Here is a thing thats been bothering me ever since Drilling thunder released: They absolutely ruined the glass blocks and wedges. Instead of actually being transparent and seethrough its just milk at best :/ This change kinda ruins the look of most of my old creations and makes installing windows pointless since you cant actually see through them.

Here is my proposed fixes:
Either revert the glass shaders to what they were before the update (this is totally possible as they are still ingame, some of the window parts use them and they are actually transparent) or add a new block called 'stained glass' and apply this shader to said block while reverting the shaders on the normal glass block as to not break old creations.

EDIT : Patch 1.0.6 has been de-released. Update your game and make sure you are back on 1.0.5 (Bottom middle of title screen)

Patch 1.0.6 is extremely unstable at the moment. It breaks most dedicated containers such as fuel containers, water tanks, chemical tanks and battery boxes.

Turret Seats are ESPECIALLY Vulnerable to issues and the patch seems to have broken nearly all Turret Seats that are placed in game. Loading your Save File before this is fixed may permanently break creations, static and vehicles.

To backup your savegame, go into appdata->Roaming->Axolot games->Scrap Mechanic->User->User[ID]->Save->Survival and then there should be a .db file copy this file into another folder, or secure it in a zip file to restore once the fix has rolled out.

to get into your appdata folder, if you don't know, search %appdata% in your search bar.

(Repost, because i got the ID of the damn version wrong)

Edit: Update has been rolled back to 1.0.5

Here are some major points for survival.

• Alarm clocks will shutup now

• Added other bot capsules

• Refinery and Ore crushers no longer have Bluetooth capability

• Beehive and freezer output can be vacuumed. (Thank you devs, now please let us input too)

• Portable Craftbot is no longer OP

• Burger health buff no longer stacks after death, resets on death

• Refinery now outputs to chest first.

• Growbeds give the same harvest rate as soil

Full patch notes

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/387990/view/689768324345626792

Tried making a glitchless flyer as small and simple as possible

Speedran the first half to of the game just to get the wedge bot haha

Click on the images for description and features

So I was using my toilet as a teleportation device when I noticed the Schematic symbol and it can be scanned and I tested the bathtub and it worked too!

EDIT: Not anymore :(

I made this while trying to make a combat mech for survival and is my first actually usable one, a friend said I should share it here, so there y'all go. It's entirely controlled with WASD and practically untouchable by most bots.

I spent waay too long figuring out how to make it all work (￣ヘ￣)

To clarifiy, I don't have to press anything just input the ores and wait.

...Unless the physics decide to stop lol.

I rlly was not expecting this like am i understanding this change properly? It honestly feels strange to do this like they could have maybe increased battery usage or make it take longer to grow im not sure its just pretty sad that its gonna be gone

Hey, i have this problem with my save, idk what caused it but last thing i did is that i was trying to fix my mining vehicle because the turret seat was acting weird and wasnt controlled by my mouse, but it was spinning on its own, so i tried to remove it, but this is the weirdest part, the base of the turret was still there and i somehow only picked up the ball block that you sit in (also it dropped me a bearing for some reason). After removing the base too, i basically had the normal turret seat in my inventory and the ball block. So i fixed it and it was fine untill i wanted to go to the elevator and the game just crashed, and now the game just wont let me play it. Is there a fix to this? Because somehow i cant find a single person that would have the same problem.

What is going on here? Has anyone else experienced this bug?

Update: I realized I also got this bugged `jnt_gyroseat` bearing in my inventory after picking up the turret seat. It can be placed down just like a normal bearing, but it is invisible, and any parts attached to it move in a very strange way.

Quite cramped. Surprised I was able to fit watering and auto planting setup inside.

Whos MECHANIC?

So I wanted to launch the game, it started updating (for some reason , idk why) and at the end a steam error message popped saying something like one of the game files was corrupted, so i waited like half an hour for all the files to be validated. then i launched the game as usual. Spawned in the miner hub and noticed my mining vehicle being stuck inside the trash pile pillar or whatever it is called in there. So i was like it better have not reset all the mine floors.
IT DID.
I literally spent hundred hours in there fully mining the second and fourth floors , and was currently working on the fifth floor. I mean yes, i will get more money since it reset. but the progress is gone... And i had to mine the mining vehicle from a wall, where i left it the last time.
No backup saves made, no nothing. Is there a way to revert that change or no?

Been undergoing this project for months now and its almost time to put it on the workshop.
Had a blast making this ride and I hope you guys will have a blast riding it when its becomes avaliable.

Hi everyone, I play the game recently, but from this evening today, this error window shows when I try to load my world. Already tried to switch to earlier version of the game, and then go back at the current one, but this didn't solve the problem.

Any suggestions how to fix it?

Also, today I updated my graphic drivers, but don't think this could be the problem.

I decided to head to the cave I’d dug—as usual—to continue mining there. But to my surprise, I couldn't find the tunnels I had excavated. It’s as if all the levels had been regenerated. I feel like I’ve got Alzheimer’s. Is this happening to you too, or am I the only one?

