How To Build A Turret, Firing & Moving - Space Engineers

[@MrBentyWenty]

PLEASE do more videos like this where you actually show us your building process. Its hard to learn when all we see is your finished product, mostly just makes us feel bad at building

[@emmettfriedrichs4593]

Since the update anything that is in front of a rocket launcher will explode. So dont stack up those launchers.

[@spidereye54]

Holy smokes man! I remember watching this when you uploaded it and building these turrets on all of my ships. Great to see how you progressed through the years.

[@megadeth22885]

i really need to find more people to play this game with.. playing by myself is boring

[@jauntenius]

Yeah man I hear you

[@kaylalewis8151]

I just got it not too long ago and have been loving it my steam is Xaeroth send me an invite and I will play

[@kaylalewis8151]

Sorry for the name Gf's account

[@megadeth22885]

Kayla Lewis what sort of game mode do you usually play?

[@kaylalewis8151]

He playa different types of games

[@epcfal]

Symmetry works fine with corners and slopes. No need to turn it off.

[@MUJUNKY]

something I've found in my builds, I use a much smaller system (I also generallly only build 3 man ships though) where I build a core block (reactors, gyros, cargo blocks for ammo) connected to a single or sometimes twin gun, and make it remote controlled so that I can build a heavily armored bridge in the core of my ship where me and my bros are reasonably safe. also, i use the antenna irons as well, but i put the camera inbetween or right next to the barrel in line with the guns, and the antenna as far out on the barrel as possible, longer sight picture= higher accuracy.

[@SiStockbridge]

Great tutorial Arron, been struggling with this for a little while now. Always love your builds, keep it up dude :D

[@brodysbuckinbroncos7697]

Another cool thing that you could do is to stagger the firing time of each barrel, so they fire in sequence (1,2,3, instead of all 3 at once). It's more for show, but it would help if you're firing at a moving target while rotating. Maybe have a select-fire function so that your turret is capable of either setup.

[@eclipseslayer98]

I have a few turret ideas that would be good for stations since they large but they also have more room for gyroscopes by a lot and use space more efficiently so they can probably turn faster and they may be harder to kill.

[@Derdekify]

ahhhh thank you! Your design is much more efficient than mine

[@whitelightning9460]

Thanks for the video (an oldie but a goody). Incidentally, I found that building a rotor turret is the best way to launch the modded large block torpedoes from a capital ship, especially if the capital ship is moving. Otherwise I tend to blow myself up. :)

[@villelahtinen5873]

Amazing video. Thx 4 showing how to build it.

[@DnosSFS]

nice video, going to use these tips, you earned a sub. just bought the game and didnt know about the building short cuts. 4hours on my ship and only one side finished :S

[@Gergo049]

that turret is pretty awesome, but as you were building it, I was thinking about how weak small ship light armor is, and I thought maybe you can put large ship armor around it, lock them with landing gears

[@maronhopequeno3033]

Pretty much useful, thanks man

[@dennisvelzke3979]

good job, you explain that gun soo good thank you very much

[@jessep3571]

I recently built a smaller scale version of these (standing turret as opposed to bunker gun) and I was firing at a ship of mine with rockets when I noticed something incredibly odd. My ship was about 50% glass and it was being repeatedly hit with 4 rockets, yet the first parts of the ship to go where the metal parts. The glass had broken off completely and was taking minimal damage. I was wondering if this was a bug or if glass has good stats against explosions. If it is the latter then glass could be used as a particularly strong defense (btw the metal parts were light armor if that helps).

[@TheDamasada]

Tutorials are awesome!

[@bing3331]

Thank you so much! this will find good use on the new ship iam building :D

[@kylekingsberry5680]

you should make a tutorial on how to make a ship that looks cool because whenever I make a ship it looks really ugly. : )

[@thomasrubin7119]

+Kyle Kingsberry try sloped blocks color the ship in and try and build them symmetrical both horizontally and vertically it help alot with having room to build on tot hem

[@Krieggs]

Thanks man this helps an insane amount.

[@Dunkerque351]

Pretty sure you'll need factories with cranes to put the turret base into the turret ring. Crane in the cockpit to lock it or maybe there will be a already locked landing gear in the future. This means factories will be an important asset in an empire,losing one or letting one be captured means losing a lot of resources.

[@K_M_21]

Sir, I applaud your genius.

[@Malekoos]

Thanks a lot , now i can make my turret for my turret for my tank

[@usosaito.namahage]

Thank you very much I have my first proto-type in the works.

[@Gheiter]

Tip: When done adding symmetry planes, there is no need to cycle trough them all with M, just press ESC and it'll close the symmetry editor.

[@BorisGrishenco]

Thanks for detailed guide!!!

[@josephcalhoun5811]

Have me a great idea, but I would modify it to have doors that open and pistons to bring out the weapons.

