Don't Let It In Trojan Horse Grinding Bots - Space Engineers

This is why you should never let an unknown vessel into your ship, it could have an army of angry grinding bots inside waiting to be unleashed.
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Space Engineer is like a mixture between Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program.
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.

[@Liberty_Bull]

“I think that other ship gave me parasites!”

[@anamoose1724]

haha noice

[@owena6290]

Space condoms only prevent 99% of ship destruction. Abstanence is the best option.

[@wishyourlife6861]

Magnum Dong

[@Vypren]

Shiphilis

[@BobtheBuilder0]

Just use space-morning-after pills!

[@havoccreations6746]

Aaron, love the concept but I know a way to make the Trojan drones a bit more lethal to ships. Say the drones go in, cut down a lot of the ship. After maybe ten minutes or less, the drones will self destruct. Have warheads inside the drones, causing even more damage to cripple a ship. Please experiment with this concept in another vid please.

[@mr.unitato7955]

Christian de la Cruz this is more fun and exiting but it would be cool to have sorta a centeran drone that explods

[@Matt_10203]

Christian de la Cruz or remote detonation of the mites

[@KaonashiKobayashi]

This would also ensure that if the drones were destroyed by turrets, the warheads would likely be detonated by the gunfire, causing at least some damage.

[@GnRGaming]

New update makes reactors explode now.

[@samuelschurman3762]

Yeah but with small reactors the damage is quite minimal.

[@lsedge7280]

I just imagine these slowly drifting away in space. An unaware pilot going through some debris, then suddenly having their hull disappear in front of their eyes.

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

"What was that?"

[@mathias8326]

You could try to seperate those 'parasites' inside your ship and put them in little cells. That could stop the drones turning, so that they dont grind themselves away or enter out the top.

[@pierre-luccharron405]

I agree, or even the ship could be a husk that split in different grinder elements.

[@Attaxalotl]

I like the heavy armor idea, so that they only go down, and cause maximum chayos even if they are docked outside. you'd have to put the landing gear on the bottom though.

[@Gunth0r]

@@pierre-luccharron405 this! much less obvious, much better potential for wtfuckery

[@scottsanders4589]

The little grinders could also be affixed to the outside to look like little decorations

[@thewolf-ub3tm]

maybe you could add a second timer on the drones so after a while of shredding it blows up as well causing more damage

[@adambroussard5146]

esp with a warhead or seven...

[@dennislinzey7808]

I love it

[@jasonwright8546]

They have to be able to multiply in order to be a real menace. The delivery ship being a factory for the things. Set delivery ship on a timer, which will make it open. The drones would need some kind of timer as well on their grinder, so they don't grind the delivery ship on the way out.

[@codemancz798]

Oh, yes. Perfect.

[@GabbieTheFox]

You just gave me an awesome idea... *starts plotting evil, ship scrapping deeds*

[@crplsteve]

Or have them be self replicating using the materials gathered from grinding to weld a couple of child drones

[@keinname8218]

@@crplsteve i know this comment is 2 years old but guess what i do now.. xD

[@leadontaste7261]

@@crplsteve you can make the nanite boarding ship, using the disassembly beacon to get nanites covid'ing the enemy hull or the hacking drone using the mod hacking computer to steal it, covering somewhere

[@jonasmenz7767]

you should probably attach a back landing gear that has autolock disabled and then have a second timerblock in the drone that unlocks the landing gear like 30 seconds after they started grinding so that the drone can grind away the shell of it's ship without going crazy and grinding away the other drones.

[@LastStandGamers]

Nice idea for the MK2 was thinking of having the shell explode off and then have them fly out to save time.

[@TheRezro]

Great idea! I wanted suggest tubes so they would not turn around, but this solution may be even better. Though I would not put it in a drone, but keep as separate part (two landing gears and time bloc would only diable one holding the drone) so they would not drag drone later.

[@Zebo12345678]

I'm liking the landing gear idea. Also, Please keep working on these little beauties, LSG. This is by far my favorite creation of yours, because they seem to be potentially practical.

