Space Engineers - Magnetic Grinding Torpedos, Sabotage Droids

After reviewing the claws design and updating it to be able to detect ships with sensors and then target them I decided to attach a grinder to see what sort of damage could be done.
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Space Engineer is like a mixture between Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program. The game is in pre-alpha and will be released on steam at some point in the future.
The main purpose of the game seems to be building a space fleet and fight/ally with the other factions. You build your ships piece by piece and the only know limit for the size of your ship is what you computer can handle.

[@KorianHUN]

Yeah it looks cool, but i think something that cuts armor with the grinder and then a timer detonates a warhead inside would be more useful.

[@TheKevinsCode]

if only buttons could be pressed by them hitting a block, then you'd only need a button on the front instead of a grinder to just blow on impact

[@Slye_Fox]

Kevin Code You can use a sensor to detect the ship & then detonate the mine.

[@g_glop]

Just imagine how destructive i will be on worlds with sped up grinding speed to like 5x

[@HelixFlame33]

Slye Fox Even better: Let the sensor detect a player. As soon as he gets close... Boom. Even though small warheads don't do much damage to large blocks...

[@wassup713]

***** yeah a spinning torpedo with a grinder on the front ill just grab that back with my ship lol

[@kronosbot5]

I tried something similar, but they were only designed to cut so far into the ship before detonating a large yield inside of it. Managed to completely gut a cruiser-sized vessel with only two of them.

[@Appal.]

that's cool!

[@nyarlathotep7204]

you mean GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) "bunker buster" style bomb (penetrate in target then explode)? well thats pretty op.

[@Ninja98642]

So you just created a bomb that is like a bunker buster but more powerful I am guessing or more chotic

[@seagulTajin]

Might be a good idea to put some interior turrets on those torpedos. That'll be a nasty surprise for any player trying to stop them.

[@secretskull21]

Holy shit

[@antonioscendrategattico2302]

Cool idea but wouldn't it be impossible to load them unless you do it manually?

[@pheidolefan]

Put them on the interior, so when the player cuts away the saws. They get greeted with gunfire.

[@Jorvard]

What about adding a wahrhead and a sensor that detects players to detonate it?

[@7DeadlyJinxs]

If I could thumb up this comment 100 times i would.

[@geetheonlygeeprobably]

Imagine all the dead people...

[@TroaBarton]

Ooooooh that's mean. I like it! But if these were large ships or modded small ones you could have a Gatling turret on the back of it shooting everything and everyone. Then have a warhead buried inside if they try to blow it up it makes a bigger boom then they bargained for.

[@patrickvaughan3050]

What about a minefield of missiles similar to the ones arron deployed that detect enemy ships and blow them up with warheads?

[@skrubvader5006]

Patrick Vaughan I would personally use a sensor at the front,sides and the top and bottom and have a lot of them set in one direction towards an enemy base so that most of them detect ships and make it head towards it with grinders or warheads in

[@Sander_Datema]

I hope that in a war, you will be on my side.......

[@haydenbarnes1665]

half his crazy ideas would be your own downfall... the other half is what i'm worried about

[@Galen55]

Sander Datema Ask MandalMotors for a job! Maybe check out the MandalorianMercw, you could design a MEAN kit I bet!

[@Galen55]

hayden barnes agreed... I need these...

[@L._.A-06]

I feel like big ships are overrated lol

[@thedefaulttrashbag1316]

@@L._.A-06 how? large grid ships especially large ones can be extremely hard to kill fighters in space engineers are almost useless.

[@Muzzled]

A cherry on top would be an anti-personal turret hooked up to the side.

[@kahlzun]

Oh, that would just be brutal!

[@atomicgeneralgerbil]

Now with the newest cloaking device, this would devastating.

[@chrisward3161]

Bastion Gerbil oh yeah

[@Galen55]

Muzzled an extra little fuck you to the other person! I love it!

[@cringelord1809]

IDEA: Add warheads inside the grinding drones, and use timer blocks to set them off. So maybe after they grinded inside a ship, they'll explode, causing even more havoc.

