When smelting, you can right click the bellows expending energy to speed up your smelting, (more details and theory below). Similar to spitroasting, but the problem is you have to click to blow the bellow each time. When people talk about botting, they're talking about shit like this; it's tedious and clicky.
PeanutGallery wrote:Lol who is even gonna bot that
Me. Going to make something quick and dirty, that gets the gob for the bellows, right clicks, and waits a select amount of time to do it again. I'll run the bot on a naked labour alt with a bucket then alt+tab to my main or combat alt and do something actually fun.
I implore you, Jorb and Loftar, spawn in one of these things and some ore. Smelt it yourself. Tell me you wouldn't rather do anything else. Because I would rather be writing the bot to do it for me, with the tv on, then do the same looking occasionally to click.
So there's a lot we don't know. Our first load took about 40 minutes (faster than the other smelter). For all we know pumping constantly might have a negative effect, but we can't know that yet. Say in theory we only need to pump once in that 40 minutes, I am a forgetful ass, I would probably still make a bot blow that shit at the 18 and 38 minute marks just to be safe.
I am intrigued by a lot of the new stuff this world, I think most of it is good. Very interested in the new fast travel and realm mechanics. But this in particular saddens me; there has been NOVELS of discussion about blotting and this game's direction, and this makes me feel the devs don't get it, or want more botting. This is pretty much why we harras J&L for details before releasing stuff. Anyway, I might be overly salty, but I actually ran this through by my villagers and they said post it so... Take my salt, you look full.
Also if these are faster than the other smelter we'll use and bot them for every metal they can smelt.