Hints and Tips

More as I find them or people suggest them

• You can temporarily immobalise a haybot by throwing a bucket of water at it.
• You can use a toilet to teleport short distances.
  
• There's lots of space out of reach of bots (not beebots) on the roof of the mechanic station. You might find a chest there too.
• Vehicles you make tend to drift. You can stop this by adding a Fant anchor and connecting a switch to it. While the switch is on the vehicle won't move.
• If you have a number of vehicles and suffer lag you can make a Fant parking space. Place your vehicle on that and the game won't see it and lag is reduced.
• A vacuum gun is great for collecting beeswax, bot arms,  stone rods, metal rods and other goodies. It is the quickest way to dismantling sheds but use it with caution next to any of your creations. To make avacuum gun in an autocrafter you'll need 1 vacuum pump, 1 controller level 1, 1 large chest, 1 component kit
• If a Fant pump pipe has a switch connected it will be on when the switch is on and off when the switch is off. If a vacuum pump has no switch it will be on all the time. 
• You can grow crops underwater! Using the Fant automatic farmbox placed on a platform containing an air generator and battery box you can grow crops and harvest them. Such crops are safe from haybots - they won't enter the water. They are safe from green totebots - although they will swim out to the area they can't dive down to the crops. Apparently blue and red totebots are not interested in raiding. Tapebots and farmbots will walk out to the underwater crops and destroy them though.

• A seat can have buttons attached also.
• The standard collector holds 25 metal rods/haybot arms. It needs 30 metal 1 to make it. The Fant collector is slightly narrower and holds 20 metal rods/haybot arms. It needs 20 metal 1 to make it. For vehicles, the standard collector is a better bet because it contains more.

• It can be difficult to fit a row of grinders inbetween two bearings since often either one end is unsupported or the row of bearings is split in the middle. There is an easy way though. Suppose you want to fit a row of six grinders between two bearings:
  
  Fasten the row of grinders to any convenient vertical surface and add one extra
  
  Then delete the extra block allowing the 6 grinders left to fall to the ground.
  
   
  
   
  
• Although woc brush 2000s are very expensive to obtain from the Trader, (250 bananas + 250 pineapples +250 broccoli + 10 caged farmers), they are great fun for dropping strawdogs in water, picking up farmbots and bashing them around until they explode and picking up produce crates and caged farmers. You can also pick up an item and use it as a brush to sweep items together.

Cheats

Yes it is possible to cheat in the survival mode of Scrap Mechanic. Press 'Enter' on your keyboard and type /cheat then try some of the following commands, each starting with a '/'. Enter the command again to turn it off.

Command	What it does
/god	Makes you invulnerable to bot attacks
/fly	Allows you to fly. Use space to rise and Ctrl to descend. WSAD to move. Note if you pick up anything you must type the command again to put it down.
/unlimited	Gives you an unlimited inventory. Turn this off by entering the command /limited
/day	Resets the time to morning and turns off the flow of time in the game
/raid [level] [time]	Triggers a raid at your location. Example /raid 10 1 would trigger a level 10 raid within 1 minute (real time)
/[item]	Gives you 1 of the item. Examples /spudgun would give you a spudgun /ammo would give you 50 ammo for a spudgun
/all	Enters god mode (invulnerable), allows you to fly and gives you an unlimited inventory
/help	Gives you a list of all the commands

There is a more complete list of commands at https://scrapmechanic.fandom.com/wiki/Commands