Mastering Power Management in Star Trucker - Pro Tips to Keep Your Rig Running!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ย. 2024
- 🚛 Welcome back to Star Trucker! In this video, I’m breaking down everything you need to know about power management. Keeping your rig running smoothly is essential when you're out in space, hauling cargo, and tackling long-distance hauls.
I'll show you how to optimize power, avoid shutdowns, and get the most out of your truck's systems. Whether you're a new player or looking to sharpen your skills, these tips will help you master the game like a pro!
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Star Trucker:
Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts a galaxy hopping twist on the truck sim genre.
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Opening the cases on the shelf to keep them from floating around is a game changer
For sure!
Fr I was doing it today when I was playing and it was so nice to see everything in front of me
It’s a cheese mechanic. But until the devs put in storage upgrades such as a cargo net, or electromagnetic storage containers, I’m fine with this cheese mechanic.
@Salomon_Andrade yeah I'm surprised there aren't better storage options but this is dually cool because you can see what's in the boxes too
@@Some1Godlier lol When I figured out this works, I opened the box just so I could see what was in the box. I have OCD with storage lol. Then after a gravity outage, I saw the cases stayed in place. I made this suggestion here or somewhere else, I dont remember but its good to see everybody benefitting from a tip that was discovered purely by accident lol... BUT hitting things hard will still make them pop out of place. So drive carefully.
That tip about opening the cases on the shelves has put my billion dollar plan to sell shelf straps in space on hold! Thanks for these valuable findings, good Buddy!
😂😂😂 Happy to help! I have another tip video coming out possibly tomorrow or the day after with some other good ones too! It just depends on if I finish editing my playthrough gameplay in time.
Lolol, I started last night at 10pm.
By 3am, I had restarted three times.😂😂 Mainly due to power loss.
These are awesome tips for a beginner like me.
Thank you!
Side note: What a game! If _Subnautica_ and _Ice Road Truckers_ had a baby on the ISS....
There's an actual story ahead!? Can't wait!
Thanks again.
I've got a whole playthrough with a lot more great information buried within! Glad you're enjoying the videos!
Some solid tips here. I always drive in the dark to save power, but the open boxes and maps tips never even crossed my mind. Thanks for the great video!
You're welcome!
You gain grav every time you dock. Also recharge suit at docks
holy sh*t recharge suit on docks! dude why didnt i think of it? thx!!
You detail oriented people... it just ain't natural!..
Thanks this is gonna help a lot! I'll name my first flat tire after you!
When you’re able to, closing your shutters also saves energy. I assume it’s related to better insulation for your cab.
Mine says it's jammed. How do I fix them?
@@Hedgehobbit they'll be fixed for free as part of a story mission (for Sour Candy, I think)
Bro, this has saved me so much 😅 I already had my gravity off because makes sense u don’t really need it
I am glad you enjoyed it!
I had no idea you can check the buy/sell values via the map. Thank you!
best video ive seen so far thank you
Great video. However I like my gravity lol... Here is what I do to prevent surprises down the road. I change batteries out when they get about 10-20%. UCC isnt too expensive so pulling a UCC at 10% doesnt really matter to me. However the battery I will stick in the CORE to finish draining that battery. That is located in the dash and uses 2 batteries. It doesnt matter which side you use, left side of the truck or right side. When its depleted then I might put another battery in there that is close to being depleted. If I dont have anymore low batteries, I'll put in a fresh battery. Batteries are too expensive to not use every ounce of it. I dont like surprises that arise because I forgot about a low battery during a haul. The dual battery compartment runs just fine on 1 battery if the other is depleted and you have time to switch it out without negative effects. Salvage a lot and keep at least 6 batteries or more that you find. Same with air filters. Try to stagger them instead of all new filters at 1 time. I will stagger 3 filters while leaving 1 empty. An example of that will be 1 filter at 100%, another around 70%, and another around 40%. If i get a warning about filters, I drop a new one in the open slot and will remove the depleted filter and leave that one open for next time. Hopefully this is useful for someone. It works good for me.
