Until we Add black holes.
Now, i’m going to be taking a whole new perspective to vehicle building.
Small, compact, heavily mobile mobile bases.
I need some advice from some smaller vehicle builders on how to do this. Any advice for the structure of such a beast?
[quote=“dwarfkoala, post:363, topic:207”]Now, i’m going to be taking a whole new perspective to vehicle building.
Small, compact, heavily mobile mobile bases.
I need some advice from some smaller vehicle builders on how to do this. Any advice for the structure of such a beast?[/quote]
How big? The gypsy wagon thing described before’s size, or ~car size? If you have a integrated toolset (/don’t need a welding rig) you can fit all of the essential tools into a 4x5 car with two trunks in the back, a foodco kitchen buddy, a bed, a seat, and a RV kitchen unit. Of course, you might run into storage problems with that, so you could expand it a tile or two in either dimension if you need the storage, or to add turrets or spikes to it.
Hmm, i’m thinking something about the size of the Gypsy Wagon II, maybe 2 wider.
Right now I’m using a modified Military Cargo Truck, uses a nice hybrid engine setup, and a storage system that I never adhere to.
Out of personal preference for actually being able to see shit when I need to, but being hidden when I don’t, I use shutter doors for the bed of the truck.
~700kg isn’t exactly light, you know. You hit an insect (no, not the huge kind) in the woods and plating+panel takes damage. That ain’t right no matter how you look at it.
Vehicle beginner here.
First serious attempt was an electric car I added a second large motor to, made 1 tile wider (walls + rows of utilities + corridor) but was still light and fragile due to being made of standard frames.
I’ll be taking some ideas like using doors as windows and having an armoured “bumper” in the front.
Aren’t wide wheels supposed to prevent mines from detonating? Because I happily drove into a minefield with 4 22" wide wheels from a lorry and my car’s rear end was blown up.
It was classified as a bug and removed, making wide wheels completely pointless.
Someone should update the wiki then.
Thankfully I always backup my saves so no damage done but still.
i continue to use wide tires because it makes me feel better about being fat. 
Collision damage is slowly improving in the later builds, I know that in the later builds I can drive the MFB though a military bunker and have all the damage go to the plow rather than have all the lights, the welding rig, the kitchen unit, and any other part I won’t be able to easily replace spontaneously explode. So it’s slowly progressing in the right direction. Not to mention in the experimental builds I’ve noticed that smaller things don’t tend to do as much damage as say ramming a Hulk with your vehicle.
Wide wheels have considerably more “health” than the other wheels, they’re not completely pointless.
[quote=“ChristopherWalken, post:370, topic:207”]Someone should update the wiki then.
Thankfully I always backup my saves so no damage done but still.[/quote]
It’s probably in your best health if you avoid minefields but if you want to “clear” them without too much catastrophic damage to your car add an extra frame about 5 tiles away from the parts you don’t want breaking, attach a ‘bar’ of frames to the end of that stick and mount wheels on the underside of that stick. It’ll let you detonate the mines with the stick (and cause damage to the stick) rather than the gooey engine bits.
Specifically this is due to recent changes to shock damage: It only hits frames, and it actually gets applied from the collision point instead of from (0, 0) of your vehicle.
Specifically this is due to recent changes to shock damage: It only hits frames, and it actually gets applied from the collision point instead of from (0, 0) of your vehicle.[/quote]
Now I just need to figure out why hitting a steel bunker doesn’t do much damage to my vehicle but bumping a motorcycle obliterates my plow through hard plating… XD
Vehicle collisions are handled totally differently than collisions with… well, anything else.
My cars driver seat emit 'hmm’noise. I dont know what is wrong with. In the seat, it’s just my garbage clothings.
And there are no such thing happens in stable version (i played latest experimental version)
Ps. And what the heck is the K dynamics?
Probably means you didn’t shut off the engine.
What? Just i didnt shut off engine? And engine sound is hmm!!!.. what the…
Well, thx anyway
Try sawing off the muffler if you want a different sound. 
[quote=“Slax, post:379, topic:207”]Try sawing off the muffler if you want a different sound. :P[/quote]NOT recommended!
Wow…
My design is puny compared to your guyses I usually just take an armoured truck and maybe customize it.
One thing I really like tho and recently made is this
Armoured Motorcyle
H :steel plating and head light
H :steel plating, car battery, turret (M249), wheel (28" wide)
S :seat, fuel tank, engine, seatbelt and another wheel (28" wide)