Scrap Mechanic

Hi Mechanics!

The next batch of bugfixes is here.

Thank you for your feedback and bug reports!

Bug fixes:

• Fixed missing items from challenge chests

• Restored the mods button in creative and custom game mode menus

• Fixed issues that could cause certain quests to not progress

• Resolved various crash fixes.

More fixes coming soon!

If you have found a bug that needs fixing, please email bugs@axolotgames.com.

Please provide:

• A description of the bug.

• The log file from that session.

• The save file.

File Locations:

• Log file directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Scrap Mechanic\Logs

• Save file directory: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Axolot Games\Scrap Mechanic\User\User_\Save\Survival

Hi Mechanics!

We have fixed some bugs that have come up in the new 1.0 update.

Thank you for your feedback and bug reports!

Bug fixes:

• Player name tags are now properly hidden when hiding the GUI

• Fixed an issue for clients that caused steering angle to not get synchronized

• Fixed an issue that caused Schematic box to sometimes not unlock anything

• Fixed an issue that caused already unlocked items to show schematic icon

• Fixed an issue that could cause crafting recipes to not unlock in games with many players

• Fixed a crash that could happen if getting knocked out while reading the handbook

• Pizzaburger achievement fix

• Fixed an issue that caused some mods to crash the game when loaded

More fixes will be coming soon!

Mechanics, the wait is over. Scrap Mechanic is finally jumping into 1.0 with a blast in what is by far our biggest update yet!

Scrap Mechanic is finally jumping into 1.0 with a blast in what is by far our biggest update yet! Along with extensive optimizations that dramatically improve both game performance and visuals, this update features the long-awaited Drilling Thunder expansion. It revamps Survival mode with new locations, a ton of fresh content, and a full story. Whether you are a veteran mechanic whose constructions are collecting dust, or a newcomer ready to engineer incredible machines, the time to get back into Scrap Mechanic is now!

Major Changes & New Features

Story and NPCs Embark on the main quest to find out why the bots have gone rogue on the Farming Planet. But most importantly, find a way back home after your ship crashed! For the first time in Scrap Mechanic, the Survival experience comes with a full story from beginning to end, featuring fully voice-acted NPCs.

World Overhaul The current world has been expanded with brand-new locations and growlabs to explore. Clear out newly updated ruins, meet random NPCs who need your help, and collect fun rewards! The terrain has also gone through major changes, featuring beautiful new tiles as well as reworked terrain generation. Drive through new forest roads and cross the desert biome, but avoid the tornadoes… or don’t!

New Building Parts For all you builders out there, a ton of new building parts have been added, allowing players to build completely unique creations that were never possible before! There are a massive amount of new blocks, parts, and interactive parts to get creative with. Best of all, these are also available in Creative mode right away!

New Enemies Previously, we only had five bots in Survival mode, but that number more than doubles with this update! These new bots create some really interesting encounters and encourage creative new combat and defense gameplay. Survival mode will never be the same now that we’ve let these bots loose into the wild! **Caution! **Be extra careful with the Red Explosive Totebot. He is highly problematic, and we strongly recommend prioritizing him in all combat situations.

The Claygun: Shape the Terrain! We are very excited to introduce the Claygun, available in both Creative and Survival modes! This tool introduces a completely new way of building and shaping the ground. Don’t like the terrain? With the Claygun, you can completely change it! However, if you think you can easily barricade yourself from bots with a little bit of clay, you are in for a surprise. Some bots can dig now!

New Garments to Customize Your Character Let’s admit it, there can never be enough cool new garments to customize your mechanic! This update comes loaded with a bunch of new shirts and outfits to collect. Some are much harder to obtain than others! If you love collecting garments, you will really enjoy this update.

Steam Achievements With the 1.0 release, we have finally added Steam Achievements! There are definitely some wacky ones to hunt down, alongside some really challenging goals for the completionists out there. See if you can unlock them all!

Improved Network Responsiveness This update comes with a massive wave of optimizations, but the one we think multiplayer fans will appreciate the most is the improved network responsiveness for connected players. This drastically smoothens out the multiplayer experience in Scrap Mechanic!

Next-Gen Visual Upgrade!

Get ready for a massive visual overhaul that brings Scrap Mechanic to life like never before. We are introducing a 100% dynamic lighting and weather system that dramatically enhances your immersion, all without requiring expensive ray-tracing hardware!

• **Next-Gen Lighting: **Experience up to 512 dynamic light sources on-screen at once, delivering flawless volumetric sunlight, smooth day-to-night transitions, and global illumination.

• A Living, Breathing World: Explore a universe featuring fully volumetric clouds, responsive weather, realistic water rendering, and grass that physically reacts to your character's movements.

• **Stunning Material Detail: **Enjoy a brand-new custom material system that creates hyper-detailed, lifelike rendering for skin, metal, and foliage.

And Much More!

This is just a summary of the most significant changes, but there is so much more to discover! It is tricky to fit everything we’ve done over the last 6 years into a single list, so we are leaving a lot of it as a surprise for you to find in-game.

A Personal Message from the Dev Team

We are finally moving into version 1.0! Some of us have been working on Scrap Mechanic since 2011. It has defined a huge part of our lives and reflects years of genuine dedication. Scrap Mechanic is a unique game that is technically very challenging to make, but we never gave up, nor did we cut any corners. We are incredibly proud of that. We feel that this massive update truly delivers on the promises we made so many years ago.

Thank you all for your amazing support and patience over the years! Reaching this milestone was only possible because of you. We hope you really enjoy the 1.0 release and the Drilling Thunder update!

Want to know what's next? Make sure to follow Axolot Games on (https://www.instagram.com/axolotgames/), YouTube and (https://x.com/ScrapMechanic) to stay up to date!

Scrap Mechanic is finally jumping into 1.0 with a blast in what is by far our biggest update yet! Along with extensive optimizations that dramatically improve both game performance and visuals, this update features the long-awaited Drilling Thunder expansion. It revamps Survival mode with new locations, a ton of fresh content, and a full story. Whether you are a veteran mechanic whose constructions are collecting dust, or a newcomer ready to engineer incredible machines, the time to get back into Scrap Mechanic is now!

Major Changes & New Features

Story and NPCs Embark on the main quest to find out why the bots have gone rogue on the Farming Planet. But most importantly, find a way back home after your ship crashed! For the first time in Scrap Mechanic, the Survival experience comes with a full story from beginning to end, featuring fully voice-acted NPCs.

World Overhaul The current world has been expanded with brand-new locations and growlabs to explore. Clear out newly updated ruins, meet random NPCs who need your help, and collect fun rewards! The terrain has also gone through major changes, featuring beautiful new tiles as well as reworked terrain generation. Drive through new forest roads and cross the desert biome, but avoid the tornadoes… or don’t!

Excavation Island A brand-new area of the world is now available, filled with countless new discoveries. Venture deep into the dark caves of the abandoned mine, blast your plasma drills through the rock, and unearth rare treasures and forgotten secrets hidden beneath the surface.

New Building Parts For all you builders out there, a ton of new building parts have been added, allowing players to build completely unique creations that were never possible before! There are a massive amount of new blocks, parts, and interactive parts to get creative with. Best of all, these are also available in Creative mode right away!

New Enemies Previously, we only had five bots in Survival mode, but that number more than doubles with this update! These new bots create some really interesting encounters and encourage creative new combat and defense gameplay. Survival mode will never be the same now that we’ve let these bots loose into the wild!

Caution! Be extra careful with the Red Explosive Totebot. He is highly problematic, and we strongly recommend prioritizing him in all combat situations.

The Claygun: Shape the Terrain! We are very excited to introduce the Claygun, available in both Creative and Survival modes! This tool introduces a completely new way of building and shaping the ground. Don’t like the terrain? With the Claygun, you can completely change it! However, if you think you can easily barricade yourself from bots with a little bit of clay, you are in for a surprise. Some bots can dig now!

New Garments to Customize Your Character Let’s admit it, there can never be enough cool new garments to customize your mechanic! This update comes loaded with a bunch of new shirts and outfits to collect. Some are much harder to obtain than others! If you love collecting garments, you will really enjoy this update.

New Player Friendly Onboarding We made sure new players have a smooth start in Survival mode by introducing simple guidelines that help at the beginning without taking away the player freedom. We also added builder quests to guide you through making your first creations.

**Improved Network Responsiveness ** This update comes with a massive wave of optimizations, but the one we think multiplayer fans will appreciate the most is the improved network responsiveness for connected players. This drastically smoothens out the multiplayer experience in Scrap Mechanic!

**Quality of life improvements ** A large amount of quality of life improvements have been added. For example! Large chests can now pick up loot bubbles. Blocks can be force placed. Players can press shift to increase the engine speed by a notch while driving. Water buckets can pick water from a water container and more!

Resource and Crafting Rebalance Big changes have been made to recipes and resource collecting, reducing the grind and making the experience flow much better while feeling more rewarding. We also introduced a new HP system that is more fun to manage with perks from Cookbot food.

Schematic Bot Players can now use the Schematicbot to unlock new parts in the Craftbot. This update lets creations in Survival match the creativity and detail of Creative mode.

Garage The new garage in Scrap City can build creations made in both survival and creative modes. Have a great creation from creative mode that you wish you could spawn in survival? Now it is possible!

Steam Achievements With the 1.0 release, we have finally added Steam Achievements! There are definitely some wacky ones to hunt down, alongside some really challenging goals for the completionists out there. See if you can unlock them all!

Next-Gen Visual Upgrade!

Get ready for a massive visual overhaul that brings Scrap Mechanic to life like never before. We are introducing a 100% dynamic lighting and weather system that dramatically enhances your immersion, all without requiring expensive ray-tracing hardware!

• Next-Gen Lighting: Experience up to 512 dynamic light sources on-screen at once, delivering flawless volumetric sunlight, smooth day-to-night transitions, and global illumination.

• **A Living, Breathing World: **Explore a universe featuring fully volumetric clouds, responsive weather, realistic water rendering, and grass that physically reacts to your character's movements.

• Stunning Material Detail: Enjoy a brand-new custom material system that creates hyper-detailed, lifelike rendering for skin, metal, and foliage.

And Much More!

This is just a summary of the most significant changes, but there is so much more to discover! It is tricky to fit everything we’ve done over the last 6 years into a single list, so we are leaving a lot of it as a surprise for you to find in-game.