[@JacobAvnerPr1mus3]

Pro tip: make smaller ones all along the ship, drop the barrels, and armor it up. Probably better for stations while this is for large, large ships.

[@trmpkme]

damn your good at this building thing. wish i was

[@T4RC]

That was the video I asked for :D

[@migmig2299]

You do great job of coming up with ways to defend your ships and bases or attack other ppl. But you don't seem to do much with good ways to actuly mine. I can imagine mining will be extreamly important early on and even throughout the game in future updates. I would love to see some the ways you come up with for mining.

[@countrymanthetitan_6031]

Can you connect the small ship using a connector or do you have to use landing gear

[@Drillz007]

could you instead have the larger ship have the landing gear so you can make replaceable turrets or is that just crazy?

[@autisticandashamed2486]

Instead of leaving the cockpit peeking out, just waiting to be destroyed with a well aimed missile shot, you should use a camera, so you aren't risking the turret being disabled in one shot. Sure, it's still possible to pull that kind of shot off, but 99% of people would need a turret to do it, and all it would really do is just keep you from aiming. And then, they probably wouldn't even notice the camera rather than a cockpit, which isn't hard to notice jutting out of the shield.

[@RedNinja305]

Hi. So after seeing your video with the orbital battery and the frigate, I became very interested in creating a turret like the ones in your video. I started small with only one cannon attached to the turret, and followed almost exactly your format of building them. However a problem that i constantly face and still haven't found a solution to is the vertical movement. My cannon goes up and down so fast that i destroy the top and the bottom of the turret, and the cannon.. Also my turret goes really fast horizontally… Do you know how to prevent your turret from basically self destruction?

[@Hugh.Manatee]

Use fewer gyro's, or add more mass (armour?) to your turret.

[@MinecraftMineturtle]

This is so amazing, I'm a bit late to the video, but it worked out amazingly!! :D ...Except for when the entire turret blew apart when I fired... Is there a way to save a ship and the turret on it as one blueprint? :P

[@cyberguy3376]

I've been told that connectors work, but since I haven't tried it out I can't say for sure.

[@laserbrony3659]

GOD I REALLY WANT THIS GAME

[@seanneusen]

GREAT JOB IM GOING TO TRY ND BUILD THIS AND IF I CAN IM GOING TO GO ONE STEP MORE AND BUILD A WWII Battle Ship

[@SickInMotion]

How do you do the fast fill? The one thats like ctrl clicking but from corner to corner

[@jessesese8995]

Ctrl+Shift at the same time

[@Xioun123]

ctrl+shift

[@Awesomelord101]

can you please do more tutorials for inutria and gravity based weapons

[@PlasmoX]

how do you make it survival ready? is there a way to make it so it can be reloaded from the primary grid? or are these things simply cosmetic/creative?

[@timourmarimuntz5294]

lasty for the up&down rotor 1 des work but i have a mod with AA flak cannon and they have a heck of backpunch and if i use 1 rotor it stars wiggling all over the place and ive destroyed 3 ships by now...

[@Avargatoth]

thats hilariously awesome

[@5irfightf0rapr1cekistenini3]

im curious how does one make it workable in atmosphere and is it possible to do it in a big ship block set up or can it only be done with small?

[@MrEvan312]

What is the smallest rocket "cannon" turret you can make that's fully functional? O'll be building medium-small cruisers focusing on speed and using teamwork to defend the ship with turrets are with one rocket turret apeice.

[@MrDender22]

The smallest i know is like this: place a gravity generator, pulling towards the barrel of the cannon, place a landing gear in front of the gravity generator, turn off the generator, place a rock on the landing gear, lock it, activate generator, release landing gear. And there you go :D

[@KorvanShedai]

Build some T2 Tachyon Beam Lasers C: ?

[@chevastolton6169]

YOUR SO AWESOME LSG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@WorstScenarios]

OK I'm having trouble on making this (that is if it is even possible currently). I'm trying to make a helicopter, specifically a havoc style one, but for the copilot seat I want them to be able to move the machine gun that is placed below the seat. Like in battlefield. Keep in mind I don't want it to be bulky and I want it to be like in a real havoc. Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance.

[@Animan968]

I know this was posted 4 months ago, but ill still help. In this stage of stage of space engineers, this is very simple. Either place a large gatling turret on the bottom if it is a large ship, or if its a small ship download a gatling turret mod for small ships and place it. Then simply control the turret via the menu. Actually, i might build a heli myself now...

