Vehicle Show and Tell

[Derschlact]

Yes. The Lobster Thingy.
It took a day to haul metal things from a bomb site on the other side of the revealed map. Then 4 days to actually build the thingy. A few pointless things here and there… I lost it when I stupidly drove into a house testing the vehicle against hordes. Two solar panels led to the two batteries charging almost completely while I was drinking my coffee. My morning 5 cups of coffee. Unfortunately I had caught a cold building the car while wearing two blankets and a snuggie. So I apparently couldn’t just get a good night’s sleep. The construction held up particularly well against bushes, for some reason…

[Weyrling]

I’m still trying to find more steel plating and blades so I can finish the sides, but I finished the roofing recently.

Also got a folding bike, so I park outside of town and bike into town to loot, it’s been working out great so far. This thing has 2 large electric motors, and I have about 27 mechanics skill right now, I’m gonna try and find a couple more electric cars and keep adding more, the 5 squares in back with the solar panels are all storage batteries, so I’m not worried about fuel at all anymore.

Now that I think about it, I probably ought to take the gasoline tanks off, but it hardly matters.

[Mrnocamera]

I built a golf cart with two frames on each side, both of which had blades covering them. I died to a coyote. After I hit it at 500 MPH and got flung out. Then I got hit with the blades of my own car.

[EkarusRyndren]

30 Days in-game and I finished it, the MFB. Originally dubbed the “Mobile Field Base” a friend of mine gave it a different name but I’ll let you guess as to what he named it (because I don’t know what level of language we’re allowed to use here and better safe that sorry :P)

Safe Speed: 108 MPH
Top Speed: 1064 MPH
Acceleration: 10 mph/t
Mass: 22028 LBS
Wheels: Enough (28 Wide wheels of varying sizes)
Fuel Useage (Safe): 19 (Currently 3 with a planned 4 V8 Engines of varying sizes)

There /was/ hydrogen in it and the turrets /were/ firing but for some reason they weren’t doing any damage. Armored the whole blasted thing up in Hard plating. Took down a small town to build this blood thing. Ate the wood to fuel the Integrated Toolset, used the steel for the vehicle…

It is a huge pain to get this bloody thing though towns.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

What dyall think about my (planned) survivor-mobile?

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I know, it’s hideous, but one of the chief design constraints is minimizing space.

Notes: sealed, high-visibility driving cabin
Sealed low-visibility sleeping compartment
storage along the outside, reinforced trunks in front, floor trunks on the side
whole thing is 4x6

Not displayed: hoping to stick two large electrical engines in there, and stack as many solar panels as possible wherever I don’t have to worry about breaking them at. May or may not include water storage.
Plan to drive it around, deploy fabrication bits outside town, use a foldable bike to scavenge. Continue until I explore enough or find a good spot to settle down.

[EkarusRyndren]

[quote=“GrizzlyAdamz, post:185, topic:207”]What dyall think about my (planned) survivor-mobile?

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I know, it’s hideous, but one of the chief design constraints is minimizing space.

Notes: sealed, high-visibility driving cabin
Sealed low-visibility sleeping compartment
storage along the outside, reinforced trunks in front, floor trunks on the side
whole thing is 4x6

Not displayed: hoping to stick two large electrical engines in there, and stack as many solar panels as possible wherever I don’t have to worry about breaking them at. May or may not include water storage.
Plan to drive it around, deploy fabrication bits outside town, use a foldable bike to scavenge. Continue until I explore enough or find a good spot to settle down.[/quote]

Personally don’t like using electric engines, plenty of gasoline laying around.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

I don’t have enough experience to render a valid opinion either way, but I figured, since I was going to be parking this outside towns and leaving it there for a few days, solar panels would be rather workable.

Here’s what I wound up with, (near complete)

I’ve got…I think 4 storage batteries on it right now, one large electric engine, and 5 solar panels.
Wheels are 18" wide, water tank is installed, plan to add an RV unit, possibly more storage bats in the rear with the trunks.
Not sure if cargo counts for the weight, but if it does I have a spare engine, some plating, panels, etc in the boot that I may or may not install.

Turned out better than expected, (didn’t even have to go with the asymmetrical design I posted previously!).

[Mrnocamera]

[quote=“EkarusRyndren, post:184, topic:207”]30 Days in-game and I finished it, the MFB. Originally dubbed the “Mobile Field Base” a friend of mine gave it a different name but I’ll let you guess as to what he named it (because I don’t know what level of language we’re allowed to use here and better safe that sorry :P)

Safe Speed: 108 MPH
Top Speed: 1064 MPH
Acceleration: 10 mph/t
Mass: 22028 LBS
Wheels: Enough (28 Wide wheels of varying sizes)
Fuel Useage (Safe): 19 (Currently 3 with a planned 4 V8 Engines of varying sizes)

There /was/ hydrogen in it and the turrets /were/ firing but for some reason they weren’t doing any damage. Armored the whole blasted thing up in Hard plating. Took down a small town to build this blood thing. Ate the wood to fuel the Integrated Toolset, used the steel for the vehicle…

It is a huge pain to get this bloody thing though towns.[/quote]
Amount of swearing allowed? It’s quite a fucking lot, alright? Shit, you can even say fuck, and crap, and shit, and stuff. [Insert more things about swearing.]

Also, badass car.

[kilozombie]

I swear not to swear.

Wait, shit.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Here’s my final design, sans headlight work, plate replacement, and possible modifications when I learn what a ‘vehicle welding station’ is.

