Making a Machine Gun in Scrap Mechanic

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[@grantkeller2299]

you should play stormworks

[@liaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaav]

This comment should not exist becuse is older than the video

[@TBHDT_]

you know, you could have just used a controller on the horizontal loading, to make the piston move by one and wait

[@IchBimsEinsChris]

Wouldn't it be better to shoot the most back guns first, because they have a longer travel distance, so they all hit more synchroniced

[@alla-turca]

@@liaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaav he wrote the comment before he uploaded the video

[@spacemarine5758]

Ah yes, using guns to make a gun... Perfection

[@SpectraMoyai]

gun ception!

[@bostonjohnson7335]

Amarica

[@Yellowrubble_YT]

That actually makes perfect sense

[@theyeetus1428]

When the guns that power the gun are actually more destructive than the gun they're powering:

[@jeffjefferson1143]

I can just imagine the day he discovers glitch welding

[@Kielserat6969]

oml

[@buhoduzeucho]

imagine when he discovers that pistons have no collision

[@buhoduzeucho]

and when he discovers mods ☠

[@n.t.600]

Even better, a bolt action sniper

[@isaiahTMP]

@@buhoduzeucho Im pretty sure he all ready discovered that pistons have no collision.

[@ampoulgon8716]

A potato-powered shotgun, now thats something you don't see every day.

[@SCOP_]

Lmao there’s actually a hand held spud shotgun in the game

[@SCOP_]

Wait a second how is this comment from 1 day ago when the video is from 30 mins ago!?

[@1030k]

WITCHCRAFT!!!!!!

[@O5MO]

@@SCOP_ early access for supporters or something like that

[@SCOP_]

@@O5MO makes sense

[@AntellPryyde]

Genuinely love how "idk physics on this normally gets Weird™️ , soooo" is a regular thing here.

[@braindeadjet8086]

You can launch explosive canisters more or less further than the projectiles here. If you attach cardboard to 2 diagonally opposite bearings and weld it all together then slap a bomb on the front and then use however many spud guns you want behind it.

[@the_falcon0power150]

Multiple spud guns can also be glitched into the space of one.

[@Hazeiss]

Cool

[@chrisnave1769]

The good thing about using cardboard to launch items is that it makes it soo much easier to load the gun

[@gymzaal4412]

In scrap mechanic any loose objects interacting with creations or other loose objects are usually unpredictable and glitchy, so try to keep them as minimal as possible. Use mounted spudguns with cardboard to detach items if you need more than a few.

[@m4x_g4mer90]

Fun fact: the design with the vertical mag is realistic since some guns use gravity to load one of them is the bren Finnish machine gun

[@pewpewentertainment6858]

the Bren magazine has a feed spring, gravity helps, but the rounds are pushed down by a spring.

[@magicstew45]

@@pewpewentertainment6858 I know early gatling guns had vertical mags, wonder if they were gravity fed

[@hirschmeistr6842]

@@magicstew45 probably not, a spring would be more consistent

[@stuka_man8313]

isnt bren british

[@magicstew45]

@@hirschmeistr6842 just did a quick search, they were in fact gravity fed through a hopper.

[@EpikFPV27]

I love the fully functional weapons made in scrap mechanic their amazing!! Pls do more of these, may I suggest a sniper

[@theonlylechuga]

so this but semi-auto?

[@m4x_g4mer90]

@@theonlylechuga bolt action is simpler

[@bighmm6301]

Nuclear artillery?

[@Jamesdavey358]

You mean a rifle, a sniper is an occupation (also they're*)

[@comanderjuul]

1:40 You and your date when Netflix asks if you're still watching :D

[@dacomputerlives9277]

It also might have been a good idea to use some kind of cylinder instead of a 2D square object.

[@dragojess]

Just a tip, with a piston powered launcher, high speed and low distance gets you the most power

[@Setuaro]

Watching you work in games on complicated designs is always a love-hate thing for me It's impressive and I love seeing the end result. But these videos always make me feel absolutely stupid for understanding a little less than half of the things you do which bums me out again xD

[@smarty265]

fast spinning things like wheels could also launch projectiles. Also Controlers are able to store alot of force for example if a door is supposed to open but is blocked by something it will push against it and if the thing blocking the door gets out of the way it almost instantly opens up which alot of people use to do catapults.

[@yeatard]

I’ve always wanted to do something like this, but the physics is such a pain. Great job!

[@v22minecraft93]

A quick tip: Use the vanilla logic debug tools mod to have some great tools for connecting stuff, like parallel connection tool, N to N connector tool or color-to-color connector

[@mynameisntdave317]

Something you might have fun doing in scrap mechanic is the challenge mode, specifically the bot factory challenges which you can find on the workshop. It’s all about creating self driving cars and it basically taught me how to do it.

