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 |
|---|
| 🌚 🌚 🌚 |
| ^^^^^^^ |
| Alright, we're gonna do it once more |
| Beep boop! |
| Cheers! |
| Despite everything, it's still Zoo |
| Did I interrupt something? |
| Did you miss me? |
| Ding dong! |
| Do I have to tell you every time? |
| Don't forget to go outside |
| Don't forget your purpose! |
| Don't forget! |
| Don't you have enough animals? |
| Epic embed success |
| fire in the hole |
| Free zoo score! |
| good morning i'm awake |
| Has anyone ever told you that you're super handsome? |
| Having fun? |
| hey you watcha gonna do |
| Hey you, butterfly! |
| Hope this one goes well |
| Hope to see you soon |
| Hope you find your favorite animal |
| How convenient! |
| How exciting! |
| I don't get paid enough for this |
| I forgot what I was gonna say |
| I wonder what you'll get this time |
| I'm good, how about you? |
| I'm ready to go! |
| I've been expecting you |
| In Soviet Russia animals rescue you |
| it do be like that sometimes |
| It's hecking zoo. |
| It's rescue time! |
| It's that time of the day again |
| It's time for the moment you've been waiting for |
| Just doing my job! |
| Keep up the good work! |
| Let's go and steal some flowers |
| Let's go golfing! |
| Let's just go and fall in love |
| Lets we go, amigo! |
| meaningless number go up by one or two |
| My job here is done |
| Nice lock screen |
| Not sure what you're up to, but you got this! |
| Oh sorry, were you expecting someone else? |
| Onward and upward! |
| Otto says hi |
| Posture check! |
| RoboTop reminders died for this |
| See you again in six hours or so |
| Stay alive out there |
| tell em to bring out the whole ocean |
| That's a nice zoo you have there |
| The more you rescue, the more you rescue |
| The next animal is waiting for you... |
| There's an animal in trouble somewhere! |
| This is a test of the Zoo Rescue Alert System |
| This is your reminder to zoo |
| This isn't a bad time right |
| This isn't the lobby, it's the zoo! |
| Time to rescue another animal! |
| We are so back |
| Welcome back! |
| What can I say except you're welcome? |
| Where do all the animals come from? |
| Where would you be without me |
| Yep, you can rescue again! |
| You can rescue another animal right now! |
| You know the drill by now |
| You know the rules... |
| You thought a friend messaged you, BUT IT WAS ME, ZOO! |
| You're a great person! Do you want to rescue some animals with me? |
| You're able to animal another rescue! |
| You're able to rescue another animal! |
| You're doing a great job! |
| You're gonna like this next one |
| Your cooldown's up! |
| Your personality shines brighter than the sun! |
| Your zoo cooldown has finished! |
| 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?
| |
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.
| |
| 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.