Space Busters | Can We Make a Space Elevator? | Space Engineers

[@cielweiss8288]

“It looks small, but it’s actually pretty big” -Andrewman

[@spacie9963]

That's what he said

[@redranjer]

@@spacie9963 exactly what i was gonna say

[@dylanmonstrum1538]

@@redranjer That's what I'm saying

[@MarkMcDaniel]

That's what he's hoping she'll say.

[@MikeBSc]

22:32 The "strength" slider doesn't change the torque of the wheels, it changes the strength of the suspension.

[@stephenfunk690]

The physics that calculated that whip was dope

[@StarAIwolf]

Can you mine through the entire earth like planner and make a elevator go through it?

[@matthewstapleton1155]

nope minecraft bedrock situation

[@AndrewmanGaming]

@@matthewstapleton1155 Is that so? I wonder how far you can actually go down though. And if it's the same on the Moon as on Earth? It might be interesting to find out :)

[@AndrewmanGaming]

Also the diameter of the Earth in Space Engineers is 120km. In this video we went about 37km up. That means we would have to build an elevator more than three times as long!!! It took me like 20 minutes to go up in the elevator so getting through the whole Earth would take an hour!

[@ThomasCarstein]

@@AndrewmanGaming From what i've read, stuff (diggers, wahrheads) simply dissapears at a certain point, but it wouldn't hurt to test this out ;)

[@Splitsie]

You can absolutely tunnel the whole way through planets now, the gravity fun at the core is quite cool :)

[@robinandersson99]

29:46 thats what i keep telling my gf

[@wyattsparks8591]

haha bro

[@efshnef]

make a rail gun that launches the payload into orbit

[@efshnef]

@SuizidoAwesome mods

[@spartanwar1185]

inb4 it's weaponized (actually you don't really need to weaponize a weapon, which is what a rail gun typically is) and used to launch packages violently through ships

[@Kari-tu3fs]

SuizidoAwesome you can do it with a really tall gravity tower. and i mean really tall, to the point where you are getting an appreciable drop in pgrav

[@themadkraken1912]

@SuizidoAwesome MODS

[@ClingyCrab]

@SuizidoAwesome BECAUSE YOU NEED MODD TO ACHIEVE IT BECAUSE OF THE SPEED LIMIT THAT YOU PREVIOUSLY STATED!

[@gwynimpostor]

can you weponize that piston whip?

[@Hootkins.]

The planet whipper.

[@gwynimpostor]

@@Hootkins. *heavily breathing*

[@BestHakase]

But it is already a weapon

[@syntax6788]

Get some warheads on the end of that baby and boom

[@thanosattorneyatlaw4062]

@@syntax6788 Yea, it went boom without any warheads :P

[@randomperson6176]

When you tried to build a space elevator and accidentally built a sky hook, unsuccessfully, on the way there: It just works.

[@crazycroat457]

kurzgesagt moment

[@zereimu]

This is a good way to replenish hydrogen by bringing ice from planets into space, it's so expensive to get a big ship out of a planet. lol

[@notomnithegodking]

Just use a smaller cargo ship

[@zereimu]

@@notomnithegodking Yeah I thought about that but I usually have the mentality to bring all resources with me. Which is a bad idea, best thing is to build the ship, get what's needed to get out of orbit, then worry about resources later in space where they are easier to handle, legit I filled my ship with ore and tried leave orbit, crashed a few ships trying to escape gravity. lol

[@manuelkfc7916]

Fumo

[@AudiaciousLife]

i believe epiktek had a full station elevator but he had a custom script and used wheels and thrusters to maintain alignment

[@strex2062]

I think there was someone before who build a elevator building machine but i dont remember did he build it

[@AudiaciousLife]

@@strex2062 epiktek's was self building, he had a projection in each segment and before the new segment was built out would stop and connect to get a new load of supplies.