[@Hellsong89]

+Mateus Deathbringer Design it to blow if or when its tampered with, say when drill stops, caboom! Also with that feature it could collect the stuff so it does not cause much lag, but when destroyed the block releases all the debris and cause huge lag with explosions, causing issues for any other player who survived from original blast. In that time the person whos drones these are would had time to go away, chance his ship to something like battle cruiser and come back finish them off when lag is gone. I dont know much from this games mechanics, so just random thoughts trown into air! :D

[@denmarkball3376]

+Mateus Deathbringer or have gatling guns on them so while they are inside they will fire at players and resources

[@teddly2277]

You could also have a warhead, people inside and the drill, so in capital ship ware fare, you can deploy teams into the ship, and manually place bombs everywhere, so the person who is fighting you will either have to disengage you, or now worry about the ALLAH HU AKBAR guys inside.

[@tivoremote6609]

Mateus Deathbringer so make them bunker bombs to be honest it's a good idea but basically the same things created years ago

[@L._.A-06]

Just add anti personnel turrets and have a sensor set off a short timer so they can get through the armour before going boom boom

[@robert_gaming]

what about a drop-pod version of this? it cuts into a ship until it gets into a open area in it and then opens a door to let people inside of it get out that'd be a very effective way of raiding a enemy ship or space station, causing damage and releasing enemy shock troops upon them.

[@yarmannn]

So kinda like those squid droids from Star Wars? I like it🙂

[@hackergaming6372]

Kinda like in mass effect 2.

[@Genubath1]

You could try the same thing, but convert all of the sensors to detect asteroids and also put drills on them instead for little miners. Also, since the grinders would be spitting a debris field of resources out their bums, why not collect it for yourself with the collector drone I suggested on a previous video? Basically, the drone has a spherical gravity generator at it's core and is surrounded by collectors so that it gathers your goodies for you! I originally suggested this so it could follow you or your other mining drones to collect stray ore, but it would work great for this as well! Granted, that would be for if you wanted to stick around and steal their stuff instead of just leaving them a nasty present to find, but it would give you the option! I implore you to try it out!

[@zanderwhitcroft]

YO I used that idea for one of my ships! I had 2 sphere gens on opposite and it would collect debris around me like a force field, great against rockets and turrets love to shoot the junk first!

[@TheAdamBomb]

Try to make a ship with some kind of "mouth". A large ship with a large hole in the front. The point of the ship is to get near an enemy ship and capture it. Inside of the mouth will be a bunch of grinders to completely destroy an enemies ship.

[@marcelbrunmayr3694]

Coolest thing I've ever seen in a game like this, i could watch this for hours ;)

[@heimskr2881]

Your profile pic makes this comment funny.

[@marcelbrunmayr3694]

Radicrash Yeah i know, it makes most positive comments sound sarcastic.

[@tivoremote6609]

Radicrash ikr

[@xShadow045x]

One well aimed rocket would essentially turn this into a light armor block with thrusters. No threat. Of course, they'd have to see it coming.

[@joeljoonatankaartinen3469]

Who would send just one when you can send a swarm. Preferably from every direction at once. 😸

[@Thedutchjelle]

Add a warhead with a 2 minute timer so it explodes deep within the enemy ship?

[@bt4670]

You can use them as automated salvage drones

[@Dartace2ace]

Thank you for kind of answering my hypothetical question I posted back on your "Lock On Missiles, Sensor Guided Ordnance Concept" it even has the connector... although I suggested an ejector. Now that I think about it, I just realized that the grinder would pick up the bigger pieces and not be able to throw them out of the ejector, and adding the landing pads was a great idea to keep the grinders from being destroyed. You did a great job with them and I will definitely try to use these.

[@zioncook8308]

Could you engineer that into a scavenger drone, that would destroy parts of the enemy ship and fly back with materials.

