is a menu of its own: the bot's pack on one side, its ender chest on the other, both live and editable straight from the menu.
• It is built entirely out of chests, on the server. A completely vanilla client gets the whole thing, on any server running the mod.
• Where a command needs a block name or coordinates, the menu asks you in chat — and that message is swallowed before it reaches anybody else.
• With the _visualselect_ rule it stops asking in words at all: blocks become a chest of blocks with whatever is near the bot listed first, mobs become a chest of spawn eggs, players become a chest of their own heads, and your schematics and workflows become a chest of their names. Everything pages with arrows.

Mining

• The mod provides both a generic _mine_ command used to find and mine specific blocks, aswell as _mine area_ command used with coordinates.
• For actual collection and usefulness, the mod provides an option _pickmineitems_ that makes the bot actively collect the blocks mined.
• With _pickmineitems_ on the bot mines and collects at the same time instead of stopping to gather, and sweeps the whole area once more when the job is finished so nothing is left lying on the floor.
• Given a fast enough tool it mines straight through soft blocks as it walks rather than aiming at each one in turn, without ever cutting away the ground it is standing on.
• In addition to this, to prevent resource loss in case of a full inventory, a coordinate driven _storage gather_ command is provided. The bot will return to the declared radius and deliver his resources to storage utensils in a radius given in the initial command.
• With the _biomeseek_ rule the bot stops giving up when a resource simply isn't around. The server knows the whole world, not just what is loaded, so the bot finds the nearest biome that actually grows what you asked for and travels there — thousands of blocks if it has to, flying it if it has an elytra.
• When pillaring or bridging, the bot spends anything except the material you sent it to collect, so the harvest comes home instead of becoming scaffolding.