[@strex2062]

@OriginalTharios so now we can do it in one grid? (epik had to craete second grid becouse there was a block "size" limit)

[@MrMattumbo]

God that series of his was such a treat to watch, truly a rollercoaster ride watching him slowly bring the project to completion while having to overcome so many crazy challenges.

[@strex2062]

MrMattumbo the guy "Splitsie" have series that have too few chelenges like working catapult or tram

[@drbit7734]

You could have built straight down from the rotor.

[@breizhbugs]

30:10 Can't you put a landing gear on your small grid that you lock/unlock manually when you want to stop/go?

[@AndrewmanGaming]

Ah yes! This would have worked as well :)

[@elementalblaze79]

Yes, you could add landing gear for a locking break but you'll either have to make sure you have a precise build for the landing gear to slide against the pillar or use a piston with a landing gear so it can push the landing gear to the pillar to lock! Like one of the sayings on the world loading screens stated, "if it's worth engineering, it is worth over engineering!" Lol

[@breizhbugs]

@@elementalblaze79 If the landing gear is not set to autoock, it will slide gently. But yeah, you must pay attention to how you build the elevator so that there is not too much vibration otherwise klang will show up!

[@kylehurrie9742]

maybe pressing p for the handbrake would also work, but with the way those wheels look it could be a massive gamble.

[@nekokuza]

I would put the landing gear pointing upwards, cause, why would you need a space elevator, if there isn't a platform to go to, and downwards as well. The question is in going down. Are the two sets of wheels enough to stop? Irl, of course, the friction would cause everything to wear down pretty spectacularly, but in SE this is a dope idea.

[@crembels]

7:30 You think its gonna whip it, but it doesn't whip it good

[@ThomasCarstein]

I attempted a similar design on my orbital tether a while ago, but it didn't work then... your video has given me a new incentive to try it again :) Thumbs up^^

[@demitanuki]

*ERUSEA WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*

[@jokerred1090]

Thank you for doing this and uploading the results, you've saved me so much time. Plus the physics and commentary were hilarious.

[@Mowraq]

Now to the real question: How much weight can it carry? Enough to build a whole ship up there? Another intresting approach would have been a platform with two rotors and 4 landing gears attached that lock and unlock automatically.

[@Adanos_ger]

I'm glad that what I had in mind was actually tried and worked out in the end. :-) I guess with a projector and welder, the elevator could actually build itself.

[@zachw2906]

Around the six minute mark, I'm watching the pistons near the bottom wiggle and I am thinking "Dude, next time don't build your space elevator out of wacky waving arm flailing inflatable tube men"😆

[@sorrowandsufferin924]

I love this. To me, this is a proof of concept. I can build a space elevator (even though I would probably stop at .3 p-gravity and launch out ships from there. Have a base up the top of the colomn, and stop the cabin using landing gears that autolock, and maybe a connector to transport ores and materials up and down).

[@pcmate9007]

hold [Ctrl] while hold [Mouse1] to place multiple blocks at ones.

[@ValentineC137]

if you're talking about him stacking pistons, then no, that doesn't work

[@systamatica]

Can you rebind that? Ctrl is my crouch key :/

[@ValentineC137]

Systamatic maybe?

[@pcmate9007]

@@ValentineC137 did i say stacking, i meant making a row.

[@gamersdeed3152]

PC mate naughty, naughty you commented before the video was over about an issue resolved later in the video

[@mikkelnpetersen]

I hope they add a "rail" block, that you can place certain other blocks on, that can then move along the rail. It would make it possible to make fx. a 3d crane (instead of using 3 pistons, having a square with 2 rails on2 sides to make the X axis, a beam of blocks between them, with another rail being the Z axis, and the "crane claw"(/the Y axis) could then be a piston with a connector. But basicly, so we can make a tower (like 8:45) and then add a rail and a platform on it.

[@corinthianimperialstudios704]

Okay, as someone who is actually interested in the topic of using non-rocket methods to bring materials to space, I think a planetary based mass driver is more realistic than a space elevator in the real world solely because it is easier to find a material that is incredibly heat resistant than a material that can stretch from surface to space and not cause an incident like the one at New Mombasa in 2552.

