Small Transport Truck

From RRU Knowledge Base
Official artwork of the Small Transport Truck

The Small Transport Truck, also referred to as the All-Terrain Rock Mover or simply Small Truck or Transport Truck, is a vehicle from the LEGO Rock Raiders theme. It is a small, four-wheeled motorised vehicle with a cargo hold for efficiently hauling materials at high speeds.

The Small Transport Truck appears in the LEGO Rock Raiders set 4990 Rock Raiders HQ, where it can haul boulders around the eponymous HQ. Small Transport Trucks can only be used in the Windows version of the tie-in video game LEGO Rock Raiders; they do not appear at all in the PlayStation version (though the vehicle's name exists in language files).

In LEGO Rock Raiders for Windows

A Rock Raider driving a Small Transport Truck

In the Windows version of LEGO Rock Raiders, the Small Transport Truck is classified as a small vehicle, and requires two energy crystals for power. A Rock Raider must be trained as a driver to use a Small Transport Truck.

Without upgrades, this vehicle can travel at a decent 2 blocks per second, and can carry up to three energy crystals or pieces of ore. It can also carry a single electric fence. It cannot, however, carry building studs, barriers, or drained energy crystals.

Official artwork of the Small Transport Truck with engine and scanner upgrades

Although the Small Transport Truck is a very useful vehicle, it can be problematic with construction, as it often delivers more materials than required, preventing the building from being completed until the extra materials are removed, which Rock Raiders often don't recognize for some time. This can be easily remedied, however, by building an Ore Refinery, preventing them from taking ore anywhere but there, though this bug will still occur with energy crystals.

Dependency

The Small Transport Truck costs two energy crystals and requires the following for teleportation:

Upon telelporting down a Small Transport Truck for the first time, the help window will display this message:

You now have your first Small Transport Truck. You can use it to carry small items such as Ore and Energy Crystals.

Upgrades

A fully upgraded Small Transport Truck

There are three upgrades available for the Small Transport Truck:

  • Carry capability: Costs five pieces of ore. Adds a second cargo hold to the vehicle, doubling the capacity from 3 to 6. It can still only carry a single electric fence.
  • Engine: Costs ten pieces of ore. Installs a pair of small jet engines similar to those on the Rapid Rider, increasing the vehicle's route speed from 2 blocks per second to 3 blocks per second.
  • Scanner: Costs five pieces of ore. Installs a scanner aboard the vehicle, with a scanning radius of 4 blocks.

Appearances

In other media

Axle and Bandit outracing magma

The Small Transport Truck does not make much appearance in the LEGO Rock Raiders books and comics, likely due to it not coming in a set of its own, and being overshadowed by consistently-named vehicles as a result. Its only major appearance in the books is in Rock Raiders: High Adventure Deep Underground, where Axle uses it to rescue Bandit from an ice monster attack. While escaping with Jet, they encounter a slumbering rock whale, who wakes up and causes a magma flow.

The Small Transport Truck also appears in the mini comic book for the set 4990 Rock Raiders HQ, where Bandit uses it to dump the leftover rock from a refined energy crystal into the Rapid Rider's cargo hold, though part of it misses and hits Docs instead.

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Czech Čeština Malý transportér
Dutch Nederlands Kleine vrachtwagen
Finnish Suomi Pieni vaunu
French Français Véhicule de transport léger
German Deutsch Kleiner transporter
Hebrew עִבְרִית
Ivrit
משאית תעבורה קטנה
Italian Italiano Piccolo camion da trasporto
Japanese 日本語
Nihongo
スモールトランスポートトラック
Korean 한국어
Hangugeo
소형운반차량
Norwegian Norsk Liten lastebil
Polish Polski Pojazd transportowy
Russian Русский
Russkiy
Малый грузовик
Spanish Español Camión de transporte pequeño
Danish and Swedish releases left this vehicle's name unchanged