[@raggedsolution21]

I feel the effectiveness of these was not properly shown, you only tested it on a generic pre-built ship, but what about on your own designs?

[@cod6guy12]

Agreed

[@g_glop]

Just imagine how destructive i will be on worlds with sped up grinding speed to like 5x

[@raggedsolution21]

glop cz not even that, have multiple ships carpet bombing a larger ship

[@g_glop]

raggedsolution21 and replace two of the landing legs with thrustrs and up thrusters un the back to melt through light armor and components snd the grinder to take care of heavy armor!

[@zakiNBG]

also imagine them grinding through heavy armor. for huge battleships even multi layer heavy armor. they wont do much before you disable them. very situational weapon.

[@Misterunnamed]

To make these more effective, set up the timer block on these things to activate a warhead. Once they've buried themselves a little way into the hull, they detonate for maximum damage. The small warheads likely won't completely destroy the ship, even with a chain reaction of detonations but the damage should cause havoc to internal systems like generators, gyroscopes, medical bays and the bridge as well as softening the ship up for follow-up attacks by fighters and heavier frigates or battleships. I feel like turrets would easily take these apart, however.

[@joeljoonatankaartinen3469]

Turrets tearing these up can be fixed by adding some heavily armored decoy blocks to the sides to eat up the damage. Preferably ones that can be released prior to hitting the target so they don't prevent burrowing. Can perhaps even skip most of the armor if you can make the pod rotate on it's forward axis while it approaches the target.

[@Hobbyrepubliken]

I can trust you to come up with the coolest and most interesting ideas how to weaponize stuff in SE. Good work as always!

[@JoshuaPlays99]

A pearl harbor sort of idea....

[@dweller9393]

ikr

[@twojastara9265]

JoshuaPlays how!? just how is this similar to PH?

[@JoshuaPlays99]

Twoja Stara He said it in the video...

[@JoshuaPlays99]

+Twoja Stara If you need reference its at 3:41

[@twojastara9265]

JoshuaPlays ok but in Pearl Harbour it was bombing not sabotage drones

[@dude6565actual]

MAKE A HUGE CARRIER SHIP FILLED WITH HUNDREDS OF DRONES AND GET ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS TO BE IN A LARGE SHIP I THE MIDDLE OF THE SWARM OF DRONES

[@reentrysfs6317]

Lag

[@griffin5348]

put this on the steam workshop please...

[@konigdiamant5080]

That would be Really nice

[@RealAyoTark]

Thats a really cool idea. Very creative and 'out side the box' in ways to get rid of a player's ship.

[@Lukos0036]

You have a devious imagination, I love it. Imagine dozens of these things swarming around, you could deny an entire area cause no one would want termites on their ship.

[@GermansEagle]

Wow nice idea. I am really like this.

[@TitanReckerChannel]

***** go fuck yourself

[@GermansEagle]

***** No one is talking to you. You must be very lonely to try to get into a conversation with someone complimenting the guys idea.

[@GermansEagle]

***** No, I don't want to look at anything, since I have already read it.

[@joverdosoesposo9874]

***** Stop being a little shit.

[@GermansEagle]

***** You really are so lonely for such a young child. You anoy people just to get atention.

[@dak6853]

Well you could add some sort of MG to your ship to always kill the player trying to stop the missiles...

[@matttrebing536]

Man, this is actually a great idea. Thanks for posting!

[@LordCylarne]

This is such a wonderful idea. I cannot fully express how much I envy you coming up with it.

[@gammaray152]

I'd love to see how you made it go back and retarget the enemy ship. that was amazing.

[@jayslaughter1]

A good idea would be to add explosives to the inside, so that when a player starts to disable the drills, you can detonate them, denying the resources from the drills, and destroying even more of the ship.

[@we1rdd]

I had created a few similar ships, except instead of using grinders, it used pistons that would push engines into the ship, melting straight through with incredible speed. These were of the large ship class, but relatively small. The largest of which, is a fully functional carrier that would launch troops out the front into the large hole that would be bored into the enemy ship in a matter of seconds.

