About Scrap Mechanic
Scrap Mechanic is a sandbox video game developed for Windows by Swedish game studio and publisher, Axolot Games, in which players can build machines, vehicles, and buildings, and share their creations online. Wikipedia entry
- It's available on Steam
- It can be single player or multiplayer
- You can play in creative or survival mode
- Players can create challenge games for others to solve
- There are mods available for the game
Controls
It uses standard video game keyboard controls:
W = Forward
S = Back
A = Left
D= Right
Spacebar = Jump
Ctrl = Crouch/Crawl
I = Inventory
E = Action
Shift = Sprint
Scroll wheel/Number keys = Select item from hotbar
Q = rotate item before placing
X = Zoom out
C = Zoom in
L = Logbook
H = Handbook/Help
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Objectives
You are a mechanic sent to fix the robots on a farming world which has been almost destroyed by a natural disaster. On arrival your spaceship is damaged also and crash lands. You find yourself in a survival situation where the robots on the world will try to kill you. You must defend yourself, obtain food and drink and use your skills to construct machines. In the world there are farmers who have been trapped and caged by robots and a trader who will help you release them and trade with you for more advanced items including weapons.
About this guide
There are many brilliant video guides to playing Scrap Mechanic available on Youtube and Reddit but many of them are difficult to follow and fail to explain the creations, especially logic gates and controls. This guide sets out to provide step-by-step instructions in written format. If I fail to explain, please let me know and I'll try to correct things. Contact me on Twitter - I'm @JChapman1729 there or Mastodon @jaydax@mastodonapp.uk
- Put out the crashed ship fire
- Start growing some food
- Find the missing ship power cell
- Find the mechanic station
- Build a crafting machine, build a better crafting machine
- Get some wood
- Get some stone and metal
- Secure the mechanic station
- Get wax and glue to make things
- Make more advanced metals
- Grow crops for trade
- Build a transport vehicle
- Package your crops
- Find the Trader and trade your crops for more seeds
- Grow higher level crops
- Find and rescue caged farmers, take them to the Trader
- Package and trade higher level crops for more advanced weapons
- Make more advanced vehicles and equipment
- Automate
- Explore
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Graphics
Problems with game lag? Set your graphics options like this:
Next page - Setting up and getting started.
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