Making an Automatically Reloading Trebuchet in Besiege

I could make it simpler, but then it wouldn't be ridiculous.
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[@KingRaulDame]

You should use bombs instead of ballast and throw them at an actual castle. I would love to see that.

[@jmejuniper]

The problem with that is, as shown in the bomb engine video he made a while back, bombs kinda explode a lot when you don't want them to :/

[@KingRaulDame]

@@jmejuniper yeah I get that but there has to be a way

[@jmejuniper]

@@KingRaulDame In theory, but it would be a lot of work (probably)

[@jdwoods5790]

@@jmejuniper why not the grenade thing

[@KingRaulDame]

@Hamfish yes it explodes. That's the entire point of using the bomb

[@lili-ob9bj]

*the machine literally breaks into 3* Reid captain:not that much of a problem

[@ReidCaptain]

This works in real life too

[@itsyaboigalaxium]

3:45 "And you see here, it actually looks pretty good" He says as it breaks

[@idkwhatmynameis7326]

10:33

[@itsyaboigalaxium]

@@idkwhatmynameis7326 XD

[@kylerkastner2808]

It just SMASHES its self

[@The_Redstone_Robot]

7:30

[@meta_username]

To be fair, this is Besiege.

[@reapyreaper4780]

Pretty sure the weight side (the one with all the ballasts) is supposed to be 1/4 the sling side, just as a general rule for all trebuchets

[@mitchelparker9132]

"It's not actually falling apart or anything." *everything breaks* Quality content

[@noodlestudios9158]

Ah yes, using Ploybridge diamond strategies in Besiege

[@trashtrash2169]

I mean, it worked though.

[@nikkiofthevalley]

It still works, because it uses physics that falls out of the basic equations of force, so it applies across all physics based games that have stress limits on the parts.

[@Ennar]

@@nikkiofthevalley by "physics that falls out of the basic equations of force" you mean vector addition, right?

[@LarkeyFactorial]

ploy??? bridge...

[@Mneh2]

"the front and back fell off but that wasn't really much of a big deal" POV your a soldier besieging a castle: "huh, is it supposed to fall apart like that?"

[@Loooom555]

At last, the superior siege weapon

[@happycatflix1130]

"the front and the back fell of but that's not really that big of a deal".....

[@400and4]

It is only because you're making those videos incognito, that people still let you into hardware stores.

[@nelly5954]

I would've liked to see a demonstration, and a magazine too. Great stuff as always though.

[@shikigami0705]

Now that's an interesting Trebuchet. Amazing work as always.

[@yami_the_witch]

I love Trebuchets, it's such an underated war tool. It's extremely simple to wrap your head around it and it performs like a beast. Seeing it in action is super satisfying too, how the individual rotations culminate in a extremely fast moving projectile and then recoil from the heavy weight swinging back and forth.

[@timehunter9467]

Have you seen Tom Stanton’s work on trebuchets? Very clever design process from him.

[@buzzytrains9037]

awesome stuff mate, I'm from australia and love your videos. I love looking at mechanical things in games

[@rebel6301]

me too

[@jackreid2664]

That and designing logic(though I'm hardly good at it myself)

[@lilbluridinghood6296]

This whole video was awesome! The trebuchet came out so amazingly well. Kinda wish we could have seen it actually destroy a tiny mock castle or something, though. Still, very 10/10.

[@theequitableprose]

The engineering you put into these puts a big grin on my face.

[@axellouis485]

Bro thats WICKED🤯🤯🤯!!!! Love your videos man!

[@karyjas1]

Impressively effective. Also satisfying

[@xor_the_protogen]

The trebuchet moves during launch. It means that some of the kinetic energy is wasted, which is obviously not good. I believe that making the arm longer would fix the problem, but still, great contraption ^^

[@thefactorean9168]

There are also grabbers that dont move

[@joaogomes9405]

He should have made the arm longer on the sling end and shorter on the counterweight end.

[@noobstore8668]

Respect man keep it up!

[@toxic2971]

"making a reloading trebuchet" *Only can reload once*

[@KingRaulDame]

Thats better than not reloading. Kinda

[@toxic2971]

@@KingRaulDame ig lol

[@KingRaulDame]

@@toxic2971 If anything the worst part about this video was that it was not used on a castle.

