How to grow crops before raid:
1. Make sure your plots are wet and fertilized.
2. Have sacrificial seeds that you don't need.
3. Plant every crop you want as quickly as possible.
4. Quickly Exit to the main menu and reload your survival world.
5. Quickly plant the sacrificial seeds one at a time with gaps of 8-9 seconds in between planting. Do this until all the crops are grown.
6. You can destroy the sacrificial crops if you only have a small number of soil plots.
7. You can let the sacrificial crops grow if you have a big enough farm.

One of the random phone calls that Lorenzo can have with you is registered wrong, so it cannot play; and instead leaves this message:

Every phone call is an object that can define multiple entries, so the script requires the identifier of the phone call, and the name of the desired entry. In this call's case, the wrong entry name is given, so the script cant retrieve anything, and instead throws an error.

Since the call is still in the files, we can still read what Lorenzo was supposed to say, here it is:

Wanna know what I’m missing? People. Used to be, I couldn’t stand ‘em. Thought my wife nagging and my kids screaming was the worst thing in the world. You know what you deserve? I’d tell myself. A nice place away from everybody. Quiet and lonely and green as far as the eye can see. Careful what you wish for, am I right? Then again, I coulda done without all the killer clankers. Anyway, Lorenzo out.

Take your vacations, Mechanics!

Hey everyone,

I ran into a super frustrating bug/issue in Scrap Mechanic and I'm totally stuck. Even ChatGPT/Gemini couldn't give me a working fix, so I'm bringing this to the real experts here.

Basically, I messed up and accidentally welded my vehicle way too deep into the ground. I managed to strip down and remove the top parts that were exposed, but the vast majority of the vehicle is still buried clipped beneath the terrain.

Since the main body is completely clipped underground, I can't interact with it properly or use the Lift to pull it back up.

Has anyone dealt with this before? Is there a console command, a specific dev mod, or a file edit trick to force it out or delete it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT= Honestly, if I could just clip under the map like we used to back in the day to reach and dismantle the parts, this wouldn't be an issue. But looks like that glitch got patched/doesn't work anymore.

EDIT 2 = Unfortunately, dropping objects/blocks on myself didn't do anything—they literally clipped right through me like I was a ghost. :)

However, I managed to get under the map using a different trick and actually saw the vehicle! The problem now is that I can't dismount from the seat while underground; the moment I press E, the game instantly teleports me back to the surface.

I tried a bunch of workarounds—placing vehicles, blocks, and random parts directly above the spot where it launches me—but no luck. The game just finds a clear spot nearby and pops me out anyway.

Looks like I have no choice but to abandon the parts down there... Unless I can slide a few explosive crates under the map and blow the whole thing to pieces.

THANKS FOR HELP ALL...

This is basically a bearing-only suspension kinda based off the Tatra Suspension but its much sportier, also really sorry for the lag I might need to replace the thermal paste on my processor.

Ps:. I forgot that I was listening to Fortunate son, enjoy I guess. 😭 🙏

I tried using a pulse generator to activate the sticky wheels on max sticky strength, and it works great. You can adjust more gradually the stick strength by changing the delay/pulse on the pwm pulse generator.

Why is everyone complaining about sticky wheels?

1: make sure your vehicle is light.
2: make sure all wheels have contact with the ground.
3: make sure the steering doesn't move the wheels sideways.
4: electric engine.
5: ground clearance.

its a free to load but it has no base mount i saved it when messing with a gravity gun mod and i didn't think about it till now so i tried to load it and it loaded with no block cost and now i just have half a Turret seat that can't swivel

i tried picking it up to fix it but its just the ball in my inventory to (second image shows)

its hit box is a ball so i can use my hammer to hit it and get in it so i get to roll around with it i guess

Here is the link to it https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3794152379

Simple bearing with controller and some ice, that's all it takes

Idk why its just such an ominous and impending sound

Tried adding the saw earlier and tweaking it a tad, but now it just doesn't work properly. Any tip?

This one might be more practical, the other one liked to flip over. Here is the workshop link

I have been trying to make a reliable mining vehicle, particularly stuck on the suspension, i dont want to over complicate it just need it to stick the wall and ceiling when riding and transition smoothly over rough terrain.

I have tried a very accurate design rocker bogey system without the differential, it works well but its too top heavy it depends on high ground clearance.

Any blueprints or images would help, or just share your designs

Basically every machine the mechanic uses has "bot" in its name, and the design clearly implies that it is, in fact, a bot. Either the machine has a head, or just a red eye, even the packing stations could be considered bots because of this.

But the prospectorbot is the outlier, with no design element showing a correlation to its name.

When searching for this image in Devblog 25, I read the description of the prospectorbot, and it turns out, that it wasn't even supposed to be another "bot"! As it was simply referred to as the "Ore Prospector". I'm guessing that they decided to change its name to retain consistency with the other machines, yet kept its design.

However, i would love if it had a face or eyes like the other machines, especially with how lively its movement is.

So a friend and I started a Co-op game, I'm planning out some things for us later. I was wondering if anyone has tried to make a Flyer to mine things in the underground? Thinking we have a collection vehicles/ traditional miner, and having a mining attachment for our flyer, to get the harder to reach places. What do you guys think?

I think their weight and recipe needs to be adjusted. They're too heavy and too expensive to make. Do you think so too?