I Built a New Trailer for MASSIVE Deliveries! (Scrap Mechanic Survival Ep.12) 

Wow, I didn’t realize that they implemented a full growing spectrum, instead of like three models of [not grown, kinda grown, fully grown]

in trucking the bit that hangs down form the trailer is called the "kingpin" and the spot it locks into is called the "fifth wheel" (don't ask where the name came form, i don't have a clue) you may find it helps your steering if you move the fifth wheel farther forward on your truck, you would have to extend it a bit but if the game models weight distribution at all that should put more on the front. I think you have done a fine job with your truck rig and hope to see more!

I have a suggestion for you to improve your buggy. If you add an AND module, you can connect this to the Switch of the suspension and the normal headlights and control the upper ones. The top headlights only come on when you are driving off-road and the normal headlights are switched on. I would also only the upper ones rely on full power, makes the effect even better! ;)

Ep 1 kAN: I can't wait to explore! I don't have enough component kits. Ep 12 kAN: I want to be a hermit. Component kits are easy to farm.

“It just floats in the ocean here”

An automated water gun defence should be incredibly useful.

For those wondering, I believe kan is referring to machicolations when he says "murder holes"

With the trailer, use a sensor to automate the legs activating

Excellent work! I'm loving this survival series! Edit: Did anyone else think that he sounded a little sick?

When kan talks about the piston engine, it's like every railroad retiring their steam locomotives.

Khan: “I need to do some mining so I can store my trailers.” Khan later “I have nothing to do lets watch the crops grow”

20:39 "kAN catch crate mid air" me : Nice , that pro gamer move. 10 second later kAN start blasting carrots away. me : ...

kAN, put a spudgun in the back of the cab and have it shoot the switch on the trailer so you don't even have to get out. Cool builds, I wish I could make stuff like you do. Also, if you put the vac pipe right up to the packing input, it will open a little. Then only the designated item can be sent out and anything else in the chest is ignored.

Did I really just watch a timelapse of plants growing with some hippie music?

Anyone gonna tell him you can stack fruit crates...

*Kan loads up the trailer completely* my brain: " east bound and down load'em up and truck'em"

0:50 here lies my hopes and dreams

I thought that the crops grew in stages and didn’t constantly change thanks for that lol

Make a forklift on the back of the trailer, when at a packing station, detach it and make loading up the trailer easier.

23:16 DEJA VU I THINK I'VE BEEN TO THIS PLACE BEFORE!

0:57 kAN: 28... My thoughts: STAB WOUNDS xD

Harvest with “E” so you don’t risk breaking any other crops, “E” can do the same as “RMB” for crops and picking up items

watching those crops grow with that calming music was honestly the biggest highlight of my day and it made me feel rly nice

Instead of having the fruit shooter on the truck and having to unhook the trailer you could putt a permanent station built on the floor next to the packing station that has chests and fruit shooter for each fruit. :)

Your base looks like it is doing pretty well. I can not wait to see the future of your base.

Kan when you get a mount able spud gun .. put it on your cabin facing the switch that lowers the trailers stand. This is useful for saving time and has a more realistic truck feeling for controlling the trailer from the cabin.

That's one thing I like about Kan he doesn't talk like the audience is abunch of 3 year olds and he explains what he's doing but doesn't over explain

haybots do swim, they have a animation and everything

6:31 Oh, Hi Mark!

When your so early that you don’t know what to say

Make the back truck wheels turn for more turning power. That might help.

When murder holes are pushed over the edge of the wall, it's machicolations. And yes you should add them. You also want to add crenellations for the tape bots. As for your truck, the lower wheels let you hitch up easier, so you'll want to increase the trailer legs size. And irl trucks use a 'saddle' that lowers the contact area of truck and trailer.

Hey Kan, can we see more of that mouse cursor dude? He seems interesting!

I would recommend hooking the steering wheel to the other four wheels in the back so that when you’re making heavy stops like that you’ll have more of the turning radius and maybe put suspension for the back of your truck like I mean under the plate where the trailer goes so that when it hatches on the subvention will kick in and it will takeoff a little bit of the edge

The spudling gun does a quarter of the damage the regular spud gun does.

