I Ignored This Glitch For WAY Too Long

Welcome to another episode of Trailmakers! Today I want to finally experiment with the ever-popular "ufo glitch". This is a strange physics hack that occurs when you put two hover pads facing each other. It's been around forever, but I've never actually taken a close look at how it works. Now is the time!
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[@samael335]

I can't believe you've never used this glitch. That's kind of impressive, to be honest.

[@Agostonhal]

He has but he's never really experimented with it...

[@AlexTheMinecraftSonicFan]

I’ve never used this glitch since I’ve played and I’ve played since high seas came

[@Logan_Roman]

Weren’t his old wall-climbers using the hoverpads technically an implementation of the UFO glitch?

[@viaticus_music]

its a really old glitch, i played before all the newer updates, like in 2019

[@timothybraidwood7696]

I agree😂

[@leosspace1630]

finaly, scrapman uses the full potential of the hover bolocks. Now let's just hope that he uses the ufo glitch engine (instead of the stabilizer feature). It works by putting a block at an angle in front of the hover pad (5 degrees of diffrence). (there're some videos about it)

[@nomecompletamentecriativoe3913]

Just comenting so your coment goes up

[@QuirijnLeeflang]

Hi

[@SimonWinkler-h2e]

this is what i thought wheen i saw the video, to me, hover negines are more exxiting and i dint even know about this use.

[@leopoldviertel]

Only 2 degrees for more downforce but less acceleration

[@notthatbad42]

Is that a typo or intentional?

[@stevepittman3770]

You missed another key aspect of the UFO glitch - if you tilt a block into a hoverpad it goes fast as hell. It's used in lots of micro-aircraft builds that are designed to break the speed of sound.

[@Redscope621]

Wait how do you do it?

[@stevepittman3770]

@@Redscope621 I believe ThatDomGuy had a video a couple years back showing how to do it, that'll be better than me trying to explain in text.

[@-aid4084]

@@Redscope621 you can create a UFO engine with many different blocks, some have been patched but for the most part it remains. the basic concept you want is the surface the hover block is pushing against to change angle, this changes the direction of the force. You can use steering hinges, rotating servos and pistons.

[@Oli-cn1vd]

Yeah

[@stevepittman3770]

@@Oli-cn1vd Wait you necro'd a 4 month old thread just to add 'yeah'?? Thanks for your brilliant insight, your contribution to this long-dead conversation is invaluable. :P

[@sethcushman5454]

The big advantage of this over the quantum rudder, I guess, is that this is actually a toggleable stabilizer.

[@-aid4084]

That and there is only artifical drag produced in one axis, depending on the rotation.

[@stoehrya93]

You should just hook the pistons into the throttle button. They'll just pull back as soon as you start moving forward but you can strafe at an instant without having to worry if you're still moving forward or back. Then take off with turning mechanics in another instant.

[@Octotrapper]

true, smart

[@Skrylex_]

Nah, not smart. The pistons would retract completely. In order to do something kind of that, you would either require Analog or Binary logic. @@Octotrapper

[@ThatGamerPilot]

Just hook it up to the strafe keys, so it will retract when you need to actaully strafe

[@technicbuilder6410]

I built a spacecraft that used this glitch instead of a quantum rudder. Unlike quantum rudder, UFO glitch doesn't affect speed in the axis vertical to the hover-pad axis, so my spacecraft could reach unlimited speeds while being stable like if it had quantum rudder.

[@Luziferne]

The Devs hate that glitch xD

[@NotAWookiee]

Lol​@@Luziferne

[@joonalehtinen5462]

You can get additional controls out of them if you have the option to only swotch on one of them at a time.

[@st0rmerc00l8]

You should use this in the high seas with a ship that has a heli pad, so that you can land a helicopter on it.

