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I was asking myself this as there were several construction sites in my area with cranes appearing and disappearing all the time until I did catch them!
You simply need a BIGGER crane to build the Big Crane.
Some you don’t even need that, they’re self constructing.
And it takes them two winters to fill a toddler sized pothole in front of my flat. /Boomerrant/
Graffiti it with a dick, it legit seems to get things done.
But then who cranes the bigger crane?
It’s cranes, all the way up!
Ah yes, the crane crane
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So nobody has corrected “big-ass cranes” to “big ass-cranes” yet? I guess I’ll do it then.
I mean I literally saw one being taken down when we were in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Went past a construction site it was up. Couple hours later when going back from lunch it was half taken down.
So, what you are saying is that you didn’t see them being summoned, just that the despawn takes a couple of hours. That makes sense otherwise it would be too op.
Things don’t despawn in the real world. What was happening is the contruction workers were looting it after their raid defeated it. Those crane frame pieces add 1000 HP to their home’s structure each, so they are great items to have, especially if another crane were to spawn nearby and managed to use its [Collapse] skill on their home before a raid could defeat it.
You weren’t supposed to see that.
Yeah the distraction field around it seems to have been turned off
Ribbon cutting ceremony? Groundbreaking ceremony?
All rituals to please the eldritch crane God, so that a suitable avatar can be summoned to the material world. Praise be.
Ia! Nyar-Cr’anethotep! The dark mother of a thousand girders!
You just activated my trape card, OSHA INSPECTOR!
Friend of mine pulled a trap card on an OSHA inspector on site once. It was glorious
not sure if it’s an urban myth.
not the story goes that when building the Sagrada Familia, they had no idea how to remove the crane they put in the middle. so they offered that crane for free to anyone who could get it out.
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Ask Liebherr!
isn’t it obvious???
They switch to creative mode and build the crane cause now they can fly. or if they have the right mod pack then they can just spawn one. We common folk don’t have the authority to switch to creative
that’s why I want to be a construction worker when I grow up :)
I think that author name might be fake.
Seems legit to me.
I stand corrected.
Bj nomnom sounds like a porn name.
Someone named BJ Nomnom would know a lot about erecting cranes, I reckon?
Actually a good question they’re fucking massive
They come one section at a time by truck, and the crane cab climbs each section as they are hoisted up by the last section.
The most dangerous time for cranes is the time between hoisting and bolting the next section on (or the reverse during disassembly).
One fell in Manhattan a couple years ago during disassembly. https://www.wsatlaw.com/manhattan-crane-accident-new-safety-rules-2025/
There are new procedures now after that investigation.
@The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world This would be a very good read for me; I’ve always wondered that as a kid.
I swear to god, if this is not an real book I will be very angry…
And gonna post about how angry I am!!!
