Can You Make a Realistic Car in Scrap Mechanic?

Maybe, but it'll be very inefficient.
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[@HydraBox777]

I think you might have less friction problems if you use pipe pieces, since scrap mechanic hates cube blocks being in contact with eachother

[@jakelake8113]

I'm glad that I am not the only one who thought this.

[@rylenstuffsv2]

Thr next time he'll make an engine he should do this, less unpredictable physics for thr cause of tedious placing

[@ReidCaptain]

Didn't think of it but that's a good idea

[@saab35draken39]

@@ReidCaptain can you make a attack helicopter next?

[@jakelake8113]

@@ReidCaptain Either way love the content and another great video!

[@b1a1e48]

For the issue you had at 4:18 you can weld objects of the same creation together while said creation is on the lift. this should help for whenever you use barring in the future. just a tip, I think the way you did it was cooler.

[@mylesstopmotionsandcats2482]

Lol I was gonna say that lol

[@mynameisntdave317]

I know that there are some mods out there that have gears in them, might make it a bit easier to improve on this

[@ReidCaptain]

I definitely want to try some gear mods soon

[@bernardoramos7842]

@@ReidCaptain In the best one (which i don't know the name) you need to download the gears from the workshop once you have the mod. So pay attention to the description.

[@tree_4249]

Since the survival update most mods have been broken. Majority of gear mods can be very glitchy too. Pipe pieces is about as close as you might get. Quick edit: use the thicc pipes not the noodle pipes

[@cadetkohr5508]

@@bernardoramos7842 It's called the ACL Gears Mod

[@satan5677]

@@ReidCaptain Mechanical parts mod

[@eylookvulheimiik7538]

I've experimented with using spud guns instead of thrusters for engines, it gives the force all in one instance

[@ReidCaptain]

Might try something like that

[@eylookvulheimiik7538]

@@ReidCaptain also they are only one block wide

[@evanherriges4042]

@@ReidCaptain Piston engine might be better, you can check out a ton of them on the workshop if you want ideas

[@marluna_x]

@@ReidCaptain Tip: Use glitch welded spudguns(like 50 in one for massive recoil)

[@Dude-48]

@@eylookvulheimiik7538 heimlich*

[@kevinpark1]

Something you could try is a scrap mechanic piston engine they are high torque and smaller than a thruster engine

[@Donke267]

Ah, yes. Free energy.

[@Browthpdd]

Day 15 of asking Reid Captain to try space engineers.

[@ADonutMan]

Some small tips: 1. "Generator pipes" look like thick pipes but actually are quite a lot smaller, so if you'll need smaller hitbox you can use these 2. Talking about gears, sm while having quite small blocks, works best with big objects in that regard

[@kasibcetin1394]

i like how he always does the most obscure things in the simplest of games

[@spikergames4259]

Besiege and scrap mechanic are engineering games, they are NOT the simplest of games.

[@zakgrubb7512]

In scrap mechanic people make engines a lot better than he dose with like gear boxes and stuff people also make v engines and suspension and stuff

[@HolyMangoYT]

for people who don’t know what they mean by obscure: in this case they mean that Reid always does complex stuff inside of simple games.

[@maxboskeljon6440]

Yoo I'm definitely loving this new upload schedule Anyways, could you maybe play simpleplanes? Its really fun and seems like something you might enjoy

[@TheCatOfAges]

Thats a game i havent heard in a looong time...

[@soupcangaming662]

@@TheCatOfAges simpleplanes? Soupcan farm remembers

[@lucaskittilsen4460]

Yo I still think it would be sick to see a video of trackmania.

[@ReidCaptain]

Seems neat, if I can make something cool in it I'll make a video

[@NIMPAK1]

@@ReidCaptain It's more of a racing game than a building game. It has a pretty in depth track builder, but from what I understand all the objects are fixed in place.

