The Scrap City Garage

What the Garage is

The Garage is a new building in Scrap City introduced with Scrap Mechanic 1.0. It bridges Creative Mode and Survival by letting you import blueprints from Creative worlds and spawn finished creations directly into your Survival save.

This is one of the most important quality-of-life additions in the Drilling Thunder update. Before 1.0, players had to rebuild complex machines from scratch in Survival — often wasting hours of metal and components on failed prototypes.

Where to find it

Scrap City is a late-game landmark reached through the Chapter 2 questline. Follow the yellow quest markers after completing the Mechanic Station arc and the early Mining Island objectives. The Garage building sits in the central Scrap City plaza — look for the wrench sign and the large bay doors.

You cannot access the Garage until the story brings you to Scrap City. Attempting to reach it early by off-road exploration is possible but not recommended without end-game combat gear.

How to import a Creative blueprint

1. Build and test in Creative Mode. Open a Creative world and construct your machine — vehicle, mining rig, automated farm or defensive turret.
2. Export the blueprint. Use the in-game blueprint export tool to save the creation as a file.
3. Reach Scrap City in Survival. Progress through the questline until Scrap City unlocks.
4. Interact with the Garage terminal. Select “Import Blueprint” and choose your exported file.
5. Spawn the creation. The Garage assembles the machine in your Survival world using materials from your inventory or nearby storage.

What you can import

Creation type	Works in Garage?	Notes
Vehicles	Yes	Most common use case — cars, tractors, helicopters
Mining rigs	Yes	Plasma Drill attachments and drill vehicles
Automated farms	Yes	Vacuum-pump gantry layouts transfer well
Defensive turrets	Yes	Sawbot and Turret Seat setups
Buildings / bases	Partial	Large static structures may exceed size limits
Logic-only contraptions	Yes	Timers, sensors and switch chains import cleanly

Parts that require Schematics you have not yet scanned in Survival will appear as locked placeholders until you unlock them.

Material costs

Importing through the Garage is not free. The Garage consumes Survival resources equivalent to crafting each part normally. Keep a stocked chest near the Garage with:

• Refined metal and component kits.
• Batteries for powered parts.
• Blocks matching your blueprint’s material requirements.

The cost is the same as if you had built the machine by hand — the Garage saves time and placement errors, not resources.

Patch 1.0.4 chest fix

Before patch 1.0.4, the Garage storage chest accepted more items than its visible capacity — a bug that let players overfill imports. The August 1, 2026 hotfix enforces slot limits correctly. Plan material runs before large blueprint imports; you can no longer exploit extra hidden slots.

Best practices

• Prototype in Creative first. Test steering, weight balance and logic timing before importing.
• Import in modules. Split a large factory into three smaller blueprints rather than one mega-import.
• Use with co-op. One player designs in Creative while others gather materials in Survival — see multiplayer co-op.
• Back up your save before importing very large creations. A failed import on an overloaded save can cause physics glitches.

Garage vs manual building

Factor	Garage import	Manual build
Time	Minutes	Hours for complex machines
Resource cost	Same	Same
Placement accuracy	Exact replica	Depends on builder skill
Schematic locks	Respects Survival unlocks	Respects Survival unlocks
Size limit	Large but capped	No cap, but performance risk

For players who prefer hands-on building, the Garage is optional — every part can still be crafted at the Craftbot. For engineers who design in Creative, it is essential.

Related pages

• Creative Mode — where every blueprint starts.
• New 1.0 parts — parts you can test in Creative before importing.
• Vehicle design — principles for builds worth importing.