= Very usefull in it's situation
= Cool to watch!Hey! Welcome to the showcase of many many retrievers! Here you can learn and share different or useful techniques to fetching a ball/square out of a certain place! I know when I first started getting into this game, retrievers were my weakness. Now, they have become an art and are second nature to me. Please feel free to contribute as much as possible and refer back to it as much as possible. This is a community collection.
To have your design posted below, create a retriever on one of the following levels, then either publish it, or if you wish to just post it, feel free to do that as well.
Here are some levels designed to replicate scenerios we would normally come across in levels.
Levels:
Lateral Retrievers
Retrievers:
Classic Overhand
Pros: Can fit almost anywhere, can be made to retrieve around obstacles and go very far. Cons: often requires lots of weight, often very very tweaky.
Parallelovater
Pros: Beautiful and quick and can be easily modified Cons: Often takes lots of weights, and is difficult to make longer.
Classic Underhand
Pros: VERY easy and not very tweak heavy. Cons: Difficult to make longer
rian's EXTREMELY LUCKY simplaretriever
Pros: cool and simple. Cons: normally isn't that lucky.
Far Reaching Lateral Retrievers
Retrievers:
CC's robobridge extender
Pros: reaches far. Cons: Sorta difficult to make, and I imagine it is fairly tweak-intensive.
CC's Origami retriever
Pros: Uses very little weight, extends somewhat far. Cons: Messy and takes up lots of space.
Diagonal Retrievers
Retrievers:
CC's "more complex than it needs to be" extender
Pros: reaches fairly far. Can be easily modified Cons: Complex, and takes lots of weight
Narwhals' Simpler version to CC's complicated one
Pros and Cons: Same as above only less complex an less tweaky
CC's Giraffe
Pros: Simple and easy to tweak. Cons: Requires much much weight, lots of space, and doesn't really get much bigger than that.
Kladdy's simpleness
Pros: efficient, fast simple. Cons: Uses much weight. This could probably be tweaked out.
Square Lateral Retrievers
Retrievers:
Rian's "Wedge 'Pulter"
Pros: Easy to make, not terribly tweak heavy. Cons: Not good for long range, adjustment sensitive.
CC's "Not very fuel efficient but cool to look at" retriever
Pros: Beautiful retriever and does it's job. Cons: uses two weights and takes up lots of space.
Jyo's Base Brace retriever
Pros: works very well and looks amazing. Cons: Tweak-heavy and very difficult to make.
Zhyrek's Ipecac pult
Pros: weight efficient and doesn't use a lot of space. Cons: Very tweaky and very sensitive.
Square Pick-up
Retrievers:
CCs no-nme retriever
Pros: looks cool. Cons: tweaky, inefficient, takes up lots of space. We aren't gonna get much better though.
RB Square Lifter
Pros: Doesn't require very much weight, and not very much space. Cons: kinda tweaky, doesn't work reliably
Cranes
Retrivers:
Classic Rope-Rider!
Pros: Very easy to make , doesn't use a lot of space, very easy to make. Cons: Powered and is difficult to make if not under the correct circumstances.
Classic Basket & Chain
Pros: Simple, not much weight required, Not tweaky at all. Cons: difficult to aim the ball landing spot.
OTHER:
Classic Rockstarm
Pros: easy and reliable. Cons: None for now!
The Rockstarm is reliable for picking up objects around obstacles. It can be easily modified to fit certain circumstances.
Examples: http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=10991200
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=10993733
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=10993770
Protogenius' amazing retrievers:
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=11000701
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=10989759
Let me know of any spelling or HTML issues. I tend to misspell things or leave out letters.
Besides, most of my designs are intentional overkill...that's my style. lol
