In the Elden Ring subreddit, a player showcases a brilliant invention. A cardboard robot with a light sensor lights up in front of it, while motors provide audible movement on the screen. The robot automatically farms runes. The post is very well received by fans – but is deleted by the community moderators.
Between the late evening of June 20 and the early morning of June 21, a post soared high in the Elden Ring subreddit. This post gathered over 24,000 upvotes, 1,149 comments, and nearly 50 awards within just a few hours – until it was deleted by the subreddit moderators.
The post featured a video about 2 minutes long, showing a robot in Elden Ring farming runes automatically.
The reasons for the post’s deletion are unclear, but it was probably considered an unfair cheat by the mods. However, the community apparently celebrated this contribution. We will tell you here what it was about.
“I built a robot to automatically farm runes”
How does this robot work? In the 2 minutes of the video, you can clearly see what is happening. Even though the construction seems very complex and intimidating, its function can be easily deduced. Ultimately, this farming robot does just what some cheaters accomplish with macros.
Here you can see the video from the now deleted Reddit post:
In the Mohgwyn-Plats of Elden Ring, where you can also find the powerful White Mask, there is a popular farming spot. Here you can quickly and easily kill about a dozen Albinaurics and farm some runes. You can then invest them in leveling up.
With cheat macros, some players automate this process, as the steps for this farming spot are predictable and precisely controllable. This way, you can earn about 6 million runes in an hour.
This robot likely follows the same steps, but uses a hardware solution instead of software. Anti-cheats cannot detect that something (or someone) is amiss.
Technicians who recreate cheat-like functions with hardware solutions seem to be becoming a trend:
- Technician builds a real aimbot that aims better than pros
- Technician builds aimbot for controller that no anti-cheat can stop
Here you can see how a semi-naked top player in Elden Ring became a legend:
The robot is a monster made of cardboard and bright lights
What is this robot made of? Several close-up shots reveal how this robot functions. It becomes clear that despite complicated technology, the materials used for this farm-bot are inexpensive.
Dozens of cables converge on a board that can light up red and green and was plugged into a MacBook via USB. Additionally, a light sensor is taped to the monitor with electrical tape.
With this light sensor, the robot can identify where the Site of Grace is located. Once the farm-bot recognizes the save point, the character then locks onto it, allowing the entire process to start over.
Curiously, the robot itself is a monstrosity made of cardboard and foam, where switches press against cardboard wings – presumably to press buttons on a controller. You can clearly hear the sounds of the motors that set these switches in motion in the video. In CSGO, you have to defuse things that look like this.
“You are an evil genius”
What other players say: Before the post was deleted, there was plenty of praise and enthusiasm in the comments on Reddit for this solution.
- “I thought macros were impressive for killing Albinaurics. You… this is the next level. You are an evil genius.” – Revolutionary-Today1
- “The good kind of AFK-farmer!” – zipfern
- “How the hell is it possible to be both this lazy and this hardworking? Amazing.” – ThunderHype
There were also jokes made about the tinkerer misunderstanding the term “Elden Ring Build.”
What do you think of this invention? Brilliant or brilliantly wrong? And do you understand why the Reddit mods deleted this post? Let us know in the comments.
Clever fans of Elden Ring are not only inventing robots to play the game in very special ways. Even angelic instruments are being repurposed for the hardcore action RPG:
Player uses harp as controller in Elden Ring – defeats bosses better than most of us