A Personal Message from the Dev Team

We are finally moving into version 1.0! Some of us have been working on Scrap Mechanic since 2011. It has defined a huge part of our lives and reflects years of genuine dedication. Scrap Mechanic is a unique game that is technically very challenging to make, but we never gave up, nor did we cut any corners. We are incredibly proud of that. We feel that this massive update truly delivers on the promises we made so many years ago.

Thank you all for your amazing support and patience over the years! Reaching this milestone was only possible because of you. We hope you really enjoy the 1.0 release and the Drilling Thunder update!

Want to know what's next?

Make sure to follow Axolot Games on (https://www.instagram.com/axolotgames/), (https://www.youtube.com/@Axolotgames) and (https://x.com/ScrapMechanic) to stay up to date!

• Fixed a security issue

Hi Mechanics! We’ve got a surprise update for you today: The “Physics and Wedge Update”!

While the next chapter is still in development, we didn’t want to hold back some exciting features that could enhance your gameplay experience right away. Plus, this gives us the chance to test these features with all of you!

So what’s in here?

Improved Physics This update brings a major overhaul to the physics system, unlocking new possibilities and significantly reducing lag. Creations can now collide with each other, and loose items can be thrown around or stacked in larger amounts.

Our team has worked hard to optimize the physics in Scrap Mechanic, tackling this challenge head-on. While the performance boost will vary depending on your hardware, these improvements should make a noticeable difference! However, this update doesn’t fix issues with large, super-complex creations lagging within themselves, as that’s a separate issue we’re still addressing.

IMPORTANT: New worlds will have the new smart physics on by default. However, old worlds will need to be set to the new physics setting manually. You find this setting under Options > Gameplay > Physics quality – Then select: Smart (Recommended) Good to keep in mind that only the host in multiplayer can adjust the physics quality.

Wedges! We’re thrilled to announce that wedges have finally arrived as a new building block! All block materials now have a wedge version, making it possible to create shapes and designs that weren’t achievable before. We’re excited to see what amazing builds you’ll come up with using this new addition!

Network Optimizations We’ve also made significant improvements to multiplayer performance. With these changes, along with the updated physics, playing with friends should now feel smoother and more enjoyable than ever.

New & Updated Parts This update includes some exciting new parts and tweaks to existing ones. The Farmbot Target Part lets you create your very own shooting range, and the Window with Curtains adds extra flair to your builds by allowing you to open and close them. Additionally, we’ve unlocked some spaceship parts in Creative mode that were previously only available in Survival mode.

We hope you enjoy everything this update has to offer!

At last, a note about the next chapter. We’ve made some amazing progress this year! But we are still not happy with some segments of the chapter that require more work and fixes. We are sorry to keep you waiting so long. We are still hard at work on the next chapter!

Stay creative, The Scrap Mechanic Team

Fixes Dec 6 (0.7.1):

• Increased max networked velocities of objects

• Disabled max velocity limitation in single player

• Fixed ragdoll sync issue

• Fixed missing shadows on some parts

• Kinematic visuals not updating fixed

• Restored collision changes on Concave Wedge and Metal Storage Ramp

Fixes Dec 9 (0.7.2):

• Fixed a net code issue where save files with long play time would fail to sync game data

• Fixed day counting in the Logbook for game hosts

Fixes Dec 10 (0.7.3):

• Improved wedge parts physics calculation

• Switched Metal Storage Ramp collision back to wedge

• Fixed issue with oversized wedges in blueprints

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• Blocked sm.json.save from saving to invalid locations

Hi Mechanics! The Challenge Mode Update is finally out and we have started collecting bugs and issues reported to us. If you encountered some new bugs, please let us know down below in the comments. A lot of fixes are on the way.

0.6.5 (June 21):

• Fixed invisible reward customization item when unlocked in the dressbot

• Fixed an issue where the lift counted bearings and suspensions twice

• Fixed invisible loot objects when dropping the sledgehammer or spud gun in challenge mode

• Fixed a shader issue caused by an intel 10gen UHD graphics driver bug

• Fixed slow loading times when loading tiles with a very large amount of objects in the tile builder

• Fixed wrong shapeset path in example blocks and part mod

• Fixed validation issue for json arrays in mod tool

• Fixed a crash when modifying the HUD related to the new item pickup display

0.6.4 (June 16):

• Fixed an issue that could cause the character to be rotated in the challenge victory screen.

• Smoother player character and enemy rotation.

• New item pickup display

• New images on crashed ship and mechanic station waypoints

• Inputs no longer get stuck when entering and exiting seats while holding keys

• Fixed bad performance in custom creative worlds with lots of water

• Fixed another issue chat caused the stuntman outfit to be unlockable from garment boxes

• Fixed an issue that could cause stone nodes to float in the air

• Added missing upgrade effect on craftbot

• Added missing pick-up sound to the tutorial bucket

• Fixed an issue where the loadingbar popup would be misshaped when downloading content

• Fixed an issue where the horn pitch did not persist after leaving and rejoining

• Fixed an issue where the level intro cinematic would not play in challenge mode

• Fixed a bug where some HUD GUI elements were visible during challenge mode camera

• Player health resets to full when challenge resets or changes level

• Fixed a bug where enemy spawners in challenge mode didn't rotate spawned enemies correctly

• Fixed a crash that could occur when building joints on shapes that got removed

• Fixed a common crash that could randomly occur

• Projectiles can now have modded effects

• Lua GUIs can play modded effects

• Added setColor function for joints

• Fixed a bug where tools didn't show up in the mod inventory

• GuiInterface's createHorizontalSlider now has an option to invert the slider

• Fixed a bug where the showInInventory json setting was ignored by the mod inventory

• Changed sm.log logging functions to take a variable amount of arguments

0.6.3 (June 7):

• Fixed an issue that caused the Applicator outfit to not be unlockable

• Fixed a bug that caused the camera to move when alt-tabbing back to the game

• Fixed a performance issue for worlds with many interactable shapes

• Fixed a crash that occurred when leaving games

• Fixed a positioning issue with the Ball Socket effect

• The handbook is now visible when dropped on the ground

• Mod Tool custom icons checkbox now works

0.6.2 (June 2):

• Fixed rendering issues on intel graphics devices causing miss shaped or invisible craftbots and driver's seats

• Fixed an issue that could cause beds and raids to not work

• Fixed an issue that caused custom worlds to not load properly (You might need to restore the backup found in C:\Users<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Axolot Games\Scrap Mechanic\User\User_\Save\Backup)

• Fixed crashes where lua scripts sent invalid numbers to physics

• Fixed a bug that caused the health bar to fill up when rejoining a game

• Fixed a bug that caused paint tool visualization to stay after the tool was unequipped

• Fixed missing effect when hitting things with the sledgehammer

0.6.1 (June 1):

• Fixed issue where some stuntman outfit pieces showed up in garment boxes

• Added missing stuntman outfit names

• Fixed an issue with the seated first-person camera position

• Fixed an issue where old creative worlds would not load

• Crash fixes

Calling all Mechanics!

The Challenge Mode update is finally here along with a bunch of other exciting additions!

Initially, our focus was just to wrap up Challenge mode. However, we ended up adding a lot more than that. We ended up with a much bigger and better update that we hope has something for every kind of Mechanic.

**Here are a few highlights from this update: **

Challenge Mode 10 new challenges have been added, for a total of 50. Complete them all and unlock a very special Stuntman outfit that will prove that you have the chops to be a true Scrap Mechanic.

Bots in Challenge Builder Give your custom-made challenges some more oomph with the new Character Spawner part. Spawn bots inside the Challenge Mode and create your own tailor-made shooter or any kind of challenge you can come up with!

Survival Tutorial If you’re new to Scrap Mechanic, you might have trouble coming to grips with Survival mode. With that in mind, we have put together an onboarding experience that lets you learn the ropes that’s both fun and easy! The start of the game now includes a series of quests that teach you the basics, as well as the new Builder Guide part that helps you build a basic vehicle from start to finish.

Optimizations Ragdoll simulation for knocked-out characters has been greatly optimized. This makes big bot raids run a lot smoother when a lot of them ragdoll at the same time. We have also worked on character collision detection, in order to further improve the game's performance.

Improved Mod Support We have worked on greatly improving Mod support, so Modders can have a much wider range of options and possibilities than ever before. Our goal is to allow you to pretty much create your own games within Scrap Mechanic. To show that off, we went ahead and made our own little mod, called Scrap Mechanic Golf. To play it, download it from the Workshop. Then, head to the Game Mode selection and click the new Custom Games button in the upper right corner! What are you waiting for? Get out there and hit ‘em straight!

Scrap Mechanic Golf

Also! new Mods by talented Mod creators are already starting to show up on the Workshop.

This time we would like to highlight Raft Mechanic. A really impressive mod with quests, new parts, tools, and more! If you enjoy Scrap Mechanic and Raft, then this is a great mod to check out. Let's give these skilled creators some love!

Raft Mechanic

Enjoy Mechanics!

