The Energon Pub

Posted: **Mon Apr 06, 2026 7:53 pm**

Well, the eggs have been delivered and everyone's in a chocolate coma, but it seems there's still all these... bunnies hanging around?

Hey HMWarriors - who's up for a good old-fashioned Alt Hunt? With thanks to ThunderThruster for the prompt!

Where'd the bunnies come from? We don't know! Maybe a malfunctioning space bridge, maybe a dimensional portal, maybe the Chaos Trinity are behind it? But they're here, and now it's up to you to help clear them out!

Starting tonight at midnight site time (00:00 CDT / 22:00 PDT / 06:00 BST) and running until midnight next Sunday (04/12), I'll be tracking missions for the four rabbit altmodes:

(398) Helpful Land Animal

(948) Small Land Animal

(1060) Small Land Animal

(1065) Dangerous Repairer

You'll get 1 point for each stasis lock inflicted on a bot with one of these alts. But if you feel like adding to the chaos, all four modes are available to both factions for the duration, and you'll also get 1 point for each stasis lock you score while you have one of these alts... (Yes, that means 2 points for bunny-on-bunny violence)

Make sure to call out your kills in the thread below. I'll keep a leaderboard in the next post, with regular updates through the week. Top score gets the bragging rights, and maybe I can swing some other prizes too?

Have fun hunting wabbits!

Posted: **Mon Apr 06, 2026 7:54 pm**

Scores up to #420591 (13-Apr-2026 00:24:00 CDT) - 188 rabbits tracked

Leaderboard

1. sprockitz - 37 pts
2. ThunderThruster - 19 pts
3. Bumblevivisector - 10 pts
4. Dragonslayer - 9 pts
5. Aubreybot - 6 pts
6. Glyph - 5 pts
7. Silver Wind - 4 pts
=. SupersonicShockwave - 4 pts
=. vintron - 4 pts
10. Kurn96 - 3 pts
11. Light Metal - 2 pts
=. Transbot - 2 pts
13. agg23 - 1 pt
=. Blackmoon - 1 pt
=. megatronpro - 1 pt
=. Optimus_Prime007 - 1 pt
=. UltOrange - 1 pt

Bunny killers

1. Bumblevivisector - 10 kills
- Iron Pig - 2 kills
- TransGoJoeBot - 2 kills
- Candy Claus - 1 kill
- Flash-Turbine - 1 kill
- Kill-Vulcan - 1 kill
- Redsnipe - 1 kill
- Storm Front - 1 kill
- Strike-Eagle - 1 kill
2. ThunderThruster - 9 kills
- Beast of Caerbannog - 2 kills
- Deadlift - 1 kill
- Flame - 1 kill
- Mnementh - 1 kill
- Shunt - 1 kill
- Stardrive - 1 kill
- Thunderthruster - 1 kill
- Zephiris - 1 kill
3. sprockitz - 8 kills
- Mantis - 2 kills
- S.S. Georgie - 2 kills
- Sensaur - 2 kills
- Dewey - 1 kill
- Steggs - 1 kill
4. Glyph - 5 kills
- Hi-Jinx - 2 kills
- Slow-mo - 2 kills
- Skytrail - 1 kill
5. Dragonslayer - 4 kills
- Mortis Maximus - 2 kills
- Shattered Glass Bruce - 1 kill
- Watchdog - 1 kill
=. Silver Wind - 4 kills
- Ascendant - 1 kill
- Dominia - 1 kill
- Erudition - 1 kill
- Firenze - 1 kill
=. SupersonicShockwave - 4 kills
- Brachiocon - 2 kills
- Speedtron - 1 kill
- SuperSonicon - 1 kill
=. vintron - 4 kills
- Aerialus - 1 kill
- Don King Kong - 1 kill
- Eviltronus - 1 kill
- Mach 29 - 1 kill
9. Kurn96 - 3 kills
- Tri-Fury - 2 kills
- Optimus-Prime - 1 kill
10. Aubreybot - 2 kills
- Hoppity Hop - 1 kill
- Rawrrr - 1 kill
=. Light Metal - 2 kills
- Cold Snap - 1 kill
- Synchrony - 1 kill
=. Transbot - 2 kills
- Firetrack - 1 kill
- Starwing - 1 kill
13. agg23 - 1 kill
- Brontamus - 1 kill
=. Blackmoon - 1 kill
- Slipknot - 1 kill
=. UltOrange - 1 kill
- Wheelz - 1 kill

