I Tried To Evolve a Top 1% CIRCUIT RACER!

[@jan_harald]

multiplayer game idea: play tag, using the king of the hill ;P objective is to get the LOWEST score possible, and the "king" will try to pass the crown onto anyone else, and when the crown respawns, then whoever is the closest distance to it, has to pick it up (so you want to get away not only from king, but also the center)

[@sairadinnmichaelis]

Don't forget to add evolution to the mix.

[@Finat0]

I love this idea

[@landaderpanda2257]

Maybe the last one to pass on the crown gets the point. would that make it interesting too?

[@vladtheosis6320]

way better idea than flying tanks

[@karyjas1]

Scrapman, take a look into thrust vectoring, you would essentially rotate your thrusters slightly for steering. That would result in constant steering power. Fins give you proportional steering, which increases with speed, you want both, but mostly constant

[@Pystro]

Folding the craft somewhere near the center of mass should do that. And it should have the best force to angle ratio (on account of all the thrusters being angled), meaning you might be able to do it with hinges.

[@lordsrednuas]

There are two ways to go faster around a corner, the obvious one is to cut the corner. This makes you drive less distance, but requires you to slow down. The second way is to just drive faster, however this requires you to take a wider corner. The ideal racing line is a balance of these, unfortunately Scrapman found out the hard way that tighter isn't always faster

[@RySeNtrailmakers]

Really just depends on your build (my bionic car follows the tightest turn)

[@yami_the_witch]

There's a lot more nuance to that. For one, that mostly applies to car racing where turning implicitly looses you speed. With planes and more importantly gyros, you carry a lot more speed even on a tight corner. On the other hand, racing lines are also not corner per corner basis. The ideal racing line is the ideal combination of corners which result in the quickest time.

[@DTM_LFES]

My rule of thumb is to cut corners when your speed is still low and go wide when you pick up some velocity

[@fireblow44]

​@@yami_the_witchI think that since he was still using a tire we can make good use of motorsport principles when it comes to the racing line and since there are no combined turns the racing line is relatively simple to establish.

[@nebsfisher]

It would be interesting to see if the devs could filter all of the glich vehicles into the bionic league, just to see all of the legit attempts side by side.

[@moroblizniak4457]

Easy. -No hoverpads allowed -No deattachable blocks allowed -Less than 2 wheels not allowed -You can ban even thrust option like jets Only problem now is hinge glitch. but i guess you can filter those out by creating VERY narrow tunnel with a checkpoint?

[@Ekipsogel]

​@moroblizniak4457 what about the hoverpad races?

[@irgiefarras]

the space race was the great equalizer cause there's no known glitch prior to his video attempt

[@PotentiallyKor]

@@Ekipsogelrequire the pads to interact with the ground, end runs after 2 seconds of no interaction

[@Keatwonobe]

Bionic league is such a good take I bet that's doable. Hey, devs! Over here! lol.

[@spacemanspiff8635]

Doing some testing, four large propellers at 12 power cores allows for smaller aero profile than three large jets. The props went 1850kph vs the jets at 1570kph and at least felt like similar acceleration-I did not time it. Note that facing the props backwards allows for less framing. Cheers! Edit: after timing it, jets take about 30% less time from 0 to sound barrier, so props are probably only better for races with long straights

[@kaldo_kaldo]

Fair, but hard to be in the formula league (5-10 power cores) if you have 12PC.

[@cyanide_stew]

10:04 i never thought scrap would make a 69 joke... Nice!

[@BlakeHafley]

😂for real

[@Sesquipedalian3]

10:05 not sleeping on the "nice

[@lashi_0007]

I don't think you've revisited the race track. You actually have the right idea for jumping with the creation if you go to the race track though. I got 3rd place a month or two ago and the only way I could get to that point was jumping/ramping using pistons to jump over the fences to skip the dirt bank. Not sure if xbox shares pc leaderboards but the top 5 was mostly hinge glitches I think.

[@1mariomaniac]

How speedrunners pull of precise tricks: precise setups and execution How scrapman does tricks: _vibes_

[@robinthebank846]

19:59 it's probably because some of your momentum is transfered upwards as you jump over to take the "shortcut", making you lose speed horizontally.

[@datbubby]

No, the vertical momentum should only result from the impulse of the piston, causing no impact on forward. If he is colliding with the red/white barrier to bounce, though, that would cause a loss of forward momentum.

