Designing Mons off of Engineering

I'll be using the recently released Tears of the Kingdom as an excuse to talk about some Mechanical Engineering and Simple Machines
Learn more through the links below:
Lever types: assetlibrary.kompanions.com/l...
Law of Levers (I took this section out to reduce confusion on what "distance" means): study.com/academy/lesson/law-...
Wheel and Axle: • Simple Machines: The W...
Pulleys: • Why Snatch Blocks are ...
Inclined Planes: • Simple Machines - The ...
Wedge: • Mechanical Advantage o...
Omnidirectional Screw: • A Screw That Can Be Ti...
Trebuchet: • How to Build a Trebuch...
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[@smashingBrawl]

The mention of Ventaworm got me thinking: A creature that is the enemy of Ventaworm and has a science of Pigment/Color focus could be a very fun nod to the Stewart Semple/Anish Kapoor rivalry.

[@TornaitSuperBird]

I'd love this.

[@lucasrangelbastos4315]

genius.

[@VulpineFox7]

Ooh yes

[@Vivigreeny25]

PLEASE YES

[@edwardnygma8533]

And it could be pink?

[@Reptidin0]

Is it just me, or did the section on inclined planes 4:51 just give us a sneak peek into the development of the game? That certainly looks like a playable character we’d be walking around as…

[@someoneawesome8717]

I don't know if you're going to see this as it's quite late but the first creature to come to my mind for a trebuchet was a grasshopper, with the elastic forces they use to launch themselves

[@ogopogoagogo]

As for how a Trebuchet Mon could work, the first idea I had was a pair of duo Mon of an Eagle and Tortoise whose main ability works in tandem with eachother similar to Dondozo and Tatsugiri. With it being a subversion of how Eagles drop Tortoises from high altitudes to break their shell, only the Eagle Mon is using the Tortoise Mon as ammo to break down a much larger target.

[@shinyian82]

Mortle: the artillery turtle Mortar and turtle Idk what could be eagle

[@VulpineFox7]

Good idea!

[@hexxxenmeister6069]

Someone's been watching yugioh

[@Vivigreeny25]

Ideal friendship

[@pro_gemer]

every day that nortist uploads is a good day!

[@jaxgacha1285]

agreged

[@jayswiney3382]

everyone knows that

[@MJ-sy2en]

I'll take this as my graduation gift. I'm graduating today. :)

[@aiartificialintelligence1963]

Congrats!

[@MJ-sy2en]

@@aiartificialintelligence1963 Thank you!!!

[@phlan6850]

For an electrical mon you can have a resistor that has a split evo into a capacitor or an inductor

[@1TitanicFan1]

Can't wait till my major Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering gets its own design. Keep up the great work.

[@callmetaters1103]

Process engineering uses a lot of thermodynamics, and a creature based on the refrigerant cycle would be so interesting. It could be like a heat pump with fire and ice typing, representing how heat is never “created”, but is transferred from one place to another. Love this series, keep up the great work!

[@RebelChipMunk]

We love The Trongle :D

[@natejohns8716]

The trongle

[@countrycollectorsplayer-yx9kj]

trongle

[@HateSonneillon]

This is the coolest scorpion fakemon I think I've ever seen. Namely that final stage.

[@parkeranderson2163]

Not sure if you've used this concept yet, but for the clockwise/ counterclockwise mon, I would definitely look into chirality in organic chem. Essentially, properties of molecules with the same structure differ based on if they're arranged clockwise or counterclockwise. Could definitely be an interesting addition to your region

[@ab-vc2hn]

dextro and laevo forms of said mon could be a fun idea ,kinda like lycanrock's alt forms

[@ab-vc2hn]

Also, could give them a unique ability "racemise" which buffs their stats when together in battle

[@sinisternorimaki]

And that's how the Fantastic Four starve.

[@cosmetics72]

oh boy I love how the new video is here after I'm out of school

[@syweb2]

I really appreciate your voice and sense of humor, they bring a certain vibe to these videos that really brings them together.

