Space Engineers - Apollo Airbase/Strike Base

[@LDZMarder]

The struts to the engines are a structural weak point. maybe get two additional struts for each engine. So it looks like a triangle with the middle strut for the case one gets taken out or even two. maybe some emergency engines on the main ship if you go down and you dont hit with terminal velocity. But its a very nice stylish ship.

[@bobert577]

Can't get enough of people's different helicarrier designs. Loved you're take on them. Excited to see what other large atmospheric craft you come up with!

[@OldManShoutsAtClouds]

She's beautiful, very nice build mate.

[@w4stedspace]

+ryan day ty!

[@apocryphite_2]

Hydrogen tanks should be explosive to balance hydrogen thrusters more (and of course because a tank of pure hydrogen would be explosive as well).

[@w4stedspace]

+Michael Twohig agreee there tbh man, would be very nice and honestly it feels weird that they aren't.. it's hydrogen!

[@apocryphite_2]

maybe they could also add tiered tanks that explode less but cost more.

[@cerulienceruleen6463]

+Michael Twohig Smaller hydrogen tanks would unlock more designs.

[@mortisCZ]

+Michael Twohig That is a great idea. We have all seen blazing end of Hindenburg and many rockets as well.

[@Triaxx2]

+Michael Twohig Time from explosive Hydrogen tank introduction to Hydrogen based kinetic weapons: However long it takes the projector to build it.

[@cappaco1342]

Helicarrier skipped arm day.

[@josiahbarlow8767]

Another feature is when (eventually) all your nacelles get blown off by the enemy, there is a 4.5 million kilogram dead weight filled with lots of lovely explosive reactors that's going to plummet out of the sky and liquidate the enemy base and its inhabitants. Great design love your videos,

[@w4stedspace]

+Josiah Barlow rofl, aye :) the last surprise heh

[@NothingtoseeHere.Movealong]

Very interesting. Redundancy is a feature not often incorporated in ship designs in Space Engineers. Hope you continue making cool designs.

[@arkdirfe]

That's a really nice ship you got there. Theoretically it would be possible to have another projector that instead of the decoy slab projects warheads if you want to go for a little more... direct approach.

[@sikofu2]

I noticed on your stream the other day you and your friends where using the aerodynamics mod. I also heard him mention needing to put thrusters on the side of his airplane to stop side slip as well as noticing your drones had thrusters to do the same while having wings. If you put vertical wings on your planes then they will act as tails and correct the side slip. I've actually been doing nothing but using that mod as well as the hover bike mod, which has fighter jet style wheels, to make different airplane designs. I've made everything from small fighters, unarmed troop carriers, armed combat landers designed to drop troops then provide air support, all the way to jumbo jet style cargo/personnel haulers. Quite fun actually flying a real feeling plane and landing it on a runway. One thing that's unfortunate though is I need to run the shields mod because the runway will eventually take enough damage your planes will fall through it while landing or taking off.

[@ryankazzy3877]

very nice build, love the lighting in engineering! my interplanetary has the same function of hovering over a base and helping with the attack! nicely done

[@thebigred3465]

I've only recently found wasted and I've already found his design choice inspiring and very helpful keep up the good work

[@samsprague6923]

i really enjoy heli carriers, and this one is done very well. eften times when i build nacels for my ship i always inclue heavy armor or even blast door sections to give them some extra strength

[@io6741]

Y'know, you could have put the 4 engine things closer to the actual ship instead of strutting them out like that to make sure the enemy knows where to shoot to take the thing down.

[@johnwhite4461]

This was a brilliant ship. Great job mate!

[@MickyE117]

Nice work w4sted, like the build style as always

[@Dark-Lord-Of-The-Sith]

Very cool ship indeed! I throughly enjoy your bigger builds.

[@cappaco1342]

10:53 that lake looks.... strangely familiar...

[@w4stedspace]

+Cappaco maybe :P

[@dhkenny2001]

+w4stedspace best one yet

[@ericstorm8277]

+Cappaco Never seen that scenario on this channel...

[@IanDresarie]

+Cappaco but it is missing something... I did not hear an R5 recon drone...

