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Scrap Mechanic - Known Bugs, Crashes & Community Fixes

24 July 2026
Scrap Mechanic

About this game

Scrap Mechanic is a creative multiplayer survival sandbox where you play a robot maintenance mechanic stranded on a hostile agricultural planet after a crash, forced to outsmart crazed Farmbots and other robots using your engineering skills. Build complex vehicles, automated machines, bases, and transforming contraptions with powerful physics based creation tools, then team up with friends in online co op to explore a dynamically generated open world, farm crops for resources and ammo, and dig into underground mines on a full story driven journey to the planet’s core. Outside Survival Mode, test your ingenuity in 40 Master Mechanic Trials in Challenge Mode or jump into Creative Mode with hundreds of building parts and extensive mod support to freely invent anything you can imagine, from walking houses to advanced machines, while sharing creations and custom challenges with others.

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Bugs, Crashes & Solutions

Advance the quest chain with the farmer NPC (e.g. Hubert) until the objective explicitly says to enter Cultivator 2, then check the quest items and inventory for the correct key.
Restart the game client and reload a save made before starting the Cultivator 2 quest to restore the missing key in your progression.
Disable any installed mods temporarily and update the game to the latest patch before retrying the Cultivator 2 quest to avoid script conflicts.
Attach the resource collector directly to a refinery so collected materials are transferred instead of vanishing.
  • Update DirectX to the latest version using the official DirectX installer.
  • Update your NVIDIA or AMD graphics drivers.
  • Restart the PC and relaunch the game after updating.
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Verify the integrity of game files in Steam Properties > Installed Files to ensure the latest patch is correctly installed.
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Disable outdated or incompatible Workshop mods, especially those created before the 1.0 engine update, to prevent instant crashes on launch.
Run ScrapMechanic.exe as administrator from the Compatibility tab of its Properties to avoid permission-related startup failures.
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Known issues (no solution listed yet)

These are community-reported issues we don’t have a listed fix for yet. If something worked for you, share it.

  • Item duplication via inventory box interaction

    Last reported: August 17, 2026

  • Lift to the mines can trap players inside and prevent exit

    Last reported: August 15, 2026