Vehicle Show and Tell

[dovla]

[quote=“dovla, post:798, topic:207”][quote=“AllisonW, post:797, topic:207”]PS: I legit don’t know that adding a light source to your lab cart is worth all the extra weight it means you’re dragging–not just the light itself, but also the battery. It’s a clever idea, but a wearable flashlight might still be better. Just, uh, whatever light source you decide on, be damn careful to turn it off before opening doors.

I just really dislike spending batteries, even when I’m late game and able to craft them and have tens of thousands of charges I add rechargeable mods to my tools and stuff. The weight is not much of a problem since I only pick the thing up to take it up / down stairs. With the volume of 200, I never load it up to the point I can’t drag it any more, even with paltry strength of 8.

No worries about doors, 9mm zings off my armor ;)[/quote]

Don’t mind me, then. Do you keep extra motorbike batteries on your main vehicle in case the one on the Dragster runs down? Just curious.[/quote]
I haven’t had to, to be honest. Perhaps if I had it on all the time I would, but I already know lab layouts and often turn the flodlight off while looting a particular section (maptile) inside the lab. The battery lasts a very long time and also charges very quickly using jumper cables connected to my main rig, which has 4 storage batteries and 18 solar panels on it.

[AllisonW]

[quote=“AllisonW, post:800, topic:207”][quote=“dovla, post:798, topic:207”][quote=“AllisonW, post:797, topic:207”]PS: I legit don’t know that adding a light source to your lab cart is worth all the extra weight it means you’re dragging–not just the light itself, but also the battery. It’s a clever idea, but a wearable flashlight might still be better. Just, uh, whatever light source you decide on, be damn careful to turn it off before opening doors.

I just really dislike spending batteries, even when I’m late game and able to craft them and have tens of thousands of charges I add rechargeable mods to my tools and stuff. The weight is not much of a problem since I only pick the thing up to take it up / down stairs. With the volume of 200, I never load it up to the point I can’t drag it any more, even with paltry strength of 8.

No worries about doors, 9mm zings off my armor ;)[/quote]

Don’t mind me, then. Do you keep extra motorbike batteries on your main vehicle in case the one on the Dragster runs down? Just curious.[/quote]
I haven’t had to, to be honest. Perhaps if I had it on all the time I would, but I already know lab layouts and often turn the flodlight off while looting a particular section (maptile) inside the lab. The battery lasts a very long time and also charges very quickly using jumper cables connected to my main rig, which has 4 storage batteries and 18 solar panels on it.[/quote]

Hmm. I haven’t had such luck with jumper cables, myself–they never seemed to do much in my experience aside from let you start a vehicle with a dead battery, but if it’ll actually transfer energy when there’s a massive disparity between one vehicle and the other, that’s quite helpful to know! Especially considering my shiny new customised electric car has eight full storage batteries. (Only eight solar panels, and I might tear one or two off to move the floodlights inwards so I stop breaking them on things; I could add more solar panels if I was of a mind to put reinforced solar panels on the outer edges of the car, but I don’t feel the need to do that yet. It holds a charge very well as is. I’ll probably just tear some upgraded solar panels off the solar cars I’ve found and upgrade the panels on the non-exterior tiles.)

I’ll probably steal your folding shopping cart idea for labs, though. I don’t know if I’ll bother adding lighting to my version, given I have a lot of batteries and I’m not as protective of them these days, but just the extra volume would help a lot. (Hm, maybe I could install a stereo system instead for shits and giggles…)

[Nemonole]

I just realized I didn’t post my vehicle here yet, SO BEHOLD THE LANDCRUISER!

It’s predominantly electric powered, with gas and diesel engines as a backup

It’s got quite a few turrets, a cabin for when I need to reverse, and a giant plow attached to the front.

I know it’s not the greatest deathmobile ever, but this one is mine.

[AllisonW]

OK, now I should be ashamed of myself.

Dovla, how do you get your Dragster to charge off of a jumper cable? I tried hooking it up to my home solar generator and also to my electric car, but fuck-all happened.

[dovla]

[quote=“AllisonW, post:804, topic:207”]OK, now I should be ashamed of myself.

Dovla, how do you get your Dragster to charge off of a jumper cable? I tried hooking it up to my home solar generator and also to my electric car, but fuck-all happened.[/quote]
Welcome to the light side. No cookies but plenty of wattage.

As for charging the battery, it didn’t work for me in stable IIRC. When I was building the current iteration of Dragster I was just about to install the motorbike battery in my main rig but then decided to try one more time and lo and behold, as soon as I hooked up the jumper cable (the usual manner, use cable once to attach to cart, second time to attach to main rig) the battery on the main vehicle dropped and the battery in the cart started rising rather quickly (I ran a circle around the main rig - modified meth lab - and saw about 5% increase).