[@robob4465]

irl you would still need some fuel to make an orbit (reducing speed at the right altitude) when using a mass driver

[@jonathancole3149]

Halo reference.

[@corinthianimperialstudios704]

@@robob4465 really? I did not actually know that, but that does make sense.

[@corinthianimperialstudios704]

@@jonathancole3149 well, that is one of the worries with a proper space elevator. The materials we have at hand are not strong enough to keep an object in orbit tethered to the ground, the tether could devastate a large portion of whatever continent it is in. According to the FAI definition of where space 'begins,' that tether would need to be easily over 100km. Most likely several megametres tall, if I am doing my math right.

[@jamesm783]

Look up SFIA, Issac Arthur has a channel devoted to this sort of thing

[@Atlas-pn6jv]

Separated elevators on a thick shaft, with wedges to put wheels in. Elevators are separate structures. Use a combination of ion and atmospheric thrust for propulsion. Throw on an autopilot block. Set it for exact positioning. Set some waypoints to connectors. Run it solely on battery power. Set some timer blocks so when it meets connectors it won't run again until the batters are charged (you'll need to do some math but you shouldn't need it to be fully charged anyway since it'll recharge at the bottom and top of the elevator). The elevator is basically a sideways rover with set tracks (the wedges) with autopilot to help position the elevator so you don't need to pilot it.

[@nihkke]

11:00 why not build it down? 23:00 wheels on the top for stability, or make 3-4 columns? :D 30:00 I wonder how projectors/welders might work into it all

[@unkn0vvnmystery]

15:37 if the rotor was strong enough to turn at .14rpm for a 18.8km stick it would spin at 615mph(991kph).

[@brytonmassie]

Clang doesn't like this, piston elevator.

[@victorunbea8451]

26:38 Livin' on a prayer

[@stefanm.734]

_Space Elevator Progression_ Piston machine that raises up a platform: *Failure* Rotary contraption to take advantage of physics and snap upwards at high-speed: *Failure* A box designed to literally go up a 180 degree incline using nothing but an engine and giant wheels: *Success*

[@Hr1s7i]

I always make a satellite in space then "hotlink" it with my world side base by placing a bunch of floating self sustained octagonal ring shaped satellites that negate gravity within their circles. This makes travelling up much more cost efficient. Still takes time though. If it comes to transporting wares, I think the best way to do it is to put a bunch of proxy floating points and script them to "bounce" up when full with materials, auto connect to next node, port materials (injector collector ports), disconnect and go back down. It will be tricky to make them go back to their original position, but if you make a bunch of gps coordinates and use them as anchor points for the repositioning scrips, that would most likely be the best way of transporting a lot of stuff for almost no expense in resources and time. Writing the script for that would be a bit tricky since it would have to involve a component that accounts for the current g strength. So far I haven't had any luck with figuring that one out so I only tested the bumping line by having it operate via timer based engine pulses. It was a disaster :D

[@seyeruoynepotsuj]

You could add an automatic landing gear built into the spire under a platform at the top, and when you arrive at the top it effectively grabs the elevator and holds it in place ready to be released.

[@The_Jinxed_Joker]

How could you not let us see what it looks like to let it drop from the top!

[@holyravioli5795]

A better solution would be a really powerful rail-gun that propels a small ship or cargo container into orbit.

[@ramendude4062]

Giant catapult time

[@RAFMnBgaming]

Or a trebuchet.

[@holyravioli5795]

@@RAFMnBgaming lol, like a mile long trebuchet throwing stuff into orbit would be amazing

[@Aereto]

Mass-Driver/Railgun approach: you will need some serious G-force dampening to make any manned craft survivable. Otherwise leave that kind of launch system to the drones.

[@holyravioli5795]

@@Aereto I think using drones would be the best way, like you could send humans in regular rockets then cargo for resupplying or building stations using a mass driver.

