Shippables

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Shippables are packaged structures or vehicles that can be moved by Cranes and transported using specially designed shipping vehicles. Shippable structures can be stored in Storage Depots, Seaports, and Storage Ships.

Packaging

A Leary Shellbore 68mm being packaged

Shippable structures and vehicles can be packaged by going into their menu (press Keyboard e.png) and clicking the package BtUnpackage.png button. When packaged, they are unable to function and their content is inaccessible. You can unpackage a shippable by pressing Keyboard e.png. Both packaging and unpackaging takes a few seconds and moving cancels the action. The shippable can only be packaged if at full health, full Tank Armour for armored vehicles (except train cars), not muddy, not coupled to anything for train cars, and structures must have an empty inventory (not the stockpile). If the vehicle or structure has armaments, the ammunition chambered into them is deleted.

A packaged shippable not held by a crane automatically unpackages itself 15 minutes after "Packaging 100%".

Shippable Sizes

The three shippable sizes: medium, large, and extra large

For all practical purposes, shippables come in three sizes: Medium, Large, and Extra Large. The size can be seen in the tooltip when hovering over the shippable icon in the stockpile (e.g. in the Seaport) or production facility (such as Construction Yard, Garage or Large Assembly Station). All shippable structures are medium while the size varies for packaged vehicles depending on the vehicle type.

Size Vehicles
Medium Advanced Construction Vehicle, Armoured Car, Construction Vehicle, Light Tank, Light Utility Vehicle, Motorcycle, Scout Tank, Tankette, Trailer as well as all Field Weapons and Small Train Cars
Large Ambulance, Assault Tank, Battle Tank, Container Car, Cruiser Tank, Destroyer Tank, Fire Engine, Flatbed Car, Fuel Tanker, Half-Track, Harvester, Landing APC, Light Infantry Tank, Siege Tank, Truck
Extra Large Caboose, Combat Car, First Aid Car, Infantry Car, Locomotive, Long-Range Artillery Car
Unpackageable Bicycle, Crane, Flatbed Truck, Heavy-Duty Truck, Landing Ship, Large Crane, Super Tank, Transport Bus and all ships

Cranes

Cranes.jpg

When packaged, shippables can be lifted by Cranes:

How to use cranes:

  • (vehicles only) Deploy the crane - press Keyboard f.png
  • Aim the arm - hold Mouse right.svg
    • Cursor icon relays information: crosshair = valid location, gears = valid shippable / special interaction
  • Pick up a packaged shippable - hold Mouse right.svg and press Mouse left.svg
  • Rotate held shippable - press Keyboard a.png or Keyboard d.png
  • Deposit held shippable - hold Mouse right.svg and press Mouse left.svg
    • Shippable can be placed on the ground, on special shipping vehicles, or on special locations

There are very few restrictions on where you can place shippables as long as there are no physical obstacles and the terrain isn't too sloped. You can place them in knee-deep water, on large rocks, roads, beaches, on top of Bunkers or Foundations. The few places not allowed are: on Bridges, Field Bridges, Navy Piers, Railway Tracks (small or large), or very close to Trenches.

When held by a crane, a shippable is incorporeal and doesn't block or collide with anything.

If the crane holding the shippable is destroyed then the shippable is also destroyed.

Cranes cannot be used if the player is weapons restricted (too much recent friendly fire) except for BMS - Class 2 Mobile Auto-Crane and BMS - Overseer Sky-Hauler.

A packaged Leary Shellbore 68mm being lifted by a Stationary Crane and placed on a Flatbed Truck.

Shipping Vehicles

ShippingVehicles.jpg

Shippables can be transported on special vehicles:

Vehicle Capacity Note
Flatbed Truck FlatbedTruckVehicleIcon.png 1 medium shippable
Landing Ship Landing Ship Vehicle Icon.png 1 medium shippable
Flatbed Car TrainCarVehicleIcon.png 1 medium or large shippable Hauled by a Locomotive
BMS - Aquatipper BargeVehicleIcon.png 1 medium or large shippable
BMS - Ironship Freighter02ItemIcon.png 5 medium or large shippable Toggle cargo doors with Keyboard f.png
Storage Ship LargeShipStorageShipIcon.png 100 of every shippable types (except train cars) Stored in its stockpile
Crane CraneVehicleIcon.png 1 medium shippable Undeploy to move
Large Crane LargeCraneItemIcon.png 1 shippable of any size Undeploy to move
Only moves on dedicated tracks

A shippable cannot be deposited onto or picked up from a shipping vehicle if it is locked by someone else or reserved for a squad that the player is not in.

