Pickup Plus – Load, Wear and Maintenance

Pickup Plus adds realistic load-dependent wear, blockages, and maintenance requirements to balers and forage wagons.

Knives, pickup tines, and hold-down rollers wear down during material intake. High speed and high material throughput increase the load. Above 70% of pickup capacity, the machine gradually slows down. If a blockage occurs, material intake stops until the cause has been cleared.

Operating Modes

• Simple Mode: Disables blockages for the player and helpers and clears existing blockages. Load, load limit, wear, and spare-part maintenance remain active.
• Full Mode: When a blockage occurs, the field worker stops working and reports the reason. Work can resume after the blockage has been cleared.

The selected mode is saved in the savegame. In multiplayer, it is controlled by the host or server administrator.

Spare Parts and Maintenance

Suitable spare parts are available from the HMT Spare Parts shop. Individual boxes contain 50 knives, 100 pickup tines, or four roller clamps. Roller clamps are available in two versions. Several boxes can be purchased at once, while pallets are available for larger quantities.

Stop and switch off the baler or forage wagon, then place a box or pallet from your farm within a five-metre radius. If only some of the required parts are available, a partial maintenance job is performed. Clearing the pallet takes eight seconds and does not consume any parts. Replacing the parts takes 20 seconds. Parts are consumed only after successful completion, and partially used boxes and pallets retain their remaining contents.

HUD and Controls

The HUD displays the workload and component status. Its font size, position, and scale can be adjusted.

• Left Ctrl + Left Alt + 3: Toggle the HUD on or off
• Left Ctrl + Left Alt + 4: Toggle HUD repositioning mode
• Left Ctrl + Left Alt + 5: Change HUD size between 50%, 25%, 20%, and 75% of the speedometer width
• Ctrl + Alt + Caps Lock: Start or finish maintenance

All HUD actions and maintenance functions can be freely assigned to keyboard or controller buttons under Options → Controls.