[@cappaco1342]

Sammy Striano It's a reference to a stream

[@watevero923]

AWESOME! I like ships that can take a lot of hits and still be able to fight. The only lack is that the drones are very exposed to a fighter attack, maybe you.should put some turrets even on the top. (I love the super-weapon, it's perfect to make dropships land without being targets)

[@alphabadger1425]

That is a really nice ship great job!

[@hunterlee8383]

I would like to know your thoughts on having pressurization in small ship grids for things like large small ships.

[@1_and_only_Crjase]

this is just one of those legendary ships you would want to show everyone

[@STARTFLEETTACTICALOPS]

Great vid yet again W4stedspace can't wait for another awesome episode of SE from you 3 . Enjoy your New Year and cheers

[@Astragali]

That's bloody impressive!

[@hoyteq]

You know w4sted looking from the back and the way it flies she looks more like a quad-copter, nice build

[@rubenheijs2887]

Found two major problems, enemies can take out the bottom of the ship, and deactivate the conveyors. Also the thrusters for front and back are on the bottom, and should be on top as they can be damaged, and the ship will til forward or backwards

[@ZearthGJL]

The design should be retained but it should be made bigger and with a variety of fighters and arsenal

[@speed150mph]

While your redundancy systems definately help with survivability, it still seems pretty vulnerable. The lack of defensive weapons topside really leaves it exposed to interceptors which could easily make short work of the engine pods, or more critically, the bridge and command superstructure. Larger warships like frigates and destroyers would easily destroy it. However since it is a ground assault platform, it would probably be screened by escorts. Overall it looks really nice, some larger caliber bombardment artillery would probably not hurt but overall, fairly good

[@2xghostx2]

Nice ship w4sted! ive had a go at building helicarriers before but decided im better at Frigates and cruisers :D

[@ApyloSheit69]

I have ideas to turn this ship into a sustained assault ship. First you add a few med bays, second maybey add drop pods, third implement the use of dropships for ground assaults, fourth add some turrets on the top for protection of the drones above.

[@BaranTheBad]

good stuff as always. keep them coming!

[@jonataneklund7748]

+w4stedspace build a train as base of operation, it's a cheap way of transportation in terms of energy. So build a complete base in/on a train. Could cause some cool ww2 armored train tactics to be used.

[@PauloAndreAzevedoQuirino]

So cool m8, you still make the most awesome creations. Salutations from gonorreias and happy new year xD

[@w4stedspace]

+Paulo Andre Azevedo Quirino Thanks man :) Good to see you are still lurking about! Happy new year to you sir!

[@Aaron-mj9ie]

Destroying "enemy bases" would be fun and all... Provided there were actually enemies.

[@girf4233]

Mods.

[@Kilo_of_Milk]

I'm new to the game, this is god level to me. New subscriber

[@zachwatson4377]

Praise the gods, for w4sted has returned!

[@charlx8979]

those mini fighter ships, makes me reaaaaly think "tie fighter"

[@MrSecretMansion]

They look more like the Millenium Falcon

[@charlx8979]

cockpit in the middle and vertical wings on each side tie interceptor anyone? Millennium falcon is asyssmetical with cockpit on one side in the little sticky out bit on one arm

[@dmdizzy]

I see both. It has a general vertical silhouette like the Falcon, but its actual structure is more like a TIE design.

[@bazookoidben]

I really like the design. But I feel the topside is just a little too exposed for my liking. If everything else is out on patrol or performing an attack run, on an enemy instillation all you would need would be maybe one or two bombers to make a quick attack run from the top and you've lost control. Sure the critical systems are protected on the underside, but I'd feel safer with a main gun topside, just to discourage any incoming fighters, and perhaps maybe give fire support for launching drones. Would be a hell of a pain if you tried to launch one and it's getting picked off by another craft. But I gotta say, I really like how everything is very compact and the ship has multiple redundancy. So if it does take a hit it can keep retreat or keep firing if need be. Would you ever consider altering the welders on the underside to provide different kind of payloads for different situations? Maybe even print out a short range drone fighter to swoop into the action? Or perhaps special ordinance that could be potentially more lethal?

[@deadrawarior]

jesus that is awesome! one tiny thing is when you are not talking there is a drop when the static is gone and that drop makes the static more obvious. don't know if that made sense but still holy crap I really wish I could make something like that!

