Contraptions update

2.0.0
3 October 2026
Areas
22 changes in this update

Added

13 changes
  • Build cars, rockets, planes and anything else you can think of, then drive them, fly them and crash them. And the Blue Screen of Death finally does something worth crashing for.

Building
  • - A new **Parts** folder with 23 parts: boards, metal beams, plates and braces, glass, three sizes of wheel, a seat, a rocket engine, a jet engine, a thruster block, a propeller, wings, left and right tail fins, nose cones, a decoupler, a light and a horn.

  • - **How to build.txt** at the top of the Parts folder opens in Notepad and walks you through your first car, step by step.

  • - **No separate tool to learn**: click a part (or drag it out of the folder) and it follows your cursor. Click to place it, Q and E turn it, right-click turns auto-weld off, Delete removes the part under the cursor.

  • - **You can see what will happen before you click.** The part's own outline follows the cursor: green means it will weld to the parts outlined with it, white means it would be loose.

  • - **Wheels snap on.** Bring a wheel near your frame and it jumps onto it, on an axle at the gold dot (to the very end of a beam when you're near one). If the frame is lying on the floor it's lifted so the wheels stand on it. Wheels are never welded: a part placed over a wheel becomes its axle instead of locking it.

  • - **Drive and fly**: D drives right and A drives left, W fires engines, thrusters and propellers, and G separates rocket stages at their decouplers. Wings give lift, fins keep things flying straight, rockets burn fuel and set fire to what's behind them, H honks the horn and F switches a light. Any part's key can be changed (or reversed) on its Properties sheet (Alt+Enter over it).

  • - **Seats**: drag a person onto a seat to strap them in. A hard enough crash snaps the belt and sends them through the windscreen. F on the seat ejects them.

  • - **Six example vehicles** to start from or pull apart: Car, Monster truck, Rocket, Two-stage rocket, Glider and Prop plane.

  • - **Contraptions**: Ctrl+C on any part copies the whole vehicle, with its welds, axles and controls. Ctrl+Shift+S (or "Save contraption…" on a part's Properties) saves it to My Documents → Contraptions, ready to place again.

The FleshOS Build Kit look
  • - Every part has its own pixel art in one shared style: XP-blue bodywork with racing stripes, treaded tyres with chrome rims and hub caps, steel girders and diamond plate, hazard-striped decouplers, white rockets with copper nozzles, a chrome jet with a fan intake, a wooden propeller with red tips, and the FleshOS heart roundel on anything that flies.

  • - Bodywork sits in front of the wheels like wheel arches, and frames sit behind them so the hubs show, so wheels no longer look stuck through the car.

  • - Lights have a soft glow and a beam ahead of them.

Improved

5 changes
Blue Screen of Death 2.0
  • - The crash corrupts **every person on the screen**, each one differently. The blue screen lists the damage (`human_4.exe ...... FIRE.SYS`) and after the reboot it happens: people catch fire, shrink, grow, turn into ice statues, catch the virus, get struck by lightning, float off on balloons, launch on a rocket strapped to their back, glitch, get cloned, panic, fall asleep, lose a limb (and get it back), teleport, or melt down.

  • - Half the time a **system process** starts too: an earthquake, meteors, pop-ups, a tornado, a flood, gravity flipping, or a blizzard.

Goals
  • - **Express Delivery**, a new task: build a vehicle, seat the VIP in it, and drive them to the other side of the screen.

  • - Seven new achievements: Kernel Panic, Road Trip, Houston, Frequent Flyer, Crash Test Dummy, Engineer and Staged.

  • - A **Building** page in the tour, and a Building section in Help.

Fixed

4 changes
Fixes
  • - Ctrl+Z no longer shakes what you built apart: welds and axles are rewound too.

  • - Welds keep the angle parts were put together at (angled pieces used to be pulled straight).

  • - Rocket fins on the left side no longer face the wrong way.

  • - The example car's windscreen leans back instead of forward.