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Updated May 30

• New quest tracker HUD

• Added support for adding/removing dependencies to other mods in the Mod Tool

• Other mod dependencies show up in Tile Editor and World Builder when launched from the Mod Tool

• Fixed a crash that occurred when generating icons for blueprints in a custom game mod with translation files

• Fixed bug where part names in mods would fail to fallback to English when translation to selected language was missing

• Fixed crashes where json files would contain invalid numbers

• Fixed builder guide icon positioning

• Electric Engine powers up significantly faster

Updated May 25

• Added support for modded log book entries in custom games

• Fixed bug where too long names for mods and blueprints would not upload to steam

• Fixed bug with health bars in challenge mode showing up for clients

• Fixed crash when attempting to weld joints against joints

• Fixed bug with missing fires and other script data when entering old worlds

• Fixed bug with modded items having the wrong sorting order in inventory

• Fixed bug with sm.joint.setTargetLength not working with pistons added in survival

• Fixed bug when carrying objects and got incorrect interaction prompts

• Fixed bug where menu music would continue to play when starting a custom game

Updated May 24

• Added prefabs to the Mod Tool Tile Builder

• Horn GUI improvements

• Blueprints can again have flat shapes but should no longer cause crashes

• Fixed a crash that occurred when blueprints had invalid joint json

• Fixed a crash that occurred when renderable json files had an invalid root object

• Added option in script API to stop effects with stopBreakSustain, this allows some looping sound effects to end correctly when triggered from scripts

Updated May 23

• Added blueprints to the Mod Tool Tile Editor (Must be in $CONTENT_DATA/Blueprints)

• Added tools, projectiles, melee attacks och harvestables to Blocks and Parts mods

• Fixed a crash related to the Controller

• Fixed crash that occurred when projectiles were fired in an area triggers projectile hit callback

Updated again May 20

• Added a temporary quickfix for looping sounds. (A better fix coming next week)

• Waypoint nodes available in the in-game Tile Editor

Updated May 20

• Added nodes to the Tile Editor

• Custom Game mods can define their own nodes

• Crash fixes

Updated May 19

• The horn GUI is back (still work in progress)

• Added scrollbar functions to the script API

• Fixed a crash that occurred when generating icons in the Mod tool

• Added setWorldPosition to character userdata in the script API

• Dropped carried items are now placed in the same place as when built, they should now be much less likely to fall through the ground

• Fixed a crash that occurred when writing a chat message too early from a script

• Kinematics support added to the default mod terrain script

• Tutorial GUI now displays the correct keybinding

• New tutorial added to the crash site bucket

• Updated quest texts

Updated May 18

• Mods can now set character name tags with setNameTag

• Added shapes to the Tile Editor

• Added sm.gu.translateLocalizationTags to script API

• Fixed more API calls not correctly translating $CONTENT_DATA

• Fixed a crash that occurred when spamming the take picture button in the blueprint export GUI

• Fixed a crash that could occur when closing GUIs of some interactable parts after the part was destroyed

• Fixed a crash that could happen when a client is joining a game into a world that is being destroyed (challenge mode)

Updated May 17

• Added a low-quality option for World Builder.

• Added free placement menu toggle (previously only available on Shift + Click)

• Added brush size menu (previously only available on Shift + Scroll)

• Added options in editors to delete tiles and worlds

• Added more world sizes to the world builder

• Fixed custom tiles not showing up in tile browser when making a custom game world

• Fixed crashes for clients playing multiplayer challenge mode

• Fixed incorrect path reading in Lua API

• Fixed save dialogs in the mod tool

• Creating new assets sets in the mod tool now working

Updated May 16

• Fixed a crash related to the builder guide

• Fixed player hands being rendered incorrectly

• Fixed fix tree crash

• Fixed a crash that occurred when having incorrect item translation files in a mod

• Fixed particle emitters being hidden incorrectly in the particle editor

• Fixed a particle editor shutdown crash

• Updated Visual Studio runtime

Updated May 13

• Fixed an issue where with the builder guide visualization that could lead to a crash

• Some items that disappeared from the creative inventory in the previous update are back

Updated May 12

• Fixed a crash when using non-english new save filename

• Fixed a crash when mods use an inventory smaller than the hotbar size

• Fixed a bug where the game settings dropdown would stay after closing the menu

• Fixed num pad and other special key button prompts spacing and font color

• Fixed a crash when displaying visualization and switching worlds

• Fixed auto-generation for effect sets in the mod tool

• Fixed a bug where mods could not dofile() script files in the core content directories

• Fixed an interaction bug with the logbook

• Fixed broken tutorial GUI in some resolutions

• Survival tutorial car builder guide part is hidden in creative mode

• Fixed script errors

Updated May 10

• Preview image generation fix for Worlds and Tiles

• Fixed a crash when starting the game with an invalid menu blueprint

• Fixed a crash when sending an AreaTrigger to a client

• Fixed bug where player spawn position would be wrong when loading in a warehouse

• Fixed issues with file referencing in mods

• Fixed GetHarvestableForCell script callback for mods

• Other mod scripting fixes

• Quest script fixes

• Other crash fixes

Hi Mechanics!

We are closing in on a new update release with a lot of nice new content. Today we are rolling out the first test on the test branch mainly for the mod makers. The Mod Tool has been updated, making it a lot more open and flexible. If you are a mod maker, you will find a lot of new features on the test branch of the Mod Tool. We also updated the scripting API reference pages: https://scrapmechanic.com/api/index.html As some of you might have noticed. We have added two new categories to the Workshop as well. World and Custom Games.

Worlds: This is where mechanics can upload custom creative worlds to the workshop. Custom Games: This is where mod makers can upload modded survival game modes as well as completely own custom games.

Keep in mind that there will be bugs and issues on the test branch at this stage. But it will get more stable as we keep updating it with new content and fixes in the coming days.

**Warning! Do not open saves from the current version of the game on the test branch since things are still a bit unstable and they might break. Mods updated with the new Mod Tool will not work in the current version of the game. Worlds and Challenges created in the test will not work in the current version of the game either. ** Game Improvements:

• New Tile Editor GUI

• Added a lot of Tile Editor features

• New World Builder GUI

• Added a lot of World Builder features

• Worlds can be uploaded to Steam Workshop

• Multiplayer join settings added

• Tutorial Quests added to Survival Mode

• Builder Guide part added to Survival Mode

• Loading time optimizations

• Ragdoll optimizations

• Debris optimizations (new debris system)

• Particle quality improvements

• Lighting improvements

• Visualization shader improvement

Mod Tool:

• Custom Game mods added to the Mod Tool

• Tile Editor standalone version for editing Custom Game content added to the Mod Tool

• World Builder standalone version for editing Custom Game content added to the Mod Tool

• New Particle Editor added to the Mod Tool

Modding support:

• Tools and Weapons

• NPC Characters

• Kinematics

• Harvestables

• Game Script

• World Scripts

• Terrain Scripts

• Projectiles

• Melee attacks

• Effects

• Terrain ground materials

• Decals usable in Tile Editor

• Major Script API update

Coming soon:

• Foliage clutter

• Prefabs usable in Tile Editor

• Blueprints usable in Tile Editor

• Adding nodes in Tile Editor

• Loading Blocks and Parts mods to custom games

Stay creative!

Here is how you access the test:

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Hi Mechanics! The Creative Mode update is finally out and we are already looking into some additional fixes. Today we took care of a few reported crashes and some other issues.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where world builder worlds from previous versions of the game did not work.

• Fixed Connect Tool connection highlight color.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when clients joined the game with a tool equipped.

• Fixed an issue that caused creations to be missing on the first load of old save files.

Modding

• Fixed a crash that occurred when loading invalid harvestable renderable json.

**Hi Mechanics! ** Creative mode Update 0.5.0 is finally here!

New creative mode worlds Welcome to the new and updated creative mode! Not only did we make it look better to go hand in hand with the survival world but we also finally added water to the creative terrain. All trees can now be cut down and rocks can be drilled. Excellent for testing out ideas for your creations in Survival mode. We also gave the flat world an updated ground texture. The new one should give a much better sense of movement and speed.

New capsules Both bot and animal capsules have been added to creative mode. Place them on the ground then shot or hit a capsule to release them into your world. There is a lot of fun things you can do with these. Check the useful chat commands below.

Bot combat Paint bots in different colors and see them attack each other. This new feature is great fun and allows you to set up large bot fights. The red tape boat also got a slight redesign to make it easy to see the difference between blue and red when painted. We are very happy with this new feature turned out and we are excited to see how you use it.

**Gameplay tab and physics quality slider ** We added a new gameplay tab in the in-game options menu. This tab will let us add a mix of settings in the future for the player to adjust their gameplay and performance. First up is the physics quality slider. This slider is great for when setting up larger bot battles or when you are doing something where a lot of loose parts and blocks fall on the ground. It’s however not useful for creations with bearings unless you want to make wacky creations. This is just one stab towards making the game run even smoother and better. More to come!

Custom main menu You can now decorate your main menu by pressing the blue pen icon on the bottom. This will take you into the main menu world where you can build. You can also spawn your favorite creation from the lift and have it on display. Currently, the main menu does not support moving bearings and is only for static creations.

**New useful chat commands ** Lastly! We also added a lot of fun and useful commands for creative mode.

• /night - Set night

• /day - Set day

• /noaggro - Bots do not aggro players

• /noaggrocreations - Bots do not aggro creations

• /aggroall - Notifies all bots of player position

• /popcapsules - Open all bot and animal capsules

• /killall - Kills all spawned units

• /place tree - Places a tree in creative mode

• /place stone - Places a stone in creative mode

• /place birch|spruce|leafy|pine - Places a specific tree type

• /dropscrap - Enables or disables Scrap Metal loot drops in creative mode (default off)

• /restrictions - Allows removing restricted objects in creative mode, like tree parts.

• /clear -Removes all creations from the entire world in creative mode. Can only be used by the host and must be enabled with /allowclear

• /allowclear - Allows the use of the /clear chat command

Here is the full update list! It's a big one!:

Features

• Added bot capsules in creative mode.

• Added animal capsules in creative mode.

• Bots can be painted.

• Painted bots will team up with bots of the same color.

• Updated Red Tapebot visuals.

• Physics quality sliders.

• New creative worlds will now have water.

• New creative worlds will now have trees that can be cut down and stones that can be drilled.

• Tiles containing water can now be used in the world builder.

• Larger creative flat terrain.

• Updated flat terrain visuals.

• Added a fence around the edge of the flat terrain.

• Added a buildable main menu background.

• Added the Beacon to creative mode.

• Added the Water Cannon and Water Container to creative mode.

• Added the Bucket to creative mode.

• Added the Ammo Container to creative mode.

• Added Easy difficulty to the gameplay setting in survival mode.

• Added Craftbot to creative mode.

• Added crafting resources needed by the Craftbot to creative mode.

• Added Refinery to creative mode.

• Added Resource Collector to creative mode.

• Added Large Chest to creative mode.

• Added Vacuum Pump and Vacuum Pipes to creative mode.

• Glowstick added to creative mode.

• Added new chat commands to creative mode.

Improvements

• Better lighting in creative mode.

• The Logbook can now be opened while seated.

• The character can now be rotated in the main menu character customization screen.

• New loading screens for all game modes.

• Added a blur effect in the main menu.

• Added new Logic Gate GUI.

• Fade to black when respawning and riding elevators.

• Collision Effects should now trigger more consistently at high speeds.

• Collisions with bots and wocs are much more responsive.

• Reworked character vs character collision.

• Creation visualization is now more accurate for animated parts when using the Lift and Weld Tool.

• Vacuum can suck up Pigment Flower, Cotton and dropped items.

• Explosives can be triggered by bot collisions.

• Chat history, press up and down in chat to repeat chat messages.

Tweaks

• Saw blades deal more damage to small logs.

