I Didn't Think This Would Work

Welcome to another episode of Trailmakers! Today I am using the power couplers to build wheels of light!
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About Trailmakers:
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.
Welcome to the Ultimate Expedition!
Journey over grueling mountains, hazardous swamps, and bone-dry deserts on a distant world far from civilization - it is just you, your fellow adventurers and the amazing, jet-powered hover-buggy you built yourself. Explore, crash your vehicle, build a better one, and get as far as you can with whatever spare parts you find along your way.
Trailmakers is about building very awesome vehicles and machines, but you don’t need an engineering degree to get started. The intuitive builder will get you going in no time. Everything you build is made from physical building blocks. Each block has unique features like shape, weight and functionality. They can be broken off, refitted and used to build something new. Individually the blocks are fairly simple, but combined the possibilities are endless.
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.
Sandbox Mode is where you want to head for an unrestricted, sandbox, vehicle-building experience. Here you can build anything you can dream of, and play around with it in the world of Trailmakers. It is a great place to test out crazy machines, and experiment with the physics engine. With tons of different blocks, hinges, thrusters and interactive vehicle parts - the skybox is the limit.
Trailmakers is even more fun if you play it with other people. Build cool vehicles and compete in mini-game modes with your friends or other Trailmakers online. Build a helicopter, send it to your friend, and shoot them out of the sky. Put two seats on a tank, and let your friend control the turret. As we get further in Early Access development Expedition Mode will also be adapted to multiplayer.
Learn more about the game on www.playtrailmakers.com #scrapman #trailmakers

[@ToniMeliZeli]

Scrapman is just a vibe, sit on the couch, a cup of coffee and a scrap video, life at it's finest Edit: almost 400 likes, petition for Scrapman to make the #ScrapLife official at 1k likes Edit:Thnks for all the likes guys, glad to know we all appreciate a good Scrapman vid

[@diabolicalstuffs]

petition to make this top comment (like thes guys comment)

[@A-canadian-countryball]

Yes

[@aidinaurand]

That's how I wake up every morning swap the coffee for sum pop tarts tho

[@TupperGamer28_90]

he reinvented the wheel

[@jasonaleshire514]

Although: Scrap could you stop posting videos of ideas i have b4 i extract them from my white matter? it matters thx :love: :Daddy Shark: 🧔🏻‍♂🦈

[@nebulousnoah3913]

Maybe do a power coupling race? Give the players the same wheel mechanism you’ve made so that they have it available, but then everyone has to innovate their own builds to help win the race!

[@Mrclip-br3vz]

Or let em build their own power couple wheels

[@hardboiled_cat]

yes please

[@Mrclip-br3vz]

And then evolve it

[@sluggo1652]

Copy the wheels, rotate 90 degrees, paste on the outside of the old wheels and make them a little bit oval then it should only be power couplings touching the ground.

[@rltt379]

their attachments also touch. Making it smooth is either impossible or needs multiple layers of power coupling (bent more than what would be round)

[@daniel_77.]

I think "perfectly round" wheels will not be possible

[@HorilkaConsumer]

This would be better

[@jasonthomas1626]

That’s hilarious, “Uh-oh something broke… all wheels appear to round. Keep going.” Such a true scientist 😂😂😂

[@FireHawk9463]

And then a cool feature you could add is basically a park mode where the wheels extend and become rectangles, you know so it won’t roll away😂

[@Chosen1Creator]

I just came up with a goofy multiplayer idea: The Angry Zeus Challenge. You and another player each build a small car with a limited top speed, and a large airship. The large airship drops power couplings onto the small car trying to destroy it (if they don't do damage attach a small explosive to them). The car that travels the furthest or lasts the longest wins.

[@brycejohnson4175]

Great idea!!!!

[@Skylar_minecraft]

yes

[@stevepittman3770]

17:54 Yeah I've noticed heli engines have a limited amount of torque so if you put even a moderate amount of mass on it it will slow them down no matter how fast you bump up the speed setting.

