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Scrap Mechanic 1.0 Guides
Practical Scrap Mechanic 1.0 guides covering save compatibility, release changes, crafting and schematics, raid rules, quest progression, blueprints and material planning.
Getting started & progression6
What changed in 1.0, where the story sends you, and what to do first in a new Survival world.
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Scrap Mechanic Survival Beginner Guide (1.0)
From the crash landing to your first working vehicle: which food is worth eating, where the Respawn Bed goes, and the beginner mistakes that cost an afternoon. - 02
Scrap Mechanic Update: Drilling Thunder 1.0 Guide
Scrap Mechanic Drilling Thunder launched free with version 1.0 on July 24, 2026. This Scrap Mechanic update guide covers patch 1.0.1, major features, saves, mods, PC requirements, and data-backed differences from 0.7. - 09
Scrap Mechanic 1.0 Quest Progression and Rewards
Understand main quests, side objectives, tracker messages, successor links, variable job rewards, and a reliable way to diagnose stalled progress. - 12
Scrap Mechanic Survival Map Guide: Locations & Save Maps
Learn which parts of a Scrap Mechanic Survival map depend on the seed, how to read exact and area markers, how to render a local 1.0 save, and how to plan routes without mistaking a reference world for your own. - 29
Scrap Mechanic Characters: Hubert, Lorenzo, Phae and Wonk
Who the 1.0 story characters are, what they tell you about themselves, and how each one connects to the quests they appear in. Spoilers are folded. - 30
Scrap Mechanic 1.0 Story: The Main Quest Line in Order
The 21 main quests of the 1.0 campaign, grouped into the chains the game actually links them in, with every plot reveal kept behind a spoiler fold.
Farming & raids7
Crop values, raid thresholds, timing rules, and how to plant without inviting a wave you cannot hold.
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Scrap Mechanic 1.0 Raid Guide: Crops, Levels and Timing
Calculate current raid pressure from crop value, understand every threshold boundary, and separate a predictable budget from a random enemy wave. - 13
How to Get Cotton in Scrap Mechanic: Plants and Seeds
Cotton comes off wild cotton plants you pick by hand. Ruin chests and loot crates hold some too, and Seedbots carry the seeds you need to grow your own. - 15
How to Get Beeswax in Scrap Mechanic: Hives and Wheels
Break a wild beehive for Beeswax, or build your own hive and let it turn flowers into wax. Ruin chests carry a little, and every wheel in the game wants some. - 16
How to Get Glow in Scrap Mechanic and Build a Glow Farm
Glowbugs drop Glow, and feeding them Cardboard Blocks turns it into a farm. Mixed deposits and ruin chests cover the rest. Glow feeds batteries and fertilizer. - 21
Scrap Mechanic Raid Levels and Crop Values Explained
Every raid threshold, crop value and budget band in one place, plus the multiplayer modifier and the 60-second countdown that decides when the bots arrive. - 22
How to Stop or Disable Raids in Scrap Mechanic Survival
The /stopraid and /disableraids commands need developer mode. Without them, crop value is the only lever. Both routes, and what each one costs you. - 23
Scrap Mechanic Farm Defense Guide: Build for the Wave
What turns up at each raid level, where the bots land, and how to lay out a farm that survives Farmbots. Plus what the Seekerbot changes about base siting.
Crafting & economy10
Recipes, schematic gates, station speed, trade routes, and the material maths behind a build.
