What's the difference between a design, a bot and a team?
Designs
You make a design in the Factory by putting parts on the build platform and clicking Save design. A design is only the hardware. It has no code. Your designs are kept on the server under your account, and the Designs tab lists them.
Bots
A bot is built from one design. Click Build in the Designs tab, or + bot in Brain code, and give the bot a name. You can build several bots from the same design. For example, three scouts built from one "Scout" design can each run a different program.
- A bot's name is its own. It doesn't have to match its code file's name.
- Each bot runs one program. Choose it from the program list in the Bots tab, or click load next to a file under the bot in Brain code.
- Your code files are saved on your own computer, never on the server. Which program a bot has loaded is remembered in your browser.
- A bot always has the machine its design has now. Change the design and you change every bot built from it.
Teams
A team is a named set of your bots, in order. In Brain code, click New team, name it, then drag bots from your designs onto it. Click ✕ next to a bot to take it out of the team.
- A team holds only your own bots, and each bot appears in it once.
- Each team has a shared notepad that its bots read and write during matches. It holds up to 1024 characters.
- Deleting a team keeps its bots. Scrapping a bot takes it out of every team.
In short
| What it is | Where you make it | |
|---|---|---|
| Design | The parts | Factory: Save design |
| Bot | A design with a name and a program | Designs tab: Build, or Brain code: + bot |
| Team | A set of your bots | Brain code: New team |
An account can have up to 200 designs, 500 bots and 100 teams.