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MyRobot - Mod Support (August 2025 Build)

DOWNLOAD BELOW

Mods allows anyone to model replacement body parts for heads and torsos with your favorite characters! It comes with a guide to help with instructions. You can download pre-made models in the mod channels of the Discord! There aren't many yet because, well, I just released this update!

Sandbox Mode has been added and is now a main title screen option!

Update comes with better grapple...

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🛠 Creating Custom Mods - MyRobot

This is for the August 8th Release Build and above, older builds do NOT have this feature.

If you want to use an existing mod, download it and put the .myrobot file in your game's

Robot_Data/Mods/<body_part_it_was_made_for>/mod.myrobot

Example: "Mods/head/goldship.myrobot" then it will be available in the Robot Builder!

👧👩👩‍🦰👩‍🦱👩‍🦳 Custom Body Parts

You can now 3D model a rep...

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Preparing For Release - MyRobot Development Part 66

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • Grapple Hook Changes

  • Preparing For Release

Grapple Hook Changes

So the grapple hook in the last release had a lot of problems mostly stemming from the fact that there was no control in the swing. I've addressed this glaring problem by adding swinging. Now by holding the a...

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Mod Support - Development Part 65

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • Mod Support Integration

Mod Support Integration

First off, I can't believe I got this done in 3 weeks. The pipeline from blender to the runtime Unity game is pretty big and fairly complex. It's not so much reading the data but also converting it into an optimized format for extremely fa...

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Mod Support - Development Part 65 Preview

Part 65 will be shown off next week as I'd like to add 1 more week to its development cycle.

But here's a teaser! WORKING MOD SUPPORT! I still need to iron out some seams and hook up facial animations but that's what these extra 7 days will be for!

Stay tuned!

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Mod Support - Development Part 64

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • Mod Support UI

  • Mod Support Features

Mod Support UI

So I've been working on the UI for Mod Support. It will be integrated into the Builder HUD so whenever you build robot parts, you'll have the option to print either the standard MyRobot model or a custom modded model of y...

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Mod Support - Development Part 63

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • Mod Support Plan Execution

  • FBX Importer

Mod Support Plan Execution

So, mod support, one of the biggest cans of worms one can open for a game.

I have a very specific plan for what I will be supporting upon its first iteration. Given that I have 1 month to implement t...

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Official Launch For Story Mode

This Friday release of Story Mode has some much needed improvements and bugfixes! I've been active daily on Discord receiving feedback and doing more polish!

This video also highlights what features are coming this July!

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MyRobot - Story Mode (June 2025 Build)

FINALLY. After almost half a year of blood, sweat, and tears! Normally when I release a game I hesitate but this one feels so good.

ANY ISSUES CONTACT ME ON DISCORD OR COMMENT BELOW. Or press F12 for the in game debug menu! This is still an early game build after all!

RELOADING A SAVE CAN HELP FIX BUGS

Changelist 06/21/25:

  • Enormous story revamp.

  • Added dental tools.

  • Added water dynamics.

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Story Mode Update drops in 2 days!

6 months of work! It will be the foundation for all future big updates and features!

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MyRobot Development Part 62

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • AI Additions

  • Release Playtesting

AI Additions

In the 2.5 weeks left leading to the first release I've been polishing and adding various AI features. As shown in the video, you can now assign names to robots and have that tag be visible on the robot. This was a simple and ...

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MyRobot Development Part 61: June Release Approaching!

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • Tutorials and Bugfixes

  • Miscellanea

Tutorials and Bugfixes

So I've been sweeping from the beginning of the game all the way to the end making sure stuff works and there are no soft-locks. The game is shaping up to be very nice and am so excited to finally start thro...

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MyRobot Development Part 60

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • Balloon Gun Rework

  • Evil Behaviours

Balloon Gun Rework

This was the last tool I needed to formerly finish before finishing the story, it was a requirement for crossing the big river to reach the story end zone.

The balloon gun arm still spawns balloons from the arm t...

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MyRobot Development Part 59

JUNE BUILD IS APPROACHING! Read below for more info.

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • Water Dynamics

  • Eels

Water Dynamics

I love water in games and I love them more when they really feel like real interactive bodies of water. So for MyRobot I made sure to keep a toony aesthetic while adding lots of ...

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MyRobot Development Part 58

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • Forest Biome

  • Water Shader

Forest Biome

This is the last biome for the June release, although there is still a beach, ocean, and artic tundra biome coming for the release after that.

