I Finally Built a Flyer For High Speed Exploring! (Scrap Mechanic Survival Ep.38)

Hey everyone back with more Scrap Mechanic Survival! Today we finally have enough component kits to build a second tier 5 thruster and in turn build our first flyer! To be honest although this flyer works and can make it around the map I feel there are many improvements to be had in the future!
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[@DogHouseEntertainmentINC]

When he was testing the flyer all I could think of was the first iron man. When Tony was testing the boots for mark 2.

[@kANGaming]

Mark 2 will be better

[@Kilrkali]

Mark 2!?!

[@jasonhu6052]

@@kANGaming If you make the thrusters rotate from the exhaust instead of the top it wont tip

[@DogHouseEntertainmentINC]

@@kANGaming wow kAN replied

[@momory1999]

That's exactly what i thought!

[@professormuddlehead6308]

Kan: I'm not terribly happy with the way it flies. Also Kan: nails the landing perfectly

[@madjoemak]

You need to put the thrusters on a button, otherwise one wrong move and you can say bye to your 100+ component kits

[@inhumanthoughts3509]

He has a bed on it

[@jasonhu6052]

It gets so tilted it’ll crash

[@madjoemak]

@@inhumanthoughts3509 good point but I would still put it on a button to save the hassle of retrieving it

[@madjoemak]

@@jasonhu6052 it would, eventually, but good luck finding it if you forgot the sleep in the bed

[@madjoemak]

@@jasonhu6052 it would, eventually, but good luck finding it if you forgot the sleep in the bed

[@rhysdenno5993]

8:42 This is just like in Iron Man when he first uses the jet boots and goes flying in his workshop

[@superamogusman4779]

Thats exactly what i was thinking

[@ethanmacpherson1713]

Don’t put it on the switch squid put his on a switch and it flew away and he’s never found it

[@Potatic]

this comment needs more recognition

[@slate613]

RIP Big Bertha

[@samueltheblonde]

@@slate613 Agreed. Critical Role!

[@Policronos]

@@Potatic the hecc. I see you everywhere

[@Potatic]

everywhere as in specifically kan or scrap mechanic videos or as in other genres and games as well?

[@poisonpal8817]

Reaction Wheels could be used to replace a suspension glitch. I just posted an example on the discord.

[@explodingcrab]

Scrap mechanic needs an electric alternative to thrusters, like propellers.

[@jasonhu6052]

Matthew Wastie somebody already did mod them into the game.

[@awwk8452]

Weaker than thrusters, but don’t consume 999999 hours of grinding in a second

[@foresthunter1865]

scrap mechanic needs to add propellers fullstop. bte propeelers being electric would be pretty silly tbh we dont even use them in real life becuase batteries have low energy density an are heavy.

[@awwk8452]

@Sam Richards laughs in my RC plane

[@dexterdaly1116]

I agree but i thing there should be electric and gas propellers

[@alvarodiaz2221]

we need propellers, ones that we can use to make copters and heavier shorter ones to make boats. For example something like the propellers in besiege.

[@impracticalleo]

i realy want wingpieces in survival...

[@dylanwoodard5378]

They are already in the game just don’t produce thrust. You can take the fan blades from the fans in the warehouse. They just haven’t added thrust to them yet. At least I think that’s what’s they said.

[@dankmemer5699]

@@dylanwoodard5378 they will add thrust, propelling and wings together with aerodynamics update

[@slate613]

"kinda awkward and weird" Basically Scrap Mechanic in a nutshell. lol

[@jasonhu6052]

I think your flyer won't tip during vectoring if the thrusters point of rotation was at the exhaust instead of at the top.

[@EatMyYeeties]

And if he made sure the point of rotation is relatively centered vertically on the craft! With it being hinged near the top, the thrust vector is misaligned with his CoG causing the tilt.

[@jasonhu6052]

yeah, but if it rotates from the bottom then where the thrust is coming out wont move. Therefore being in the center of gravity. please like my comments I want kan to see this and not immediately just make a quadcopter.

[@impracticalleo]

Sience!

[@nigel7779]

@@jasonhu6052 you kinda dumb

[@jasonhu6052]

Nigel why? I can explain how this would work if you want. By rotating at the exhaust the point at where the thrust comes out won’t move so then it won’t tilt because the thrust will always be below the center of gravity.

[@realgrape]

you could use logic to pulse the thrusters (4 thrusters) and a gyro to correct by changing the independent thruster pulsing and increase the pulse to go up and decrease to go down! that wold work and only use 5 thrusters (1 to go forwards), and maybe less fuel for pulsing not straight power.

