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Winches for Cars#21774

Winches could be a simple tool to add a lot of usefulness to vehicles:
-Towing other cars for yourself or others.
-Towing mini/scrap heli.
-Towing boats?
-Pulling vehicles out of precarious situations (stuck in water/rocks, flipped upside down).

The winch can be carried and placed directly on vehicles in the field or installed via the vehicle lift UI on a chassis’s “installation locations”.

Every vehicle, tree, building can have “attachment points” for which a winch can attach to.

(Please take the time to understand the difference between where a winch can be “installed“ or “attached“)

When a winch is attached to a car’s attachment point that vehicle will automatically be put in neutral so as to roll freely when pulled.

The Large Flatbed Module can have it’s own set of winch installation locations in order to pull a boat into the flatbed itself.

Potentially the winch can be installing on many locations beyond a vehicle chassis, and powered or cranked independently. This could enable many more use scenarios for the winch:
-Installed on a tree to pull a car out of deep water.
-Installed on a ceiling to create a makeshift lift for any physics based entity.
-Installed and attached to any two spots to create a makeshift zipline.

The only downside I can think of is that those who expose their locked vehicles outside of a garage may have their vehicles stolen, however:
-It can be stolen with pushes anyway.
-It will decay quickly outside of a base anyway.
-It can remain in park, becoming cumbersome or impossible to tow.
-Winches can be made to not attach to locked vehicles for which players don’t possess the key for.
-It’s Rust, people steal.

Personally, I just really desire the ability to stumble upon a nice vehicle while driving solo and being able to just tow the newly found vehicle home without needing to depo my current ride and running back.

I’m sure I’m missing some other great uses for a winch in Rust, what are your thoughts?

3 years ago

This is a great idea but winch on trees is too huge to code or make it possible. But having winch would be nice for towing cars as per you metion running to depot the car and running back to gather a new one. I know that feel. But I instead would like to have a flatbed towtruck attachment to pick up other cars.

3 years ago

That’s a good idea, it would also have room for a small boat if its a 3 slot attachment.

3 years ago

This would be great to also recover helicopters inside the water

10 months ago