Recent changes to feature-requests

#169 Custom walls avoid when hit to target enemy

Flemming N. Larsen — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:41:38 -0000

I am not sure what you are asking for?

Robocode does not have "custom walls". It only have the "wall" on the sides of the battle field.

When a bullet gets outside of the battlefield, this is is a "bullet miss". You can get this event by onBulletHitBullet(BulletHitBulletEvent event)

You can also create your own custom events using onCustomEvent(CustomEvent event). Here you instantiate a CustomEvent that takes Condition as input. The Condition is your own (inherited) class, where you need to implement the test() method to tell when the event is fired on your own terms.

Custom walls avoid when hit to target enemy

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:18:41 -0000

Hi, my query is when my robot hit bullet to the enemy, then not avoid custom walls,
as per my challenge in bettelfield created custom walls,
so how we avoid custom walls when hit to the enemy, any method?
my all bullet are waste on custom walls because my robot target to enemy but custom walls in between.

Obstacle insertion & placement into battlefield

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 11:37:54 -0000

The ability to put obstacles onto a playing field expand programming possibilities. Obstacles (e.g., rock piles, buildings, etc) could obstruct view, allowing for shielding of robots. In addition the potential opens up for addiing in mazes to navigate, path discovery, and so on.
In some cases, obstacles might be destroyed (a la shields in Space Invaders). This would cost energy points, and factor into strategy.
Learnging and retaining placement of obstacles allows for rudimentary waypoint navigation and some game AI behaviors.

#91 Use more log levels - maybe employ log4j

Flemming N. Larsen — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 09:41:40 -0000

Thanks for the notification about the RoboWiki being down. This does not happen this often anymore. But I will notify the owners. :)

#91 Use more log levels - maybe employ log4j

Flemming N. Larsen — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 05:47:49 -0000

thanks for the info fnl :) I still "play" robocode, and sometimes contribute my cycles to literumble. Not sure who handles the robowiki now, but the db has been down. Anyway have a nice day!

#91 Use more log levels - maybe employ log4j

Flemming N. Larsen — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 20:38:59 -0000

Thank you for the interrest in keeping Robocode secure. 🙂

Log4J (and other logging framework like e.g. logback) has not been implemented for Robocode. 😅
It uses System.out and System.err in most cases for the game and for the robot consoles.

#91 Use more log levels - maybe employ log4j

Flemming N. Larsen — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 19:24:03 -0000

was log4j implemented? Has security flaws.

#162 Clear Text Interface (through STDIN/STDOUT or through sockets)

Flemming N. Larsen — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 23:17:40 -0000

The progress is good and it is still under development.
I am working heavily on documentation, setup and distribution files. And also getting rid of annoying bugs that would hurt the user experience.
So I am getting very close to release a Beta of the new Robocode. :)

I am preparing a clean Java 8+ and .Net 5 API as well to begin with.

#162 Clear Text Interface (through STDIN/STDOUT or through sockets)

Flemming N. Larsen — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 21:58:31 -0000

I am curious of how the progress has been on this?

Fonts resolution very poor on 4k display

Fabio Vaccaro — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:06:38 -0000

Hi, I have a 4k display and the app has a very bad resolution regarding fonts. Look at the picture compared to a normal editor. It would be very useful to upgrade the font's resolutions. Thanks