# Scrap Mechanic Scrap Mechanic: Drilling Thunder - OUT NOW! - Product: Scrap Mechanic (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/scrap-mechanic) - Vendor: Axolot Games - Date: 2026-07-24 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/387990/view/670623586021540617 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/scrap-mechanic/releases/2026-07-24-scrap-mechanic-drilling-thunder-out-now What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Full story campaign in Survival mode with fully voice-acted NPCs - **added** — Excavation Island, a new area with caves, mines, and hidden treasures - **added** — Multiple new enemy bot types, doubling the previous bot count - **added** — Claygun tool that allows shaping and modifying terrain in Creative and Survival modes - **added** — New building parts including blocks and interactive elements for construction - **added** — New garments and outfits for character customization - **added** — Schematicbot to unlock new parts in the Craftbot - **added** — Garage in Scrap City to build creations from both Survival and Creative modes - **added** — Steam Achievements - **added** — Dynamic lighting system supporting up to 512 light sources with volumetric effects - **added** — Fully volumetric clouds and responsive weather system - **changed** — World expanded with new locations, growlabs, and terrain generation - **changed** — Terrain features new forest roads and desert biome with tornadoes - **changed** — Improved network responsiveness for multiplayer experience - **changed** — Recipes and resource collection rebalanced to reduce grind - **changed** — New HP system with perks from Cookbot food - **changed** — Added onboarding guidelines for new players and builder quests - **changed** — Quality of life improvements including large chests picking up loot, force placing blocks, shift to increase engine speed while driving, and water buckets picking water from containers - **changed** — Water rendering and grass physics made more realistic and responsive ##### 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. _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/387990/view/670623586021540617]_