General Help Tutorials and helpful levels

I've started a series of tutorials to demonstrate new tricks for beginners to advance their skills! You can find them here.

• Tutorial 1 - claustrophobia and using autopilot to climb and to cross impassable (impossible? ) terrain.
  
• Tutorial 2 - pushing things around.
• Tutorial 3 - jumping gaps with autopilot or with zapper exploits.
• Tutorial 4 - how to exploit the design mode constraint of Max World Size, to create anomalies in play mode.
• Tutorial 5 - exploring the Evil Eye effect.

@retrograde has a series of excellent tutorials too:

• Descent one - currently undergoing repair . Until then, here's an undocumented copy:
  Spoiler: Descent one thumbnail

  
• Descent Demo v2 - another feast of well documented techniques including dropping, jumping, falling, etc.
• Descent Demo v3 - adds extra techniques to Demo v2.
• Bot-on-ball Demo - showcasing a collection of bot-on-ball techniques.
• Slider Jump Demo - how to make a bot jump over obstacles while it's riding a slider. The technique can also be used to lift a bot up one level.

@D.S.Masters has some great tutorials too.

• Auto Pilot Demo - how to spot and prevent several different autopilot moves
• Auto Pilot 2 - how to do several different basic autopilot moves, including Hercules Push, ball crossing, fence walking, SBS and ramp climbing
• Ball Trick Demo - quick demo of ball riding and ball crossing
• Basic Mech Demo - quick demo of basic mechanisms
• Claustro Demo - a basic demonstration of Claustrophobia / low ceiling
• Metals Demo - a demonstration of the various metal parts in the game and how some can be used
• Metals 2 Demo - a follow up to Metals Demo
• What Not To Do - a tutorial on beginner mistakes and what not to do (this one was a big hit, and @Blockbuilder had some additional suggestions)

@S. Nagy has some good demos of interesting techniques. They're not explained, but pretty easy to understand. If you get stuck on one, just post a request to its thread for some help.

@cpw has some well documented collections of R-bot-specific tricks that have been discovered thus far:

• R-bot Tricks Demo.
• R-bot Tricks Demo II.
• R-bot Tricks Demo III.
• R-bot Tricks Demo IV.
• R-bot Tricks Demo V.

Recommendations of individual levels:

• Coast by @PvB (autopilot feast).
• Auto walk by @Blue Flame (claustrophobia effect).
• Gate operator by @Ricko (delaying R bots with 1 block spaces at their body-level).
• Ramp climbing by @richardfu_.
• Wire walker by @Akira Wong.
• Spirits by @richardfu.
  
• Mini Pagoda by @meko.
  
• Hercules by @richardfu_.
• Zapper Walker by @gmacpro & @delator77 (new zapper walking trick & clever wedge work).
• Squat Drops by @Meko Guy (several unusual ways that B can drop to a lower elevation).
• Under R Tutorial by @cimarronline (more on the Evil Eye effect and its cousin the Raised Zapper Hack).
• The Shining by @Sun Eagle (clever ball work).
• Back and Forth by @Sun Eagle (more clever ball work).
• Design Lesson by @Don G Rowe (helpful tips for both designers and players).
• Zapper walking demo by @Anomynous (exploiting claustrophobia to achieve a great feat).

If anyone else has similar tutorials or wants to recommend helpful levels, please feel free to post links to them in this thread. I'll also add them to this posting, so they don't get lost.

Last updated: 2020-11-7

 

... Yes please! The purpose of this thread is to provide an index to levels that you think might be helpful to other beginners following in your footsteps. Whether they're designed to be challenges or tutorials, either way.

I personally think it would add some value if you could also mention what it was that you found helpful about a particular level that you're recommending. But there are no rules about that - just think of this as an opportunity to share, and feel free to do it your way.

 

Perhaps, but since you're mentioning it here, and not in the thread of the actual level itself, I would say that it helps those looking for specific learning experiences (the people arriving at the level via this thread), while preserving the mystery and challenge for those who arrive at the level through other means.