Weight includes 6 fully-packed trunks. Nearly kitted out.

The power’s low because I had to reinstall a battery.
I’ve learned that Kitchen units count as a frame, have the obstruction tag, have the roof tag, and don’t block vision.
Here’s the view from the driver’s seat:

[Chiko]

It was a gas fueled car before. Turned it into a Trike and then back into a car. It’s electric now but it still has the gas tank just in case. Doesn’t have doors/roof and the only solid blocks it has are the boards under the solar panels, the windshield, the kitchen unit and the welding rig at the back.

I use it mostly to carry loot, dismantled vehicles and building “static vehicles” like turrets with headlights to protect my lawn. I sometimes use it for hunting too.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Huh, ‘static vehicles’, nifty!

I take it you’ve set up a base then? If not, tent?

[Chiko]

Aye. I’m trying to clean a town and I have claimed most of it from the zombies. When I see there are more zombies than I can handle, I just run towards one of the turrets I’ve made and hide behind. Sadly, I only have two turrets that work in the current game so far. A machinegun and a flamethrower one. I’m having a hard time finding the main components to make them.

I have lots of “spotlight” turrets, though. I can at least keep my half of town as illuminated as a christmas tree. xD

[Miloch]

ONE NIGHT STAND:
Behold the “One Night Stand”. It is named that because I don’t intend to go anywhere for long in something so small. Though I’m pretty sure i could hold out quite a while with what I could pack away in it. It has heavy plating everywhere that it would go, so just not the doors. It has a RV Kitchen Set and a Welding Set. I maintain three solar panels in the welding set storage plus all the tools to pull salvage. The solar panels are attached to the front bumper if my electricity starts getting low. RV kitchen set comes with a water tank of clean water, of course. This plus whatever rifle I happen to be carrying makes for infinite food. Front and rear facing headlights. The cab is enclosed (the two sets are roofed to make sure they don’t let weather in).

WALL MOUNTED WELDER:
This was my initial welding set project. I often drag wrecks back into the base (literally) to chop them up and use for parts. Yes, it also has a RV unit attached to it. Running to the kitchen every five minutes is annoying.

BASE LIGHTING:
Simple lighting immobile vehicle. Each piece of frame has a headlight. Each one is pointed 45 degrees away from it’s neighbors. Placing this in the corner of a garage will light the entire thing. See the picture at the end for an example.

MOBILE WELDING RIG:
I use this for building anything that isn’t right next to the wall mounted unit. It can be dragged through doors and will usually maintain a high charge even inside. It has three storage batteries, two solar panels, and the welding rig itself. I maintain a seat, a controls, a hacksaw, and a wrench inside of welding set’s storage bin. I use this to build my base lighting.

OVERALL PICTURE:
Here is simply a picture of everything all working together.

[Mrnocamera]

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This is a cart with blades attached.
Badly made[sup]tm[/sup]

[moist_zombie]

[EkarusRyndren]

Finally found a good balance between RV and Tank. It has been dubbed the “Bread Sled” thanks to it’s shape similar to a vehicle I saw on Tumblr.

Safe Top Speed: 119 MPH
Maximum Speed: 620 MPH
Acceleration: 11 MPH/t
Mass: 14,260 LBS
Wheels: Enough (16)
Fuel Useage: 9
K Dynamics: 32% (Whatever the fuck that means)
K Mass: 99% (Same as above… Anyone know?)
Fuel Capacity: 39 Gallons
Battery Capacity: 6000 Units
Clean Water Capacity: 16 Gallons

It’s worth mentioning that the second pink & (The one on the left) is the RV Kitchen Unit, it’s currently coated in blood and I don’t know how to get rid of it.

The image that spawned the vehicle:

Sure, my vehicle in CDDA is a lot bigger, I think it works… Sorta a stretch Bread Sled. XD

[prytoclasm]

Regarding cars, that’s how mine looks currently:

Current installments

• 6x Solar Panel (more to replace them if they should break, happens so often out of nowhere)
• 4 engines (5.99 V8, 5.01 V8, 6.95 V8, 5.14 V6)
• Welding rig
• RV kitchen unit
• 6 gas tanks
• 2 water tanks
• 2 hydrogen tanks
• 7 storage batteries

It’s completely roofed and somewhat surround-lighted with headlights. So far pretty fine, when in the mood I may put steel platings to all parts. But those are only on the ‘important’ things currently.

And, maybe build an extended ram on the front.

[Zireael]

[quote=“sneakyfreaky, post:3, topic:207”]^ - plate
o - wheel, preferably big
= - trunk
= - trunk

- seat, controls, engine, battery/tank

= - trunk
= - trunk
= - trunk
o - wheel

A big electric engine makes it very comfortable, even with plating all over. It looks ridiculous but minimizes the risk with traps and mines, and it’s easier to puncture through things if needed.[/quote]

Making something similar right now, in addition to a working electric car I will add some trunks to.

[Olith]

This is largest vehicle I made so far it.

It has hard plating on every space (I think plating on the inner area of vehicles don’t do anything, but I’m not sure.), 19 batteries , 7 gas tanks and 2 water tanks, the 2 empty frames next to the solar panel are for placing solar panels. when low on energy (To minimize how many solar panels break, and so I can quickly take the 1 panel off if I’m going to be ramming shit.)

Something that I did a bit later after taking this screenshot is that I replaced my turret with a fusion gun.

I’d prefer a plasma, of flamethrower one though since gas and hydrogen seems to be much more abundant to me.