[@jay_enderking6627]

I love how scrapman is using a glitch that makes things floaty to turn and is not using it when he has the problem that his creation is not floating well

[@Rip_Winkle]

Day 263 of asking Scrapman to search for "Realistic" in the Trailmakers workshop

[@ThatOneSkywalker]

Dedication

[@TheLocalWaffleTheLocalWaffle]

fr@@ThatOneSkywalker

[@saintskinny8128]

Someone is dedicated to dedication

[@ladyindigo1897]

Damn

[@mcdoof5454]

You got this

[@danielpalecek4090]

I never used quantum rudders in a space fighter. hover wings have more strenght per power core at 600kph or slower, hover wings handle like rcs in that their force doesn't increase at more speed, quantum rudders are more like wings. I also mostly have the hover wings turned off and only turn on when docking or stealing. another way to use hoverpads is to hinge a wedge into it to get speed.

[@AndreuMcAllister]

It would be so cool to see multiple of these in battle

[@-aid4084]

With the hover engine, you can block off the thruster with either straight block for the effect you see, or angled block, which act like a vector, and change the direction of the thrust from straight to a certian direction. Using hinges, you can change the angle, and therefore the direction of that force, giving you a lot of directional thrust. This is basically how the UFO engine works. Some blocks have been patched out to not produce a directional force, but most blocks will work. Having two facing together in opposite directions cancels any aditional straight directional force, meaning you won't rise and fall in the direction a single thruster faces normally. Combining two hover blocks, with their own angled blocks and geometry on hinges to interact, produces the most power to powercore ratio of any thruster.

[@Gomorragh]

2:30 needs a delay on the legs lifting up until after the engines lift you up

[@Petit_loup137]

0:06 there is a ufo glitch and the ufo engine making the use of the ufo glitch but it only uses 1 rover the ufo engine is by far the most powerfull "engine" in the game

[@Loop_Kat]

Glad you did a video on this because I honestly thought the "ufo glitch" only referred to the glitch where you use a hinge to tilt a block into the hoverpad thrust area to provide really high directional propulsion, I had no idea that stacking them together like this allowed for these velocity dampening effects

[@richardgesegnet5481]

5:58 tightened up your turn. You went from way loose to tight. Yep the side ones are centered in a way that your actually rolling through middle of the turn. An amazing find for racing.

[@bakupcpu]

Welcome to the hover pad fun? You can also turn on of the two off to actually produce a small but powerful force in one direction. I've use this in an old creation of mine "The Box" and it's pretty fun. Cheers!!!

[@drive_6665]

0:17 "I have a hover pad I have another hover pad Ah Alien engine"

[@merlinni]

You should do a series with Yzuei where you do a functional propotype of some vehicle and he does the visual design

[@nautilusgamer2797]

Yes

[@nautilusgamer2797]

That would actually be pretty cool

[@intangible9838]

You can also put hoverpads facing towards anything solid and they act as a slow and super ridiculously stable upwards thrust (or whichever way they are facing

[@skull02892]

Could you use this to soften the landing on your giant jumping tank that always destroyed itself when it lands?

[@carcharoclesmegalodon6904]

Sure. The thing is, it doesn't explain how they'd solve that issue IRL xD

[@ygphantom7275]

Don't know if your going to see this but you can do a test to see if more pads in one direction his more of an affect on your speed when active. Love the videos

[@zoro-yz1my]

I have used this glitch before and it’s amazing, but one thing I was surprised to see him not cover is the fact you can create “thrust” with the 2 hover pads. All you need to do is turn one of the 2 hover pads off and it will produce a stable force.

[@xenobeast9426]

I like how you just don’t tell us what the craft is called, really helps

[@Kdog852]

You can also use them for thrust by using a hing to push a wedge into 1 hover pad

[@Uubier]

wow the way they work on that floating turret on the single thruster is amazing, i thought i was kinda cool design to be able to shoot and move in an opposite direction, but the way it flies like some seeker turret, could for SURE be implemented with some ai to make a swarm of those things!!

