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American Cars

American Cars


Did you buy a piece o crap car? Ya know that feller selling em when you drive it off the lot and the muffler falls off? Or ya make a slight turn and that dag nab tire popped going 15 miles per hour!? Well yer in luck, Jim Bobs post apocalyptic auto repair shop been fixin' all them faulty parts! Even put a real 'merican engine so you can push dem burnt trash heaps off the road.

Makes mufflers, suspension and tires last longer. Passive damage from regular driving reduced by roughly 1/4. Speed checks for damage changed from 10mph to 25mph for off road and 45mph for on road.

** Old info **
Tweaks the degradation functions for those parts and only checks if your going 30mph not 10mph. In most cases doubles the values reducing the chance for damage to be cut in half! Muffler calculations drastically changed reducing the constant degradation check to trigger ~1.6% of the time instead of ~10%.


Build 39.52 Blends n shades[projectzomboid.com] now has similar weights for wrecks, even some variations for the different types of vehicles, good job indiestone! Need to check some other bits of code to see what else came through the updates!

Vehicle weights have been cut from 1400 to 500 making it so you can move a wreck or burnt up vehicle with your truck much easier. It should be about on par with moving a vehicle that has wheels.

AmericanCars.lua modifies/replaced Vehicles.LowerCondition function from /media/lua/server/Vehicles/Vehicles.lua

** Outdated **
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\lua\server\Vehicles\Vehicles.lua
* function Vehicles.Update.Muffler(vehicle, part, elapsedMinutes)
* function Vehicles.Update.Suspension(vehicle, part, elapsedMinutes)
* function Vehicles.Update.Tire(vehicle, part, elapsedMinutes)

**Removed** moveablewrecks.txt takes all of the elements from
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ProjectZomboid\media\scripts\vehicles\burntvehicles.txt
and has a modified mass of 500, was a simple copy and past then replace all "mass = 1400" to "mass = 500"

2018041800 Fixed the wreck weight, had a comment on the top of the file that borked it all. noted in change log -->
2023072100 Updated for 41.78.16. Reduces the passive damage chance for mufflers, suspension, and tires by about 1/4. Speed checks for damage changed from 10mph to 25mph for off road and 45mph for on road. Passive damage Removed Wreck weights (which was giving size, shadow and offset issues)

Workshop ID: 1361615445
Mod ID: AmericanCars