Cart's Are Underrated

[Soy Sav]

i do not think much people use the cart. i mean yeah. there is probaly SOME people who use it including myself. but cart's are so underrated #cartsmatter

[rodelis]

I have a lagtastic cart sitting at my autorepair setup. As in, theres approx. 300 repair bags in said cart. Getting the cart there took well over 20 minutes from the shop with it attached to the back of my truck. Any time i grab this cart, the game gets very unhappy instantly, dropping me to about 1 frame every 4 seconds.

[Klandor]

Originally posted by rodelis:

I have a lagtastic cart sitting at my autorepair setup. As in, theres approx. 300 repair bags in said cart. Getting the cart there took well over 20 minutes from the shop with it attached to the back of my truck. Any time i grab this cart, the game gets very unhappy instantly, dropping me to about 1 frame every 4 seconds.

If you're playing without MOD's, there's not much that can be done, as those 300 Repair Bags have a lot of physics calcs associated with them.

If you're playing WITH MOD's, you could look into either the Storage Crate MOD, written by our very own Dev, ItchyBeard, or the Bulk Buy Crate MOD. In your case, the latter may be best, as it'll make it easier to BUY all those Repair Toolkits. Both of them, though, will allow you to store those 300 Repair Toolkits into a single item that could then EASILY be transported in the back of a Truck without creating all that LAG, latency, and FPS drops.

DO note that if you're working on getting Achievements, use of a MOD will permanently disable Achievements in THAT SAVE and ANY OTHER SAVE that you open with any MOD active. So, if you're already using MOD's, then you should be OK. If you're NOT using MOD's, I would only recommend this if you're not working on Achievements.

[JimboTCB]

Pretty sure everyone who's been playing for more than half an hour uses the cart. Like, the tutorial literally tells you to use it. As soon as I realised stuff doesn't have collision physics once it's in a cart, that was a massive game changer, and realising you could load stuff in a cart while in a shop was even bigger. And then I realised you could stick not just one but multiple carts in the back of the truck.

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Yup, carts are extremely useful in many ways. I just wish they stayed the same as before 2.0 in terms of maneuvering and turning speed. Theese days they are painfully slow.

[Soy Sav]

Originally posted by JimboTCB:

Pretty sure everyone who's been playing for more than half an hour uses the cart. Like, the tutorial literally tells you to use it. As soon as I realised stuff doesn't have collision physics once it's in a cart, that was a massive game changer, and realising you could load stuff in a cart while in a shop was even bigger. And then I realised you could stick not just one but multiple carts in the back of the truck.

you make a point. but everyone i see play the game or anyhting else like that flat out ignore's the cart and immedietly use the truck. as "the truck is better" which yeah. it could be. but also you gotta fuel that thing but cart's are chugging along with No fuel NO pipe's needing ZERO Hyrdocoins Needed

[Klandor]

For short distances, Carts work great - going from the Ember Cradle (EC) to Bastion Keep or Burncroft, etc. For longer distances (EC to Icehelm, etc.) or larger loads, though, the Truck is better. Yes, it uses Fuel, but Fuel is water and that's free. But the Truck is faster and has a bigger bed (can carry more). So, they each have their use...

[roboticaust]

Originally posted by Klandor:

For short distances, Carts work great - going from the Ember Cradle (EC) to Bastion Keep or Burncroft, etc. For longer distances (EC to Icehelm, etc.) or larger loads, though, the Truck is better. Yes, it uses Fuel, but Fuel is water and that's free. But the Truck is faster and has a bigger bed (can carry more). So, they each have their use...

You could use both like the majority of us do. Fill cart, load cart in truck, profit.

[Klandor]

I've had issues getting Carts onto Trucks in the past. I just can't get them to actually sit IN the Truck. Generally, when I need to transport a Cart (newly purchased or otherwise, I empty it and have a trick that gets the Cart into a Storage Crate. That works well and is the only effective method I've found...

[roboticaust]

The old bugs involving pallets and carts in the truck are fixed. But I hear ya. Sometimes it's easier to just fall back on what you know works than risk it.

[MagpieOAO]

I do like the simple economy of it and instant acceleration.

Any idea what you can do to get rid of the old ones?

[roboticaust]

Originally posted by MagpieOAO:

I do like the simple economy of it and instant acceleration.

Any idea what you can do to get rid of the old ones?

Creative wand and possibly the mod for the destroyer hook. Don't think there is any vanilla way atm.

[Zellnagi]

Without mods, carts are far better for places that you can only get to on foot like icehelms mine and the keep castle, while the pallet would be able to help with buying stuff it also makes your view bad, i would suggest a cart hitch on at least the quad to allow for speedy longer trips if the DEV's read this?

[Klandor]

A Cart Hitch for the Quad sounds like a wonderful idea. One could place a Pallet on a Cart with no issues. I do not believe the Quad itself could carry a Pallet and, unless it's been changed, the Quad cannot carry a Bulk Buy Crate (BBC). This would solve the issue of how to move around a large quantity of stuff via the Quad, which can get into locations where the Truck cannot, but moves faster than even the Fast Cart over at Itchy's Parts (Itchy's Carts?!?). I've not gotten the Quad in my two most recent Saves (one is for Achievements and experimentation, the other uses MOD's but is a v2.2 started Save), so I haven't had a chance to look for any changes, but that was my experience previous to v2.2...

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Originally posted by Klandor:

A Cart Hitch for the Quad sounds like a wonderful idea. One could place a Pallet on a Cart with no issues. I do not believe the Quad itself could carry a Pallet

Whats the problem? You can put any amount of pallets into your standard truck. And you can also hook up a lot of carts at once to your truck too. Just come behind the truck with your cart until you touch the back of the truck with your character model and your cart's handlebars clip into the truck. Then jump up and release the cart mid air. The cart gets "glitched" to the truck as if it was hitched to it. Totally not immersion-breaking. This method worked for many patches before and still works as of today.

I did not test this method with a quad, but it probably works with it aswell, i dont see why not. Its just i couldnt find any use for the quad itself unfortunately, its way too prone to barrelroll, low acceleration, too sharp of a turn angle, and the carriage is way too clunky to work with. Go ahead and test it with a quad if you want.

[Bardakani55]

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Originally posted by Klandor:

A Cart Hitch for the Quad sounds like a wonderful idea. One could place a Pallet on a Cart with no issues. I do not believe the Quad itself could carry a Pallet

Whats the problem? You can put any amount of pallets into your standard truck. And you can also hook up a lot of carts at once to your truck too. Just come behind the truck with your cart until you touch the back of the truck with your character model and your cart's handlebars clip into the truck. Then jump up and release the cart mid air. The cart gets "glitched" to the truck as if it was hitched to it. Totally not immersion-breaking. This method worked for many patches before and still works as of today.

I did not test this method with a quad, but it probably works with it aswell, i dont see why not. Its just i couldnt find any use for the quad itself unfortunately, its way too prone to barrelroll, low acceleration, too sharp of a turn angle, and the carriage is way too clunky to work with. Go ahead and test it with a quad if you want.

I did but it didn't work