📜Make a Hauling Rover from Scratch
Informational Guide on the Duskwork's Hauling Rover and trivia on previous usage from the Ad Astra Landings.
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Informational Guide on the Duskwork's Hauling Rover and trivia on previous usage from the Ad Astra Landings.
Last updated
Hauling rovers hold nearly the same celebrity status of the original exploring rovers save for missing the beloved cuteness factor of the rover. In the Ad Astra Landings these hauling rovers were equipped with large cargo beds and a set of four massive rock grinders. The main difference between the old hauling rover designs and the current ones are the implementation of autonomous AI. These hauling rovers are utilized in the construction of larger buildings and larger-scale mining operations.
The Duskwork's Hauling Rover functions identical to the Ad Astra Development Zone hauling rovers, except kept in the traditional yellow finish that became synonymous with the first colonization of Mars.
As a self-reliant Martian, you will have a chance to learn how to produce all the necessary materials and parts to make your rovers. At the moment, you can create two types of rovers: Hauling and Exploring.
On this page, we will look at how to get from nothing to a Hauling Rover in a couple of days. We'll overview the process and then show you the details of each step in the process.
Here is a list of all the buildings and the recipes you'll need to use to create the Hauling Rover.
Smelt Aluminum
2-15 Aluminum Ore
Smelt Titanium
2-15 Titanium Ore
Smelt Iron
2-15 Iron Ore
Smelt Copper
2-15 Copper Ore
Make Aluminum Plate
2-10 Aluminum Plate
Make Titanium Plate
2-10 Titanium Plate
Make Machined Parts
1-4 Machined Parts
Weld Rover Chassis
1-2 Rover Chassis
Make Rover Wheels
1-2 Rover Wheels
Make Electronic Parts
1-4 Electronic Parts
Make Structural Parts
1-4 Structural Parts
Produce Methane
1 Methane | 2 Water
Split Water
2 Hydrogen | 1 Oxygen
Filter Water
16 Water | 4 Regolith
Any Regolith Mining Task
100-200 Regolith
Capture Carbon Dioxide
1-15 Carbon Dioxide.
And of course, you'll need a RoverWorks, to complete the build and send your Rover out on missions!
For our first step in the make a hauling rover process, we'll need to dig up some regolith off of the Mars surface. You'll need to head on over to your Mining Rig.
Down in the Tasks section, you'll want to mining some Regolith. For Regolith Mining I, you'll need:
1 Task Capacity
2 Stamina
20 Power
Now that we've set up our Mining Rig, we'll go locate our Sabatier Reactor and open it up.
Just like in the previous step, we go down to the Tasks section and we're going to do the task: Split Water I, this will split the water and give us some Hydrogen for making PVC and Oxygen. You will need:
1 Task Capacity
1 Stamina
1 Water
10 power
In order to make the extremely important, yet smelly gas of Methane for later production of PVC, you'll need to use the Produce Methane task and have the following:
1 Task Capacity
2 Stamina
1 Carbon Dioxide
4 Hydrogen
10 Power
The Sabatier Reactor creates a bit of water, but we'll need more later on to create the PVC plastic for our more advanced recipes. You can head over to your Water Filter to produce more water.
The filtering process will take the ice that you recovered off of the Mars surface or purchased from any of your fellow settlers and filter it into pure Water. You do this process by choosing the task: Filter Water. You will need:
1 Task Capacity
1 Stamina
40 Ice
10 Power
Next, let have our C.A.D. produce carbon dioxide, you'll need this to smelt steel later on:
The Cryogenic Atmospheric Distiller, will pull air out of the atmosphere, freeze it and then further distill it into its individual parts. For this step we'll be pulling Carbon Dioxide out of it. Use the Capture Carbon Dioxide task, you'll need:
1 Task Capacity
1 Stamina
40 Power
Next, we're going to use the Smelter to smelt out various ores from the Regolith, as such you'll want a decent amount of Regolith before these next steps.
The following ores will be necessary for the production of a Rover.
Aluminum Ore
Titanium Ore
Steel
Iron Ore
Copper Ore
Let's make some Aluminum ore first, you want to click on "SMELT ALUMINUM" and make sure you have the following resources. Aluminum will be used for various parts of the Rover, including Machined Parts.
1 Task Capacity
5 Stamina
1,000 Regolith
40 Power
Next, let's make some Titanium ore. You want to click on "SMELT TITANIUM" and make sure you have the following resources. Titanium plates will be used to create Structrual Parts.
1 Task Capacity
4 Stamina
2500 Regolith
40 Power
Next, we want to make iron. Click on "SMELT IRON" and make sure you have the following resources. The Iron will mostly be used to make steel.
1 Task Capacity
500 Regolith
2 Stamina
40 Power
Next, we want to make some steel. Click on "SMELT STEEL" and make sure you have the following resources. Steel, like Titanium will be used to create Structural Parts.
1 Task Capacity
3 Stamina
10 Carbon Dioxide
15 Iron Ore
40 Power
Finally, we want to make copper. Click on "SMELT COPPER" and make sure you have the following resources. These are going to be used in electrical components of the Rover, specifically the Electrical Parts.
1 Task Capacity
1500 Regolith
3 Stamina
40 Power
Next on our list is to make some PVC. We can do this in the Chem Lab.
Click on the "MAKE PVC" button and make sure you have the following resources. PVC will be used in the construction of Electrical Parts.
1 Task Capacity
1 Stamina
10 Methane
10 Hydrogen
10 Water
40 Power
Next, we need our Machine shop where we will create all of these:
Aluminum Plate
Titanium Plate
Machined Parts
First let's click on the "MAKE ALUMINUM PLATE" button and make sure you have the following resources.
1 Task Capacity
3 Stamina
5 Aluminum Ore
40 Power
Next, Click on the "MAKE TITANIUM PLATE" button, and make sure you have the following resources.
1 Task Capacity
3 Stamina
5 Titanium Ore
40 Power
Next, Click "MAKE MACHINED PARTS" and make sure you have the following resources
1 Task Capacity
5 Stamina
5 Steel
5 Aluminum Plate
40 Power
Now that we have the required metal plates and PVCs, let's use our 3D Print Shop to make the structural and electronics parts.
First let's click on "MAKE STRUCTURAL PARTS" and make sure you have the following resources
1 Task Capacity
4 Stamina
10 Steel
3 Titanium Plates
5 Aluminum Plates
40 Power
Next, Let's click on the "MAKE ELECTRONICS PARTS" button, and make sure you have the following resources.
1 Task Capacity
5 Stamina
10 Copper Ore
2 PVC
500 Regolith
40 Power
After making those items, head back to the Machine Shop I. We're going to make:
Rover Chassis
Rover Wheels
Now, click on the "WELD ROVER CHASSIS" button, and make sure you have the following resources.
1 Task Capacity
8 Stamina
4 Structural Parts
5 Machined Parts
120 Power
Following that, let's click on the "MAKE ROVER WHEELS" button and make sure you have the following resources
1 Task Capacity
4 Stamina
2 Aluminum Plate
2 Titanium Plate
40 Power
And finally, to RoverWorks! Here we will assemble our Hauling rover.
Click on "ASSEMBLE HAULING ROVER" and make sure you have the following resources:
1 Task Capacity
8 Stamina
5 Machined Parts
2 Electronics Parts
1 Rover Chassis
8 Rover Wheels
After finishing the "ASSEMBLE HAULING ROVER" task, you are rewarded with a sparkling new Hauling Rover.
