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• A brief guide to reading the Screeps:World API Documentation
  The [https://docs.screeps.com/api/ Screeps:World API] is a very necessary component to playing and understanding the game. It contain ...they are not guaranteed to appear on the object or appear on the object if a condition if fulfilled.
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• Exit tiles
  ...(such as a respawn wall, or the deactivation of the adjacent room). When a creep is moved onto or is on an exit tile by ticks 'end' it will be transpo ...eft|thumb|210x210px|Four exit tiles that move a creep to the RIGHT room or a creep emerges into the room from the left, always plains & not in natural w
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• Making your own console functions
  ...able to call functions/commands from the console can be useful. There are a few ways to go about it. By assigning a function to [[Heap#Global|global]], it is possible to access the function f
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• Remote Harvesting
  .... It involves sending creeps into a nearby room, either an unowned room or a Source Keeper room, and harvesting the energy from those rooms and bringing ...to use it on whatever task/goal/role they are assigned. While this can be a very easy method of gaining more energy than you could normally with the on
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• StructureSpawn
  When a creep is finished spawning, it will emerge from the spawn one position abov ...wn creeps, the spawning creep will not emerge, and will instead wait until a location becomes available and then spawn in that direction.
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• Operating System
  In the context of Screeps an operating system is a process based way of controlling code execution, run priority and managing ...ust write a chain of if-else/switches to accomplish this order. Usually at a certain point of logic complexity this gets out of hand though.
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• Source
  ...gin until energy has been taken from the source it is important not to let a full source sit idle.
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• Basic debugging
  ...This is due to console being mainly able to accept HTML, which allows for a whole host of things ranging from playing audio, creating links and buttons You can take a look at some examples in the [https://github.com/screepers/screeps-snippets
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• Minerals
  ...actor need to be owned by yourself to be able to harvest. In rooms without a controller (Center and [[Source Keeper]] Rooms) anyone can harvest the mine
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• Community Servers
  This is a community server hosted by psy372 and Alina with a focus on performance and stability. This is a community server hosted by psy372 and Alina with a focus on performance and stability.
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• Prototyping
  Prototyping is the process of creating a prototype of an existing object in the game, such as creep or room. This a
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• CPU
  ...be completed. Every player has a limit of how much CPU they can be use in a single [[tick]]. ...rovement on CPU usage on one server will usually also roughly translate to a 10 % improvement on other servers. The exception to this rule is the simula
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• Private server installation on Digital Ocean
  First create a Droplet running Ubuntu 16.04, then either SSH into the server or use the te ...talled on Ubuntu by default, and we want the new version so we need to add a new source before we install it because Ubuntu’s version is outdated
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• Claming new room
  === Simple overview of how to claim a new room === To claim a new room, you need to do 6(7) things:
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• Caching
  The [[Loop Architecture]] of the server creates a new instance of the "loop" function each tick, but it does not reset items The first time a require statement is run it loads the module and caches the result. Future
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• StructureLab
  A lab is a mid-to-late room structure that allows for the creation of boosts/compounds ...are produced in sequence as the previous part of the chain creates them. A cooldown is placed on the lab on running the reaction, it varies in length
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• Memory
  RawMemory is a way to access memory directly in its string form, instead of getting it aut ...her segments are set active. Data stored in segments needs to be passed as a string.
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• Client Abuse
  ...teract with the game and external sites. The code will only function while a client is open. ...the [http://www.leagueofautomatednations.com/alliances.js alliances.js] to a location in Memory, and more.
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• Intent
  ...action performed on the game's back-end database. These actions range from a creep moving from one position to another using <code>creep.move()</code> t ...unctions will return either error codes, or an <code>OK</code>, indicating a successful registration for the action to be processed. For an intent reque
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• Getting Started
  Screeps can be a difficult game to get started with. This tutorial will help you get your au ...reeps.com/a/#!/sim/tutorial tutorial] available which will help you set up a basic codebase.
