Over-Engineering The Deadliest Scissors Using Gears! [Instruments of Destruction]

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Instruments of Destruction features an advanced physics-based destruction system. You can demolish every structure in the game piece by piece. In addition, every object you see in the game world--save for small decorative plants and rocks--is part of the physics system. Each element of the world interacts with each other and together they create a physical, visceral world to play with.
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[@anteshell]

It looks wonky only because you've attached each beam differently from each other. Just by placing them consistently would make it visually much more pleasing.

[@MrDebanane]

Dude i was about to write the same thing. It´s so hard to see your own mistake once you roll a natural 1 ;(

[@placodermwisp8229]

MY BROTHER IN CHRIST I WAS GETTING ANGRY BECAUSE OF THAT I mean come on man his IQ is going to the negatives at this point Like come on it's common sense at this point Bruh get his ahh off my recommendation he just went Uhh rock beat paper because paper weak WRONG Cuz its THE LAW Sorry I get really upset about people who I thought were smart enough to fix such simple issues and then just going like "uhh I dont kno how fix thing I uhhhh" It just disappointing and sad

[@steeljawX]

He kind of took things a bit too literal I think. He tried to do an exact recreation when he could have done a simplified and more aesthetic build of making it symmetrical. Literally just attaching the flex beams from points set at 45 degrees on the outside, exiting at 90 degrees to opposing sides of a point in the middle would to then exit out of those on opposite sides and then repeat would have yielded better looking and more stable results. Him trying to keep everything at a theoretical 45 degrees off the gears made him settle for his janky design. Maybe if the channel was called Wedge builds he could have understood it better.

[@RedPandaYosh]

Yeah, that's driving me nuts he hadn't seen it from the top view. It pushed it to to the left instead of straight out.

[@HannsenLCS]

half way through the video and i hope no one has commented on this issue. wahich means he fixed it later on in the video. but since your wrote this. means he didnt. 😅🥲

[@messorix2033]

The reason it kept swaying (for the most part) was the non-symmetry of the bottom and top layer of the mechanism. If you make 2 layers identical and place 1 mirrored on top of the other, it should minimize the swaying. The swaying as a result of gear desync can't be solved though

[@--cook--]

yeah i noticed that too. almost instantly. was driving me crazy all video LMAO

[@SPEXWISE]

I came here to say the same thing. It was frustrating to watch.

[@lukas187]

You could put down a 2nd power swivel on the second ger to minimize gearslip thought

[@kingofmystery1135]

@@--cook-- SAME

[@TriqxterRB]

that's the first thing I saw

[@mikeferguson5044]

Scrapman’s next series should be Kerbal Space Program

[@lauch441]

As soon as the second part gets out

[@brodygamer83]

bro we need a kerbal space program series

[@RobDop-dl1iy]

Bro that game to easy for him 😕

[@bossfire001]

agreed

[@Lincoln807]

Omg yes

[@Music7Ada]

I love how the inconsistency of the gears and the non-symmetrical linkage actually make it kinda look like a savage beast going on a rampage!

[@general.catallion_8054]

that's what i was thinking!

[@karstsn]

Came back after 6 years from this channel, i remember after school i was so excited to watch a scrapman video and nothing has changed (in a good way) im glad the channel is still gaining much support, thank you for making me happy for years :)

[@poomonyoutube1607]

There are a lot of suggestions about the side-to-side movement, and here's mine: When you built off of your gears, they were completely symmetrical. But after you exit build mode, the unpowered gear has to rotate a bit in order for teeth to catch each other. Since the gears move wanky anyway, it's kinda hard to notice the angle difference, but it does create the swaying

[@mattstone3995]

It wouldn't hurt to have a channel to run alone to keep it straight

[@poomonyoutube1607]

@@mattstone3995 wdym by channel?

[@mattstone3995]

A groove for a peg to run along

[@snowfox2192]

So i realize if you want to make this a single strike at a time device you could chance out the motor for a swivel set to min -90 and max 90 so the entire device goes from fully contracted to fully expanded when you click a button. Might actually make it more stable too as the repeating nature of the current set up seemed to create waves that cancelled each other out due to the flexing.

[@Prince_Asuda]

Oh, the way you accidentally hit the building mid-air gave me an idea! What if you make a contraption that severs the building from its base, launches it slightly into the air, and swings something like a giant baseball bat at it to send it flying? I know you made something that covers the first two things already, but perhaps some of the new parts might make this even easier and less likely to crumble apart.