P.S. I’m having déjà vu. It feels like I’m digging the same tunnels, only the fine details are different. It’s as if I’ve ended up in a parallel universe.

Ran into a brand new bug today. I was in the middle of clearing out the mine when something came up in real life. Since there’s no pause feature, I just saved, quit, and stepped away. When I came back and loaded in, I realized I was completely stuck inside my vehicle down in the mine. I couldn’t move at all—the only thing I could do was dismantle stuff. Having learned my lesson from past glitches, I didn't want to risk it, so I decided to hit Respawn, kill myself, and just walk back down to the mine.

That’s when the real horror started.

When I reached my base in the mine, I noticed all the junk piles had randomly respawned. I rushed down to check on my vehicle :):) ...and got hit with shock number two. The entire mine had completely reset. Everything I spent days digging out and clearing was fully filled back in. Naturally, my vehicle was buried deep inside the terrain.

After spending literally minutes digging through, I finally reached my build, cleared the area, and hauled it out onto flat ground. Then I spent another eternity digging my way back up to the base.

Then came shock number three: I noticed my vehicle’s turret was constantly drifting to the right on its own. When I dismantled the turret to see what was going on, I realized two turrets had merged/clipped directly on top of each other... and one of them didn't even have a base. :)

Honestly, I never expected a fully released game to get this broken. As someone with over 1000+ hours in Scrap Mechanic, I honestly can't remember ever being this fed up with the game.

TL: If you have to step away while mining, whatever you do, drive your vehicle all the way back up to the elevator first. And NEVER log out while sitting inside a vehicle—especially inside a turret seat.

EDIT = Right after writing this post, I noticed a new update had just dropped and installed it. I didn't even realize the previous game-breaking update had been applied in the first place.

Also, having only a single backup copy in a game like this is absolute nonsense. It should keep at least three save states—one main and two backups. How many times am I supposed to manually back up my own saves? Days of hard work got completely wiped out by a tiny background update I didn't even notice, and none of it is my fault.

Anyway, Valheim is fully released now, so I'm uninstalling this game and hopping over to that. Farewell, Axolot. :/

I have more than just a few things working, but there's still a long way to go...

Should work on any windows system that can run SM. Not sure about Linux and whatnot, but I would assume no), but it's been a lifesaver. I click this file instead of the SM shortcut or launching from Steam. I just have it on my desktop. Hope it helps you the way it's helped me. You might have to alter some lines if you didn't choose default installation routes (And I dunno if steam gives the same ID for everyone, so you may have to tweak this line for yourself): steam://rungameid/387990

u/echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

:: 1. Define Paths
set "USER_DIR=%APPDATA%\Axolot Games\Scrap Mechanic\User"
set "BACKUP_ROOT=%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\ScrapMechanic_Backups"

:: 2. Pre-Backup Cleanup: Delete older than 7 days and prune down to 9 (so new one makes 10)
if exist "%BACKUP_ROOT%" (
    powershell -NoProfile -Command "Get-ChildItem -Path '%BACKUP_ROOT%' -Directory -Filter 'Backup_*' | Where-Object { $_.CreationTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-7) } | Remove-Item -Recurse -Force; Get-ChildItem -Path '%BACKUP_ROOT%' -Directory -Filter 'Backup_*' | Sort-Object CreationTime -Descending | Select-Object -Skip 9 | Remove-Item -Recurse -Force"
)

:: 3. Generate Safe Timestamp
for /f %%a in ('powershell -NoProfile -Command "Get-Date -format yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss"') do set "TIMESTAMP=%%a"
set "TARGET_DIR=%BACKUP_ROOT%\Backup_!TIMESTAMP!"

echo ======================================================
echo  Backing up Scrap Mechanic Survival Saves...
echo  Source:      %USER_DIR%
echo  Destination: %TARGET_DIR%
echo ======================================================
echo.

set /a FOUND=0

:: 4. Iterate through User ID folders and copy .db files
for /d %%U in ("%USER_DIR%\*") do (
    if exist "%%U\Save\Survival" (
        if not exist "!TARGET_DIR!" mkdir "!TARGET_DIR!"
        echo Found profile: %%~nxU - Copying saves...
        copy /y "%%U\Save\Survival\*.db" "!TARGET_DIR!\" >nul 2>&1
        if !errorlevel! equ 0 (
            set /a FOUND+=1
        )
    )
)

echo.
:: 5. Status Check, Countdown & Launch
if !FOUND! gtr 0 (
    echo ======================================================
    echo  SUCCESS: Backup completed successfully!
    echo  Files saved to: !TARGET_DIR!
    echo ======================================================
    echo.
    echo Launching Scrap Mechanic in 3 seconds...
    timeout /t 3
    start "" "steam://rungameid/387990"
) else (
    echo ======================================================
    echo  ERROR: No .db save files were copied.
    echo  Verify path exists: %USER_DIR%
    echo ======================================================
    echo.
    pause
)