[@mikeyt918]

Gosh, I've had this idea for a long long time, and only recently have I built up the will to begin doing it... And you beat me to it. My hat comes off to you sir! :3

[@thequeenoflondon5112]

Use theses on cap jack

[@SgRampage1]

put a warhead in it and set the timer so it gets to the middle of the ship and explodes

[@TomTheSaintsGuy]

SgRampage1 Lol, I can imagine the chaos! xD

[@NinjaLayor]

+SgRampage1 One problem I see with the timer would be the inconsistancies of the blocks and what routes that they would follow, but still, not a bad idea. We just have one little setback.

[@alduintheanti-dragonborn]

Well you would have to set the timer according to how heavily armored the target is to give time for the torpedo to chew through the armor for maximum damage.

[@mn225692]

and have sensor so when a player gets to close it blows up

[@dydlus]

Just slap a sensor on the back of the drone that detects a wide but short area around itself. The moment the armor of the ship passes in front of it, the warhead blows up.

[@ryno5660]

New to this game, my favourites are weapons like these and the claw! Real raider type stuff! I had an idea involving that chain you made once, but it'd detatch from your ship and latch onto theirs, preferably wrapping and connecting at both ends, strapped with grinders or warheads or whatever. Pirates and Reavers represent!

[@jamesmcdonald9802]

These things are diabolical... Cut through the hull and expose the enemy to the cold vacuum of space. Good job!

[@otteroftoast2616]

The grinder torpedoes remind me a bit of a virus with how it looks and latches onto a target, then starts killing it. Just me?

[@xxvainfloxx9354]

not anymore, maybe we should call them virus' instead of torpedoes

[@otteroftoast2616]

XxVainFloxX Only issue is it doesn't really infect it x3

[@xxvainfloxx9354]

Otter of Toast true, but it goes in, does damage and leave, like a virus

[@otteroftoast2616]

XxVainFloxX A lot like a politician!

[@xxvainfloxx9354]

Otter of Toast lmao, so we got two names, virus or Politician

[@bandzajus]

this game complexity looks insane

[@iant2787]

It's not that complex, but if you want to make really complex stuff, you can. There's no mandatory complex process really.

[@jasonneu81]

bandzajus I bought it ASAP after some of his vids and it was definetly worth it! I can only recommend it as one of my favorite games of all time :D It's not as complex as it seems, mostly it's pretty easy especially once you get used to it. But the gameplay elements are highly complex, the programmers (Keen Software I believe) really put lots of work into this and did a more than amazing job! There is some really advanced stuff in the game too so you can make the most complex things you could ever imagine though if you ever felt like it, pretty much like Ian above me stated ;)

[@iTzOSA]

When you mention those bugs from star wars I had this same idea myself when sensors came around.

[@TORazorback]

This is great, I've been toying with this idea, too. Stick on a cargo container and they are the perfect salvaging drones

[@thisisonlygoodname]

I hope I don't face you on the opposite side of the battlefield, because you'd make a fearsome opponent indeed.

[@SamsTechTips]

your name hahahaha

[@NonExistingName]

Imagine a swarm of these set loose randomly all over a ship. That'd be amazing :D

[@matthewwest5892]

PUT THIS ON WORKSHOP PLEASE I LOVE THIS

[@Nikolai_The_Crazed]

Dude, you are like some sort of war master with some of these. By themselves, the ideas may be fallible, but in the chaos of battle, these could be rather effective, given the circumstances align properly.

[@ericcartman7863]

LastStandGamers please put this on workshop :]

[@roamingnarwhal6013]

LastStandGamers yeah!

[@mjn22TheParkourGod]

LastStandGamers even as old as this is i have to agree this would be fun to play with

[@matthewethos1597]

THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE!

[@elizabethwesley7572]

I could try to make it, but i would fail with the sensors :(

[@galedex5661]

i tried it .... that sensors are insane....

[@jetcore4598]

You should name these barnacles

[@alterranlongbow5067]

And if the ship was pressurized these would be lethal.

