Heavy Trucks (Vanilla+)

Six half-track heavy trucks built to look like they came straight from Wube: same camera,
same materials, rendered in 64 directions with animated tracks, lights, shadows and their
own wrecks. They all share the same tractor unit and each one carries a different job on its bed.

Works with Factorio 2.0. Space Age is optional.

Heavy Truck

The workhorse and the base of the other trucks.

• 160-slot cargo bed. Its deck fills up with cargo as the trunk does (it can be hidden in the per-player settings).
• Recipe: 32 engine units, 10 electronic circuits, 50 iron plates, 100 steel plates.
• Research: Heavy truck (red + green science, after Automobilism).

Tanker Truck

A fluid wagon on the road.

• Two isolated tanks of 25,000 each (front and rear), so it can carry two different fluids.
• Park it next to an ordinary pump: the vanilla connector arm reaches out to the tank
  valve, just like with a fluid wagon. Pump towards the truck to fill it, away to empty it.
  Each tank can be served from either side, with the pump on either side of the valve.
• Moving the truck disconnects it instantly.
• Its window shows the fuel and one bar per tank in the colour of its fluid.
• Recipe: 1 Heavy truck, 5 advanced circuits, 2 storage tanks, 5 engine units, 15 plastic bars.
• Research: red + green + blue science, after Fluid handling.

Artillery Truck

Mobile long-range artillery.

• Deploy it when stopped (button in its window or Shift + G): four stabilizers plant on
  the ground and the gun rises. It cannot be driven while anchored. Fold it the same way.
• Fires vanilla artillery shells (any ammo of the artillery-shell category) in a
  70° cone ahead, with half the range of the artillery wagon (112, minimum 32).
  Artillery range, shooting speed and damage research all apply.
• Manual fire by the driver: the shoot key, or the targeting tool (Shift + T or the
  shortcut bar), which also works from the map and shows the range cone.
• Automatic fire: a switch in its window; when deployed it fires on its own at enemy
  spawners and worms inside its cone.
• The artillery targeting remote does not command it: it is a truck you drive and aim.
• Holds up to 100 shells of one type, loaded from its window (no trunk).
• Recipe: 1 Heavy truck, 1 artillery turret, 1 radar, 5 processing units
  (+ 10 tungsten plates and 5 tungsten carbide with Space Age).
• Research: the artillery science packs, after Artillery.

Logistic Truck

A mobile logistics hub.

• Carries a compact roboport (1 robot slot + 1 repair pack slot, logistics radius 25,
  construction radius 50) and the five logistic chests (passive and active provider,
  storage, requester and buffer), 5 slots each, plus a small 20-slot trunk.
• Its network travels with it and keeps working while driving; robots follow the truck.
  When it overlaps your network they merge, and the game picks the closest chest and
  robots, so the truck serves whatever is near it.
• Self-powered: its solar panels (as much as 10 vanilla ones) charge a 50 MJ battery
  (10 accumulators). Parked within reach of a power pole, it also charges from the grid.
  The vanilla "no power" icon appears if it runs low.
• Robots come and go through the roboport iris hatch, which opens like the real one,
  and the antenna spins.
• A panel next to the car window shows the roboport, the battery and the five chests; each
  chest opens its own vanilla window to set requests.
• Recipe: 1 Heavy truck, 1 roboport, 5 steel chests, 10 solar panels, 10 accumulators,
  5 advanced circuits, 15 electronic circuits.
• Research: after Logistic system.

Radar Truck

A radar on wheels.

• Driving, it has the range of the game's radar.
• Stopped, raise its mast (button in its window or Shift + G): the antenna goes up and the
  stairs come down, for twice the range. It can't be driven while the mast is up.
• Runs on its own solar panels and battery, and charges from the electric grid when parked
  within reach of a pole.
• Recipe: 1 Heavy truck, 10 accumulators, 10 solar panels, 1 radar, 10 advanced circuits,
  20 electronic circuits.
• Research: red, green and blue science, after the Heavy truck, Advanced circuits, Solar energy and
  Electric energy accumulators.

V3 Launcher (Space Age)

A late-game mobile launcher for one enormous missile, inspired by the V3 of Red Alert 2.

• Used exactly like the Artillery Truck: deploy it when stopped (Shift + G), the four
  stabilizers plant and the launcher raises the missile; fire it by hand (shoot key or the
  targeting tool, Shift + T, also from the map) or in automatic mode with target priorities.
• Launches in a 70° cone ahead with more range than the artillery wagon (300, minimum 48;
  artillery range research applies).
• The missile climbs high, steers towards the target trailing smoke and lands with an
  enormous explosion (10-tile radius), destroying cliffs too.
• Carries one missile at a time, visible on its ramp (also while driving); load it by hand, with
  Ctrl / Shift + click or with inserters. Its nose and fins take the truck's colour.
• On the map, the missile is seen flying like an artillery shell, and the impact area is revealed live.
• V3 missile recipe: 10 rocket fuel, 10 explosives, 5 low density structures,
  5 advanced circuits, 10 steel plates.
• Recipe: 1 Heavy truck, 10 quantum processors, 50 lithium plates, 20 tungsten plates,
  20 low density structures, 20 processing units.
• Research: all science packs up to cryogenic, after Artillery and Quantum processor.

Quality

Quality trucks are better, like the game's train wagons:

• All trucks: +10 % engine power per quality level (faster acceleration and top speed) and −5 % fuel per level. Legendary: ×1.5 power, ×0.75 fuel.
• Tanker Truck: bigger tanks, like the fluid wagon (legendary: 62,500 each).
• Artillery Truck: longer range, like the artillery wagon (legendary: +50 %).
• Logistic Truck: its chests get more slots (legendary: 12). The roboport stays the same, as quality doesn't change the game's roboports either.

Settings

Every truck except the Heavy Truck can be switched off with a startup setting. Each player can hide the Heavy Truck's cargo with a per-player setting.

Credits

Made by Wolfenstain.

Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: free to use and share, no commercial use, no modified versions.

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