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.
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 
) and clicking the package 
button. When packaged, they are unable to function and their content is inaccessible. You can unpackage a shippable by pressing . 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, no Aircraft Parts installed for Aircraft, 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%".
Packaging aircraft uniquely transform them into packaged Aircraft Crates which contains the aircraft disassembled.
Shippable Sizes
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
When packaged, shippables of any size can be lifted and moved to any location within the Crane's reach:
- BMS - Class 2 Mobile Auto-Crane
(Mobile Crane) - BMS - Overseer Sky-Hauler
(Large Crane) - BMS Foreman Stacker
(Facility Crane) - Stationary Crane
(present at many world structures such as Refineries and Seaports) - Crane on a BMS - Bluefin
Storage Ship
How to use cranes:
- (vehicles only) Deploy the crane - press
- Aim the arm - hold
- Cursor icon relays information: crosshair = valid location, gears = valid shippable / special interaction
- Pick up a packaged shippable - hold and press
- Rotate held shippable - press
or 
- Deposit held shippable - hold and press
- 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.
Transporting Shippables
Shippables can be transported on special vehicles:
| Vehicle | Capacity | Note |
|---|---|---|
Flatbed Truck 
|
1 medium shippable | |
Landing Ship 
|
1 medium shippable | |
Flatbed Car 
|
1 medium or large shippable | Hauled by a Locomotive |
BMS - Aquatipper 
|
1 medium or large shippable | |
BMS - Ironship 
|
5 medium or large shippables | Toggle cargo doors with
|
| Storage Ship
|
100 of every shippable types (except train cars) | Stored in its stockpile |
| Crane
|
1 medium shippable | Undeploy to allow the vehicle to move while still carrying the shippable. The vehicle cannot move while carrying the shippable if the shippable size is greater than medium. |
| Large Crane
|
1 shippable of any size | Undeploy to allow the vehicle to move while still carrying the shippable 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
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) |
|
| 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 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.
Shippable Containers
The following shippables are structures used to store and transport supplies.
Production
The following shippables are production structures.
Construction
The following shippables are structures to assist construction.
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.
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, Landing Ship, Large Crane, Super Tank, Transport Bus.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 decay timer 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.
- Since a crane can pick up and move shippables of any size, a technique known as "Crane-Chaining" can be performed with the Mobile Crane to move large and extra large shippables, albeit rather slowly.
- Deploy the crane and move the shippable in the desired direction.
- Undeploy the crane and move the crane in the desired direction.
- Repeat steps 1 and 2 until the shippable arrives at the desire location
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 |
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Gallery
A Crane lifting a packaged Battle Tank
A Stationary Crane lifting a Leary Snare Trap 127
Flatbed Trucks transporting various packaged vehicles
Shippables lifted by a Crane and come in contact with any vehicle or players will become translucent and can pass by without problems.
Gear symbol appears when crane arm aims at a Freighter's open cargo hold.
Three Flatbed Cars loaded with packaged Shippables.
