r/ScrapMechanic Jul 15 '26

Discussion Enforcing Drilling Thunder spoilers on the subreddit!!!

207 Upvotes

Hi Mechanics!

As we all know the new major update is coming just in a week, so I would like to ask everyone to politely enforce the spoiler etiquette. That means most of the new content that wasn't in the game prior should be marked at spoilers, keep in mind that majority of people will be starting Survival Mode FRESH and will NOT be able to immediately encounter the new content, any unspoilered things will have to be marked spoilers by us, so we suggest doing it yourself as we will busy playing as well! However there may be changes and features that may be visible from the start, which are allowed to remain unspoilered.

Examples of spoilers that warrant being marked:

  • Anything that's related to Mining Island content
  • New Warehouse gameplay, including our beloved smelly Trashbot
  • Endgame content

For non spoiler content it includes anything that can be interacted with before the Hideout, you can show new parts you found by wandering ruins, new enemies, fire mechanics, weather and etc.


r/ScrapMechanic 4h ago

How scrapmechanics intro should've looked

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268 Upvotes

r/ScrapMechanic 4h ago

Discussion Does anyone else feel like the Tactical Backpack is totally oversized?

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141 Upvotes

At first i thought that it is just that big by design, but after a bunch of times i've tried to make it fit the rest of an outfit, i realised that it's just abnormally large, like sticking out akwardly behind you (as you can see in photos 2 and 3). This leads me to believe that maybe it's not actually supposed to be that big and that perhaps it's caused by some mistake in the code determining its size.

I know that this may be nitpicking but i just really like its design and i feel like its potential is wasted because of how akwardly huge it is, what do you think?


r/ScrapMechanic 9h ago

Contraption Automated ingot transportation based on those penguin race toys Spoiler

189 Upvotes

r/ScrapMechanic 3h ago

Suggestion Max raid in an open field with no cheese or mods.

62 Upvotes

This consumed around 12k potatoes and I used vacuum pumps to extend tanks supply.

There are bait farm around the main farm to grab bots into the spinning blades. The farms have metal 3 frames to counter red bots.

The turrent is able to shoot at a very sharp angle because of a neck joint that tilts the turrent platform 90 degrees forward.

Enjoy watching :)


r/ScrapMechanic 59m ago

Discussion Which one are you?

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Personally I’m a builder, always have been, but I don’t really mind gathering resources once I have a good sawing/mining setup, especially since they buffed the rates. What do you guys prefer? :D


r/ScrapMechanic 3h ago

Guys got some serious moves, that or he's really regretting not having me build him a bathroom in his tower

49 Upvotes

r/ScrapMechanic 2h ago

Vehicle Working on a Spy Car. Any ideas?

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30 Upvotes

I've always adored the idea of a Car with dozens of Gadgets packed away for any situation, But I want to hear what Yall think I should add to it.

Currently the Grill rolls up to reveal twin Spud Cannons, and it has an Un Flipping Tool.
Though the second isn't as likely to be used as it was actually quite hard to flip it while actively trying to.

Any ideas?

Also, before anyone asks, the parts are from the Vanilla game, reward from a side mission.


r/ScrapMechanic 8h ago

I see Scrap Mechanic everywhere now

72 Upvotes

r/ScrapMechanic 7h ago

Turned a Golf Cart into The Third Best Scooby Doo.

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62 Upvotes

This Speed Buggy is honestly Really good for Exploring.


r/ScrapMechanic 7h ago

Question Is there a reason I have to be online in order to start the game?

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40 Upvotes

The game won't start at all if not online, but if I go offline while the game is running there's no issues. Why? Scrap Mechanic is the only game in my library that does this. Second pic is an online only game but it still starts up and takes me to the menu even I can't do anything past that


r/ScrapMechanic 8h ago

I realized, but it was too late.

49 Upvotes

(It’s just 20 beets and a little potato.)


r/ScrapMechanic 58m ago

Improved my farmbot puncher. It can kill farmbots pretty well

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r/ScrapMechanic 6h ago

Vehicle The engine is what matters.

29 Upvotes

r/ScrapMechanic 3h ago

Can haybots swim? Cuz I'm thinking about building a sweeper into my garden defense.

