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Forklift Arms (Carry & Throw Anything)
"Certified to lift. Not certified to be careful."
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How do I install Forklift Arms (Carry & Throw Anything)?
Download the free ProjectMods desktop app, then install Forklift Arms (Carry & Throw Anything) for Dumb Ways to Build in one click.
</>What does Forklift Arms (Carry & Throw Anything) do?
Some of the pieces on site are a real fight to carry: they drag your bean around, slip out of your grip when they snag, and empty your stamina while you shuffle them into place. Forklift Arms fixes all of that. Set Hold Strength and the object obeys you instead of the other way round, holds further from your body without breaking free, and costs nothing to carry. Throw Power does what it says: wind up and launch a plank, a barrel or an unlucky crewmate a lot further than nature intended. Handy for passing materials across a gap, and hilarious in every other situation. Both sliders work live, and switching the mod off returns your arms to the factory setting.
</>What is Forklift Arms (Carry & Throw Anything)?
Some pieces in Dumb Ways to Build fight back: they drag your bean, slip out of your grip and drain your stamina while you shuffle them into place. Forklift Arms puts a Hold Strength slider and a Throw Power slider on your arms, so the object obeys you and the throw goes where you aimed it. Both work live. On ProjectMods, the community-first PC mod manager for 400+ games.
</>Common questions about Forklift Arms (Carry & Throw Anything)
What does Forklift Arms do in Dumb Ways to Build?
Forklift Arms makes your bean stronger in Dumb Ways to Build, in two directions. Hold Strength controls how firmly you grip whatever you pick up: turn it up and a heavy beam stops dragging you around and stays in your hands when it snags on scaffolding. Throw Power controls how hard you launch things, so a plank, a barrel or an unlucky crewmate sails a lot further than the game intended. While the mod is on you also hold pieces further out from your body, and carrying costs no stamina at all. Both sliders are percentages of normal and change live while you play. Switch the mod off and your arms go straight back to the factory setting, and your save file is never touched either way.
What does the Hold Strength slider actually change?
Hold Strength in Forklift Arms sets how firmly your Dumb Ways to Build bean grips whatever it is carrying, as a percentage of normal. At 100, the game's own grip, a heavy piece pulls you around and slips loose when it catches on a railing. Raise the value and the object obeys you instead: it stays put in your hands and goes where you steer it. The mod starts you at 400 and the slider runs to 1000. Two more perks come with the mod being on, whatever the number: you hold pieces further out from your body so you can see where you are going, and carrying costs no stamina, which matters on long hauls across the Skyscraper where a beam would normally empty your bar halfway there. The only thing you lose is the comedy of being dragged off a ledge by a girder.
Can I throw other players with Forklift Arms?
Yes, if you can pick them up. Forklift Arms boosts the throw on anything your bean is holding in Dumb Ways to Build, and that includes a crewmate you have grabbed, so an unlucky friend travels a lot further than they signed up for. Throw Power is a percentage of the normal throw: 200 sends them twice as far, and 500, the top of the slider, gives them a proper tour of the site on the way down. It is hilarious exactly once per crewmate and useful slightly more often than that: tossing a builder across a gap to the other side of a broken bridge beats waiting for someone to nail a plank. Planks, barrels and every other loose object get the same treatment.
How high can I set Throw Power and Hold Strength?
Both sliders in Forklift Arms are percentages of the Dumb Ways to Build default, where 100 is exactly what the game ships with and anything above it is stronger. Hold Strength runs from 100 up to 1000 and starts at 400, which is already enough to stop the heaviest beam on site pulling you around. Throw Power runs from 100 up to 500 and starts at 200: double is a strong, usable throw for passing materials across a gap, while the top end sends a plank off the site entirely, which is funny but not productive. Both values apply live, so the practical method is to grab something heavy, nudge the numbers until it behaves, and leave them there. The ProjectMods launcher remembers your settings between sessions.
How does Forklift Arms pair with Iron Lungs and Caffeinated?
They cover three different problems, and together they make a Dumb Ways to Build bean that can actually keep up with the site. Forklift Arms handles the carrying: heavy pieces obey you and cost nothing to hold. Iron Lungs handles stamina, keeping the bar full so sprinting never locks you out, which matters because Forklift Arms only removes the carry cost, not the sprint cost. Caffeinated handles pace and jump height, so the beam you are carrying gets across the site quickly and up onto the scaffold in one hop. All three are separate mods in the same ProjectMods catalog, each with its own toggle, so you can run any one of them alone if you only want the grip without the speed.
What options does Forklift Arms (Carry & Throw Anything) include?
Hold Strength %
How firmly you hold things compared to normal. Higher means heavy pieces stop dragging you around.
Throw Power %
How hard you throw compared to normal.
Enabled
Master switch. Turn off to go back to normal arms.
Forklift Arms is a ProjectMods mod for Dumb Ways to Build that gives your bean a firmer grip and a harder throw, so heavy pieces stop dragging you around, carrying costs no stamina, and planks fly a lot further than nature intended.
System Requirements
What features does Forklift Arms (Carry & Throw Anything) include?
- Makes heavy beams obey you instead of dragging your bean across the site, with a slider for how firm the grip is.
- Holds pieces further out from your body without them snagging loose or slipping out of your hands.
- Removes the stamina cost of carrying entirely, so hauling the big stuff no longer empties your bar.
- Launches planks, barrels and unlucky crewmates clean across the site, with Throw Power set anywhere up to five times the normal throw.
- Adjusts live while you play and hands your arms back to factory settings the moment it's switched off.
Best For
- The crew's designated heavy lifter, sick of a steel beam steering their bean off the edge of the scaffold.
- Builders passing materials across a gap on the Skyscraper who would rather throw a plank over than carry it the long way round.
- Friends who have discovered that a crewmate counts as a throwable object and want to know how deep the sewer really goes.
- Solo players tackling a job built for four, where holding a piece steady at arm's length is the only way to get it placed alone.
- Anyone who wants a bit more grip without the circus act, since Hold Strength can be set as gentle as you like.
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