• Slightly increased Spudling Gun damage.

• Reduced hand refine time.

• Tweaked sledgehammer chain attack timing.

• Tweaked collision damage.

• Crafting the Beacon requires a little more metal.

Optimizations

• 64 bit executable. Should solve issues with the game running out of memory.

• Fixed issues with lua running out of memory.

• Threading prioritization improvements. Should solve issues with creations despawning when driving around.

• Minor network optimizations for character updates.

• Optimized AI pathfinding.

• Improved loading times when joining a world with many creations.

• Optimized inventory searching.

• Faster load times when loading particles.

• Stone LODs added

• Optimized the loading time of the user content icons in the main menu.

• Other optimizations :)

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Terrain Asset Mods to not work with the World Builder terrain.

• Fixed an issue where Terrain Asset Mods would not load properly.

• Fix for dropping framerate when playing survival for a long time.

• Fixed an issue that caused Wocs to unload if they were ragdolling while driving them around.

• Fixed a bug that would give multiple yields and when harvesting the same plant with multiple vacuum pumps.

• Fixed a sound issue with the yellow Totebot Head.

• Fixed an issue where Totebot Head settings did not save and sync properly.

• Fixed an issue where creations containing static bodies triggered the fall through ground check which could lead to the creation disappearing.

• Fixed an issue where creations placed on the ground could sometimes become loose in survival mode when returning to an unloaded area.

• Fixed an issue where beacon distances sometimes did non update correctly in the logbook.

• Fixed an issue in the challenge builder when testing the challenge with hotbar row 2 or 3 selected.

• Fixed a bug that could cause Farmbots to become unkillable.

• Fixed connect tool rendering issues that could occur when building more than 1024 bodies.

• Fixed an issue where dynamic creations could stay in the air if laying on a lift and the lift was removed.

• Fixed crash that could occur when joining a game.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when switching display resolution.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when characters were ragdolling.

• Fixed an issue where lifts could be seen on the wrong warehouse floor.

• Fixed an issue where other players sometimes did not seem to have a tool equipped.

• Fixed an issue where carry animations would not be played.

• Fixed an issue where the player could still erase things while seated.

• Fixed an issue that could cause physics impulses to stop working on characters.

• Fixed a bug causing some effects to be missing.

• Fixed client crash caused by sending invalid creations.

• Fixed rendering issues with the Build Area and Goal holograms in challenge mode.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the camera to get stuck if the player pressed E to respawn while aiming at a Dressbot.

• Various tool animation fixes.

• Mechanic Station graphics fixes.

• Fixed a case when bots could sometimes stop and not make a new decision.

• Fixed some popup scaling issues.

• Other GUI fixes.

• Games containing a corrupt player position are now repaired when loaded.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when removing blocks or parts while restarting a challenge or going to the next level.

• Fixed an issue where players could be stuck with a grey screen after testing a challenge in the challenge builder.

• Spruce tree texture fixes.

Language

• Added missing italian translations.

Tile Editor

• Water can now be added in the tile editor.

• Fixed an issue where the tile editor would not properly save multiple Terrain Asset Mod dependencies for a tile.

• Added an option to create assets with or without a random rotation in the tile editor.

• Fixed tile icon rendering issues.

Modding

• Scripts can access the hotbar in creative mode.

• Fixed issues with mods reading and writing json files.

• Mods can load custom gui layouts.

• Fixed an issue where adding shapes to existing bodies from scripts could crash the game.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when creating a modded thruster with invalid configuration.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when joining a game containing custom characters that were not present on the client.

• Fixed a crash with that occurred when setting the density of parts or blocks to 0.

• Fixed a crash with that occurred when setting the character mass to 0.

• Added a hint to verify te integrity of game files then shaders are broken.

See you next time!

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Updated March 30

Bug fixes

• Fixed camera issues in the World Builder

Updated March 26

Bug fixes

• Players that had issues starting the game in the test branch should now be able to start

• Games containing a corrupt player position is repaired

• Fixed a crash that could occur when removing blocks or parts while restarting a challenge or exiting a world

• Fixed an issue that could cause the blueprint preview to stop updating

• Fixed a crash that occurred when placing blocks on the ground using the Vacuum (hotpatched)

• Fixed an issue where some harvesting assets were invisible, like corn and soil (hotpatched)

Modding

• Fixed a crash that occurred when joining a game containing custom characters that were not present on the client

• Fixed a crash with that occurred when setting the density of parts or blocks to 0

• Fixed a crash with that occurred when setting the character mass to 0

• Added a hint to verify the integrity of game files then shaders are broken

Updated March 24

Features

• Added Easy difficulty to the gameplay setting

• Glowstick added to creative mode

• Crafting resources needed by the Craftbot added to creative mode

• Added Bucket to creative mode

New chat commands

• /day - Set day

• /night - Set night

Type /help to show all commands Type /help for more info

Improvements

• Vacuum can suck up Pigment Flower, Cotton and dropped items

• Explosives can be triggered by bot collisions

Bug fixes

• Fixed a case when bots could sometimes stop and not make a new decision

• Fixed some popups scaling issues

• Other GUI fixes

Optimizations

• Preloading character meshes for more smooth capsule pops

Modding

• Fixed a crash, introduced in the previous test, that occurred when accessing functions on a part directly after being created to a pre-existing creation.

Updated March 19

Hi Mechanics! Thanks for helping us test the upcoming update. In this test, we did a bunch of additional fixes based on your feedback. For example, we added more chat commands for the capsules that will be helpful and fun to use. Fixed some of the bots misbehaving and some additional fixes for players using mods.

Here is the list:

Features

• Updated flat terrain

• Added Craftbot to creative mode

• Added Refinery to creative mode

• Added Resource Collector to creative mode

• Added Large Chest to creative mode

• Added Vacuum Pump and Vacuum Pipes to creative mode

New chat commands

• /noaggrocreations - Bots do not aggro creations

• /popcapsules - Open all capsules

• /killall - Kills all spawned units

• /place tree - Places a tree in creative mode

• /place stone - Places a stone in creative mode

• /place birch|spruce|leafy|pine - Places a specific tree type

• /dropscrap - Enables or disables Scrap Metal loot drops in creative mode (default off)

• /restrictions - Allows removing restricted objects in creative mode, like tree parts.

• /clear -Removes all creations from the entire world in creative mode. Can only be used by the host and must be enabled with /allowclear

• /allowclear - Allows the use of the /clear chat command

Type /help to show all commands Type /help for more info

Improvements

• Threading prioritization improvements. Should solve issues with creations despawning for some players when driving around.

• Bot capsules can be opened by drilling or sawing them

• Updated Red Tapebot visuals

• Hotbar is saved in the menu build mode

• Game settings saved (per world)

Tweaks

• Bots no longer target capsules

Bug fixes

• Fixed color of carried Scrap Metal

• Fixed an issue where creations containing static bodies triggered the fall through ground check.

• Spruce tree texture fixes

• Fixed an issue where players could be stuck with a grey screen after testing a challenge in the challenge builder

• Fixed an issue where creations placed on the ground could sometimes become loose in survival mode when returning to an unloaded area

Optimizations

• Optimized AI pathfinding

• Stone LODs added

• Fixed issues with lua running out of memory.

• Optimized the loading time of the user content icons in the main menu

Modding

• Scripts can access the hotbar in creative mode

• Fixed issues with mods reading and writing json files

• Mods can load custom GUI layouts

• Fixed an issue where adding shapes to existing bodies from scripts could crash the game

• Fixed a crash that occurred when creating a modded thruster with invalid configuration

Updated March 5

• Added Woc capsule.

• Added Glowbug capsule.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when clients left the game with a spudgun equipped.

Hi Mechanics!

Last few week we’ve been hard at work on the Creative mode update that we mentioned in our latest devblog. It contains a lot of new things that we need help testing out to make sure it runs well.

Some of these things are updated terrain worlds that now have trees and rocks from survival. We also added water to the terrain and slightly expanded it in size. Something we are really excited to see you try out are the new enemy capsules. These allow you to release bots in to the creative world. You can also paint the bots in other colors to make them turn on each other. This is a fun feature that let’s you set up bot battles. We also made it possible for mechanics to customize their main menu buy clicking on the blue pen icon at the bottom. Keep in mind that bearings can’t be used in the main menu world.

On top of all this we also made a ton of fixes and improvements that we are sure a lot of mechanics will be happy with! One of them is a physics quality slider that can be accessed in-game from the ESC – Option menu. Here you can set how good you want the physics to be. It’s a good slider to have to adjust performance, but also to make some really wacky creations. Give these a try! Please keep in mind that some things are still missing in the test that will be added in the coming days. For example Woc and glowbug Capsules and a few more fixes we are still currently in the works.

Here is the full list!

Features

• 64 bit executable.

• Physics quality sliders.

• Added bot capsules in creative mode.

• Bots can be painted.

• Painted bots will team up with bots of the same color.

• New creative worlds will now have water.

• New creative worlds will now have trees that can be cut down and stones that can be drilled.

• Tiles containing water can now be used in the world builder terrain.

• Larger creative flat world.

• Added a fence around the edge of the flat world.

• Added buildable main menu background.

• Added the Beacon to creative mode.

• Added the Water Cannon and Water Container to creative mode.

• Added the Ammo Container to creative mode.

• Added /noaggro and /aggroall chat commands in creative for bot vs player combat settings.

• Fade to black when respawning and while riding elevators.

• Chat history, press up and down in chat to repeat chat messages.

Improvements

• The character can now be rotated in the main menu character customization screen.

• New loading screens for all game modes.

• Added new Logic Gate GUI.

• Collision Effects should now trigger more consistently at high speeds.

• Collisions with bots and wocs are much more responsive.

• Reworked character vs character collision.

• Creation visualization is now more accurate for animated parts when using the Lift and Weld Tool.

• Added a blur effect in the main menu.

• The Logbook can now be opened while seated.

• Better lighting in creative mode.

Tweaks

• Saw blades deal more damage to small logs.

• Slightly increased Spudling Gun damage.

• Reduced hand refine time.

• Tweaked sledgehammer chain attack timing.

• Tweaked collision damage.

• Crafting the Beacon requires a little more metal.

Optimizations

• Improved loading times when joining world with many creations.

• Optimized inventory searching.

• Faster load times when loading particles.

• Other optimizations :)

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Terrain Asset Mods to not work with the World Builder terrain.

