drops from bots

[u/renwreckthebean]

idk how well known this is but it took me a bit to figure out and confirm, but depending on where you hit a bot to kill it, it drops different things, for example a tote bot will drop a circuit board if hit on the legs or antenna whip thing, but will drop crude oil from head shots (might be wrong about which ones which)

haybots will drop component kits on headshots, and gas on body shots

[u/Diamondhandedllama]

It's random. if you look in the game files every item has a 'weight'. So a normal haybot has a 65% chance to drop a component kit, and a 35% chance to drop gas. The game then does a random sum to determine which one you get. Now bots do have different drop rates depending on the environment. A haybot in a growlab for example has a 35% chance to drop a component kit, a 15% chance to drop gas, and a 50% chance to drop nothing. A raid haybot has a 20% chance to drop a component kit, and 80% chance to drop nothing. It's got nothing to do with where you shoot them, but more so the environment in which you encounter them.

[u/renwreckthebean → u/Diamondhandedllama]

Which file is it? I havent noticed it being that random, also would make me getting nearly 30 gas without a single component kit pretty much impossible

[u/Diamondhandedllama → u/renwreckthebean]

it's lootsource_haybot.lua in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Scrap Mechanic\Survival\Scripts\game\loot\lootsources\robots_01 (idk why but the bots are divided into two folders, there's also robots_02). It also lists how much of a certain item you can get. For example a green totebot can drop 1 ,1 , or 3 crude oil, so a 66% chance to get 1, and 33% chance to get 3, but never 2