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Last time we made thrusters useless using gravity generators, this time we take that to the EXTREME. Using over 3000 gravity generators, we catapult multiples ships into space at incredible fast speeds.
In this video, I show off a couple of examples of using for gravity generators for purposes they may or may not have been intended for. Have any more ideas for creative uses for gravity, let me know with a comment!
Thrusters? Not needed!
Gravity generators? Online!
Physics? BROKEN!
0:00 Start
0:12 Recap
0:45 Multiple gravity generators demo
1:34 Taking it to the EXTREME!
2:04 1500Gs Demo with Player
2:23 Demo 2 with no speed limit
2:33 Launching a ship into space with gravity
3:18 Piloting a ship launched by gravity
3:44 Gravity Boost Ring
5:07 Did I forget something...
All grids used in this video can be found here: steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...
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Space Engineers is a voxel-based sandbox game set in space and on planets, developed and published by Czech independent developer Keen Software House. In 2013, the initial developmental release of the game joined the Steam early access program. During the following years of active development, Space Engineers sold over one million units. In total as of 2019 the game has sold over 3.5 million copies In May 2015, for approximately a year and a half, the game's source code was officially available and maintained by KSH to assist the modding community. On December 15, 2016, the game entered Beta and was later officially released on February 28, 2019.
The game is a sandbox game about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Players build space ships, space stations, planetary outposts of various sizes and uses, pilot ships and travel through space to explore planets and gather resources to survive.
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Title: How YOU can break physics in Space Engineers
My Last Video: BREAKING the game with Gravity Generators - Space Engineers
#SpaceEngineers #Warfare #Exploit

[@Zer0sLegion]

The next video is going to be on the best mods for Space Engineers, if you have any suggestions please let me know!

[@Lucifer_Nihilum]

There's a Nanite construction mod that I remember being really good.

[@deathstreak1156]

Oh there the rust mod that came out a bit back can add some real ship graveyard as well as a nifty clean up tool to reduce server lag, weaponcore and the mods that are supported are just a lovely classics.

[@Zer0sLegion]

@Deathstreak 115 That rust mod looks fantastic, I've been meaning to test it out. Not a big fan of Weaponcore, I get the appeal, it's just does feel very "Space Engineery" if that makes sense.

[@Zer0sLegion]

@Lucifer Nihilum Use this all the time in single player, works like a treat.

[@Lucifer_Nihilum]

Also, obviously, the unlimited speed mod. Do the insanity that script makers count? Like the solar alignment script & the inventory organization script I remember being really good.

[@jaebob]

Zero: you ready? Striker: no Zero: cute, you thought you had a choice

[@dragonf1recdn]

*Reveals method of convincing*

[@ltmuffler3482]

Essentially, you have in-system planet to planet hyperlanes.

[@Zer0sLegion]

Or as I love to call it, the space highway.

[@FMHikari]

You can do better. Using a railgun-like setup you can set a seemingly harmless 1 block wide area to launch anything with mass that touches it at near light speed away.

[@thefalloutphoenix]

With the kinectic devastation mod that would obliterate anything

[@anuclearpan4554]

@@thefalloutphoenix u dont even really need the mod lol, it already obliterates almost anything.

[@J0hnB09]

@@anuclearpan4554 not voxels.

[@LiliumCruorem]

@@J0hnB09 just put a warhead on the tip and you good, gg, goodnight lol. The enemy will never sleep right again.

[@axialivanov6101]

@@J0hnB09 Uh yes voxels if you crash your ship I to the ground it destroys voxels and the ammount of voxels destroyed is based on wiegst and speed

[@pyrosweets]

Saw your video on the gravity drive a few days ago, and I just built a next-gen Corvette with gravity drives installed. Very efficient compared to my previous thruster blocks. Thanks for the great ideas!

[@Zer0sLegion]

Glad I could help

[@Lem_Nade_Music]

can you upload it on the workshop ?