[@Dalorian1]

@10:30 Do the weight thing, you could use pistons to push the weight back or forward... As your trying to go forward, you push the weight back a bit, and as you try and go back, you push the weight forward a bit... The weights always settle center balanced when not moving forward or back... The weight should be on the bottom to keep the ship upright. Glitches are cheating :-P

[@Black-Star]

It’s not a terrible flyer in terms of available resources and limited use thrusters and various other blocks and mechanics in survival mode but I agree, it needs manual pitch.

[@Kk-nu4oq]

Make an episode with scrapman, moonbo, squiddy and everyone show off you bases and facilities , vehicles and rate them Btw scrapman has a huge castle,so that would be fun

[@SleepyHallowGlazer]

PUT THEM ON A FREAKING BUTTON SQUID LOST HIS CAUSE OF SWITCH

[@NightySevenn]

Always has been...

[@jaunusender6166]

Now you just need to Finally get a cookbot too

[@dawsongaffney8716]

When Kan uploads a survival episode I stop what I’m doing and just watch it

[@xer0268]

"Building flyers was never my strong suit" flashbacks to the Potato aka the cargo plane.

[@shubhangdarshan7628]

Oooooffffffff

[@zarnox3071]

Just put some reaction wheels on there to manually balance the angular drift, and it should be much easier to fly for longer durations.

[@clizardia]

Hey Kan, you could make a warehouse tank that detach from the quadcopter or something like that to explore them more easily.

[@IRMentat]

Too heavy. Thrusters drink fuel like a ground to orbit rocket rather than acting like a classic aviation jet or turbine engine. It would get 100m and run out of juice.

[@flyingmunk8956]

Next episode: Kan desperately trys to find way to use controllers to fly for free

[@moroblizniak4457]

Yeah it would fit him xD Watch him inventing piston engine proppeler...

[@sp_1798]

Love how he put finally in the title edit: thanks for all the likes guys!

[@pws3rd170]

I feel like I'm going crazy now did his videos not used to have the episode number?

[@ThelronReaper]

I had to read this like four times to get what it said 😂.

[@chonky1081]

Samish

[@techgamer6875]

Finally

[@AlienWacker]

9:00 You are missing a not-so-bright robot standing by with a fire-extinguisher.... Mr. Stark....

[@Ion_el]

It is called *"Suspension Feature"*

[@gfodale]

I for one, am impressed. Thanks, and keep up the good work.

[@k3nobi366]

finally after 37 episodes he crafted thruster, lets give this man a round of applause

[@teo3176]

General Kenobi

[@bubjoe3815]

there is a second crashed space ship on an island on the ocean

[@pws3rd170]

Hate to be that guy but source please cause that's a whole wild goose chase if it doesn't exist and a massive risk of resources

[@bubjoe3815]

@@pws3rd170 no it exists its in one of scrapmans videos

[@bubjoe3815]

@@pws3rd170 imma find it

[@bs-beast2511]

the attachment point for the thrusters are too high which is causing it to lean forward when flying in the forward position

[@thecoolguy1233]

you should make your quad "copter" without bearings and make it controlled by logic those clock things. you can put more thrust on the back to make it go forward and etc.

[@VAXHeadroom]

Pretty sure you can use bearings and wheels as a reaction wheel system - wheel does clockwise, craft goes counterclockwise. 6 buttons for +/- yaw,pitch,roll, one thruster for up, one for forward

[@SAR-1346]

Slap a mountable spud gun on the front for dealing with bots

[@nbsarkar6911]

24:43 actually 4 thrusters will be more fuel efficient

[@NightySevenn]

🤯

[@thatoneanimator-ishdude5869]

Wrong, the weight will be equally divided among the 4 thrusters meaning that yes it will have more power but not necessarily less fuel consumption considering you have half the weight for each thruster to pull, but it takes 2x the amount of fuel, it really only affects controllability and power, it’s also a huge sink for component kits as well.

[@ChevyTech68]

Important announcement.. Kan is the best... That is all.

[@xoxoxoxo6716]

oof

[@pedrobui.669]

*clap clap clap*

[@aslothnamedfish]

I've never seen a statement that was so true

[@MC_Solbakken]

haha have you seen 00fant???

[@xtecherstudios]

Yes

[@gunna2cool]

Cool little flier but looking forward to v 2. Great landing at the end there!

[@ericbarrows6606]

Now you need a landing pad off the back of the garage with a staircase up to it, or just on the roof but its glass to see through already.