[@puiu102006]

@@LastStandGamers that would make it alot scarier.imagine hearing a big explosion in your hangar and then go to investigate and see little robots grinding your ship away from the inside and they are quite fast so it would be pretty hard to disable them without being prepared.

[@Duke00x]

Have a timer block on the ship linked to the landing gears. When they lock them down the timer block sets off the grinders 1 minute timer. so pointing them down instead of up which will help with them parking it on the outside.

[@mr.pandersh2674]

Do a time lapse of a ship getting destroyed by these things

[@cluelesskhajiit]

They could work great as time bombs as is, or as escape weapons. Imagine if you knew where someone was, and that they would be an easy target, but they had a cargo full of those little bastards, and just started dropping them randomly along their flight path with timers. The abject fear of that moment when a large lumbering animal stumbles across thousands of hungry piranha's...that's about the feeling you'd have. I can imagine a few random cargo pods just floating about full of those bastards just shredding an unsuspecting scavengers ship in moments.

[@cameronlarsen1737]

Have you considered launching these like the buzz droids in star wars? Have a missile that flies out ahead of the Target ship and deploys the drones in a kind of cloud. Then the ship flies through and they attack.

[@monad_tcp]

those are called mines

[@km5405]

that would be both hilarious and terrifying to hear in the distance and then see what the hell is happening near the ship you just brought in.

[@juneBug412]

i feel like without the drones being clamped in place until the "horse" itself has been breached, having quite that many drones is a tad inneffective, seeing as how they all grind themselves half to death. but if you wanna avoid clamping mechanisms, maybe have fewer drones facing in many directions, or only have a small handful of remote control drones. actually, what if you had four remote control drones, one with a grinder for burrowing towards vitals, one with a welder for sealing those burrows, and two with guns for defending the grinder and/or creating a distraction for it. maybe replace one of the gunners with a suicide bomb drone, or add it in as a fifth.

[@stueckdreck]

Its infuriating that you do not realize that you didnt realize that the second ship is upside down all this time.

[@hunblitzkrieg9846]

omg xDDDD

[@om3ga322]

I wana see the vid that in you spawend the ship on the server.

[@LastStandGamers]

I just spawned empty ships to see whether players would take them back but ill recorded future testing even if it is quite basic.

[@d.thieud.1056]

LastStandGamers please do the same test with fully loaded ships, i really wanna see what happens, amd im not alone in this

[@nightbling8905]

LastStandGamers I want to see real players in legit server get tricked by this in a video

[@alexwright7317]

make the "trojan horse" a small ship then the owner will turn the turrets of to not destroy small ships.

[@hollodollo4771]

Yes the ships getting stuck in nooks and crannies is clearly the best way to cripple the entire ship.

[@spencerguillot6890]

You should add a minature warhead to the drones set to a timer, so right after it either ends or they stop it, they blow up.

[@glowbomb1223]

I think that changing which walls of the drone’s compartment is heavy or light may help to give the drones a better chance of going a direction that you want, such as having the rest of the compartment made of heavy armor and only the bottom will have light armor. I also think that making the gravity gens turn on at a specific time and then go mad, so that instead of them flying everywhere, they all go a specific direction until the timer you set makes the gens throw the drones off for a loop and go every which way; giving them better accuracy and a smaller chance of flying out of the target ship.

[@confused1227]

They might not be super effective all the time at hitting critical systems... but the random nature of how they fly and tend to cut blocks free to float around in the ship, would make it super annoying (if nothing else) to repair. Giving you time to attack the station/ship as the player is distracted with the random holes in his creation. Amazing concept, I love it!

[@xendordawnburst9969]

I think the name should be... the T3R Mites! Get it? Ter... Termites? Eh? No? Okay...

[@Laughing_Dragon]

XD! fuck, that actually got me, thats fucking good... oooh...that gave me an idea for a type of RP faction... basically a drone made faction where things like this are the base of it, and the ships or drones are named after types of insects and such...just like how in halo, human vehicles are named after animals, the covenants vehicles are named after types of spirits and such. **now I want that as a faction**

[@xendordawnburst9969]

Kiero Vance™ I like your thinking!

