Love the rover course :) Got through first time at 180km/h limit, absolutely wiped out on the final checkpoint at max of 360km/h! I'd taken a lot of damage by then and that last checkpoint just throws me into its crossbar where I have no wheels (or roll bar) to protect me! Took your suspension strength tip and while I hit the last checkpoint again there was a lot more of my rover left so I could turn round and try again. That time nothing significant broke off. I've been doing 40km endurance tests at 1g, which has been great to iron the kinks out, but even with a gps to aim at it means a completely different route each time. This course should help my testing be more consistent. Also nice to see my rover is durable at 1.2g. The only problem I had with the course is navigating the checkpoints when I'm at full speed and flying over half of them, and my rover doesn't even have thrusters! Probably easier in 3rd person but I like being in the driving seat and often can't see which way to go mid-air, or just outright sail over a few checkpoints. We really need the ability to tune our suspension so we don't bounce so much, I'd love my rover to behave like the dakar trophy trucks when it comes to landing after a lot of air time.

I have to admit, i rarely see ships in the workshop that are worth redesigning/polishing. About one half is already perfect and more complex than even i would build them and almost all of the rest a basic Bricks/Crap. Great video btw.

Lolz, it's "azimuth", not "azmiuth". 😂😂😂

You know whats funny? This is what they do to test cars irl. The only thing is they cant keep spawning new ones.

10:10 i've done this before!

could probably use event controllers to pulse to space

How can I create all the components of a project automatically? Or do I have to tell what I need and do it manually?

I do like ladders but I only have vanilla and they don't work well.

0:46 "hey whats your power level? mines pretty big.." -broly

I couldn't help but notice that both AI methods seemed to have continuous firing of 3-4 small thrusters the entire way up (looks like flickering, but I assume the opposite sides are firing when our side is off). I wonder if thrust limiting your side thrusters to minimum or near-minimum would significantly reduce fuel consumption. A quick wiki check (might be wrong) suggests that 3.5 thrusters uses ~80% of a large thruster of fuel, so you might be looking at 50% or greater savings from just that (likely greater because during the latter half of flight, the maneuver thrusters are firing considerably more than the down thruster). I love using scripts, but I could see some people appreciating having an efficient hands-free non-script method that's pretty simple. You might also consider for all waypoint based methods describing how to get a space waypoint from the ground (the math is "simple" but its a few steps including one or two that will scare people away... It might not be the right content for your channel. Here's a quick list: 1) take a home gps "A" and a gps in the air "B" directly above any distance id go maybe 100m 2) B-A gets you a direction D (just subtract the x's, y's, and z's, and make sure you do B-A not A-B) 3) normalize D (this one I'd use a calculator for, it just reduces the length of D to be 1, while retaining the direction. typing 'normalize 3d vector calculator' into google gets you multiple sites that can do this. It's just 3d Pythagorean theorem (square root of (x²+y²+z²)) and then dividing D's x/y/z each by the result if you really want to do it manually) 4) multiply D by ~44,000 from sea level according to wiki to get your full direction change (This is just multiplying all 3 x/y/z of D by 44,000). 5) A + D to get your final destination waypoint (again, just add the x/y/z's respectively) As a test I just did this in my pre-spaceflight survival world and wound up with a gps that visibly is directly overhead, but is quite a bit further away (20km) than called for so maybe the wiki info I used is incorrect for heights, my base is on a mountain, but not a 20km mountain i don't think. Using a system like you did for the test that turns off the booster and the ai (but not stockpile the tank) could get the ship to stop using dampeners before the waypoint so this method could still work nicely for people. Overshooting space would also not be too big a deal. I could also just redo the math with a smaller scalar now that I know 44000 was about double what I needed. Total process including capturing the coords and googling a calculator was a couple minutes, but I do already mostly know what I'm doing so YMMV.

I tend to use ladders as jetpack shafts tbf, though I appreciate the space saving they afford.

is there an easy way to use the remote to orbit but have the dampeners disabled??

Great Video thanks for the help!

THE SEARCHLIGHTS WORK AS CAMERA?!?!?!

dude thank god youre safe from falling out of the sky that high. dang man

Climbing ladders are realistically slow when they should be magically fast like running or jetpacking around. They should take at most 1 second per block to climb a ladder

Make a timer block for your AI task block configuration to periodically shut off fuel to the dampening thrusters by turning them off and then after some time, turn them back on to make flight corrections. Dampeners on, one timer feeding into another timer. Repeat that cycle in which ever interval yields the highest efficiency by limiting the amount of fuel the AI is maximally able to consume. Configure timer blocks or event controller for launch sequence ensuring maneuvering thrusters initiate on first cycle, and immediately with full primary thrust...... Install nose mounted camera and sensor to detect in proximity and trigger warhead payload. GPS target or lock on capabilities, sensor delayed heavy armor tipped. Gotta love this game

I've been using Blarg's ACC for a few years now and it has definitely saved me lots of fuel. Anytime I build a ship capable of atmo and space flight, his script is one of the first scripts I add

I clicked for the absolutely beautiful and unfortunately unweldable ship

I use sensors to open and close doors, its a little harder to set up but it makes moving around super convenient

I have to say, some of these are pretty amazing for ideas! I know I had a ship that I ended up dropping on a planet and couldn't slow it down at all.

Thanks for this step by step guide. I built this beauty and should I also add hydrogen tank to it? I'm not sure what''s up, the UI is another learning curve, but I put a fair bit of ice in the storage and it just burnt right through it even while I'm just standing docked.

i think that if you were going to update this video, you would want to mention the existence of the "conveyor convertor" block, which solves the issue that you had with the survival kit at 20:16 (and does so in a very compact manner) In my experience teaching newer players how to build in SE, i've noticed that a lot of them overlook the convertor, probably because it's only available for small grid.

