Rescue notifications
The specific instructions are:
- anything that affects the notification other than downtime/VM?
- weight of items in notification group (maybe not important enough?)
- section on auto-rescues (or a separate article?)
- items (lure, battery)
- v1.5.1: "- Tweaked battery to not show the use button unless you have 3+ notifications"
Rescue notifications[note 1] are a number in Zoo profiles. When the rescue cooldown expires and the player has at least one notification, the Zoo bot will DM them a reminder to rescue. Notifications can be obtained in various ways, primarily by using items.
Zoo reminders can be paused with /settings. The terminal command $ defer can be used to disable reminders for the current rescue.
The effect of Satellite depends on the number of notifications.
Flavor text
After receiving 18 notifications, all future notifications use a random humorous message in place of “You're able to rescue another animal!”. There are “like 80”[1] possible messages, chosen from this list:
| Rescue notification flavor text |
|---|
| Don't forget your purpose! |
| Hope you find your favorite animal |
| The next animal is waiting for you... |
| Cheers! |
| You're a great person! Do you want to rescue some animals with me? |
| Having fun? |
| Let's just go and fall in love |
| Beep boop! |
| Hope to see you soon |
| I don't get paid enough for this |
| Just doing my job! |
| RoboTop reminders died for this |
| it do be like that sometimes |
| Yep, you can rescue again! |
| Oh, sorry, were you expecting someone else? |
| The more you rescue, the more you rescue |
| Your personality shines brighter than the sun! |
| Your zoo cooldown has finished! |
| Hope this one goes well |
| My job here is done |
| 🌚 🌚 🌚 |
| See you again in six hours or so |
| This isn't a bad time right |
| What can i say except you're welcome? |
| I wonder what you'll get this time |
| How exciting! |
| hey you whatcha gonna do |
| This isn't the lobby, it's the zoo! |
| That's a nice zoo you have there |
| I've been expecting you |
| Don't forget! |
| Hey you, butterfly! |
| You know the drill by now |
| Where would you be without me |
| meaningless number go up by one or two |
| Has anyone ever told you that you're super handsome? |
| Where do all the animals come from? |
| Stay alive out there |
| Despite everything, it's still Zoo |
| You're able to rescue another animal! |
| You thought a friend messaged you, BUT IT WAS ME, ZOO! |
| It's hecking zoo. |
| Not sure what you're up to, but you got this! |
| Posture check! |
| This is your reminder to zoo |
| Welcome back! |
| Epic embed success |
| Don't forget to go outside |
| Alright, we're gonna do it once more |
| Keep up the good work! |
| You're able to animal another rescue! |
| I'm good, how about you? |
| There's an animal in trouble somewhere! |
| Do I have to tell you every time? |
| You can rescue another animal **right now!** |
| You're gonna like this next one |
| Don't you have enough animals? |
| Otto says hi |
| You're doing a great job! |
| I forgot what I was gonna say |
| Nice lock screen |
| This is a test of the Zoo Rescue Alert System |
| Did I interrupt something? |
| 👋 |
| It's that time of the day again |
| ^^^^^^^ |
| Ding dong! |
| Zoo jumpscare |
The clock emoji in reminder messages represents the number of notifications remaining modulo 12 (for example, 🕒 when 15 notifications are left).
Notifications received with Virtual Machine equipped have unique flavor text, and the button reminds the player to rescue with /terminal.
Notifications received while a curse of downtime is active have and a message that reminds the player of the curse.
When all notifications are used up, the zoo reminder has a message warning the player about it.
Ways to obtain rescue notifications
Alarm Clock
Alarm Clock
| |
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“You, you're finally awake”
| |
| Quality | 1 |
| Mechanic upgrade | |
|---|---|
 ⨯1 → ⨯2 (6h)
| |
 "Sends a DM when you're able to rescue an animal"... seriously? Just find another bot that sets reminders, why would you ever need this?
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Sends a DM when you're able to rescue an animal. Works 6 times. (stackable)
— Alarm Clock, in-game description
Alarm Clock can never be sold in the shop.[2]
Calendar
Calendar
| |
 | |
“It appears that its days are numbered”
| |
| Quality | 3 |
| Mechanic upgrade | |
|---|---|
 ⨯1 →⨯12 (12h)
| |
| That's a cute calendar, I'll gladly take that off you!
| |
Sends a DM when you're able to rescue an animal. Works 31 times. (stackable)
— Calendar, in-game description
In addition to the usual ways of obtaining items, Goal reward #12 always grants 1 Calendar.
