diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.conf b/src/main/resources/application.conf
index 03f49658c8..1617157f9e 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application.conf
+++ b/src/main/resources/application.conf
@@ -412,6 +412,9 @@ opencomputers {
       # two real experience points, redstone is worth 5.
       oreXpRate: 4.0
 
+      # This determines how much experience a robot gets for each suck.
+      suckXpRate: 1.0
+
       # This is the amount of additional energy that fits into a robots
       # internal buffer for each level it gains. So with the default values,
       # at maximum level (30) a robot will have an internal buffer size of
@@ -1003,6 +1006,10 @@ opencomputers {
       "allow default"
     ]
 
+    whitelist: []
+
+    blacklist: []
+
     # The time in seconds to wait for a response to a request before timing
     # out and returning an error message. If this is zero (the default) the
     # request will never time out.
@@ -1400,6 +1407,10 @@ opencomputers {
     # be performed by the trading upgrade
     tradingRange: 8.0
 
+    # The maximum range between the drone/robot and a experience orb for a suck to
+    # be performed by the experience upgrade
+    suckXpRange: 8.0
+
     # Radius the MFU is able to operate in
     mfuRange: 3
 
@@ -1645,7 +1656,7 @@ opencomputers {
 
     # This setting assigns the budget call cost to invoke bitblt to write vram
     # to a screen. Video ram can bitblit to a screen which can cause real life
-    # network laod the defaults settings put bitblit network impact close to gpu.set
+    # network load the defaults settings put bitblit network impact close to gpu.set
     # Increase these values to throttle bitblt more. The cost tier N is bitbltCost * 2^(tier)
     # default is .5, which gives: .5, 1, 4
     bitbltCost: 0.5
diff --git a/src/main/scala/li/cil/oc/Settings.scala b/src/main/scala/li/cil/oc/Settings.scala
index d44e4643e0..9b7dc3f1fe 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/li/cil/oc/Settings.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/li/cil/oc/Settings.scala
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ class Settings(val config: Config) {
   val robotActionXp = config.getDouble("robot.xp.actionXp") max 0
   val robotExhaustionXpRate = config.getDouble("robot.xp.exhaustionXpRate") max 0
   val robotOreXpRate = config.getDouble("robot.xp.oreXpRate") max 0
+  val robotSuckXpRate = config.getDouble("robot.xp.suckXpRate") max 0
   val bufferPerLevel = config.getDouble("robot.xp.bufferPerLevel") max 0
   val toolEfficiencyPerLevel = config.getDouble("robot.xp.toolEfficiencyPerLevel") max 0
   val harvestSpeedBoostPerLevel = config.getDouble("robot.xp.harvestSpeedBoostPerLevel") max 0
@@ -387,6 +388,7 @@ class Settings(val config: Config) {
   val serverRackSwitchTier = (config.getInt("misc.serverRackSwitchTier") - 1) max Tier.None min Tier.Three
   val redstoneDelay = config.getDouble("misc.redstoneDelay") max 0
   val tradingRange = config.getDouble("misc.tradingRange") max 0
+  val suckXpRange = config.getDouble("misc.suckXpRange") max 0
   val mfuRange = config.getInt("misc.mfuRange") max 0 min 128
 
   // ----------------------------------------------------------------------- //
diff --git a/src/main/scala/li/cil/oc/server/component/UpgradeExperience.scala b/src/main/scala/li/cil/oc/server/component/UpgradeExperience.scala
index 6f2c7f4546..5593b1d187 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/li/cil/oc/server/component/UpgradeExperience.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/li/cil/oc/server/component/UpgradeExperience.scala
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package li.cil.oc.server.component
 
 import java.util
-
 import li.cil.oc.Constants
 import li.cil.oc.api.driver.DeviceInfo.DeviceAttribute
 import li.cil.oc.api.driver.DeviceInfo.DeviceClass
@@ -15,7 +14,7 @@ import li.cil.oc.api.machine.Callback
 import li.cil.oc.api.machine.Context
 import li.cil.oc.api.network.Visibility
 import li.cil.oc.api.prefab.AbstractManagedEnvironment
-import li.cil.oc.util.UpgradeExperience
+import li.cil.oc.util.{BlockPosition, UpgradeExperience}
 import net.minecraft.enchantment.EnchantmentHelper
 import net.minecraft.entity.item.EntityXPOrb
 import net.minecraft.init.Items
@@ -24,7 +23,7 @@ import net.minecraft.nbt.NBTTagCompound
 import scala.collection.convert.WrapAsJava._
 import scala.collection.convert.WrapAsScala._
 
-class UpgradeExperience(val host: EnvironmentHost with internal.Agent) extends AbstractManagedEnvironment with DeviceInfo {
+class UpgradeExperience(val host: EnvironmentHost with internal.Agent) extends AbstractManagedEnvironment with traits.WorldAware with DeviceInfo {
   final val MaxLevel = 30
 
   override val node = api.Network.newNode(this, Visibility.Network).
@@ -42,6 +41,8 @@ class UpgradeExperience(val host: EnvironmentHost with internal.Agent) extends A
 
   override def getDeviceInfo: util.Map[String, String] = deviceInfo
 
+  override def position: BlockPosition = BlockPosition(host)
+
   var experience = 0.0
 
   var level = 0
@@ -110,6 +111,28 @@ class UpgradeExperience(val host: EnvironmentHost with internal.Agent) extends A
     result(true)
   }
 
+  @Callback(doc = """function():number -- suck experience from nearby. return the amount of sucked experience""")
+  def suck(context: Context, args: Arguments): Array[AnyRef] = {
+    val nearBounds = position.bounds
+    val farBounds = nearBounds.offset(Settings.get.suckXpRange, Settings.get.suckXpRange, Settings.get.suckXpRange)
+    val bounds = nearBounds.union(farBounds)
+    var gained = 0D
+    entitiesInBounds[EntityXPOrb](classOf[EntityXPOrb], bounds).foreach(orb => {
+
+      if (!orb.isDead && orb.xpValue > 0) {
+        val copy = experience.toDouble
+        addExperience(orb.xpValue * Settings.get.robotSuckXpRate)
+        val added = (experience.toDouble - copy) / Settings.get.robotSuckXpRate
+        gained += added
+        orb.xpValue = (orb.xpValue - added.toInt)
+        if (orb.xpValue <= 0) {
+          orb.setDead()
+        }
+      }
+    })
+    result(gained)
+  }
+
   private def updateClient() = host match {
     case robot: internal.Robot => robot.synchronizeSlot(robot.componentSlot(node.address))
     case _ =>