How the heck do I build the Steam Engine?!

[[B&H]andreas99100]

So I'm about to build the Steam Engine, so my train can go faster and such. I cleared the whole train, made it 3 platforms wide, but now I can't move the engine placement at all! What am I supposed to do?!

[Zothen]

You place it with a left mouse click

[[B&H]andreas99100]

Originally posted by Zothen:

You place it with a left mouse click

Well, I know that, but I gotta move the train to the right spot in order to do so, but I can't move the train in that janky build camera

[Robert20697]

You can use arrow keys to pan the camera around, and I think click-and-drag reorients it. There's a required gap between the engine and the front of the train, so that might be a problem too.

[[B&H]andreas99100]

I use the WASD keys to move the camera, but the click-and-drag bit won't help. I guess I'll have to wait till they fix that bug. Shame, cuz I do enjoy the game

[ToJKa]

In my case it was the brake and transmission levers in the way of the engine. Try removing those first.

They are free to build, so there's no material cost.

[[B&H]andreas99100]

I removed everything on the train, but still cant do anything

[ZeroKarma]

I have a question about going faster. Is there a way to collect items other than jumping off and collecting them by hand? If not, why would you want to go faster? It is hard enough once you hit top speed on basic platform to grab things and get back to the train that is now dragging you along. And don't say grapple hook. It just sucks with its miserable hit box.

[Asmosis]

does it fit on 3 platforms? i thought it needed 4.

[Morotstomten]

Originally posted by ZeroKarma:

I have a question about going faster. Is there a way to collect items other than jumping off and collecting them by hand? If not, why would you want to go faster? It is hard enough once you hit top speed on basic platform to grab things and get back to the train that is now dragging you along. And don't say grapple hook. It just sucks with its miserable hit box.

i mean i cant speak for everyone but i hit like 8 times out of 10 and 9 times out of 10 of those misses are because the item was out of range... and id say the friend i play with does about the same.... you just havent bothered trying to get used to the hook

[Asmosis]

The hook has a momentum factor, so if you're travelling at speed you need to take that into account.

[Lykana]

Floor is required

[Slava Ukraini]

The steam locomotive needs 4 platforms to be build. 3 is not long enough. It also says it in the Tutorial: build a 4 platform base for the loco. However the Turorial is bugged, so it completes after reload without having the 4 platforms. Hence the meaning of the Tutorial: to prevent trying to build a loco on a 2 or 3 platform base does not work yet.

[GreyBeard512]

Originally posted by ZeroKarma:

I have a question about going faster. Is there a way to collect items other than jumping off and collecting them by hand? If not, why would you want to go faster? It is hard enough once you hit top speed on basic platform to grab things and get back to the train that is now dragging you along. And don't say grapple hook. It just sucks with its miserable hit box.

Later in the game there is a train vs train battle. If you want to avoid the fight (you don't get anything out of it other than some regular loot), you'll need to be able to go much faster. Even if you want to fight, it helps to be able to go a little faster.
But yes, generally going slow is better.
I haven't tried using ROFLEMMOS and Gathering Stations. I don't know if they work at speed or not.

[Asmosis]

Other than just racing to the next fight location to collect more gun parts for that illusive all legendary gun, there's not a lot of point going above minimum speed.

You could potentially get enough resources from chests to just blast your way between those locations i suppose, 50/50 chance you manage to maintain your fuel levels doing that.