For your welder wall, instead of the button: 1) a sensor with its detection volume slightly larger than the area of effect of the welders 2) set the sensor to "detect small grid ships" 3) turn off "detect players", "detect neutral" and "detect hostile 4) first action slot: welders on 5) second action slot: welders off now all you have to do is fly up to the welder wall. no fiddling with buttons, and the wall shuts itself off automatically as soon as you move away.

Even easier .. just put two 'Nanobot Build and Repair System - Original Resources' (mod 3099489876 in the workshop) down on either side of the projector and make sure they are set to weld closer items first. You can even use the programable script 'Nanobot Build and Repair System Queuing / Display / Scripting' (mod 867822734 in the workshop) to automatically put items you don't have in storage into the production queue. I use 2 of them because they can be slow, but they can build subgrids just like the regular ones .. and they don't miss even the most intricate details. They will also repair any damaged items every time you are in range. You will still need a repair bluepriont for any completely destroyed items, but not for only damaged items. The only issue is they can be slow, which is why I use 2 (or even 3) of them. Combine this with 'PAM Auto-mining script' and 'Isy's Inventory Manager' and you can automate building many itema in various locations.

OK but is that giant 'bad for printing' ship on the workshop because wowsers :o

I have always wondered why people dont set up something like the parascope when trying to control vehicles with remote blocks. Like a drone or remote recovery of ships.

Very good video for a noob like me :)

One thing I do for the small grid ships is to put the projector on a rotor with a small head so I don't have to make a craft like that.

I want to have fun better and become builder

34:58 if the wheel is depressed XD

Very nice! I bet the event controller was one of your favourite blocks when it came out.

I prefer Independent Contractor. Being called a pirate is so negative :)

A better way to play this way is in a private world with the mod that converts large grid stuff to small grid you can get a refinery assembler and jump drive on small grids... or to use rotors to make the large grid variants attached to small grids... but the power consumption would wreck you

I am the one guy who likes climbing ladders. Mostly because I play a lot with a super nerfed jetpack so flying isn't an option in gravity and a long spiral staircase is much more painful to me than a ladder. That and I do like the animation for it. Most games don't bother with making a solid climbing animation and it's a bit wasted in SE as most people will just fly up instead. So it's nice to give it some use. But I don't like ladders when it's just 1 or 2 blocks or a route I travel a lot. They do take longer than stairs and the space saved isn't worth adding 10+ seconds every time I want to go up the ladder so having stairs is what I choose there.

you lost me in the moment you said SPC File or sbc, it realy doesnt matter cause these letters made me go away from the video xD

A little late bug a i just discovered that there is currenty a but that is crashing your game if u try to disconnect a welded grid from your projector. Make sure to have the Keep projection box checked if not itll crash your save game.

I like ladders, just not for something you use often or you need to get to fast.

These are all tips that are very useful if you happen to need them, but most of them i never really needed them (fortunately) and the ones i did need i made them up myself, the periscope being my favourite, inspired in MBT's commander sights, specially the ones that extend like a stick on top of the turret. Also, the ones for building and repairing with a grid i never used them since i haven't advanced that far into the game just yet, so yeah (I got ~380 hours in Space Engineers but it's almost all of it in building tanks in creative, so not much experience with ships and good looking design, my experience and knowledge is mostly if not purely in ground vehicles and machines and that sort of stuff) Still, pretty neat tips those you complied right there! 😁👍 (Edit:) Also, by the way, i got so many functions set for the main Pilot in my builds that i got almost all 10 slots on all 10 hotbars used up for something, each turret or mechanical arm SECTION having an entire hotbar set up for each little movement. Soon gonna be needing custom hotbar counts up to 20 if not even 30 or 40 (Or playing with friends in multi-crew vehicles but i am too lonely to afford that, so i'll just make up for it with my German overengineering skills)

the airlock stuff was insane simply amazing... did not realize i could get all the turrets to fire at that range simultaneously very nice!

These tips are great. I would never think of it like that (I'm new to Space Engineers). Thank you!

i use thrusters for forward/backward assist on heavy builds or to help my craft climb up mountains. ones facing down will stick you to the ground and can be rather handy for stability at high speeds, or rovers that can legit drive up 90 degree walls. This is a great guide overall. I always make wheel wells, i dont fully armor the suspension pieces because it causes that annoying bug where turning locks the wheels. If that happens, if you delete a block and re-add it, tends to un-mess up the wheels though. prevention is worth a mountain of cure here though. i have had to rip apart completely and fully redo wheels because of that. survival kits are good on things like apc's, not something for every rover/tank though. whichever you build thats a carrier for multiple people should have your survival kit. that or unless you're building specifically a mobile spawn center. easymode way to build: make a frame and configure where you want the wheels, then build everything up from there. Its entirely your choice, some people find it easier making a frame first. building the guts first tends to end in allot of bricks with wheels when you first start building in SE. This dude is 10000% correct about wheel amount, more wheels = more power. especially if you're building something very heavy. the more the merrier. if you have a super small and light craft, its not needed but will still help P.S. good on you including half block for bottom armor. you always want the most clearance with as little surface to snack on terrain. You should recommend the energy shield mod (the shields, not the fields). a tiny shield generator really goes a long way at negating collision damage. but i guess thats more advanced.

I think the issue i have is finding friends to play with

that air lock trick is game changing for me thankyou

Do you still play? It’s been seven months since your last video. I am newish and love the content. 😇🫡🫡🫡🫡

I love the look of this ship, but its not on your workshop...😢

easy way to check for damage is press k in cockpit and type "inc" it will bring up all red items

Show only buildable also lowers pcu in the game for you otherwise when it's on it's doubling the pcu of the grid ^.^

nice akhe

nice