[@JesterAzazel]

I was thinking of using the wheels to hold the thing in place, thrusters to make it climb. But with just wheels, it uses so much less power.

[@sk8in4metal]

This channel honestly is way better than a lot of others with space engineers content

[@danieljuno810]

Thumbs up for effort, time spent, and design. Even if it would fail completely in survival.

[@aspect1587]

If you do ctrl and hold it. It build a lot of them

[@AustinJFerret]

You should have used an instrumental version of "The Girl from Ipanema" for the elevator timelapses near the end, just to make the "space elevator" idea complete.

[@cameronsmith5968]

At 25:00 when you have the wheeled elevator "working" it shakes around a lot. Put some gyroscopes on there and check the "Override Controls" box. This will set the gyros to hold the tilt at zero so you don't shake around as much.

[@BinaryKiller_Recoded]

With the wheel elevator.... You could just increase the friction on the wheels and they would do a lot better

[@chlochlo_the_T_BAG]

i love how it was supposed to be more efficient and much better than rockets but it turned out to be slower and more expensive. Great video!

[@nobodyimportant2470]

Interesting. I would say that pistons have a possibility to work though not nearly as fast as the wheels did. Build a tower just like you did with the wheels either with armor or conveyors and have docking ports placed at a set interval. Then the machine climbs the ports by extending, then switching the locks and retracting. Alternatively the rotor could be used so you dock 1 end then rotate around until the next port is in docking position.

[@Batman-iu2iv]

Tip for all you engineers out there: Build a 1 high footprint of the pillar you want to build. Look at it and and press CTRL+Copy Attach the layer on top and repeat step 2, over and over. As the pillar gets giant make sure *you are at the top of the pillar* and you are *looking at the base.* Otherwise you wont be able to place it on top. And don't be too close. You'll get a skybox limit pillar in minutes.

[@christopher4265]

i suggest having at least 4 columns with the vehicle in the middle with atmospheric and ion thrusters. the brake you did at the end wouldnt be needed if you had the ion thrusters to stabilize its position. also, as someone else suggested, lock it in place with a merge block or a connector at the top. i would build a space station at the top for docking starships and such :D

[@aidenaune7008]

you made the most prominent design for a space elevator, you also proved that if we could get the right materials we could accomplish this task.

[@TReyeHD]

Space Elevators are a good idea but when poorly executed it'll be a catastrophe with possible casualties. I've been pondering over this for quite some time and I only asked myself more questions the longer I thought about it. One question that I'm wondering but can't test myself is: Can a station orbit the earth at the same speed the earth is spinning and in the same direction? If yes, that would open possibilities for a strong steel cable that extends from earth to the space station.

[@richardwolfe2089]

Try using landing gears along with the wheels, so you can lock the elevator in place when you get to the top!

[@MannyXVIII]

do planets rotate in space engineers? If yes you would need to build on the rotation axis (which is approximately at the north and south pole)

[@JohnWaclawski]

This was a lot of fun to watch! Thanks for doing the video. Onto your video of journeying to the center of the Earth!

[@monad_tcp]

15:03 we're not going to calculate that, what are we? scientists, no, we're space engineers !

[@Graknorke]

Engineers be like: π = e = √10 = 3

[@kvangames4836]

The idea of a space elevator irl, is just a cable and counterweight with the elevator just climbing the cable. The physics is to make the cable twice as high as need to get to orbit. This would be where the centrifugal force of tension equals the force of gravity. The geostationary orbit point is this location. This has been calculated to be ~35,000km. So the elevator would have to be ~70,000km tall. While the final 750 tons of cable would be expensive, the efficiency of an elevator compared to the normal rocket launch would make it so much better, a rocket launch costs $25,000 per kg while the elevator just $220 per kg. Also if the rotor was truly 18000km and moving at .14rpm. C=2pi*r, 2pi*18000=113000km in circumference and moving at .14 rpm, you should have been going (113000*.14)/60seconds=263m/s

[@Leaglestalon]

i know the situation with klang and damage especially to wheels but always wonder if it possible to make a "HOPPING" vehicle. Be quite a challenge to attempt.