[@vogothedudepathian3390]

I wish they didn't nerf grav drives but they are still nice to be able to outrun another ship as a grav drive will push your ship faster than the in game speed limit depending on the drives size. 5m/ms+ may not sound like a lot, but the salt when someone is screaming you are hacking and that's why they can't catch you is worth it's weight in platinum.

[@LiamDennehy]

@3:00 The ship should be placed where the mass blocks are 15 blocks below the gravity generators - that way they will be accelerated the full 30-block height of the device's range, instead of from the surface to 15 blocks above.

[@varlam1480]

using this gravity rings, i think you can not only acceleraty your ship, but also slow it down. How about building some gravity rings which launches ship from orbit of one planet, to another, right to the center of the another system of rings, which is used to reduce the speed of the ship? Shame that my laptop cant handle space engineers, i would love to try to build this thing.

[@Zer0sLegion]

You could use them to show done but the change of going through a ring at the other end would be very difficult 😥

[@handreroux]

@@Gremlivia i was thinking of somthing similar, but instead of building the ring on the other end you build 2 rings with the 1st ship with the extra ring in tow so you build ring with docking ring/(merge block is more accurate) then release with second ring. ship reaches location or close too, and then when your standing still release 2nd ring and make it a station. and thats you how can calculate a strait line kind of hahaha

[@creativemind42069]

just get that nvidia geforce now, streaming games is the way now

[@xiphosura413]

To ease alignment issues, just use a continuous "highway" of relatively weak drive rings spaced out along the flight path!

[@Ramog1000]

okay while gravity drives where a pretty old concept I really like the gravity rings you came up with ^-^

[@Striech]

Imagine a space-highway using those rings

[@kons37flyingreaper41]

Gravity drives are so old now but still work. Really easy to make too.

[@Lucifer_Nihilum]

Hello! Reminder, Grav-Railgun. That is all.

[@Zer0sLegion]

I have been doing some testing on this, I think i've found the perfect method.

[@Lucifer_Nihilum]

Well, I'd hope you'd style it too be a projectile fired by 2 Prongs filled with Grav-Generators.

[@Jalbesbe]

Glad to see someone else stubble upon the gate system. On a server I used to play on before planets existed in the game it was a heavily modded server in the matter that it was testing out a multiplayer mod that allowed the game to surpass it's usual problems when many people were on one server. I think at it's height we had over 300 players. Idk, we had 40 in the group I ran with on the server and without the limitations of many of the games simulation issues we were able to build a ship large enough that we turned into 3 bickering factions and almost never saw one another because it took too much time to get to the middle point let alone any end point. Main point of this. When unlimited asteroids were added to the game those of us who had escaped the spawn hell (spawn was littered with ship debris from wars fought, newbies spawning in and being attacked on site. Fun chaos if you wish to hear the tales I can tell) where there was no asteroids so that they could travel around. Also wanted people to be able to travel between the new places being built too as jump drives didn't exist and the ship tug cheat warp drive that we built could only be used by very large ships and was temperamental at best. So we created the gate network, being fans of stargate we called it that and that we coded the coordinates for gate stations to be able to lock onto existing networks with chevrons. The gate system used a main launch platform that you would fly a small ship into or a pod into (pods were connection to larger ships via an arm). Connecting these main stations were multiple acceleration rings that would connect a chain of antennas together so that you could communicate across a wide network. How it worked was back in the day if anything passed thru a gravity field it could break the speed limit of the game. If you connected a landing gear to a stone then this would allow ships to break the games speed limit too. So for a large ship it would either have a pod designed into it's structure or if it was with our group one would be attached. The pod connected by an arm to the ship would sit in the center of the gate station and a signal would be sent down the line to all rings and the next stations till your destination to confirm that the configuration was set up and there were no known blockages. Once that was done the gravity generators would turn on going the direction required on the station and rings and your ship would be launched faster than the speed limit allowing for very quick travel. Once you began to reach your destination the rings and gate station would have a gravity cradle that slowed down the speed you were coming in and then stopped you in the gate station so you didn't have to do any work. We made this for anyone on the server to use as long as they used it properly. Of course many stations would be attacked, thou we did find out the only way to sabotage someone in travel was to change the rings or stations. If you parked a ship in the line between the rings the ship passing thru would take some bad damage but they wouldn't stop and you wouldn't exist anymore. Players dedicated there entire time to maintain and run many of the stations. Once jump drives came out the gate stations were abandoned by almost everyone especially since the old exploit no longer worked. Some few still used it similar to what you showed here. Tug drive still works quite well, maybe more dangerous, but that one is a faction secret. And most servers can not handle it being used most of the time.