I turn on gravity when I'm doing repairs or parked at shop, other wise it goes off
This. All of it. The tips in the video will be useful in hardcore, but not so much in easier difficulties.
Started playing this on Game Pass yesturday, started out thinking it was just a relaxed game like Truck Simulator but in space. Unbeknownst to me I was depleting all my oxygen every time I used the emergency brake I had all the other management down, but I finally lost an air filter and didn't have enough to replace it, ended up dying. Then I was in debt.
I did try the gravity thing. but didn't think to leave them open like you did, ended up with a bunch of boxes and empty cells on my front windshield. It was hilarious. I was increasingly becoming careless as I wanted to save on fuel by taking shortcuts, that lead to leaks. I also never knew about the free repairs at that point.
A good way to save on fuel however is to turn off the flying assist, and let the inertia take the truck forward and it won't lose any speed, so the engines are on idle, that is when it can become risky with the debris as you won't have directional control of the truck. Lifting and coasting can be a better option, don't know exactly how much fuel you save though.
Sounds just like my first day as well lol
I jnew about the lights and learned the open box trick by accident last night. Everything else here is news to me though. Thanks for the tips to be a better teucker
Another great way for charging your suit when youre low on money and dont hit objects too often is by docking at any of the stores or job boards. It will say on your power hud that external power is connected, which means none of your batteries will use charge, and even better, the station charges your suit at the same rate as a battery. With this in mind, i dont even keep a battery in my suit charger unless I really need it.
prob is that it still degrades filters
You'll be singing a different tune when you start coming across salvage that you can go outside of your truck and bring back most of these salvage beacons (marked by an eye icon) have a LOT of good stuff, sometimes it should even take more priority then the actual cargos themselves, i once found a salvage site that had 2 micro stabilizers and 1 explosive charge, with 1 power cell, the micro stabilizers are $5,000 a pop and the explosive charge something like $2,750.
The fact you havent taken into account the salvage beacons means you probably havent been playing long enough to come across them, and if you have you probably missed them, but then that brings me to the second point is that after a little playing time through the main story you can get a sensor that can show you where the salvage beacons are at which is INVALUABLE for you to earn a little bit of side money while you haul cargo, all of these things combined in 1 trip make so much money its insane, and unfortunately youre going to need a battery because your suit doesnt last too long in the beginning levels
Great job.
Recommended Topics:
1. Truck Upgrades - which one's first and where to get them.
2. Planning JIT deliveries
3. How do multi Trailer jobs work?
4. Worst drop locations (Edgeburgh comes to mind)
5. Is goods trading worth the time? (I think so, for high value items - but I've never bothered to check how long I muck about finding the goods and the best places to buy & sell. Electronics and air filters seem pretty good.
Nothing I hadn't figured out - but I jumped in as soon as it was available and I've got 42hrs in so far. Still worth watching as it confirmed my own experiences.
Thank you for the suggestions :) I just added them to my list! I have a bunch more videos planned that will cover things like that.
Edgeburgh just looks bad as a drop off... you DO NOT NEED TO BACK IN. You can just drive in normally and it will fit and then you can scoot out.
@@Daniel4119 Huh. I came in around the back hoping to get lined up for a back in and found I could just pull in from the side. But it's a real pain to squeeze between buildings to make that work. Guess I'll try a font pull in - It sure doesn't look like it will work, but it also looks like it has solid walls from the street and from the back it doesn't so... Thanks for the tip!
@@vincentkeith5259I keep telling everybody, DON'T BACK TRAILERS IN! I mean unless you just want to. EVERY drop location i have been to had plenty of room (yes even triple drops) to pull straight in, drop load, and fly away. You're in space, DRIVE STRAIGHT UP if you have to lol, nothing is stopping you!
And straight pull in does work specifically in the Edgeburg drop you are referring to. As soon as you get green, drop trailer and point up and fly UP, not towards the building.
Great tips.
Only time I’m using gravity is when I need to fix systems, shops etc…Faster to walk around. Other than that turning it off. Huge power drain.😊
This video is gonna save me a lot of money and time, You are awesome! And your explanation is very easy to understand, thank You!
