You'll want the wheels with large gripping studs on them, slower but allows steep climbing & handles ice biomes.

Another thing, techs should not be very long or you will have trouble navigating hills & sharp peaks. One biome with such features, hot savanna with the jagged hills is very difficult to navigate. Hover techs has no issues but they follow balancing physics rule sets, making their production a challenging endeavor.

If your tech is wide to a point, add a wheel or 2 to the underbelly area to resist not getting stuck on a peak in the middle of the underbelly.

Originally posted by whitevalfore:

You'll want the wheels with large gripping studs on them, slower but allows steep climbing & handles ice biomes.

I'm talking about a bug, not a literal ice biome. And in some messing around I found out the cause, and its pretty stupid; I was doing a challenge for myself to never use the SCU storage systems or the shops since they make progression way too easy, only progressing through scavenging, crafting, and scrapping. And apparently, the game doesn't like when the blocks you're building with aren't produced from the inventory, so it just...quits. At some point of adding scavenged blocks your tech just becomes an ice level and you lose all control. The ONLY solution is to snapshot your build, disassemble your tech and store it in the SCU, then swap current tech. If you fail to do this with even ONE block, it will continue to have zero traction until every single block of the tech has been put into and out of the SCU.

This doesn't appear to be an issue with crafted blocks, so apparently the game can't handle blocks not being reset by being deleted and stored as an inventory value, then respawned by the inventory system, any persistent blocks just break everything eventually.

That is a funny bug for a game that is so focused on scavenging stuff from other techs. :)

its not a bug, its an unexpected feature

Originally posted by phlbbbbbbt:

its not a bug, its an unexpected feature

Yes, an achievement to activate zero friction mode. :)

i'm still occasionally getting the floating away without any flight blocks bug

After some more testing the bug is also reversible by saving/quitting and reloading WITHOUT using the continue option, you have to properly load back in. It appears to be caused by blocks getting confused on how much they weigh, something is causing their weight to double through certain actions and upon being placed on a tech, carrying so much weight that they weigh down the wheels, and this additional mass doesn't stick with the block, it appears to transfer it to the tech's other blocks. This weight bug is most commonly caused by the magnet, each time you grab a block under magnetism, ALL the blocks being magnetized suddenly weigh more and the magnet struggles to pick them up. As for blocks salvaged from defeated techs, I have no clue what's causing the weight buildup there.

This is all my theory, to be clear. I'm pretty sure it's the cause, but i'm not capable of diving into debug menus or anything to confirm these suspicions.

too many stacked collectors loaded up with res chunks will do that too

If you have a lot of resource holder things (e.g. GSO thimble) facing down, they will make a buffer between the wheels and the ground. This could also theoretically happen with magnets. (This will always happen, watch out)