[@skotnica93]

Reminds of Homeworld 2. Which reminds me, it gave me a lot of ideas. Nice job.

[@collinbardini]

These are pretty cool; they're like buzz droids!

[@msorin74]

Collin Bardini STAR WARS SHIPS ARE KING OF THE BUILDS... COLLIN BARDINI,YOU ARE RIGHT!

[@MrKingOfNever]

Aaron: "So you're probably wondering what the hell these things are in front of me." Me: "Actually, I would say those are magnetic grinding torpedoes." Aaron: "Wow that's exactly what they are! How did you know?!" Me: "I read the title of the video. Mwahahahaha!!!!"

[@griffinsells2611]

No they are anti magnetic torpedoes

[@Vlamyncksken]

Griffin Sells wat

[@josephrafferty576]

Love these weapon concepts :D keep up the good work Aaron

[@DylanButler0515]

This is a really cool idea! Drop ship makes it perfect!

[@spiky7700OG]

Blueprints pls ^-^

[@VestedUTuber]

Why only use them as a weapon? These could be just as useful (if not more so, since then you don't have people trying to disable them) for salvage.

[@hashtagmcblender]

Unbelievable. That's the most interesting way of destroying a ship in Space Engineers I've ever seen.

[@Calvimh10]

This is definitely the coolest thing I've seen bult in this game. I'm a big guerrilla tactics kind of guy so this is like candy to me

[@flameless1697]

Can you post this on the workshop?

[@Virgiliusz]

you should test this with sage

[@leolarose2099]

***** ......and you're a dipshit

[@BarcelPL]

Reminds of Leeches in Homeworld Cataclysm. Job well done!

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

love teh swarm effect of swinign around for another bite of the ship on those grinder drones though ^^

[@bewareofspace1188]

Try plantery Ahhnaltion

[@Slouworker]

It sucks horse cock.

[@delarkgaming687]

I was thinking the same thing last month too. :)

[@tatskaman]

DeathBlazer git rekt m8

[@GoTouchGrass]

Beware of Space This spelling gave me cancer.

[@Galen55]

Beware of Space I'd like to see him play Total annihilation and supreme commander...

[@marklolss]

How do you "lock in" your ship with your landing gears, when you hit a surface?

[@Knsgf]

Autolock mode.

[@marklolss]

Knsgf I didn't ask what it was called, I asked how to do it, like, which button to press?

[@Knsgf]

Markowich Open the Control Panel and select the Landing Gear. There will be a check box named "Autolock"; tick it.

[@marklolss]

Knsgf Alright, thx :)

[@Tyrtle13kingCR]

Alternately you could manually press P when you are close enough.

[@FoltzyVids]

This has made me totally rethink making a ram ship as these seem far more useful and expendable

[@KostikKVG]

Fkng AWSOME CONCEPT... Love it.... U deam crazy engineer...

[@thedoubledeus]

potential troll weapon

[@dude6565actual]

YOU HAVE TO HAVE AN ALL OUT WAR WITH LIKE 12 PEOPLE AND USE ALL YOUR PREVIOUS DESIGNS THE TURRETS THE TORPEDOES THE GRAVITY SHIELDS THE DROP PODS ALL THE GOOD STUFF! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE THIS WOULD MAKE FOR THE BEST VIDEO EVAR

[@therebel1375]

That is a devious and genius idea!

[@Kage_Furiku]

You should add a playlist of supermassive version of all your creations, especially ones like these! :D so AWESOME and satisfying to watch!! :D

[@TaylorLaub]

I had a similar idea a while back, but mine was much more basic. Using large ship parts, I used a small thruster, one small reactor, and a grinder. The basic idea was to launch several like missiles at an enemy ship and see what happens. They were quite effective but I am a bit more proud of another variant in which I placed a drill on the front. It works quite well for ships but it is amazing for drilling small astronaut sized holes in asteroids.

[@DrGlickenstine]

True Space Engineering. Really nice.