[@miccrhaafetl5101]

5:08 With a good scope, you could still see his ship going at a marginal percentage of the speed of light, heading out into the big empty. The best, longest funeral in the history of mankind - The Expanse

[@IneptOrange]

Strap several of these things together and you've essentially invented a miniature halo ring. Or a super railgun.

[@kspayton]

2:48 dude i was eating when you pulled out the pistol. XD rip my keyboard i guess.

[@justaruz1559]

I've been wanting to make launch tubes on a carrier type ship for a long time, now I know how!

[@izzygarcia2983]

Poor Striker, I hope someone picks him up!

[@Zer0sLegion]

😰

[@tjpprojects7192]

I bet it'll be either a pirate, a reaver, or a corrupted drone that picks him up.

[@Zer0sLegion]

@@tjpprojects7192 Oh no!

[@EnjoyCocaColaLight]

For increased effect, use spherical grav gens. As long as it's symmetrical, you'll get the same directional pull as with regular ones.

[@Zer0sLegion]

A couple of people have told me, I'm very excited to try this.

[@EnjoyCocaColaLight]

@@Zer0sLegion it works wonders. Also, replace your battery-powered, unnecessary art-mass block with a "space ball".

[@Helena-me6mp]

@@EnjoyCocaColaLight whats the difference?

[@EnjoyCocaColaLight]

@@Helena-me6mp 400m range.

[@EnjoyCocaColaLight]

@@Helena-me6mp And if space ball: Space ball, unlike artificial mass block, does not require power to function, and has a scalable "mass", to be adjusted from a few kilos (100 I think, for small grid), to several tonnes.

[@somegoofballwhohasinternet7313]

With how entertaining these videos are and how well edited they are, I excited this channel to be in the several hundred thousand subscriber range. It’s a crime that you have so few subscribers.

[@GhostOfSnuffles]

There's another type of troll physics trick of sorts aside from gravity generators. If you build a airtight hanger door, extend it, grind it down to just below the functional line, then stand on it and reweld it the moment the door becomes functional again the extending part will instantly re-appear and throw your character at extreme velocity. I discovered it by accident when i was trying to fix a damaged door on one of my ships and i got firmly planted into the roof of the ship hanger.

[@SynergyGamingTV]

I actually laughed out loud when you pointed the pistol at Striker.

[@hiBest_Blackline]

I Experimented With Gravitation genarators And i Made some pretty cool guns They are extremly strong and they also have Infinite range witch makes it hard to See a Shot of them

[@arnearne12345]

Man I remember building my first mass driver it was so fun having such a device back in the day

[@drklgnds1838]

Those gravity rings, if turned into tubes, can be used as a way overboard replacement for jump drives on short ranges if lined up propperly. You just need to have some sensors and opposite way gravity generators to catch the ship incoming

[@MikePainstill]

Thanks for an idea of "Planetary booster" For my base.

[@tacticalshrubbery]

The moon gravity launchers would be great for escape pods from a lunar base

[@SirPigglezWorth]

I love the Gravity Ring Booster Concept. Im going to super implement that into my game

[@DWal32]

0:46 clarification: gravity generators only stop working beyond 1g of planetary gravity, anywhere below that and they just have a % reduction

[@TheLifeoflink]

I would be interested to see a version of this that can get you off Earth or a gravity ring in low orbit to help complete takeoff from the planet.

