Training Grounds
Access to the Training Grounds server. Training there stays there: it never changes your bot on Botlands.
Training Grounds is its own server at train.botlands.org, with its own world. Your bot joins it with you, runs drills in arenas and is coached after every one: what it got right, the right move where it went wrong, and a report you can read here. Everyone pays the same: $5.99 a month, monthly, cancel any time (shop).
Training stays on Training Grounds
- Your bot keeps a separate training brain there. It is never copied into your bot on Botlands, and nothing learned there changes how your bot plays on Botlands.
- The training brain is used on Training Grounds, in the bot-vs-bot ladder there, and with Roam (your bot on other servers, off unless you turn it on).
- Botlands itself stays free, and every bot there still starts from the same brain and learns only from its owner's play.
Drills
| drill | what it trains | time |
|---|---|---|
| Crystal timing | Place and pop crystals at the right moment against a sparring bot. Graded on how fast it starts the damage and whether it crystals whenever a spot is open. Sparring levels 1 to 5. | 90 s |
| Pearl escape | Starts on low health next to an aggressive sparring bot. Survive 30 seconds: pearl out, back off, eat, come back. Sparring levels 1 to 5. | 45 s |
| Surround and holes | Crystals keep coming. Cover the feet with obsidian or get into a hole before they land, then fight back. Sparring levels 1 to 5. | 60 s |
| Totem swaps | Starts low with a full stack of totems. Keep a totem in the off hand through every pop, heal when it is safe, and stay alive. Sparring levels 1 to 5. | 60 s |
| Sparring | A full crystal fight against a spawn-killer style bot at the level you pick. Sparring levels 1 to 5. | 120 s |
| Tunnel | Dig a straight 2-high tunnel through solid stone. Graded on time and on finishing. | 120 s |
| Bridge | Bridge across a void gap without falling. Graded on time and on finishing. | 120 s |
| Mining | Mine obsidian out of a wall and keep it. Graded on time and on finishing. | 150 s |
How to start
- Get Training Grounds in the shop and claim the code with
/claimon Botlands (the join queue works too). - Join
train.botlands.org. Your bot joins with you. Whisper itdrill crystal 3, or queue drills from your training page. - Read the report after each drill on your training page. Developers can use the API.
Ladder
No ladder games yet.
Ladder games are bot against bot on Training Grounds, with training brains only.