[@AndrewmanGaming]

I love it! (added to the list) :]

[@elementalblaze79]

I did make a 2 wheeler that could jump but it could only jump if I used the "low rider" bounce method(start with a small hop that adds a bounce to add height) but I was only able to hop up only about a meter(or 2 small ship blocks) on the Mars-like planet! It was funny to do on AnubizRa's stream that one time long ago! Lol

[@prometheus8010]

7:15 Earth has been a naughty planet

[@orvishana1210]

That's what I was thinking too! 🤣

[@darkbooger]

I feel like the design the Halo universe had for a space elevator made the thing quite a bit more stable. The whip reminded me of Halo 3 ODST when the New Mombasa space elevator collapsed. I think if you put wheels in the corners of a box it would make the elevator more stable instead of the wheels attaching to a single support structure.

[@drktronic]

I feel like you could have gravity generators going up the side of a really, really long hallways going up, keeping you stuck to the wall so you can walk up... just a thought though. It would take a lot if time, but it might work

[@wesleyyisme2586]

I’m sure if you added an entire framing and support to the piston and lowered it into the ground it might actually be a working design lol

[@harmsc12]

If I was building this, I'd probably make the central column bigger so I could put in more wheels side-by-side to stabilize the elevator.

[@davidsisson194]

You could've tried artificial mass and gravity generators.

[@Larahug-13]

they don't work on planets

[@deltax4144]

@@Larahug-13 Ah, but they do! You've just got to be under 0.50 g in planetary gravity. My spider cannons that I build on Titan use artificial gravity to catapult them into orbit!

[@Laughing_Dragon]

@@deltax4144I'VE NEVER seen grav generators and artificial mass work in real gravity, going towards the planet for the artificial mass, but to get off the ground? Delta that would NOT work, to go TOWARDS gravity from orbit, yes, maybe, but were talking about going from the GROUND to orbit... not being halfway already up, and doing it, so no, sadly gravity generators will NOT work in planetary gravity on the surface.

[@davidsisson194]

Oh yeah, that's right. My bad.

[@the_omg3242]

Very interesting concept. A couple of changes I'd make are to put a ring of gravity generators at the bottom to suspend it. (set to counteract the planet's gravity) At the top you'd use gravity generators to dock with a station. For both of these you'd edit the field size to make them extremely short range but powerful. Would also be nice to have it fabricate the tower on the way up. lol.

[@Dubbelthor]

Just gotta say this that the actual space elevator structure would NOT be first place on a hill, but in the middle of the ocean as to ensure a anchor point without any worries of most natural catastrophes and even height on the equator. Its specially the fact it has to be on the equator as that makes the none ridged structure not have as much varying tension on it plus geo stationary orbit and all that. This is because most heights are not even close to high enough to make a difference. I think even mount everest makes a not so noticeable difference to the total length.

[@OmegaZyion]

Not to mention mountains form when two tectonic plates are pushed up against each other. Meaning that quakes would happen quite often in that location. Not exactly a good idea to build a structure that is going to have to endure monumental stresses in a location that isn't geologically stable.

[@Dutch_Chucky]

2:10 piston got a lagg problem.. the first space engineer: "we space engineers find solutions for everyday problems"

[@lazypat5497]

This looks like an efficient model. If it were longer and had thruster support just to stabilize at the top it would be a bit better

[@junoguten]

Maybe if you used a really thick column of piston to raise a bar many times the length of the pistons, and instead of using rotors you just use hinges? Lots of them next to each other if need be.

[@dmanbiker]

If you put another giant long piece on the other end of the rotor (like an enormous pinwheel), the counterweight would probably make swinging the thing much easier.

[@BrokenGlytch]

Very nice. Thinking of ways to accomplish this myself while I was watching and I was leaning to something similar to the final method, but I think it would be interesting to use multiple landing gear, pistons, and logic blocks to make it even more monkey-like, reaching up and grabbing higher on the 'rope' with one 'hand' while the other pulls down to raise the platform.