You're welcome! Don't forget to like and subscribe for more!
Here’s a tip for everyone - play the game on custom settings and swing things more in your favor. Bc honestly, the game is a lot. You drain a lot regardless, you need new shit which regardless. I ended up dying, loading saves. I decided to start over on custom difficulty with higher money start, more salvage beacons around, lower gas prices, lower battery consumption. It’s a lot more enjoyable and less stressful that way. And you can still get achievements too.
I also recommend doing Moon Baby’s quest line till you unlock the scanner. When you unlock that, you can scan for salvage beacons around and just doing those, you will quickly get an influx of batteries, uccs, and filters.
Yeah here's the thing. Im a playing playing on recommended difficulty and i have no idea why they havent restricted achievements to difficulty levels, it is plain obvious to see that setting everything how YOU want it to play out is straight up cheating, like having a PC downloading the most powerful mods on the game and still having the ability to earn achievements, because for the past 5 days when i started playing (unfortunately i was a bit late to the release day because i was busy and i didnt know about this game) i have been playing this game i have been getting nothing but diamond rare achievements, now keep in mind this is on xbox and i had a late start, quite late actually but what this tells me is people have probably stopped playing this game already since the beginning because of how CRUEL it is to get up from the ground and make yourself some money so you can keep your truck going the hauls strong and your salvage profitable.
now lets say a little kid as excited as i am about this game gets their grubby little hands on custom settings, its literally like cheating and of course they're gonna get the same achievements as i have but they will have an easier time getting such achievements, so the next time i tell some1 "oh yeah im playing on the recommended difficulty" it wont matter, as a matter of fact they are more likely to laugh at me rather then to admire me for my great space trucking achievements, and that's not a lie i have been playing this game everyday and been making some great progress im up to $40,000 with every single upgrade on my truck except the nozzle coolers that is at lvl 4 because i kind of figured my engines are cool 80% of the time i dont need cooler engines they would freeze. I am loving this game i am midway through the story i have more stuff i wanna do but you see little johnny here is on custom settings getting the same achievements i did which i worked harder for might as well not have any achievements at all right? i guess every1 is a winner when they cheat their way through
@ernestochang1744 wow, it's just a game.
@@strohdog1 yeah... A game with achievements
@@ernestochang1744 So What? Its Still a single player game. You arent making a good argument. Someone who plays the game on the hardest difficulty could argue the same about you and call you a cheater since you just play on recommended so you had an easy time getting those achivements making his achivements worthless.
@@Fluxikator thats why it would have been a great idea to have some achievements locked behind a difficulty level
Great condensed video. Covers everything, good job!
Maybe in the topic of power management, it would be good to mention, that its a good idea to swap out one of the core and maglock batteries once they have a 15% difference. So if a battery runs out, you have some time to stop and replace it. (Or in general using "almost empty" batteries in those dual slots or the suit charger.)
This is ground breaking info . I didn’t know half of this stuff . Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Dude amazing tips thank you. Some of these are going to be incredibly useful.
All the negatives I have been hearing about this game are people who do not understand that this is a business game. The trucking and the graphics are great but it's all about managing your money.
Yes it’s definitely not a space truck sim experience. Other trucks that go through warp gates before you , wouldn’t just disappear. They would remain static assets. The filler quests are pretty dumb too. Like you’re going by to do a spacewalk and clean graffiti in a system with electronic storms.
Good man yourself, some great tips in here, thank you for posting.
Glad to help
I leave gravity on , batteries are cheap and easy to find
Nice tips! :-)
Glad you like them!
Very helpful thank you!
Great video. Thanks.
Awesome tips video!
Glad it was helpful!
@@hugmuffinzz6559 I’ve made some myself, such a good game!
Little thing I found out, if you open your airlock and drop items inside of it they won’t take any damage
this is definitely not true. sold a bunch of wine for nothing because i put them in the airlock and they were reduced to worthless.
@@this.is.a.username yeah, even if you buy things from the store and they land on each other, if you pick something up from the bottom instead of the top the top item will fall and take damage.