[@Goofy-15]

Lolll i was 46th place on the leaderboard, your design is completely different to mine🤣🤣🙏

[@ThePhonax]

Scrapman putting crazy downforce on the front of the car at the beginning of the video and then wondering why it spun out pains me

[@SuperMarioOddity]

classic scrapman

[@TheCustomFHD]

I wonder if flipping the front bottom aero to push you up would help.. might minimize collisions with the bump in the turn

[@SomeGuy.05]

Put the wheel on an extended piston stick that reaches over the barrier, pull it up to shortcut, and extend again to regain contact with the track. Should be stable and easy enough to get a good time with.

[@danieleret1869]

10:04 Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.

[@jmval81]

I'd like to see you break down ufo glitch and how it helps glitch builds and how much . cuz I don't play , just a fan

[@georgethecat5150]

It’s basically just a wedge on a steering hinge, that hinges into the glowing part of the hover pad, and putting 2 of them back to back gives you a really fast forward force, without an engine. the reason it’s called that is really just because of the sound it makes 🤔, it’s basically a feature now but it’s still a glitch 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@georgethecat5150]

Also the game is on Xbox game pass right now I think 😉

[@AnonymousFloof]

I really want to see ScrapMan build and optimize a fully autonomous self driving car for the new big race track, utilizing sensors to avoid the barriers and whatever else PS: Day 8 of asking ScrapMan to play GearBlocks 🥺

[@Pystro]

Yeah, just _completing_ a race with an automatic build. Doesn't even have to be a record attempt.

[@royalphrog]

10 minutes 10:00 thats a new record of fastest top 1%

[@UBAT128]

to increase cornering speed, you should go from outside the corner when entering it to be touching the inside at the apex and then back to the outside when leaving the corner. this allows you to have maximum speed around a corner

[@cliptracer8980]

Concept for you. Wheel on the right aka outside the turn makes for better turning. Thing of how much tighter an inside wheel needs to go to make the same movement. I’m short. Push your wheel 1 or 2 spaces towards outside for even tighter turns that are stable. Because the inside willl be tighter.

[@cliptracer8980]

If you jump, raise the force and up the down force, you land way sooner yeah?

[@cliptracer8980]

Short lengths means less time at top speed. Long turns keep speed. And are tighter

[@cliptracer8980]

You wide turning it lol

[@cliptracer8980]

Stay top speed by turning smooth. Actually gains more at the end

[@erickxboxplayz1469]

10:04 moved up by 69 places Nice

[@creeperlano7805]

I would also love to see you try to improve on not all, but the first leaderboard race you did, and see how much you've improved

[@ENDL3SS67]

To jump the walls try getting rid of some of the grid blocks and put a piston at start 0.00, speed -100, and auto reset with negative input. It will sacrifice aero but the tire wall jumping cuts off a decent amount of time

[@2Differnt]

Scarpman proved you can still do well without cheating

[@alexcannon-microdot]

It would be nice to see a leaderboard with the glitch builds automatically removed

[@5sark_ttv]

Yeah, at least a separate one with glitchless and not

[@fireblow44]

I think the best times are going to be achieved by following the ideal racing line of the track itself. It seems to me like the racing line will conserve the most momentum whilst minimising traveled distance. Cutting the corners like you did will cost you a lot of time because you have to regain speed after two sharp turns after each straight and you also have less distance to regain that speed on the next straight. Also the little 'barriers' that you have to jump over when you cut the corner gets you some time in the air which is a big no-no for fast lap times.

[@karyjas1]

The secret to improving is turning less (wider turns) so that you would maintain more speed exiting them. And perhaps use wheels more than fins, i dont think they steal energy like wings do when turning

[@semajniomet981]

Watching you try to evolve a better racer is fun and all, but what I'd like to see is an "idle run", where the ONLY input that you make, INCLUDING the start-up, is turning. That means you must be slow enough to keep in the start zone for the counter to begin the race.

[@joshuabates2200]

This seems like a perfect one for that drift car of yours, all suped up for insane speed of course.

[@Pystro]

Have you done all the races now? With how fast you can complete each race (and with how most of them are done with a flying craft anyways), how about a challenge where you try to complete _ALL_ the races in the shortest overall time? (To be clear, time between races counts towards your total.)

[@THESLlCK]

This is by far your best series ever

[@bulletproof1581]

Forth time saying this hoping scrapman see's this, you need to make your builds twice as wide, yes this will slow your acceleration a bit, but this will make your builds shorter, and this will then reduce the amount of sideways drag which will increase momentum through the turns, also having a way shorter build increases turning, and this means that you can have weaker turning to compensate, and then you can have way smoother turning and even more momentum through the turns. Hope this helps if you or anyone else see's this :)

[@SimonWinkler-h2e]

"i know we're gonna end up with a rocket stick" LMAO

[@charlesaquiler1725]

1:48 as scrapman said that those three; ReYseN, Hacker 38956, and Fliptonix did most likely a glitch build is for cheaters, i guess the Devs gonna updated it even more in a progress and hopefully they’ll check each and every players if they did to make cheesy glitch builds is completely unfairly challenged. 🤔 So that’s why Scrapman need to dealt those guys for least highest ranked.