[@toxic2971]

@@KingRaulDame true

[@nikkiofthevalley]

Technically, it does reload. Just only 1 time.

[@adventlegofan1611]

Repeating medical weaponry scetch colorized circa 900

[@thelarryman482]

This man is so good at besiege that he could probably invent a working radio

[@Kaiimei]

I can see that it can also quite easily have a store of projectiles easyily rolled into place to be grabbed and loaded, so if you needed it to you could get it to have more ammo, that's pretty cool.

[@joshparsons1485]

Thanks for making videos. They are enjoyable to watch on my break at work.

[@fortune2662]

Virgin Catapult Vs. Chad Trebuchet

[@bobjoebo8933]

I love your besiege videos. Can't wait for more

[@shawnlarimore5932]

Thats insane lol. You could also throw rockets with logic on them so when the arc is right they fly and then get more distance

[@shawnlarimore5932]

You could also do a video on comments for design upgrades which would be awesome love the work!

[@DigitalJedi]

Get that spin launch company on the phone. The besiege space program starts now.

[@VanhaSielu]

A counter weight powered car. Or whatever the swingy thing is. Anyway have a good day and bye

[@Rieny880]

Rapid fire trebuchet, Rapid fire trebuchet, Rapid fire trebuchet, Rapid fire trebuchet...

[@omlo9093]

Dude I just re-installed Besiege yesterday, this looks great! I'm a brainlet however and still figuring out how to "aim" projectiles like cannons meanwhile you built a trebuchet!

[@Lampe2020]

Awesome design!

[@shreknskrubgaming7248]

These videos are just so sick. I honestly don't think I've seen a video of yours that I haven't enjoyed.

[@biglollol]

once you notice how much he says "a lil bit" you hear it every sentence lmao

[@jackgearing5817]

I have to build a functioning trebuchet for an engineering project, thanks for helping me get an idea of what to do!

[@hmurewski]

Great build! btw there was just a little bit too much of saying "a little bit"

[@RealGreenrh]

This dude reminds me of Nile red, but with games

[@I_know_your_current_location]

I love this ideas because its perfect

[@sabszlg9194]

Recently started watching but just want to say have been loving your video's, keep it up!

[@temp3608]

''the front and the back fell off but thats not really a big deal'' what

[@alexeyshcherbakov5371]

6:01 Sounds like a foreshadowing for a gatling trebuchet idk....

[@2poz53]

turning the most superior siege engine more superior

[@mrvoidschannel359]

It would be cool building a glider launched by trebuchet

[@severinevalade3559]

Incredible

[@tubois2025]

The superior siege weapon 2.0

[@pukekoprobably]

"Putting on a few extra braces" Every besiege player knows this pain.

[@juanfranciscosanmarco7330]

WHOA! If you were teleported to de medieval ages, and also got as an wizzard... well, i will just say that the machines would be very difrent XD

[@turtleDev32]

I love your videos

[@lincreeper5544]

I would not even wonder if one day he just sais: ok so today I wanna invent a cure for cancer. And actually does it 🤣🤣🤣

[@KajXZ]

We should still use trebuchets in war

[@codym3415]

Ayy new besiege let's go

[@thetrueending6991]

How have I never heard of this game before??

[@janApen]

Watching this reminded me of something Tom Stanton did. He built a rather interestingly designed trebuchet. Honestly I don’t know how to describe it (it’s called a whipper arm trebuchet) but if you want to look it up the vids name is: Optimizing a Trebuchet by the channel: Tom Stanton I think it would be cool to try and design something in besiege using the ballast trick he used. Hope you don’t mind me sharing a vid name in your comments.

[@BP--]

It looks more like a hammer machine

[@FlorianHenneman]

Yessss Besiegeeeeee!!!!

[@temp3608]

you should travel back in time and help them make this

[@daan8659]

How's the scrap mechanic computer going?

[@GiffyHD]

yay more besiege:D

[@zacharysnyder2520]

Man I I’m happy I don’t own a castle

[@codestercox9986]

WOOOOO YEEEEAAAAHHHH! LOVE TREBUCHETS! WOOOOOOOOO!

[@taahirmatthews4194]

I would recommend using the symmetry tool!

[@mjp152]

I think you can have a great future in control engineering if you choose to.