If a shipping vehicle is destroyed, any shippable it carried is also deleted. There are only a few exceptions: Material Pallets, Resource Containers, Shipping Containers, and Liquid Containers (notably not Shippable Crates) carried by Flatbed Trucks or Flatbed Cars are dropped on the ground when their vehicle is destroyed.

Shipping Interactions

Refinery Resource Container.png

Shippables can be placed on special shipping spots to enable special interactions:

Structure Special Spot Interactions
Storage Depot
Seaport
Aircraft Depot
Storage Ship
Loading Area(s)
  • Submit the Shippable into a stockpile by clicking the Submit Loading Area Equipment BtDrivewayEquipment.png button
  • Transfer item crates in or out of a Shipping Container
Salvage Mine
Component Mine
Sulfur Mine
Invisible Loading Area in front
Offshore Platform Loading Area
Refinery Loading Area
Mass Production Factory Loading Area
Resource Transfer Station Loading Area
Material Transfer Station Loading Area
Liquid Transfer Station Loading Area
Small Assembly Station
Large Assembly Station
Top of the station
Dry Dock Loading Areas
Trench Emplacement Trench's center
A0E-9 Rocket Platform Central spot
Large Structure Foundation Central spot

For structures with loading areas, the player can click the package BtUnpackage.png button at the bottom of their interface to repackage the shippable without leaving their seat in the crane.

Shippable Types

There are many types of Shippables, with each their own function. Excluding vehicles, all shippables are produced at a Construction Yard, Small Assembly Station, or Mass Production Factory.

Emplaced Weapons

Emplaced Weapons (or "Emplacements") are deployable player-controlled defence structures. They can be placed inside Trench Emplacements to get a bonus that effectively quadruples their health and increases their rotation speed.

Production

The following shippables are production structures.

Ship Parts

Ship Parts are used to build Large Ships at a Dry Dock.

Rocket Parts

Rocket Parts are shippable structures necessary to build a rocket at a A0E-9 Rocket Platform.

Large Structure Parts

Large Structure Parts are shippable structures necessary to build large bunker structures.

Storage

All types of shippable structures can be stored in the public stockpile of Storage Depots, Seaports, or Storage Ships. They can all be stored in a Reserve Stockpile except Emplaced Weapons. Shippable Crates of shippable structures can be stored in both public and Reserve stockpiles.

Tips

  • Every shippable structures are affected by decay over time, just like every other player-built structures. On top of the normal prevention methods, their decay can be avoided by either submitting them into a Storage Depot or Seaport, or by keeping them lifted on a crane's arm. You can reset the timer until decay starts on a shippable by packaging and unpackaging it. Unlike most structures, placing a shippable close to a border only shortens its timer before decay starts, the decay duration itself is unaffected.
  • When packaged and on the ground, the shippable structure or vehicle is technically a different entity, shooting it with enough damage (3 pistol shots) will unpackage it without harming it.
  • You can reset a vehicle's cold level by packaging and unpackaging it as long as it's not already completely frozen.
  • Dropping a shippable on top of a soldier kills them.
  • Shippable structures cannot be set on fire.

Trivia

  • In addition to the three shippable sizes as described above (Medium, Large and Extra Large), game files define the fourth one - Small. There appears to be no functional difference between that and Medium, nor any ability to distinguish the two in game, so this wiki refers to both as just Medium. Small shippables are only generated by packaging any of the Small Train Cars (including the locomotive) and the Resource Container (but surprisingly not Shipping or Liquid Container!)

Update History

Update Changes
Update 1.55
  • Crane arms are now obstructed from picking up or putting down shippables through the Bulwark.
  • Shippables transported by a BMS - Packmule Flatbed or BMS Longrider are now destroyed when the vehicle is destroyed.
  • Improvements have been made to the Shippables section of UI within vehicles that can carry Shippables.
    • When hovering over an Empty Shippables Slot a tooltip is shown informing the player a Shippable can be stored.
    • A tooltip for the Shippables section has been added explaining what Shippables are.
  • The quantity of Shippables that a vehicle can store is now shown.

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