[@dompan9169]

Instead of expanding the pistons you could just weld them directly to the other crankshaft. Place a bearing on opposite sides of a block, put blocks on the bearings, put another block on the side of one of the blocks you just placed, place a block on the piston and weld that block to the other block. ⬛️l⬛️l⬛️ ⬛️ ↔️ ⬛️

[@KaneyoriHK]

Seeing a piston engine, this is an old school engine, nowadays we use the actual pistons to create engines, smaller, more power, more reliable, more stable. But it's neat to see a thruster engine nowadays

[@initial3615]

i cant even make a normal car ive been obsessed with these realistic like motors for forever now

[@dragonfire4356]

so if you wanna weld/connect 2 parts together you need to place your entire creation on a lift. only then you can connect the part you wanna connect together

[@theGuyWhoLikesMakingBigHandles]

to weld two parts of a creation together, use the weld tool while the creation is oh a lift

[@novapaddock5545]

Sick, someone who actually plays Scrap mechanic in 2022!

[@Ekipsogel]

What about Moonbo, Scrapman, Durf, kAN (sometimes),Kosmonaut (sometimes), Lion Heart Blue, and Dr. Pixel Plays?

[@ImUnkown482]

There is literally a bunch of people who play scrap mechanic

[@daveburrito8847]

so many people play scrap mechanic bro

[@axessdenied4483]

I love the quality of uploads! And you just uploaded the besiege shotgun which was also cool. Keep it up!!

[@kontakt4321]

"Really chaotic and unpredictable" is like Scrap Mechanic's tag line.

[@darealkosmo]

Great seeing your vids in my feed more frequently! :)

[@fortyforty-seven1061]

man really just summed up scrap mechanic in three words: "chaotic and unpredictable"

[@alectryon2478]

Great video as always! I've tried my hand at some 'realistic' cars myself, but had some problems which you solved rather conveniently for me lol. Would love to see you make mechs in the various 3D games like this, such as dream car builder, besiege, etc. I feel Stormworks might be an interesting game to try out as well!

[@cliptonic69]

This was exactly the scrap mechanic video idea i was always wishing someone made and finally you dit it and its raw and awesome build

[@JerkSty1e]

So happy to see you back in SM. Also try something with water cannons or spud guns. the water and spuds have tranferable kenetic energy.

[@qdawgs7656]

You dont need an engine for steering, if you just connect a seat directly to a bearing it will act as steering when you press A and D in the seat.

[@Henzo_Noleto]

That's... not realistic, which was his objective

[@MyHandleIsGood]

You can still attach it to a rack and pinion to that for maximum realism.

[@magikip9719]

There’s a mod on the workshop that adds actual gears that work… would love to see you remake this with that mod. I think it can also solve the whole piston thing to spin wheels too

[@Nugcon]

yes

[@michalsabat4720]

i love to make piston engines powered by spud guns, and it works pretty well, managed to build a V8 with a shifting gearbox powering a car (also made an I4 engine, powered by 4 spud guns on each cylinder and managed to make a car with a clutch out of it too)

[@SkylesMars]

If you put the creation on a lift you can weld "child entities" together, so you don't need to slot pins in to rotate. You may also have less problems of friction with pipes (not really 100% sure though) Since scrap mechanic did an update that messed up friction between blocks

[@powerstreak6142]

Idea for Besiege: Make a James Bond Car.

[@dotcinematics]

yheesss

[@animalmango6499]

This is really cool. You truly are an awesome video game engineer. You make great content out of it too. And you are able to make that content frequently. You are a truly good KZbinr. Thanks for entertaining us in times where it's hard.

[@astr0jack440]

Instead of the wheel to the side, just use a gear using small pipes, they don’t resist much and the amount of power on your engine can be increased with the thrusters

[@thespyeye668]

You can use spudguns to move pistons, and they work either way-they can be on the pistons or push the pistons

[@user-nw2kn8dk7z]

It would be interesting to see your take on a regular scrap mechanic piston engine

[@champy5095]

You can use suspensions they also have no collision for the engine also it is easier to make the wheels go gears are actually kinda better

[@kmemz]

You could make a clutch to keep the engine running even when the vehicle is stopped, this would also allow you to get it rolling without relying on a bump start, as when you extend the clutch pistons to make contact with the flywheel, it will still be able to slip to keep running, and the vehicle would gather speed off of the leftover friction until there is no longer any slip. You could try various block combinations for different levels of drag, who knows what the right combo would be as too much friction would stall it while too little would hinder performance.

