How to plot routes in RoadCraft
Early in your RoadCraft playthrough, you'll be tasked with connecting a delivery route from your Forward Base to a Phosphate Plant. As you progress further, you'll have to establish multiple routes from various points on the map, all while ensuring they don't collide. This is understandably tricky to navigate at first, especially if you encounter problems with your route. Here's a complete breakdown of how to plot routes in RoadCraft, including some tips on how to avoid maintenance issues. How to plot delivery routes in RoadCraft You'll first plan a route during RoadCraft's first campaign mission, asking you to deliver crane parts from the Forward Base to the Phosphate Plant. In the quest's objective, you'll find a button labeled "Infrastructure: Route," which you can select to unlock your infrastructure menu. Screenshot by Destructoid In this menu, you'll find your active routes and options to plot routes for your current objective. For now, you'll only have one route to plot, but more will arrive in the future. Select this to start creating a route from the Forward Base to the Phosphate Plant. Starting from the Forward Base, you'll place down small waypoints along the road to the Phosphate Plant. Your goal is to design a path that doesn't collide with obstacles, pass over rough terrain, or have impossible turns for your trucks. Screenshot by Destructoid Here are some tips for avoiding or fixing any maintenance problems you may encounter: Don't create any 90-degree angles in your route. Trucks need wide angles to turn. Follow road lines as often as possible. If you place your route marker somewhere that's difficult for you to access, the NPC trucks will likely also struggle. If you encounter a failure message, scroll in to find out what might have caused it. If you see a barrier on the road or rough terrain, edit the marker and move it slightly out of the way, or consider changing your route's path. Move your vehicles outside of the route's path. Trucks can't drive through your car or cranes. Screenshot by Destructoid You have several options for fixing various route problems. If one of your vehicles is in the way, you can enter it through your map and move it, letting the delivery trucks continue as usual. For other problems, like difficult terrain, scrolling into the map and following tire tracks is usually your safest option. There's also a rare chance that you got your vehicle stuck at some point and need to teleport it elsewhere before continuing. Later in your playthrough, you may experience problems with two or more routes converging onto each other, which can create some traffic. Oftentimes, you can open other entrances like the Phosphate Plant's southern gate to give alternative paths into a location, making it much easier to plot your route without any unexpected issues. Completing a route will reward you with an initial EXP and cash prize, with additional rewards available as trucks passively drive along it. That said, any environmental changes that occur throughout your playthrough can impact the path later on, so watch out for any failure messages that unexpectedly appear. The post How to plot routes in RoadCraft appeared first on Destructoid.
Early in your RoadCraft playthrough, you'll be tasked with connecting a delivery route from your Forward Base to a Phosphate Plant. As you progress further, you'll have to establish multiple routes from various points on the map, all while ensuring they don't collide.
This is understandably tricky to navigate at first, especially if you encounter problems with your route. Here's a complete breakdown of how to plot routes in RoadCraft, including some tips on how to avoid maintenance issues.
How to plot delivery routes in RoadCraft
You'll first plan a route during RoadCraft's first campaign mission, asking you to deliver crane parts from the Forward Base to the Phosphate Plant. In the quest's objective, you'll find a button labeled "Infrastructure: Route," which you can select to unlock your infrastructure menu.
In this menu, you'll find your active routes and options to plot routes for your current objective. For now, you'll only have one route to plot, but more will arrive in the future. Select this to start creating a route from the Forward Base to the Phosphate Plant.
Starting from the Forward Base, you'll place down small waypoints along the road to the Phosphate Plant. Your goal is to design a path that doesn't collide with obstacles, pass over rough terrain, or have impossible turns for your trucks.
Here are some tips for avoiding or fixing any maintenance problems you may encounter:
- Don't create any 90-degree angles in your route. Trucks need wide angles to turn.
- Follow road lines as often as possible. If you place your route marker somewhere that's difficult for you to access, the NPC trucks will likely also struggle.
- If you encounter a failure message, scroll in to find out what might have caused it. If you see a barrier on the road or rough terrain, edit the marker and move it slightly out of the way, or consider changing your route's path.
- Move your vehicles outside of the route's path. Trucks can't drive through your car or cranes.
You have several options for fixing various route problems. If one of your vehicles is in the way, you can enter it through your map and move it, letting the delivery trucks continue as usual. For other problems, like difficult terrain, scrolling into the map and following tire tracks is usually your safest option. There's also a rare chance that you got your vehicle stuck at some point and need to teleport it elsewhere before continuing.
Later in your playthrough, you may experience problems with two or more routes converging onto each other, which can create some traffic. Oftentimes, you can open other entrances like the Phosphate Plant's southern gate to give alternative paths into a location, making it much easier to plot your route without any unexpected issues.
Completing a route will reward you with an initial EXP and cash prize, with additional rewards available as trucks passively drive along it. That said, any environmental changes that occur throughout your playthrough can impact the path later on, so watch out for any failure messages that unexpectedly appear.
The post How to plot routes in RoadCraft appeared first on Destructoid.
