You may need to make two beginner engines to attach all four wheels on your first car.Press H for the basics and don’t skip any steps on building your first car.
Swimming is really buggy, mute your volume and don’t stay under for too long at a time or you’ll blow out your eardrums and the game will stutter and crawl worse and worse until you resurface.Bigger buildings have stronger robots, don’t bother with the really huge ones until you graduate from starter gear or you’ll die in two shots.If you find dormitories with hostile robots inside, don’t refurbish it for later use, those hostile robots will likely respawn.Look for beehives on tall rock formations, not trees.If you want to carry something around but it slows your character down, attach it to your vehicle, put your vehicle on a lift, and then carry the whole thing that way without a movement debuff.As long as you’ve made walls, you can clear them out before they get to the crops. Don’t worry if you’re far away from your farm when they arrive, they won’t really be there until you get close enough to your farm again. Make sure to build protective walls around your crops, the robots will target the crops with priority until you get very close to them.
You can use this as an opportunity to farm robot parts.
Running will require you to eat more often, but the early game has so much food and drink lying around the start that it’s not an issue. The beginning wheels are terrible, you’re better off running until you can make normal wheels.Btw, if you want to use cheats in survival mode check this link: Scrap Mechanic Cheats. Useful tips for Survival Mode in Scrap Mechanic.