[@Zer0sLegion]

The low orbit thing would work but you'd basically be in space once before it's effective.

[@TheLifeoflink]

@Zer0 Makes sense. Perhaps a low-orbit hub with network of gravity rings to points of interest in the system? That would be cool to see. Do you have these gravity rings on the workshop?

[@Zer0sLegion]

@@TheLifeoflink check the description, there's a link.

[@TheLifeoflink]

@@Zer0sLegion Lol, I should've checked first. Thanks!

[@DArtCat]

Legends say Striker is still missing till this Day

[@GreyKnightsVenerable]

Time to make gravity based warp gates.

[@dindjarin2628]

alternate title: "How to mess with space and time in Space Engineer physic"

[@darkideas2088]

What if: A railgun setup, shoots through (I dont know) 5 to 10!!! gravity rings... You can kiss a.u. speeds goodbye and say hello to F.T.L. with a tiny fraction of the cost of resources

[@FloriusAUT]

Striker 😭 Nooooo

[@Zer0sLegion]

😰

[@BriarOs]

Legend has it that striker is still out there to this very day

[@Zer0sLegion]

😭

[@OrigionalCigarette]

Oh man, i'm gonna use this for interstellar travel.

[@roboticintelligenceunit1a652]

“Thinking with portals”

[@snowfox9461]

Now can you do that with . . . a single Space Ball? Show to masses the power of the Space Ball mha ha ha he ho

[@fosstera]

I use extreme gravity drives to power my capital ships, because it's just not feasible to maneuver around with a measly 0.1g's of acceleration in any given direction. When your ship weighs in at tens of thousands of tons, gravity drives are life savers

[@Green_ya]

Nice video! Thanks for this idea! I will try to make this in my world)))

[@Eireguy_]

Legend Says Striker Is Still Floqing Through Space, To This Day....

[@Zer0sLegion]

I'm sure he's fine. It's not like I keep forgetting to rescue him... 😓

[@White_ops_arcade]

this is a very good way to get cargo off and on planets

[@diyarfranklin163]

Imagine 9 of those lined up

[@Zer0sLegion]

Now that's speed!

[@cosmichicken3724]

Noo striker I hope you gave him a pack lunch?

[@Zer0sLegion]

Oh god!

[@Vindictator1972]

Imagine not linking Gravity rings together for faster interstellar warping.

[@StarKnight619]

So what your saying is we should, IN THEORY, be able to make effective Mass Relays in Space Engineers

[@Zer0sLegion]

Yes, and unlike Mass Effect I might actually finish it.

[@StarKnight619]

@@Zer0sLegion I feel you on that I played through all 3 games back to back to back to complete them just for story again. but I never made a effective relay

[@Zer0sLegion]

@@StarKnight619 I tried playing them but Mass Effect 1 is so bad I'm put off every time

[@StarKnight619]

@@Zer0sLegion we'll have to agree to disagree on that one. I do hate the inventory and mod system, as well as Mako missions, but other than that its actually really good and the number of stories and lore you get is WAY more than in the other games but to each their own. Cant wait the next video!

[@Zer0sLegion]

@@StarKnight619 it's the gunplay I have a problem with, I can hit anything even if I spec entirely into weapons.

[@CRUSHader726]

You gave me ideas how to accelerate and stop in no speed limit mod ;)

[@Vonadu]

Vegeta *breathes heavily*

[@Misteryx5]

so basically the definition of YEET

[@Misteryx5]

for part 3: stack them up!

[@Boss_Sauce]

Only way to fly a 5300000000kg cargo ship

[@frenchguy8375]

I was trying this out right next to my space ship and it shot right threw it like a missle

[@Zer0sLegion]

Had that happen once or twice...