[@southerncoconut9128]

3:43 Rip to that one grinding bot that literally flew out of the hangar

[@opalthediloalt9595]

The point of a Trojan horse: to allow enemies to enter to attack, basically break open a gap and let the enemy come in from outside, so when they broke out you would sneak in and help destroy it from inside out.

[@timothypryor7952]

so I just want to say, I love this. pure evil genius. That said I think you're launch system needs more work.

[@megamadd9220]

Real live fire test! Awesome

[@adamblakeslee5301]

Two factors to consider. First, thickening the topside of the trojan horse so the grinderbots escape out the bottom reliably. Second, artificial gravity.

[@zachw2906]

Two things I think could improve this build - a sensor to turn off the grinder when it detects it's about to grind one of its buddies and a ring of sensors to turn it back toward the larger ship if it escapes. Might have to put the drones in their own faction so they can grind out of the Trojan horse but still turn off grinders if they get in each other's way.

[@khemeher]

The Dark Star's internal guns were switched off. I have a feeling that would have ended the break-out pretty fast.

[@kaksspl]

I think this version is far more harmful for attacker than enemy. Maybe it'd work better if your ship opened to let them out so they don't destroy your ship and each other but easily follow their target. There could be also platform on piston pushing them out. Maybe if you came back to sticky bomb design you could add a rotor and some sensor so drones activate one after another in one direction except all at once and everywhere. Maybe automated factory of drones with gravity gun would do the job since they look cheap and losing some wouldn't be a big deal when you keep shooting new ones. Maybe landing gear would work if there was a timer which releases it after few second if block is out of grinders range. (If that's the problem) Those are few of my quick ideas about your project.

[@Dakarai_Knight]

Kakss its a Trojan horse.

[@sunlogosis]

its not his ship once its stolen, so he wouldnt care if it gets destroyed. its not like hes going to go and rescue it anyway.

[@nilok7]

Why not something classic for the name like a Locust? Something I would do is try and separate them somewhat in their launch vehicle to try and reduce the chance of them damaging themselves.

[@LastStandGamers]

That name is rather good will have to see what gets the most likes and I was thinking about putting them in cells divided by blast doors to stop the blue on blue.

[@technology2598]

What about buzzard or buzzers I think that fits ^^

[@theastrogamer710]

I challenge you to build a drop pod with out a parachute or engines that can survive re-entry intact.

[@kaksspl]

The Astro Gamer put some extended pistons and you'll just bounce of the ground.

[@MartinFinnerup]

Easy peasy. Made one years ago. Create a small light armor pod with a seat and a single small antenna on the bottom. It doesn't even require any power.

[@Detank2002]

didnt he find out how to do that already just add rocks ;)

[@Texas.T]

If you can get them to auto Target the power supply that would be one hell of a trap

[@colonelcat8639]

Wow this was kinda the idea I had that I never cared to try out. Thanks.

[@kilroy6429]

The trojan horse ship looked like it would be a very good ship. You could probably get some of those normally in your world, and have space to walk around on long voyages.

[@aidanhalliwell3940]

You could connect the roof with merge blocks/ rotors and set a timer so that when the grinders activate, the roof opens so they don't have to waste time grinding out

[@spookyskeleton7912]

This is perfect for any war servers. Looks great!

[@Attaxalotl]

One or two of these could cripple one of my anthem ships, as they have internal hanger bays, but wouldn't do much to a Zusatz, as they have external docking areas. Those Trojan horse bots make a pretty good self-destruct for a valuable ship

[@justaguycalledjosh]

'OH NO! NOT THE BEES!'

[@charlesrinaldi5508]

Keep them in seperate compartments facing downwards. This will increase efficiency and stop them from killing each other. Also make some replicate upon activation and all will self-destruct in 1 hr of activation.