Stopwatch
Stopwatch
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“Sub 6 rescues may be possible after all”
| |
| Quality | 2 |
| Mechanic upgrade | |
|---|---|
 ⨯1 →⨯5 (8h)
| |
| Don't stopwatches count upwards? Oh well, if it works it works.
| |
Sends a DM when you're able to rescue an animal. Works 15 times. (stackable)
— Stopwatch, in-game description
Using /rescue early
Using /rescue with a rescue cooldown of less than 60 seconds gives a free notification.
Bell Pepper
Bell Pepper gives a 50% chance to not consume notifications.
History
| RoboTop | ||
|---|---|---|
| v78.0 | Added Alarm Clock and Calendar.[3] | |
| Alarm Clock and Calendar give 3 and 7 notifications respectively. | ||
| v78.5 | The clock emoji in zoo reminders now reflects how many notifications are left.[3] | |
| v80.0 | Added curse of slumber, which prevents items other than alarm clocks from being used. | |
| Sep 20, 2021[4] | A development screenshot shows Calendar giving 30 notifications. | |
| v88.5 | Alarm Clock now gives 6 notifications.[3] | |
| Calendar was renamed to Stopwatch and now gives 15 notifications.[3] | ||
| Added a new Calendar that gives 31 notifications.[3] | ||
| v92.0 | Attempting to rescue with a rescue cooldown of less than sixty seconds now cancels and refunds the notification.[3] | |
| Decreased the item quality of Calendar and Stopwatch.[3] | ||
| v93.1 | Notifications are now shown in the online view.[3] | |
| v93.3 | Zoo reminders are no longer sent when rescuing just as the rescue cooldown expires.[3] | |
| Zoo Bot | ||
| v1.0.0 | Removed curse of slumber. | |
| Attempting to rescue with a rescue cooldown of less than sixty seconds now gives a free rescue notification. | ||
| Notifications now include a message if a curse of downtime is active. | ||
| v1.1.1 | Virtual Machine now disables the button on zoo reminders.[5] | |
| v1.2.0 | Rescue notifications now send correctly after increasing rescue cooldown from zero (e.g. by using Glasses or skipping a captcha from curse of security).[5] | |
| v1.4.0 | Zoo reminders' text is now randomized after receiving 18 reminders.[5] | |
| v1.4.1 | Zoo reminders now contain a warning if all notifications were used up.[5] | |
| Added more random flavor text to zoo reminders.[5] | ||
| v1.4.4 | The clock emoji in zoo reminders now displays correctly.[5] | |
| v1.4.6 | Added more random flavor text to zoo reminders.[5] | |
| v1.5.1 | Virtual Machine now correctly disables buttons on zoo reminders again.[5] | |
| v1.5.2 | Notification items can now be bulk-used.[5] | |
| Dec 18, 2023[6] | The developer considers disabling $ defer after receiving a free notification.
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| v1.5.5 | ??? | Obtaining a free notification from early rescues now disables the $ defer command.[5]
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Notes
- ↑ Called notifications in the online view.
References
- ↑ 29 July 2023. Reply to @coolkatter by Colon [@colon] in the
#zoo-talkchannel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.@coolkatter: Backread through my zoo dms and found these messages [Image: List of reminder quotes]
I think there may be a few more though
@colon: theres like 80 - ↑ 15 April 2023. Message by Colon [@colon] in the
#zoo-talkchannel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server:“presents and mechanic items are only buyable from custom shops
and shiny coin
+ cookie, pizza, alarm clock arent sellable” - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 RoboTop changelog.
- ↑ 20 September 2021. Excerpt of in-dev item JSON by Colon [@colon] in the
#chillchannel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.{ "name": "Calendar", "val": "long", "amount": 30, "emoji": "🗓", "quality", 4, "desc": "Sends a DM when you are able to rescue an animal. Works 30 times. (stackable) "}
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 Zoo changelog.
- ↑ 18 December 2023. Message by Colon [@colon] in the
#zoo-talkchannel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.