Vehicle Show and Tell

John_Candlebury · 2013-12-09T17:35:29.000Z

Add mass!

Mass is the answer to everything!!

system · 2013-12-09T17:57:12.000Z

Until we Add black holes.

dwarfkoala · 2013-12-11T02:19:02.000Z

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?

Taraq · 2013-12-11T02:43:23.000Z

[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.

dwarfkoala · 2013-12-11T04:30:32.000Z

Hmm, i’m thinking something about the size of the Gypsy Wagon II, maybe 2 wider.

Datanazush · 2013-12-11T05:41:09.000Z

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.

Slax · 2013-12-11T12:46:35.000Z

~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.

ChristopherWalken · 2013-12-11T13:35:52.000Z

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.

Inadequate · 2013-12-11T14:05:34.000Z

It was classified as a bug and removed, making wide wheels completely pointless.

ChristopherWalken · 2013-12-11T14:27:13.000Z

Someone should update the wiki then.

Thankfully I always backup my saves so no damage done but still.

HunterAlpha1 · 2013-12-11T18:12:55.000Z

i continue to use wide tires because it makes me feel better about being fat.

EkarusRyndren · 2013-12-11T19:16:39.000Z

Slax:

~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.

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.

Inadequate:

It was classified as a bug and removed, making wide wheels completely pointless.

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.

Ian_Strachan · 2013-12-11T23:24:46.000Z

EkarusRyndren:

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.

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.

EkarusRyndren · 2013-12-11T23:27:05.000Z

Ian Strachan:

[quote=“EkarusRyndren, post:372, topic:207”]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.

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

Ian_Strachan · 2013-12-12T02:34:59.000Z

EkarusRyndren:

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.

lim6221 · 2013-12-13T15:26:39.000Z

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?

Slax · 2013-12-13T15:41:07.000Z

Probably means you didn’t shut off the engine.

lim6221 · 2013-12-13T15:53:47.000Z

Slax:

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

Slax · 2013-12-13T16:02:41.000Z

Try sawing off the muffler if you want a different sound.

HunterAlpha1 · 2013-12-13T18:32:35.000Z

[quote=“Slax, post:379, topic:207”]Try sawing off the muffler if you want a different sound. :P[/quote]NOT recommended!