[@thegamingender6933]

Piston engines do exist, although I can't consider them to be realistic in this case, as they both push and PULL. still, nice job, and I hope for more scrap mechanic content soon, like maybe attempting Challenge mode...

[@christianjaymoralde7504]

If you put the creation in a lift it will allow you to weld anything in right each other in lift state

[@arericarnau4773]

it feels so good to have multiple vidios a week :)

[@Coco2264]

Always wanted you to do stuff in scrap mechanic!

[@koishicat2]

you can make this much much much better by using the aforementioned pistons as the actual pistons that move to make the crankshaft spin instead of using thrusters

[@hakmedolarinde8183]

i remember making a car with en engine including crankshaft and pistons. a drive shaft. a differential and realistic stearing and realistic suspension in the same space that he used just for his engine

[@cinfdef]

You can edit the games code for the terrain height by changing literally 1 value. It’s a perfect method to get otherwise static grids off the ground and into your lift!

[@BlitzTDM]

instead of extending pistons, you should use suspension, since they have the same no-collision property but are covering 3 or 4 blocks of distance with no collision, and like other comments say, pipe pieces would help as well

[@breadit2]

Dude i love to see people enjoing a underrated game

[@phillbanks4103]

Great vid as always, could you do an AT-AT or some kind of walker/mech?

[@JaJa-ph2mt]

Really cool

[@tonyhakston536]

Bro, I dunno how to tell you this, but realistic cars don’t have the engine extending half the width of the chassis out the left side attached to a fifth wheel.

[@alexdacat7052]

Download The Modpack so you can use ice blocks which have no friction at all (I think even net blocks have the tiniest bit of friction)

[@ProCraftGamin]

i would love to see a follow-up on the 3D printer that can be controlled by a drawing thing or somethin

[@samllea1]

it would be good if the game had a mod were you can select a erea and shrink it, the thing you selected still has to work tho. That would be good

[@keesvdb]

you can have the piston welded on either side of the bering. none of the piston has colision so it is a realy good connection

[@pupterupt2330]

I've been playing scrap mechanic since 2016-2017 and this guy is still better than me

[@endodd_7742]

It's interesting to see how you solve problems your own way. There are usually easier/more efficient options people figured out already but doing things your own way can be interesting too. I made a helicopter in Scrap Mechanic that uses a "realistic engine" and a working swashplate once with the wings mod and it works very well.

[@enerjaz6871]

Can you publish and send me your heli? I want to check it out

[@endodd_7742]

@@enerjaz6871 I don't want to publish it since I thought about uploading it once I feel like improving it aesthetically. I sent you a friend request on steam, so I could show it to you in game.

[@yeetman6416]

Make a mech suit in scrap mechanic that is powered by a realistic engine

[@Roaxial]

very cool

[@UChS4Dq15wHu8vkvWsaLzvPg]

lol same

[@Tylorean]

Ok, your gears are kinda sus… But a great video, as always! Keep up the good work!

[@Person-lk1vs]

you should try the game "instruments of destruction"! it's a lot like besiege, but with a cleaner aesthetic and new mechanics like gravity wells and magnets!

[@cmszd3260]

saw some people commenting about mids that add gears but there are also mods that add magnets that you could use to make another engine

[@ghostarchitech261]

just watching this makes me feel smart

[@guard13007]

The moment you got it sorta working, but the engine wasn't producing enough power, I thought "You need to put a gearbox in!" Engines almost always gotta be moving faster than the wheels they're connected to, after all. :3 But yea, gears in the stock game aren't very good.

[@karyjas1]

Advice - make the camshaft bigger for higher torque. Its 3 blocks big now, if it was 5, that would make a huge difference. Could even go for 7. Thrusters shine not at torque, but at speed, so, using them in a system which expects less torque out of them, will make the system much better

[@bungus.unhinged]

Piston engine: exists* What the guy made is effectively a piston engine, rotating the axis and transfers rotation to wheels, still can't figure out myself how do you turn the wheels, seems difficult af

[@rylenstuffsv2]

The new scrap mechanic update has some optimization like less lag and probably less unpredictable physics. Some new things also

[@connorclub6244]

Finally! A reid captain scrap mechanic video!

[@josefroque5551]

I saw you had trouble with Wielding the crankshafts. It would be easier to wield them by placing the creation on a lift and wielding them.

