The 'Anomaly Base' mission involves contact with a faction of anomalous Bots, their position revealed by an "Instability Warning" event. Specifically, the Re-simulator at their base features unique wormhole technology to research and harness. Experimentation will allow you to fabricate a Virus Simulation Core and replicate the wormhole effect on your own Re-simulator.
01: Robots[edit | edit source]
The Anomaly Robot base consists of 3-5 passive and small structures, one Command Center and an Anomaly Re-simulator. The Anomaly faction should start off passive but will become hostile if you attack them. Have a bot interact with the Re-simulator, as if visiting an Explorable, to complete this step.
02: Anomaly[edit | edit source]
Your radar components can now set "Anomaly" as their target. This will return Anomaly faction units, such as a Curious Bot or Small Bot Glitch, within the radar's range. You will also obtain the recipe for an Internal Virus Containment, a component which has three Virus inventory slots.
Produce an Internal Virus Containment to move to the next step.
03: Containment[edit | edit source]
The objective is to procure a Virus Source Code. These can be obtained by using two modules, a Virus Cure and an Internal Virus Containment, in tandem.
Locate a Small Bot Glitch and bring your own bot (with the Cure and Containment) within curing range. The glitched bot should be cured, resuming its original programming and returning to the anomalous bots' base, and one Virus Source Code should spawn inside the inventory of your Virus Containment component.
Bring the Virus Source Code to the Anomaly Re-simulator. Your bot should begin displaying visual "glitch" effects for a few seconds, then teleport to a random point several hundred cells away.
04: Wormholes[edit | edit source]
If your teleported unit is equipped with a Radar component you may be well served by finding additional glitched bots and gathering their Virus Source Codes. It will automatically warp back to the Anomaly Re-simulator in about ninety seconds. You can repeat the feat at any time, depositing one Virus Source Code to teleport that unit to a faraway place.
05: Limited edition[edit | edit source]
You will need to build two final items at an Assembler. First is a Re-simulator Core, made with ten each of Silica Sand and Blight Crystal. The second combines that core with three Virus Source Code to produce the Artificial Virus Core.
Install the Virus Core into your Re-simulator to complete the mission.