[@ArinJager1]

full circle: you know what this reminds me of? Remember lego Bionicle? 8538 set "Muaka & Kane-Ra" - it was like a "game" for two, there was a "red bull" one, and a yellow "big cat" one (I had it as a kid, but the rubber bands are busted now, so it doesn't work anymore)... and there was an older one with green and purple machines punching each other (8257 "cyber strikers")... lego was whack back in the good old days ^^

[@Nefrea]

I remember an episode of workshop hunters where you and Kan were playing with a bipedal walker that used scissor lift legs similar to this mechanism.. Would be rad if you could repurpose this and recreate something like that in this game.

[@happyhippoeaters4261]

The closest thing to an official term for this mekanism is a quote from ferb in the Phineas and Ferb episode "ask a silly question" where he compliments his sister on her use of the accordion arm. And after scouring google, and getting nothing, I say we use that term.

[@ImUnkown482]

Hey scrapman! Video is awesome as always :) Edit 16:48 that looks… interesting

[@masterroshi2158]

Never thought I would be motion sick watching a bulid

[@eddielowe8189]

Nice how much control you have over it. Hope they have missions where somethings must be left intact, so easy to build to kill everything but not so much to kill selected targets.

[@c4rots620]

Oh my god I love brick technology! absolutely worth a look

[@allisonwagreich4458]

For the last three years scrapman has made me smile. 👍 keep it up

[@ichich8516]

You could make the upper and lower arm symetrical by setting the free swivels also at a 45 degree angle and than attach the holy flex beams to the side facing directly to the other swivels

[@Ekipsogel]

Scrapman: We’re just scissors Me: that’s called a scissor lift mechanism

[@The_Lunar_Wolvez]

I just love the pure chaos of this channel...

[@isaiahallen5234]

This is pretty cool the way it moves is like it's alive

[@samhop34]

Interesting concept. Gear can create pretty weird things

[@TheBillykurtz]

Very efficiently shaped instrument of destruction. RCE would be proud.

[@reydugz9589]

😈

[@kristinabegail]

17:00 ScrapMan: I don’t know how I feel- Machine: *Goes crazy* ScrapMan: wooooah!

[@8bitarmory846]

Wasn't expecting a Brick Technology shoutout

[@Lolbitzz]

it looks quite satisfying at 8:18

[@jambari4Ever]

This was hilariously chaotic! 🤣 But if you want to bring it back under control, try adding a way to make the center point slide within a guided rail from the base of the platform. Great content as always! Also... Where's our DELAYED ANNIHILATION fix!?! It's been forever! 😁

[@Pystro]

The "This is why you don't run with scissors" comment gave me an idea for a series: What if you took things that are allegedly very stupid and recreated them in video games? The next video in the series could be "don't sit too close to the TV" (where you build a TV screen out of lasers and fire that at a building from close range).

[@Tauramehtar]

Antikythera mechanism! In any game, please upvote!

[@thywhoknows7276]

That looks like it could be an amazing design for a scorpion tail.

[@michaelchen695]

“Give war a chance” - Sundowner

[@donotlookatmydesc7223]

This would be awesome if you two had a collab

[@nicki8731]

17:17 It happened because the gear slipped. Watch the gears here: 17:00

[@johannmarcussoriano5504]

first was brayden robert

[@jianalexander1359]

What

[@W0B0N]

Awesome little mechanism!

[@tripmine3150]

RCE would be proud

[@maciex2702]

7:44 nice shape

[@JustIn-sr1xe]

Now we need a creation with two of them.

[@whoknows8864]

"Ew, its weird that it goes off to the side like that" -Scrapman 2022

[@bktthemdg9038]

i believe reciprocating and scissor would be two helpful words to describe it

[@glowupfortheboys]

Please make something that can just crush building flattening them it would be satisfying destruction

[@damyanboyadzhiev2819]

Awesome video! But... LASER SCISSORS!?

[@katestramenos929]

The connection points on the beams were different. Ones going from right to left are “s” shaped the ones going left to right are “c” shaped. Making them both one way or the other would fix all your issues

[@Insantale]

I always find it funny and interresting when channels i watch also watch channels i watch.

