Yes it does - three months ago! 
Never mind three months - August! No one listens to me…
It’s a cool idea, but I have no wish for a Hunter, whatever he’s armed with. A Dog that trundles along to heel would be great (or 20 yards away chasing birds…).
I think I prefer my method of getting him on your side…
I choose to perceive it like that, @Flick. I am a generous person. And I think @Bootie’s love for machine doggies is inspired by one of my older posts. 
we know there is a Back to the Future inspired car in the game. What if there is a Johnny 5 type robot from Short Circuit hidden in a barn somewhere? that would make a good ally and fits with the 80s theme 
Wow… deja vu… or how familiar, that feeling. XD
Is it an easter egg though?
Or is there more to this?!? (play X-Files theme here)
I believe I heard about it a long time ago, but I never looked into the Golem project. It looks interesting, but I have to dig deeper into it.
What you mean to tell me that when you joined, you didn’t start reading at the beginning and read it all? What kind of a faintheart are you?
Okay, we’ll say that great minds think alike, but I am with you on this one, but I want a Dog! Hunters are horrible and if one made pathetic mewing noises at me, I’d slow down and take my time…
Can I have a Tick or 25? 
No! I hate the buggers as bad as Hunters! Or to put it another way - yes, have all mine… 
@Bootie, let’s be honest … nothing really happened here before I arrived.
Regarding hunters, you simply have to open your heart. They are seriously misunderstood creatures. They are reaching out to you the only way they know to. I think we need a “befriend a Hunter” day in GZ. And thank you for acknowledging that I’m a great mind. And don’t put yourself down. You are not that bad either 
@Bootie, we’ll have to stop. You know that Xezr (bless him) will kick us out if we don’t behave 
In that case…
I’ll ask for 50. XD
Go on, be honest then - you think that’s so wherever you go, nespa? Do you stop believing in other people when you lose sight of them? Hmmm?
When I see a Hunter, the only thing I want to open is my ammo pack…
Xezr’s fine - he knows it’s only your post we’re spoiling…
@Bootie
You “specist”…
This is pure discrimination!!!
I almost liked it. XD
If you did not drag my Tick into it…
No, just some other people 
You are not spoiling my post, my friend, you are making it entertaining. And you know I appreciate that 
Could you please try your best to remember where this was or how this happened. I’d really like to find it for myself.
I know exactly where it was, but right now I can’t recall the name of the village. I’ll check and follow up when I open the game next time 
But this is a random event, I’m sure. It probably happened because the hunter spawned in that particular spot that it couldn’t get out of. Also, it was quite some updates ago it happened, so the algorithms preventing the machines getting stuck might very well have changed. So if it can still happen, I guess it could happen anywhere. Keep playing and perhaps - all of a sudden - you might come across a stuck machine 
Thanks 
and I can see why it would be a one time thing. But definetly make sure to come back and tell me if you find the place thankyou
It was here: -2907,2595 Kålleby
I’ve heard alot of people in DEV streams asking about pets or machines that you can use during combat. I wanted to see if I can make this work.
The ways I imagine you could get one of these -
Dude working on the Runner in Himfjall ×
You would talk to him and would have to have a said amount of components to create one.
I don’t want to go into to much detail but you would have to be over lvl 26.
Bunker 666 -
This is huge lomgshot since we don’t know what this place is yet. But just incase its a bot fighting place. Lab or something or other then I’d want it to play out like this.
you talk to one of the NPCS (IF THERE ARE ANY REMEMBER).
(Same rules as before apply).
It would take alot of effort and component scavenging. This would be very time consuming.
I imagine being able to go up to hunters and THEN you go into brand new machine variants specifically for this Porpouse.
But when your powerful enough to take down an Apocalypse Tank what’s the point?
Ill cover that in another post.
For now this is the only way I think they could work because its hard to make something like this be balanced and work.
It’s been a bit since Ive seen anything about Machine companions. I don’t just want to talk about ideas but how it would work aswell, because as swell as new content is, it has to be even and working without bugs.
(Overview)
So machine companionship is a hard thing to add to the game because yknow, how? Where does it fit in. I’ve had a couple of ideas for how you gain the help of a MC (what I’m gonna say instead of machine companion).