Killer bunnies

1. Ants (sprockitz) - 29 kills
2. Beast of Caerbannog (ThunderThruster) - 10 kills
3. No Ordinary Rabbit (Dragonslayer) - 5 kills
4. Hoppity Hop (Aubreybot) - 4 kills
5. Chopper (megatronpro) - 1 kill
=. Just A Rabbit (Optimus_Prime007) - 1 kill

My kingdom for the old table functionality in forum posts

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2026 7:41 am**

My Target Offering: No Ordinary Rabbit

Total Points: 9

Kills by Wabbit: 5
Ultra Madness @ 01:55
Tri-Fury @ 01:22
Thunderbomber @ 01:33
Slow-mo @ 02:53
Xayah @ 01:55

Wabbit Kills: 4
Watchdog kills Beast of Caerbannog @ 05:17
Mort kills Beast of Caerbannog @ 08:13
SG Bruce chomps Beast of Caerbannog @ 02:17
Mort kills Hoppity Hop @ 03:12

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2026 8:19 am**

The Beast of Caerbannog slays: 8
S.S.Georgie
Mantis
Pandemic
Rageaholic Rex
Flash-Turbine
Shad-O
Havoc
Vanquish

Rabbits Hunted: 11
BunDrone.002
BunDrone.003
BunDrone.001
BunDrone.002
Chopper
No Ordinary Rabbit
Chopper (Rabbit on Rabbit)
Ants
Chopper (Rabbit on Rabbit)

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2026 3:40 pm**

Edit- sweet you are looking things up automatically that’ll make this so much easier :-)

Hmm are there robo bunnies out there now. 100 million xp and no recent history…

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2026 8:09 am**

Whoops, wrong thread :oops:

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2026 10:11 am**

sprockitz wrote:Hmm are there robo bunnies out there now. 100 million xp and no recent history…

Busted!

I'd better explain these to nip any speculation in the bud - I'm also experimenting with some functionally NPC / PvE bots for quiet times / special missions etc. May or not prove to be a good idea... Have discovered that I can give them XP through the dashboard but can't give them Energon for armour etc (which also means I can't offer Energon prizes for stuff, annoyingly). And all manual atm, so not very consistent.

(Note: there are currently 3 robo-bunnies for each faction, with matching alts and stats; they all go into missions at the same time to keep it balanced. Trying to provide some extra targets but not affect the alt hunt scores too much, so I'm currently applying the following rules to them. If they turn out to be a problem, I can exclude them from the scores completely.)

Only join empty missions, generate fresh missions if necessary
One robo-bunny per mission, do not fight each other
My own bots absolutely not allowed to fight them
They count as kills, but do not gain any points themselves

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2026 11:22 am**

Nyuk nyuk... So sorry for running over No Ordinary Rabbit, Dragonslayer! :-D

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2026 12:07 pm**

If we want to make them a little harder to kill i can donate some armor /weapon energon to the bunny cons if a bot would do likewise for the bunny bots

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2026 1:52 pm**

Glyph wrote:Nyuk nyuk... So sorry for running over No Ordinary Rabbit, Dragonslayer!

Normally you'd need a Holy Hand Grenade for that. :michaelbay:

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2026 2:45 pm**

sprockitz wrote:If we want to make them a little harder to kill i can donate some armor /weapon energon to the bunny cons if a bot would do likewise for the bunny bots

Cheers sprockitz - though I'll need to get the dashboard fixed if I want to keep using them, as I'd need to reformat them frequently for new roles.