[@kylanplunk8586]

Imagine more of these. Hundreds all latching onto your ship and just utterly destroying it. You'll never have time to stop them all

[@lostplshelp]

A went onto a random survival server, built two of these, one with drills, one with grinders, and dropped them off next to a asteroid base. i put the drill one outside of the base, and the grinder one inside the hangar. when i came back there was no base left and the drill drone was gone. (possibly because the grinder drone ground it up)

[@aperture3412]

I've missed so much! Need to watch moree

[@Somber.Killer]

Coolest idea ive seen yet!

[@mr.gregorsamsa]

I was on a multiplayer server and i had a small ship grinder with a camera, controller, reactor, and gyro and it could all fit in one block. I invested in some antennas with an amazing range and i would float around is space, and when i saw a ship, i would grind in it, hopefully not alerting the player, eat all of the non vital parts of the ship, then slowly start taking out gyros and thrusters, then eventually reactors. I literally had a player with nothing left but a seat, 1 thruster, the front view of the seat, and a gyro and reactor. He didn't notice for 5 mins!

[@TheLordOnyx]

Absolutely diabolical I love it.

[@TroaBarton]

This gave me an idea I'll have to test it out

[@hunter5822]

Yes!!!!! I’ve had this idea for real life for sooooooo long. Imagine warfare taking this direction. Or battlebots using something like this. Would ramp up the sci-fi of everything.

[@kaungkaung2208]

Imagine you and your friends attacking an big ship and the enemy ship is launching those pods at you at shredding your ship

[@Gunth0r]

That's a clean cut.

[@Bigbeatdown]

These look amazing btw like I bet any mothership would be devastated.

[@0203Jamie]

I really like your designs. You have earned a subscriber my friend. Will be active. Exited to see more videos!

[@TheLazurus]

Never, EVER, let Tazoo get these. Ever. At any time.

[@mmr599]

I liked how when the torpedo cut through it still kept going so it pushed the ship down

[@jakethesnake8500]

Such a cool idea

[@johnytest464]

Wow, these torps are amazing ;D

[@ctocheny]

probably one of the trolliest ways to decimate a ship. I LOVE IT

[@aaronrobey9354]

I like the idea of a player realising and not being able to turn their ship until the drones have been ground down, if they don't realise then they will end up with loads of debris inside the ship

[@tjif6751]

That looks so cool!

[@katyknight475]

Cool I might try this idea

[@wazthatme]

Thats super cool reminds me of the drill bugs from the Matrix

[@kevinladd6541]

this is beautiful

[@kylemccarter4211]

Grate idea, I think this best suited for station and dreadnought class ships. small ships could out run them.

[@fritzophrenia3146]

You know, I don't find a lot of your special weapon designs to be practical in a survival war, but I see the potential for these things to be nasty...

[@liambellew1299]

Wow... This is terrifying!

[@thebigpotate]

These would be super handy to attach to small fast ships that can deploy them as a sort of swarm tactic. If you had a fleet of like 10-20 of these you could drop em off at several different targets and just cripple them

[@JamesEpicson]

sick! im gonna have to be on the look out for these! XD

[@Ischmac]

There are tons of different ways to give your opponents a nasty surprise. Here's an example: In survival mode you have this awesome, huge ship. Now you don't want your enemies to just take it over. So the solution is: rig it with warheads. Hide them within the armor near vital ship systems and the cockpit/bridge. When your enemies intrude and you can't chase them out, press the "nope" button. This triggers a timer block which counts down 10 seconds (or whatever time you set up) and then triggers all the warheads at once. That way you can make a run for it and your opponents can't just take the ship for themselves. Also, since they also make a run for all the important stuff, they will probably get to the respawn screen as well.

[@rhoskii3308]

what a clever idea

[@derain95]

One of your best concepts, I tried a much simpler version but gave up. (drill and no sensors) A tip for improvement is to have 2(/4) more landing bears one block back, helps with the harder impacts :)