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Turn a handful of blocks into your next great machine. Learn the builder, explore Pioneers and fine-tune vehicles for land, sea, air and space.

  • Launched Sep 18, 2019
  • 2–8 player multiplayer
  • Land, sea, air and space
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Image: Steam / Flashbulb

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Trailmakers Go Kart: Build and Tune a Stable Racer
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Trailmakers Go Kart: Build and Tune a Stable Racer

Build a Trailmakers go kart with a low chassis, balanced weight, and responsive steering. Learn how tire settings and rear downforce shape its handling.

Trailmakers Helicopter Guide: Fix Spin and Tune Lift
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Trailmakers Helicopter Guide: Fix Spin and Tune Lift

Build a Trailmakers helicopter with servo settings that tame rotor torque, compare blade options, and learn how to control lift without constant climbing.

Trailmakers Mech Guide: Build a Stable Walking Base
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Trailmakers Mech Guide: Build a Stable Walking Base

Build a Trailmakers mech with stable leg cycles, smoother suspension, and better slope traction. Learn what Mech Amok adds and how to shape a walking base.

Trailmakers Motorcycle Guide: Build and Tune 3 Bikes
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Trailmakers Motorcycle Guide: Build and Tune 3 Bikes

Build a Trailmakers motorcycle with precise gyro settings, tire traction values, and working lights. Make a cafe racer, bagger, or superbike of your own.

Trailmakers Mods: Workshop Setup and Creative Tools
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Trailmakers Mods: Workshop Setup and Creative Tools

Explore Trailmakers mods with Steam Workshop setup, block editing, custom tracks, and practical fixes for crashes, map conflicts, and lingering gravity.

Trailmakers Workshop: Find, Test, and Share New Builds
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Trailmakers Workshop: Find, Test, and Share New Builds

Explore the Trailmakers workshop to find community vehicles, learn from blueprints, test new designs, and share your own builds with creative players.

Your first Trailmakers vehicle

  1. Start with the tutorial and learn to move, build and test.
  2. Keep your first vehicle simple: a frame, wheels, steering, power and a seat.
  3. Drive it, adjust the balance and test one change at a time.
  4. Explore Pioneers for missions or try your next design in sandbox.

What is Trailmakers?

Trailmakers is a vehicle-building sandbox where blocks become cars, boats, aircraft and spacecraft. Put your design together in the builder, then find out how it handles in a world governed by physics.

Explore the Pioneers campaign, complete missions and unlock parts for new machines. In sandbox, experiment freely or bring friends along to build, race and battle together.

Developer
Flashbulb
Release
September 18, 2019
Genre
Vehicle-building sandbox
Multiplayer
2–8 players
Steam platform
Windows PC

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Trailmakers Beginner Guide

New to Trailmakers? These first steps take you from loading in to driving, flying or sailing your own machine. The builder is easy to learn and hard to master, so start simple and add complexity as you unlock more parts.

  1. 1: Pick how you want to play. Start the Pioneers campaign for story, missions and part unlocks, or load a sandbox map to build freely.
  2. 2: Get moving fast with a pre-made vehicle from the game or a community Workshop build. Driving a working design shows you how good machines are put together.
  3. 3: Open the builder and make your own vehicle from scratch. Every block you place changes its aerodynamics, function, speed and combat ability.
  4. 4: Test it in the physics-driven world. Fix balance, drag and power problems, then take it out again until it handles the way you want.
  5. 5: In Pioneers, finish missions to unlock new parts. Then build different vehicles for each biome and terrain you need to cross.
  6. 6: Bring friends in. Every mode, including the story, supports 2–8 players, so you can build together and test each other's designs.
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Trailmakers Pioneers Campaign

Pioneers is the main mode: a large open world with missions, enemies and a full story. You join the Trailmakers, an elite society of engineers, and fight to free the planet from the BOTNAKs. You can play it solo or with friends.

