Combat doctrine ↗
Free-for-all and team objective combat, with real consequences for poor choices.
DarkMatter Software // Release 0.5.4 Stable
The machines are learning.
Autonomous combat, tactical doctrine, a functioning economy, and an alarming amount of paperwork.
Enter the gallery →Welcome to the killing floor
DarkMatter WarSim | BattleBots is a locally operated autonomous robot combat simulator. Build machines, assign language-model brains, test tactics, fight in the arena, and follow the resulting careers. The engine adjudicates the rules; the LLM chooses what to attempt. Sometimes it chooses to admire a wall.
Version 0.5.4 Stable is the documented release label. The accompanying source archive includes older historical READMEs, so individual features are described against the supplied current modules rather than treating old release notes as a specification.
Robot Workshop ↗
Chassis, weapons, equipment, purchase accounting and customization.
Central Banking ↗
Treasury, sales, payouts and a ledger that remembers the crimes.
AI & decision-making ↗
Local models, tactical prompts, cooldowns and a performance laboratory.
Team Black ↗
Eight individual portraits and their supplied configuration snapshots.
Visual evidence ↗
Browse the actual interface, not marketing fiction.
The interface, in evidence
Field notes
This is a statistics-driven simulator, not a pre-rendered fighting animation. Decisions, movement, legal attacks, hit calculation, weapon readiness, and match resolution occur through distinct layers.
The 0.6 separation is a planned direction, not a shipped feature.