[@redmike1617]

Animan968 Building a turret is far easier than described in this video, I used: 2 Advanced Rotors (One for Left and Right Movement of the WHOLE turret, the other to move the barrel/barrels up and down) Gyroscopes (The thing that actually does the turning, since the turret isn't moving around the battlefield by itself) 1 Camera at or near the end of the barrel/barrels to help with better aiming 1 Control Station Conveyors to connect everything (i was even able to connect it to my ship's inventory) I also added a shield part way up the barrel to help with blocking incoming fire. Also, the space between my turret and the ship isn't noticeable unless you take a long close look at it. While I find putting turrets on your ship a good idea, you may want to look into building remote control IPBM (Interplanetary Ballistic Missiles) Nukes. My current design can penetrate 10 layers of heavy armor, a death sentence for any ship if it hits.

[@WhackoMacko]

Interesting stuff, thanks mate.

[@2Chonky2Furious]

How do you get to place symmetrical blocks when you're using the XYZ axis? I can't seem to get it to work for me.

[@MackSack44]

So! We need a new version of this! Maybe smaller or bigger and one that works with the latest version! :)

[@zombiekilla1O1]

thx this helped a lot

[@minibotpc]

Awesome videos man, just a quick question though. How do you spawn a new ship flat with the surface that you're working with? When spawn a new small ship, its always at a funny angle... Any help with this please?

[@EEmptyCHUnkGaming]

How’d you quickly repaint all those blocks

[@nikofinman]

These turrets look pretty cool and powerfull, its just that they seem rather weak and large, so they are an easy target for enemies. So the question is: could you make a turret, that is sort of inside the larger ship, so it is protected by bigger armor blocks and yet has at least some sort of turning radious? It wouldn't actually even have to be a turret but just a cannon which is well protected and can still turn around or just something similar to that. I'd like to see something well protected, yet still very deadly. You have been challenged.

[@AsuraDandy]

I've actually made a smaller version of the turret. It didn't have the armor block surrounding the rocket launcher to make it look cool like that but it is possible to create a smaller turret. Even just using one cannon would be effective. It's best to create several smaller ones though. the big ones are just for looks anyways.

[@reubensmart1757]

Do you know how he gets a block instead of landing gear when he selects a ship size?

[@redhawksgaming]

How do you get those massive blocks?

[@KingcobraxxD]

Hey is there a way to lock rotors to they won't turn at all?? Say when I'm moving the ship to prevent the turret banging against my ship?

[@bobelayer]

Hey I have a problem... When I click new small ship, I get a landing gear to place in the air. Not a small block. Is there a way to make it a block?

[@dragonman3695]

good help good help indeed

[@robinandersson99]

how did you move blocks when you already have them out?

[@seanneusen]

Im trying to build a mining ship that uses a rotor to spin the drill heads while the body of the ship does not move basically boddy of the ship has a rotor on the nose with a platform for the drill heads facing forward and then out the top bottom and both sides so while its drilling its getting everything in front and top and bottom of the asteroid. if you can help with building this i would be a great help as i can not get it figured out.

[@TheDelta0seven]

when i fallowed this. pretty muhc step for step. the up and down movments of my turret moves so fast it rips it self off either the left to right piviot or the entire ship it self. or just sorta blows it self up. what am i doing wrong?

[@Namekjohn]

at 2:45 He was able to grab the entire section and move, how was this done? I have tried looking it up and nothing

[@ProphetSorrow]

Thanks for the video. These turrets are incredibly fun to make and use. One question though. Would a Gravity Generator effect the turret at all? Like if it picked up the gravity from a nearby ship or the ship it's mounted on?

[@davidprice8449]

Gravity generators only affect blocks that have artificial mass connected to them

[@marshallcarhart579]

Aaron you know the rockets in the barrels how about you replace them with large ship rail guns.

[@robb2056]

Which mod was that for the scratched blocks?

[@PyrrhoVonHyperborea]

Haven't bought this game so far... but I am wondering: Can surfaces (of ships) have actual angles? - I mean: not just [visually] sloped blocks!... e.g. is there a way to attach a individually designed turret in [/on a surface with] an 45° angle to your bridge?!? (w/o having to wing that problem, leading to an unstable design, o/c) Is there a way to control parts of your ship being attached through landinggears (like gun-turrets) from within the ship itself (or does there have to be a cockpit in the turret for each one?) ? - could turrets be build retractable?... to allow 2 turrets in a row to be extracted more or less allowing each one of them to be standing out over the other one, so both could easily be fired at the same direction without interfering with one another?

[@joselucasSTZ]

Whoa! really nice! Thanks for that! But i keep getting my turrent destroyed when i try to fire them, do you know what can be? everything works fine until that (i took the care about putting the rocket laucher in right position). (i didn't put the rotor on cannon's base..)

[@IamusTheFox]

Do you bother putting limits on the Rotor?

[@joshuanutting704]

Hey i have a question whenever i try to build it the up an down axis work but if i try to move the turret left or right underneath it explodes. I have checked and the is more than enough clearance. any ideas would be appreciated.

