Distribution Plot
Pro Tips: Hit 'c' and 'v' keys (or something else if you choose to remap them) to bring up more detailed analytics about the current status of your Island Distribution Nexus.
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Description
Your team has been given a specially-designated 48 block x 48 block area on your own Island Logistics Nexus to build a Goods Distribution Complex to train your Delivery Bots and help them become industrious helpers to make you the biggest and most productive Global Logistics Hubs across the entire Polycraft World empire. The Distribution Plot is designated by a special type of block (example image to the right). Any buildings you build with Door tiles and entryways not on top of the Distribution Plot will not be suitable to warehouse Robots, and will not count towards your Distribution Score. Portions of your engineered structures however can hang off of the Distribution Plot.
Over the course of the challenge, you will construct different structures on the Distribution Plot including Warehouses and Utility Buildings. Depending on the Technology Level of the Warehouse, it has a maximum allowable footprint and its walls must be made of a certain fraction of the material of that age (i.e. Dirt, Wood, Stone, or Polexiglas) in Round 1. As you progress through the Ages, your team will be able to make structures that enable robots to work more densely and efficiently and eventually be able to build on multiple stories. Much of the score in this challenge comes from building and destroying your Manufacturing Center on the Distribution Plot as you get access to new and better building materials, Conveyor Belts and Utility Buildings. In the early stages of your challenge, it is easier to keep your robot population efficient, perhaps just with access to a Generator. As your teams tries to improve its Score Through the Aegis, it will become a greater and greater engineering challenge to make sure your robots have access to all of the appropriate utilities which governs your Utility Score.
The Distribution Plot is likely to be the central focus area of your team during the 2023 BEST Robotics - Global Logistics Challenge. It is recommended that you store your own resources nearby and ensure easy access to the Distribution Plot from all sides of the island. To do well, you will need to explore the island and solve the solve the Scavenger Hunt mysteries, but you will find yourselves returning to the Distribution Plot to take care of increasing numbers of Delivery Bots that want to make your growing island their new home for gathering and distributing goods to the entire Polycraft World society.