Survival Mode is an upcoming Game Mode in Scrap Mechanic.
Backstory
The player character is a robot maintenance mechanic, sent to an automated agricultural planet to look after the worker robots. The mechanic's spaceship crash-lands on the planet, leaving them stranded. Quickly, they discover that the Farmbots have malfunctioned, attacking the mechanic on sight. The player must fight the Farmbots and scavenge for items to stay alive.
Known Features
The following features have been mentioned in official sources (devblogs, YouTube videos, Twitter, TIGSource forums, the game files, or the game itself).
- Player health
- Restored by eating food
- Limited inventory
- Items can be stacked
- Crafting
- Farmbots
- Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue variants
- Small variant
- Totebot parts
- Possibly from a variant of Farmbot
- Consumable food
- Corn
- Cucumbers
- Potatoes
- Spud Gun weapon
- Uses potatoes as ammo
- Swap out parts change its functionality
- Can convert into sniper rifle, Gatling gun, pistol, or shotgun
- Exo-Suit
- Start game in a crashed spaceship
- Starting items obtained from the spaceship
- Obtain items by scavenging warehouses
- Farmbots spawn inside
- Farming
- Sledge Hammer can deal damage with left-click and block attacks with right-click
- Paint Tool will require ink container ammo
- Day-night cycle
- Blade or drill part
- Small Storage Crate and Large Storage Crate
- Can store items
- Can be attached to vehicles
- Farmer Cars
- Premade vehicles
- Can be broken down into scrap and parts
- Customizable rims/hubcaps
- Can be detached and replaced
- Clothing
- Gas Can
Speculated or Implied Features
These features have not been officially mentioned, but are strongly suspected to be a part of Survival mode.
- Scrap items
- Can craft parts from scrap and/or break down parts into scrap
- Items can be dropped
- Wooden Crates, food crates, and plant containers spawn in generated structures
- Can be broken with a Sledge Hammer to obtain items
- Thruster, Gas Engine, and Electric Engine require fuel or electricity to function