Vehicles

Vehicles get you across the steppe fast, carry cargo in their trunk, and the later ones fight for you. All three are items: you place them in the world, drive them, and pick them up again.

Overview

	Steam Buggy	Armored Car	Rune Tank
Epoch	2	3	4
Unlocked by	Automobilism	Armored Vehicles	Rune Tank
Fuel	Any fuel in the trunk (Wood, Coal, ...)	Any fuel in the trunk	Batteries in the trunk (5 MJ each)
Consumption while driving	150 kW	300 kW	500 kW
Trunk	20 slots	40 slots	40 slots
Weapon	none	Machine gun: 5 shots per second, 18 blocks	Rune cannon: 1 Rocket per second, 120 damage, 24 blocks
Ammunition		Cartridges from the trunk (5, 8 or 16 damage per shot by type)	Rockets from the trunk
Noise while driving	20 per minute	30 per minute	40 per minute
Recipe	8 Engine Unit + 20 Iron Plate + 5 Steel Plate	1 Steam Buggy + 50 Steel Plate + 10 Advanced Circuit + 1 Assault Rifle	1 Armored Car + 20 Rune Slate + 10 Electric Engine + 1 Rocket Launcher

Controls

Action	How
Place	Right-click a block with the vehicle item in your hand
Get in and drive	Use the vehicle. Steer with your normal movement keys; the camera switches to third person.
Get out	Dismount as from a mount in Hytale
Open the trunk	Crouch and Use
Pick it up	Crouch and hit it

When you pick up a vehicle, it goes into your inventory together with everything in its trunk. What does not fit drops on the ground in front of you. You cannot pick it up while someone has its trunk open.

In the Armored Car and the Rune Tank you sit inside and cannot be seen.

Fuel

Put fuel into the trunk (crouch and Use). The vehicle burns it while you drive; when it runs out, you are dropped out with the message "The vehicle is out of fuel". The Steam Buggy and the Armored Car burn the same fuels as your machines, such as Wood or Coal. The Rune Tank runs only on Batteries.

In Creative mode, driving costs no fuel.

Vehicle weapons

The Armored Car and the Rune Tank fire on their own while you drive. They aim like a tower: first the nearest attack group, then a War Golem, then a nest within range. Ammunition comes from the trunk, so keep cartridges or rockets in it. Each shot uses one item, taken in trunk order, and nothing is used while no target is in range. The machine gun deals 5 damage per shot with a Cartridge, 8 with a Steel Cartridge and 16 with a Uranium Cartridge.

Damage

Vehicles do not take damage: not from creatures, missed shots, falling or water.

Noise

Driving makes noise like a running machine. A long drive past a nest can draw an attack group to where you are. See Noise and Unrest.

See also

• Weapons
• Enemies
• Railways
• Power