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• Shard
  ...an tell in-code what Shard you are on by getting <code>Game.shard</code>. A user's [[CPU|CPU]] can be split however they choose among these shards once ...erefor, slower) than all other shards. Large portions of the shard are in a 'shut down' state, to speed up the [[tick|tick]] rate. Many older players
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• Source Code Reference
  ...useful things to find. This list is sorted alphabetically for topic with a short description of the links, CTRL+F or whatever your native search is fo ==A==
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• Resource (Object)
  The Resource class represents a dropped pile of resources that requires a creep to pickup() to use. It will decay if it is not picked up soon enough. ...of the [[Find Methods|'''find''']] methods of either a [[Room]] object, or a [[RoomPosition]] object to programmatically access either an array of them
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• Private Server:Feature Comparison
  | Warning: Currently with AWS mode this produces a lot of PUT requests, this can easily become very expensive. For that reason == A better launcher for Screeps private servers ==
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• RoomObject
  RoomObjects are what objects that can exist in a [[Map#Room|room]] are derived from. The prototype contains three properties Note that [[Terrain|terrain]] is not part of the RoomObjects. As a rule of thumb, anything where clicking will bring up the section with detai
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• StructureLink
  ...ther resources. Once an energy transfer is initiated, the sending link has a cooldown equal to the linear distance between the sending and receiving lin ...ctureStorage|storage]] is referred to as a storage link. This is typically a link that receives energy from other links, which are then transferred into
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• StructureTower
  ...RCL 3, an additional one at both RCL 5 and 7 and, three more at RCL 8 for a total of six when at RCL 8. Towers can Attack, Heal and repair, at the cos ...nything at a range of 20 tiles/RoomPositions or more will be capped out at a minimum (150 hits for attack, 100 hits for heal and, 200 hits for repair).
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• Static Harvesting
  ...or example, the 'hauler' can bring energy to [[StructureStorage|storage]], a [https://docs.screeps.com/api/#StructureContainer container], or directly t Drop mining is the harvesting of resources without a container or link nearby. While it is the simplest form of static mining, i
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• Creep
  ...y|energy]] is available in the [[room|room]] to spawn them. Their role in a colony is entirely dependent on the user, as beyond the body giving differe
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• Generic Creeps
  ...ions inside a colony. While these creeps tend to be less-specialized than a role creep, they are far more flexible able to take on many different tasks ...ask assigned. Balancing these is up to the user, more WORK and the faster a task gets done, but the more expensive the creep is. More CARRY, and the l
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• Tick
  ...oon as the last one has finished processing. This means that a tick is not a definite unit of time; they average about 3-4 seconds each, but sometimes t
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• Defensive Structures
  ...ertain location. Due to creeps being able to travel diagonally, to prevent a creep from getting through, these structures need to include additional cor ...sible. No structures (except roads) can be built in range 1 of an exit, so a ring around each exit at range 2 is built.
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• Maturity Matrix
  ...en you may find this useful. This article is structured ''roughly'' after a Maturity Matrix. ...lementations efficiency wise, or be a small part to add on not necessarily a full rework. This is not to say that implementations listed are the 'only'
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• Private Server Bot Development
  The bot then needs to be added as a steam workshop item. This can be done via the screeps server interface. Well, the usual script could already be released as a bot.
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• Contribute
  ...on. The details in here should lean towards concepts and ideas, instead of a hard "what" of each entity. Explanations of various implementations and use * If information is provided elsewhere, a cursory description/explanation and a link to the original source will suffice.
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• Map
  ...consisting of one sector with 72 rooms bordered by highways, and requires a mod to make new maps. A region is a group of sectors and highway rooms, normally divided into four areas by ord
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• Tombstone
  ...e temporary and will decay over time, they also grant [[vision|vision]] on a [[room|room]] that they are in.
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• Roles
  ...rgy and upgrade a controller as well as a creep specified for that role or a generic creep, but there is also no reason it could not if desired.
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• Terrain
  ...ree types of terrain in the game: Plains, Swamps and Walls. The terrain of a room affects everything in it, from [[pathing]], to where you place your st Swamps are a walkable terrain type. Swamps cause 10 fatigue per body part, five times mo
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• Automatic base building
  ...any, a fully automatic bot is the end-goal, and automatic base building is a large step towards it. There's a few types of automatic bases, depending on method used.
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• Optimization
  ...ing your code more efficient in some form or manner. In order to optimize, a target must be chosen to optimize towards. Optimizing to use the least amount of CPU to complete a specific task like locking creeps to 1 intent per tick to reduce average CP
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• Private Server
  ...d, standalone game server that allows you to launch your own game world on a local computer or dedicated server on the Internet. ...be cumbersome to modify and update and is not the preferred way to manage a server.
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• OwnedStructure
  OwnedStructure is an in-game class representing a [[Structure]] that has a player name associated with it. It is used in an inheritance chain with suc
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• Great Filters
  ...as little, as you want. However, if your talking in terms of survival of a colony of creeps there are repeatable patterns that emerge in development t ...ns one a creep manually is not effective as a colony grows even a little. A user and subsequently their bot, needs to be able to have creeps do tasks a
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• Room Control Level
  ...e to the player. It only applies to owned rooms, and it can be upgraded by a creep using energy. When a room is first claimed, it is at RCL 1. Each level takes exponentially more
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• Vision
  ...jects in that room will fail. There are several ways of getting vision in a room. ..., you will have vision in that room. Similarly if a creep dies and leaves a tombstone, you will have vision in that room as long as they tombstone exis
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• Target lock
  ...r perform any action on, amortizing the cost of the selection process over a longer period of time. ...arget in Memory or the heap, allowing follow on ticks to spend less CPU on a validation check instead of selection.
