New: Vehicles & Construction Machines – drill, bulldozer, tunnel boring machine and motorbike
A drivable mining drill that collects ore by itself, a bulldozer and a motorbike – it turned into a whole fleet with a tunnel boring machine and a construction site.
The wish was short: a drivable mining drill with a box that collects the ore by itself, a bulldozer and a motorbike. Later a tunnel boring machine and a construction site with lights and signs joined – in German and English.
All vehicles are built from the game's rover. Boarding, camera, batteries, damage and multiplayer therefore work like the rover, and I did not have to reinvent driving. What is new is what the machines do: the drill mills with a 2.5 metre cross cutter and puts the ore into its box with the hand drill's yield. The bulldozer cuts, levels to a plane or builds a ramp – and fills dips with the soil it cut before. The motorbike does 54 km/h and does not fall over.
The tunnel boring machine was the most work. The game terrain is made of one-metre cubes, and the game bevels every edge. A 2×2 metre tunnel is therefore flat for only one metre at floor and ceiling. So I recalculated the boring in a test program – with all profiles, four directions, shifted grids and ramps – and built the machine so it fits through its own tunnel everywhere. If something is in the way, it stops instead of destroying it.
There is also a charging post, warning lights, floodlights and beacon lights, six construction signs with German or English text, delineators, traffic cones, barriers and a construction fence. Everything is paintable and can be controlled by IC10.
The server and all players need the mod. The guide with keys and IC10 table is in the wiki. Have fun on the construction site!
Everything else is in the guide.