after some further testing with my own rovers... I can confirm that I might be bugged... they are ALL respawning fully built tires. Survival mode, new save, and every rover I have is doing it. Even turned off DAS script just to be sure, but they are all spawning fully built tires from thin air. Well, thank you for your time, still a really solid rover and I applaud your builds.

And to note, there is no such "Auto wheel respawn perk". However you didn't mention if the wheels were fully built or just the metal framework when they magically respawn, which is important since the framework type has no components in it until someone welds it with the right components.

That I have to blame on the game sadly, I have not implemented any kind of auto wheel replacement and as such I got no idea why its doing it.

Really solid respawn rover, have enjoyed it so far. I have to ask though, what is causing the wheels to auto respawn after losing them. I flew it off a cliff, ... long story.. and lost some of the blocks on the front wheel wells, trying to replace them is proving impossible with the wheel being as close to the chassis as it is, (preventing placement). Every time I try to grind the wheel down, it auto respawns. This is nice except that I cannot get my headlights back... and I can see it being used as an exploit for components since it doesn't seem to need any to respawn a tire but you can continuously grind it for parts over and over. I have checked for a Programmable Block, and in the Custom Data for the Suspensions, Cockpit, and Remote Control but have found nothing. Is there a way to temporarily disable the auto wheel spawn perk?

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