How Many Gimbal Jets Do I Need To Break The Sound Barrier? [Trailmakers]

Welcome to another episode of Trailmakers! Today I am trying to break the sound barrier using only gimbal jets! What is the smallest number needed to break the sound barrier? The results weren't what I expected
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In the toughest motoring expedition in the universe, you and your friends will build your own vehicles to cross a dangerous wasteland. Explore, crash horribly, use your wits to build a better rig, and get as far as you can with whatever spare parts you find on your way.
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Expedition Mode is the challenging campaign mode of Trailmakers. You are competing in an off-world rally expedition with only a few building blocks to get you started. You must build, tinker with and rebuild your machine to progress. Journey through a big world, overcome deep gorges, angry wildlife and dangerous weather to progress and find new parts that will juice up your machine. The world in Expedition Mode will test your survival skills and ingenuity.
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[@juanmendez3290]

it's impressive how with good enough aerodynamics he managed to cut 90% of the extra thrusters

[@nguyendanny2182]

Low drag I know more that school

[@Ewyn4851]

85%* if with 4

[@marmikshah9518]

@@Ewyn4851 it's actually 89.2% so basically 90% from 28 to 3 thrusters very impressive #wedgegang

[@Snowy_1600]

Beamng

[@jacobstephens7153]

The faster you go the more draggier it gets i think

[@trairmakerdk5358]

It's actually possible with only one of these. You could also put them sideways so you dont need to connect them with more blox.

[@lonelee5353]

no drag glitch go brrrr

[@CraftingCat_IX]

How is only one possible? You mean with a no-air-resistance-glitch?

[@joshuashea911]

i thinks that putting them sideways works since it helps eliminate some weight, and since they only go up, they’ll make the aircraft go into a straight line position anyways

[@trairmakerdk5358]

​@@lonelee5353 Thats what i was thinking of

[@trairmakerdk5358]

Using a lighter seat but making it aerodynamic makes the acceleration a lot better so you will have much more time to speed up with less thrust.

[@WillDa713]

AND HE'S TRYING IT WITH TWO NOW??? my dude you have earned all my respect omg

[@Petq011]

@Badoumbe Soumbounou Or... side by side... sideways...

[@lonelee5353]

video idea : use helicopter motor to spin a piece really fast, and fling a piece to supersonic speed edit: yea basically the spinlaunch system

[@riccardopetrina4212]

Actually sick idea

[@CaterNaut]

I like this

[@tobysvideos1227]

Good Idea, the flung piece could be the seat so it also flings you

[@stevepittman3770]

I like this idea, but unfortunately heli engines don't deal with high loading very well, the heavier you make the spinny thing the slower it spins. :/ Would still love to see the attempt, but I don't think it would be successful.

[@Natalia-jb7vv]

Mach 10 beyblade

[@cephalopad]

Since you stopped air from hitting the seat anyway, you should have tried with the go-kart seat (because it is lighter than the cockpit).

[@Theonlyj4x]

He did it didn’t eork

[@rexrckr3600]

Did you even watch all the video

[@ig-rd5923]

@@rexrckr3600 He never tried it with aerodynamic pieces in front of the gokart seat, and it actually is much better with the gokart seat that way. In fact so much better you can break the sound barrier with only one gimbal glitch-less and mod-less, provided you also lay the gimbals flat parallel to the ground rather than vertical.

[@roccov3614]

That's what I was going to say. Once he put the aerodynamic pieces covering the cockpit, that's when he should have tried the go-cart seat.

[@Theonlyj4x]

I tried it it didn’t work

[@Alphadragon1979]

You and The Real Civil Engineer should team up on a video once...that would be awesome to watch!

[@nooooooooooooodle]

It would but RCE has a COMPLETELY different target audience, I don't think it would work

[@notthatbad42]

You’re probably right, but it never hurts to try, and I would love it.

[@poonuts]

Well, then I'm an audience of two in one then. I watch both, for different reasons though.

[@mandasdave]

Totally different target audiences. RCE is not suitable for young kids, while scrapman is.

[@ivan-ky9mk]

@@poonuts Same

[@Mattholl847]

You should try to break the sound barrier by spinning, similar to a catapult type design

[@LawrenceOakheart]

RCE did that.