[@jimjohn1740]

it's been such a long time since I played one of these engineering games, and this channel is making me want to play some again. I always eventually got discouraged though

[@Astronutz555]

Great Video, May I suggest the use of the Bomb Props mod? It has some useful parts like compressed air and CO2 canisters which provide force without destruction (lots of it in the case of CO2) and the modular bomb nose, which not only looks like a bullet, but also explodes as well. My advice is to put a block between the two however (such as a pipe), because the nose doesn't properly absorb most of the force without it, and can fail to exit the gun on occasion.

[@yuanxinwang8219]

in this game when a material is destructible by spud guns they have force transferred to them before they disappear, so lets say you mount a wall of spud guns, in front of that wall you put a wall of bubble blocks of the same size, now this wall needs an extra block on the side which is the only block that can be attached, and that lock needs to be destroyed before the rest, (switch#1 - spud guns for the wall spud guns and switch#1 - logic - spud gun for that one block) and so now the bigger the wall the more the power, and on that wall you can put anything to be launched

[@sapphiredragon114]

Thankyou for taking up my idea man :D

[@raph4281]

You can use spudguns that shoot any destructible block. It will launch anything welded to the destructible block.

[@scottaroondog1502]

Keep it up buddy, love the ingenuity

[@emberdrops3892]

Congrats on that Brilliant sponsorship! Fits right into your content :D

[@sporewooky]

i love the mag system great job

[@mechwarrior5727]

If you want to use pistons to launch, make them go fast with a short distance, it makes them go faster than with a long distance, 3 blocks tends to be a good size

[@1e1001]

i once made a spinning circle of spud guns with sensors that made them fire when they passed a certain point, it was pretty fast

[@V_ranx12]

Fyi, not sure if you know this already but the only blocks that can be broken by spudgun or hammer are cardboard bubblewrap and normal glass (Ps: you can use controllers to create tension on a block, if you set a controller to rotate a bearing with a block lets say 180° but then build infront of the block so it cant rotate it builds up tension, if you then remove the blocker the bearing will snap with a lot of force to the rotated ° it was meant to rotate to)

[@maxboskeljon6440]

These keep getting crazier haha. Love the content reid!

[@jakerhodes2105]

Spud guns can fire once every 2 ticks, so you really dont need 9 sets. You can just have the first ones alternating

[@derpanator5671]

"so i tried doubling up the amount of guns" triples it

[@SCOP_]

I coincidentally made an explosive launcher before watching this without even knowing it was uploaded

[@BeanOrNoBean]

it sort of looks like an mp18 with the mesh at the front and the piece at the side, cool

[@sin_i_strr]

I likes your videos because it makes me happy when you are happy!

[@tangosmymango]

this is a great way to waste time waiting for my rocket to stop moving down a hill

[@kingcaique]

This worked great!

[@justawarper8397]

Just so you know, the pistons have more power and speed the lower range you set them too, 1 piston that extends to the maximum at full speed is slower that a piston that extends only 1 block.

[@justawarper8397]

That’s why the piston that extended the spud gun in front of the others was freaking out, because it was so fast, it couldn’t settle down at its intended length, and 1 more thing, you can make a logic loop that makes the spud guns fire insanely fast.

[@laurapasquin777]

If U put glitchwelded Guns and carboard on the explosives you can launch them like from one side to the map to the other

[@FoxDog1080]

"it was nothing crazy" Piece of metal: _disappeared, phased through the ground…_

[@terencebrain9117]

Him: lets add more logic so it can repeat Him thinking: WE NEED MORE LOGIC

[@jeimasuta_v598]

At this point the spuds are the main bullets and the wood is extra

[@alexorsmthnidk2449]

Reid, if you put cardboard on a bearing infront of the spudguns then put cardboard on that bearing whatever is attached to the cardboard goes crazy fast and far.

[@noot3778]

"So that working so well i decided to completely tear it apart" -logic

[@keybored13]

i love how he had inadvertently made a machine gun as a firing system

[@tutoriallaser313]

Yes

[@randomprojectsusa5196]

Had the same idea but gave up before I could have a feeding system

[@pogwater5366]

as someone with 2600+ hours in scrap mechanic, i can confirm that the Ogre physics engine can be quite unstable

[@eee_eee]

as someone with 6942000+ hours in scrap mechanic, I cannot confirm that the Goblin physics engine can be quite stable

[@vaskoz3700]

pro tip the spud gun can also destroy cardboard

[@chrissloan7511]

I can't get over the fact suspension has become a spring now

[@gavinpowell4607]

man the upspeak is strong in this one.

[@cioltearazvan4370]

The stud gun can distroy :bubble reap, cardborde and glass

[@binguswithglasses]

I love how a game called. Besiege is more complicated then sm

[@Ju1-js]

Sounds like you'll like glitch welding ;)

[@timminator555]

If you shoot attached cardboard with mountable spudguns it detaches and shoots far.