[@TupperGamer28_90]

Other Ideas: - Power Truck Race (pulled by wagons with power couplers) - Power Car (a car just made out of entirely power couplers) - Power Plane (a plane just made out of entirely power couplers) - Power Coupler Art? - Power Fishing pole (suggested by kilbymorgan8626) - Power Lightsaber

[@FranDisc0]

The vehicles are possible, and art and the bridge but a bow or a crossbow are highly unstable after conclusive testing

[@Shameofmev.1]

When a power car is possible, an invisible car should be possible as well😂

[@norotoro0]

Trebuchet

[@tombroad9239]

He did suspension car in SM right? I totally wanna see power coupling car at different stiffness levels. I hope it drives like jelly car from that old ios game.

[@unholyhardy4359]

I think he's already made a bridge and a ballista.

[@Pumpnineteen]

in this implementation, the attachment point is uncushioned, which introduces bumpiness. What if you used 2 ovals in 90 degree offsets, the goal being that it's always the middle pc is what has contact, making it always cushioned

[@FX-PR0CESS]

You could have flipped one of the inner pistons so that the base replaces the 3 way pipe piece. That would have allowed you to make a centerpoint to rotate without a large gap

[@crated_]

Upgraded "wheel" idea. Make several curved and compressed sections of power couplings and offset them each by a certain amount of degrees to maintain contact with the ground without the attachment points getting hit

[@icefirepython]

Only the attachment points have collision though.

[@crated_]

Looked like the beams have collisions on those wheels

[@shaggy5777]

What would look funny is if the power coupler's energy beam was invisible.

[@Nevir202]

Know what I wanna see? Attach helicopter blades to power couplers... Do they still work? Is the lift force correctly generated at each blade, causing them to all bow upwards, or does the game simplify the physics and just generate the upward force at the center of rotation so they would sag down?

[@-user_redacted-]

This was my first test. They do still work, but the couplings flex upward and with enough force the blades will touch/entangle. I'd love to see ScrapMan make it fully functional though.

[@Nevir202]

@@-user_redacted- Interesting. Does doubling or tripling them up help, or is it diminishing returns?

[@-user_redacted-]

I initially tried using one, then two side by side. The second didn't seem to add much rigidity even with both at max. Didn't try anything more than two, but the bulk that would be added by more would probably not be worth any potential effects. Honestly if you keep to lower speeds, like 1/3 trigger pull, it can be used decently but once you up the speed the instability takes hold.

[@Nevir202]

@@-user_redacted- Did you try them stacked vertically instead of side by side? In that configuration, it would be trying to compress one and stretch the other. No idea if that would help much, or maybe it would just twist and buckle...

[@melody8541]

It actually worked fine for me at max rigidity. I managed to make a tiny flying vehicle that just consisted of two stacked helicopter blades spinning in opposite directions, a gyro for steering, and a thruster for directional movement. It was only like 6 units in diameter excluding the blades and yet flew better than anything I have ever made. When flying around too quickly, the blades did collide sometimes, but a second set of couplings completely fixed that. I don't know if it was the low weight that made the difference, or if mine does not move as fast. If it makes a difference, I believe that the power couplings on mine are two sections long in order to make sure they clear the outer shell that they clip through.

[@burak1382]

Since those power couplers bend even under the player, you could try to determine the weight of the player.

[@benschiller8735]

I had this idea recently, which I thought could turn out pretty cool. You could build some arresting wires, set them up on the aircraft carrier and try landing a plane with a hook into them

[@suicidalbanananana]

Ohhhhh, yes please!

[@benschiller8735]

@@suicidalbanananana that would be cool right?

[@happyhippoeaters4261]

"why not try that" Spaghetti Scrap man, this is how you get spaghetti

[@Ryusei1986]

The orange color on the power couplings makes me think of fire wheels on a Ghost Rider vehicle. :D

[@Chocglitch]

10:34 The Grinch face😂

[@FQT_Keller-Ash]

I totally see it now lmao!

[@ratroll1978]

Wow yeah 😂

[@suicidalbanananana]

Nice! Here's an idea for a future project: Since they spaz out fairly easily, could you maybe use that to your advantage to create some kind of intended motion? (make them spaz in such a way that it results in a controllable vehicle???)