[@firenutter1798]

imagine if that had a first persion cam view included with that lol

[@ivan-ky9mk]

19:00 you litterally broke the sound barrier within a MUSCLE LEAGUE. If you manage to breke the sound barrier without the energy cores you will be a legend

[@__franz_]

breke

[@soulreaper1981]

Not really any body can go through soundbarier using servos and tailfine's to make props

[@seablake4116]

He did that with Pistons

[@Cyclopeantreegiant]

​@@__franz_ I made the mistake of clicking translate to English. It literally means panties

[@mrnaris4852]

A lot of people have done that already, honestly it's way easier than you'd think

[@someobbyistdude5854]

truly by the power of wedges, anything is possible

[@ivan-ky9mk]

0:40 Actually, zou can reverse the gimbal jet to work downwards (And you even yoused it in the video, when you tried to go forward only with gimbals)

[@CraftingCat_IX]

Yea, but that would be with gravity assist and he didn’t want to do that.

[@someguy8437]

I think I have an interesting idea for Multiplayer Monday: having an arena with land and water, trees, rocks, you name it. Everyone creates an amphibious vehicle that can or cannot transform, and all vehicles have a bomb spawner on them. The winner of each round has to increase engine and/or thruster speed (the creation might have both or just one), therefore making it harder for them, and the first person to reach a designated level on engine or thruster wins (I don't know what the beginning speed should be). also great video!

[@itsameeliaflor907]

I feel like this is doable with 10 gimbals if it's light and aerodynamic enough, I haven't seen the full vid yet so we'll see

[@eggroll3055]

You were definitely right lol!

[@kingpanguan]

Well technically yes, but actually no

[@yttriumb.c.o.9885]

3 :)

[@Gaiymer]

That was close guess IT WAS 3!!! bruh heeeeehhhhck

[@memor22]

I had the same estimation aaaand it was WAY lower than that

[@markjacobson4248]

Without watching past the first bit about guessing the number of thrusters, I guess 36. Aerodynamic drag is proportional to the square of the velocity, so 6 times the speed would mean 6^2 times the drag. This is going to be an over-estimate though, because the net thrust with one gimbal jet is actually less than the thrust of one, since the weight of the cockpit is taking away from it.

[@jn1211]

the way the bass shaker on the back of my lazy boy makes me feel like I'm in that rocket when it hits the speed of sound, i just can't get enough of it

[@vhaelen326]

as far as im concerned that leaves 2 more sound of speed challenges: can you throw something at the speed of sound, can you reach speed of sound by freefaling

[@killian_hook_jones]

I believe he already did the free fall one actually

[@amusedapple4933]

@@killian_hook_jonesyeah he didn’t build it but it’s in a video

[@kaderobertson2894]

He did it with tnt once 😂

[@nathaniel3236]

lol the title for this video should be "how few gimbal jets do i need to break the sound barrier"

[@DETHdressedInRED]

I legit guessed 3 just as a joke I said to my friend "watch it's like 3 lmao" I'm so shocked.

[@Regge5]

Tried to make a 2 gimbal jet version and got to 1175! So close yet so farXD! It is on the workshop if anyone wants to see it and/or try and make it better.

[@Flying.Dutchm4n]

I love to see things flying in mid-air. While I'm more a sailsman, I know my physics. If you put the cockpit upside down, glas on the bottom. Then 2 gimbal jets on the cockpit and some wedges to make it all streamlined. This is more balanced and still a small footprint for resistance.. Just like a boat, balance everything out, only this time it's upside down! ⛵️

[@GummieI]

I initialled guessed 6(my reasoning being that yes there might be some diminishing return, but not enough to outweigh the fact that each additional gimblejet, have to carry a smaller and smaller % of the seat), and got really discouraged when he needed 28 initially... did NOT expect aerodynamics to have THAT big of an impact, that I ended up having overestimating in the end...

[@CthuluSpecialK]

I'd guess 6. Maybe 6-8, 8 being the MOST I think it could take. With perfect aerodynamics I'd be amazed if it took less than 5. 200~ kmph each, with perfect aerodynamics to reduce diminishing returns, means I think 224 * 6 = 1,344 kmph give or take for diminishing returns. After watching: WOW! It took 3?! I'm blown away. Aerodynamics counts for so, so, so much more in this game than I thought.