[@philosiraptorjr4912]

I mean it works but the drones keep flying out the ship or killing each other. Here is a better idea: Small remote controlled drones loaded in the ship with grinders in front and a warhead loaded in it. Scenario: Crew finds ship and loads it into their main vessel. Hidden camera lets enemy know when it is docked. Crew leaves ship or goes AFK, the infiltrator then activates the drones as one or more infiltrators pilot the drones and grind deep into the ship finding important parts like the reactor room or engine room before settling in and setting off the warheads one by one crippling a ship, as a bonus, the decoy ship loaded with the drones can also have a hidden signal attached to it notifying the infiltrators the location of the damaged vessel so they know the crew's base. Even more evil, you could leave the drones inactive until you get in a battle with the crew and then set the drones off leaving the crew confused and in panic as their systems shut off one by one. I think the smartest idea for a decoy though if you are in a conflict is to simply have a signal set off by a remote control in the ship to give away the location of the enemies. Another concept could be having welders that build combat drones in the ship essentially taking it over. By the time the enemy tries to reclaim the ship, it will be overrun with combat drones either chasing the enemy away from the now captured ship or forcing them to destroy their own vessel. Finally, and I think the best idea, to have welders build the remote controlled grinder and warhead drones WITH a landing gear and have them park all around the ship effectively booby trapping it, if the crew brings their ship back to base, it will violently explode dealing severe damage to the base.

[@timothypryor7952]

A great idea worth trying would be to have the ship burst apart using some sort of decoupler mechanism right when the drones activate.

[@librariantopokemon]

A good idea for this is to had the drones face different directions inside the horse. One down, one up, sides, front back, ect. And there would be a timer block that would activate the sensors AFTER they started grinding, and got away from eachother.

[@willhall1874]

I think this is very much a zeppelin idea, in theory it’s incredible, but in practice it just doesn’t seem to pan out how it was expected to and turns out to be more costly than it’s worth.

[@alonelyavacado8576]

Very good and dangerous concept

[@fakshen1973]

Separate the drones out so they start further apart. If there's a programmable block on board, it can read a lot of information from the sensor and the parasite. You could set the drone up so that if its gyroscope or thruster(s) become inoperative, it detonates a warhead. I would program it in a way that the warhead gets placed on a countdown and every time the programmable block detects that everything is operable, it resets the timer but still counts down. Warheads do no need power to countdown and explode. So if the programmable block or the power source gets taken out, if the parasite runs out of energy, BOOM.

[@Passwalker1]

you should make a bait ship out of large separate parts, held together only by few easily grinded light armor connections. so when the drones wake up, and start grinding - ship quickly falls apart and they don't waste time grinding each other. sort of like Kestrel's airtight doors, but with single light armor block holding it in place, instead of a merge block. also try adding gyroscopes or rotors near the connection points, so CLANG will wreck bait ship apart very quickly, once those connection points are damaged. also maybe reorient drones inside bait, so they are launched in different directions.

[@Lorian667]

This gave me an idea to create some Mines in Space out of them.

[@irishbacon7351]

This method is just amazing i love it so much!!!!! Very impressive and kind of hilarious

[@onetrueone]

great video I really want u to make a video in a online server and troll people and u should try to make the grinding bots better like more destruction and make them not damage eachother like placing some in the engines of the horse so some will come out off the engines and place one under the cockpit like everywhere not every single grinding bot in the middle of the hourse like if someone desides to cut a small hole on topp of the ship they see every grinding bot soo yeah

[@jmferretmaster]

These really should be set up to lock on, cause if the victim figures out what's up before it's too late... a quick emergency jump will leave the drones behind.

[@lancejobs]

Sooo, Id totally thin the armor on the horse like just parrely finish it in places to the grinders bots get out faster, or even grid them in inot the ship more like in the nacelles. Could even make this into part of a ramming assault pod with a hull breach nose that pours out sleeping drones right after impact!