[@DanyF02]

No way! My creation made a thumbnail and even inspired another video! I don't think my life could be even more complete now! lol Btw, on my creation there's 3 power couplers per "wheels", the center one is at 0 stiffness and the other 2 are at 50% stiffness, this helps make them bend into the right shape more easily while retaining some stiffness on those that end up supporting the weight of the craft. Cheers! Keep up the good work!

[@Eternal_Night69]

Oh darn scrapman popped his tires!

[@bananamanog5596]

Thats an amazing idea! Im sure someone is gonna find a way to make it so the connectors dont stick out so they dont break but already a amazing start!!!

[@yunionflavat7747]

A battle or race with power coupler wheels sounds like a grand time!

[@ziggie16]

would be really cool to see you all go back a few years and redo some of the "cooler" challenges

[@GummieI]

Well... now you HAVE to have a race with other people using only power-coupling wheels :D

[@Mad_Max1069]

Ok no! We need a part 2. Make them intentionally more oval shaped. Double up each wheel like a dooly and turn the next set 90° so that the extra long oval shaps will cover up the connectors at the steering hinges. And why not keep going and make it 4 wide so it will actually look like a normal thickness lightning wheel. And maybe double stack the helicopter engine and rotating servoes for a little more speed. The main video idea could be to make your own suspension using power couplers but this could just add on to this vehicle.

[@Overclocked250P]

Power caterpillar when??

[@easygoing4964]

i think they should make the stiffness able to get even lower, because with the current lowest stiffness it's still pretty stiff

[@Terminator11010]

I womder if you could make some weird kind of leaf spring suspension, say if you change the stiffness of the couplings on either side of a wheel. Thats an idea I would love to see scrapman make

[@bluemario8361]

This looks like it would be cool to make a tron bike with that glowing wheel

[@favorites8651]

The only change I would have made would be to use power coupling as suspension. And maybe you could use power coupling to make an articulated bus or trailer hitch

[@PranayG.Evergame]

Suggestion: make a Power buster. Let him have some fun, make him a jedi, ligtning god or just a guy doing rope jumps.

[@johnbaylor-df4ub]

Maybe a challenge could be, have everyone make cars, using those wheels, and weapons And do the hover pad glitch thing and battle sideways

[@smysko66]

You should do a monday multiplayer where you can onlu use power couplings to build your vehicles. Air, land and sea ofc.

[@Astrolex12]

You should make the wheels slightly oval with the middle of the power couple being the long diameter so they stick out further than the connector pieces, then double up the wheels so each wheel has 4 arches instead of 2 and they are offset by 90 degrees. The idea is to have the power couple "bubble" protect the connector pieces so that only power couple edges touch the ground. If you have a hard time picturing what I described, imagine a single wheel, duplicate it and rotate it 90 degrees in the direction of the rolling and overlay it onto itself

[@AWSOMESNAKES]

Making a car out of ONLY power couplers (except of the necessities) would be hilarious 🤣

[@ajwachter8858]

@scrapman perhaps try rolling the power couplers as a sphere rather then a circle. (like a barrel) would take more power couplers but would be simpler to maintain center

[@jacksonstarky8288]

I'm wondering if a motorcycle would work. The power coupling wheels seem to have a very low top speed, and motorcycles need a high speed to maintain their balance. Might be an idea worth playing with.

[@VodkaVortex]

i think the helicopter engines become less in sync the more you drive so they break pretty quick because the wheels are still a little uncircleish

[@royalphrog]

i recommend adding some kind of blocks on the pistons to make it have the hard points on the other 2 90° lines So adding like + in the middle

[@bulletproof1581]

Hey scrap, you could try putting 2 of these wheels next to each other and using them as a single wider wheel, so my thought process is that because your wheels are slight ovals, you can hopefully change the angle of one of the wheels, thus making 4 higher contact points on the ground and hopefully way less bounce with each wheel. Hope this helps if you try it :)

[@bonelesstortila]

You mentioning a fake engine gave me an idea for an update, people might hate it, and people might love it, they should add a separate helicopter motor that is reliant on engines, more engine, more fast, but keep the original helicopter motor how it is, because it would ruin loads of people's existing blueprints, idk if my other update ideas where seen but here's this one

[@WanderThruster99]

Maybe you could make tank treads out of the power couplings? (You might have to go double wide or more but I think it could work)

[@AppleEaterGuy]

You could make tank tracks with this. It would look realistic if it got shot out.