[@AgentWest]

The way i built a flying explorer uses two thrusters as well, but one of them is pointing down, another points back. The 'lift' thruster is offset to tilt the craft back some while the 'propulsion' thruster tilts it slightly forward. Both are on buttons instead of switches so by altering the two it is fairly simple to lift off and fly around. I did use suspension glitch for steering, though i think a reaction wheel will work just as well, all be it with a more complex control system.

[@jameswhite6139]

I learned a neat trick, if you have a coffee cup or some other trash item in your inventory then starve at your base, dont pick up your loot, it wont despawn and you'll have a marker to follow.

[@impracticalleo]

you can also try to use reactionwheels for the quadcopter. Edit: you can also put a gunner seat on the bottom of the quadcopter and have an aerial boskiller. For a (Semi) hovering flyer you have to have 3 (or 4) logic gates in a loop system with te output to an or gate, connect the thruster and a button to your or gate. if you turn the loop on the thruster will pulse, wich is something like half throttle. If you press the button in the or gate, the thruster is permanatly on and the flyer will go up. You will also have to balance the weight in order to make the flyer hover when the thrusters are pulsating, so dont have to turn on and off a switch all the time.

[@THESLlCK]

If you make a single-thruster boat, put piston steering for max stability

[@the_Ikar]

9:26 Perfectly balanced... as all things should be

[@NightySevenn]

kAn: always has been

[@EatMyYeeties]

You should try to use pistons with heavy blocks to help balance the vehicle while your tilting! Have them actuate at the same time as you translate forward and backward.

[@SchizoidPersonoid]

I have a quadcopter in creative with roll, pitch, and yaw using logic to toggle different thrusters on/off with button controls, but it can get pretty difficult to control.

[@iclesx]

Yup, totally agree with you about suspension glitch. I think suspension glitch is too OP, so I try to avoid using it. I think it's very good flyer and I learn a lot from it. A lot of my creation inspired by your videos.

[@michaspringphul]

Oh it is like the OOfant design. Nice adaptation :)

[@MajRatbag]

i made a 4 thruster flyer but it was heavy and complicated, it worked great but it sucked so much fuel that I got sick of doing oil runs every time i wanted to use it. Back to a 2 thruster flyer with 2 infinite stabilisers, fuel tank and no chest, inventory is big enough for a good size loot run.

[@alvikmos]

With level-5 "driver's seat" you can change bearings rotation degrees and speed, for control thruster's rotation (turning left-right on the fly)/

[@lolbitplays7565]

Hay kan instead of a side to side thruster try doing front and back thruster set up and make the back truster have vertical tank steering

[@trekkergek5865]

I was thinking of that GyroTipFlyer. That one on the workshop.

[@noahebio3975]

What if you mounted the thrusters with the baring closer to the outlet of the thruster that way the pivot point is inline with the center of thrust even when the barings turn. If you want a photo I can try and send one over the discord for a concept design, but it's not complicated 👍👍

[@RestartedRio]

Connect the thrusters to your seat. Use your tank controls for leaning

[@werner1]

Your flyer looks great! time to shrink my flyer down I used bubble block to float on water.

[@aslothnamedfish]

Love your videos, I like to see what other people do on Scarp Mechanic

[@Potatic]

scarp

[@aslothnamedfish]

@@Potatic I just noticed, and let's just say that was for "comedic effect"

[@backup_jack6921]

there is a way to do pitch and roll with suspension and pistons 1: put piston down and put a block/elbow pipe 2: put suspension on block/elbow pipe 3: put piston down on the other side 4: put the creation on the lift 5: place another block/elbow pipe to connect suspension and piston 6: hook them up to buttons

[@Baby_Bibb420]

I think it’s cool I will try to build my own just like yours thanks Kan

[@alexandermeinert4943]

there needs to be air resistance so then you can make a proper quadcopter with fans, also there needs to be water resistance in scrap mechanic so you can also make boats with propellers

[@ThelronReaper]

Takin bong rips and vibin to the background music

[@StrikeEagIe]

“2 degrees, a degree, you know what? Let’s go 5 degrees.”

[@wynlauzon4187]

You should make a automatic defense drone for protecting your base

[@max62942]

I Workd on the Same Projekt, best way to get rid of the Roll is countermass and the stabiliser in the Front and Back and the Turbineforce in the Centermass (no Switch, Turbine in full Power and w to Power)

[@macncheese6969]

kan... wooooow you are sooo good at logic in scrap mechanic .... i really mean it

[@darkstone_official_2427]

kAN: Says he's gonna do another warehouse run. Me: YEEAAHHHHHHH!!!!! BRING ON THE TANK!!!!! I wonder how fun it'd be to have like a MASS multiplayer server of this game that can handle multiple creations so that people could have mini-spud wars using tanks and mechs n stuff to see who's better. Or play like a Capture The Flag style game with mechs and tanks. This just sounds like fun. Perhaps maybe in the future Scrap Mechanic could rise to such a level. But I doubt it. They'd have to optimize the game like crazy.