[@frenchguy8375]

@@Zer0sLegion ):

[@NowThatsRadio]

Ooh I'm going to make a player launcher

[@MoejoTheGreat]

Wouldn't that amount of acceleration turn an engineer into a space suit full of chunky stew?

[@Zer0sLegion]

I mean, were using gravity generators to create perpetual motion, I think realism went out of the window a while ago.

[@untodesu]

I have actually made a bigger ring setup which produces up to 400g at its focal point, spanning at about 100 meters, it boosts a ship with an AG anchor up to about 2-3 km/s...

[@Zer0sLegion]

That's impressive considering the gravity generator only exerts in a 75m radius

[@untodesu]

@@Zer0sLegion but the ring structure itself eats through PCU, the whole assembly takes about 300-400k PCU units, but I guess that's a fair exchange for the acceleration it provides

[@muhammedozdemir.]

Blaststrike: help

[@Zer0sLegion]

And they were never seen again

[@thatrandomguycommenting1261]

Just put 2 pistons on the same grid with merge blocks and eventually it will hit light speed at some random point. Been a thing with this games "amazing engine" since 2015

[@Zer0sLegion]

Hit the speed of light or collapse into a singularity, there is no in-between 😋

[@thatrandomguycommenting1261]

@@Zer0sLegion with a few pistons you will find your answer 😂

[@ericevans9186]

Hmmmm try getting a massive load of stone and make an asteroid gun by ejecting the stone thru a connector then thru a gravity ring, And orbital bombardment just got nasty.

[@af0ulwind115]

Out of curiosity... Can you build a ship with a hollow in it. Build a mass in the center of the hollow using gyros and mass blocks with a cockpit and antenna. On the ship surrounding it place an antenna and remote control block and surround the void in the ship with gravity gens. Goal... Fly the big ship by moving the mass in the cavity within

[@Zer0sLegion]

You'd need to do it the other way around, gravs in the middle and mass on the outside

[@Gastell0]

Maybe gravity ring could have been more efficient if it turned off at right moment, perhaps some way to detect a ship and turn on for a very short amount of time, enough to accelerate the vehicle, and then turn off to prevent deacceleration

[@Zer0sLegion]

It should do any deacceleration, the gravity only goes in one direction.

[@Gastell0]

@@Zer0sLegion Ah, didn't know that

[@Zer0sLegion]

@@Gastell0 that's alright, we all learn new things every day

[@tylermatheson4376]

I have done this by copying pasting the generator it made a black hole

[@erubianwarlord8208]

what would happen if one were to mod a Gravity generator to have more then 1G of power would that let you escape earthlike's field?

[@Zer0sLegion]

I believe it scales to zero at 1G gravity regardless.

[@seushimarejikaze1337]

no matter how many grav generators you stack up, they dont work in environment of 1g. anything lower than that and they work but with results inversely proportional to the value of gravity of the planet. dunno about exact maths, but its safe to assume that 1 g = 0% output while 0g = 100% output.

[@francoguida7370]

This creation it's a perfect example of a Stargate.

[@Zer0sLegion]

Just need to figure out how to dial in planets and we're good!

[@francoguida7370]

@@Zer0sLegion I wonder di as a weapon would also work. Type missile tubes or a large hoop and welders inside creating warheads or solid objects causing them to be fired much faster than with propellants. Although the accuracy would not be the best because it would be against large or static targets.

[@yarsm2469]

poor striker

[@Zer0sLegion]

Oh wait! I never went to get him!

[@ShadowWolf2396]

What mod do you use that turns the speed limit off

[@Zer0sLegion]

It's just called Speed

[@ShadowWolf2396]

@@Zer0sLegion aptly named!

[@xandersfs2346]

Jump gates possible now?

[@swedichboy1000]

Was this done with or without the vanilla speed limit?

[@Zer0sLegion]

Any time I go above 100mps it's a mod

[@timothyortiz2222]

They do work in atmospheres.

