Glitches

Trailmakers is well known for containing glitches, which are reproducible and semi-consistent. They can be used to achieve things that are not possible with usual gameplay.

Techniques

• Zero drag glitch
• Hinge glitch
• Wheel on side friction glitch
• UFO engine glitch
• Floating Block glitch
• Stealth drive glitch
• Piston glitch
• RC glitch
• Trike glitch

State of glitches

During a Q&A, Flashbulb Games, mentioned that glitches such as Zero Drag Glitch negates core mechanics of the game and creates unfair competition in races, but at the same time, acknowledges that this creates an exciting new techniques for the players..

For the 1.7.4 update they fixed the Floating Block glitch, and released the power coupling block to create a similiar functionality of the glitch.