Moving Box is a relic.

Moving Box
“Be mindful of how much you hoard!”

Effects edit

Reduces your rescue cooldown by 90 minutes, but weakens by 3 minutes for each item you have. Rescued animals will never hold items.

— In-game description

Moving Box stops having an effect once the player has 30 or more items.

History edit

RoboTop
v93.4 Added Moving Box.[1]
Moving Box reduces cooldown by 100 minutes and is weakened by 5 minutes per item.
v94.2[1] Now weakened by 3 minutes per item.
Joke items no longer affect Moving Box.
v95.0 Now reduces cooldown by 120 minutes and is weakened by 4 minutes per item.[1]
Due to a bug, the description is unchanged from the previous update.[2]
May 13, 2022 Now reduces cooldown by 100 minutes and is weakened by 3 minutes per item.[3][4]
Oct 28—Oct 30, 2022 Now weakened by 4 minutes per item.[5]
Zoo Bot
v1.0.0 Slightly reworded description.[note 1]
v1.4.0[6] Now reduces cooldown by 90 minutes and is weakened by 3 minutes per item.
Now prevents animals from holding items.
  1. - Decreases your rescue cooldown by 100 minutes. Weakened by 4 minutes for each item you have.
    + Reduces your rescue cooldown by 100 minutes. Effect weakened by 4 minutes for each item you have.
    

See also edit

Video by the developer implementing Moving Box (direct link on the Internet Archive)

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 RoboTop changelog.
  2. 24 April 2022. Message by vivi [@viviampersand] in the #robotop-bugs channel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.

    @viviampersand: also i don't think moving box should be able to decrease your cooldown by more than 100m / 1h40m? not sure what's up with that
    @polishapple: looks like it has the old description [Image: Excerpt from v95.0's changelog]
    […]
    RoboTop#2012: 📦 Moving Box
    Decreases your rescue cooldown by 100 minutes. Weakened by 3 minutes for each item you have.

  3. 13 May 2022. Message by Colon [@colon] in the #robotop-source-leaks channel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server:

    “fixed moving box relic decreasing from 120 mins instead of 100 mins like in the desc”

  4. 14 May 2022. Moving Box dialogue by RoboTop in the #bots channel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.
  5. 30 October 2022. Relics list by RoboTop in the #bots channel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.
  6. Zoo changelog, v1.4.0 (released 25 June 2023):

    “Tweaked moving box from 100-4x minutes to 90-3x, and disables animals holding items”