Hourdes were the wooden corridors built along the tops of castle walls with machicolation holes along the floor too shoot down along the wall; when replaced with permanent stone crenelations, some built them set out off the walls to provide machicolations. Murder Holes are where you have a small room between 2 gates/portcullis, with thin slit windows along the walls, and hatch holes in the roof to drop rocks/tar/oil down.

Me: finishes the previous episodes an hour ago Kan: Here uploads new video

scrap mechanic is just like minecraft, but for people that likes cars.

Hey Kan, in Durf's livestream we found that you can weld the fruit crates onto your vehicle! If you wanted you could just do the wall in the middle like you wanted and just WELD them on!

If you added a "roof" to the top of your trailer and added pipe around it, it would almost look like a car hauler. I know I've said it once in another video but I'm so happy to see an actual truck and trailer in the game. With my working in the trucking industry I'm very thankful to see this vs other "trucks" and bs trailers. I love the authenticity of the vehicle.

When he was talking about corn it sounded like something very different to me Am I just dirty minded or did anyone else hear that?

I just clicked on the vid but Then I Realised that to was 21 (sec) ago

If you push your fruit dispenser into the packing station you can just have a regular switch hooked up

You could put the platforms for the fruit/veg containers on bearings (and maybe pistons) to allow you to place them on it from the ground, but also keeping them upright.

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11:51 "Moonbo is playing Scrap Mechanic" damn... never would have seen that coming lmao

jack the suspension up on the rear most axle, this will transfer weight to the front axle. also when re-designing the truck if you move the king pin forward (or move the rear axles back) this will put weight on the front axles. A real tractor trailer has several positions that the king pin can lock in to help distribute the weight across all of the axles. this helps with handling and axle load.

Thinking about the trailer, you could use a sensor detecting a colored block to automatically bring up the legs of the trailer so you don't have to get out. You then could use a piston with the colored block to activate it from the cab. If you set it up so the colored block brings the legs up, and without it it puts them down you have a pretty nifty system.

There is a check for tossing the veg and fruit into the packing station. The pump has to be INSIDE the input. Then, it'll only shoot the appropriate crops.

This is great, I've been watching many scrp mechanic videos and thought : "Why do they build cars when they need trucks" ?!". Yours is amazing !

Make a pad on the back of your truck and on the trailer. Make it out of low friction material also. I made a similar design and I used the larger pipes as pads since they only have like 3 friction. IT made a huge difference. The lower friction will also make backing the trailer up a lot easier.

I love that automatic planting setup ... will have to see if I can simulate that in my gameplay !

Hey kAN, you inspired me to build my own truck and trailer. Like you identified in this video, the flat surface of the back of the truck in contact with the flat surface of the trailer causes the lag. I solved it by removing all the center blocks from the trailer so the back contact area is a hollow box frame instead of a filled box. That pretty much eliminated the issue. I also put a sensor on the trailer behind the attachment peg so that when I lock the pin it triggers the sensor to raise my trailer pistons, and then when I retract the pin it puts the pistons back down to lift the trailer so I never have to get out of the seat to attach and detach the trailer. Works well.

If you want to help with the truck's steering issue when it's heavily loaded. You could extend the truck at the back and move the back axles further back, but leave the fifth wheel in the same place. That way the weight is spread better across all three "axles". As for the lag with the flat front of the trailer resting on the back of the truck. How about making a gooseneck trailer? It would be longer overall or hold less cargo, but there would be much less trailer in contact with the truck. Alternatively you could make the trailer taller and create space between the trailer deck and the back of the truck so that only the fifth wheel and kingpin are in contact.

I think it'll be a good idea to put piston suspension on the front wheels so when it dose lift up from a heavy load you can still steer

Wow... I didn't realise that the crops actually GREW... I thought they went through stages, like when they become harvestable. The way they actually grow from seedlings to fruitful crops is such a cool detail! I suppose I've never wasted a whole day just watching them...

You should put a backwards facing sensor on the peg of the trailer that senses when the locking pin on the truck is locked, that way you wouldn't have to get out of the seat to attach and detach the trailer. Also you could add more legs to the trailer on the back, to lift the wheels off the ground so that it stays in place while you try to reconnect it to the truck.

