Large Rover

Description
Trucks are the second tier of land Vehicles after the Rover in Astroneer.

As a vehicle, Trucks need to be powered to be driven, function as an unlimited supply of air when you're in or tethered to it and sitting in a drivers seat will protect you from Storms so long as the Truck does not flip.

Trucks have double the onboard Power storage of the Rover which requires you to attach Equipment or Parts or to be Tethered to a base to recharge it's power. Trucks are not as easily flipped by storms as Rovers but they can be pushed around even when part of a heavy Road-train.

A Truck base starts with eight small attachments on top (which can instead be used as four large ones) and a large attachment on either end (which can instead be used to link the vehicle to others to form a train or connect to a base Facility to recharge its own power or supply the base with Power from attached external storage such as a Tier 2 Battery).

Acquisition & Crafting
After discovering the Truck blueprints via research, the Truck base can be crafted at the cost of four aluminum at the Vehicle Bay.

Usage
To drive a truck a seat needs to be added to it. You can add a permanent one using a Vehicle Bay, craft one using a Printer Facility or find one as loot in or near a crashed ship.

You also need to consider how you will keep it powered and what task(s) you want to configure it for. The Truck can be configured using attachable Backpack Equipment or Printed Parts or permanently installed Vehicle Bay additions which require the Truck to be Tethered to the Vehicle Bay. (Some of these permanent additions require researching blueprints to unlock them first.)

Attachments
Attachments vary in size, and so far those added by the Vehicle Bay cannot be removed meaning that that Truck will not be able to be reconfigured for different uses later on. The weight of a vehicle can be affected by attachments, additions and how loaded up it is. The Trucks weight determines how fast it can move or how/if it can be used in a Road-train.

The Vehicle Bay additions that have been discovered so far that can be built onto the Truck are:
 * 1-Seat (large)
 * 3-Seat (extra large)
 * Crane (extra large) [Used with a Drill Head for bulk material collection]
 * Large Storage (extra large) [Each of these doubles attachment points of half the top of the Truck]

Printer Parts that can be attached to a Truck include:
 * Tier 2 Battery
 * Solar Panel
 * Wind Turbine
 * Storage
 * Winch
 * Seat (at least one is required to drive the truck or the first truck in a Road-train)

Generator type Equipment can be used to power Trucks but batteries and other stuff is only really useful stored on a dedicated Storage being used as a 'Tool Rack' to make sure important things stay with the Truck or free up backpack space.

Hauling & Trains
Like Rovers, Trucks can be tethered together to form Road-trains. There are limitations how big a train can be based on the number of vehicles and/or how full they are. The more vehicles or the more stuff loaded onto them, the slower they go, up to the point where they can no longer climb small rises or even move at all.

Currently:
 * One Truck can pull three other empty trucks, but three trucks with regular Storage on them are beyond its ability to pull.
 * Two trailers full of Artifacts can be pulled by a single Truck.
 * One truck with power sources and tool rack can pull at most one fully loaded-down double Large Storage Truck (eg eight full Storage units on top and a battery, winch or other large item mounted on the rear large attachment point.

Other Uses

 * Trucks can link two base power grids.
 * Trucks have their own in-built beacon which can be used to mark locations that don't justify establishing a new Habitat Rovers are more cheaply made for this purpose however. (useful if normal Beacons are being used for something else like marking roads or other points of interest.)
 * Trucks can supply unlimited air, have attachment points for supplies and if your in a drivers seat storms cant hurt you so long as the truck does not roll. If you partially bury one of these so storms cant blow them away they make ideal outposts/sanctuaries since they also have their own in-built Beacons to mark where they are.
 * A double Large Storage Trucks can be used for mass storage of material or as a major mobile energy buffer if filled with Tier 2 Batteries or generator if energy generation apparatus are used.

Tips

 * Use a Printed or looted modular seat instead of having the Vehicle Bay add one so that later you can remove it if you need to break up or reconfigure a Road-Train. Otherwise you need to use valuable space to carry a spare or run back to based to make one.
 * Regularly check anything added to the front or rear end points as sometimes they can be made to fall off in a crash or on rough terrain.
 * Including some Compound in your toolkit allows you to quickly make a beacon to mark where stuff is left behind to be collected later when the Truck is already full.
 * A Wind Vane, Generator and/or Solar are ideal basic power sources for a train because they can be packed away onto a Storage or on your Backpack if you need additional space to carry more loot home.