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Ready for take-off

Ready for take-off

You rebuilt the spaceship

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How to unlock the Ready for take-off achievement in Trailmakers - Definitive Guide

Estimated time: 10+ hours (not a quick one).
Story/campaign related.

Achievement requires gathering specific salvage to complete the rebuilding of your Spaceship. You'll need 22 power cores, and 14 different and special blocks/tubes. For a full list of the salvage needed, refer to the in game template. Try the (interactive) map link below for all 156 salvage locations. Keep in mind, you won't have to gather every piece; only 36. Although some other salvage items will certainly assist you to help get them all much quicker; namely the mini-thrusters, gimbal jet and submarine parts.

Not my map, so whole credit goes to Schizomaru.

https://lucid-golick-96c5ec.netlify.app/

Take note of the height for each piece. Some salvage is below sea level while others are high above on floating islands.

Power Cores are essential for upgrading your retrieval vehicles needed and go towards the "Power Core Collector" achievement as well as building your Spaceship. After returning salvage to base, upgrade your preferred vehicles when possible. The standard templates are pretty decent, so you can add to those or have fun creating your own. The magnet is an important one to get early, which also goes to helping unlock the "So Attractive" achievement.

The most difficult salvage needed to retrieve is the Dragon Jet, which is in the middle of the (only) volcano. Flying into the volcano nets you the "Bring Marshmallows" achievement. There's a YouTuber (shoutout to ScrapMan) I saw get the Dragon Jet using only 9 power cores with Mini Thrusters. I did spend countless hours building and testing many fliers with helicopter/plane parts and boosters but had to abandon all of'm coz they were too hard to control. Finally, I tried the template of the Gimbal Car; with tweaks and additions it was relatively simple. I've uploaded my very basic but successful vehicle in game. It's titled "Easiest Dragon Jet Getter". You'll need 21 Power Cores and have availability to the Gimbal Car template.

Have fun and happy hunting.
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14 Aug 2020 12:02

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Yeah I eventually gave up on building and trying the drones... too hard to control. If you've got the small prop just try the template for the basic plane to at least fly up onto the floating islands, then change into a ground vehicle after landing. For the ABS (above sea level) islands directly above land, I was able to push non-explosive salvage over the edge; then collect from ground level. If the salvage lands into deep water tho, it will reset. If it drops into shallow water, you can retrieve with a sub or water vehicle... or just fly them down of course if you can. Ultimately, tho the mini-thrusters and gimbal jets will be probably your best friends for aerial retrieving.
The submarine controls are difficult, sensitive and took a lot of getting used to; expelling air from buoyancy control device to enable decent, slow and steady progression while toggling boosts and trying not to nose dive too much. It was often easier just to slide on the sea floor. I'm assuming you've got the salvage to build the basic template submarine, so just add more underwater props for extra power if need be without trying to complicate it but yeah controlling will sometimes be a challenge. Uploaded subs (from other gamers) were less of a hit and more miss, so I just stuck to the basic template with my own simple yet balanced additions. Apols for the wordiness here but there's a bit involved as you know.
Good luck.
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By Boris l3 on 29 Dec 2020 13:17
I had to change the wheels on the gimbal to monster truck wheels to make the landing easier, Other than that worked like a charm.
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By SHIN GRIMM on 29 Aug 2020 13:13
Good to hear. I looked at the monster wheels but thought they'd be too heavy with the payload. Glad you got it all off the ground then and back down softly 😂
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By Boris l3 on 31 Aug 2020 06:50
Any tips for underwater vehicles or reaching items high up?

I’ve got the small propeller & tried to build a Amazon drone but it did not go well. Also I genuinely don’t understand the template submarine controls.
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By ALoneWolf42 on 28 Dec 2020 06:49
I know the last post from this is old, but it might also have something to do with the update, I just started playing the game recently. Figured I would share what I had to do.

I did not unlock the achievement when I went to the launching pad. I get there, and it goes into a cutscene building the rocket, leaving the planet, and then gives me the final count of what I had done. I ended up going back into the same game and starting to build the rocket myself before the achievement unlocked.