• Fix for dropping framerate when playing survival for a long time.

• Fixed a sound issue with the yellow Totebot Head.

• Fixed an issue where Totebot Head settings did not save and sync properly.

• Fixed an issue where Terrain Asset Mods would not load properly.

• Fixed a bug that could cause Farmbots to become unkillable.

• Fixed an issue that caused Wocs to unload if they were ragdolling while driving them around.

• Fixed connect tool rendering issues that could occur when building more than 1024 bodies.

• Fixed an issue where dynamic creations could stay in the air if laying on a lift and the lift was removed.

• Fixed crash that could occur when joining a game.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when switching display resolution.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when characters were ragdolling.

• Fixed an issue where lifts could be seen on the wrong warehouse floor.

• Fixed an issue where other players would not seem to have a tool equipped when spawning.

• Fixed an issue where carry animations would not be played.

• Fixed an issue where the player could still erase things while seated.

• Fixed an issue that could cause physics impulses to stop working on characters.

• Fixed a bug causing some effects to be missing.

• Fixed client crash caused by sending invalid creations.

• Fixed a bug that would give multiple yields and when harvesting the same plant with multiple vacuum pumps.

• Fixed an issue where beacon distances sometimes did non update correctly in the logbook.

• Fixed rendering issues with the build area and goal holograms in challenge mode.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the camera to get stuck if the player respawned while aiming at a Dressbot.

• Various tool animation fixes.

• Mechanic Station graphics fixes.

Tile Editor

• Water can now be added in the tile editor.

• Fixed an issue where the tile editor would not save multiple Terrain Asset Mod dependencies for a tile.

• Option to create assets with or without random rotation in the tile editor.

• Fixed tile icon rendering issues.

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Hi Mechanics!

We are excited to finally drop this update! This update will lay out some of the groundwork for the upcoming new survival chapter that we are working on right now. In this update we did a ton of bug fixes and improvements. We also added a few new fun things to survival mode like the Beacon and the Logbook! We know this is not a huge update. But rest assured that a big survival update is in the works with a lot of new content and it’s shaping up to become something amazing!

Beacon Beacon is a very useful new interactive part that will help you set navigation waypoints in the world. This will make exploration much easier. It can now be crafted in the Craftbot!

Logbook The Logbook can now be unlocked in the crashed ship. It will store all quests that the mechanics will find in the world. It also lets mechanics manage all active Beacons in the world. The logbook will be very important in the next chapter where quests will be introduced.

Oil in Desert Biome We heard you! A lot of Mechanics wanted to pump oil from the ground. That is now possible if you can find a desert biome with an oil pool. You will not need to start a new world. Good luck on your adventure!

6 New T-shirts Green Garment boxes are getting 6 new fresh T-shirts added with this update for your Mechanic. Collect them all to complete your garment collection!

• Woc Love T-Shirt

• Logical T-Shirt

• Pizza Burger T-Shirt

• Carrot Pattern T-Shirt

• Corn Pattern T-Shirt

• Gas T-Shirt

Here is the full update list!

• Added 6 new T-shirts.

• Added the logbook.

• Added a beacon that can be crafted in the craftbot.

• Putting soil or blocks on the ground removes grass. The grass will grow back when they are removed.

• A majority of interactive parts from survival mode are now added to creative mode.

• All parts in creative mode are now usable in challenge builder.

• Character ragdolls are synchronized to clients.

• Fixed character jitter when driving as a client.

• The corn can now be broken by creation collisions.

• Creative games can now be started even if it contains blocks or parts from a mod that is not loaded. The missing blocks and parts will be replaced by a removable error-object.

• Optimized character ragdolls.

• Enemies react to sounds.

• Glowsticks now emits more light when held in the hand.

• Added a tooltip in the craftbots that show the names of the ingredients.

• Totebots and Haybots will try to destroy blocks and parts of all durability levels.

• Haybots will try to attack more often where they would otherwise try to chase the player.

• Explosions can no longer be triggered by character collision.

• The sawblade can now saw logs welded to the same creation.

• Increased durability on some stackable items from 1 to 2.

• Improved shift-click interaction when putting gas and batteries in engines.

• Added a quest system for future content.

• Fixed an issue where blocks did not correctly protect stuff behind them from explosions.

• Component kits can be used in challenge builder.

• Potato ammo can be used in challenge builder. Use /enable_ammo_consumption chat command to enable ammo consumption.

• Gas and Battery can be used in challenge builder. Use /enable_fuel_consumption chat command to enable fuel consumption.

• The large challenge sensor will now trigger even if the challenge has not started.

• Fixed issues with the terrain loading that could cause some terrain to not load properly. This could for instance cause water to not work.

• Fixed an issue that could sometimes make loose objects fall through the ground when loading a game.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the character to arrive in the warehouse before the interior was loaded when using the elevator. This could lead to the character getting stuck in the ground or fall into the endless void.

• Improved block remove interaction.

• Main menu camera animations.

• Added a brightness slider in the display settings.

• Added a framerate cap selection in the display settings.

• Added names to clothes and hairstyles.

• If all crops are destroyed by a raid, the bots will destroy random parts.

• Optimized code that finds blocks and parts that enemies try to destroy in raids.

• Optimized Woc corn finding.

• Optimized water calculation.

• Fixed a bug that caused the fertilizer to not be spent when fertilizing plants.

• Level 5 Driver's seat/saddle settings are now saved in blueprints.

• Level 5 Driver's Seat GUI fixes.

• Added a consumable item tab for the craftbot and the backpack.

• The crosshair will now light up when pointing on an object that can be interacted with or picked up.

• Very large creations built on the ground will not become loose when the ground they are attached to is unloaded.

• Fixed a bug that allowed the lift to be placed on dynamic creations.

• New lift save and load blueprint GUIs.

• Dressbot GUI improved rendering and effects.

• Items in hotbar 2 and 3 can now be swapped.

• The handbook now shows up in first and third person.

• Chests show an animation when opened.

• New effects when hitting trees and burnt trees.

• The weld tool does no longer show a visualization of removed branches when welding logs.

• Fixed weld tool visualization issues that could show parts in incorrect positions.

• Minor warehouse collision optimization.

• Warehouse elevator sound fixes.

• Fixed a bug that caused glow worms to be placed as a block if selecting a spudgun in the hotbar while swimming.

• Fixed a bug causing tapebots to sometimes look like they hit themselves when playing as a client.

• Fixed a bug that put items in the hotbar when destroying objects in creative mode and challenge builder.

• Fixed a crash that occurred if a client joined the game while a character was seated.

• Fixed fertilizer first-person effect placement.

• Fixed a bug that could cause KO-bag icons to get stuck.

• Fixed a bug that could cause the character to go into T-pose when holding an edible item.

• Fixed a bug that caused the light to not be updated when the intensity was changed or when painted.

• Fixed a bug in challenge builder that could cause an extra builder bot to get stuck.

• Fixed a crash that could happen if a corrupt game file was selected in the menu.

• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when using some tools in a warehouse elevator.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when a modded part tried to upgrade into a non-existing part.

• Fixed a bug that could cause shapes to levitate after removing the shape it was resting on.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the sensor setting to be incorrectly updated when edited.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the timer setting to be incorrectly updated when edited.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the totebot head setting to be incorrectly updated when edited.

• Fixed a bug that caused the challenge builder bot hands to be shown in first person when testing a challenge.

• Fixed an animation issue on the big red farmbot when ragdolled while aiming.

• Fixed a sync issue with the electric engine when connected to a button or switch.

• Fixed freezes that could occur when shutting down a game.

• Fixed an issue that could cause GUI placement issues in windowed mode.

• Load game date being one month off and formatting fix.

• Replaced GUIs that had the old style.

• Letter spacing added to font rendering.

• Russian font fixes.

• Fixed GUI issues with the big challenge piston and the old creative piston.

• Added missing " Use" text when looking at upgradable sensors.

• A lot of GUI fixes and interaction fixes.

Upcoming updates We also want to take this opportunity to mention two other updates that are in the works right now outside of the new chapter. The first one being the creative mode update where we will introduce water and a few other surprises. After that we will release a Challenge mode update with 10 new challenges making it a total of 50 challenges. If completed, the Mechanic will be rewarded with a special gift!

We will be back soon with more Scrap Mechanic news!

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Hi Mechanics!

This test turned in to a pretty long one as you might have noticed. We ended up doing a lot of small fixes. But also because we wanted to add a few more things for testing before we drop it. Today the 30th of October we finally added the new Beacon interactive part that we’ve been teasing on our Twitter. The Beacon will help you set navigation waypoints in the world to make exploration much easier. It can now be crafted in the Craftbot! Some other highlights are fixes to the UI and main menu that we didn’t find time to add for the survival release. There is still more work to be done to the UI but we are getting there. We also fixed a bigger issue where the frame rate dropped for no clear reason for some players after playing longer sessions in survival. That should not happen anymore. We hope to move all of these things to the main game very soon!

Here is the full list!

Updated November 11

• The crosshair will now light up when pointing on an object that can be interacted with or picked up.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the character to arrive in the warehouse before the interior was loaded when using the elevator.

• Modded bearings, springs and pistons from mods that are not loaded will now default to standard ones.

• Fixed a bug that caused glow worms to be placed as a block if selecting a spudgun in the hotbar while swimming.

• Very large creations built on the ground will not become loose when the ground they are attached to is unloaded.

• Fixed weld tool rendering issues that could occur in some cases.

• Russian font fixes.

• Fixed an issue that caused the icons for lift creation exports to be offset.

• Fixed an issue with the reward item rendering in the dressbot.

• Minor gui fixes.

Updated November 4

• Creative games can now be started even if it contains blocks or parts from a mod that is not loaded. The missing blocks and parts will be replaced by a removable error-object.

• Fixed an issue that caused only the 3 first ingredients to be visible in the Craftbot.

• Creations with a gas tank containing fuel can now be saved on the Lift.

• Fixed an issue where thrusters connected to both a gas tank and a button/driver's seat did not load correctly on the lift.

• Fixed an issue that caused clients to not see the loot-projectile when dropping items on the ground.

• The large challenge sensor will now trigger even if the challenge has not started.

• Fixed a rare crash related to blocks and parts removing grass from the terrain.

• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when using some tools in a warehouse elevator.

• Fixed GUI issues with the big challenge piston and the old creative piston.

