Auto-grabbers (WX-78)

[Dinoel]

Auto-grabbers are terrible. When held by the player, they identify items to collect based on the inventory—like the W.O.B.O.T., for example. However, instead of being fully automatic, they only activate when you start collecting manually, and that is AWFUL.

If I have one Grass in my inventory and walk past a Grass patch, it doesn't pick it up automatically; it waits for me to grab one manually and only then checks if there are other items nearby to collect. What’s the point of it being automatic only when mounted on a chassis?

To me, the logical way would be: if I have one Grass in my inventory, the auto-grabber should automatically collect 39 more and stop once the stack is full (40 Grasses, for example). If I wanted to collect more than one stack, I’d just put one Grass in multiple slots (e.g., 3 slots with 1 Grass each), and the auto-grabber would fill those 3 slots automatically for a total of 120 Grasses. Wouldn't that make much more sense?

[Captain_Rage]

That is a lot of grass.

[YouKnowWho142]

i mean, this is the entire point of the grabbers? i dont see anything wrong with it. If you just don't want to dig up grass to automate picking it with a chassis that seems more like it's on you

[Kehvran]

I don't know... At this point, I'm constantly thinking that this type of post is ragebait

[Hi.]

Just saying it would be pretty annoying if the grabbers constantly put stuff in your inventory. I don't know why you are complaining about this  

[Reiko24]

15 hours ago, Hi. said:

Just saying it would be pretty annoying if the grabbers constantly put stuff in your inventory. I don't know why you are complaining about this  

they do.

It's extremely annoying and unfun to play with. I just want to get my 2 gold off the ground because I want to craft something, and suddenly the auto grabbers decide it's time to fill my whole inventory with junk from the floor. 

[Dinoel]

15 hours ago, Reiko24 said:

Sim, fazem.

É extremamente irritante e nada divertido jogar assim. Eu só quero pegar minhas 2 moedas de ouro do chão para fabricar alguma coisa, e de repente os coletores automáticos decidem que é hora de encher meu inventário com lixo do chão. 

Exactly. Currently, when you set it to collect a certain item, the Auto-Grabbers pick up everything around them and put it in your inventory. What I’d really like is for them to work like the W.O.B.O.T., where they only collect items that are already inside the chest in a smart way.

On 02/05/2026 at 15:11, Hi. said:

Só estou dizendo que seria bem irritante se os pegadores ficassem colocando coisas no seu inventário o tempo todo. Não sei por que você está reclamando disso.  

I'm not complaining about that—the fact that they actually do this is what's irritating. They pick up anything and shove it into your inventory, like players and inactive chassis. What I’d really like is for them to have a 'smart collect' feature like W.O.B.O.T.

 

On 02/05/2026 at 05:52, YouKnowWho142 said:

Quer dizer, esse é o objetivo das garras? Não vejo nada de errado nisso. Se você simplesmente não quer cavar a grama para automatizar a coleta com um chassi, isso parece mais uma questão de escolha sua.

No, man, what I mean is to have a smart collection system like W.O.B.O.T.'s, so it doesn't just indiscriminately pick up everything around it.