JAGO - Vehicles

A 7 Days to Die mod by AMG5TAG. Version 1.0.1 for game version 3.4; installs on the server and client. Category: Vehicles.

A Harvest Plow for the 4x4, cruise control, horn-opened gates, bigger vehicle storage, a chicken coop attachment and a five-rank drone expansion with guns, a field medic, a loot collector and a farmhand.

Description

JAGO - Vehicles makes your vehicles and junk drone more useful. Fit the Harvest Plow to your 4x4 and drive through a forest: trees, boulders, cactus, wild flowers and roadside rubbish go straight into the truck's storage, and animals you hit are butchered on impact. It burns fuel and it won't let you drive through buildings, but clearing land and gathering resources gets a lot faster.

On the road there's a cruise control key (V by default), so you don't have to hold W across the map. Your horn opens gates and garage doors, not just trader doors. Smaller vehicles get bigger storage, a Chicken Coop attachment lets any vehicle carry wild chickens, and a backpack button takes everything out of a nearby vehicle or drone in one click.

Drone players get the UAV Operator perk with five ranks of drone mods: a rifle, a shotgun and a burst-fire machine gun that use ammo from the drone's storage, a Field Medic that treats broken bones and bleeding, a 110-slot Logistic Storage mod, a Loot Collector that empties loot bags, corpses and rubbish piles, and a Farmhand that harvests and replants your crops. At rank 5 you can deploy a second drone.

Features

• Harvest Plow (4x4 Truck only): natural blocks the truck destroys (trees, cactus, surface rocks and ore boulders, tall flowers, wild crops) drop their normal harvest straight into vehicle storage; overflow drops on the ground. It also collects street salvage (trash piles, rubbish, purses, shopping carts) and sweeps wild plants from under the truck.
• Plow fuel cost: 0.05 to 2.0 fuel per harvested block, depending on hardness. With an empty tank it stops collecting.
• Plow smash-through: a big tree only cuts your speed to 60% of the cap, and felled trees don't launch the truck. Man-made blocks give nothing and still stop you as normal.
• Roadkill butchering: animals the plow truck hits drop their harvest into storage (zombies excluded by default).
• Nothing is collected inside a trader area or another player's land claim. Player-planted crops are never touched.
• The plow is learned from the rare Harvest Plow Schematic, found in vehicle-mod schematic loot and sold by traders. With JAGO - Crafting installed it can also be crafted at the Research Bench.
• Vehicle Chicken Coop: fits any vehicle and lets its storage hold Wild Chickens. Unlocked at Workstations crafting level 28.
• Cruise control: press V while driving to hold the throttle. Press it again, press S or brake to cancel. Getting out, dying or changing seat also cancels. Turbo still works.
• Horn opens doors: chain link gates, garage doors, roll-up doors, security gates and drawbridges within about 10 blocks open and close to your horn. Locked doors and doors in another player's land claim are skipped. House and interior doors are left alone.
• Bigger vehicle storage: Bicycle 10x3 (was 10x1), Minibike 10x5 (was 10x3), Motorcycle 10x7 (was 10x4), Gyrocopter 10x7 (was 10x5). The 4x4 is unchanged.
• Take all from nearby vehicle/drone button in the backpack window. It respects locked slots and vehicle locks.
• UAV Operator perk (General Perks, 5 ranks): rank 1 Drone Rifle Mod, rank 2 Drone Field Medic Mod, rank 3 Logistic Storage, Loot Collector and Farmhand mods, rank 4 Drone Shotgun Mod, rank 5 Drone Machine Gun Mod and a second deployed drone. Drone gun kills give 50% to 100% of normal kill XP, rising with rank.
• Drone guns: Rifle (9mm), Shotgun (shotgun shells and slugs) and Machine Gun (7.62mm, 5-round bursts). They fire from ammo in the drone's storage; slot 1 is locked and tinted green as the ammo slot. One weapon mod per drone.
• Drone Field Medic Mod: heals like the vanilla Medic Mod and also treats broken bones, sprains, deep cuts and abrasions with items from the drone's storage. It never uses pills or drinks.
• Drone Logistic Storage Mod: drone storage becomes 10x11 (110 slots).
• Drone Loot Collector Mod: empties zombie loot bags, searchable zombie corpses (with JAGO - Zombies) and rubbish containers within 12 blocks, then unloads into a storage crate you label "Drone Drop". Needs Logistic Storage on the same drone.
• Drone Farmhand Mod: harvests ripe player-planted crops inside your own land claim, replants them from seeds carried in the drone and unloads the produce to the Drone Drop crate. Needs JAGO - Farming 3.3.0 or later.
• Drone radial menu: Hold Fire / Fire at Will, Target / Ignore Sleepers, target mode (Lock On, My Target, Nearest) and Start / Stop Looting. Saved on the drone.
• Call drones: press J and every drone you own flies to a spot in front of you, with a whistle sound you can replace.
• Quality 6 drones get 6 mod slots (was 4). One storage, one weapon and one medical mod per drone.
• Fixes a vanilla bug where loading a drone skipped every second installed weapon mod.
• Admin console command jv (or jagovehicles) shows drone status.
• English, German and Spanish text.