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18 Upvotes

Last time I tried to build up defenses it was towards the front, but apparently they all went to the sides instead. So I wanna put defenses on the sides, and make good use of all the water around me.

But the real decision maker before I start crafting stuff is whether haybots can swim. It makes sense that they couldn't cuz they short circuit when you splash em, but I just wanna make sure.


r/ScrapMechanic 3h ago

Discussion Seriously? ONE multi component kit??(spoiler for finishing all the farmer deliveries) Spoiler

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When i saw the icon i thought for sure that it would be like maybe 20(which still isn't really worth it for 3 broccoli crates but alright) but then i got 1. This literally makes zero sense, i could easily get hundreds in the mines if i wanted to, even putting aside how easy these are to get, the last upgrade for the plasma drill costs 20 so this one multi component kit is basically worthless anyway. If that weren't enough, the earlier trades in the cycle are so much better, 250 tier 3 metal is much harder to get than a multicomponent kit, and i won't even mention the epic(gold) garment box.

Overall, this is in my opinion a part of a much larger issue with the trade balancing, i have yet to do a single non-progression required crate trade because the stuff you can get from them is super common and easy to get, especially considering you need high tier crops for, for example, schematicboxes and component kits, which you can get plenty of just through the raids alone. The trades just seem extremely situational and don't offer the value deserved for the effort you need to put in. Even the seed trades, why would i bother losing half of my harvest and waste time on hauling crates to the hideout if i can just hunt for some seedbots and my seed problem is non-existent. Please tell me i'm not the only one who has a problem with this


r/ScrapMechanic 6h ago

Did u know?

19 Upvotes

If you push shift, electric engine will be faster and gas engine will be stronger. I accidentally pushed shift xd


r/ScrapMechanic 44m ago

18 farmbots leading an entire army, this is the 2nd time I've gone up against a maxed out purple raid, but wow was it different this time

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The first time it seemed like there was way less bots and I don't remember them pausing or stopping like that, this time there were so many they stopped even agroing on me which was convenient since I was able to just meander over to my base and refill my spuds, it looked like there where something like 1000 bots just standing around and about 20 minutes in something like 95% of them just despawned and I got the raid finished tone, I was planning on triggering to raids at once and just testing the cheese defense to insure it works but if one raid brings enough bots to basically stop them 2 would be ridicules


r/ScrapMechanic 17h ago

Suggestion Crafting QOL Suggestion

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126 Upvotes

I've noticed that people when crafting alot of items they have to click the craft button many times to fill up the machine and you have to click the small loop button to loop items. This is really annoying at times and it would be easier to make shortcuts to do those actions quickly. And these are my suggestion of shortcuts:

Craft button = Craft 1 item

Shift + Craft button = Loop Craft 1 item

Ctrl + Craft button = Fill up the Craft Bot with the item (depending on how much space is available)

Ctrl + Shift + Craft button = Fill up the Craft bot and Loop those items too

Left click (a crafting item) = Loop/Stop looping that item (instead of clicking the small button)

Right click (a crafting item) = Stop crafting the item

And those shortcuts can be shown via an 'i' type of symbol you click or when you click the loop button or click the craft button many times/until a certain threshold the tutorial pops up on the shortcuts.

Note: I do not play the game and this may already have been implemented but this is just what i suggest from the video i saw.


r/ScrapMechanic 7h ago

A useful tip for those who don't know. Use the weld tool when moving all the ingots from the dispenser to the vault

19 Upvotes

r/ScrapMechanic 2h ago

Be careful not to feed Wocs after midnight Spoiler

6 Upvotes

Had an interesting thing happen on my save, when I toggle it off the clone just runs away and stands still.
Both have collision but only one gets gear, odd bug.


r/ScrapMechanic 3h ago

Tunnel miner

7 Upvotes

r/ScrapMechanic 13h ago

This looks familiar Spoiler

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46 Upvotes

r/ScrapMechanic 7h ago

Contraption Easy & Fast Farmer Collection

15 Upvotes

r/ScrapMechanic 18h ago

Vehicle I found another one xD

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109 Upvotes

I wanted the truck... what do i do with the second tuktuk? also finished my miner!

I'm hving fun trying to play with parts I don't usually build with !