[@cp8042]

Wow Kan you did great!!!

[@OrioPrisco]

add a switch on the bottom to stop the thrusters, so you can try to shoot it with a spud gun if it goes crazy

[@fakedbee3145]

Kan something you could do is put a third thruster on the front to counter act the auto pitching as well as saving resources for a tricopter instead of a quadcopter

[@engineergaming9727]

You can use reaction wheels

[@mydudesima]

nice flyer dude

[@btcbuster5556]

thats the best pirate ive ever seen

[@teo3176]

Scrap Man: 20 minutes to go from one side of the map to another kAN: Does one complete lap around the map in less than 10 minutes

[@jackfleming3513]

all you really need is 3 thrusters. look up tricopter designs and it should work well.

[@akillio9146]

Use vacuum pips to connect all the cheasts to the crafting

[@plusxz821]

Maybe something like a potenciometer? And a flying machine that lets you pitch,roll and steer all in one

[@brenynwhitney6643]

Try making it with 3 first, use a couple of bearings on the front under the seat to turn

[@armageddon5125]

You should make a piston contraption that shifts a very sense block forward and backward to control pitch. If a piston is on a high speed it won't have a problem with response time

[@tigui128]

this flyier make me realize how it's gonna be great to fly with the new beacon :D

[@doughaddow7521]

If you build a quad copter have a switch to point the thrust into different direction

[@wolfrunner6462]

For the quadcopter use a fuel container per thrustrer

[@gokselaras9002]

8:45 Kan: That's good (x2) Kan's Avatar: Is it seems like that from there ?

[@jacksonbarnes740]

you should have a landing pad on top of the workshop at your base

[@enjoyeddinosaur1370]

Hello Kan I was at work and saw that you uploaded a video so when I got home I just dropped everything and watched your video I love your video's 😀😀😀😀

[@sebastianfranco5893]

Kan you inspire me so much with your builds 😁

[@drewl2227]

you should put a grapple on a flyer for quick farmer transport

[@superdavey97]

in creative, before i knew of the suspension glitches, i tried to fake a flyer and did my best to perfectly aline the center of thrust with the center of mass, even being a quad copter style, it just wouldn't stay balanced. I would say the suspension glitches are necessary.

[@kaios3701]

Turn the thrusters 45° you will go faster and you start leaning like so he can see

[@baker8109]

If you had two more thruster you be set one in front an on it back to project yourself forward

[@m9cuss]

i did a flyer with 4 engines and it doesn`t seem so bad on fuel cos you don`t need to be on the power all the time, you can glide a lot. i feel that scrap mech engine forces the use of suspension glitches especially when they have such a hard grinding regime, oh and i used a suspension turning glitch and that saves on turning fuel wastage.

[@baker8109]

If had just one more thruster you could also just put it on the front to keep it from going hay wire also

[@ethanhunter8889]

dang it second

[@jeremydenney5610]

Kan should make a flyer that uses torque to fly totally energy-efficient and eco friendly

[@LilyArlatto]

*looks at upload time* *5 minutes ago* Wow KZbin actually recommended a video to me on time

[@Mike-vy3mm]

But the next videos is 3 years old right? lol

[@kevinrhodes6066]

Use a suspension glitch and detect when the quad it tilted and you can have auto stabilization

[@caroleansoldier382]

I just missed these videos u upload

[@lukeevans5787]

Have you thought about adding weight on a piston to shift the centre of mass as the thrusters change angle? I’ve never tried it myself so I have no idea if it’d work but it seems like it would right?

[@hue_man4493]

When you get enough for a quadcopter you should put a crane on it

[@jermainewalsh1629]

Hi love this series

[@anuglypugduckling]

somewhere in the northwest sea there is an island with a spaceship on a cliff.

[@thefunniestname8326]

When he was testing it felt like when dr. Nefario left gru in despicable me

[@erikpetersson3142]

Use a gyro ti stabilize the flyer instead of a suspensionglitch

[@robertbalazslorincz8218]

If I were you, I would have made a suspension glitch flyer. Powered controls.

[@hologore3501]

You should make a landspeeder (hoverbike) but idk it will probably use a lot of fuel

[@jamesburt5385]

It would be cool if you made a flyer that could hold your micro tank for easy transportation