The Scrap Mechanic Iceberg Explained (The Minecraft Prototype that Became its own Game)

The vibrate cartoony multiplayer sandbox known as Scrap Mechanic lets you build anything your heart desires. But although the video game may appear to be bright and cheerful at the surface, aspects of the game can incredibly unsettling and obscure. Hello, I'm Jotrain and in this video, I will be uncovering the interesting and unknown facts about and found within the game, unknown to most players of Scrap Mechanic.

This is my most ambitious video by far and took way longer to make than initially anticipated. So If you enjoyed it. Be sure to like comment and subscribe and share the video which will also be appreciated.

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Straggler Voice Logs:

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0:00 - Intro
0:52 - The Sky
3:46 - The Surface
8:45 - The Shallow Waters
14:29 - The Depths
22:09 - The Fathoms
30:57 - The Abyss
34:54 - Outro

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Turning Gears(slowed) - Scrap Mechanic OST
Lush Planet - Scrap Mechanic OST
Soft Construction - Scrap Mechanic OST
Night Time (Scrap_UmbraReal_nonloop) - Scrap Mechanic OST
Night Time (Scrap_UmbraReal_ambienthit01_EQ) - Scrap Mechanic OST
Warehouse Smaller Loop - Scrap Mechanic OST
Warehouse Loop Ambient - Scrap Mechanic OST
Cipher - LEMMiNNO
Encounters - LEMMiNNO
Blackout - LEMMiNNO
MTS Main Theme
Luna Factory Loop - Scrap Mechanic OST
Lehto Electronics - Cities Skylines OST

Recorded using OBS Studio (64bit). Edited in Cyberlink Power Director v16.0 and Windows Movie Maker. Intro made using Blender v2.79 and v2.82

[slowfudgeballs]

We waited 4 years for survival and boy was it worth it. Creative mode already stood on it's own.

[elestupido]

Is it me or are the robot voice lines funny as hell. Like instead of threatening the mechanic at first, they take a petty approach and say, “We will play our favorite songs over, and over, and over again!”

[V_ranx]

Never realised SM had a lot of dark backstories and hidden things

[RandomMAn]

I think the hanging character may have been the old mechanic at some point but Axolot ultimately decided against adding it. This is of course dependent on whether or not the old mechanic is actually the trader

[_miobrot_]

Really great and in-depth description! I knew all of the surface-level easter eggs but not the ones hidden inside the game files, which were extremely intriguing.

The unused sound effect ''water_movement_small'' is a Raft egg. It is the sound the shark makes when swimming in the water.

[Hatomix]

THIS DESERVES MORE ATTENTION
I see that you put ALOT of work in this and it's amazing!

[mihneababanu]

im surprised you didnt include the fertiliser and seed containers that are unused but fully functional, even having descriptions

also the trader asset is called questgiver in game files, so originally you werent supposed to trade with him, but to complete his quests to get stuff like the spudgun

[North_wood]

"the limit is your imagination"


Me with a potato pc: .-.

[Jachii]

22:34 i always imagined them as the guys that change the songs in the radio




not, like, taking over the radio. i mean like in real radios

[Omlet]

6:50 literally the first thing I did when I realized you could add any creation to the main menu was add the replica I made of the main menu vehicle

[Hlebuwk]

I thought the "you are not welcome" part of the sign was obviously visible in-game. I noticed it almost straight away the first time I saw the sign.

[pixobit]

Damn! I've been playing Scrap Mechanic for years now, but I've never been this immersed in the story. Respect!

[goodday]

Hi, thanks for making the video, I wanted to make one myself, but I couldn't due to lack of montage knowladge. Thank you for making an iceberg and explaining it to us! Keep it up!

[Jachii]

jotrain: explains conspiracy theories about my favourite game
me just vibing to the music:

[gaminghub]

Holy crap dude! This video is awesome! And the radio interference and the straggler logs hit me in the horror side…. Love this video!

[overfan]

I AM AMAZED THAT THERE WAS THAT WHO REALLY DID IT, I thought it was my idea and I wanted to implement it but was late;(

[eugenlitwi]

Wow! Thank you very much for sharing/making this! It was highly valuable and fascinating for me watching your video! I felt something like goose bumps and a big want to replay the game once again but with a totally different perspective as before. - A bit scary but interesting one, hehe
Thank you for your Work and your beeing!

[robpitt]

I love your automatic death run although the floor going into the sides is kinda hard to bait but still a great deathrun

[CATASTEROID]

24:39 just speculation but this if, or was at one point, a default or alternative tile used if world generation threw an error for any reason, the giant red arrow probably serves to let you see worldgen errors at a glance without scrutinizing the entire map, it's likely the product of an annoying issue that involved lots of repetitive testing to tease out and probably cut some time off of those iterations.

[Felix_KS]

The robots saying "soon, we will find you" was heard in one of spycakes old videos from 2016 titled "transforming camper 1.0" where he has a highlighted clip.