Vehicle Recovery

Vehicle Recovery lets you remotely recover your equipment while on foot – without using the standard reset, which often causes cargo loss or damage to attached combinations.

Features:

• Remote recovery of your own equipment
• Move tractors, harvesters, trailers and implements together with the entire attached combination
• Preservation of attachments, configurations, fuel, contents and equipment condition
• Support for transported cargo: pallets, bales, logs, big bags and other objects
• Support for dynamically attached equipment, such as a header on a transport trailer
• Automatic search for a suitable free space considering the dimensions of the full combination
• Recovery to the nearest AI road, the machinery shop or a self-created point
• Correct placement of equipment on bridges
• Recovery of equipment after falling into deep water
• Temporary blocking of equipment switching with "Tab" during recovery
• In-game notifications about the recovery result
• Recovery is completely free

Controls (on foot):
Press F9 to open the Vehicle Recovery menu.

• Space – recover to the nearest suitable road
• C – recover to the machinery shop
• X – recover to the selected point
• Backspace – create or delete a point
• Esc – back

The F9 key can be changed in the game's standard control settings.

Nearest Road: The mod searches for a suitable free space on the nearest AI road and places the equipment directly on the bridge surface if needed.

Machinery Shop: Uses the map's standard equipment spawn zones. For long combinations, the mod may pick an additional free space to avoid intersections between equipment and cargo.

To Point: Choose your own recovery location. The point is created at the player's current position and serves as the center for the free-space search. It is saved until the end of the game session.

Important Notes:

• Single-player only
• Recovery is only available while on foot
• Road recovery requires functional AI splines on the map
• Shop recovery requires a valid equipment spawn zone
• The root vehicle of the combination should be selected (usually a tractor or harvester); trailers and implements are moved along with it
• Loose cargo that is not attached to a trailer usually stays in place
• Large amounts of tightly packed cargo secured with tension belts may behave unstably after being moved
• The mod does not repair equipment or change fuel, configurations or contents
• The standard destructive equipment reset is not used
• Very large or non-standard modded equipment may require a different recovery location
• Cargo compatibility may depend on other mods that change autoloading, tension belts or object physics

This is the first public release of the mod. When using large amounts of modded equipment, non-standard maps or third-party mods, individual compatibility issues may occur. If you encounter an error or unusual behavior, please report it and include the name of the equipment, map or mod where the problem occurred.