[@petrnemec1421]

"The Space Elevator Will Be Built About 50 Years After Everyone Stops Laughing." -Arthur C. Clarke (Surviving mars reminded me this quote)

[@TheLogicalLowdown]

A connector would be cool to dock at the top or make the wheels push towards each other, so the top set drives towards the bottom and vice versa. Might work.

[@mikerunnells5723]

Run 5-10 pistons then use a heavy armor block with thrusters aimed in each direction. Make sure the dampers are activated. Inflatable flailing arm tube elevator issue solved, mostly.

[@wazzu4488]

Yes. The final release trailer proved it.

[@NilRacing]

This makes me remember one sentence from a scientist "the space is not far, is only a hour drive with your car, if your car could drive upwards" (or something like that)

[@Luchoedge]

maybe if your car went at 800 km/h...

[@NilRacing]

I just searched and says space starts around 100km from Earth...

[@fleentstones117]

I know it would take a LONG time, but 8 more poles would benefit keeping the elevator in place. Put 2 on the outside edges of all 4 sides and wheels sticking outward to touch those as well. More wheels, more walls, less wobble.

[@AndrewmanGaming]

You're right, that would probably make things way more stable!

[@nathanharrison2]

one tweak i wouldve made, to make it stable, is maybe outer walls and wheels? 2 point contact per side would stop the horizontal jiggle

[@gamerofwar99]

funny thing that's actually how theoretical space elevators are supposed to work. Either raise a tether into orbit or drop and tether from orbit and make a machine with small wheels "drive" up the tether

[@classifiedclassified6543]

I believe that the piston whip in the beginning can be weaponized, just go to the end and attach a sphere of heavy armour and boom, ships of all sizes (and vehicles) gone.

[@darkfire321000]

I can imagine this system elevator system being supersized so instead of a small platform, it can be a hanger that can ferry ships from below to orbit without having to waste too much fuel

[@SnepBlepVR]

darkfire321000 only issue with this is calculating the weight of the ship it would be almost better to build a station at The top to build the ships in low gravity kinda like how they build star destroyers in starwars

[@RuiWang-zm2ue]

The lowest piston would need to exert enough force to carry all the pistons above it. Since each piston weighs 500kg it can get out of hand really quickly. The foundation piston will likely be obliterated and everything on top will then be detached from the ground.

[@christopherg2347]

It is actually a rather common mistake that you need to go "all teh way into 0 G". You really only need to go so far that the Ion Drives can overcome gravity. As a minimum height, I would say the point where Ion Drives are not hindered by the Atmosphere anymore. Plus 1-2 km for safety. I thought about the "driving up a pylon" design myself, but never managed to do build the cabin. The main job of those wheels is to stabilized the thing. It might be possible to do that part with detached landing gears. Maybe even balls. As drive only wheels will work. Atmospheric and Ion Thrusters will work the first and last bit, but there is a "zone" of a few Kilometers where only Hydrogen thrusters will work at all. As for stopping, that sounds definitely like a landing gear problem.

[@D-365]

How about sending up a ship? Maybe pre test some other elevators like the one you did as well. That way you can find the strongest, simplest, and most stable design. I'd recommend having more then one tether, but that might not be as cool. Also, look into adding a brake system.

[@brianwoodbridge88]

Should have doubled the width of the tower for more traction. Adjust the suspension and it would be rock solid. Other than that way cool! This and the one where you make an artificial gravity station have inspired me 😊

[@SapioiT]

Pistons? I think you might want to use a rail system with a cart system, the cart going up and down using wheels pressed onto the rails by the gravity of having some weights on the side opposite to the cart. Edit: I see you tried that in the second half (or third third) of the video. Edit2: I think you need more rows of wheels... Edit3: Oh, you also did that... Edit4: For stopping, you might want to use a landing gear, and maybe put it on the subgrid of a rotor whose angle you change to get into and out of locking position.