The "murder holes" in castles are Crenellations, and they would work really well on that wall for sure

the packing stations do have checks for when you shoot stuff into them you just have to be closer so the ports light up on the packing station. maybe add a vacuum tube between the chest and vacuum pump to get some extra distance or add a second piston with switch or controller setup so that you can have 2 stages when you push out the chest in the truck. one for lining up and the second to activate the ports on the packing stations.

1:58 I belive you cant plant full grown plants if you use vaccum pump So dont you dare eat brocoil and pineaplle as soon as you get them! | Also you can plant potatos using your spud gun xD How amazing atention to details!

Awesome man. Now, about that next miner... A mining trailer! Something you can bring to the mining site, unhitch, get your mine on, then fold back up and off ya go. Either to the next stone deposit or to a resource processing area.

A way you could possibly improve the trailer is putting a sensor right near the hitch mechanism facing down connected to the swinging legs that hold up the trailer so the legs engage automatically when you release the trailer and disengage when you back up into it

You can stack crop crates on top of each other.. you don't need the second deck, also you can weld the crates to the trailer and I think that can help with frame rates..

Put a small cactus in a pot on the trailer legs because they have low weight and high friction so it will not slide when attaching

That’s what I like about scrap mechanic. They may use mathematically “perfect” objects (consider a rod of length x, a wheel of radius r, a pivot of size 0 but with no friction) but the interaction of friction, mass, linear/radial force and simple logic control systems allow for some insanely interesting results. This the visually appealing flat surface on flat surface of your trailer upon a pin has a frame rate and mobility issue where a real truck would simply torque itself to breaking point. The consequences are that you get rewarded for good design yet poorly thought out ones don’t self destruct without warning. All that said, id murder for some REAL high capacity fuel storage and high efficiency engines that can handle larger vehicles without needing a pit stop every 5-10 minutes. The jet engines suffer similar issues, massive fuel consumption for a mayfly use time.

21:42 - There is a check. If you make physical contact (It will turn blue) between the vacuum to the packer you will only shoot out the correct fruit/veggie. You don't even need to worry about what is in the chest either. Just thow them all in the chest and the packer will take the correct item.

If you hammer the crops instead of picking them, you get the crop and seeds for each plot, you do have to pick up all the loose items but its a bit better for the rare crops

You don't need rear wheel steering, just move the pin resting point forward of the rear wheels so the weight gets applied evenly to the front and rear wheels. Also rear wheel drive only might help with that as well.

Its called a saddle. Also if you decide to add rear wheel steering to your truck, please consider making them turn only a fraction of the front wheels. E.g. if front wheels are turning 90 degrees, the rear wheels should turn maybe 30 degrees. This would help to not make the system too sensitive. Also the turning issue with weight is very common . Moonbo also had that same problem, to a lesser extent than yours.

While murder hole is a possible solution, I believe the term you are actually looking for is machicolation, where the gap is between the wall and the crennelation(looking down), not in the side of a wall/tower(looking out). crennelation would also help protect against tape bots.

You could build a boat out of farmers because you can weld them to your vehicle and pick it up

I tried adding a bearing on top of the "pin" and the turning radius of the truck is way better. I suggest you try that one simple fix and test it. Keep Surviving!

I am loving the truck it was looking very boss. Couple of suggestions for a bit more efficiency. Get the fruit at the far station loaded first so you're not having to drive heavy out and back, just back. What about an elevator ramp at the end? like button activated. one for lift and a second for down? also can you make the cab of the truck out of really heavy materials to help engage the steering wheels? or some sort of stiffer suspension to push those wheels against the ground so you don't lose so much steering? maybe the street shocks instead of the off-road ones? (I'm not sure what the operational difference is between the two sets.) Keep up the great work, I am loving the series and the videos.

I have one good use for piston engines, since they have torque, no fuel consumption, and TORQUE, they would be amazing for massive loads for your packing adventures.

I don't know if this has been suggested before but, If you press the nozzle of your truck's crop dispenser against the packing station receptacle the green arrow light above it will turn blue. When that happens the dispenser will only fire that receptacle's respective fruit and prevent accidental crop loss.