Story: You're sent to help Gregory, a community of peaceful frogs whose planet the evil BOTNAKs have invaded.
Enemies: The BOTNAKs are mining the planet without mercy and stealing its resources. Expect challenging fights along the way.
Unlocks: Completing missions unlocks new parts, which opens up more of what you can build.
Biomes: The open world has different biomes and terrains. You'll need to build vehicles for each one.
Co-op: You can play the whole campaign alone or in multiplayer with up to 8 players.
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Trailmakers Building Guide

Building is the core of Trailmakers. You have hundreds of blocks, and physics decides whether your design flies, floats or falls apart. These are the systems that matter when you design a vehicle.

Blocks: Hundreds of blocks to build from, covering land, sea, air and space vehicles.
Physics: Physics you can rely on. Weight, shape and part placement decide how your vehicle performs.
Aero: Blocks affect aerodynamics, so the shape of your build matters as much as raw power.
Combat: Your build choices also set combat ability, so design for the fights you expect.
Style: Customize your character and blocks with skins, colors and pattern combinations to create your own brand.
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Trailmakers Weapons Guide

Trailmakers lets you mount a range of different weapons on your builds. You can fight in the air, on the ocean, on the ground or in space. Here's what you can bring into PvP.

Minigun: A rapid-fire gun that keeps pressure on targets at close and mid range.
EMP: A pulse weapon for disrupting nearby enemy vehicles.
Laser: Laser blasters that fire energy shots.
Rockets: Rocket launchers for heavy, explosive hits.
Shotgun: A wide-spread shotgun for brutal close-range fights.
Arsenal: Test different weapon types on your own server or in public games.
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Trailmakers Multiplayer Guide

Every mode in Trailmakers works in multiplayer, from the main story to sandbox and PvP. Host a server for friends or jump into a public game. Here's how multiplayer works.

2–8: Every game mode, including the Pioneers story, supports 2 to 8 players.
Servers: Set up your own server with friends or join one of hundreds of public games.
Sandbox: Dedicated sandbox maps for hanging out, building together and testing each other's vehicles.
PvP: Fight across land, sea, air and space in different PvP scenarios.
Race: Take the group to Race Island and compete for leaderboard spots.
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Trailmakers Race Island

Race Island is the place to test raw speed and handling. Its tracks have leaderboards for comparing your times. Tune your build, set a time and race your friends.

Tracks: Race tracks with leaderboards for testing your build.
Ranks: Every track has a leaderboard for your best times.
Tuning: Speed and aerodynamics come straight from your blocks, so small build changes can cut your lap times.
Friends: Race together in multiplayer and test each other's builds head to head.
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Trailmakers Workshop Builds

The Steam Workshop has thousands of community-made vehicles you can drive, take apart and learn from. It's the fastest way to find a working design or share your own.

Browse: Thousands of community vehicles to download and use in your game.
Learn: Open a downloaded build in the builder to see how other engineers solve lift, balance and power.
Share: Upload your own creations for other players to use and get inspired by.
Test: Bring Workshop builds into sandbox maps with friends and test them side by side.
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Trailmakers System Requirements

Check whether your PC can run Trailmakers before you install. On Steam it's a Windows game from Flashbulb, released September 18, 2019. It needs a 64-bit system and a broadband connection.

Min: Windows 10 64-bit 20H1, i5-4440 (3.1 GHz quad-core), 8 GB RAM, GTX 660, DirectX 11, 8 GB of storage.
Rec: Windows 10 64-bit 20H1, i7-7700K, 16 GB RAM, GTX 1080, 10 GB of storage.
Net: You need a broadband internet connection.
Info: Developed and published by Flashbulb. Released on Steam for Windows on September 18, 2019.
Lang: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish (Spain), Danish, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
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Frequently asked questions

What do you do in Trailmakers?

Build vehicles from blocks and test them on land, at sea, in the air or in space. Explore Pioneers, race or experiment in sandbox.

Can you play Trailmakers with friends?

Yes. Every game mode, including the Pioneers story, supports multiplayer for 2–8 players.

Where should a new Trailmakers player start?

Play the tutorial, then build a simple wheeled vehicle. Test its steering and balance before adding more parts.

Does Trailmakers have community blueprints?

Yes. The Steam Workshop lets PC players share and download community-made vehicles.

Build your next Trailmakers machine

Start small, test often and keep improving your design.

Read the beginner guide Play on Steam