[@jacobkrout1627]

Thank you, I will now take this knowledge into real life.

[@keno4893]

Would love to see you try out Space Engineers

[@DrPeeper]

Cartboard is also breakable with spudgun

[@chanlanfan4017]

You always push games beyond the limits, and I love it!

[@ampgamer7941]

It's always hilarious to me when you use guns to make bigger guns

[@dacomputerlives9277]

I don't play SM, but I think you should have tried thrusters with sensors acting as the "primer" that the hammer hits to launch them. With my zero SM experience, those might just fly randomly but it seems like a good idea.

[@0aleolijest678]

I played the game and it is very difficult

[@codywelsh9057]

Hey Reid you should try to engineer a piston cannon in space engineers

[@WibleWobble]

You are like the nilered of video games, similar voices too. Making the most random stuff with a whole lot of trial and error

[@ludabot]

Here is an idea could you try making a spud gun powered elevator to bring you up very high by shooting a elevator box with spud guns underneath.

[@doomba187]

if you do piston at 1 and speed to 15 it will launch very fast

[@fishwithagungun5381]

another pog upload

[@loganallen3548]

Put cardboard on the spud gums and then the projectile it makes it more powerful

[@bumbobrumbo]

Hey Reid love your videos just wondering but next time you do scrap mechanic could you play on a standard map for more visual variety?

[@DogerZ9]

We need more

[@ujvxyjbxdg]

Can wait till this guy discovers how far wheels launch things

[@champy5095]

So there was this bug before the survival update and you could launch explosives with cardboard and you could build tanks with it im not sure if it still works? Maybe idk

[@FunTimeDonut]

You could have used a circle with spudguns and sensors behind them, with a electric (slow) or gas (fast) engine

[@hirschmeistr6842]

That wasn’t really the point

[@FunTimeDonut]

I meant to shoot out the wood

[@Flugergvfh]

The next challenge is to nake the same design but instead of using spud guns you use this gun

[@WoH9Shadow]

Reid appearently does not know that lower level pistons also have less force. same as more distance on the gives a piston more force then less distance on the same piston.

[@trueblueflare]

And this, my friends, is why we can't have Scrap Mechanic public servers. Just imagine, playing on a public survival server, minding your own business when BAM! You randomly get hit in the face with the volatile remnants of some ranom person's failed experiment with enough force to fling you into the stratosphere.

[@RooMan93]

1:40 - what are you doing step piston

[@zuruniu5841]

can you just use sensor wire it to loop and loop to one cannon so when it sees bullet is shoots it bc what you did is burst

[@metalspoon69]

Congrats, you're on an ATF watchlist now

[@MCA1505]

Could you use mesh blocks as the bullet also?

[@ReidCaptain]

Yeah it works really well, but it's a little hard to see so I stuck with the wood

[@stanky7848]

hey Reid Captain, you should make a Helicopter

[@sayochikun3288]

Me watching a wood coming towards me at 470kmph: 😳 120 cannon balls following it: 💀

[@xandersfs2346]

I prefer a glitch that uses max speed pistons and a strength 0 suspension to increase the power

[@S0renz]

I actually tried building a gun that used wheels to shoot the projectiles. Did not work very well.

[@FlyoutAerospace]

Yes. Is very overpowered.

[@ahmedaaqib4380]

Nice vid

[@myhomewhataboutyou]

This dude saying everything on his mind meanwhile I'm trying to say breathe man breathe dude like just breathe

[@domidagamer8214]

5 twisters and one 2 engines

[@mixer2.0]

Scrap mechanic ❤

[@isaiahbennett7207]

scrap mechanic is cool because you do as much coding in logic gates as you do actually building

[@guerillagorilla4423]

Ah yes the iconic Kartoffergewehr-21

[@locaog4mesyoutube612]

Reid next year: Making a gas operated 7.62x39mm fully automatic assault rifle in my garage

[@alexorsmthnidk2449]

Idea for a vid: Delta robot, definitley a simple ot mechanize an program thing 🙃

[@ethanpant]

nobody: ried captian: anyways, i started blasting

[@sanstime]

Nice gun🙂👍

[@EBK_Toorawyah]

Can you put thin on the steam work shop

[@agnessengco416]

Spring nice

[@muhyiomar2416]

How bout you try a sten gun sort of magazine. So sideways and push the ammo from the side rather than down via gravity or mechanical help.

[@nickc3891]

Take a breath fella holy crap

[@logan1683]

Don’t get me wrong , i love your content, but watching one of these at night puts me right to sleep.

[@TheBird..]

This is the equivalent of setting off a 50 cal with a 9 mil

[@senatorstevenarmstrong7434]

This guy’s like the gaming version of nile red

[@TheTenzen12]

Was there any point use so many alternating spotguns, when reloading cannot keep up?

[@ReidCaptain]

Yeah they can only shoot so fast, plus I thought it looked cool