[@catwithshotgun1332]

If you used the magnetic field warhead to punch through initial armor, the nanites *mite* find it easier to get inside, without all the whooptie doodads. Strap both insane contraptions to a heavily armored carrier and have fun breaching anything big enough to literally shit on

[@tylercpobrian4256]

Best content on youtube bro keep it up. I love your space engineers video's. I subbed and notifications on, id like to support your channel and also to catch some live shows but im in the uk and dont know what time it is you go live bro. Holla at your boi

[@hawaii380]

I would love to see this implemented as a breaching torpedo

[@jokerslaughter3299]

A couple different ideas: First, Perhaps this could be used as a form of bomber. Though it would take some skill if you could design a bomber that carries anywhere between 10-20 of them you can attempt to target the hangers or airlocks if they are open, that way when they activate they are not contained in a small ship, rather they have the ability to spread out and do more damage. Second idea, similar to the bomber idea this would be a combat build rather than a trojan horse, design a ship with chutes narrow enough that the bots cannot rotate while being transported, latch onto an enemy ship and activate them, they will follow the chute (hopefully) and burrow into the hull directly beneath them, a good way to propel them is to possibly use grav generators to push them into the other ships hull. Both the bomber and the latcher can be reloaded for multiple attacks allowing for you to save resources and to cause more damage. (Disclaimer; I do not own or have ever played this game. but from what gameplay I have seen this has a possibility to work.)

[@mikesnow285]

I remember a video, idk from who, who had a torpedo like thing that would attach to the ship then drill through out, you could probably do something like that but have at the front a door that opens and releases the nanites, also better having heavy blocks on the places you dont want it to go through, food for thought.

[@roffolo5491]

jesus, those are basically buzz droids on steroids

[@flatulent_moth7628]

It would be awesome to see a whole abandoned fleet like this (but made to look like the ships are scrapped builds) and when a ship comes in radius, they deploy swarms of drones.

[@philguer4802]

The way they blindly destroy the host ship then randomly destroy everything is frickin terrifying

[@Vicipedia1]

For an actual survival world I really like the concept of a trojan horse, but I would go way simpler and just fill the cargo with warheads

[@kandrnetwork5949]

Build a axle in the center of the "Trojan" craft. Make retractable doors above and below the axle with the bots attached to the axle or a similar system, maybe hidden ducts where the bots sleep & hide?

[@PuddingXXL]

*Oh my god I want to see you using that against captain jack! :D*

[@SOSGaming404]

As soon as it hits, jump if you are able. It leaves the nanite grinders behind and leaves the pod attached, as long as your jump drive didn't get hit.

[@braydenbode6843]

You should do the same thing, but with warheads and thrusters, so it's detaches the top, and then the warheads fly out and hit stuff, or you could have one grinder to grind the floor while the warheads try to get out.

[@thelivingcat0210]

You made a larger version of this a year or two ago and I think it worked better because they would use more sensors to determine where the large ships were

[@Unammedacc]

Thoose drones would be even more efficient if they had a cargo container and a way to come back home. I'm not sure about the ROI on that thing, but that would be a lot of fun. Ennemy player : Oh ! Free Ship ! You : Oh ! Free ressources !

[@JorneDeSmedt]

Maybe you can use some merge blocks and pistons to make the carrier ship open itself, so the grinders can get out more easily, which should make them less likely to break eachother. Could put in some warheads as well, if you felt like it. Or instead of pistons, make the ship just come apart into lots of pieces, still using merge blocks, then add mass blocks to each part and a spherical gravity generator somewhere in the middle to launch the pieces outwards.

[@kaffe5163]

Seems more like a mild annoyance than actual threat

[@CrazyGamer-ft8rr]

That ONE drone is cutting all power

[@HippieInHeart]

again, integrating some lotus tech might be useful. slap a projector and welder on, and you get yourself as many drones as you have the resources for. or until the projector/welder gets grinded away, which could also happen very easily with such little space. so that would probably be more useful for your first attempt, where you can make sure that the drones initially all fly away from your main projectile and only come back to it sometimes due to randomness.

[@technology2598]

Perhaps make them more like disks or cubes another thing you could do is add thrusters to add directional thrust that splits them in certain directions adding a timer block that turns them on and off would still create the effect of them moving around a bit but to cause maximum damage they need to get into the interior of the ship to be effective.