• Fixed an issue that caused only 9 mod items to be shown per row instead of 10 in the inventory mod tab.

• Added missing " Use" text when looking at upgradable sensors.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when a modded part tried to upgrade into a non-existing part.

Updated October 30

• Added a beacon that can be crafted in the craftbot.

• Optimized code that finds blocks that enemies till try to destroy in raids.

• Optimized Woc corn finding.

• Component kits can be used in challenge builder.

• Potato ammo can be used in challenge builder. Use /enable_ammo_consumption chat command to enable ammo consumption.

• Gas and Battery can be used in challenge builder. Use /enable_fuel_consumption chat command to enable fuel consumption.

• Use /enable_ammo_consumption chat command to enable ammo consumption.

• Added a quest system for future content.

• Fixed an issue related to the the optimized water calculation that caused lower framerate that increased over time.

• Fixed freezes that could occur when shutting down a game.

• Fixed issues with the terrain loading that could cause some terrain to not load properly. This could for instance cause water to not work.

• Fixed a bug that put items in the hotbar when destroying objects in creative mode and challenge builder.

• Fixed an issue that could cause GUI placement issues in windowed mode.

• Level 5 Driver's seat/saddle settings are now saved in blueprints.

• Items in hotbar 2 and 3 can now be swapped.

• Load game date being one month off and formatting fix.

• Main menu camera animations.

• Elevator audio fixes

• New lift save and load blueprint GUIs

• Dressbot GUI improved rendering and effects.

• Consumable item tab for craftbot and inventory.

• Craftbot tooltip shows the names of ingredients.

• Level 5 Driver's Seat GUI fixes.

• Replaced GUIs that had the old style.

• Letter spacing added to font rendering.

• A lot of visual GUI fixes and interaction fixes.

Updated September 11

• Putting soil or blocks on the ground removes grass. The grass will grow back when they are removed.

• If all crops are destroyed by a raid, the bots will destroy random parts.

• Fixed an issue in the test where tools thrown on the ground in challenge mode disappeared.

• Multiple lifts and sledgehammers caused by a previous bug in the test are removed when joining a game.

Updated September 7

• Fixed a bug in the test where the sledgehammer and lift would disappear if moved with shift-click into a chest. (Players who lost them will get new ones when loading/joining a world.)

• Reduced the chances that Totebots and Haybots will destroy high durability materials.

Hi Mechanics!

More important fixes and improvements are on the way! But you can already now help us test them in the latest test branch. Interactive parts from survival are now added to Creative mode with the exception of the Water cannon and the Vacuum pump. These will be added later together with a water update to creative mode that will come soon. We also improved the ragdoll physics a lot to reduce frame drops. So creative traps that push a lot of bots in to a ragdoll state should work much better now!

Patch notes:

• A majority of interactive parts from survival mode are now added to creative mode.

• All parts in creative mode are now usable in challenge builder.

• Character ragdolls are synchronized to clients.

• Fixed character jitter when driving on clients.

• Optimized character ragdolls.

• The corn can now be broken by creation collisions.

• Farmbots react to sounds.

• Glowsticks now emits more light when held in the hand.

• Fixed an issue where shapes did not correctly block explosions.

• Totebots and Haybots will try to destroy blocks and parts with all durability levels.

• Haybots will try to attack more often where they would otherwise try to chase the player.

• Explosions can no longer be triggered by character collision.

• The sawblade can now saw logs welded to the same creation.

• Increased durability on some stackable items from 1 to 2.

• Improved block remove interaction.

• Shift-click to put gas/battery in engine improvement.

• Added a brightness slider in the display settings.

• Added a framerate cap selection in the display settings.

• The handbook nows up in first and third person.

• Chests show an animation when opened.

• New effects when hitting trees and burnt trees.

• The weld tool does no longer show a visualization of removed branches when welding logs.

• Added names to clothes.

• Minor warehouse collision optimization.

• Warehouse elevator sound fixes.

• Fixed a crash that occurred if a client joined the game while a character was seated.

• Fixed a bug that caused the fertilizer to not be spent when fertilizing plants.

• Fixed fertilizer first-person effect placement.

• Fixed a bug that allowed the lift to be placed on dynamic creations.

• Fixed a bug that could cause KO-bag icons to get stuck.

• Fixed a bug that could cause the character to go into T-pose when holding an edible item.

• Fixed a bug that caused the light to not be updated when the intensity was changed or when painted.

• Fixed a bug in challenge builder that could cause an extra builder bot to get stuck.

• Fixed a crash that could happen if a corrupt game file was selected in the menu.

• Fixed a bug that could cause shapes to levitate after removing the shape it was resting on.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the sensor setting to be incorrectly updated when edited.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the timer setting to be incorrectly updated when edited.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the totebot head setting to be incorrectly updated when edited.

• Fixed a bug that caused the builder bot hands to be shown in first person when testing a challenge.

• Fixed an animation issue on the big red farmbot when ragdolled while aiming.

• Fixed a sync issue with the electric engine when connected to a button or switch.

Keep in mind that worlds used on the test branch will not open in the main branch until this update is officially out.

Here is how you jump on the test branch to check out the new stuff.

More fixes and improvements coming soon!

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Hi Mechanics!

We are back with a new update! Thanks for helping us test it out! This time we’ve been focusing on making sure the languages are fixed and updated. They unfortunately didn’t make it on time for the survival release, but they are back in Scrap Mechanic now!

Here are the languages that have been updated:

• Russian

• Chinese

• Japanese

• Korean

• Polish

• German

• Italian

• French

• Spanish

• Brazilian Portuguese

We also did a few fixes:

• Fertilized plants can not be fertilized again while the fertilizer is still active

• Fixed a bug that causes the mechanic to get stuck crouching in soil and some other objects

• Fixed issues causing the piston to sometimes get the wrong settings

• Fixed an issue that caused explosions to not apply impulses

• Scrap engine and seats do not incorrectly show an upgrade key hint

• Fixed an issue that causes the level 5 driver seats to apply the steering speed incorrectly if reversed

• Chopped down trees no longer make a fall sound fix when collided with

• Craftbots will now be standing up when put on the lift after being crafted or dropped while carried

• The sledgehammer does no longer swing after placing down a glow-worm with the sledgehammer equipped

• Glowsticks now glow for a limited time

• The bucket shows a force build hint

• Added swimming sounds

• Added an effect when picking up water

• New epic loot particle effect

Also! a quick update on development in general. We have some really exciting new content cooking for Scrap Mechanic. Up next is a new chapter for survival mode. We can’t wait to start sharing work in progress this week on our twitter! Make sure you follow us there!

More fixes and improvements coming soon!

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Hi Mechanics!

We are back with a new update! This time we’ve been focusing on making sure the languages are fixed and updated. They unfortunately didn’t make it on time for the survival release, but they are back in Scrap Mechanic now!

Here are the languages that have been updated:

• Russian

• Chinese

• Japanese

• Korean

• Polish

• German

• Italian

• French

• Spanish

• Brazilian Portuguese

We also did a few fixes:

• Fertilized plants can not be fertilized again while the fertilizer is still active

• Fixed a bug that causes the mechanic to get stuck crouching in soil and some other objects

• Fixed issues causing the piston to sometimes get the wrong settings

• Fixed an issue that caused explosions to not apply impulses

• Scrap engine and seats do not incorrectly show an upgrade key hint

• Fixed an issue that causes the level 5 driver seats to apply the steering speed incorrectly if reversed

• Chopped down trees no longer make a fall sound fix when collided with

• Craftbots will now be standing up when put on the lift after being crafted or dropped while carried

• The sledgehammer does no longer swing after placing down a glow-worm with the sledgehammer equipped

• Glowsticks now glow for a limited time

• The bucket shows a force build hint

• Added swimming sounds

• Added an effect when picking up water

• New epic loot particle effect

Also! a quick update on development in general. We have some really exciting new content cooking for Scrap Mechanic. Up next is a new chapter for survival mode. We can’t wait to start sharing work in progress!

More fixes and improvements coming soon!

Here is how you access the test:

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Hi Mechanics!

It’s time to move all the things we tested into the game! Thanks for all the amazing feedback! Here are some of the new things in this update. Cotton plants can now be planted on your farm. You can trade for Cotton seeds at the Farmer hideout. We decided to add these seeds since some players had a hard time finding cotton in their generated world. We will do the same with pigment flowers in the future. We’ve also added the Chemical container to the Craftbot. It’s not very useful at the moment, but we have things in the works where it will have an important function. Lastly, we also did a lot of balancing tweaks based on the community feedback!

Updated July 1 Hotfix 1 We added a small hotfix that fixes a crash introduced in the patch

• Fixed a crash that could occur when holding and dragging a part on a creation that is destroyed

Here is the update list:

• Networking improvements with better object prioritization

• Fixed an issue that could cause networking events to lag behind on clients

• Optimized some interactive parts to use less network bandwidth

• A new interactive part, chemical container is available in the craftbot

• Cotton can be grown in soil

• Cotton seeds can now be bought at the hideout trader

• Battery can be crafted in the craftbot

• The button and switch costs the same to craft in the mobile craftbot as in the simple stationary one

• Slightly reduced the price of the drill and saw blade at the hideout trader

• Reduced fuel/battery cost for very heavy loads

• Tools can be thrown on the ground

• Glowsticks now emit a small amount of light when held in the hand

• It does no longer cost paint to erase paint with the paint tool

• Explosives destroy up to durability level 7

• More crude oil from oil geysers

• More glue clams when breaking clams

• Cardboard is cheaper to craft

• Wood block 1 requires less scrap wood to craft

• Concrete requires less stone, but more water and chemicals to craft

• Fertilizer can be crafted from seeds

• Paint costs fewer flowers to craft

• The scrap metal from haybots will not fly away from where the haybot was destroyed as often

• The big red farmbots now run away before despawning when daylight comes after a raid

• Tapebots sometimes shoot random parts when raiding

• Increased the time before wocs and glow worms despawn if not fed

• The smaller stone chunks are easier to destroy with the drill

• Reduced the weight of the water cannon

• Added lights to ruins

• The range of the packing station automatic fruit/vegetable selection is much more forgiving

• Reduced the speed of projectiles fired from the Vacuum Pump

• Added new sound effects when the mechanic is hungry or thirsty

• Added new sound effect when almost out of breath while diving

• Spudling gun windup sound effect added

• Mod parts now show up in all creative inventory tabs and are searchable

• Fixed a crash that occurred on shutdown when playing the game in full screen with steam overlay turned off

• Fixed a crash that occurred when switching resolution with mods loaded

• Fixed an issue where failed blueprint exports would cause an error message to show at game startup

• Fixed an issue that could cause the leaves of trees to not get their correct color in multiplayer

• Fixed an issue causing parts to be attached to suspensions and pistons even though another part already was attached

• Fixed a bug that caused the gas engine to not get the efficiency upgrade applied until game reload

• Fixed a bug that caused parked vehicles to spend fuel or batteries

• Fixed an issue that caused the vacuum pump to not be able to place blocks on the same creation

• The button and switch collision is a little bit bigger so they do not as easily get stuck in walls

• Fixed skinning issues on some mechanic character faces

• Fixed some rotation steps on warehouse parts when building

• Mechanic station collision fixes

• Fixed an autumn forest ruin to have the correct ground material

• Adjusted the stone positions of a lot of cliffs where the player could get stuck

• Adjusted spawn position of embers when destroying burnt trees

• Fixed a bug that caused loot crates to respawn in the starting area

• Minor inventory GUI bug fixes

• Added 2 bearings to Challenge 7

Time for us to get back to work on more improvements as well as the next chapter for survival mode! We can’t wait to share more info on that soon! It’s going to be amazing!