[@user-ud8zy2dv1k]

something i notice is that every now and then when trying to make something with a bunch of moving parts like hinges, gyros, etc, very close together, sometimes it builds the vehicle wrongly and causes a whole lot of glitches, then decides that the vehicle was always meant to be that way and will always glitch out with that blueprint having those parts together, forcing me to scrap the whole thing and start from scratch. seriously, once i put 4 gyro stabilizers in a 2x3x4 brick for a vehicle i was working on, normally this is fine, i use it for a lot of stuff, but then it decided that it would cause constant wobbling and shaking when turning it on, and i had to start over.

[@tombroad9239]

Improvement idea: Make each wheel a dually. Double up the wheels, putting the second layer at a 90 degree offset. It'll make them tougher and smoother.

[@Pumpnineteen]

I had the almost exact same idea :D

[@MrCavespider11]

This would be a fun battle

[@techvortex2885]

definetly i want to see that scrapman

[@unknownraven8187]

Scrapman doesn’t realize he just created airless wheels

[@kilbymorgan8626]

Wheel spokes with power couplings would probably look cool.

[@cwyvern4861]

Absolutely

[@nightingale_2869]

You should try to make tank tracks with the power couplers

[@Ty122096]

You should do a 0 Power Core plane dogfight with a single Smart Cannon, it is possible with to fly with servos like you did used them for wheels in this video. I used helicopter blades for mine but I'd love to see what y'all could come up with and how the fights would go

[@Eranderil]

Double these up, rotated 90 degrees on the outer so that the hoop of the outer wheels covers the gap of the inner wheels. I suspect it might help deal with the breakage issue with the wheels.

[@phillip_dnp]

The first thing I thought of after seeing the power coupling wheels work is if tank tracks are now possible in trailmakers

[@dustybunny66]

Idk if you’ll see this but what if you took them and made a star like wheel with no edge. Just all of the power couplers pointing straight out and the angle of them off set to look like a straight spiral. Since they can bend, it act like suspension and give more traction. Got the idea from when you had one of power couplers brake and it was rotating around the wheel straight, slightly bending when engaging with the ground.

[@keplay_sk5136]

You could make a race where you can have flat tires, imagine hitting a rock and REALLY having a flat, if you stack them a little, you could have them have maybe more durability or something, that would be so cool

[@MarkoDash]

maybe you should double them up with the other set rotated 45 degrees to give you more contact points.

[@Caninetag667]

we need a race with these wheels

[@Callum_hitman]

2:00 don’t stretch that much proceeds to make spaghetti

[@turkeyman1123]

Imagine how much more you could do if they added an option to have hinges that start at a 90 degree angle or pistons that start either extended or retracted based on what you need.

[@Qoride]

now you're thinking with couplers..

[@Flying.Dutchm4n]

4:19 A double jumprope is Double Dutch? This was new to me! #SmarterEveryDay

[@buckduane1991]

Could add the power couplings to the rotor blades of a helicopter in different colors, have a neon strobe effect in the dark for a “night fight” as the only means of seeing each other.

[@MPSGAS]

I could see a drone or helicopter fight where you use power coupler whips as weapons to try and mess with the others propelers

[@Chronolinth]

9:22 that moment when wheel

[@mach5406]

Now you need to race these right? Maybe have this as a static addon component and the rest of the car players can design.

[@TheCornChili]

I have a theory but I have not been able to get it to work. If it does work though I think it would be cool if you and yuzei made a car and then attached a glider to the back of said car using the power couplings almost like a kite and then raced. If you want to make it really hard you could require the seat to be on the glider and do first person camera

[@JJP1890]

try replacing the flat connectors with 2x1 block or wedge pieces and put a friction block on the end, it should provide better traction and might also increase durability of the wheel

[@CaptnApathy]

just 3 minutes in right now, and I can tell there's going to be power coupler based robots in near future.