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• StructureController
  ...oom]]. A Room's [[Room Control Level]] (''RCL'') is increased by upgrading a claimed room controller, and will increase the number of [[Structure]]s ava ...unowned'', '''''claimed''''' or ''reserved''. These rooms form the core of a player's empire, from their first spawn to their lofty empire of 30+ claime
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• Invader
  ...to take exception with user's creeps harvesting energy and will attack on a semi-regular basis when they can reach the room safely. Recently, they hav ...slices' by players. They have more angular bodies and are always red with a darker red outline.]]
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• Main
  This is a community-hosted and run wiki for the Screeps franchise.
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• Private Server Installation
  This guide will help you get started with installing a Screeps [[Private Server|Private Server]]. These are the community-preferred solutions for hosting a private server.
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• Global reset
  Global Resets are a byproduct of the [[loop architecture]]. They occur when the `global` object When the global object is reset it causes a spike in CPU usage as a number of items are no longer cached and must be regenerated, including-
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• Visuals emoji
  its probably better to use them like "\u{2795}" instead of calling a function
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• Subscription
  ...nd run by the screeps devs and is currently the largest world running with a total of 4 shards. ...vel Resource|CPU Unlocks]], for 24 hours per unlock used, or by purchasing a lifetime subscription. This subscription model applies to [[Shard|shards]]
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• Reservation
  ...me [[tick|tick]] at a rate of one up to a maximum of 5000. The effects of a reservation mean no other players can [[harvest|harvest]] [[source|sources] ...oxyHarvesting|Proxy Harvesting]] to allow for more energy to be brought of a room, without claiming it. They are also used to stake claims on rooms how
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• Community Servers & Events
  These servers run either continuously or on a 'seasonal' basis A server focused primarily on the War side of screeps with high-level play.
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• Source Keeper
  ...nvaders]], are internally managed by the server and are designed to impede a player from harvesting in their room. Source Keeper rooms are the middle ni ...K has not been disturbed. Once an SK is damaged, the 300 tick countdown to a new spawn starts. If the old SK is not dead by the time the new SK spawns,
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• StructureFactory
  ...a level requirement. Each production of a commodity sets the factory into a cooldown phase where it can not produce anything until it ends, this time i ...s across the map each region spawns a different deposit and each shard has a different deposit in its respective region. Creeps can harvest from deposi
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• Private Server Common Tasks
  This page provides a list of common tasks that can be performed on a Screeps [[Private Server|Private Server]] using the CLI server. Get a list of available commands.
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• Pathfinding
  Pathfinding refers to the process of getting from Position A to Position B. <code>A - - - > B</code>
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• Useful Constants
  Knowing "constant worthy" values that do not have a constant set up in the engine yet is important especially now that private |Hits (Health/HitPoints) per-part of a creep
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• Global Control Level
  ...s been spent on upgrading room controllers, across any player owned rooms. A player will retain their GCL between respawns. ...'s set limit. Higher GCLs will provide you with additional rooms and CPU. A user's required GCL points to next level by default is expressed by <code>M
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• Seasonal World
  ...seasons, such as modifying constants or new resources. Most seasons have a few weeks between the announcement and when ticks start, allowing players t ...via a mod to the game, which the developers upload to the official Github. A current list can be found [https://github.com/search?q=org%3Ascreeps+season
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• MemHack
  ...tick, thus saving [[CPU]] every tick. Note that the hack is exactly that: a hack. It relies on the underlying implementation of the API, not the publis ...state, then after any changes have been made end-of-tick it is run though a <code>JSON.stringify()</code> for storage. The user running the code pays
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• Find Methods
  ...cts that meet the specifications passed in the arguments. It can be passed a FIND_* constant, and has and optional filter argument. ...ccount. This is better for finding, for example, the creep that can get to a certain position fastest, but it is more expensive [[CPU]]-wise.
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• Combat
  ...ceful place. Between NPC invaders, Strongholds, Caravans and, other users, a user must always be ready to defend what they have claimed or attack when n ...ith enemies, allies and their own creeps. While one creep may act well as a defense from an NPC invader, groups of creeps working together can accompli
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• Screeps Wiki
  This is a community-hosted and run wiki for [//screeps.com Screeps], the world's firs ...ommunity/topics/200416541-Public-Test-Realm Public Test Realm Changelogs]. A place for discussion of upcoming changes.