[@myboy_]

0:03 machination is not just a fancy word for machine

[@KimFareseed]

5:14 And there you peak my interest again. Be it Robot Wars or Battlebots, heavy or ant weight, there is something about these machines that are so facinating to watch.

[@RoninCatholic]

Axes are one of my favorite things. Nice to see where engineering crosses over with my passion for armaments of antiquity LOL

[@anextlomara5981]

I know this isn't the focus of the video, but I love the Paper Mario-esque design and animation of the player avatar, I hope that stays in the final product

[@AIDcyt]

A trebuchet elephant using it's trunk could be a fun idea

[@deanpeters2236]

You're literally better than my stem teacher

[@yaboicreamy5227]

Every week I forget that you post on fridays, so it always is a nice surprise

[@riyaseshadri4824]

Here's an idea for how you can incorporate the clockwise/counterclockwise thing for Scrupion: it should have a Clockwise Form with higher attacking stats and a Counter-Clockwise Form with higher defensive stats, and it switches between the two when it uses its signature move. Basically Aegislash lol, but it makes sense!

[@stephanovaldivieso4517]

Wow, finally i comprehend this topic!!!. Thanks nortist, now i master physics !!!!

[@ParryTFronters]

loving this design a lot

[@dialog_box]

i think it would be really cool to see another 3-stage mon based on the first three simple machines. or maybe a 3-stage based on the three types of levers, and a 2-stage based on the pulley and the wheel and axel

[@quantumtwinspark283]

5:29 - I can imagine a group of those ramplings forming some kind of long bridge/ramp to reach fruit at the top of a tree and share it with the nest.

[@Infinitytacos]

GRAHHHHH I LOVE ENGINEERING!!!!! I LOVE COMBINDING MATH AND SCIENCE TO SOLVE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS!!!

[@Ashelybee]

Need a dispenser Here

[@beanslinger2]

heck no.

[@aiartificialintelligence1963]

heck yeah.

[@chicho_111]

no way id be evolving my dopeass axe scorpion into the funny looking rolling droid from star wars

[@adphoenix600]

Bro this is super good and I love it And I love learning about this and just cool off and just learn and always love the music

[@potatoarmadillo8531]

(going off the bases that the ramp example is from your game and changing direction is implemented like shown) You should use the XYZ concordant plane + mathematical flipping/mirroring/up or down-scaling on the plane to make a fakemon where is bilaterally split so only one side is viable until it turns, each side can be different, maybe a good and bad side. Also the clockwise/counter-cloakwise fakemon sounds like a really fun idea.

[@Shamazya]

You could possibly do something cool with daphnia and a trebuchet. I remember seeing a video about reversibility in movement and how daphnia is able to move in water the way it does specifically because its motion isn't 'reversible' so it doesn't essentially undo the movement it just gained by flicking its arm. The movement seems similar to a trebuchet. The video was "The strange fluid dynamics of microscopic animals and other daphnia facts" by Steven Mould

[@terramarc]

Why did I imagine a vineboom when he said here’s the thing

[@lol-fc9kg]

when you think about it a chainsaw is a weaponized version of a pulley system.

[@niskat1848]

Ooh, I see you already have character running in unity. Looks nice

[@YourCasualPunk]

Great video

[@farbol2348]

love the scrupion defenetly i will like to have one !

[@CodiMorphett]

My project has type advantages divided across types and archetypes Each creature has an archetype which has its own advantages with types dictating smaller, more intricate advantages and interactions An archetype chart would be something like Angel > Demon > Human > Angel Then you'd have your regular Pokemon type charts Water > Fire > Grass > Water Because my RPG is inspired by TCGs, instead of an Item system the player will have a deck of 50 cards. At the start of the battle the deck will be shuffled and the player will draw a hand of 5, every subsequent turn they draw 1. Each turn they may play 1 card and select 1 move. It will be interesting to see how these changes will effect how interactions happen in battle. The thought of Stem subjects working as archetypes popped into my head when you showed that list is what intrigued me.

