what to do with old vehicles

[corvokingdom]

hello everyone. I have been playing on this world for a couple of days now. I got to the point where I have built all vehicles based on the progression of leveling. However, I only use the truck and gyrocopter. Any ideas of what I should do with previous vehicles? Thanks

[Myrkana]

Put them in a box for backup use.

[comet_65cali]

Keep them, in storage!
For Me:
Bicycle: Local, normally trips to the horde-base or very close mines during the night.
Minibike: Local or near-local (2Km>) trips where I need to mine or maybe harvest assets like beds and/or cars.
*WORST CASE SCENARIO: The Minibike is the most fuel efficent of the lot. If you are missing gasoline use it!*
Motorcycle: The Bread-n-butter of 7dtd, use this one as often as possible; jack of all trades.
4x4: Hey you raiding a couple of tier 3-4 POIs or a Tier 5? That's the one you want to load up on inventory!
Gyrocopter: The fastest point from point A to point B is always a straight line. Gyrocopter will Be the one to do it if you're gonna be raiding a single POI or doing the Trader-restock route.

[corvokingdom]

@comet thanks so much !!

[Illuminia]

You could also pick them back up into inventory (I think, at least the smaller ones), and sell them to the trader.

I tend to use 4x4 for most POI raiding, and keep the Motorcycle at home base. I'll drop any items worth selling to the trade into the Motorcycle. When it's nearing full, I take the motorbike to the trader and offload valuables.

Worth noting - I have an easier time driving through burnt forest city ruins areas with the Motorcycle than the 4x4. It's easier to avoid the piles of scrap metal on the Motorcycle, which will stop the 4x4 in it's tracks.

[Mardoin69]

@Illuminia.....I'm not so sure.... my local trader wouldn't buy my mini-bike. Maybe they just didn't want it at 'That' time but, yeah....flat out refused to purchase it from me. I might have to try again. But, I agree with Comet's opinion on keeping them as back-up's.

[Teresa]

You can't sell vehicles. Keeping them in storage or throwing them out are the two options.

I would keep them in storage unless you play permadeath. If you die, it is nice to have a spare vehicle at the base to retrieve your body and main vehicle with.

[KellyR]

I just throw away the bicycle once I have a motorcycle. I never even build a minibike, they're so crap.

Gas is so easy to get you're drowning in it, so once I have a motorcycle I have no need for the bicycle ever again. Even when I'm not specifically trying to get gas, I end up making 10 times as much as I can use.

[Kara]

Yeah it's kind of sad and stupid vehicles cost a lot to buy but then are unsalable back to the trader...I hope they fix this.

[Crater Creator]

Technically you have a third option: you can scrap old vehicles. But they all scrap to iron, so the rate of return is terrible.

I do like to use my old vehicles to shuttle myself around my day-to-day base, horde base, mine(s), garden, and the nearest trader. I try to have these all close to each other, but something’s always a little farther away.

[KellyR]

Originally posted by Crater Creator:

Technically you have a third option: you can scrap old vehicles. But they all scrap to iron, so the rate of return is terrible.

I do like to use my old vehicles to shuttle myself around my day-to-day base, horde base, mine(s), garden, and the nearest trader. I try to have these all close to each other, but something’s always a little farther away.

But why would you use those instead of your newest, best vehicle?

[Crater Creator]

Originally posted by KellyR:

Originally posted by Crater Creator:

Technically you have a third option: you can scrap old vehicles. But they all scrap to iron, so the rate of return is terrible.

I do like to use my old vehicles to shuttle myself around my day-to-day base, horde base, mine(s), garden, and the nearest trader. I try to have these all close to each other, but something’s always a little farther away.

But why would you use those instead of your newest, best vehicle?

I think it’s the gyrocopter that makes the biggest difference. I still need a good long runway to take off with that thing, and I settle for landing within the general vicinity of where I wanted to land. And “landing” frequently means bailing out when it’s still five feet above ground so that it’ll stop more quickly.

Hence the gyrocopter is great for traveling over a mountain range to get to the next town over, but it’s not worth the effort when I just want to go two blocks to the local trader (it’s two blocks away so that I could build my base on a better plot of land, closer to a confluence of mineable resources and biomes). So I take the motorcycle for that, which is as fast or even faster if I have the misfortune of clipping something with the gyrocopter’s wheel.

Also, like Teresa says, it’s nice to have another vehicle on standby, so that if your character dies far from base, you can spawn back at your bedroll and immediately drive over to your backpack - and your abandoned primary vehicle - before you lose anything.

[KellyR]

Ohhhh. I won't even use the gyrocopter. It flies too weird. I hadn't considered it in my imaginings because I hate it too much :D

Basically I use the motorcycle or the 4x4 for everything forever. One for slightly more speed, the other for more carrying capacity, depending on what I'm doing.

Honestly, I'd cut a nice sensible road through the mountains with a pickaxe and pave it myself before I'd even think about flying over them with the gyro.

[Tornat]

store them is what I have done , but at this point now I don't even bother with the bike or mini bike , common to see the motorcycle for 20k from trader . running quests and learning what to sell it's easy to get one day 4-5 . traders are game breaking atm imo .

[Illuminia]

Originally posted by Mardoin69:

@Illuminia.....I'm not so sure.... my local trader wouldn't buy my mini-bike. Maybe they just didn't want it at 'That' time but, yeah....flat out refused to purchase it from me. I might have to try again. But, I agree with Comet's opinion on keeping them as back-up's.

I stand corrected - you can not sell old vehicles, any kind apparently. They all say "No Sell Value", even if fully repaired/new. I'm surprised, i thought I sold an old bike in a previous version, but maybe that was a long time ago. (?)

[Mr. Trainee]

Originally posted by Crater Creator:

Technically you have a third option: you can scrap old vehicles. But they all scrap to iron, so the rate of return is terrible.

I do like to use my old vehicles to shuttle myself around my day-to-day base, horde base, mine(s), garden, and the nearest trader. I try to have these all close to each other, but something’s always a little farther away.

I don't know if this is for an older version only but i tried to scrap my old bicycle in every way i can think of, look in the radial menu, look in the inventory menu and tried to use a wrench on it. nothing scraps it