Hope that helps.

EDIT:
I wanted to see how a morobike alternator works with this contraption so I slapped some footpedals on it and drove it to nearest town (main rig is at a lab) to find a motorcycle. Jesus it’s so much freaking fun. Also, the alternator is foldable but the vehicle gets kind of heavy with it + foot pedals = 32kg. On the other hand, the battery charges reasonably fast and and did I mention it’s incredibly FUN yet? On my way back I got a bit hungry so I ran down a giant bee, shot it with a ferromagnetic rail rifle while driving and then cooked it using a skewer and an integrated tool set while pedaling home.

This game man, this game.

[AllisonW]

[quote=“dovla, post:805, topic:207”][quote=“AllisonW, post:804, topic:207”]OK, now I should be ashamed of myself.

Dovla, how do you get your Dragster to charge off of a jumper cable? I tried hooking it up to my home solar generator and also to my electric car, but fuck-all happened.[/quote]
Welcome to the light side. No cookies but plenty of wattage.

As for charging the battery, it didn’t work for me in stable IIRC. When I was building the current iteration of Dragster I was just about to install the motorbike battery in my main rig but then decided to try one more time and lo and behold, as soon as I hooked up the jumper cable (the usual manner, use cable once to attach to cart, second time to attach to main rig) the battery on the main vehicle dropped and the battery in the cart started rising rather quickly (I ran a circle around the main rig - modified meth lab - and saw about 5% increase).

Hope that helps.

EDIT:
I wanted to see how a morobike alternator works with this contraption so I slapped some footpedals on it and drove it to nearest town (main rig is at a lab) to find a motorcycle. Jesus it’s so much freaking fun. Also, the alternator is foldable but the vehicle gets kind of heavy with it + foot pedals = 32kg. On the other hand, the battery charges reasonably fast and and did I mention it’s incredibly FUN yet? On my way back I got a bit hungry so I ran down a giant bee, shot it with a ferromagnetic rail rifle while driving and then cooked it using a skewer and an integrated tool set while pedaling home.

This game man, this game.[/quote]

I’m playing experimental and keep relatively up-to-date (I’m playing 2650, so a few releases behind, but I’ll update soon). On the other hand, I was told that I need to respect how jumper cables actually work in the real world and hook them up specifically to the vehicle tiles that have batteries, not just to any old vehicle tile like an idiot. On my electric car I keep the entire battery array on inward tiles to protect them from my abominable driving, but a jumper cable should still be long enough to reach if I push the LABSTER CLAW right up to the door/trunk. So, thank you, yes. (Also, I fully charged a motorbike battery and a medium storage battery and compared the two: a medium storage battery weighs 5 pounds and holds up to 10k charge and a motorbike battery weighs like 20 or 30 pounds and holds up to 12k charge. So I think I’ll opt for the former, actually. I might try fully charging a small storage battery to see how much they hold, and see if the LABSTER CLAW will still fold with both a medium and small storage battery installed.)

And yeah, the wackiness in this game is just amazing. It’s not even a “comedy” game per se and yet it’s one of the funniest games I’ve ever played entirely because of emergent shit like this. I’ve had moments reading shit on these forums where I could not breathe.

[dovla]

(Also, I fully charged a motorbike battery and a medium storage battery and compared the two: a medium storage battery weighs 5 pounds and holds up to 10k charge and a motorbike battery weighs like 20 or 30 pounds and holds up to 12k charge. So I think I’ll opt for the former, actually. I might try fully charging a small storage battery to see how much they hold, and see if the LABSTER CLAW will still fold with both a medium and small storage battery installed.)

Thanks for the tip about the medium storage battery weight! It didn’t really occur to me to check and I haven’t found any or needed to use one until now. I haven’t dabbled in battery construction due to fussy nature of having to manage two fluid containers when disassembling this stuff. I did look in the json when I was picking the motorbike and can tell you charge rates right now (if memory serves me correctly - take it with a grain of salt):

Small storage battery: 1000
Medium storage battery: 10000
Motorbike battery: 12000
Storage battery: 100000

Don’t even bother with the small one - it lasts about as long as a flashlight and for this purpose it’s pretty useless. I found it quite ironic that the one I had I pulled from an ice cream cart equipped with a minifridge. It wouldn’t power that thing for 5 minutes.

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EDIT:
Remembered why I didn’t use a medium - it’s not craftable and I haven’t found any.

[AllisonW]

small storage battery lasts as long as a flashlight

It’s also only half a pound (in inventory, at least; it might have a different weight when installed). I wouldn’t use it by itself, but if stacking it on top of a medium storage battery doesn’t prevent folding, that gets you from ten flashlights’ worth of length to eleven flashlights’ worth of length, compared to the motorbike battery’s twelve flashlights’ worth of length. Then again, depending upon folding restrictions, maybe you could just use all three for 23 flashlights’ worth of length.

