Medium Rover

Medium Rovers are the second tier of land vehicles after the Small Rover in Astroneer.

Though they have a built-in battery, rovers need power to operate. However, they function as an unlimited supply of air when being driven or tethered to. Provided you have excess power to spare at a base camp, connecting the Medium Rover's energy pipes at the front or back to a similar connection on a platform will recharge its internal battery and the power in your backpack (with priority going to the rover). The Medium Rover is much smaller and weaker than the Large Rover; consider replacing it as soon as you have researched the Large Rover. However, it is larger and slower than the Small rover.

Utility
Consumes 1 bar of power in 15 seconds. Without an external power source or batteries, under continual use, the 4 bars of its internal battery empty in 60 seconds.

Essentials

 * 1-Seat - Is required to drive the rover

Power

 * By Base - via flexible power cable plugged into a platform or Habitat
 * By Module - via Power generating module such as, but not limited to: Generators, Solar panels, Wind Turbines
 * By Object- via collected Power (resource), Power Cells, or Batteries.

Storage

 * A medium rover base starts with 4 small attachment slots on its top that can hold 2 medium objects, and each of the front and the back provides 2 small dynamic attachment points that can be used to either carry small items, or to connect it to other rovers
 * Medium Storage - Allows carrying more small items on the vehicle such as Resources; use in combination with large storages to maximize effectiveness
 * Large Storage - Each of these doubles attachment points for the top of the rover
 * Medium Battery - Increase power capacity by 16 bars or 128 seconds; batteries also recharge the player that connects to them, like the rover's battery

Tools

 * Crane - Used with a Drill Head for bulk resource collection
 * Winch - Allows the rover to tow other vehicles from a longer distance or large objects that normally cannot be tethered to

Hauling and Trains
Like Large Rovers, Medium Rovers can be tethered together to form "trains".

There are limitations to 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 that they carry, the slower they go, up to the point where they can no longer climb small rises or even move at all. Smaller trains of 2-4 cars are generally safe.

A Medium rover is capable of:
 * Pulling one lightly loaded Large Rover
 * Pulling three loaded medium rovers

Other Uses

 * s can link the power grids of base camps. As of alpha testing this is confirmed as two grids, but with adequate power sources in each base camp's grid, more may be possible.
 * s have their own in-built beacon which can be used to mark locations that don't justify establishing a new Habitat. This can be useful if normal beacons are being used for something else like marking roads or other points of interest.
 * s can supply unlimited air and have attachment slots for supplies, so they can be use as general storage and function like temporary camps while exploring.
 * If you're in a seat attached to a rover, storms can't hurt you as long as the rover doesn't roll. If you partially bury a rover, so storms can't blow them away, they make ideal outposts/sanctuaries since they also have their own in-built beacons to mark where they are.

Tips

 * Regularly check anything added to the front or rear end points as they sometimes fall off in a crash or on rough terrain.
 * Include some compound in your toolkit; if the rover is already full, then having compound allows you to quickly make a beacon to mark where resources or scavenged items are left behind to be collected later.
 * The weight of a vehicle can be affected by attachments, additions, and how loaded up it is. The rover's weight determines how fast it can move or how/if it can be used in a train.

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