📦 0.30.1 - Fixes to sample bots - 08-Mar-2025
This version provides bug fixes to the sample bots only.
🐞 Bug Fixes
- Sample Bots: Corners and Walls did not turn correctly towards the wall.
📄 Documentation
You find the Robocode Tank Royale documentation here. You should start out by reading Getting Started first.
🔨 Try it out
Please head over to My First Bot tutorial to learn how to set up your first bot for Robocode Tank Royale.
🛠 Installing Robocode
You need Java 11 as a minimum or newer, e.g. the newest version of Java available.
You can read the installation guide to get more details about installing both Java and Robocode.
▶ Running Robocode
The main application is the GUI Application which is a Java application. You can read about how to use the GUI Application here.
The Robocode GUI application is run from the command line (shell or command prompt) in order to start and view
battles:
java -jar robocode-tankroyale-gui-0.30.1.jar🤖 Sample bots
If you are new to Robocode, you need to download some bots and extract those to directories on your system.
These bot directories can be added from the menu of the GUI: Config → Bot Root Directories
These sample bots are currently available:
| Platform | Archive | Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| C# | sample-bots-csharp-0.30.1.zip | Microsoft .Net SDK 6.0 or newer |
| Java | sample-bots-java-0.30.1.zip | Any Java SDK 11 or newer |
All bots are put in zip archives, which should be installed in independent directories.
Each zip archive contains a ReadMe.md file with more information for the specific platform.
📦 Bot API
In order to start developing bots for Robocode, the following APIs are available.
📦 Java:
Available as:
- Jar file: robocode-tankroyale-bot-api-0.30.1.jar
- Artifact at Nexus Repository
- Artifact at Maven Central Repository (available after some time)
📦 .Net:
Available as:
- Artifact at Nuget repository