[@Carma281]

in the unholy PST predawn, Scrapman has posted. we thank the scrapper for his constantly consistent content.

[@kaldo_kaldo]

"Let's build a normal car" First part: go-kart seat. Second part: giant rocket. Another giant rocket, stuck together with sticks. Bicycle wheels. 40 wedges. Very normal, Ford will be contacting you soon.

[@roelieboy204]

Can you try a 0 power core race? Or maybe an automatic racer on this track? So it detects the wall with a sensor and will automatically steer in the corner.

[@PureNrGG]

One of your issues with why your shortcut runs were slower is because of how much airtime you get while cutting the corner. Add some downforce to stay in contact with the ground

[@kilbymorgan8626]

I want to see Scrapman finish a race in the bionic League. Doesn't have to be in the top 1%, just want to see what he comes up with.

[@langos3752]

I think in the low power core leagues glitches are more OP than in high power leagues so that is why you didn't place so high on the leaderboard

[@Wavedashnoir]

Glitch builds needs its own leaderboards

[@brockolee0815]

I wonder if it would be possible to connect a car to a pole in the center of the track, connected to power couplers as long as you need them to reach the checkpoints. So you could go around like a tether car way below five seconds if the couplers doesn't collide with anything. probably not that easy because the track isn't a circle, but as long as the wheels are touching the ground at the start you got five seconds to finish the course. No one said you have to follow the course completely😁

[@Mithallic]

When he said, I’m gonna start with a car, I was thinking he was going to start with an F1 car not a Fugly car

[@dsshorts850]

The ROCKET STICK THE PEAK OF EVOLUTION AND THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN

[@ThraxxGaming420]

7:40 I'm sorry but, WATER ATMOSPHERE??? 🤣🤣🤣

[@drewlucas6266]

The new physics update may have introduced the ability to move your center of mass when a force is acting on the creation.

[@GridM0nkey]

did you do the thruster idle block? and as others said, what if you turn your two engines, vectoring would really help keep speed. still love you punching past so many glitchers.

[@nathanobzanski8807]

how am i not first????? I’ll do one pushups for each like. i bored and i need a challenge

[@samh15]

If you want a challenge, get straight A's in school for 4 semesters straight.

[@RySeNtrailmakers]

You're not first because I'm first

[@jadon1762]

scrap PLEASE release your playlist i love the music in your videos and would love to listen to it

[@pularis1629]

Rocket sticks: The definition of “It just works”

[@korvoth4269]

small tailfins on the outside of steering wheels help a lot.. as would steering on the actual tailfins

[@DETHdressedInRED]

18:20 dude try putting a ski on the bottom of your jumping piston. I made a vehicle like that a while back because my gyro stabilizer to keep my vehicle upright made my vehicle crash into jump ramps in one of the races so I decided to build a formula 1 car on a Pogo stick. XD

[@harishrajnish7207]

You did better with that run because it's was a different vehicle with the wheel poking out of the vehicle and the new vehicle with skies have more friction, thus worse time. Hope that helps

[@DETHdressedInRED]

Video idea: try making a wheeled vehicle that literally doesn't drive just explodes in such a way that it sends your seat flying (possibly super sonic?) all the way down the drag strip. I know that there's a lot of glitchy vehicles that do it in like less than one second but imagine if you put down like a 0.04s time LMAO.

[@lordcreeper199]

Woohoo 🎉 First time seeing Scraps latest video that's be uploaded less than 30 minutes ago

[@tobiaslundquist6748]

Can you once try to make a UFO powered, zero-drag plane, to see how fast you can possibly make it? I think that would be cool! 😃

[@mikehorrocks2909]

A possible challenge for the Scrapman: build the Mach 5 race car with as much of the car’s features as possible then race. I hope he tries this.🤪

[@ICrystal-0n]

You’re almost at 1 million!

[@THESLlCK]

having physical parts of the craft manipulate the air to turn creates drag. Any part that moves away from the mass of the craft produces drag. To avoid this turn only with Gyro steering

[@DanyF02]

The devs need to wake-up and realize that letting glitch builds run free in the leaderboards is turning off a lot of people from those challenges.