[@roccov3614]

19:50 Another idea would be to have another set of hovers on the front of the center of mass. When staffing, use all four. When turning, use only the back ones.

[@rileymorgan9900]

Try it in space, see how it compares to quantum rudders.

[@Toxic-cb4db]

Scrapman please use the glitch on your leaping tank please

[@HimothyLee0305]

Yeees good idea

[@LolFunny-hi4es]

I THOUGHT THAT TOO

[@MrPudelNudel]

UFO glitch acceleration through aerodynamics is also very cool.

[@stardust0901]

i feel like the hoverpad retraction should just be registered with W and S as well to make things simpler cus thats all they are meant to retract for

[@Zenhd12]

YOU ARE KILLING ME!!!!! whith how good these videos are man keeo up the good work!

[@vvsandgaming4648]

Imagine having a dogfight, in a dive toward a target and then just suddenly stop the dive like in a cartoon

[@BananaDude508]

what i find interesting is TerraTech actually has a very similar glitch using hoverpads, though i think it provides crazy good stabilisation and speed for some reaspon

[@XXGlomerXX]

So much more you can do with them by turning one off. Pitch, turning, altitude.Then of course engines. Also thanks for picking my Pikachu in the build challenge.

[@noahum5105]

In lament terms, the “UFO glitch” or “Hoverpad glitch” is a very strong wing that works in any environment. It can be used to replace conventional wings, be used to direct thrust which is called a “UFO Engine” or “Hover Engine” and reach ridiculous speeds and pull stronger forces. Downside to its uses is it can be unpredictable at times. So when something isn’t doing what you wanted it to do, its probably its side effect or as the community calls it “Trailmakered”

[@suicidalbanananana]

Ufo glitch (as called in the thumbnail) is shoving/rotating some block into the hoverpad to get a crazy speed, unfortunately that has been patched a few updates before space expansion (would've been awesome to have in space) Making two hoverpads face each other used to give a very strong "directional effect" thats similar to the quantum rudder, but with the introduction of the space expansion this effect has been drastically weakened (it still works but less & only at pretty low speeds, seems to be something like 70% the effect of the quantum rudder and instead of limiting speed like quantum rudder it just completely stops working after you speed up beyond 250-300)

[@locke_ytb]

Scrapman, you should totally make A PLANE using this hoverpad feature. edit: Or a helicopter, using the hoverpads as rotor wings.

[@SprintyUA]

Where's the "day ×× of asking ScrapMan to battle flying tanks" guy 😭 I miss em so much 😭😭😭😭

[@Lavender_Dye]

I've been messing around with the super traction hover pad glitch recently (the one that lets you drive on walls) and it has almost the same effect, physics get a little weird when physics defying items are involved

[@cheesepotatoegg4052]

Scrapman was overpowered without glitches already. Can’t wait to see what comes next

[@zat-1-fury]

The ufo glitch was probably a way to do a quantum rudder before they were even announced for the space update

[@LordSethrik]

They aren't ideal for space travel as as soon as the thrust depends on pitch, I made a spaceship powered by UFO engines but the UFO engine requires gyrostabilisation to keep it upright, and then quantum rudders to redirect the thrust in the desired direction, it does however give you very good manseuvarability, it's capable of doing J turns at 300+ mph abd changing direction near instantly

[@joshuamorin2123]

if you put only one hoverpad and press the slanted side of an aerodynamic block into it you can get insane forwards speed. i used it to break the sound barrier with a single power core

[@highvoltage6091]

Another thing you could do to mitigate the altitude drop is to just put the smallest thrusters/jets (the 1x2x1 ones) along the bottom attached to the larger thruster.

[@thecooper1936]

you can also put them under a block pad thrusting upwards into it to make a wall climber. i made a spider truck out of this trick to help get me up to some higher collectables before i had flight options if you have the pad on a steering hinge with no reset it makes it into a really controllable rock/wall crawler

[@lennelbalando5615]

This would be a great vehicle for battling against each other in Trailmakers. I bet it would be so much fun for everyone especially with its high controllability.