Dragonslayer wrote:Normally you'd need a Holy Hand Grenade for that.

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--EDIT--
Okay, so it's not quite a grenade...

Damn, those wabbits have been chewing on the power cables tonight, huh.

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2026 5:25 pm**

Dragonslayer wrote:
Glyph wrote:Nyuk nyuk... So sorry for running over No Ordinary Rabbit, Dragonslayer!

Normally you'd need a Holy Hand Grenade for that.

Speak not of that device, for the Beast of Caerbannog doesn't like it...

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2026 5:49 pm**

Now I'm wondering which of the two Tim plucked from the Shattered Glass universe...

Leaderboard and kill counts updated!

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2026 6:33 am**

Glyph wrote:Leaderboard and kill counts updated!

It doesn’t look like bunny on bunny crime is counted as 2 in the leaderboard, at least based on aubreybot with hoppity hop having 4 kills and 2 kills of bunnies but only 5 team points.

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2026 9:05 am**

sprockitz wrote:It doesn’t look like bunny on bunny crime is counted as 2 in the leaderboard, at least based on aubreybot with hoppity hop having 4 kills and 2 kills of bunnies but only 5 team points.

Have checked and the numbers are right, but perhaps confusingly presented (I was thinking I should be clearer about points vs kills and where those two tables overlap). Hoppity Hop had 3 kills at the update: 2 non-bunny (Flash-Turbine, Rageaholic Rex) and 1 bunny (Ants) so had a total of 4 points - showing 2 under Bunny Killers and 4 under Killer Bunnies because the Ants kill qualified for both tables. The extra 1 in the overall leaderboard is because Aubreybot also has a 1pt kill from Rawrrr (BunDrone.001)

Might be easiest if I just omit bunny characters from Bunny Killers so there's no overlap.

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2026 1:01 pm**

Glyph wrote:
sprockitz wrote:It doesn’t look like bunny on bunny crime is counted as 2 in the leaderboard, at least based on aubreybot with hoppity hop having 4 kills and 2 kills of bunnies but only 5 team points.

Have checked and the numbers are right, but perhaps confusingly presented (I was thinking I should be clearer about points vs kills and where those two tables overlap). Hoppity Hop had 3 kills at the update: 2 non-bunny (Flash-Turbine, Rageaholic Rex) and 1 bunny (Ants) so had a total of 4 points - showing 2 under Bunny Killers and 4 under Killer Bunnies because the Ants kill qualified for both tables. The extra 1 in the overall leaderboard is because Aubreybot also has a 1pt kill from Rawrrr (BunDrone.001)

Might be easiest if I just omit bunny characters from Bunny Killers so there's no overlap.

Ahh okay that explains it! I was thinking the two lists should add to get the total score as I interpreted the first sub list as number of kills of bunnies and the second as number of kills by a bunny. so I thought a bunny on bunny would score 1 point on each list (not 2), but contribute 2 to the overall score.

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2026 8:34 pm**

sprockitz wrote:I was thinking the two lists should add to get the total score as I interpreted the first sub list as number of kills of bunnies and the second as number of kills by a bunny.

Yeah... that probably makes more intuitive sense actually, and better matches the way it was described in the OP. Gimme a sec... (*goes off to re-jig the SQL a bit*)

Posted: **Sun Apr 12, 2026 6:27 am**

Last day!

Ants has built up a commanding lead for sprockitz, but can anyone challenge him?

Posted: **Mon Apr 13, 2026 2:17 am**

And that's a wrap!

Congrats to sprockitz for the win - Ants was working overtime for sure. We ended up with 188 bunnies in missions over the week and 17 players on the scoreboard.

Thanks for playing, and particularly to those who reformatted to add their own bunnies to the mix. Keep an eye out for the next event!

Posted: **Mon Apr 13, 2026 4:46 pm**

Congratulations, sprockitz! ;)^

Heh, seventh-place for me. Not too shabby given the time zone differences.

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