How To: Refueling Vehicles

[Ubersaint]

Greetings from Planet Maria, I'm here to help inform those of you like myself who had the issue of figuring out how to refuel a Vehicle. The current state of the game requires you to Recharge the vehicle item in the Power Station under the supplied area. It takes a little bit of time but you can sleep the time away. I hope this helps and if you have any questions just ask maybe i'll know how to deal with it :)

[Wegadin]

ahhhh ok. Im not to that part yet where such a station exists. I only have the little solar power thingy that rechrges items. I was wondering how I was suppose to refuel my vehicle and throwing "fuel" at it didn't work.

[Ubersaint]

Not a problem, i ran into this myself and thought i'd be easier to pass this knowledge around.

[Marshall]

Originally posted by Ubersaint:

Greetings from Planet Maria, I'm here to help inform those of you like myself who had the issue of figuring out how to refuel a Vehicle. The current state of the game requires you to Recharge the vehicle item in the Power Station under the supplied area. It takes a little bit of time but you can sleep the time away. I hope this helps and if you have any questions just ask maybe i'll know how to deal with it :)

ok wait..what power station and what supplies area are you talking about?

[Ubersaint]

Alright, when you build your colony you have to power it using the Power Plant. In the Colonly menu you'll find the tab for the power plant and inside you'll see a section for fuel that shows coal and on the right side a lot of boxes. If you place batteries and crafts into the ones on the right you'll beable to recharge them.

[Marshall]

Originally posted by Ubersaint:

Alright, when you build your colony you have to power it using the Power Plant. In the Colonly menu you'll find the tab for the power plant and inside you'll see a section for fuel that shows coal and on the right side a lot of boxes. If you place batteries and crafts into the ones on the right you'll beable to recharge them.

now if only i could figure out how to make my heli fly. lol

[Wegadin]

Thanks for you help! I was wondering if you wouldn't mind answering another question. I have been on the "setup a base camp" (get a base script from one of the engineers) for a long time. I have been working on the other quests, but am I suppose to get the base camp script from the "Adissa Camp" (near the fire bears) or do I get it further along in the story?

[Ubersaint]

Thats a easy one, head west down the beach. There is a wreck in the sand and they have a shop that will sell items for building a base.

[Wegadin]

woot! thanks!

[Tendeep]

Thanks for this info, is there also a way to repair vehicle condition?

[brenelael]

Yes, The repair station at your colony will repair all items including created ones.

[Tendeep]

Thanks so much!

[SadowSon]

Originally posted by NCMarshall:

now if only i could figure out how to make my heli fly. lol

I had this same problem when I first created a heli. The game has the most weridist cross between basic flying controls and indepth weight control...

In the editor, move your mouse over your Rotors (Turns out, doesn't matter what the rotation is... Yes, Horozontal rotors will lift you up... Dunno why) and calculate the maximum lifting tonnage.

Then go and have a look at the weight of your VTOL. If the weight is over the max lifting tonnage, it won't fly. If it's really close, like a lifting tonnage of 72T over a total weight of 71.5 then you'll rise... Really flippin slowly.

My advice, have double the lifting tonnage of the total weight. The best way to do this without making your helicopter (I fly a UH1H Huey... Spent three days making the damn thing) look ugly is to actually move the big rotors to overlap each other so you can't see both of them. Then you'll fly with no problems.

[Gana]

Unless you just can't make it leave the ground at all, and I am thinking the problem is not noticing the vertical slider at the bottom of the screen when you are in the helicopter.

[Jono]

test designs in build mode so you can get balancing right before wasting vital materials in your actual game... very vital when making aircraft (unless you make jets / pod racers like me... then balance is just a physics you use to make your 600KM/h death machine go even faster)

[pyro5653]

Repair station and recycle station don't work for me. I put stuff in and nothing works. I cannot repair pickaxes or custom vehicales. It takes my materials and then i wait the 11:30 and nothing happens timmer restarts and it takes my materials. WHen i recycle items how do i get the parts back not sure that i have been unlees there is an enterprise that beams my recycled parts directly into my personnel storage.