Can You Use Cannons to Make an Engine in Trailmakers?

[@ReidCaptain]

What else should I make in Trailmakers? I was thinking of doing something in the water since I can't do that in Besiege or Scrap Mechanic.

[@hero_bs__ig]

A boat and a submarine at the same time and also has built in rockets or machine guns

[@gamingwithflight6179]

A wing powered sub

[@gamingwithflight6179]

Or a dolphin sub

[@awiseauthor3456]

make an all-terrain warship

[@daanblok7509]

You shoud definetly do that

[@MkiSaskTheGlumpSod]

I like how surprised he sounded that the “explosive ammo firing cannons” caused his vehicle to explode

[@Music7Ada]

Some general tips: If a block takes enough damage, it will disintegrate or as the game calls it "make scrap," so that is a reasonable possibility. This game has a dedicated block for detaching parts. This way they respawn when you repair your vehicle. They can either detach the blocks and make them a separate object or delete them based on if "make scrap" is on or off.

[@Reth_Hard]

I think something that can be useful to know for this kind of build is the transparent material in the paint menu, so that you can see inside a mechanism.

[@rusty7054]

it always surprises me how this guy can manage to overengineer everything

[@gamingwithflight6179]

Lol yeah

[@gorrilaeatbanana3929]

but he also built the piston wrong

[@gorrilaeatbanana3929]

the piston needs a hinges to go straight up and down

[@stevepittman3770]

This is a neat way to build an engine in TM! Some advice/tips: as far as I know changing the pitch of helicopter blades doesn't affect them at all - they also provide thrust in the same direction no matter which way they rotate. Also, one thing you can do to get more thrust out of a low-torque engine is put the heli blades on extension pieces so there's very little extra weight but they end up spinning faster. I tend to use pipes for this even though they're aerodynamically awful. Finally, instead of servos you can use something called a 'spinning servo' (IIRC) that's 2x2x2 and doesn't require configuration to spin freely, but since you already have everything set up with regular servos it's just an effort-saving tip for your future builds.

[@David_Phantom]

This brings a whole new meaning to "engine misfire"

[@BADOLODON]

It is literally the same thing actually.

[@Jonanation]

The reason that some of the connectors had collision and others didn’t probably has to do with weld groups. A new weld group is created for every mechanical piece, and the pieces attached to it. Two weld groups right next to each other have no collisions, but if they get further apart they will have collisions.

[@thefaulnt3562]

Well the steering hinges could be used with suspension for a liner slider. You could also use just the recoil to make the engine more reliable.

[@Jayson_Tatum]

I think you could revisit this with a lot of the new mechanics in TM! Also, using concave, rounded pieces might give you a smoother interior for the pistons. Just as a general tip for trailmakers, trailmakers, there are two types of collisions: static and active. There are static collisions like when you use a distance sensor to permanently fix a hinge in place, the blocks attached to this hinge give a static collision that basically pushes against other static blocks it makes contact with. The active collisions are what you experienced where moving objects collide. For whatever reason, the flat connectors (braces) only avoid collision on their flat side. So with you rotating them, they collide perpendicular to the rest of the crank. TM collisions are kind of unpredictable at times so usually it's just trial and error and sometimes the collisions happen and other times they don't.

[@hello-kp3qr]

the first one of your videos i watched was actually in trailmakers, so its always nice to see you play more of it

[@mumblety]

cool. the new editor is doing a good job!

[@animalmango6499]

for the guns delay that you tried at 12:30, if you turned up the duration setting to the same time as the delay it would have worked.

[@lunarlith]

I made a plane using the recoil of 16 tiny cannons once

[@emberdrops3892]

Your endurance in these projects is pretty astounding mate :D I would've given up at the block destroying part XD

[@marluna_x]

The small cannon is literally the exact same as the tiny cannon, just mounted on the bottom instead of the back

[@HEXAN-SC]

OOO, beautiful!! One solution to your conrod hitting issue would be extending the rod to be insanely long so it changes it’s angle less as well as reducing stroke or just make a huge bore, I took your crank design used a 2 block stroke and a 24 block rod and the piston fit

[@HEXAN-SC]

Something I also saw that worked was to make a. Opening for the rod to fit but not the piston like a 2 block gap for the rod while the piston is 4 wide, wish I could design like you but I’m content with concepts

[@vnms-]

Boat-submarine-car-hovercraft-helicopter-plane-wall climber. All in one

[@souptime3070]

The way the helicopter blades in TM work, they create an upward lift based off the top off the blade, so angle them decreased force instead of increasing it

[@0hellow797]

Please play scrap mechanic again! It’s an amazing game, and I’d love to see what else you come up with. I’d love a survival play through using super weird creations!

[@thecrazydolphinhi7587]

I've found that if you use the skis and put them on the cylinder walls and piston, the piston will slide up and down without falling out as well as not binding up. Basically you put skis on the piston then put a skis on the cylinder wall with the skis contact points touching each other

[@killerbee.13]

You know, I think this technically qualifies as an internal combustion engine!

