New Blocks Various

Gears in different sizes that lay flat and upright to attach to the motors, slides with straights and curves ,simi circles or 1/4 .. to create rolling objects or rocking objects , conveyor belts, cylinder with hole that doesn't slide or attach to its self for articulation or to create links like on a chain that can also line up with the gears, steam bots that shoot steam out of their heads, steam generator with piping, pressure blocks so when you walk on them or an object like the ball sits on it.....makes a door shut or moves a object, cup blocks that can grab the ball, rails to create mining cart situations......... There is a whole lot of good ideas in previous comments that would be awesome to take advantage of too......

 

Free roll is what I'm getting at, like the ball. You push it and it moves, or rolls.

 

Imagine the scope of new possibilities if B could have a tool of some sort - like a metal bucket (or a cone with a blunt tip, like a thimble), with the following properties..

• Similar dimensions to the current ball object.
  
• B can wear it on his head (or eye, if present) in order to carry it around with him. In such a case, it increases his height by the same amount as the ball.
  
• The designer determines its presence in a puzzle, by placing it somewhere that B can reach. If B can't reach it, or the designer doesn't introduce it, then it's not available to B in the puzzle.
  
• The player determines when to pick it up or put it down. He can only pick it up when B is suitably positioned relative to it, and can carry only one at a time (or no limit?). And he can only put it down where there is space to do so - a vacant space on his layer (or one lower) and in his proximity.
  
• B can use the bucket as a temporary and portable stairs block, to climb up / down from his current layer.
  
• B can place the bucket in the path of an R bot as an obstacle.
  
• Like the ball, the bucket can fill a hole in order to complete a path for both B and R
  
• R can step onto or over the bucket in the same way that he might if B were wearing a ball on his head (or eye) while standing in a gap to complete a path for R who is on a higher layer.
  
• Depending on the final configuration of this object, it should follow appropriate rules when responding to momentum: once it has velocity and is travelling from one layer to another, it should roll / slide according to its physical constraints (eg: the ball rolls, deflects off of obstacles, and finally comes to rest).

Wouldn't that be cool, if B could have a tool?

 

yep.