How to Use the Replicator in Rec Room: A Simple Circuit Tutorial

Hey everybody, it’s Under My Cap, and welcome back to another video. Today, I’m going to show you how to use the replicator inside Rec Room. As you can see behind me, I have these awesome vending machines. If I click on them, you’ll notice an item spawns in. These items are completely replicated—they’re not real items. You could say they are just replicas. You can return the items, and I’ll show you how to do that as well. Now, let’s get straight into it. The first thing to note is that you need to enable beta tools inside your room. To do that, go to your watch, click on Settings, then Main Settings, and scroll all the way down. You’ll see a toggle called “Allow Creative Tools Beta Content.” Turn that on. Once you enable this, it cannot be turned off, so please be aware. That’s how you get access to the replicator. Let’s go outside for this part. Pull out your Maker Pen. Using the Maker Pen, search for “replicator” to get started. Please ignore what’s happening behind me; that’s just the room I’m in. Navigate to the Pallet, then to Circuits, and search for “replicator.” A replicator appears as a purple beam. Click on that to get it. After selecting it, close the search menu on your Maker Pen. You’ll see a small purple glowing object—that’s the replicator. Whatever shapes you connect to this replicator can be cloned inside the room. When you spawn in a replicator, a chip also appears. This chip represents the main brains of how the replicator works. If you click on the execution chip, you can spawn an object. This means you clone whatever is on this plate into the world. You can specify the position where the replicated object will spawn, with default coordinates at 0000. You can also set the orientation, although it doesn’t do much—it just changes how the object is rotated. There is an option to assign the object to a specific player, which is useful because it makes the object interactable only by that player. The player assignment allows you to restrict interactions to a particular user. Now, how do you put an item inside the replicator? In rooms, we have something called containers. Think of the replicator as a container. Let me spawn one of my creations, a cat. To replicate this cat across the room, the object must be inside its own container. Once the cat is inside a container, open your Maker Pen and click the wire button (Y), the second purple button next to Configure. Click on the cat and drag it to the replicator. The cat will snap to the replicator, indicating it’s inside. To keep things simple, I will spawn a replicated cat at the current location of the original cat. Use the object ID (the small identifier at the top) to drag it to the position chip, which creates a “Get Position” chip. This chip captures the position of the replicator, which is useful for spawning copies in the same spot. Then, drag the position output to the orientation input—be careful not to accidentally create extraneous chips. When you click “Spawn Next Object,” a new cat will spawn inside the original one. Sometimes, it may glitch a little—for example, spawning another cat inside the original. If you drop your Maker Pen, the original item inside the replicator disappears, which is expected. Repeating the process, clicking “Spawn Next Object” again creates another clone. You can spawn multiple copies this way. Since they work inside containers, you can also containerize circuits within them, making them still interactive with interaction volumes and similar tools. This is a very brief overview of how to use the replicator. It can be used for many purposes in your rooms. If you found this video helpful, please leave a like and subscribe. I look forward to seeing you in the next video!