[@turnedwheat2013]

Good Morning Scrap Man! 4:00 AM Love your vids 💙

[@Chosen1Creator]

I wonder if it would have been easier to build the gears at 45 degrees from each other so that the arms would be on grid.

[@armanada7600]

this thing cuts through buildings like an overly-agresive hornet

[@DanielMether]

It's like some strange angry turtle that just eats everything it sees

[@aroboy5906]

Welcome to scrapman accidentally makes a destructive slong

[@Muziek37414]

Making a helicopter ?nah. Testing the gyros? Nah. Making a bomber ? Nah. Making a weird scissor ? YES

[@tomasprochazka7840]

You might wanna make some kind of groove below the arm to stabilize it, crossbow-style

[@torcanotheminecraftian3949]

Scrap man: builds a h with wheels and every episode Scrap man: that should work

[@steeljawX]

GASP! I'm about 30 seconds in and I'm completely appalled! Scrapman going to a BRICK channel?!?!? You've forsaken the Wedge way and have gone all square ...er, cube on us? This Scrapman is an imposter. A witch! We must wedgie him at the angles!!!! So you've done one thing sub-optimally that is increasing the chance of the thing going out of control. The fact that you've connected the flex beams at different angles on the blocks across the scissoring piston (essentially what the thing you've built) means that the force applied from the gears rotation is being applied at differing angles. The left side wanted to pull to the left and and backwards and push forwards and to the right, but the right side mainly wanted to push forward and pull back. This means the left and right forces were not equal and that made it want to flop side to side because it was not getting equal and opposing forces. If you mirror how the flex beams on the first left arm are connected to the right arm, you should get a more stable result. Try also spreading the gears out. By that I mean have two driven gears near the center that don't interact with each other, but go about 3 or 4 gears transferring out with the same gear size so that way the rotation is occurring on longer arms, if possible also make longer arms to compensate for the distance to hold the scissor piston. This will make the distance it travels both greater and the speed it travels faster, meaning you could get a punching machine that might be able to do a mechanical mach punch. But for max efficiency in the transferring of energy, you need to build the arms symmetrical as far as the connections go.

[@sheelasagarad4607]

Build a huge pair of scissors that cuts the building in one shot and can be urgested by height, angle and can turn

[@notonlyhuman6073]

MULTIPLAYER MONDAY IDEA!!!!!! Use the portal mod from yesterday's Scrap Mechanic video. Put portals on the front and back of a "chaser" vehicle. Each person has a "runner" vehicle with limited size dimensions and top speed. During the event, each person takes a turn in the "chaser" vehicle, and the other two drive their "runners". All three vehicles would be confined to a walled arena space. Time the rounds to see how long it takes for the "chaser" to eat and disable the "runners". The Winner is the ""chaser" with the shortest time! There could be a standard, prebuilt "chaser", and the 15 minutes is spent to build a custom "runner". Or there could be a prebuilt "runner" vehicle with all the size and speed limitations, and each person take the 15 minutes to construct a "chaser" (this my be easier, because you wont have to sacrifice time fiddling with the limitations). Either way works! Awesome videos as always! Like this comment if yall think this would be cool!

[@adnmom07]

the building tried to leap away at 14:26 lol

[@RockyBergen]

Your build vids are always my faves!

[@shadowblade7783]

You know what we need more of? DELAYED ANNIHILATION!!!!

[@DerpyNub]

You could’ve just replaced the free swivel on the other gear with another power swivel to refice the wonkiness

[@dogefish]

He made her fly into another dimension 😂😂😂

[@danyael777]

"...one step more power and it became completely unreliable and imprecise....way more dangerous....uncontrollable" Instrument: *KILL!!! BURN!!! MAIM!!!*

[@jailbreakjonah1092]

Idea: make someting that climbs the towers and punches the top to the bottom kinda like a press for buildings

[@darkwarrior1588]

the bottom and top arms are linked differently the top has a flex beam on the left and front, 90 degress from eachother.