[@frogceo3483]

Hey instead of those latches you could have used sensors on toggle mode connected to an xor gate

[@Jojo-210]

Lol, I created a single piston thruster engine a week ago, but I didn’t have enough time to finish it (4 Pistons (everyone with a different phase)). Maybe when it’s finished I will test it out on a car. However, your design is a lot more compact than mine

[@ultrablack7271]

If you put a creation on a lift, you can weld between movable blocks

[@datbubby]

I would like to see you make block launchers / realistic weapons in SM

[@theenderercodes4541]

This man could be an engineer in real life.

[@pogguff]

scrap mechanic piston engine ??? that would fun for you to make into a car :) also love your vids

[@axolotlgaming9144]

hey so here is a tip you should use 2 mods glitch welder and mechanical parts mechanical parts adds a bunch of realistic parts

[@_blood_moon_proto_1500]

im still trying to make a vw beetle chassis and suspension, its not going too well, any advice? maybe even an idea for ya to take...cus i can't get it right

[@atomega2243]

I think if you place the well in the midle the problem for the turn is solve

[@travpots6318]

Good job

[@alexdacat7052]

FYI all the parts of the piston don’t have collision, even the head and the.. foot i guess?

[@hello-kp3qr]

maybe, ill just have to watch the video until the end to find out!

[@joshv19thegamer71]

You should use a piston engin look on the work shop Kan gaming and build them

[@scarlatum]

Orc's engineering as is it... WAAAGH!!!

[@Floppy_Waffle]

You sound like a more energetic version of Nile Red

[@bhargavagowda8434]

I notice you dont use hinges on the other side of your connecting rods. Maybe that would smooth things out and also look more realistic?

[@sutairu2312]

Imagine you are in far future and you try to reverse engineer piston engine using rocket boosters

[@gustavakerman5419]

Alt title Madman pollutes desert with rockets while trying to reinvent the automobile

[@rubenlundstrom5468]

AYY Scrap mechanic!

[@ottovonbismarck2604]

You should try to play "Sprocket"😂

[@gertboi]

I love the scrap mechanic vids

[@ReidCaptain]

They are fun to make but getting ideas for them is the hardest part

[@gertboi]

@@ReidCaptain What if you tried to make something that flies? It would probably be difficult but i think you could make it work

[@Ekipsogel]

@@ReidCaptain what about the computer? I was enjoying that series and it was Scrap Mechanic. Was it because logic is slow and gets laggy in SM?

[@someguyinahole5952]

2:32 everything reminds me of her. . .

[@rubenlundstrom5468]

You should make a video on you beating the new chalenge mode levels that got aded in the update

[@nelly5954]

Hey Reid, can you try to make a steam train in Besiege?

[@marluna_x]

Tip: Use Suspensions with strengh 0 as sliders

[@calleballe789]

Love the more frequent uploads, keep it up!

[@Mostafa-vs8bd]

Hi.i think is very heavy and engine work hard to move it Use wood or plastic etc next time And in SM you have alot of way to build free energy small engine. Some example is wedge and pipe or piston engine or other glitch power engine I dont remember all of them but they are too many.

[@DedicatedCaffeineUser]

That guy on the Scrap Mechanic title screen looks hella cursed

[@krolon9786]

would more stroke length affect it positively or badly? it'd have more torque in theory, but how would scrap mechanic practice react to that?

[@ipadgamecmptriii767]

I haven't heard of scrap mechanic in a long time

[@misterdot6923]

thats pretty cool

[@spawnnumber2126]

Nice!

[@pixuslux229]

next vid idea: Making a Bomber Plane in Besiege or Scrap Mechanic

[@wat159]

Nice vid! But the jet vid was better though

[@PwopzfUFLFksQZhZbDUcaLGQMw52wH]

Title: realistic car In video: strange thing with 5 wheels

[@dalainawillis507]

Hey I have an idea for a Carvel looking normal it’s a realistic drivetrain using the engines that are already in the game so it’s not very big but has a realistic drivetrain and suspension I’m not gonna lie I search for realistic drive train and this is what showed up so that’s why I recommend that

[@nesgamerboy690]

Suspension has the same noclip effect as the pistons