Scrap Mechanic: Drilling Thunder - OUT NOW!

Scrap Mechanic is finally jumping into 1.0 with a blast in what is by far our biggest update yet! Along with extensive optimizations that dramatically improve both game performance and visuals, this update features the long-awaited Drilling Thunder expansion. It revamps Survival mode with new locations, a ton of fresh content, and a full story. Whether you are a veteran mechanic whose constructions are collecting dust, or a newcomer ready to engineer incredible machines, the time to get back into Scrap Mechanic is now!

Major Changes & New Features

Story and NPCs
Embark on the main quest to find out why the bots have gone rogue on the Farming Planet. But most importantly, find a way back home after your ship crashed! For the first time in Scrap Mechanic, the Survival experience comes with a full story from beginning to end, featuring fully voice-acted NPCs.

World Overhaul
The current world has been expanded with brand-new locations and growlabs to explore. Clear out newly updated ruins, meet random NPCs who need your help, and collect fun rewards! The terrain has also gone through major changes, featuring beautiful new tiles as well as reworked terrain generation. Drive through new forest roads and cross the desert biome, but avoid the tornadoes… or don’t!

Excavation Island
A brand-new area of the world is now available, filled with countless new discoveries. Venture deep into the dark caves of the abandoned mine, blast your plasma drills through the rock, and unearth rare treasures and forgotten secrets hidden beneath the surface.

New Building Parts
For all you builders out there, a ton of new building parts have been added, allowing players to build completely unique creations that were never possible before! There are a massive amount of new blocks, parts, and interactive parts to get creative with. Best of all, these are also available in Creative mode right away!

New Enemies
Previously, we only had five bots in Survival mode, but that number more than doubles with this update! These new bots create some really interesting encounters and encourage creative new combat and defense gameplay. Survival mode will never be the same now that we’ve let these bots loose into the wild!

Caution! Be extra careful with the Red Explosive Totebot. He is highly problematic, and we strongly recommend prioritizing him in all combat situations.

The Claygun: Shape the Terrain!
We are very excited to introduce the Claygun, available in both Creative and Survival modes! This tool introduces a completely new way of building and shaping the ground. Don’t like the terrain? With the Claygun, you can completely change it! However, if you think you can easily barricade yourself from bots with a little bit of clay, you are in for a surprise. Some bots can dig now!

New Garments to Customize Your Character
Let’s admit it, there can never be enough cool new garments to customize your mechanic! This update comes loaded with a bunch of new shirts and outfits to collect. Some are much harder to obtain than others! If you love collecting garments, you will really enjoy this update.

New Player Friendly Onboarding
We made sure new players have a smooth start in Survival mode by introducing simple guidelines that help at the beginning without taking away the player freedom. We also added builder quests to guide you through making your first creations.

Improved Network Responsiveness
This update comes with a massive wave of optimizations, but the one we think multiplayer fans will appreciate the most is the improved network responsiveness for connected players. This drastically smoothens out the multiplayer experience in Scrap Mechanic!

Quality of life improvements
A large amount of quality of life improvements have been added.
For example! Large chests can now pick up loot bubbles. Blocks can be force placed. Players can press shift to increase the engine speed by a notch while driving. Water buckets can pick water from a water container and more!

Resource and Crafting Rebalance
Big changes have been made to recipes and resource collecting, reducing the grind and making the experience flow much better while feeling more rewarding. We also introduced a new HP system that is more fun to manage with perks from Cookbot food.

Schematic Bot
Players can now use the Schematicbot to unlock new parts in the Craftbot. This update lets creations in Survival match the creativity and detail of Creative mode.

Garage
The new garage in Scrap City can build creations made in both survival and creative modes. Have a great creation from creative mode that you wish you could spawn in survival? Now it is possible!

Steam Achievements
With the 1.0 release, we have finally added Steam Achievements! There are definitely some wacky ones to hunt down, alongside some really challenging goals for the completionists out there. See if you can unlock them all!

Next-Gen Visual Upgrade!

Get ready for a massive visual overhaul that brings Scrap Mechanic to life like never before. We are introducing a 100% dynamic lighting and weather system that dramatically enhances your immersion, all without requiring expensive ray-tracing hardware!

• Next-Gen Lighting: Experience up to 512 dynamic light sources on-screen at once, delivering flawless volumetric sunlight, smooth day-to-night transitions, and global illumination.
• A Living, Breathing World: Explore a universe featuring fully volumetric clouds, responsive weather, realistic water rendering, and grass that physically reacts to your character's movements.
• Stunning Material Detail: Enjoy a brand-new custom material system that creates hyper-detailed, lifelike rendering for skin, metal, and foliage.

And Much More!

This is just a summary of the most significant changes, but there is so much more to discover! It is tricky to fit everything we’ve done over the last 6 years into a single list, so we are leaving a lot of it as a surprise for you to find in-game.

A Personal Message from the Dev Team

We are finally moving into version 1.0! Some of us have been working on Scrap Mechanic since 2011. It has defined a huge part of our lives and reflects years of genuine dedication. Scrap Mechanic is a unique game that is technically very challenging to make, but we never gave up, nor did we cut any corners. We are incredibly proud of that. We feel that this massive update truly delivers on the promises we made so many years ago.

Thank you all for your amazing support and patience over the years! Reaching this milestone was only possible because of you. We hope you really enjoy the 1.0 release and the Drilling Thunder update!

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