[@QuiteSpiffing]

Oh my word that is more maneuverable than it should be. O_O I love it! ^^

[@engineered3406]

Couldn't you imagine leaving your base, looking up, and see this giant thing shooting at you...... O_O

[@JorneDeSmedt]

What's the power usage like on a ship like this? And any idea how feasible it would be to have a permanently hovering planetary base?

[@FastForwardPlans]

Your going to need a stupid number of solar panels or a lot of luck finding resources to fuel the thing.

[@LtPulsar]

Reminds me of The Avenger, the new mobile HQ for XCOM 2, in how manoeuvrable it is for a large ship.

[@loganshirley1200]

Those huge nacelles are nice until you kamikaze the struts with drones

[@doublegulptank7919]

Hell all you would have to do is knock out some of the exposed conveyors with gats and watch all the turrets go dark

[@nerdsoft9964]

I know I'm late but remember this is going to be sitting above a base. So when you down the engines...

[@janrudzki5651]

My goodness, MODS!!! Really cool build though, love it dude!

[@ivanlovell1195]

How do hydrogen thrusters compare to atmo thrusters in terms of power? Could you lift the amount of solar panels it would require to operate them? Also, how does a ventral docking system sound? For civilian use, of course. Small ship goes up, stalls out just as it gets into connector/landing gear range, and *click*, it's on. Could be useful for hydrogen haulers. Or landing crafts, you don't have to lift yourself at that altitude anymore.

[@TheRam1710]

great ship, but with your turning/twisting issue, perhaps putting a connector on it and use the connector pull strength to pull it on one side? :)

[@somedudeok1451]

Very cool!

[@willbrack7069]

Aim for the joints. Break them first

[@berkegul2890]

very nice base

[@pauldrive7243]

Given the new cyberhound update I think your new design is going to become very popular real soon!.....XD

[@matiastorres1510]

If you're going to be hovering over their base you could just have projectors that produce bombs. Although the bombs getting shot could be an issue.

[@G-mansp3aks]

You should put rocket pods and times warheads on the decoy bomb so that it becomes a decoy rocket drone bomb thing. I dunno it would be pretty cool

[@christophertuttle6244]

a battle ship version with huge guns would be cool

[@AshleyJColeman]

I would love to see how much combat it would take to floor this carrier

[@willbrack7069]

Ashley Coleman well, I've got a shop that can either down it with orbital strikes, or it could duke it out with standard. Ombat

[@stewb1409]

I had a idea for an orbital bombardment platform yesterday - an orbiting satellite that will drop huge chunks of ore from space down on targets. I call it the Orbital Toilet - you're literally pooping on them from a great height :P (It's combining a lot of ideas I've had and seen from others into an insane weapon

[@xantishayde-walker4593]

+Stewart Bates The Orbital Toilet FTW! Rotflcopter!

[@johnwelch1657]

finally something useful for all that accumulated stone

[@wellstat]

+John Welch Dropping just some stones from 3000m is enough to do some serious damage. www.reddit.com/r/spaceengineers/comments/402451/some_crazy_ass_quirky_stone_physics_at_work/

[@SleeperLX]

+Stewart Bates Try that with a dispenser into a tube that is full of direction gravity generators. You could create that force at a much smaller range.

[@stewb1409]

gravity generators don't work in natural gravity :c

[@tyler_bt3326]

Needs a fedora, make a classy craft even classier ;) I'm still here wasted! Don't forget me xD

[@nanookdan]

Brilliant!

[@phurst1358]

I like this I’m just curious how would you keep it running efficiently in survival?

[@Gianlol12]

w4stedspace, could you tell me how energy efficient such a floating carrier is? I imagine it drains a lot of energy just to maintain floating - and therefore I"m inclined not to build one. After all, permanent floating is not impossible without permanent energy (i.e. lots of uranium, as batteries don't charge fast enough I think?). What's your take on it?

[@MrLyren]

I biuld an literal air-catamaran. Its handling like a ship as it has nearly no power to any side as forward and slopped armor at the sides creat the illusion of waves as they let you swing from side to side. Its my most fun ship^^

[@MyMe65]

W4sted, has any built a bomber yet? If so could you showcase it.

