After about 20 hours go though this game, think it is great.
And I really like to share some solutions I found during the game
Maybe some of them are not well fine tuned, but it think some ideas might be taken away.

Saw some discussion about not easy to manage number of robots, it is true that if you use only copy and paste, it would a mess.

My solution is to use only one function to manage them, and check number of items in box for robot dispatch. (ie. if fire increase quickly, I might add one more water maker. If coal brick is decreasing, need to add some more coal brick maker)
For now I got following roles

• fire maker
  
• water maker
  
• coal brick maker
  
• wood/ fire dispatcher
  
• general maker(for items that are not necessary for tribe survive)

People also complain that the only way to show robots' role is coloring, but I found no hard time of that as I can tell who they are based on where they are(only fire maker moving between coal, stone, and fire box... and so on)



It is a huge work to keep all bonfires/ furnaces working, some people separate them by area. However, as all of them consume fire/ wood in same speed, I think it makes sense to add all bonfires in a loop. So that no need to manage groups of bonfires, also easy to handle if wood is burning faster then dispatching.



Build in plant function is unlocked in late game. Here is my solution(I actually have not tried build-in function because my solution works well)
I got three bot work as farmer and I can light up almost whole map with furnaces
Other look of a farmer, set input of where to plant, where to store wood and where water is.
Inner function,
check state with picking up
is seed -> put it back and put a water(only happens first round)
is wood -> put 5 wood to store, put a water
error -> is growing, put a water
Three or four trees per farmer is good, as tree takes time to grow.

As all items are generated with two items, I chain up all possible I need in General maker
A bit waste of time when all the lower level staff is sufficient, as bot check all the box to find some thing to make.
General maker:

check and make function:
check item to make, if not enough, combine lower level item

Box layout(have to say, no tuned at all)



These are pretty much all I got.

For now I am trying to find some way to set global variable and share for different roles.
Tried to set with a function out put connected to a variable directly, not work at all. And that brought a frozen world to me as I got almost all bots not working Ha.

In the end, share my 1k potion, as I find out that cargo bot can move a box too late. At that time I
already got plenty water and wood.

Great game and really enjoy it.