Idea #1 Real Dog brain swap.
A way you could obtain machine companions could be through brainswapping (this is specifically for runners/dogs). There could be a place where you find a dog where you and the NPCS agree that it would be better if he was brain transferred with a machine. Like Ulmer.
A couple things that come to mind are, how do these NPCS posses the power to do so? And is this too sci-fi. 1 These NPCS could possibly have access to a previous Machine outpost and collect the required tech to do so (E. G. The NPC could have worked on behalf of FOA). That would explain how they are able to do it. 2 I think it’s perfectly fine within the boundaries to have something like this happen, I mean look at the rest of the game.
This idea obviously leaves out the idea of Hunter friends and new types of machines to be friendos.
The reason I though of this one is because some people would like to (I know you may shrug it off) but have emotional attachments to their MCs. You may not think that now but when you’ve spend more than a week with your bestie and he gets evaporated you’ll be sad for sure.
This way has more problems than good things so this isn’t the best.
Idea #2 The Machine Factory Engineer!
This is probably the best way this could work. Obviously we have seen lots of NPCS with Himfjall and for the new FNIX Rising. Who’s to say one of these NPCS from either dlc/future updates isn’t a technological genius!
The way I see it working is you have to have a certain number of materials, you exchange them to mister handy man and he makes a machine buddy for ya.
There are a wee couple problems, like people making too many machines because they have SO many resources. I, myself have over 2000 metal and plenty of other resources so they would have to make it a costly price.
You would only be allowed 2-3 friendos in order to not ruin the server or be overpowered.
I see you only being able to create machines at level 20. But by that time they’ve probably got a billion stuff already right? I propose making it so that you get alot less resources until that point? That could have some altercations but I can see that working.
(HOW THEY WOULD WORK)
Now those were just ideas of ‘how your friends could come to be’ so pleeeeeease take them with a grain of salt since it was hard to think of any good ways you could do this without facing issues. Now this is how they’ll actually work. Behaviour, commands just how they do stuff etc.
#1 Restrictions.
I see there being an time frame between making machine friends like 20 irl minutes as to not constantly make machines.
Only 2-3 machines should be allowed to one person. This would make you not so overpowered.
You would not be able to destroy other players machines.
#2 issues
I see an issue which would be ‘you’ve seen how quickly machines can explode? What’s even the point of having them!’ My answer? Plot armour.
Machine AI when hacked and attacking other bits kinda sucks rn. Theyll have to give it a retouch.
If 4 friends get on a server with their maxed machines they will be unstoppable! They’d have to put restrictions down. Maybe over 2 player groups cannot port over their machines.
#3 commands
I see an Ark esc style to machine commands e. g. You push down a button and it brings up commands OR you could map some commands to buttons (this would have to be PC exclusive as they’re aren’t that many buttons for console so a push joystick would be better).
Commands such as:
Stay
Attack
Peaceful mode
Roam
Turret mode
Follow
Go
and Fetch
I could see being main ones.
#4 machines themselves.
We can’t just have 2 MACHINES! That being the Runner and hunter (possibly tick) as Companions cause thats boooooring!
I suggest brand new machine Concept ideas that part from main machines. (although it has been ages guys cmon add a new machine ready).
A companion exclusive machine that could hold stuff like ammo crates etc for you.
A bombardier which occasionally would through explosives? But small ones.
AND here’s one get ready for it…
Rideable!
That is a massive stretch and something that is most likely not coming although since they don’t think cars is the best idea, maybe this is the next best thing?
I don’t want to make this a machine ideas post so I’ll leave it at that.
#5 upgrades.
Taking resources (such as the leaked ones in the picture we were given) could be used to upgrade them by going to an upgrade station near wherever you get your machines from.
You could upgrade their health, armour, weapons or possibly their ability to do certain things.
#6 following
Once again machine AI unless its hostile is clunky because you have a 6ft hunter following you around.
I’d see having them wait for you outside of houses, barns and bunkers once you’ve entered them.
I can potentially see a lot of problems to come out of this. So if you spot any massive or big ones that could be problems make sure to tell me. But remember constructive criticism.
Bye!