# Computers for research and fun

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/computers-for-research-and-fun/17959>\
**Category:** The Lab\
**Tags:** mod\
**Created:** [December 16, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/computers-for-research-and-fun/17959 "2018-12-16T16:18:38Z")\
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> [@TheZoneWizard](#):
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> Would be great if we could hack the military national guard robots to…not kill us? =D

You already can. Use a control laptop. Shard made a mod to let you turn off the robots from the base game and the national guard base for storage as well. I’ve got roughly a hundred of them sitting in a closet in my base.

> [@Disable hacked bots](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/disable-hacked-bots/17547):
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> If you can hack it, you can turn it into an item form. Exception: Broken cyborg. (Base game + national guard camps) Can add to an existing world by modifying the save’s mods.json and adding “disable\_bots” for base game, and “disable\_bots\_natcamp” as well if you have national guard camp to the list, with a comma behind every entry except the last. [Get it on github](https://github.com/Lorith/Disable-Bots-CDDA-Mod)

If you are talking about hacking them all at once, I don’t know if that would be reasonable. If I were a military robot designer I would not make it possible to reset their IFF systems from a central system. That is the kind of vulnerability which leads to catastrophic hacking attacks by the enemy. MAYBE it would be possible on a squad level, but not all of them at a base at once.

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