[@BigMoneyChef]

Now make a realistic trebuchet that throws a 36 weight projectile a (minimum) distance of 300 1x1 blocks. *its unity 5 a single 1x1 block is roughly a meter*

[@rockynoodle5329]

woah sick!!

[@Toei-Rei]

Wouldn't it make more sense to use the swinging of the arm to actually pull it back up instead of stopping it? Thinking about it in terms of 'preserving energy' and making the whole thing a bit faster...

[@squatlobster]

super cool dude

[@iam6119]

Imagine this guy being an engineer for the military

[@epic_baz1261]

could you make a rope bridge(for cars) or golf playing machine(uses the various different cars as a golf ball) in poly bridge 2

[@darealsnorlax8086]

you use bracing to stop it from wobbling i just start using 1 blocks in a weave pattern

[@silvory7021]

you might be able to make some sort of ballast magazine so that you can have more than two shots on the trebuchet

[@KH-gd1my]

If you use anglometers on the arm of the trebuchet you can control the launch angle a little bit better. Love you content, not very many besiege youtubers anymore. You should try and make car suspension next it would be interesting to see.

[@beanboy6934]

You should make it launch a glider.

[@ladripper47874]

Wouldn't a rotatable weight be way more efficient than your rigit design?

[@jzjzjzj]

yes

[@V3rx_i]

GOOD IDEA KingRaulDamian

[@pauldlv9983]

"a lil bit"

[@mmshas1s]

Can you upload it to steam workshop?

[@wulfthemountaindragon5432]

You should really use the mirror tool

[@dragonashly3383]

now, imagine bombs instead of this projectile & more projectiles (like not only 2 of the bombs but 4-5)

[@evans1978]

better title for this video : I made artillery in besiege 😂

[@potatogamer5559]

hey reid, you should try out a game called stormworks, its very similar to a lot of games you play and youd like it a lot! also, this trebuchet is really impressive!

[@KW03_Lucky]

This man reminds me of Nile red but gaming

[@anao_chernobyl]

make an flying cube with water canons

[@speedboi1782]

Hey Reid captain can you do a video on besiege console? It came out not long ago on xbox one and series x/s

[@jonomoth2581]

I got a fun error where I can only hear audio and see the thumbnail, no video lol

[@datonecommieirongear2020]

Seeing how the cart moves when the trebuchet swing, can you make a vehicle that moves with a repeated swing like that?

[@Crazyclay78YT]

I don't really know how you would do it effectively, since the swings cancel each other out, i can only imagine applying breaks when it starts swinging in the direction you don't want to go and then releasing when its going the right way, but it wouldn't be very effective

[@mute1085]

It is possible (at least in reality, don't know if Besiege physics are accurate enough for that), but it would be probably very slow. Basically, you need to swing fast in one direction, and then return sloowly back.

[@thatperson9478]

So I added some more braces...

[@dinodude7773]

Nice

[@silvermoonlight9879]

Try to make a polybridge but use 99% Rope/Steel and only use road that you need?

[@Goldfish_Vender]

do you upload these to the workshop

[@dylanwoodhouse237]

I would love to see you build a train with an engine and tracks and stuff

[@Monkey_D._Gaddafi]

something that is always missing in these videos. a final view on the contraption going through its process in real time. there are so many cuts that all of it just ends up a story about something you dont really get to see.

[@ReidCaptain]

This video specifically I had very limited time to record the ending sequence, so I just did a sum of the interesting parts. Usually I try to get a raw shot for the very end of the video that at most is just sped up.

[@zhoufang996]

Shouldn't you use the momentum of the counterweight swinging back to help reset the arm?

[@ordinaryknife4150]

I want to see it actually destroy something!

[@lionmc637]

what if you get all your inventions (bombers, trebuchets, tanks) and use all of them to fight a thousand enermies in a missive battle💣

[@erased5466]

lets go

[@garciagonzalezmisael8609]

Ahora podemos bombardear Caracas

[@MudMoose_Official]

What about a “double barrel” trebuchet?

[@MrSpheric.]

You should make a Kamikaze plane thats launched by another plane

[@striker3472]

and i thought my trebuchet was great

[@irchonite1953]

1:17 L, front and back fell off + ratio

[@Hacivat-i6r]

2 years later yet still so far away from the ratio