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Scrap Mechanic 1.0 Crafting and Schematics
Understand production routes, schematic gates, batch rounding, surplus, crafter timing, and the difference between a recipe and an unlock. - 06
Schematicbot Unlock Guide: Pool Rules and Probabilities
How random schematic boxes, owned-part unlocks, duplicate removal, and linked block recipes actually interact in the current data. - 07
Craftbot Upgrades, Slots and Crafting Time Explained
Compare every Craftbot level correctly by separating queue capacity, speed, parallel execution, and whole-batch timing. - 10
Crafting Calculator Guide: Exact Material Planning
Turn a build goal into executable batches, preserve surplus, subtract owned materials correctly, and review route choices before gathering. - 11
How to Read the Scrap Mechanic Item and Recipe Database
Find current items, distinguish recipes from uses, compare acquisition routes, and interpret versioned game data without overclaiming. - 14
How to Get Ember in Scrap Mechanic and Farm More of It
Ember comes from burned trees, and one Craftbot recipe turns a single Ember plus scrap wood into five. Here is the loop that keeps Metal Block 2 and 3 flowing. - 17
How to Get Component Kits Fast in Scrap Mechanic
Farmbots hand over three Component Kits every time, warehouse reward chests give ten at once, and one crop crate buys twenty. The fastest run for each stage. - 18
How to Get Circuit Boards in Scrap Mechanic: Craft or Farm
Yellow Totebots drop a Circuit Board every time and Farmbots drop three. You can also craft them from Plastic Blocks and Quartz, or buy ten with a Banana Crate. - 19
Scrap Mechanic Metal Blocks: How to Get Level 1, 2 and 3
Metal Block Level 2 and 3 are crafted, not found. The full ladder from scrap metal upward, the Ember and Water each step costs, and what the loot tables add. - 20
Scrap Mechanic Wood Guide: Logs, Scrap Wood and Blocks
Chop trees, refine the logs into Scrap Wood Blocks, then climb to Wood Block Level 1, 2 and 3. The full chain, the crate odds, and what wood quietly pays for.
Building & engineering7
Blueprints, part counts, and the structural checks that keep a creation working after an update.
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Blueprint Analyzer Guide: BOM and Shape Counts
Read blueprint parts, block units, bodies, joints and stored contents without confusing a structural audit with a Survival crafting bill. - 28
Scrap Mechanic Mods and Steam Workshop: Getting Started
How subscribing works, the kinds of content the Workshop carries, and what a modded world keeps depending on once you unsubscribe or the mod stops updating. - 31
Scrap Mechanic Logic Gates: Truth Tables and Circuits
All six gate modes with the rule the game prints for each, two-input and three-input truth tables, and wiring for a NOT, memory bit, clock and chase. - 32
Gas vs Electric Engine in Scrap Mechanic: What Gears Do
Both engines share one gear ladder and read it in opposite ways: gas gears set torque, electric gears set speed. Level table, fuel costs and which to build. - 33
Scrap Mechanic Suspension: Sport vs Off-Road and Best Setup
Sport and Off-Road run the same 20 step stiffness ladder and differ only in travel. Level table, what each upgrade unlocks, and how to lay out a wishbone. - 34
Scrap Mechanic Bearings and Tank Steering Explained
There is one Bearing in the game and it has no levels. What drives it decides how it behaves, which is why differential tank steering needs an Electric Engine. - 35
Scrap Mechanic Pistons and Vacuum Pumps: Setup and Uses
Pistons are upgrade only past level 1 and carry their own length and speed settings. Vacuum Pumps move items and water through pipes. Costs and wiring for both.
Troubleshooting & FAQ5
Saves, Steam branches, mods, and short answers to the questions that keep coming back.
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Returning to Scrap Mechanic 1.0: Save Compatibility
A safe decision guide for old Survival saves, Creative worlds, mods, backups, and choosing the right Steam branch. - 24
Scrap Mechanic Crashing or Not Launching: What to Check
Checks with an official basis: the published PC requirements, the current patch, mod warnings, Steam launch options, and the Physics Quality setting. - 25
Scrap Mechanic Save Location and How to Back It Up
Where Survival worlds, blueprints and settings live on Windows, what each folder holds, and a backup routine that survives a branch switch or a mod change. - 26
Scrap Mechanic Error Messages: Joints, Parts and Builds
The exact wording of every alert the game shows while building, what each one is about, and which ones have no published trigger worth guessing at. - 27
Scrap Mechanic Keybinds and Settings Worth Changing
Every rebindable action, the ten Physics Quality levels, the six volume sliders, and which tab holds the setting that fixes the problem you actually have.