[@Zer0sLegion]

No

[@ericb1882]

any tricks on leaving earth or alien planets besides hydrogen ?

[@Zer0sLegion]

There isn't really another way. You couple build a rotor that spins and then discount yourself to fling you into space? Not sure how well it'd work.

[@calebchampion7781]

im in space.

[@ShaunFace]

This is awesome. What’s dangerous in space, gravity being pulled. Uses this to create movement. What else equals cancels out gravity but gravity. NASA or Musk. Pick one help them out. Saalute. Nice

[@Jackle45510]

Please how do you make the gravity ring

[@Zer0sLegion]

Gravity generators in a circle.

[@light6666]

someone create a weapon with gravity gens

[@Zer0sLegion]

I may have already done it in one of my videos...

[@RedGallardo]

Does your 1000m\s mod break the game? Is it worth getting? Or is it just for buggy fun?

[@Zer0sLegion]

1000m/s seems to be fine, from testing, you only start to have issues at around 2500

[@RedGallardo]

@@Zer0sLegion Sold! =D

[@seushimarejikaze1337]

@@RedGallardo just make your ship very maneuverable. going at 1000m/s gives not a lot of time to avoid obstacles and depending on scale, it might make it almost not possible to.

[@klekaelly]

So wait, it doesn't work on planets? Even with the number of gravity generators you had on the moon? I was thinking this would be a very efficient way to get things out of the planet's gravity.

[@Zer0sLegion]

Gravity generators don't work in gravity of 1 and above.

[@pawels.5669]

So that can be achieved on PC only right?

[@Zer0sLegion]

No, you can do this on Xbox as well

[@VerkoSK]

Can you send link to speed mode?? thx

[@Zer0sLegion]

It's just called Speed

[@Black-Phoenix]

Make a rail gun witb this technology

[@IvoriumMusic]

Was Striker ever saved?

[@Zer0sLegion]

😓

[@iamaveryepicman771]

He flew to another universe

[@DraRex386]

Theres any workshop item of that?

[@Zer0sLegion]

For the ring or what, I can make one if you'd like?

[@DraRex386]

@@Zer0sLegion just need the gravity ring and the launcher, its usefull to have that on a solo world

[@Zer0sLegion]

@@DraRex386 Ok, I'll create workshop links when I finish work.

[@DraRex386]

@@Zer0sLegion ok thanks you

[@Zer0sLegion]

@@DraRex386 I've put it in the description, I can't link it in a comment.

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

Wait...I thought they fixed that bug? Well that kinda sucks.

[@Zer0sLegion]

It's not a bug, it's an intended use of the game's features.

[@derik6514]

Is this real Mass Effect?

[@Zer0sLegion]

Yes

[@Yuki_Shaenov]

This is vanilla speed limit? 100m/s default?

[@Zer0sLegion]

Vanilla is 100m/s which is ridiculously slow

[@Mimonsi]

@@Zer0sLegion Which mod are you using to surpass the speed limit?

[@Zer0sLegion]

@@Mimonsi it's called Speed

[@Frozen_Hope]

I mean to be fair, when u said 15000g would accelerate u 15000m/s u weren't that wrong about the acceleration, just the amount of g's

[@chromer7139]

i am just gonna ask you to go get striker out of this "sticky" situation or else you are going to find out what 9 megaton ship hitting you at 1 km/s feels like >:(

[@Zer0sLegion]

A rescue operation is underway I promise, please don't shoot me 😓

[@Quinge29871]

Hang on, the thumbnail's off by a factor of ten? In the *best* way, mind. 15,000% is only 150G. It should be 150,000%. :D

[@Zer0sLegion]

Maybe, I remember thinking at the time it was wrong but it also didn't fit on the thumbnail

[@Quinge29871]

Yeah. I just had a great time realizing, "Oh wow, it's even better than advertised!"

[@nou5440]

help