[@dd-di3mz]

Surely you could add logic timers to do the turns perfect every time

[@Jesse-zk9ge]

⚡️ Flash, ooo savior of the universe.⚡️

[@jhalz6915]

Scrapman, please, I'm 90% sure that trailing aerodynamics have an effect in the air/ground, but it comes up so much that you should at least test it on the drag race or something.

[@jhalz6915]

@@WarMaker85 I'll fix my comment

[@kaigmerritt-zp8qx]

You should try to redo an easy race like this one but program the turns in to make. A perfect lap time and an over all speed

[@Xenhelm]

I'd like to see you try these races using logic blocks to code your run.

[@Mobliz]

When you go airborne doing the cut, you lose a lot of speed

[@fabioerickson]

It would be interesting to see if a car can drive this circuit only controlled by logic, from the start, to the turns and then to the finish line.

[@Statenhiggins135]

I have been waiting for this

[@samuelvanfrankenhuijsen4223]

Scrap should do trying to get the worst time possible on these races

[@burak1382]

Video idea: Try to replicate ww2 Japanese plane. Kyushu J7W Shinden Video idea 2: Try to go supersonic with only the worst aerodynamics

[@brennangideon8228]

Look, he's making another left turn!

[@revdirty]

After you place in all these races , you should then go back and do all the glitches to dominate all of em

[@nihl2951]

SCRAPMANNNNN EVOLUTION DOGFIGHTERSS PLEASEEEEE. It could be separate evolutionary paths (each player sticks with the same plane they had from the start but changes it each round) so that there's more diversity and like reactionary evolution and stuff Eg if your opponent uses thrust vectoring, next round you could put on an emp instead of an extra smart cannon

[@bonjourbonjour1008]

Scrap make a logic build that autocompletes the course that would be so cool!

[@infebris]

earliest ive been to a scrappy boy video

[@DrJiKentauriuzHero]

Goin on a trip, on our favorite rocketstick

[@marxxisshalott2443]

I almost kind of wonder if the new motorheads rear wing spoiler would be better than wedges for front aero. At this close of competition weight could be a big come-upence if you could shave a few lbs maybe??

[@Domn94]

Would love to see a balance patch for the "stabilization pieces" it does not make sense the weight/stabilization ratio of them

[@ibrahimmahammad2420]

From wedge gang to stick gang. He really is evolving using he?

[@ChevyTech68]

Scrapman you could program a car to run this race, that would be cool to see you attempt.

[@BABY_SHARK1385]

Do glitch vehicles we love to see that

[@JordanHallows]

there is still that figure 8 track... would be interesting to see how that would work...

[@Csheff56]

I think the pb you couldn't beat was due to spending more time in the air and thus limiting the friction of the wheel being on the ground

[@sdal_yt]

Peak evolution in Trailmakers = Stick

[@xkansasxcowboyx3913]

Hey scrapman! Would you be interested in entertaining the idea of an automated racer for the closed circuit courses? I doubt one could reach top ten but just to see how efficiently it could be?

[@ForgedInKaos]

RALLY race events next? Not the race island but the other races called Rally

[@guilhermeponte4402]

Rocket Stick❌ peak evolution✅

[@thesunnynationg]

6:19 this is a sound barrier video with fences

[@_ikasaki_]

You gotta make the racing line as circle as possible

[@papaeof]

Yes, the default vehicle is back!

[@hog660]

Build a logic based self steering car

[@bradbowers]

i agree! timers and controller

[@spider59er35]

Definitely needed thrust vectoring

[@DETHdressedInRED]

12:40 perapskis!!!!

[@tijmendr9006]

perhapskis you could try one of these in bionic league

[@kar-hn]

Scrapman needs to focus on his starting each time after his fastest he was slower off the start the one where he got perfect corners he was about half a second behind on the start even though he finished a third behind.

[@Nerca_P1]

You should try f1 car using hinge glitch. I made one and got top 9 behind ALVAROPING in the 0 core league. And before you say no skill, this thing took two hours to get a perfect run and 4 hours just to improve aerodynamics and testing out ways to efficiently use the hinge glitch with good traction.

[@NoelyNoel]

I've felt like you've been missing a trick for the past few vids, and this one for sure. I'm no expert in Trailmakers' logic blocks, but is there a way you can *program* your vehicle to accelerate and turn around the track so precisely you don't need to actually drive it? I know this may be seen as cheating and not in the spirit of racing in the game, but I have wondered for a few weeks now if it could theoretically be done.

[@outer_spacedgames5048]

Trailmakers isn't Trailmakers without breaking the sound barrier by clipping into some random wire fence and jittering past Mach 1.

[@derlocka3341]

Some one said flying tanks and now it’s all I want to see

[@jayzgaming1442]

i feel like if you put the wheel in the front you would have less bumps on the track