[@jankitharun.d5305]

I would love to see a space motorcycle with a motorcycle seat attached with a space rocket like Lobo's motorcycle

[@creditcrazy597]

The fact that the max speed didn't effect the cars over all speed tells me the coupling lines themselves don't have friction so while the couplers are holding you up your only getting propelled by the fragile hard part of the wheel

[@-aid4084]

The helicopter has a torque limit, the rotating servo has a speed limit. Doubling the rotating servos and decreasing the strength does the job.

[@polishane8837]

Liked the video for the "wheel-alistic" pun

[@The_contactor]

I love how we're getting closer and closer to kraken technology from ksp

[@Yull-Rete]

That could look super surreal if you turned the power couplings off on your wheels, so you only see the hubs spinning.

[@happy-zg1jr]

This was pretty sick scrapman.

[@LawrenceOakheart]

Would be nice to have an option to set power couplers to be invincible.

[@ShadowDrakken]

Trailmakers is almost as tissue paper as Space Engineers XD

[@dr_knots]

This was honestly realy impressive.

[@corellix5153]

Cant wait for a race on these wheels

[@CTag81]

Set your pistons that center the wheels to a start position of .16 instead of .15, this should help smoothe out the wheel rotation.

[@ThePhonax]

1.4 is actually perfect center

[@CTag81]

@@ThePhonax I've always used .16 and seen many others use this for perfect center.

[@ThePhonax]

@@CTag81 I’ve used .14 .13 if I want to make a shield plate flush

[@CTag81]

@@ThePhonax I think we mount our pistons differently, which would change the setting needed to center an object.

[@brendonmackenzie2391]

Power couplers, tnt and functional parts. That's it, all vehicle types, game modes, your choice.

[@danyael777]

How about an ornithopter thing with bendy mosquito legs? Came up with that when you intentionally crashed for the limping effect. Not a lot of function but surely great form, i assume.

[@vjnobody]

Amazing wheels! What about an array of power couplers going straight out from a center point, maybe 10 or so to make a wheel with a bunch of whips?

[@brotherfrenchie8539]

I would like to see if you did the same setup with a second set of wheels on the outside with a 90-degree offset to increase traction and stability. It seems you are losing speed when the vehicle bumps off the ground, which is why you are not seeing a speed increase between 7 and 10

[@tingstrap]

Try a tensegrity build!

[@lisaurian7487]

Oh, there's an idea for Multiplayer Mondays; maybe use these babies to try and make a Spaghetti Launcher. Could be potentially damaging (?)

[@jandepaepe4262]

I’m so curious if you added a little more width to tires by making 2-3 layers on each wheel, maybe it would more evenly distribute the weight and they would break less fast

[@Mad_Max1069]

Power coupler gocart but the frame of the gocart is just power couplers lol

[@user-cz5dv7vm6y]

you should try to make a Tron bike with power couplers

[@We-want-out]

Day 21 of asking scrapman to make hide and seek an official day separate from multiplayer monday

[@dartherus9838]

With the looks of them when in motion makes me think (if can put a trail behind) would look great built into a Tron Bike

[@user-hp5ks5dd9k]

Make a Star Wars droideka. I think it would be really cool to see and might be possible, maybe even with power couplings.

[@jamescarranza420]

This got me thinking about suspension using these

[@exequisite1550]

Now we can build working tank tracks

[@Firebuck]

19.30 when the loose end of the power coupler lifts the vehicle... hmmm. Maybe possible to build a walker with flailing power couplers for legs?

[@VIFFVDTCED]

Ok now all I can see is using this for space chuck wagon racing (for those who don't know a chuck wagon was the camp kitchen in a covered wagon following the cowboys on a cattle drive and for some reason they race them at rodeos) You could use a little drone thing for the horse

[@TotallyNotAFox]

Now we need a race with those

[@jonahscott7826]

Since power coupling can bend, can you make a device that can launch stuff. Magnets optional.

[@desolus5004]

In today's episode of reinventing the wheel...

[@wolffang-vz2ty]

I think the reason they maxed out on speed was due to them slipping once you had too much force/speed going into the wheels

[@Tobot_27]

scrapman, you should try and make working tank tracks with the power coupling, and if it works you should do a tank battle with yzuei