[@TK421Reporting]

ok wait a sec!!! how did you delete all those blocks thats amazing!!!

[@kutaap123]

how do you get that blue screen that screens your ship

[@Xirpzy]

is this worth a bye? is there going to be added more content besides multiplayer? to lazy to look it up myself.

[@HillkillTheGamer]

Yes there will definitely be way more stuff than just multiplayer, its like minecraft, but in space.

[@Xirpzy]

ok thanks

[@SmileyTheMadman]

Puts Jolt Guns into this turret design.

[@GahSoonChan]

how do you place blocks in both length and width directions? the ctrl key only lets me build them in a line

[@acsdfdve7146]

Press esc to open menu Press options press game press building mode select plane press ok Try using it now

[@user-xi6wu8ou4z]

1:57 how did you open that?? 2:43 how do you place blocks like that??

[@manickproductions8506]

what key did he press when he filed the floor?

[@Ammoguy1]

When I get to the part where I have to build a small ship inside the turret ring my game never places the block level with the existing surface. How do you make it level?

[@ianross8083]

Would it be possible to make wave motion cannon?

[@ronnoccjh]

How do you select the entire object? Once he creates the base of the turret he grabs it and moves it into position. How is this done?

[@RiskazGLIKE5394]

Question how do you stretch the blocks like that?

[@kriegsmarinekonigstiger4038]

+xXMadGamerzXx The Gamer i think a mod but idk

[@Kiwiinp]

+Kriegsmarine Königstiger it's not a mod it's called holding control

[@PhaseReality]

+Alex O'fake when i hold control it instead make a line not a plane

[@kriegsmarinekonigstiger4038]

The Games liker its a mod :P

[@kriegsmarinekonigstiger4038]

***** better delete my last comment then :P my bad

[@Junsolive]

How do you keep the turret from moving when you are controlling your large ship?

[@juanito9835]

why wont my rotor move up and down

[@UnormalLagger]

How do u do the build so quick what buttons

[@corgidog7125]

Are these going to replace the anialation cannon

[@AsuraDandy]

What I wish they would do with the rockets is add in a type of push to the explosion. I don't like how the bits and pieces of the ship or rock you were shooting with the rockets, just stay there. They aren't freely floating in space even when you run into a small piece, its still like running into the ship itself. Not sure how it'll work but if they can fix that, it would look alot cooler to blow up ships and Asteroids with the rockets.

[@Hittsy]

what is the outro music you were playing?

[@Alvargon]

A question, what do you do to change the "blockmode" (Line/plane) without pick into the menu?

[@Titan-ec2he]

You can't use a mouse aim to use rotors anymore can you?

[@usera9478]

You can, I'm doing it right now

[@lukeblackburn3145]

how do you build a sort of hemisphere turret? thanks.

[@andrewmunuz5807]

More PLEASE!!!

[@ElErizoSombra]

Built a turret with the basics shown in the video. However, the turret does not rotate. The gun will traverse, but it acts as it were fix mounted. any suggestions?

[@victorfrankenstein8005]

I wonder if this is still relevent today or if the meta has changed in pvp so much this would be more of a liability in pvp but i wonder if it would be nice in singleplayer if so

[@OsmiumGames]

I was wondering, what is the command where u place all those blocks at once

[@Scrottiegaming]

Hold CTRL + SHIFT and click and drag. Same goes for right clicking to delete blocks too.

[@OsmiumGames]

thanks

[@ogrebrains]

I found these turrets worked great defending space stations. But instead of rockets I used the gatling guns.

[@draadpiraat]

They should add a camera which could be controlled from a distance or a cockpit so that you would be able to sit somewhere safely and control the turret.

[@billywaffles5678]

there is a camera tho

[@JesusX666]

How do you pick up and move blocks after you've placed them? I can't see it in the controls options

[@Karvoi]

ctrl+c and to place it ctrl+v ;)

[@daveplayz3550]

Do the atmospheric thrusters work in space in an oxygen filled room?

[@morallyenhancedhumanm.e.h2366]

no

[@Keltfire88]

I wish my computer was better, I can't run this amazing game smoothly with my crappy computer.

[@ImrePaasen]

For like $600 you can build your own pretty good pc. I'm playing se in it very well actually

[@Keltfire88]

Imre Paasen Yeah I'm not good with hardware.

[@ImrePaasen]

I didn't knew anything about it as well so I had to watch a lot of computers. Actually it wasn't that hard. Only there are a lot of names and termes you need to know. Mabye you can also search for a webshop where they make a computer for you. Or go to a store and grab one. Or buy a lot for the lottery and win a lot of money XD

[@truereaper4572]

@@Keltfire88 Hope you got a better computer man.

[@dominicballinger6536]

Got a xbox one? Its available for that.