The forest biome inspiration was taking from Japan and California mountains. T...

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MyRobot Development Part 57

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • Desert Landmarks

  • Desert Mechanics

Desert Landmarks

So why am I spending this entire week on the map? Well because that is the fastest way for me to get to working on the story. For there to be a story, there must be places to go to, people to talk to, things to find. Hence...

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Steam Release!

MyRobot is now wishlist-able on Steam TODAY! WOOOOOO. Go check out the release video and then wishlist it for a freeeeee cookie!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3597510/MyRobot/

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MyRobot Development Part 56

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • Bull Worms

  • Housekeeping

Bull Worms

So the desert, being its own biome, has to come with its own sets of challenges. As seen in the old builds, it's a high temperature zone so your robot needs to stay out of the sun to prevent overheating. But that's only during the day. D...

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MyRobot Development Part 55

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • The Splat

  • Map Expansion

The Splat

The splat are these nasty ball of tentacles that are completely blind and rely on hearing to find enemies. They spawn from splat hives and don't like intruders!

All of the sounds in MyRobot have special functionality to be heard by ...

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MyRobot Development Part 54

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • Misc Improvements

  • AI Access Menu rework

Misc Improvements

A ton of things are being prepared for the continuing expansion of the map. This touched on UI, controls, and minor pretty features.

First the kill screen: It's a simple freeze frame fade in with "Game Over",...

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MyRobot Part 54 Delay

This week’s post has been delayed because I got married lol. Resuming regular schedule next week. 🤵‍♂️👰‍♀️

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MyRobot Development Part 53

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • Explosive Barrels

  • Surfboard Boosting

  • New Map Zones

Explosive Barrels

 This is probably the first hazard besides falling to your death that now applies to the player. Explosive barrels if exploded too close to the player will immediately sentence you wit...

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MyRobot Development Part 52

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!
This week:

  • Misc Fixes and Improvements

  • Dialog Player

  • Retractable Bridge

Misc Fixes and Improvements

 Among the mentioned new WASD controls for the robot, I did a lot of code digestion to prepare to populate the rest of the map quickly. What I mean by this is making s...

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MyRobot Development Part 51

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • Solar Power Station

  • Machine Power Sources

Solar Power Station

Before I start I must say that today was the FIRST official Kickstarter-funded development day for MyRobot. This past month I have been optimizing my workflows, cleaning up code, and making Unity Editor tooling ...

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MyRobot Development Part 50

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • New Robot Builder

  • Ledge Climbing

New Robot Builder

 

This system was built in mind with scalability and mod support. It is replacing the online robot store for various reasons. For one, it was clumsy purchasing robot parts like a real online store, it didn't tra...

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MyRobot Development Part 49

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • Incinerator

  • Teleporter

  • Robot Part Mechanics Rework

Incinerator

 So this was a minor issue but an annoyance nonetheless, especially if you mis-ordered robot parts; you had no way of getting rid of them. The incinerator goes above and beyond to absolutely...

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MyRobot Development Part 48

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • Anime Lookdev

  • Workflow Optimizations

  • Grapple Hook Rework

Anime Lookdev

 As you know, the game in the demo had realistic PBR materials with some flat changes. This looked very mediocre and I wanted to make sure that MyRobot looks good in its final form. ...

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Patreon Issues Fixed

This is a largely technical rant, you don't have to read it. But do know We fixed the Patreon Login issues. Download the latest build to receive changes.

Hello everyone, I am Stillkill, the System/DevOps Engineer for MyRobot. I am in charge of the backend server that serves as the middleman between you and our AI providers, as well as other tasks like tracking AI token usage and most relevant to this write-up, tracking Patreon entitlements. As many of you are ...

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Problems Connecting Patreon In-Game? [FIXED]

There is an issue with Patreon in-game validation. We have been working on it since Friday the 14th looking to fix it!

For now contact me on the [discord] and @b0ss for a key to bypass this issue for you for now! OR MESSAGE ME HERE ON PATREON. Alternatively wait a day or so for us to fix this issue!

Did YOU have problems connecting?

[EDIT] We are still working on this!

[EDIT] We just pushed a...

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MyRobot Development Part 47

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

  • Ridiculous Success

  • Flower Tech

  • Planning

Ridiculous Success

 From the bottom of my heart thank you again.

Back in 2018 when I first made Viva, I was humbled when people said "Wow I'm going to get VR for this!".

Today in 2025 people now say "T...

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