ScissorLift

ScissorLift

Skip the long ramps: a fuel-powered scissor lift carries you, your tamed animals and your cargo up to 8 m, then drives to wherever you need it next.

At a glance

• E up, Shift + E down. A 2 × 2 m plank deck rises on crossed iron arms and stops smoothly wherever you tell it.
• Everyone rides. Players, tamed animals and dropped items on the deck travel with it, without being thrown off at the top.
• Drive it. Take the stick on the deck and roll the lift on four wheels, turning in a circle about 3 m across, and raise or lower the deck without letting go of the stick.
• Real hydraulics. A pump burns Coal, one for every 5 m of lifting or driving; going down is free. Fill it like a smelter, or straight from nearby chests with AzuCraftyBoxes.
• Safe by design. It stops short of roofs, beams and anyone underneath, and the hammer can't take it down while someone stands on it.
• Mind the slopes. Raise the deck too high on sloping ground and it tips over, riders and all, with a warning as it leans.
• Fits your build. It snaps under a 2 × 2 m hole in a floor and keeps its height through logouts and restarts, the same for every player.

Needs Jotunn. Everyone on the server needs ScissorLift, the host included. AzuCraftyBoxes is optional.

Features

The lift

• Built to work. A plank deck with a dark wooden rim and iron corners, on crossed iron arms with a bolt at every pivot. Two bronze rams push the lowest X open and the rest follow.
• Taller lifts, more arms. Two X stages up to 3.4 m, three up to 5 m, five up to 8 m, ten up to 16 m.
• Its own height. Each lift has its own top height, from 1 m up to the host's limit (8 m by default). A new lift goes to 4 m.
• Smooth ride. 1 m/s by default, with a gentle start and stop at each end. Either key stops it mid-way, like a real lift's buttons.
• Walk on. While the deck is all the way down, invisible ramps on the front, left and right let you walk on instead of jumping.
• A lever on the ground. A lever by the pump calls the lift up or down from below.

Riding and safety

• Stops for what is in the way. It halts 5 cm short of a roof or beam above the deck, the lever or a rider's head, and of anyone standing under it. Clear the way and press again to carry on.
• Safe to stand on. The hammer can't remove a lift while someone stands on the deck.
• Ward-aware. Using a lift or changing its height needs the permission of any ward covering it.

Fuel and oil

• A pump that burns fuel. Behind the base stands a wooden pump with a bronze oil tank, a firebox and a chimney. Going up and driving burn Coal (one for every 5 m); going down is free. Low on fuel, it goes as far as the fuel takes it.
• Fuel like any station. E on the pump puts in one Coal, and holding E keeps adding at the game's own pace. The hover and messages read like a smelter's (Lift pump (Coal 7/20), Added Coal, It's full).
• Fuel from chests. With AzuCraftyBoxes installed, a press with no Coal on you takes one from a chest nearby, by AzuCraftyBoxes' own rules. Its fill-all key fills the pump in one go (unless that key is Shift).
• Oil. A new material, made at the workbench from Resin. Each lift takes some to build.

Driving

• Take the stick. Forward and back at 0.5 m/s, 1 m/s with Shift. The front wheels steer like a cart's.
• Deck up and down on the move. Hold E or Q to raise or lower the deck without letting go of the stick. The lift pauses while the deck moves and rolls on when it stops.
• Key hints. Small hints at the bottom right show the driving keys, in the game's own style.
• Handles rough ground. Each wheel rolls up steps of up to 35 cm and down dips of up to 60 cm, and the lift leans with the ground. It stops at edges, deep drops, deep water and anything in the way.

Tipping over

On sloping ground a lift leans, and the higher its deck, the gentler the slope it can stand. With the deck folded it stands on slopes over 50 degrees; at 2 m about 24; at 4 m about 13; at 8 m about 7. It is steadiest backwards, where the pump props it. Too high or too steep, and it falls over, deck and riders and all; fall damage is the game's own. Players nearby are warned as it leans. A fallen lift lies on its side until someone stands it up again with E.

Sound and messages

• An iron clank when it starts and stops and a wooden creak while it moves (the game's own gate and cart sounds).
• Soft, fast beeps while a wheel is off the ground as it drives or moves its deck. A steady driving beep can be turned on.
• Its messages (no fuel, deck at the top and the like) show small in the top left corner, like the game's own notes.

How to use

The Scissor lift is in the Hammer's Misc tab and needs a Workbench. Default cost: 10 Fine wood, 10 Wood, 6 Iron and 2 Oil. Make Oil at the Workbench from 3 Resin.

1. Build it on the ground or a floor. Its corners snap to floor corners, so it lines up under a 2 × 2 m hole above. Leave a little room at the back for the pump (the building ghost shows it).
2. Set its height: Shift + E on the pump.
3. Fuel it: E on the pump, or hold E to fill it (it holds 20). Coal from your hotbar works too.
4. Ride it: walk onto the folded deck and press E. Shift + E brings it down; either key stops it.
5. Call it from below with the lever by the pump.
6. Drive it: stand on the deck, look at the stick and press E. Jump to let go. Mind slopes with the deck up.