[@ilovehumongoushonkers]

technically it would be external

[@killerbee.13]

@@ilovehumongoushonkers it's happening inside the cannons, isn't it?

[@ilovehumongoushonkers]

@@killerbee.13 oh internal makes more sense then

[@jackgearing5817]

I was excited for this and I love it! great job!

[@thedestroyer2pt09]

Quick suggestion: Use the hoverpad glitch in trailmakers to make an engine, and then use gear ratios to make it high speed. The hoverpad glitch is incredibly high torque low speed and activates when you put blocks directly in front of hover pads. Also since I don't see many people commenting about it, the reason the wheels go so slow in this example is because they are actually in what I like to call a "Locked" state. This occurs when (A) A vehicle has (Trailmakers provided) engines and you leave the seat, or (B) A vehicle has no (Trailmakers provided) engines. Edit: "Locked" basically just means the wheels have brakes on

[@captainspaceman8531]

Make a rocket on kerbal and use every, EVERY engine

[@captainspaceman8531]

2nd time asking

[@potatofartsquad]

but you can only use 1 of every engine

[@astrohahawashere]

even goliaths and mammoths???

[@derpslayer6923]

Just to make sure you know helicopter engines crest their own gyroscopic effect, it’s really powerful and easily rotates your creation

[@Spork15]

As someone who has around 200 hours in this game. If you put a wedge piece in front of The cannon projectiles, the cannons will shoot through, since the wedges have a non-square hitbox. The projectiles can't quite track the collisions of its right in front

[@blanana_m]

Can you make a 3D printer with the concrete wall dispensers or something simmilar?

[@reconab12]

Red Captain, I think you should try this again with the final version but remember to properly out of faze, because the final version only had the pistons going 1 2 1 2 instead of 1 3 2 4 like it was at 14:11

[@Elinzar]

Maybe making the engine to be a crossplane 4 instead of a flatplane would smooth out the operation of the engine, very cool engine anyways

[@ReidCaptain]

Potentially, it would have been slightly more work to set up though. Thanks!

[@hiddenhood483]

Tips 1 braces have collision with the attachment points 2 uses skis for low friction things as the bottom side has no friction

[@CaptainNomae]

I'm convinced RC can create an engine out of anything.

[@maxboskeljon6440]

:0 3 vids in one week??? Thank you yt gods for blessing us

[@Xahnel]

I dunno about trailmakers, but Terraria has circuitry and logic blocks and environmental hazards that can be triggered by circuits. I'd like to see how feasible a 'programmer' class is against various bosses and invasions. You can build arenas to fight bosses in (that's actually the intended method, so you can easily control for lots of variables.

[@gabrielspriensma1385]

Put A support in The middel of The crank it Wil reduce flex in The crank

[@HolyMangoYT]

Build a Trojan horse and make a car come out of the rubble. Make the horse be able to load the car in as well.

[@Spork15]

The explosive cannons deal aoe damage while the small calibre cannons only destroy the block it hit la directly, and all the pieces act the same way towards cannons

[@alexdacat7052]

I think the connection points have collision maybe

[@raingoat271]

My brother in christ, please use a piston head, that way you'll get rid of so much of the problems

[@lukab826]

I think you would also be interested in Space engineers. Has all the blocks you need like timers and pistons to make the cool stuff you design.

[@izzieb]

All these self grenading pistons and conrods, must be a BMW engine.

[@Xahnel]

You ever input the flying vehicles cheat in Vice City, then spawn a rhino, then turn the barrel behind you and start firing? I want you to build that.

[@goatboy150]

Get rid of the whole top end. Attach cannons right to the crank, perpendicular to the axis of rotation, and use the recoil.

[@YELL0W_01]

I know you probably won’t see this but an idea for something you could do in Poly Bridge 2 is making a paddle powered boat.

[@jamdowngamezone5130]

I have to say, trailmakers is one of my favorite games, make more content like this!!

[@johngraybiel9245]

Plane that can go past the giant waves on the high seas map

[@ezurth]

man i remember making a plane before i ever got any plane parts. it took ages but i got it flying using guns and boat parts

[@jeimasuta_v598]

Next time try those tractor beams or magnets they might be good 👍

[@chevymontmarlo]

Might follow this to make a full scale single small engine

[@NightWing2764]

13:04 phrase of the day " a lil' bit "

[@animalmango6499]

also, to drive the power directly through the bar you could have used a helicopter engine but put the spining part atached and the rest would have spun.

[@guarinagarcia2424]

you forgot to take arrowdynamics into factor , arrowdynamics is very important factor in this game

[@hello-kp3qr]

i realized that your first few cylinder designs did not have any counter-torques for the helicopter engines which was probably causing unwanted movement in the creation

[@ReidCaptain]

I think the pistons were binding on the cylinder in those cases and the heli engine added torque to the whole body instead of the crankshaft

[@hello-kp3qr]

@@ReidCaptain probably

[@josemendonca2318]

There is a braziliand youtuber, his name is bitgamer, and he made a PLANE WITH CANNONS

[@Sloops4779]

This is just the most randome crap ever and i love it

[@nathanielrister9987]

Use the anchors it's like a little spike you stick on your build to keep it from moving it will make it more stable.

