As a survival game, Once Human lets you build all sorts of things as you progress further through the tech trees. In this game, there are a handful of vehicles that act as mobile bases, and they allow you to build a limited selection of stuff on top of them. In this guide, we will be showing you how to do just that!
How to Build a Mobile Base & Battle Truck Guide
Simply put, you will first need to unlock the Medium or Large Garage memetics under the “Building” tree. Once you’ve done that, you have to build either (or both) in your base in order to start crafting their respective vehicles.
The Medium Garage allows you to build a pickup truck, which will require resources such as aluminum ingots and engineering plastic. The Large Garage, on the other hand, will let you build a trailer truck, which will require the rarer tungsten ingots and special plastic.
Both of these vehicles will allow you to build stuff within a certain radius, typically within the same number of tiles that the vehicle itself occupies, with room for slight extensions to the sides.
How Does It Work, Exactly?
After crafting each part of your desired vehicle, it will appear on top of its respective garage. Unlike the normal garage vehicles (such as the motorcycle and all-terrain vehicle), the pickup truck and trailer cannot be summoned at will.
This is because they count as mini territories with their own limit on base elements that can be placed on them. In this case, either vehicle can have one power generator, two defenses, and a limited number of other decorations.
Personally, if you are fine with the idea of driving it around the map, I would try to fit at least a bed at the back for free health and sanity regeneration. Also, place two turrets on it so it’ll start shooting at any nearby hostiles.
NOTE: These turrets will also help you in the sporadic PVP activities, such as the cargo scuffle or other events that give sproutlets. I’ve unintentionally bullied lower level players with the pickup truck when I first made it, and I can’t deny how funny it was to discover that interaction.
You’re free to build whatever you want within the limits of each vehicle, but my personal recommendation is to keep it small to avoid any issues while driving around the map.
The pickup truck in the image above, for example, has gotten caught in various obstacles and struggled to go through tunnels because of the roof I made solely to add RGB lights and a silly sign.
You can even add crafting benches if you want, including the most advanced ones. My personal setup for the trailer truck, though, is just an electric stove and furnace for refining ingots and boiling water on the go.
These are purely personal preference, and in my case, it’s cause my base does not have drinkable water. Feel free to experiment with what works for you. You can even place a vending machine on your vehicle and become a traveling merchant in your server.
While you’re driving your little mobile base out in the wilds, it will show up in the map, letting you keep track of it if you ever leave it behind in god knows where.
If you want to bring it back to base, you can simply fast travel back there and use the Recall feature in the vehicle’s respective garage. This will teleport the car back to the garage, with all the structures intact.
There is also a Force Recall feature that you can use in case something goes terribly wrong and you can’t get your vehicles back for any reason. This will remove the structures built on it, so only use this if absolutely necessary!
That is pretty much everything you need to know in order to make your own mobile base, and this feature may be expanded on more in the future as there are only two vehicles that let you do it so far. While you’re here, check out our guide on how to get rich quick in Once Human, cause you’ll need thousands for the memetics!