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Updated June 23 Hi Mechanics!

We updated the test again with some changes to the network code.

• Fixed an issue that could cause network lag for clients

Updated June 19 Hi Mechanics!

We have updated the test with some more stuff! In the updated version we made a lot of small changes that should make the overall experience of the game smoother. For example, since cotton can be scarce in some worlds, you can now buy cotton seeds at the hideout trader and plant them yourself. In addition to that, we also made further networking improvements with better bandwidth adjustment and object prioritization. This will make the game work much better when playing multiplayer over slower connections.

• Further networking improvements with better bandwidth adjustment and object prioritization

• Cotton seeds can now be bought at the hideout trader

• Cotton can be grown in soil

• Slightly reduced the price of the drill and saw blade at the hideout trader

• Battery is now crafted from less scrap metal but also requires glow poop

• Fixed an issue that could make the leaves of trees to not get their correct color in multiplayer

• Fixed an issue where failed blueprint exports would cause an error message to show at game startup

• The button and switch collision is a little bit bigger so they do not as easily get stuck in walls

• The button and switch costs the same to craft in the mobile craftbot as in the simple stationary one

• Reduced the weight of the water cannon

• Fixed some face skinning issues

• Fixed some rotation steps of warehouse parts when building

• Added lights to ruins

• Fixed a autumn forest ruin to have the correct ground material

• Mechanic station collision fixes

• Adjusted the stone positions of a lot of cliffs where the player could get stuck

• Adjusted spawn position of embers when destroying burnt trees

• The scrap metal from haybots will not fly away from where the haybot was destroyed as often

• The smaller stone chunks are easier to destroy with the drill

• Fixed a bug that caused the gas engine to not get the efficiency upgrade applied until game reload

• Reduced gas fuel cost for very heavy loads

• The range of the packing station automatic fruit/vegetable selection is much more forgiving

• Reduced the speed of projectiles fired from the Vacuum Pump

• Fixed a bug that caused loot crates to respawn in the starting area

• Added 2 bearings to Challenge 7

June 12 Hi Mechanics!

We have a new update on the way! But you can already test it out. It’s a mix of balancing changes and fixes. The main fix is further multiplayer improvements that we think a lot of you mechanics will appreciate!

Here is the update list:

• A new interactive part, chemical container is available in the craftbot

• Fixed an issue that could cause networking events to lag behind on clients

• Optimized some interactive parts to use less network bandwidth

• Fixed an issue causing parts to be attached to suspensions and pistons even though another part already was attached

• Mod parts now show up in all creative inventory tabs and are searchable

• Fixed a crash that occurred when switching resolution with mods loaded

• Fixed a crash that occurred on shutdown when playing the game in full screen with steam overlay turned off

• Minor inventory gui bug fixes

• Tools can be thrown on the ground

• Glowsticks now emit a small amount of light when held in the hand

• It does no longer cost paint to erase paint

• Explosives destroy up to durability level 7

• More crude oil from oil geysers

• More glue clams when breaking clams

• Wood block 1 requires less scrap wood to craft

• Concrete requires less stone, but more water and chemicals to craft

• Battery can be crafted from scrap metal and chemicals

• Fertilizer can be crafted from seeds

• Paint costs less flowers to craft

• The big farmbots now run away before despawning when daylight comes after a raid

• Tapebots sometimes shoot random parts when raiding

• Added new sound effects when the mechanic is hungry or thirsty

• Added new sound effect when almost out of breath while diving

• Spudling gun windup sound effect added

Since this update is a bit more complex, we’ve decided to make a test first to see if it runs smoothly for everyone!

Here is how you access the test!

We will be back soon!

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Hi Mechanics!

Good news! Challenge Mode is finally back! For all new Mechanics - Challenge mode puts your creativity to the test in the Master Mechanic Trials, a fun set of challenges all mechanics must take before they’re officially dispatched to the farming planet to perform maintenance on those pesky Farmbots. Challenge mode is also a great way to learn the basics of building in Scrap Mechanic!

Here's the Challange Mode trailer:

But that’s not all! We have more fixes as well

Patch Notes 0.4.5:

• Challenge mode is back in the game!

• Challenge builder is back in the game!

• Tree parts can be welded again

• The controller now respects the piston length

• Fixed T-pose when other players equip food

• Reverted some part weights so they are as they were in creative mode

• Connect tool now show numbers again for buttons connected to seats

• Fixed friendly fire for spud shotgun and spudling gun

• Fixed tape bot arms so they do damage to players

• Fixed an issue with the sledgehammer that caused it to sometimes not push loose objects

• Fixed an issue when going with the warehouse elevator while knocked out

• Connect tool visualization getting stuck fix

• Gui scaling fixes for non 16:9 resolutions

• Sensor gui fix for creative mode

• Controller gui fix for 4k and 720

• New loading bar on the loading screen

• Items can now be dropped on the ground in challenge mode for the backpack

• Fixed chest and lost items icons

• Keybindings saved when resetting to default

• Fix for FOV value not getting saved if changed in-game

• Added missing item names

Next week we will aim to do some balancing fixes. Any resources that you would like us to balance more. Let us know in the comments below.

More news coming soon!

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Hi Mechanics!

We are back with a bunch more important improvements. This time we have made a lot more fixing in the raid department. We have found ways to optimize them more so they don’t trigger lag when a lot of bots come at once. This fix should make raids way more enjoyable.

Here are the latest fixes!

Hotfix:

• Fixed an issue that could cause creations attached to the ground to become loose

Patch notes 0.4.4:

• Performance fix for raids

• Fixed an issue where exiting the game in a warehouse caused the elevator to the roof to get stuck

• Fixed a case where building on springs or piston could spend the part but the part not to be built

• Removing bearings, springs and pistons with a full inventory is now correctly denied

• Fixed a crash that could occur when riding warehouse elevators

• Fixed a crash that could occur when using a level 5 steering bearing gui on 720 resolution

• Other crash fixes

• Water-, gas-, battery- and ammo containers are carried if not empty (like the chests)

• Farmers can no longer be picked up after being respawned

• Fixed issue with piston speed when adjusting length

• Fixed an issue what allows invalid building on the vacuum pump

• Fixed a bug causing the saw blade to not deal damage to green totebots

• The saw blade deals more damage to haybots

• When removing a respawn point bed the new respawn point is the last unremovable bed

• Can no longer respawn in a bed brought into the warehouse

• Red tapebot arm part shoots a few explosive tape when destroyed

• Fixed an issue with the tapebots causing them to often stare into walls in warehouses

• Tapebots will be more active in raids when they come (Keep your head low)

• Tapebot projectiles deal damage to crops

• Ai fixes

• Fix for mods using obj_interactive_controller.mesh

To finish off! Some updates. We are still ironing out bugs! But work on new content is already in development. Challenge mode should be back in Scrap Mechanic later this week!

More news coming soon!

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Hi Mechanics!

We are back with more improvements! This time we went after fixes that were reported to us the most over the weekend. Next up we will look into how to get multiplayer to run even better as well as making raids run smoother.

Here are the latest fixes!

**Patch notes 0.4.3: **

• Fixed a crash that could occur on startup and randomly while playing

• Fixed a bug that could cause the hideout and other points of interests to not be set up correctly

• Broken hideouts and packing stations are repaired

• Can't sleep in warehouses

• Removing the bed removes the respawn point

• Other bed respawn fixes

• Stones can be broken down with explosives

• Mounted spud gun now deals damage to farmbots

• Carrying stuff uses stamina

• Lifting stuff with the lift uses stamina (only new games are affected)

• Fixed a crash what could occur when loading a creative world where the mods were updated

For everyone who is excited about new future content. The team is already hard at work on new stuff!

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Hi Mechanics!

It’s time for more fixes. As some of you know we are prioritizing bugs and issues that some players are experiencing. Today we have a few more!

Patch notes:

• Fixed an issue that could cause vacuum pumps to cause network lag for clients.

• Fixed a bug that could duplicate chests and lead to crashes when carrying chests with tools in them.

• Fixed a bug when carrying a chest with chests inside

• Missing water should be fixed.

• Fixed crashes related to animations.

More fixes coming soon!

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Hi Mechanics!

First, thanks so much for the overwhelming support! It’s amazing to see so many of you playing Scrap Mechanic and having a great time!

However, there are some mechanics that have been experiencing some bugs and issues. Thanks to everyone for reporting them to us! So we are going full force on getting as many bugs out of the game as quickly as possible. Today we have fixed some of the most commonly reported issues!

Patch notes:

• Underwater noise fix

• Escape key Fix

• Fix for Wocs (and other not player characters) not saving their position

• Fix for player name tags not showing up

• Fixed level 5 driver seat and saddle bearing GUI showing up after window resize

• Driver saddle connection count and upgrade cost fix

• Spud guns can not be equipped while swimming

• Fixed a bug that could cause the refinery bot to be stuck when leaving the game while refining

• Removed food and water spend when picking up items

• No extra food cost for 50%+ bonus health regeneration

• Carried items do not teleport to mysterious places when picked up while swimming

• Broccoli plants grow broccoli instead of tomatoes

As you might have noticed, we also did some hotfixes in 0.4.0.

