Shippable

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

Shippable structures and vehicles can be packaged by going into their menu (press E) and clicking the package button. When packaged, they are unable to function and their content is inaccessible. You can unpackage a shippable by pressing E. 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 Armor for armored vehicles (except train cars), 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 after 15 minutes.

Shippable Sizes

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

Shippables comes in three sizes: small, large, and extra large. All shippable structures are small while the size varies for packaged vehicles depending on the vehicle type.

Small	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, Infantry Car, Locomotive, Long-Range Artillery Car
Unpackageable	Bicycle, Crane, Flatbed Truck, Heavy-Duty Truck, Large Crane, Super Tank, Transport Bus and all ships

Cranes

When packaged, shippables can be lifted by Cranes:

• Crane
• Large Crane
• Storage Ship crane
• Stationary Crane
• Facility Crane

How to use cranes:

• (vehicles only) Deploy the crane - press F
• Aim the arm - hold RMB
  • Cursor icon relays information: crosshair = valid location, gears = valid shippable / special interaction
• Pick up a packaged shippable - hold RMB and press LMB
• Rotate held shippable - press A or D
• Deposit held shippable - hold RMB and press LMB
  • 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.

Shipping Vehicles

Shippables can be transported on special vehicles:

• The Flatbed Truck can transport a single small shippable.

• The Landing Ships can transport a single small shippable.

• The Flatbed Car can carry a single small or large shippable and be moved by a Locomotive.

• The Barge can transport a single small or large shippable.

• The Freighter can transport up to five small or large shippable. (driver must toggle the cargo doors with F).

• The Storage Ship can store and transport 100 of every shippable types in its stockpile.

The mobile crane can be undeployed (F) and transport a small shippable, however it is very slow.

You can't pick up or deposit a shippable on a vehicle that is locked by someone else or reserved for a squad you're not in.

If a shipping vehicle is destroyed, any shippable it carried is also deleted. There are exceptions: Material Pallets, Resource Containers, Shipping Containers, and Liquid Containers carried by Flatbed Trucks or Flatbed Cars are dropped on the ground when their vehicle is destroyed.

Shipping Interactions

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

• Storage Depots, Seaports and Storage Ships have loading areas where shippables can be deposited and submitted into the stockpile by clicking the Submit Loading Area Equipment button. Shipping Containers can also be placed on them to transfer crates in or out.
• World Resource Mines have an invisible loading area in front of them where a Resource Container can be deposited to directly transfer the mine's content into the container.
• Refineries have a loading area on their side. Resource Containers can be placed on it to directly start refining their content or to transfer resources in or out of the Refinery's stockpile. Shipping Containers can be also placed but only to retrieved refined materials from your personal refinement queue in crate form with RMB.
• Resource Transfer Station, Material Transfer Station, and Liquid Transfer Station have a loading area on their side to transfer items in or out with Resource Container, Material Pallet, and Liquid Container respectively.
• Small Assembly Station and Large Assembly Station allow a Material Pallet to be placed on their center to directly transfer items in or out.
• Dry Dock has two loading areas to transfer Ship Parts in or out of the stockpile.

You can click the package button at the bottom of those building's menu to repackage the shippable without leaving your seat in the crane.

Some Shippables can also be placed on special spots:

• A0E-9 Rocket Platform has a central spot where Rocket Parts can be deposited to assemble a Rocket.
• Trench Emplacements allow you to place an Emplaced Weapon inside it to give it bonuses (rotation speed doubled, health effectively quadrupled via additional damage resistance).

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.

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  Leary Snare Trap 127 

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  Leary Shellbore 68mm 

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  Huber Starbreaker 94.5mm 

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  Huber Lariat 120mm 

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  Huber Exalt 150mm 

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  DAE 3b-2 “Hades' Net” 

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  DAE 2a-1 “Ruptura” 

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  DAE 1o-3 “Polybolos” 

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  DAE 1b-2 “Serra” 

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  50-500 “Thunderbolt” Cannon 

Storage

The following shippables are structures used to store and transport supplies.

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  Shipping Container

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  Shippable Crate

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  Resource Container

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  Material Pallet

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  Liquid Container

Production

The following shippables are production structures.

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  Concrete Mixer

Ship Parts

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

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  Naval Turbine Components

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  Naval Shell Plating

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  Naval Hull Segments

Rocket Parts

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

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  A0E-9 Rocket Warhead

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  A0E-9 Rocket Booster

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  A0E-9 Rocket Body

Vehicles

Most land vehicles can be packaged to be transported. It is mostly useful for vehicles that are very slow, or consume a lot of fuel or an expensive fuel type. You'll need a crane at the destination to retrieve the packaged vehicle. Only a few vehicle types cannot be packaged: Bicycle, Crane, Flatbed Truck, Heavy-Duty Truck, Large Crane, Super Tank, Transport Bus.

Tips

• Every shippable structures are affected by decay over time, just like every other player-built structures. This 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 during a Snow Storm by packaging and unpackaging it as long as it's not already completely frozen.
• Dropping a shippable on top of a soldier kills them.

Gallery

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  A Crane lifting a packaged Battle Tank

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  A Stationary Crane lifting a Leary Snare Trap 127

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  Flatbed Trucks transporting various packaged vehicles over a bridge

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  Shippables lifted by a Crane and come in contact with any vehicle or players will become translucent and can pass by without problems.

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  Gear symbol appears when crane arm aims at a Freighter's open cargo hold.

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  Three Flatbed Cars loaded with packaged Shippables.