[@commanderwolf5827]

Are u going to make anymore survive series i liked them they where fun

[@christianwelker7751]

You could do like a barnacle design with 4 and individual tubes of heavy armour for each rginder with a thick shell but paper thin bottom for latching onto the outside of ships and maybe have multiple ones of these spread out on the ship

[@knightofaraluen5003]

Add warheads to them so if turrets or players try to shoot them, they explode.

[@bananajoe113]

Seems like it'd be best used in conjunction with a sneak attack. Use the parasite droids to get them out of the cockpit and then come in with jet fighters to take out all their engines. Potentially even drop more grinding droids. I'd probably make the quick change to have the droids drill in a straight line.

[@ratbones9156]

you could try making it a remote activation so you have a couple cameras about and when you think the player has left or quit you press a button and havoc ensues

[@Sparrow_Bloodhunter]

I would like to see the infected ship like 10 minutes later after the nanites had worked their way through the ship.

[@Halo99086]

You can cal them buzz droids.

[@shawnfortine3199]

Imagine someone coming back to there ship and finding out its being disassembled from the inside out

[@Comicsluvr]

If you want the drones to cut their way down instead of out the top, Put heavy armor on the top. Most drifting objects will take the path of least resistance.

[@HazmatUnit]

You need to make Trojan cargo that floats out in space

[@whisper__]

*Nanomite breaks 1 block* "absolute carnage"

[@jessegruber8690]

Possibly some type of hatch at the bottom to more efficiently get them out of the ship

[@Kilovotis]

judging by the fact that you can see major hull damage and major internal damage in the hammerhead corvette (which since it is full scale it looks like SE's battlecruiser) in the engine pods just the damage you can see between them is just satisfying. 5:23 look closly.

[@sirspoony2902]

A great work in progress...the definition of this game...lol 💙 not bad though...

[@Louis-kb3jh]

This would be a fun self destruct system

[@Just_Caden]

thats awesome imagine just a massive super carrier taking it they would be screwed

[@ManijakTotalni]

A directed gravity generator inside the Trojan ship could send the mites straight down under the ship for like a minute or two.

[@jamesg6709]

Buzz Droids. You made Buzz Droids, you monster...

[@jarredeagley1748]

You're a monster. Thank you.

[@Deadly_Laser]

You should probably put them in separate cells and maybe make them start facing in different directions to speed up the process and inflict less self-damage.

[@DormantHeart453]

add the nanobot build and repair mod, these would be 100 times more effective since you can actually tell the system which types of block to target or ignore. I currently use a small ship to take out the enemy control stations and remotes allowing me to quickly place my own and take control of thrusters to avoid enemy response units.

[@atomicastronaut2456]

There needs to be a way to break those blocks down quicker maybe more grinders on the weapons as well as more protective casing to defend turret fire. I love the idea for this weapon tho. Grind drones are terrifying but they are to random and weak. We should add smarter targeting. Keep up the good work tho i lobe your ideas and the way you use then

[@sonicgoo3352]

You should do more with that ship.

[@bonetower]

the major problem with the 'mini' drones is they cant get out and destroy most of the others before escaping. You ether need a longer ship to space them more or a way to jettison the roof of the ship to release the payload.

[@BonBon-oq5pl]

I would make a building bay for these inside a meteor that continuously generates them as long as it has material and they just patrol around and swarm anything that come close

[@entrippyZ]

I have an alternate version, at the core of a larger ship, install a quad rotor 4 beam atlas super laser... you hear this horrible noise coming from your hangar, then it just cuts itself in half

[@theurikshow4228]

I play Space Engineers Aaron that truly has to be the best invention so far as far as a weapon of War should try to do a giant carry or full with separate compartments and have them set where they can drill them downward over a ship until they come in contact with it

[@enigmaticchickenmcnobody]

You should try and load them on a missile compartment and set it so when it gets near the ship you fire at they release and behave the same as before. See if it is effective on small fighters. Kinda like the buzz droid missile from Revenge of the Sith

[@geordanlemon]

7:34 He edited this clip to play a bit early, you can hear him count 3 2 1 and then start again, meaning he's doing another take