Heavy Trucks (Vanilla+)

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.

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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).