Kaipa Bots

🪐 Kaipa Bots

In Kaipa Bots, you control a small autonomous robot harvesting asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt. Mine resources, refine metals, and build sprawling production networks that light up the dark void.Power your machines through a growing energy grid, automate transport, and defend your bases from the strange mechanical lifeforms that hunt in the shadows.

It’s a mix of factory building, automation puzzles, and survival strategy, set among drifting asteroids slowly turning into a network of light and industry.

📡 An unexpected signal

You were sent to the Kuiper Belt to do one thing: harvest asteroids and build the foundation for interstellar expansion. But your scanners picked up a weak, repeating signal from a nearby rock, too structured to be noise. You went to investigate and found a black pyramid humming softly in the void, defended by constructs your databases can’t explain. When you try to contact home, the signal floods your channels with interference. Since you changed course, no one knows you’re here. This barren rock holds barely enough resources to survive, let alone fulfill your mission. To build, to endure, to reach home. Expansion is your only hope.

💡 Light up the dark

Enemies only spawn in unlit areas. Keep your asteroids lit to stay safe, build defensive walls around your base, and position towers to hold off attacks.

🏗️ Build a network of factories

Expand your reach by scanning for new asteroids. Resources differ from one to another, but more valuable asteroids spawn stronger enemies, and larger ones are harder to keep lit.

⚡ Use the Pyramid to Your Advantage

The pyramid powers your early expansion. Use it to recharge batteries until you’ve built your own generators. Upgrading or overloading it increases charge speed but spawns attacks, useful for farming scrap and batteries.

🛠️ Gameplay Features

• 142 Crafting Recipes for 108 different items  
• 48 Technologies to research  
• 13 Core Asteroid Types  
• Only 3 mob types at the moment  
• Over 20 hours of content in its current form (~if played quickly)  

💡 Technical Features

• Save/load support with autosaves, quicksaves, and smart handling for corrupted files  
• Dynamic lighting / 2D Raytracing  
• Procedurally generated asteroids and space map (Seeded)  
• Every asteroid runs on its own thread (Multithreading / Multicore use)  
• Content-loaders (and Lua / Love2D) allow for easy modding  
• Software architecture is set up for server-client multiplayer and will be added in the future  

👾 Why It’s Here

This build is playable and packed with content, but still rough around the edges. UI polish, balance, and quality-of-life improvements are ongoing, and I’m actively tracking bugs and feedback.

I’m looking for:

• General feedback (fun? confusing? buggy?)  
• Bug reports or performance issues  
• Suggestions for usability, pacing, or midgame/late-game improvements  
• Thoughts on story, mystery, and exploration  

📣 Join the Community

💬 Join the Discord to report bugs, share feedback, and help shape the game.

💻 System Info

• Windows EXE (no install, standalone folder)
• Linux/Max .love file (use with love2d Engine)
• Save/Options/Error folders stay local (no AppData mess)
• Mouse + keyboard controls (customizable soon)
• Controller support planned as accessibility feature

Thanks for checking this out! Whether you’re a fellow dev, a factory sim fan, or just someone who loves building stuff in space—I’d really value your input.

— MechnicusKai