No wonder my electric car holds a charge so well, though. I installed eight storage batteries on it for 800,000 charge. Aw yiss. Even driving it at high speeds in the middle of the night dings the battery only a few percentage points a trip at worst.

It’s too bad that medium storage batteries aren’t craftable, though, yeah.

[Marza]

My current run around truck may still be safely in the realm of sensibly sized, but goddamn is it both fun to drive and practical. It used to sport wing mirrors on the sides with an armoured frame in the tile in front as protection, but at 7 tiles wide it was a bit of a headache to navigate most city roads. With the addition of security cameras (and a bit of practice), I ditched the mirrors and now this thing is a dream to take on a city road run.

It clocks in at over 8 metric tons and is powered by the single largest v12 I’ve ever seen. It does have electric engines, but screw that. Everything is plated with military grade armour. Even the bed. Because fuck you flaming eyes.

And the external view, because someone might have asked:

Ramming zeds/blobs/fungals and watching them fly into the distance and vapourise is genuinely wonderful. I’m going to retire this world though and start a new one with Blaze’s vehicle weapon mod enabled. My ride could do with some heavy ordinance.

[Logrin]

You don’t have to retire for that! Just add it to your current world’s mod folder

[Rhodri]

Behold the Solar Nomadic Vehicle! (Very creative I know. /sarcasm)

It’s basically like a truck with military-grade armor, rams, solar panels, and turrets. Oh, and a minireactor.

It may not be as huge, over-kill, or as badass as other vehicles on this thread, but it does it’s job just as well as everyone else’s.

[EkarusRyndren]

So in order to take a screenshot I built it. I built a new one. I know it’s getting kind of redundant at this time, but I think I’ve found a design that works. The Ryndren Armored Recreational Fighting Vehicle (RARFV)

Something of a functional ‘rolling base’ vehicle. It’s still a bitch to get through towns, but that ram on the front makes it a lot easier. I’ve also discovered that it’ll survive an unplanned encounter with a tank-bot’s main gun. Thanks to loads of military composite plating. There wouldn’t be any windows on it, but the cameras have far too limited a range for me to use them for the driver’s seat.

Fortunately the diesel tanks were empty or this post wouldn’t be happening.

[Fistofbrick]

Been working on my RV for quite some time now, always making modifications on the go. Two V8 engines, five gas tanks, an assload of storage, welding rig, and the usual RV amenities. Used to have more, but I stripped parts for a static base. The “cowcatcher” on the front works really well for cleaning up errant creatures that wander onto the road, and stops shrubs from screwing up my frames.

It’s missing a couple spots of plating, I had to cut through a forest. :c

[Darkfirephoenix]

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I normaly keep a constant look on my armor while I crash things and stop and repair them if they get too damaged. Then I set the vehicle back a bit and start crashing again.

[Fistofbrick]

I normaly keep a constant look on my armor while I crash things and stop and repair them if they get too damaged. Then I set the vehicle back a bit and start crashing again.

Yyyeah, I would’ve pulled back if possible, but I managed to skid in such a way that I was sandwiched between trees. The armor was a necessary loss to claw my way back out of that pinch.

[Darkfirephoenix]

[quote=“Darkfirephoenix, post:814, topic:207”]I normaly keep a constant look on my armor while I crash things and stop and repair them if they get too damaged. Then I set the vehicle back a bit and start crashing again.

Yyyeah, I would’ve pulled back if possible, but I managed to skid in such a way that I was sandwiched between trees. The armor was a necessary loss to claw my way back out of that pinch.[/quote]
And that’s why I don’t try to go through a forest in one go. I speed up, ram the trees, stop, pull back and begin anew. Don’t try to go too fast through trees, or else what you experienced happens

[EkarusRyndren]

'lil update on the whateverthefuckI’mcallingitnow, I’m quickly finding I didn’t put enough boxes in for my usual storage system…

Might have to tear it down and start over elsewhere… Whoops.

[Major_Monocle]

I have a really stupid question guys, how do I make the left-facing 90 degree angle frame/quarterpanel? I can’t find it anywhere.

[EkarusRyndren]

I have a really stupid question guys, how do I make the left-facing 90 degree angle frame/quarterpanel? I can’t find it anywhere.

You should just need some sheet metal for the quarter panel, and a regular frame for the frame. I don’t know why it’s not listed. Even if you don’t have the tools, it’ll show it as an available object…

[Thwap]

but the cameras have far too limited a range for me to use them for the driver’s seat.

What’s the range like? I’ve never used them.