[@johanadormeo4170]

maybe for a trebuchet, make it a beetle?

[@fivenightsatmimikus7508]

We most definitely need an H-Bridge Fakemon. Starts as a button, then becomes an H-Bridge Centipede, and finally, some type of electrical circuit that leads to a trotoscope (dumb idea bc of a coding project I did a while ago involving code and building a trotoscope with a motor, breadboard, and circuit board.)

[@CoralReaper707]

Question: Is it okay if you make a Leucochloridium inspired design for Stema?

[@GManCircuitz]

Not the NoRtist VSauce arc

[@obnoxiosefe2180]

Tinkaton for the lever is quite interesting 😅

[@hatster401]

cant wait for the civil engineer monster

[@grins9882]

I feel like the screw evo stage should keep some of the sharp shape design of the wedge stage. They look much less threatening with all those round shapes compared to its previous stage.

[@Potataro454]

Only just started watching these (they're great, btw,) and you mentioned making a 'mon that has to be clockwise or counter-clockwise at 7:05. Is there already a 'mon or two for chem/biochem chirality? Maybe one version is different type, and shares a reversed silhouette? If not, that could be cool.

[@beanslinger2]

rip in pepperonis bug type

[@aiartificialintelligence1963]

Rip

[@Fluffythewolf-pe5kc]

You could make one based off of other math topics such as percentages

[@thelilartzy]

Stema could also be turned into steam so I think it would be cool if you did some art stuff to 👀

[@M4RPH]

Helped with homework😂

[@hmmmmmmmmmm..]

Great vid and mons, but the final is a bit too similar to the spider monkey

[@CLuigiplayer]

I really like the designs showed off in this video! Though I wish the last stage was less humanoid and is thus my least favorite of the three

[@Zadanoire]

*If you REALLY simplify the definition of trebuchet, Passimian could count as representing it in that it uses its arms to launch larger objects.* *tho a Steel/Fighting or Geo/Fighting typed mon which combines a trebuchet with something like a crab could work*

[@DyxoXinoro]

Based Battle Bots reference.

[@ToonedMinecraft]

I don't remember whether you had one already, but you could base some around popular computer viruses, like a worm or trojan horse! Maybe you can link it to something else as well...

[@andrewi.crocker8675]

What about an "Eevee" style mon that had different evolutions based on what type of simple machine you introduced it to?

[@pdninja3338]

Love engineering. I'm trying to be the best one, meaning about 13,000 patents, which'll be very fun!

[@Thishuman122]

they are going in my team

[@Mauz_G]

this reminds me of skylanders typings

[@deadriccow]

An idea for having the clockwise / counter-clockwise matter, just have a male / female variant, male is clockwise etc..

[@aerise410]

I REALLY want to play STEMA.

[@mew2omastar123]

Is this the pseudo of the game? 3 stages and late evolutions made me think

[@The7thLysineinyourDNA]

0:38 *insert vsauce music *

[@catnip5315]

I think it STEAM would be more fitting S cience T echnology E ngineering A rt M ath Because these creature collector project is a masterpiece 👌

[@anthonynorman7545]

BATTLEBOT!!

[@Sherrif_Frog]

Ah heck yeah I love battlebots

[@pokemonmaster5514]

the TRONGLE

[@lorenzodepaoli3642]

is that a game seak peak i see?

[@Wailerman]

Hmm, yes, the trongle

[@tinalavender8158]

yee

[@drillbitz2816]

Woo early

[@vickyovando2515]

trongle

[@NerdBryant64]

"trangle"

[@Ciel13]

Trongle.

[@theshuman100]

chirality doesnt exist in norts pokemon

[@gavinhowell719]

This mon looks kinda like a pseudo

[@rataslesbianass]

i absolutely adore your videos, your designs are incredibly charming

[@soysamdibujos]

Grab your "I watched n0Rt struggle drawing Haxorus" tickets here (BTW very good video man, keep the great work) 👇🎟️