Hotfixes:

• Fixed a save file issue that could corrupt save files

• Fixed an issue that could cause the game start to fail while showing a black screen

• Restored physics tweak values for creative mode

• Fix for loading mods with a large number of blocks and parts

• Fix for creative mode when having thousands of mod parts installed

• Trying to refine with a full inventory shows inventory full warning

• Pipe system fix

More fixes coming soon!

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Calling all Mechanics!

After a long time in development, Survival mode is finally here! At long last, it’s time for us to deliver all the new content that we’ve been working on, in our biggest update ever! It’s so big, it feels like we just released an entire survival game, but this is just the beginning: we will be adding a whole lot more content to this mode in the future, so stay tuned!

What’s in Survival Mode? Survival mode introduces a whole new mode to Scrap Mechanic! Here’s the deal: you’re a robot maintenance mechanic on a mission to a fully-automated farm planet. By sheer luck, you survive your spaceship crashing just before touchdown, but things are about to get worse! The Farmbots, originally programmed to harvest the land and send the produce to nearby planets, have gone haywire and are out to stomp you flat! Stranded on a planet full of rampaging robots, you and your friends have to use your wits, your imagination and wily knack of turning your surroundings to your advantage to stay alive!

New to Scrap Mechanic and eager to know more about Survival Mode? Check out our latest trailer!

The changes and additions in this update are too many to simply list in one place. Here are a few of the highlights of what’s new in Scrap Mechanic’s Survival mode.

Update list:

• Added survival mode!

• Made a huge update to the graphics with new shaders and a new rendering engine

• Added our new random generated terrain system to Survival

• Added character customization

• Added AI system to survival

• Added Health bar, hunger bar and thirst bar.

• Added food to eat and to revive players

• Added Green Totebot enemy

• Added Haybot Enemy

• Added Tapebot Enemy

• Added Farmbot Enemy

• Added log refinery system to Survival

• Added two animals to survival. The Woc and the Glowb!

• Added water with buoyancy

• Added warehouse dungeons and other points of interests

• Added new building parts. It’s now over 400 in the game!

• Added stats to all parts

• Added upgrade system to interactive parts.

• Added refinery tool

• Added destructible trees and rocks

• Added the Drill to mine rocks

• Added the Saw to cut trees

• Added Vacuum Pump with pipes for automation. A new interactive part.

• Added Water Cannon. A new interactive part.

• Added a Respawn Bed. A new interactive part.

• Added new turn settings to Driver’s Seat level 5

• Added Craftbot with a new crafting system

• Added Refinerybot with a new refinery system to turn logs in to blocks

• Added Resource Collector

• Added Cookbot

• Added Dressbot

• Added fire (Not flammable at the moment)

• Added Spud Shotgun

• Added Spud Gattler

.........and more!

Keep an eye out for more exciting developments in Survival Mode! We’ll be keeping Scrap mechanic in Early Access for a while longer, as we add newer, better content to Survival mode. Scrap mechanic is still a work in progress: there are a ton of things we want to fix, tweak and add, before the game is in perfect condition for a final release.

Here are the things that we will be focusing on for this month:

1. Fixing bugs! This is our first and foremost priority.
2. Applying a little bit of tweak and polish to Challenge mode. We’ll be re-enabling the mode very soon.
3. Optimizing the existing UI, to help our players make the most out of their Scrap Mechanic experience.
4. Update some languages that are missing some translation.
5. Adding content to Survival mode, applying fixes and expanding the content on the rest of the game.

It’s been a long wait and we owe this project’s successful completion and release to each and every one of you. Your support and patience have helped us get through this monumental development effort.

From all of us at Axolot, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts Now let’s play some Survival!

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Hi Mechanics!

It's been a real joy for us to hear about your experiences with the new Challange Mode. We had no idea there was such an impressive amount of skilled mechanics out there that just burned through all 40 challenges in no time!

Thankfully, those 40 were just the beginning. We've only scratched the surface of what we can do with Challange Mode and next up is the Challenge Builder that makes it easy for you and your friends to build and share your own Challange packs on the workshop.

Keep in mind that you have to beat your own challenges to get them approved for sharing on the workshop. This is so we can make sure that all challenges that get uploaded can be completed.

There are already a bunch awesome challenges on the workshop that you can download and play HERE!

While we are at it, work on Survival mode is going great. We are right now doing work on less interesting things in the background of the game that knits the Survival mode together. But we should be back soon with a new devblog with a lot of new things.

We will be back soon with more Scrap Mechanic new!

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Hi Mechanics!

We have a nice improvement update today with some needed fixes. For example. The creation that you finish the challenges with will now be saved if you replay that challenge. But there is more! Here is the full list of all the fixes we’ve done!

Update List:

• Creations that beat a challenge will now be saved in the start zone next time the player replays the challenge.

• Added more building parts in some challenges to give players more building options.

• Music from Creative mode is no longer playing in Challenge mode.

• The Challenge mode ball now has an animated glow effect.

• F1, F2, F3 now changes hotbar row selection. It can still be changed with Alt+1, Alt+2 and Alt+3.

• Popup menus can now be closed with the escape key.

• Fixed an issue with the sensor noticeable at high velocity.

• The game no longer shows a gray screen when loading up a challenge for the first time.

• Fixed some minor issues with the lift and the weld tool.

• Fixed a crash that could happen when someone was joining the game while creations were being modified.

• Fixed a crash that could happen when joining a game while creations were being modified.

• Fixed a crash that could randomly occur for clients.

• Made some memory allocation fixes.

• Fixed an issue with some DLL files.

• Better error checking for mods in the mod tool.

• Some new scripting features.

• Fixed some texture cache issues for mods that should result in faster load times.

• Fixed a crash that happened after the game failed to start because of missing graphics drivers and other graphics related issues.

• Fix for shader loading when running the game on Linux using Wine.

We will be back soon. Next up! the Challenge builder!

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Hi Mechanics!

We’ve got an early Christmas present for you today: Challenge Mode has finally arrived! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGMGSkqjSqQ

It’s time to put your creativity to the test in the Master Mechanic Trials, a fun set of challenges all mechanics must take before they’re officially dispatched to the farming planet to perform maintenance on those pesky Farmbots.

The Master Mechanic Trials contain 40 challenges to overcome - and only the truly brilliant mechanical mind will pass them all!

The Challenge mode introduces a whole new mode to Scrap Mechanic where for the first time you’ll need to build things to reach a goal. This is our biggest update by far since initial release and we are super excited to add it to the game. We hope you will have as much fun playing it as we had making it!

With that said, we will keep adding and improving the challenge mode as we move forward in 2019. More challenges will be added. An easy-to-use challenge builder will be added together with general polishing here and there. So please look forward to that as well.

Don’t forget to let us know what more you would like to see in the Challenge Mode.

Check out the update list:

• Added challenge mode.

• Added a lot of scripting features that are now available for modders. Check out the Lua Script API for more info.

• Added a sphere shape type.

• Fixed a network synchronization issue causing crashes for clients.

We would like to also take this opportunity to thank all of you for sticking with us and being so patient about survival mode since release. 2019 will be an amazing year for all you Scrap Mechanics! We hope you have an amazing festive break!

We hope you will have a great time playing the new Challenge Mode!

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Hi Mechanics!

Time for a little improvement update! Thanks to all mechanics for the help testing it out during the test! We got some great feedback as always. We’ve been looking at all the creative ways you use the new explosives and decided to do some further improvements. For example, blowing up larger creations with a lot of explosives should now run a bit smoother. We also did some other fixes!

Check out the update list:

• Parts that are split of from creations inherit the velocities of the creation.

• Optimized explosions.

• The range that explosions remove metal has been reduced.

• Changed the particle effect that appears on the point where potatoes hit the gas canister.

• Tweaked the explosion impulse on players.

• Fixed connect tool attaching to invisible gas canister connection points.

• Fixed a networking issue that caused crashes when playing as a client.

• Fixed a rendering issue that could cause a crash when some parts were destroyed by an explosion.

• Fixed an issue where the impulses (from thruster and modded parts) were applied with half strength if the game was running on low fps.

• Multiple explosion impulses on the character have less effect.

• More explosion debris particles should now be visible.

• Mods with no translation for the selected language will now default to English.

• Added more helpful error messages.

• Fix for lowest playable resolution (1024x768) defaulting to 1280x720.

• Lua API updates (no breaking changes).

• Scripted interactive parts no longer incorrectly show up as buttons when connected to a seat.

• Character impulses are applied per tick instead of every frame.

• Fixed "Server started with mismatching developer mode flags" issue when loading games.

• Fixed a networking related crash.

• Fixed a crash that was caused by an invalid terrain generation script or an invalid world builder terrain.

Time for us to go back working on Survival mode and Challange mode. Both are coming along nicely! Stay tuned for more Scrap Mechanic news soon!

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Hi Mechanics!

We have a really fun update for you today! We’ve added a large and small explosive canister to the game. They are highly explosive so please save your creations before playing with them. They do a LOT of damage! There are several ways of making them blow up. One is by shooting them with a Spud Gun. Another way is by making them collide with a strong enough force. Together with the canister, we’ve also added material damage to the game where for example metal blocks take less damage than wood blocks.

We have balanced the canisters collision sensitivity a lot and we think it’s better now. However, we might tweak them more over time.

We have also added smoother movement to the tools and the spud gun in first-person when landing from a jump or looking around. It feels much nicer now.

If you are a modder you will also love the things that we’ve added! Check out our Lua Script API to see what’s new! Lua Script API

Check out the update list:

• Added big and small explosive canister.

• Added smoother first-person movement for Tools and Spud Gun.

• Added material damage levels.

• Potatoes have a knockback to players.

• Colored particles when destroying colored blocks.

• Fixed a potato velocity calculation issue.

• Fixed choppy seated character ragdoll.

• Ground effects based on the material.

• Interactable parts now save their data when exported to a blueprint by a client.

• Fix an issue where connection points would show up in the world when placing imported blueprints.

• More detailed errors when blueprint import fails.

• Fixed a bug that sometimes messed up created terrains.

• Fixed a bug that made pistons and springs lose their "interactable" when importing a blueprint without changing any values and then exiting the game.

• Camera shake on/off setting.

• The game remembers if you have the /console enabled.

• Bearings and pistons are now controllable by scripts.

• Many more scripting features in the Lua Script API.

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