Settings

Gears (optional, Esc > Mods > JAGO - Vehicles, stored per player):

• Call drones key: default J. A list of keys, or None to turn it off.
• Cruise control key: default V. A list of keys, or None to turn it off.

JAGO-Vehicles.xml in the mod folder (Gears overrides the two keys):

• callkey (J), cruisekey (V), callsound (Sounds/call.wav, blank turns it off), callvolume (1.0)
• collectradius (12 blocks), scaninterval (1 s, minimum 0.25), depositlabel (Drone Drop), depositradius (12 blocks)
• loot_containers: the rubbish containers the Loot Collector empties (default junk, garbage, rolling trash bins, fast food trash, trash shelves, trash compactors, purses). Empty turns it off.
• removelootedcorpses (true): remove corpses the drone empties, when JAGO - Zombies' DestroyOnLoot is also on.
• dronelimit (1), dronelimitperk (2), dronelimitperkrank (5)
• killxppercent (50,50,60,70,80,100 for UAV Operator ranks 0 to 5), ammoslotcolor (40,140,40,255)
• farmradius (12), farmup (3), farmdown (8), farminterval (5 s, minimum 1), farmperscan (8), farmminfree_slots (3)
• farmallyclaims (true): also farm friends' land claims. farmunclaimed (false): also farm unclaimed land. farmreplant_unknown (false): replant with an Unknown Seed when there's no matching seed.
• plowharvestanimals (true), plowharvestzombies (false), plowsmashthrough (true), plow_sweep (true)
• debug, plow_debug (false): extra log lines.

Compatibility

• On dedicated servers the plow harvests on the driver's machine and the server puts the yield into the vehicle's storage. The "+item" pickup toast only shows for a driver who is also the host.
• Known quirk: picnic tables share a material with small trees, so the plow harvests them.
• Removing the mod shrinks vehicle storage; overflow drops as a loot bag beside the vehicle.
• Don't combine with other mods that replace the drone's targeting, storage sizing or mod loading, or that rewrite the horn's door event.

Credits

Drone weapon models and icons by Alter (Drone Weapons), used with permission.

Requirements

• Harmony DLL mod: EasyAntiCheat must be OFF.
• Gears is optional (for the per-player hotkey settings).
• Install on the server and on every client. Both need the same version.
• Unzip into your Mods folder and keep the folder name Z-AMG5TAG-JAGO-Vehicles as it is: the Z- prefix sets the load order.
• Works standalone. Each JAGO mod is independent. JAGO - Zombies (corpse collection), JAGO - Farming (Farmhand) and JAGO - Crafting (Research Bench schematic) add extras when present.

Installation

Step 1: Install JAGO - Vehicles on the server and on every player's game, all on the same version. In single player, install it on your own game.

Step 2: Download the zip and unzip it into the game's Mods folder, so you end up with Mods/Z-AMG5TAG-JAGO-Vehicles/ModInfo.xml. For the game that is the Mods folder in the install folder (in Steam: right-click 7 Days to Die > Manage > Browse local files; create Mods if it isn't there). For a dedicated server it is the Mods folder next to the server executable.

Step 3: Keep the folder name Z-AMG5TAG-JAGO-Vehicles exactly as it is: the Z- prefix sets the load order. Don't put it inside another folder.

Step 4: This mod contains a DLL, so EasyAntiCheat must be off: start the game without EAC (untick EasyAntiCheat in the launcher), and on a dedicated server set EACEnabled to false in serverconfig.xml.

Step 5: Optional: install Gears (Mod Settings Manager) to change the settings in game. Without it the defaults are used.

Step 6: Start (or restart) the server and the game. To update, delete the old folder and unzip the new version the same way on the server and every player's game at the same time.

Changelog

JAGO - Vehicles: changelog

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1.0.1 (29 Oct 2026)

• The harvest plow and its schematic, the vehicle chicken coop and the four drone mods (field medic, logistic storage, loot collector, farmhand) now have their own badged icons instead of sharing vanilla ones. Their old colour tints are removed, since the badges now tell them apart. Sources and licences are listed in ICON-CREDITS.txt.

1.0.0 (27 Oct 2026)

• First public release.

Development history

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Before its public release this mod was developed and run privately, with its own version numbers (the last was 0.25.3). Those notes are kept below for reference; none of those versions were released to the public.

JAGO - Vehicles - Changelog

0.25.3 (26 Oct 2026)

• Fix: with the Harvest Plow fitted, the truck stopped harder than normal when it smashed through trees and boulders. It now carries its momentum through blocks it destroys, as intended.
• Fix: crashing into a wall or building block that survives the hit now slows the truck down again. Before, the plow's speed help also cancelled the normal slowdown from man-made blocks that didn't break.

0.25.2 (16 Oct 2026)

• With JAGO - Crafting installed, the Harvest Plow Schematic can now be crafted at the Research Bench (150 Paper, 80 Research Data, 1 Legendary Parts, 120 s), behind the same Lucky Looter rank as the other bench schematics. Without JAGO - Crafting nothing changes.

0.25.1 (15 Oct 2026)

• Fix: the backpack's "Take all from nearby vehicle/drone" button sat on top of JAGO - Push Pull's Push button. It has moved left into the free gap beside the lock button, so both can be used.