Regarding what happened at 21:40, if you manage to move the vacuum pump as close to the packing station's input as possible, the input will turn blue, and the pump will ONLY output the matching crop. Taking advantage of this, you could actually keep a mix of crops in your output chest. Unfortunately, the tolerance is pretty narrow, so you have to get veeeery close.

hey kan, you should try to add half a block to one blocks width between the bed of the truck to the trailer you should save many frames since its not accounting for the collisions between the two beds

Fuel consumption is based on three things: weight, grade of engine, gear you drive (aka what notch the engine is set to). The biggest factor is weight. Too little and you bounce around and have an extremely on or off contact patch with the ground, burning all your fuel in mad drifts, spinning tires in air, burning out, etc. Too much and you burn your fuel pulling a heavy load (physics, conservation of momentum and what not). Max fuel efficiency is somewhere in between the two. Only thing that doesn't seem affected are thrusters, they seem to burn a flat rate based on level and the selected thrust notch and just disregard any sort of weight factor. Also, if you have your vacuum pump deploy INTO the "nozzles" at the packing station, it will ONLY fire the crop for that selected packer. This makes it so you don't waste carrots by throwing them into the broccoli slot and also means less wasted time because you can just shove every crop you're transporting into the chest once, instead of having to go back over and over and over to restock your chest with the crop you want to pack next.

Yay make more videos please love watching the technical teaching and fun things u do

I used a death marker as a home beacon, it works pretty well, however you do have to leave at least one item behind to make it work though.

4:18 Some people say it's a dumb idea but it's just what I prefer to do: I build a sort of life into the bottom of my main vehicle to protect it so that I can still use my normal lift for climbing cliffs. The only really big problem was that for how high and stable I wanted it I needed 8 tier 5 pistons but you could realistically do less if you wanted to. Like for instance I did 1 piston per corner but you could just do 3 pistons in a triangle and it would be fine. I understand they can still attack the pistons but it's better than nothing and makes exploration much easier for me.

That's cool I didn't know the plants grew slowly I thought they popped up slowly like minecraft. The more you know.

I loved that farm time lapse!

That was freakin awesome! Nice job!

You could change your 5th wheel to adjust how the trailer rides but the simpler idea would probably be to lengthen the kingpin to bring the trailer up. Either way you will need to most likely bring the back end of the trailer up to keep it level.

that was a lovely time lapse on the crops

You can use the large rocks that you have to break with a drill as indestructible wall blocks.(not the medium or small rocks you can break with a hammer) Break the large rocks touching the ground and the ones above them will fall. Then use the welder to place it on a vehicle(make sure its attached to like a single block for easy removal) Then weld it to your wall. it's kind of tricky to carefully cut them from large rock clusters but you can build an indestructible castle out of them.

I found that if you have the pump on your interactive box pushed into the receiver port at the packing plant so the light on the receiver port turns on, it only takes the fruit or veggie for that receiver out of the box. doing this would have stopped the carrots from being blasted into the broccoli port and being wasted. when I bring a load in I have all of the crops in the same box and just push it into the port and it sorts them automatically. (REF 21min on your video)

I like the music you chose for when you were packing

Just to let you know if you move the trailer tires back farther it'll make your turning radius a lot worse bringing the trailer around but ultimately it'll give your tractor tires more traction more weight on the tractor side and you should definitely build it like a fifth wheel on the semi trucks lifted up and put a up down pivot on it

You can't put on your lift creations that have resources attached, but you can weld. Unintended I'm sure, but you can move and carry heavy loaded objects with the weld tool.

Yeeess new video... Thanks for keeping up the great studio.

0:57 i can't stop laughing! XD kAN : and If iv'e done the math right, this trailer should hold 28 f- Me : *_STAB WOUNDS_*

someone probably mentioned it but... about the " wasting carrots" thing: if you put the pump against the intake so the arrow on the machine becomes blue, you CANT put in the wrong stuff, it only takes what can go in that intake from your crate :)

I love your truck! I made a Phantom Truck and im pretty proud of it 😂

Kan I have a cheaper suggestion for protecting your base walls! Iballisticsquid figured out that if you use ramps the bots can’t break it, so if you grab ramps from warehouse roofs with a plane or flying vehicle it would be a simple and cheaper way to protect your base than using an automated machine.

Great videos 🤘👍 also, re-rout the engine power to the back duals, not the front, you will get better traction just like a semi

23:18 I was laughing when kAN Tokyo drifts his truck

Suggestion: Add lights on the wall to see farmbots more easily at night