[@riccardopetrina4212]

This video blew my mind, I wish there was a huge map to see how fast we can go by adding more thrusters, like: is 10.000km/h doable?

[@Rainstalker]

simply put. no its mach 8 which is literally impossible both in game and irl aka 3 kilometres every second

[@VooDooley]

@@Rainstalker this would clearly be possible in a vacuum, and given advances in material sciences, could in theory by possible in atmosphere as well.

[@NathanTruby]

This is less of a challenge and more of a showcase of how finely tuned the aerodynamics of Trailmakers are. The fact that a 2 gimbal sound barrier busting vehicle is even possible absolutely blows my mind.

[@robertdemare6140]

hey for the 2 gimbal design id imagine you could rotate the gimbals to have the attachments facing upwards, get rid of all the aerodynamics other than infront of the gimbal and the seat, and replace the seat with a go kart seat, and i think that would be faster (also dont forget the rudder)

[@ulfurkjalkur5165]

I guessed 6. The 28 at the start convinced me of your 15, and then I was so proud seeing 6 work and 4 fail. Then you went and managed it with three and I am now impressed

[@declan_the_boi]

i was 6 aswell

[@supercritical4986]

You'll likely only need 13 gimbals with some aerodynamics. My guess was very obviously wrong.

[@anassharrouf2910]

YEAH MORE LIKE 3

[@gamma2581]

That was a good guess

[@cuennicolson8666]

learned a lot about aerodynamics in trailmakers from this

[@stevepittman3770]

Whoa, I'm loving the aerodynamic science going on here. I've been building planes in Trailmakers for a long while now and I did not expect putting anything on the back of the cockpit to have any effect whatsoever. Nor did I expect the aero on the sticky-outy bit of the airplane cockpit to be worse than a 1x4 wedge. That's super useful info, cause I bet you could perfect-aero a go-kart seat for less weight than the airplane cockpit itself.

[@TheJGamerGuy]

I genuinely guessed 2 because one time I was using gimbals to make a plane go forward cause funny, but at the start I was trying to see the max speed I could get and with 2 and lots of optimization I got to 1100 kph, it was a waste of time for me tho. Also, I remade your design for 2 gimbals and I got to 1138 kph so far.

[@AWBO.]

For some reason gimbal jets can also pull you down.

[@K-05]

your background is so good i never expected to see kirby, link and wunpus alongside suspension mugs

[@lichtbach3065]

Your background is incredible! It's really cool, I love it lol! Continue making it better though, we want more things back there!

[@Nightman5694]

My guess was actually 25, so i was pretty good with my guess, im surprised! (for the non-optimal version of course)

[@CouldBeChara]

Same lol

[@goose_knife]

33 seconds???? Wow, good morning scrapman

[@mrnaris4852]

If you're going for extremely fast things you should *always* use the lightest seat you can, having a go kart seat with 4x1 wedges in front of it is not only lighter than a cockpit seat but is also more aerodynamic as the 4x1 wedge is the most aerodynamic block in the game. Also, if you see no aerodynamic arrows it means that block doesn't generate drag, that actually goes for 99% of the aesthetic blocks (only exception is the sound block) Also, you could've just turned the gimbal jets vertically so you dont need the connector blocks while also being able to place 4x1 wedge blocks on the top.

[@nicholascox3961]

Sometimes i think scrap man is a genius and sometimes he does things like this, I just about had a stroke when he didn't flip the gimbals

[@rudeskalamander]

Gravity is cheating

[@Yeetus47]

yup

[@jakeaboyy]

Dude I literally said “AT LEAST 50!”

[@benthedaddyYT]

At 1100 the aerodynamics of the extra wedge force your angle off so your no longer flying straight up, hence the speed increase

[@Petq011]

19:38 You're ON ScrapMan! I shall send you a link/image in the scrapyard soon when I succeed. 😅🤣

[@Nortio]

I mentally guessed 10 as soon as I saw the 1 gimbal got you to 200. Thats wild you got down to 5 Edit: 3. That's actually insane

[@andreibica6516]

3

[@darshkhunt2386]

My guess was 15 when I saw the first gimbal (Did not expect scrapman's guess to be also 15 lol) kinda mind blown how just aerodynamics cut down like more than 90% of gimbals

[@bumblebee7508]

You could have put the gimble jets sideways to lose weight from the connectors since they always push down.

