# Vehicle Modding Advice **URL:** \ **Category:** The Bunker\ **Created:** [March 11, 2013, 12:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-modding-advice/435 "2013-03-11T12:51:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2

**Author:** ![kenoxite](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kenoxite/32/858_2.png) [@kenoxite](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kenoxite)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 8:51am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-modding-advice/435/21 "2013-03-12T08:51:58Z")

Looking at the code, the list from more damage to least damage goes like this: - Vertical blade (350) - Spike (300) - Horizontal blade (250) All of the have the same durability (100). And about armors, the list goes this way, from more durable to less: - Hard plating (2300) - Steel plating (1000) - Superalloy plating (900) - Spiked plating (900) Spiked plates also deal a bit more damage when bumping something with that part. From [https://github.com/TheDarklingWolf/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/master/veh\_type.h](https://github.com/TheDarklingWolf/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/master/veh_type.h) ---

**Author:** ![n9103](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19adc/32.png) [@n9103](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/n9103)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-modding-advice/435/22 "2013-03-13T19:43:31Z")

You pretty much have to drive your vehicle to the components too heavy to pick up at all. (I’m looking at you Hard Plating with your 1800 weight) In the case of engines, it means putting in a lesser one, and driving to the nice find, removing the old one and installing the new one. ---

**Author:** ![AseaHeru](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/aseaheru/32/8_2.png) [@AseaHeru](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/AseaHeru)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-modding-advice/435/23 "2013-03-13T20:25:36Z")

unless you have around 30~ levels. then you can have more than one. ---

**Author:** ![Greiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8797f3/32.png) [@Greiger](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Greiger)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-modding-advice/435/24 "2013-03-13T22:18:13Z")

Makes me wonder, has anyone ever attained the mythical mechanics lv 12 required to install a second engine without the debug menu? Even at lv 8 mechanics it seems like I’m getting skill rust just as fast as I practice. ---

**Author:** ![deknegt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6f9a4e/32.png) [@deknegt](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/deknegt)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-modding-advice/435/25 "2013-03-13T22:33:27Z")

You can always disable skill rust and end up lvl 12 that way? ---

**Author:** ![Benedict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Benedict](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Benedict)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-modding-advice/435/26 "2013-03-13T23:35:31Z")

Yeah. Fuck skill rust. Just ruins the game for me. ---

**Author:** ![Elissia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elissia](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Elissia)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 3:34am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-modding-advice/435/27 "2013-03-14T03:34:32Z")

I tend to turn off skill rust a lot, or at least bring it down to where it won’t take away skills you already learned. I’ve managed to get a motorcycle going with two V8 engines. Tearing through towns at 250mph is kind of fun, and if I turn off cruise control and push it to the red I can get it going up to 698. Then I hit a tree or building and die. On a related note: do mufflers actually do anything? ---

**Author:** ![Greiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8797f3/32.png) [@Greiger](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Greiger)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-modding-advice/435/28 "2013-03-14T04:42:04Z")

Mufflers only work on gas powered engines, and yes they make them quieter. Donno exact numbers but with static spawns off it makes a 2L engine able to enter a city without ringing the dinner bell. ---

**Author:** ![Iosyn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/iosyn/32/35_2.png) [@Iosyn](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Iosyn)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 10:53am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-modding-advice/435/29 "2013-03-14T10:53:15Z")

Yeah, sorry but I don’t believe something that I read or learnt only a few days ago will start to degrade until I know nothing about it. Skill rust should be capped at level as default, but I generally just turn it off. I’m a newbie, I’m allowed some leeway. 😛 ---

**Author:** ![The\_Darkling\_Wolf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/the_darkling_wolf/32/828_2.png) [@The\_Darkling\_Wolf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/The_Darkling_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 11:11am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-modding-advice/435/30 "2013-03-14T11:11:13Z")

I’ve been playing the game since before it existed and I disable skill rust 😛 We’ll replace it with something less horrible eventually. ---

**Author:** ![Benedict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Benedict](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Benedict)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 11:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-modding-advice/435/31 "2013-03-14T11:49:59Z")

Even whales thought skill rust sucked. I bet he turned it off when he played Cataclysm \>: ( [Previous page](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-modding-advice/435.md?page=1)