Love this game
Honestly, they should remove the gravity and make that a passive thing that just works without sucking battery. I also wished they’d have a battery charger you can get for your ship that chargers batteries passively as an upgrade for your ship. This game has a huge potential, but I know it’s very new and I’m sure they’ll make changes. I’m enjoying it though. Great game to “relax” on. I hope they had missions where you can go to repair stuff in space like you can on the truck. That would be fun! Or mining missions Since they have a mineral depot and tons of asteroids flying around. Or a junk yard collector missions that cleans up space of junk. Etc. like I said, so much potential.
a good guide. thx
Glad you enjoyed it!
Core and Mag only need 1 battery. If you place an empty battery in the other slot, drain remains the same. If you leave a slot empty the remaining battery drain is doubled. it's a bug at the moment, but right now the only thing imo making hardcore playable at all.
Be careful putting things in your airlock or anywhere other than a "secure" crate on the shelf when you turn off gravity. If the item has an HP bar or had any other "tag" such as fragile or shock sensitive they can AND WILL take damage in your airlock.
Gas cans are perfectly fine because they can't break but pretty much everthing else can be destroyed banging around in your airlock the same as your cab, they just don't block your vision while doing so.
One question, do the cardboard boxes variant keep items from losing hp cause while this only happen once i saw that a work wear carton took damage inside of one before
@@chaosblackvirus I think it depends on how durable the item is, but I'll say I've never tested it. What i will say is the cardboard won't protect shock sensitive items if your ship takes an electrical short from lightning or changing a UCC wrong.
I will say also though that I've never had anything get damaged in a cardboard box that was on the shelf and open (wedged in) and i keep every container like this and use no gravity except when I'm trading (so i can easily pack everything into a container and take it downstairs)
Thank you for the video. Some very good tips. It is just very annoying how you keep moving around going no place at the start of the videos. Trips of motion sickness.
Thank you for pointing that out! I don't even realize I am doing it. I have played a lot of shooters and just have that always be moving mindset. I am slowly trying to break that to make it better for you guys :)
If you want play risky. Use suit and tunr off oxygen gen till you need refill
@@aaronhartmann7658 oh, I bet.the suit.recharge is using more power than the oxygen generator + airfilter wear.
It may only pay off when you do that and recharge while docked. (But.that.uses airfilter lifetime, so its more an emergency thing thant actually saving anything)
Good tips. good vid.
I guess in the future, they don't have an alternator.. or maybe even a solar charge upgrade for the truck, where it turns the body of the truck into a solar panel. Even if these suggestions reduced battery consumption.
Some in game entrepreneur needs to make bank selling cargo netting
What im curious about are the Airfilters if you got 4 installed intead of 2 are they lasting longer ? is the Powerdrain higher ?
Does the Airflow adjustment has any effect on it, or is it just to regulate the temperature.
Great Tips btw.❤
As far as I understand it, the more air filters you have the slower the purple bar goes down. The health will still decrease at a linear rate however. As soon as the health bar depletes the air filter will stop functioning regardless of the amount of purple bar left.
How do you get the power usage percentage at the bottom?
Not sure how to switch it! It has always been there for me.
I wanted to add that this game rekindled my love for gaming recently ... was and kind of still am big fan of sim genre .. but getting real tired of 0.5% of innovation SCS or Giants bring to the table ... stagnation fest -- but THIS .. brings HUUUUGE BREATH of FRESH AIR with things i have wanted to do in a truck for decades. Sure snowruner is great too. But man I wish SCS and Giants would step up their fookin game once every 5 years ... atleast.
I agree! I have played expeditions, is snowrunner the same?
@@hugmuffinzz6559 I have not played Expeditions ... and for what Igatherd .. dont plan to .. because .. i think snowrunner is 10x better .. althou it could be the trucking aspect of it, so much content .. takes me weeks to clean one region, vannilla trucks are enough for me too ... Snowruner was my salvation from ATS/ETS mindless A-B NOTHING more to it gameplay. Some describe snowruner more like a puzzle solving game ... perhaps logistics puzzle ... with what .. thru where ... and how. Pluss .. id say its simply HARD .. its a grind, its a patience game.