[@WimsicleStranger]

He would've solved so many problems in if he made the pistons bend just under the piston heads instead of them being completely rigid lol It would've been easier to time and would've been easier to hit with a cannon.

[@marluna_x]

make a engine in instruments of destruction, i DARE you

[@Browthpdd]

Day 12 of asking Reid Captain to try space engineers.

[@voiden_]

Okay, what's next? Making an engine in Tetris?

[@gamingwithflight6179]

This is the one channel that isn’t bombarded with first comments

[@ReidCaptain]

FIRST

[@gamingwithflight6179]

Lol

[@lavaleopard2961]

Please. Use off-road wheels. They work on road just as well as the go-kart wheels. And they don’t pain me whenever you use them.

[@jackmorphew223]

If the snow ball shooters do not have any backwards velocity when shot, could you try and shoot an attached platform in front of your vehical. kinda like a "sail" if you think about it.

[@TheUmMagicPickleYo]

you could also make a transforming car or forwheeler kinda like in gta online where pu press a button and the wheels fold into the car and it's a submarine or jetski or something

[@astrohahawashere]

i think he would like logic stuff more

[@hero_bs__ig]

WHO PEED ON YOUR MACHINE 11:13 Lol

[@monotonedevelopment]

HAHA I'm BACK you are a pro gamer still ngl B-)

[@JiggleboneJones]

I'd love to see you try the game Stormworks, it seems like a game you'd really enjoy

[@astrohahawashere]

does it have logic parts???

[@TechGuy.]

You made a gun range powered car

[@jjsanimations]

Since it's a ReidCaptain video I'll go ahead and say yes lol

[@x-zythe3232]

Thanks for the vids we all love them

[@datbubby]

Try doing some energy/gas - less engines in Scrap Mechanic :D

[@astrohahawashere]

he already made a piston engine

[@axolotlgaming9144]

also do not forget the pirate cannon

[@ReidCaptain]

Very true but I don't have the dlc yet lol, might pick that up later today

[@T-minus-infinite]

Could you try stormworks? its a bit like scrap mechanic but with boats and planes

[@astrohahawashere]

does it have logic and timer and stuff similar to that???

[@T-minus-infinite]

@@astrohahawashere it does have quite in-depth logic but the way it works isnt super similar to scrap mechanic though there are some things that are alike

[@astrohahawashere]

@@T-minus-infinite if there is programmable stuff Reid would probably try it

[@astrohahawashere]

video idea: tractor beam/magnet (back then tractor beams were called magnets) engine

[@Akotski-ys9rr]

You should make a rotary engine and put it in a plane

[@AquaB33]

What if... and here me out. He used pistons as pistons.

[@Comiczz405]

Maybe you should put a tinny gun on the piston which will "Reduce" damage

[@mitchelparker9132]

Could you collaborate with the KZbinr ScrapMan in Trailmakers? IDK if you are down with that or not, I just thought it would be cool.

[@fordshelby6853]

One tip used ski's to reduce friction

[@wipex__]

You could build an AI car or something like that.

[@huyhuyhuyhuy-w5q]

the tracter beam is a magnet

[@animalmango6499]

This is grate. fantastic. i love trailmakers.

[@keesvdb]

the tiny and small cannon are the same and the medium and large cannons are the same. the only diffrence is the connection poiunt

[@iveeuwu]

Just noticed how you would like Nile red. Nile red is a gamer????/?/?/??//

[@AWESOMEANCHOVIES]

Cool, now make a tank with it

[@dane1382]

i honestly thought you were going to use cannon recoil to push the pistons rather than shooting the cannons at them.

[@marluna_x]

When you shoot a block wioth a small/tiny cannon too much, it dies

[@Sunshine_smile007]

I dare u to make a big sized cannon with the same function as a normal cannon

[@alexeyshcherbakov5371]

Ah yes, the nuG gniltaG

[@NormalAdultUser]

your video is genius 100%

[@andrewmiko5699]

Someone already made this early than you he is called scrapman and a good guy

[@patrickbliss9264]

Well he made cannon powered vehicles but never an engine.

[@Nadeli0]

He is using besiege physics logic in trailmakers and it makes me cringe, but at least he did what he set out to do.

[@scitzo_wasnotaccepted]

Suggestion: make a fully auto bomb turret ( I did it too )

[@Eclyptical]

Very impressive!

[@triminhandorlastpiecepizza8124]

YOUR VOICE SOUND [caps locks sorry] like Nile Red so much

[@BigMommy115]

Is it just me or does this guy sound like NileRed?

[@gojirazillasaurus6341]

Hey this is crazy i just got trailmakers!

[@blockybeanz9924]

you can in scrap mechanic though on the basic map

[@NeutronicalGaming]

why not just make a turbine? shoot the outer perimeter with a joint on it and it would be so much faster and more reliable

[@blockybeanz9924]

YAY ANOTHER UPLOAD

[@kirrussia1]

Pls make a forklift with engine in besiege