[@foxboy8837]

I wonder how the ufo glitch will work in space

[@DMCDrake]

I found a pretty neat glitch with suspension that let me go up to 50mph with no power cores. I just got trailmakers, and its super fun.

[@cyrushunter8610]

Suggestion: scrapman, hi I know something else that you can do with these hover pads that you should absolutely try out. So if you get a hinge with a wedge attached to it and then forcefully bend the wedge against the hoverpad, you get crazy speed and acceleration from it.

[@xenobeast9426]

Tbh that looks like a dr egg head build

[@NFProphet]

You can also use wedges and hinges with a glitch similar to this to make it move forward and it moves very fast, I have seen vehicles using only this as a movement method and they go anwhere from 300-3000 mph.

[@Slurmifier]

BTW it’s said by other people but it can be any surface the thrust side is facing for the glitch to work and if you push the flat side of a 2x1 angled block into the thrust side with and it will make this incredibly strong and fast “quantum force” that you could probably break the sound barrier with, 2 power cores only btw

[@not_smart_and_not_a_toy]

i remember trying this a few years ago like in 2021 or so and just crashing my laptop

[@chris993361]

I will be interested to see this used in space in place of the quantum rudder as this would allow you to have no speed limit while getting the same control. It could be a heck of an advantage in a space fight.

[@tjgrant1324]

Its such a good glitch I cant wait for when he does a vid on the propulsion hover pad glitch

[@slickrick8279]

Build an air snake with this .... every snake segment basically has to follow if it can only move free linearly The head would need to have multiple of these hover glitches to kinda move on invisible rails through the air

[@kermitthefrog1971]

Multiplayer Monday idea: you guys should do a Hover Buggy Race in Scrap Mechanic. 5 thrusters. One for each "wheel", and one for movement and steering. Thruster for movement and steering should be set at 5.

[@andreyemelyan5267]

You can turn way sharper with strafe AND turning, cause then hoverpads turn off, and now you can't strafe diagonally without spinning out at the end.

[@kyleflora9316]

Scrap man shloud use the forward thrust with the hoverpads in the drag strip. hes shloud try to beat my record of 1:73 seconds in the 2-5 powercore lege

[@NotAFireNow-WhyDidYouLookHere]

Did kan and moonbo know about this?

[@Chaos_67]

Another one I can make you grow the fastest you can in the entire game

[@Chaos_67]

I meant there’s another one that can make you go around 3000 km/h

[@mw8308]

Scrapman making the most optimal pod-racer engines

[@lewi3xclusive95]

I’ve seen someone use levers to propel their build and it broke the sound barrier. We need a video exploring this glitch. I’ve found one once on the workshop and it was a crazy 4 panel helicopter/rutter thing. It was nuts idk how it worked before my ps5 got a corrupted file and deleted all my stuff

[@adityak600]

You should try UFO engine too, just one hoverpad + aerodynamics is enough to break the sound barrier. Note: Seat should be behind the hoverpad, not in the front.

[@evahamers8476]

If you put them in a wing orientation then if you lean forward you slide forward if you have enough speed you can slide up again and turn with it

[@gameplayer6814]

You can also make an engine out of the hover blocks to go at speeds that no other engine can make.

[@christopherbrown7230]

This would be a really good method of thrust vector and inertia dampening steering for a podracer

[@kermitthefrog1971]

Multiplayer Monday Idea for Trailmakers: UFO Battle Rules: 400 Complexity Limit Small Cannons (You decide the amount)

[@StankSoock]

Day 93 of asking scrapman to play crossout.