[@turbomouse518]

Best background shelf ever I love it

[@garretbernard8174]

I reached 1131 kph with 2 gimbals on my first try Then I broke the sound barrier with 3 gimbals all set to .82 power It seems you need at least the power of 2.46 gimbals(though possibly as low as 2.4, due to added weight of the extra gimbal jet and varying craft design)

[@nathaniel3236]

you could probably do it with one if you reversed the direction of the gimall at the top of the map.

[@VrSteamy]

This video is proof that everything has a better version

[@johncage5368]

Interesting. So basically a new funny "stack 'em and physics go out the window" glitch in TM. ;)

[@bestpenguin4711]

Day 1 of telling Scrapman to break the sound barrier with a mini-thruster

[@Degenerate4_7]

Day 5 of asking Scrapman to search for Drift trike bike in the Trailmakers workshop

[@gail_blue]

Gimble jets are OP; they have about as much thrust as 3 or 4 thrusters. My guess is 4(with aero).

[@lazyguy8581]

That was soo unexpected i dont play the game soo i don't really know much about it but was really shocked at how it turned out at the end

[@nighter5215]

Day 10 of asking Scrapman to play Besiege

[@indoorexplorer7823]

Yes

[@jakeaboyy]

YESSSS

[@bumblebee7508]

I think he already has

[@nighter5215]

@@bumblebee7508 yh but its way bether now

[@benburger8404]

early gang =========>

[@SolidTax]

Yes

[@shockwave2128]

Early gang

[@RuinDarkness]

@@SolidTax nice pfp

[@gavin4361]

Yes

[@V3RYM3GAFUN]

No

[@The_Keeper]

That was... actually pretty damn impressive.

[@LoPhatKao]

possible optimizations: rotate gimbals to eliminate 1x2 connectors use operator seat, attach gimbals to bottom so there's no extra side aero to deal with

[@duner4105]

Attaching gimbals to bottom would make it very unstable, unable to go straight kinda like over steering, vechicle would flip upside down, so weight is back at its place. What I always do building a drone is putting them as high(and wide) as possible, so they auto stabilize the drone without any logic

[@LoPhatKao]

The point is to flip upside down so seat is under the gimbals when flying Doing the above fits vehicle into a 2x2 horizontal footprint so you only need the 4 wedges

[@donotlookatmydesc7223]

Your background is looking SO good right now

[@thatonecarkid.385]

Pro tip: if you use a go-kart seat with an extra block and some wedges, it's just as aerodynamic as well as being 10kg lighter (22lbs)

[@DreadEnder]

Try and break the sound barrier with a constantly changing velocity, a.k.a. Rotation, try and make the worlds fastest gyroscope! ( that or make a spin-launch system)

[@CTag81]

You can also use a spinning helicopter motor to stabilize the rocket's trajectory. I was able to do 1392km/h with a similar design using 3 gimbal jets, but using the heli motor to stabilize the rocket.

[@legorescueairboat8072]

Scrapman I’m pretty sure it’s time for another thing like the mars or hanging one again

[@Machoo_Choo]

Man I love these videos

[@lacucaracha111111]

Scrapman is wierded out about wonky aerodynamics when there are 0 resistance glitch creations

[@reedfaulkner1797]

i guessed 8 gimbals and felt bad about it, didn’t feel bad about it anymore as soon as you put the wedges on 😂

[@bboy9247]

You should do a multiplayer monday where you make gliders, but have a gimble thruster on a timer, then you fall and try to glide as far as you can.

[@jamiebranson5534]

Keep doing your best ScrapMan

[@allisonwagreich4458]

This is so cool!😊

[@tbcpilot5162]

Love the background man

[@tatsumiplays2625]

With the gimbal checks because they automatically write you up words you could build a thing as long as you want and then when you turn them on they bring you straight up

[@aspen2331]

ight, so i aint even cappin at all, you said to guess how many would reach the sound barrier, i guessed 5, then u needed 28 and i was like ight dang it, then u put the aero stuff on there and u went to 15, still to fast and i had some hope, then u did 6 it had some to spare, then 4 and i was like "dont make it, dont make it, dont make it" then it didnt make it and i was like nahh no way i guessed that like a min in the vid lmao. anyway love ur vids man, i hope u see this bc you rlly brought me through some tough things ever since 2020, please make more hide and seeks haha

[@Dalorian1]

@14:10 Your cockpit is slightly heavier on one side, which creates a slight wobble... if you can somehow balance it on all 4 sides, i think it would improve performance.

