Pickup Plus brings normal wear and tear, overload damage, and blockages to your balers and forage wagons.
Features
- Your knives, pickup tines, and roller windguards wear while they are taking in material.
- Push the operating speed too high or run a lot of material through, and the chance of a blockage goes up.
- At 70% intake load, your vehicle combination starts slowing down.
- When a blockage hits, material intake stops until you clear the machine.
- The HUD shows both the load level and component condition. You can move it, hide it, and choose between four different sizes.
- Get boxes with 50 knives, 100 tines, or 4 roller hold-downs.
- Roller hold-downs are available in two visual variants.
- Purchase from 1 to 5 boxes.
- Use Ctrl + Alt + Caps Lock for maintenance and clearing blockages.
- This is for single-player mode. Multiplayer is not supported.
Look for the matching spare part boxes in the dedicated “HMT Spare Parts” shop category. Put them near your parked machine with the machine switched off, then you can carry out maintenance. Knives and tines are used up in proportion to their wear. Parts left in a box stay there, but an empty box disappears.
Changelog
Changes since version 1.4.1.2:
- Native baler capacity now gets handled correctly: values supplied as text are converted before the calculation. That fixes the reported calculation error and restores the load level and HUD updates.
- While you are repositioning the HUD, manual camera and zoom inputs are now switched off.
- Mouse cursor management is better when more than one “Plus” HUD is active.
- Leaving repositioning mode and releasing the mouse cursor now works better when you hide the HUD, open menus, or switch vehicles or maps.
- Key bindings, wear intervals, the load and blockage model, and spare part quantities remain unchanged.
Controls
Controls as of version 1.4.1.4
Drive a vehicle combination with a detected baler or forage wagon to operate the system. It picks the most appropriate detected implement first. If that is not available, it uses the first suitable machine it finds. You cannot use these controls on foot. Close open menus before you try to operate the system.
Default key bindings, HUD: Left Ctrl + Left Alt + 3 shows or hides the HUD. Left Ctrl + Left Alt + 4 switches “move mode” on or off. In that mode, hold the left mouse button and drag the visible HUD where you want it. Camera and zoom inputs do not work while move mode is active. Hide the HUD, open a menu, switch vehicles, or change the map view, and “move mode” ends automatically.
Default key bindings, HUD size: Press Left Ctrl + Left Alt + 5 to cycle the HUD sizes: 50% → 25% → 20% → 75% of the speedometer width.
Default key bindings, Maintenance, always active: Ctrl + Alt + Caps Lock starts maintenance or cancels a maintenance task in progress without consuming parts. The combination accepts either the left or right Ctrl/Alt keys. You can perform maintenance even with the HUD hidden.
First bring the vehicle combination to a complete stop and switch off the implement. The tractor engine may keep running. For part replacement, the needed boxes or pallets must have enough stock, belong to the same farm, and be within five meters of the machine. You can combine several boxes or pallets to get the required parts. Clearing a blockage takes eight seconds and does not need replacement parts. You can also replace the component group with the most wear if replacement parts can service it, which takes 20 seconds. Service the other groups afterward. Knives and tines wear out based on their usage. A worn roller hold-down needs a replacement part.
Replacement parts are taken only when the maintenance process finishes successfully. Press the button again, move the vehicle, or turn it on, and maintenance is cancelled. If parts were being replaced, the required replacement parts are lost as well. Changing the selection or switching vehicles by itself does not automatically end the maintenance task.
Customizable Key Bindings: Assign the three HUD actions freely under Options → Controls. There is also an extra customizable maintenance action, but it has no default key binding. Your existing user-defined key bindings remain unchanged. The fixed Ctrl + Alt + Caps Lock combination stays active whatever these settings are.
Support: Use the FBM support thread for information, questions, or bug reports.
Note regarding CVT: The reported issue remains open and still has not been reproducible. If it happens again, send the complete log.txt file and a brief description of the situation.