[@mykeymato]

You can also use them for powerful thrust. You mount a steering hinge Horizontally to one side with 2x1 frame bars, 1 block up,1 block out and use it to push a 2x1 block about 8 degrees into the outer 4 segment ring. That'll get you going real quick. You can also double them up and turn them sideways so they down drag you into the ground. [2x1][SH]=[2x1] [2x1][2x1]{HOVERPAD} [2x1][2x1]{HOVERPAD} [2x1][SH]=[2x1] Like So, Enjoy

[@theinfernollama8564]

Scrapman: "I have never used this glitch before." Me: "Isn't that more impressive?"

[@FeuerToifel]

you should definitly do a multiplayer demolition race that pretty much uses the principle of the 1 thruster hoverjet with ufo glitch as base.

[@NEEDADR1NK]

“Wwwwwwweclome back…” is the best

[@DanielC-qz4oy]

Do the quantum rudder glitch

[@KolbaltSayian]

Look up the UFO engine. If you use that, you could probably use both the engine and the stabilizers to make a engineless vehicle, maybe a hovercraft?

[@MrMattkid]

Should try this in space, see if it requires atmosphere. If it does work in space then you could use this in multi-player to enhance your control.

[@nohax3691]

you can use that glitch as a quantam wing ive already done it with quantam flyer quantam flyer v2 and quantam flyer v3 they are on the workshop

[@UnreasonablyIrrelevant-gv8xx]

It is quite an amazing glitch.. With how much versatility it has it is pretty surprising you haven't explored it yet 😅

[@Jakes9505]

Hey man, if you just putt a normal block under the hover pad you can use it for lift

[@ccaygen]

The piston idea is similar to how mercedes was dominating the f1 for a while before they realized and banned it

[@kacperkonieczny7333]

Now we just need to wait until he discover that he can break the sound barrier with this glitch.

[@mrnaris4852]

He knows

[@tristanthesus8418]

I kind of use this glitch before, but I didn’t use 2 hover pads I used hover pads with two blocks underneath them like making a helicopter but you crash into the ground and it’s way harder to control

[@karmlac1746]

UFO battle!!!

[@kmilopataslargas4181]

i like it when he comes back to cool builds!

[@Zane12ai]

I havnt used the UFO glitch much, but rather its varryation of the UFO engine. In my expiriance they are consistant, but highly unpredictable.

[@bretrobinson1590]

I've seen people just put a hoverpad upsidedown and just put hinges with some aerodynamic block folding into it.

[@Donutkid19]

You can turn off the bottom one only and you’ll go up, basically doing what all that logic does to let you go up and down.

[@L-And-R-Production]

Day 1 of asking scrap man to search star wars / space ship on the work shop

[@Muroshi9]

Should have added a vertical ufo on the single thruster ship near the top behind the gun to do soft landings.

[@NathanTruby]

This glitch is everything the Quantum Rudders should've been

[@atomicreptiliascreator738]

Make a large alien spacecraft that uses this glitch to remain airborne and NOT fall to the ground OR struggle to take off while in high gravity.

[@SoupRoutine]

I wonder if adding a set of vertical hover pads would have prevented you from falling while turning, rather than the gimbals.

[@cloggedrandy4615]

Use a steering hinge to put a wedge inside of the hover pad. Use on the sides of a plane and watch what happens.

[@leopoldviertel]

Try the ufo ´wallclimbˋ glitch, but angle the surface of the block right on top of the hover block blocking it using some hinges by like 2 degrees.

[@josephdabunny]

well the hover pads kind of make you go smoother when driving over bumpy surfaces, kind of like suspension so could u call this a suspension glitch?

[@Ringo-l6p]

theres also a glitch where if the two hoverpads are facing up you'll infinitely go up

[@Z.DeAllen]

I would still love to see the logic for thrust vectored braking. I've been working on something like that for a while and can't figure it out.

[@Heyits_aYe]

Hey Scrapman! If I may, what is the name of the music you used in the background at 16:50? It sounds familiar. 🤔

[@tigersmith12]

Could you make a gyroscope with this where you only turn off one side at a time? Or have a gyro scope hover glitch in the center then have this retro fitted design around it?