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• Structure
  ...art out as a [[ConstructionSite|construction site]], which can be built by a creep using <code>Creep.build()</code>. All structures have a number of hitpoints. [[StructureRampart|Ramparts]] and [[StructureWall|cons
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• Community Communication
  Screeps itself has a few methods for communicating with another player within the game. Some ar ...to your messages from the top left menu or by going to https://screeps.com/a/#!/messages.
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• Boosts
  ...ed. Each body part can only receive one boost, but different body parts in a creep may receive different boosts. Boosts are removed if the creep is rene ...Tier 2 compounds are created by combining tier 1 compounds with hydroxide, a base compound. Tier 3 compounds, the most expensive, are created by combini
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• Account-level Resource
  An Account-level Resource is a resource in Screeps that is linked to the user's account and not to anythin CPU Unlocks allow for a user to unlock their full CPU as determined by their [[GCL|GCL]] and [[Shar
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• Pushing code to Screeps
  ...s just reverted. Alternatively you can use <code>ALT + ENTER</code> to do a push or 'save' the current code you are working on. ...hen in folders dependent on server (like screeps.com, or your local IP for a steam private server), all scripts created are contained within. As long a
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• Creep body setup strategies
  Template body design bases on a predefined subset of bodyparts, that have calculated energy cost, and repea i.e we want a mineral worker creep that has as many WORK parts as possible and half of WO
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• GCL temple
  ...ss. This is done to increase GCL and therfor increase the amount of rooms a user can claim, or to simply increase their ranking on the leaderboards for ...ers or haulers from the seed room at first, then when you hit RCL 6, build a terminal and draw more energy into it.
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• External Resources
  The documentation is a valuable reference. ...more. Check their [https://github.com/LeagueOfAutomatedNations GitHub] for a browser extension and other projects.
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• Common development problems
  This is a list of some of the most common problems people come across while playing t ...> is suppose to be a <code>==</code> for example if your running logic for a creep <code>if(creep.memory.role = 'roleName')</code> Will set every creep
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• Screeps 3D
  [https://github.com/thmsndk/Screeps3D/releases Screep's 3D] is a 3D client for Screeps created by [https://github.com/bonzaiferroni/Screeps3 ...ttps://web.archive.org/web/20180816225435/http://screeps.high5r.com/making-a-screeps-client/ way-back machine], or stay up-to-date on the #screeps3d cha
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• Intermediate-level tips
  ...ing off your mineral-mining and compound-production code, you'll end up at a disadvantage compared to your neighbors who started earlier. Of course, XGH2O isn't the only useful compound, you'll be making a wide assortment for combat purposes and other optimizations. But in peace t
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• Market
  ...edits, Screep's in-game currency is used to transact these deals, as such, a user starting out will normally first need to deal buy orders to acquire cr ...Name is not required. Creating an order costs 5% of its price in credits, a user can create up to 300 orders per-[[Shard|Shard]] and each order lasts 3
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• RenewCreep vs SpawnCreep
  ...ut a claim part) starts with a 1500 ticksToLive property that decreases at a rate of 1 per game tick. Once ticksToLive reaches 0, the creep dies leaving a tombstone.
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• Energy
  ...rough [[Market]] transactions. In some cases, Energy is used by players as a form of currency, and can be used to indirectly transfer credits to other p There are a few different ways to acquire energy.
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• StructurePortal
  ...et shard, they will have the same name and ticks-to-live but no memory and a different ID.
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• Alliances
  ...t that point, members of the player community gathered in #loan to develop a website to make alliances publicly known and available. ...site] was the initial result of the #loan collaboration. Features include a map of the world highlighting rooms owned by each alliance as an overview,
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• Private server installation on AWS EC2 Instance
  A m3.medium EC2 instance (1 CPU's and 4GB RAM) or a c4.large (2 CPU's and 4GB RAM) runs the game quickly, while t2.micro was no .... You can now connect to your EC2 instance's IP address @ port 21025 using a Steam client.
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• Sim
  ...page it can be found on this page by clicking survival https://screeps.com/a/#!/sim ...ity about the differences compared to playing on the official server or on a [[Private Server|private server]]
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• Mineral Mining
  ...oles than the standard miners and carriers may be required, to account for a variety of resource types instead of only checking for energy. ...ing action, if the creep has no carry parts the minerals will drop, and if a container is present with free space, into the container. You then need to
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• Power
  ...pecial powers and are considered the hero units of screeps. Power is also a resource that can be sold/bought in the [[Market|market]]. It is naturally ...ill in a ruin for 5 ticks, then on the ground subsequent ticks. Attacking a powerBank reflects half of the damage back to the attacking creep.
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• A brief guide to reading the Screeps:World API Documentation
  The [https://docs.screeps.com/api/ Screeps:World API] is a very necessary component to playing and understanding the game. It contain ...they are not guaranteed to appear on the object or appear on the object if a condition if fulfilled.
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