[@travistharp4215]

Wait I got a crazy idea how about you make it standing straight up and build it to where a car is attached to it with wheels and can drive up it.

[@junoguten]

I think I'd make the pillar just tall enough to get the pinch right first, so I could see how close and hard I could pinch before breaking the pillar or suspensions.

[@blahblahcw]

The rail gun idea to get people to space is a good idea but propelling something to escape velocity that doesn't have it own thrust would probably kill the operator it would be like having an elephant sit on you traditional rockets mitigate this by being relatively sustainable G but under constant thrust

[@whiteravengaming9873]

I'd always imagined an elevator would start from a station and build downwards.

[@tomasmisek5598]

The issue with that irl is that stations are in orbit, which means its flying really freaking fast around the planet, which makes it rather hard to connect an elevator to the ground

[@c9rm3n]

Good job, I'm going to build this on the moon where I have a mining out post, but use conveyer junctions to transport ice and rock to a ship. I didn't think of using small blocks.

[@ikkonoishi]

The game doesn't like large grids. If you build something like this the game will lag everytime you get near enough to load it in.

[@TheAnical]

It's hard to do but if you select the bottom of a free floating section of blocks, you can copy and paste one face onto another.

[@Skiivin]

In theory, a space elevator needs to be built in orbit and lowered down to the planet in order to prevent it from collapsing due to its impossibly tall height.the way to think of it is that the base is actually the end that is in space.

[@matthrew]

Piston idea might be actually viable, but you will need to place 4 pillars around the piston, then after 10, 20 or 40 pistons you will have to put a plus made outta blocks The lazy fix for the cart wobbling (on the wheel example) is using 8 wheels (2 per one side of the big pylon) All of the wheels should be on pistons facing inward, so it applies more friction (but maybe a suspension would be handy for that?) Basically: | | | | /○| |○\ |-| |-| < platform \○| |○/ | | | | | |

[@nirabhradas6375]

Dude, you got yourself a new subscriber!!! Awesome video!!!!

[@revenevan11]

Could you make the pillar/column out of conveyor blocks, and directly connect a base on the surface to a space station? Then you wouldn't even need to carry cargo up the elevator manually, only would need it for things that can't go in an inventory like people/ships/vehicles.

[@prometheus8010]

9:28 structurally speaking I would think the elevator would have to connect to a multi ring with more connections around the planet like an exoskeleton, now best way to test that would be to do it on the smallest planet.

[@corinthianimperialstudios704]

At that point, if you have a society that advanced, just build the Ring of Iron like the AdMech have on Mars. Just build a damned ringworld around your planet!

[@sirkrustin]

You have the top wheels mounted opposite to the bottom wheels. That's why you had so much trouble adjusting them.

[@threeomgthree]

The one where the elevator crawls along the big shaft (dont say it) reminds me of a book called Starclimber by Kenneth Oppel. It is part of the “Airborn” series (Thats Airborn without an e, it implies that the main character was born to fly and also that he was literally born in the air iirc)

[@MeCooper]

So... This might not be the most practical idea for survival mode... I'm glad I watched this, I was thinking about making one. 🤣

[@fritzkrieg7206]

Epiktech did build one in surival actually

[@bobbycrofts9241]

at 19:17 i was thinking "the only problem i see with this is that it might not have enough strenth to lift it up"

[@leavethisemptier]

Really wanted to see you drive the elevator up and off the rail into space, maybe i will build my own. Great video and cool idea!

[@Comicsluvr]

There are a number of mods that make pistons longer. If any of them are still stable, you might want to try that next time.

[@_gungrave_6802]

Ctrl and Shift keys are your friends when placing blocks not to mention Ctrl+X for deleting highlighted stuff.

[@NoBudjetFilms]

Very cool. If refined some it could maybe be useful? A ship would be faster... trying to think when traveling by space elevator would be better than a ship. At the very least a conveyor tower to move resources between an orbital base and a planetary base could be useful...

[@Darklord_Dax]

So all it takes is a vertical rover