[@AK--bl2pe]

Love the new background

[@Val_da_Shark]

@scrapman I’m not sure if you know yet but ksp2 is coming out tomorrow, Ik you haven’t played the first one but the second one will be better and if I’m right there are at least a few other ksp fans like me in your audience. In ksp you can brake more then just the sound barrier…

[@harlyquin]

17:23 new merrh shirt - i just broke the sound barrier with 3 gimbles

[@toomuch1ce48]

You maybe could do it with one if you rotated the gimble and when you got to the top of the map programmed it to where the power flipped upside-down

[@ThEmArIS1]

Pro tip: the cosmetic chrome connector thingie (don't know it's english name) is 2.5 times lighter than the standard 1x2 flat connector.

[@asherbasher4722]

You are one of me favorite KZbins

[@lidiamontiel6259]

I tried it in trailmakers I couldn't do it without you scrapman

[@kevindahlhauser3979]

I honestly thought 3 because I know how powerful gimbal jets are and I also knew that if he modified the aerodynamics then 3 could do it.

[@slimedev4920]

The power of wedge gang has rise once again!

[@magoopanda8887]

Go kart plus aero dynamics would have been the best. When you tired it, the top of the seat was causing massive air resistance.

[@thmsbkr3]

My guess was 10, never expected three after the initial flight. After finishing the video, I can almost guarantee two is "possible", but it might take some significant time and effort to achieve.

[@WillDa713]

the sheer amount of plot twists hahahaha

[@cyantasks7129]

why do i feel like im in a scrap mechanic warehouse during the intro

[@AI-Idiot]

I've done it with two, you just need to put the gimballs vertical to dispose of the extra blocks and use a lighter seat, but with the aero in front

[@Mad_Max1069]

turn the nose cone 90° to connect all gamble thrusters and nose cone then remove unneeded flat connectors. then you could play with the weight for the smallest and most effective tail fin. also I think it would be cool to make it into a glider where you get all your speed from gamble thrusters going up and then having a dog fight in glider mode.

[@tyleropseth3143]

Can you and the guys do a Trailmakers evolution race where you use skis instead of wheels? The power core gain per evolution could be three.

[@cameronwillming]

I guessed 17 😂 when you added the nose cone I knew I lost

[@javiercasas1565]

im still just starting the video, but if you turned the gimble jets 90º so the attachment points where on top and you put two of them together then you could put aerodynamics directly on the other end of the gimble jets

[@An_average_gamer...]

I guessed five but when so many were placed I lost hope but this is great

[@uattias]

The Sonic boom sound is like an ASMR sound whit some subwoofers.

[@Mr.N999]

Can you play the Sun Shake Factory Invasion challenge in scrap mechanic

[@Mr.N999]

Can you at least answer if you might give the challenge a chance or not?

[@PartytimeYOLO]

Sanic: "i dont know why but i feel vaguely threatened"

[@DarkInfinity2814]

Funny I did the exact same build as you and my max speed is 660 so you have done something to make it go faster!!!

[@CompactPizza988]

I did some tests with the zero-drag glitch and found out the 4 block long wedge and it has almost no windresistance

[@DreadEnder]

Try the cannon one again but use 5 humble thrusters and one of the smallest cannons😊

[@PasiFourmyle]

The shelves are looking so FUN!

[@bvinson0080]

He should propose a MM (Multiplayer Monday) with Kan and Kosmo. Where they drag race using only gimbal jets for power cores.

[@marievanbuhler3231]

I NEVER guess on these, but congregations on doing it with three.

[@camilogarciaperez384]

i was just watching onother of your videos , i really like them. You can do hovercraft sound barrier pls

[@camilogarciaperez384]

i think 43 for sound barrier

[@camilogarciaperez384]

not even close

[@CinJyxxe]

I guessed 12 and thought I was being ballsy by guessing 3 under you. Did not think the difference in our guesses would be the actual answer.

[@jaredtolley4785]

I literally guessed 15 as well! Guess I was wrong though lol. This was a fun experiment.