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Lunar Rovers

Lunar Rovers are player-owned, Hydrogen-powered vehicles for Earth and the Moon. Craft a Solo for one driver or a Duo to bring a passenger. Both use the same fuel and driving controls.

Start /cosmo tutorial moon-workshop to preview both recipes, placement, refuelling, and driving with floating W/A/S/D prompts.

Place, fuel, and drive a Lunar Rover across the Moon's terrain.

Choose and craft a rover

Both recipes need finished Lunar Alloy. Scrap and Solution do not work in its place.

Variant Seats Materials for one rover
Solo Owner/driver 2 copper ingots, 1 saddle, 2 iron ingots, 1 Lunar Alloy, 2 blackstone
Duo Owner/driver + 1 guest passenger 1 copper ingot, 2 saddles, 2 iron ingots, 1 Lunar Alloy, 2 blackstone

Use a crafting table and match the arrangement for your chosen variant. Each occupied slot holds one item.

Solo — one driver

Solo Rover recipe: copper, saddle, copper across the top; iron, Lunar Alloy, iron in the middle; blackstone in both bottom corners. Makes one Solo Rover.

Duo — driver and passenger

Duo Rover recipe: saddle, copper, saddle across the top; iron, Lunar Alloy, iron in the middle; blackstone in both bottom corners. Makes one Duo Rover.

One Small Step reveals both recipes in the recipe book. The advancement is not required to craft them when you already have the materials.

Place and fuel

  1. Hold the rover in your main hand on Earth or the Moon.
  2. Right-click the top of solid ground, with clear space around the vehicle and no players or creatures inside its footprint.
  3. Newly crafted rovers start with an empty tank. Hold a Hydrogen bottle in your main hand and sneak-right-click the deployed rover to refuel.
  4. Right-click the rover normally to board. Only its owner drives; another player can right-click a Duo to take its passenger seat.

Hydrogen comes from a powered Station brewing stand. One bottle supplies about ten minutes of powered driving at normal server speed. A full tank holds four bottles, for about forty minutes. Parked rovers do not burn fuel.

Only a complete bottle's worth of fuel can be added at once. In Survival, refuelling returns an empty bottle; keep space for it when holding a stack of Hydrogen. If the tank is too full or there is no room for the returned bottle, refuelling is refused without consuming the Hydrogen.

Drive

Default key Action
W Drive forward
S Reverse
A / D Steer left / right
Space Brake
Shift Dismount

Steer with A/D; looking around with the mouse does not turn the rover. Your normal life-support equipment is still needed in vacuum.

Pack and move

The owner can sneak-left-click a stopped, settled rover after everyone has dismounted. Keep a free inventory slot for the packed item. Packing retains the remaining fuel, so you can place it again without starting with an empty tank.

The Solo has no guest seat. Only the owner can refuel or pack either variant.