I'm not sure if it was delayed unlock or what, but the 3 achievements I had before that one unlocked immediately (unlike Minecraft which can take about a minute or 2) but as soon as I turned on the blueprint build to put down the first item, that's when it unlocked for me. I built it anyway... you can steer it back and forth and spin it, but you can only use A to push it forward, a bit pointless, but it's the goal, so meh.
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By DefEdge on 15 Feb 2021 18:58
Worst achievement. I can't get to most blocks. How will I ever create I plane if I can't even reach the blocks up high? Worst game ever and this guide doesn't help whatsoever. It doesnt tell me how I can ever get the first plane.
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By Don Nielson on 08 Oct 2021 14:21
What ru complaining about Don? You've already completed this achievement! Feel free to write your own guide then, instead of knocking others who've made an effort to help those who are looking for it. I didn't use words like patience, perseverance, trial & error with an abundance of lateral thinking in the guide; perhaps I should have and you possibly wouldn't have got so frustrated but I did say it'll take approx 10 hours (at least) so you had to expect it'll take awhile. The in game template tells you what you need to build the basic plane and the link shows you where to find the specific salvage.
"You gotta learn how to crawl before you can fly"
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By Boris l3 on 12 Oct 2021 23:35
I gotta say, this guide doesn't help a lot with how to get blocks or how to get to the recovery drones (where you turn in the blocks). The map is very helpful, but how am I supposed to know there's a cave entrance 100 meters away to get down to this block based off the map? How do I get to the mini thruster? Maybe it's just me but I feel like this guide is kinda lacking some critical info
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By DankMovie828477 on 29 Apr 2022 00:36
Yeah there's a lot of exploring to do. If you're stuck on a particular piece to retrieve, maybe check out some YouTubers for more specifics. The mini thrusters though are pretty important to get. The in game blueprints are useful for your machines to get started with too but yeah there's a lot more to the game than first appears. I did a lot of just driving around to open up the map a bit more and reveal the topography. I was trying not to turn my guide into a lengthy PHD thesis; instead just trying to keep it simple but agreed, there can be a lot involved in retrieving a specific salvage. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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By Boris l3 on 02 May 2022 14:50
I think it needs to be said that while the map is great for finding a certain piece, you haven't explained what pieces you need at all. If you go to the builder, then blueprints, then template vehicles you can see what parts you need for each one.

I recommend using the order of the templates to progress for most things, and then slightly modify the templates(with dragon engine, monster wheels, etc) and assign mods to the transformation options.

Additionally, you can use a template without all the parts as long as you delete the parts you don't have. For example, the hovercraft needs a go-cart cockpit. If you replace it with a regular cockpit, it makes coasting over the lava to pick up the gokart cockpit easy.

Also, the final advice is just collect everything you can to start! Be ingenuitive about it- building stupid unstable cars to jump between two islands at 200 kph, or making bad planes fly is rewarding + won't happen if you try to rush through.
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By DuelinDonuts on 16 May 2022 03:33
This template is awesome, you made my life easier man. I used it also to salvaging explosive parts from floating islands, easy as pie. If i think about how I struggled earlier with this ... omg. I admire your will to test all these templates and blocks.
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By VoltixX1 on 18 Jan 2024 07:58
For what it's worth, this can be accomplished in co-op as long as your partner is in the immediate vicinity of the capture of scrap, and I mean like RIGHT next to the capture drone. I drove it into the capture drone and we both got credit and did this for the majority of scrap, taking turns being near the drone and driving scrap in to be collected.
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By Sebacean Hybrid on 28 Jan 2024 20:26
So should this be labeled with a co-op flag, and not just a single player one?
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By ItsRoflz on 04 Jun 2024 16:24
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In order to obtain this Achievement you need to obtain a certain amount of energy cores and parts necessary to create the rocket, this my guide will be particularly for the most difficult Rocket piece to obtain, a piece that is in the middle of the volcano.

My guide to this realization will be pretty straightforward, as it's possible to upload the vehicle project I used to get the most difficult part.

To download my vehicle, go to the gallery area and search for this name (Brazilian Energy Core Collector)

Screenshot of my vehicle in gallery area.
https://twitter.com/EikeStar/status/1472022625690005507?t=Et...
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18 Dec 2021 05:37

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Your vehicle worked great. Thanks!
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By webdoggy on 01 Jan 2023 02:17
You're welcome :)
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By EikeStar on 02 Jan 2023 04:08