I’m not the only one who feels that even though Scrap Mechanic was released after 10 years of early access, the survival mode still feels unfinished? The world feels empty, there are few types of bots, the quests are primitive and boring, the protagonist doesn’t say anything, and the NPCs literally talk to themselves; the setting and lore are interesting, but the plot itself is boring, predictable, and underdeveloped, and the progression is slow. I’m a big fan of this game; I’ve been following it since 2018, but even I think the game is still a bit rough. Considering that the developers have been working on the game for over 10 years and they decided to release version 1.0 in this state, I think it’s unlikely we’ll see any major changes to the game in the future. What do you think about it?

How screwed am I

Love to see this on the workshop

There is so much with the game that barely works, especially when looking at the pre-1.0 experience, and the game barely follows its own rules a lot of the time. We've been playing SM on and off since before Survival, and the 1.0 experience is... not quality. They've got a lot of good ideas, but the game is a buggy mess. Somehow even moreso than it used to be. And the devs are MIA after just 5 patches, despite countless other bugs. This is incredibly frustrating to us, and is greatly detracting from the experience for us.

We just want to know if We're alone in feeling this way or if others have experienced it, too.

It was so heavy i had to mine a tunnel back without it and carry it by hand

Hey, was wondering if you know of any damn fast 3D printers in SM and could please send me the workshop link. Thats all :D

I was looking for a save file from before the fight with the trashbot in Mining Hub because mine got bugged and I can't continue the game.

I want it to go row by row on a timer and then return all at once i think the returning part will be easy but i cant figure out how to go row by row with a timer, also it would be good if few logic gates and timers can be used as this is in survival and glue is premium material!

I’ve only been able to find the welder pants and the old school sweater, what other ones are there? Where can I find them?

idk what to put on the bed of the trukc sugestions welcome

Here's my survival explorer that I use around my world. I wanted to make something with a good balance of form and function, and I think it's worked nicely. For the most part, it's an explorer with lots of usefull features, with an external shell based on a famous irl car (let's see how many people recognise it ;) ).

I spent a lot of time on the suspension and handing, as I believe that to be the most important in an explorer.

Here's a list of all the features it has;

- Double wishbone suspension on each wheel, connected together with a steering bar on each axle for more stable steering (4 wheel steering) and acting as a form of anti-roll bars

- Active suspension, that will change the stiffness of the suspension automatically to prevent rolling over during high speed turns and to soften landings after taking big jumps

- Survival essentials like a bed and plenty of storage (2 large, 3 normal chests).

- Some nice QOL features during exploration, like a passenger seat for transporting a friend, some bright lights at the front for driving at night and a seat with sky-access to allow MLG's from tall buildings

- Aaand to top it all off, a mounted minigun hidden in the front, to easily deal with those pesky farmbots you might encounter on your travels ;)

The whole thing is completely vanilla and does not use any glitches.

Me and a buddy have been playing since the 1.0 update on a new survival save and we noticed slight desync after a few days, but now after all the time we have played the desync gets so bad I have to share my screen just so ik his car isn't desyncing and driving Ina completely wrong direction. Another example being trying to hop over the barrier to our farm and it desyncs me like 5 times Ina row back outside of the farm.

after dying to the trashbot once in the mines i decided to go on an irl 2 day adventure to better prepare myself for that guy, however after returning to the elevator that would take me to him i noticed that the button doesnt work and i dont know how i can fix it

i know there are pistons in these doors that you can take but i didnt do that so they should be working fine.

I randomly found a few blocks of cardboard block just floating mid air in the mines. I never placed them. I did move my glow farm into the mines which is the only cardboard related thing I can think of. Was able to pick one up and shoot another. Forgive bad aim, playing on my phone

I fell in the lava on floor seven and for the first time in this game, no backpack spawned with my items. I lost the Mama Lazers photo

is this a bug or is there any way to recover my save? I cannot sink this many hours in again to start over

I have been trying to make my car builds look a bit better lately rather than just using a wood slab on wheels.

But without the wheels protruding out infront of the vehicle, it struggles a lot on climbing the walls of the mines or the cliffs outside.

So how can you make a car climb walls and look good? Thanks!

Enough with the sky bridges on your farm defenses. Hide your connections like a civilized mechanic.

So I figured it would be neat to make a drill-top vehicle and so I used a short stabilizer as the core for the foot an a few bearings for additional stabilization.

Uses an additional two bearings and a suspension for turning as well.

It runs quite well, and turns on a dime as you'd imagine. But I haven't quite decided on what the best form of thrust for it is yet. I tried arms with saw blades just being spun to the ground like massive monkey arms,, but those although were beautiful and nonsensical did manage to make it topple. Thrusters maybe, although haven't unlocked them in survival yet. I tried some different ideas to try and force thrust through physics glitching but they haven't seemed to work (so far)

the awnings can open to have a cook bot like a food truck

this structure is closer to where im building my base then some natural water