This is definitely not a sim game. It’s just masquerading as one.
I have a question, hopefully the creator sees this. If you put stuff in the airlock, do they fly out into space with you when you go outside?
They won't. The game prevents you from activating the airlock until its only you and whatever you're carrying inside.
Don't leave anything outside that you touched. You'll get fined at weigh stations. You can leave extra stuff from salvage beacons, just don't pick it up(?)
Last time I checked suits stops consuming once it's full
They do! Thats why the suit upgrade helps. The suit charges faster so it uses less power depending on how high the upgrade is.
Do the objects in the lock hold float out when you need to go out your ship or do you just switch gravity back on and go out like that
They will not float out, the game doesn't let you outside until you move everything but yourself and whatever you have in your hands out of the airlock.
JiT jobs confuse the hell out of me. do i go fast or what?
You have to deliver in the specific window that the job provides before you accept the contract.
Great video! This battery BS is so stupid. Why the hell doesn’t this fancy space truck of the future have a damn alternator or a genset or a bloody nuclear reactor or something to generate electricity? I guess we forgot how to make them in the future or something 🤦🏻♂️
I don't disagree but it does add challenge! It also does get a lot easier to manage the further in the game you go(but there are other challenges that take its place)
I'm mildly perturbed by the fact that considering the battery drain on normal no star trucker would survive a 34 hour reset or even an 8 hour rest.
do you actually need anything but fuel, batteries and air filters? what is the other stuff for?
There are other things that you need that get unlocked further in. The first of which will most likely be the shock pods.
Ahh thank you for the anwser, yes shock pods were the next thing i needed. Yes, but cleaning supplys, workwear, data cable, tools are not yet needed so i just sold them. If i need them some time i can just buy in a shop.
I’m 17k in the hole. Help
Ouch. How far in the game are you? You could always try a restart but pump up the starting money in the custom settings to compensate.
Cant you just try to only charge suit when conected to power ?
Absolutely! If you're in a really bad situation you can dock and let the suit charge without having to use any battery life.
Got a question , if price at trader is drop, i saw cheap material sold out fast but not if come in early like when prices start to change , can confirm on this ?
The prices are dynamic and constantly shifting. If you see a good deal you have to go get it very fast!
The suit charging mechanic isn't logical. A faster charging suit should draw MORE power, not less.
Yeah, its so far out there, I'd need to see the % meter in game, which was skipped over actually seeing in the video.
The upgrade needs to be renamed to suit charging *efficiency* to make sense that way. Though it would be a ludicrously inefficient charger to start with, and questionable intermediate steps early on. Perhaps the charger is some kind of electrical version of a rube goldberg machine full of transformers and rectifiers and charge pumps, with each upgrade simply replacing two sketchy adapters with one sketchy adapter until the top level efficiency is just running copper wire directly. :D
Why do you have to run around like crazy while recording a video? It made me stop watching.
Sorry! Many years of bad habits I suppose! I will try to cut down on it for future videos!
Don’t bother with the box lids. Sure put everything with an HP bar in boxes to protect them, BUT just use the steps as a door to prevent them floating up behind you.
I have a headache from shaking the mouse so much. I couldn't finish the video
Sorry about that!
I am currently 10,000$ in dept and i need airfilters 😐
I think your best bet is to find short hauls and drive the truck in your space suit until you clear enough debt to afford one filter. That should be enough to keep the cabin pressurized and get you back into a spot that you can start clawing your way out of the negative.
Have you tried not breathing to save on oxygen?
Omg why do you keep shaking your camera?! I was getting a headache watching this and had to turn it off.
Honestly I didn't realize it was a habit I had until a couple other people pointed it out. I have been working on it for the future videos!
So upgrading your equipment makes things better? Bizarre concept. Buying stuff at the cheapest seller? *boom* Mind blown. just playing, some nice pointers though.
It looks to me this game is harder than it needs to be.
Go to Custom on a new game and tweak it - You can relieve a lot of the stress by simply changing Power Consumption Rate.
@grillmastah