[@ashercortez3237]

Doing the tail wip on purpose will be very interesting 🤔

[@suicidalbanananana]

Nice!! would love to see more stuff from that video video recreated please ^^

[@braydenrobert6358]

Hi

[@joeffsipsip356]

ello

[@electricheisenberg5723]

bonjour

[@jianalexander1359]

Jesse heisenberg

[@xtrau]

if the size of the gear corelatess to the ammount of teeth on the gear, this rule would apply: smaller gear = more torque bigger gear = more speed

[@hedwigmathijs3717]

I think most of the swaying was not due to the difference in flex beams on the top and bottom 'arms'. I think it is mostly the fact that the 2 gears have an even number of teeth. You see, when you build them the gears don't mesh but overlap and the moment you spawn it in, the gears move half a tooth worth to make them mesh. It's a tiny amount, but it changes the alignment ever so slightly. The rest of the arm acts as an amplifier for that error. See if you can change the number of teeth to an odd number so they can already mesh correctly during the building (odd numbered gears will allow you to do that). The desync caused by the glitching of the gears through each other at higher power/speed can't be helped I guess....

[@xenogryph7169]

Maybe add a rail for the hinges to follow to avoid the whipping motion?

[@zman5226]

THE JELLO IS ANGRY

[@ducewags]

Next build, the Landmaster from the movie Damnation Alley. Thanks for the shows Scrapman.

[@elladar2]

Nice whip :P

[@ihavenoideadanny]

here before the description is updated

[@aydinchadwick1937]

With the tank treads make a vehicle that drives up the building and extends a saw underneath it to destroy the building

[@MrMagoo7041]

Make a massive switchblade that flips out and destroys all the supports with one swoop

[@logan-ft7ti]

cool :]

[@tomekc1113]

Cool :)

[@larkinklarkin3379]

probably would have worked better if u placed the flexbeams symmetrical

[@coconutspeed1212]

The left side is causing all the wonk

[@orangewithteeth]

you could have kept it on center with pistons that attach to the base and extend to follow a swivel attachment point.

[@toxicwarcat7739]

6:51 was why it wobbled the asymmetric attachment point cause lopsided rotation bothe the bottom and top arm need to attach at the same point ie if you do the bottom arm on the back the top one must be on the back, if one is attached two the side both must be, the gear skipping will still happen however.

[@stephenantonsson334]

Is anyone else viscerally infuriated by him complaining about the lack of symmetry caused by him placing the flex beams asymmetrically?

[@eduardmiral7195]

Honestly it looks like a snapping turtle

[@oldehtombusttoneh9466]

max power had me dying

[@Nex-SCorp]

The linkage is called scissor linkages, I know, very original.

[@anonymousmim25]

nice

[@soulreaper1981]

you can rotated any part using CTRL and looking at it at the right angle

[@draysoncrook4898]

Now do this in scrap mechanic or trailmakers

[@Entropy_____]

Make a machine that push the centre of mass forward( or maybe even a little bit upward) and launch forward to the buildings

[@Zequax]

i feel like the uneven arm is your enemy in this build a more cleanly made arm might help or maybe its just OCD

[@thefrustratedpenguin73]

its called a sissor link, there used on a lot of things, one of them being the sissor lift

[@wedge612]

That Is Why He Is Scrapman With A Gear Logo

[@elmerguldnielsen8214]

Cool vid

[@felps_4500]

Imagine not making it symmetrical then being surprised because it's wonky af 👀 Also the gears are different, you had put the medium ones first but then changed it to the bigger ones by mistake

[@Stringz1996]

I’m not sure how hard it would be to actually set up in game but you could have a channel under the middle bearings (or atleast some of them) that they need to run through , it should drastically increase stability without really affecting functionality

[@santiagocollazos1250]

It's reminded me of a dog pulling the owner

[@crazybeat4998]

The uneven Ness is probably from the uneven flex beams. Maybe.

[@user-jd3xc3rt1n]

you should do a tank battle with kan and kosmo and use a flying tank in trailmakers for a video

[@curtisrussell4305]

Hey Scrapman! I'm pretty sure you had issues with it because when you started on the second section of 45° angled pieces, you didn't mirror it (the left and right connections) to the other side of the swivel and instead you just bumped forward the front and back sections and connected them?! Does that all make sense? I'm sorry if this is confusing man! Haha! I'm just trying to help a brother out! Loved your video anyway though man! Keep it up!! 💯 ✌️🤙🤘

[@e4aselias362]

Don't Run with Scissors. Run from SCISSORS!

[@raymonddesrosiers6164]

You should try to revisit the idea of building climbers since there is now logic

[@BLKBRDSR71]

Edward Scissorhands, Scissor Man (Clock Tower), and Ryuko (Kill-La-Kill) has joined the chat