[@PlasmaKube]

Use an aero lotus as a decoy bomb. That would be so cool!

[@king124kine]

I wish proper big battles happened in this game

[@l1233799]

I tried to retro fit my 100mill kg carrier to work in the atmosphere. I think it's just too heavy to make it work. Might need to redesign

[@jadenlilly6113]

Best bridge ever

[@Drillz007]

i like the carrier but why not look at a commercial kind of "gas station" a large pad with lots of cargo and area that allows ships to come and dock with it to more ore and stuff between planets and space it would have to have really really powerful thrusters and also be pretty light weight but would be really cool

[@garymaxwell1743]

I feel a group of one man fighters could bring that thing down.

[@DeanxPeaceMaker]

This video has not been touched in a while

[@robertcarlson1404]

Do you have a blueprint for the little fighters you had docked on the top runway?

[@w4stedspace]

+Robert Carlson Will be out soon, wanna do a video on it and a few other aircraft designs together as those little things are a bit special :)

[@robertcarlson1404]

+w4stedspace Thanks! Can't wait!

[@LazyPirateGaming]

This is great! :)

[@kartiknarayan2775]

if someone made a heli carrier in a war server , that is large enough , and strong enough to scar the enemy or something like that

[@viktorlindeberg7363]

u should make a bomber version of this where the bottom is only missile cannons and one camera to line up yo shots. and then just fill up the sides with turrets

[@jack_rail8293]

hey w4asted i thought about transportation/moving stuff around planets and i came up with a rail/train system can you maby work on some rail/train desings for planets would be very cool to see some more train related spaceengineer stuff (sorry for my bad english )

[@mogol109]

YES.

[@lv8pv]

lol "kind'a pleased" Man, that is fucking awsome!! Nothing kind'a about it =)

[@Pufferzsola]

It looks like hidrogen thrusters are always pushing it upwards... Is it too heavy to use it only with the Atmo'thrusters?

[@legoclone0101]

No

[@TheMorbose]

You should make a pyramid base that uses hydrogen to take off and land with a modular cap that turns into a mobile outpost.

[@MrKingTanner]

Nice Ship W4sted! Didn't you build this in a livestream?

[@erezrotem9241]

Why gust not using warheads and sensors? 4 sec after drop sensors active and when the sensors get close they will activate the warheads.

[@sikofu2]

+Bio X Because one warhead detonating will destroy the whole bomb. By using decoys not only is is cheaper, it's also just as effective since people who don't bother thinking or paying attention won't have their missile turrets set to not shoot small ships.

[@erezrotem9241]

Kahlas In the server I played recently pepole closed up their bases and installing the defenses outside. ( I destroyed their bases with the worm. =) )

[@cremasca]

Do you have an estimation of the mass of the ship? TX

[@billyd4eva]

Very nice :)

[@mukteshkumar6426]

This thing is impractical .

[@levikarkiainen331]

you guys need to take designs like this and just have a battle, the crashed remains of the loser could be something you guys find in your survival show

[@wiseguy9718]

Is it me or do those drones look like mini Millennium Falcons without the cockpit?

[@matty_boy2872]

so get above it with fighters and target the struts

[@maciejrozanski154]

Looks like kind of ship i could find in supreme commander :)

[@vladnovetschi]

you should add at least 1 small downward thruster otherwise autopilot wont work good

[@ThavronMakes]

You know what would be cool? A generator of sorts that turns hydrogen into electricity.

[@wreckervilla]

ALL THE TUBES

[@chrisw5077]

with the explody pups not a half bad temp base.

[@Starius2]

you should make tutorials on how you create these ships from scratch.

[@zaboomba6635]

You should replace the drones with rapiers

[@highground2320]

Still waiting on a workshop link

[@ethanwilkinson8231]

IT THE 2 TIER FRIDGE!!!!

[@goldnspartan]

I wonder if space engineers can handle a full scale covenant super carrier from halo?

[@exobyte317x7]

More like a transport ship but nice design

[@boi4965]

those smaller ships, you've seen the latest Star Wars haven't you :)

[@immortaldestruction4072]

kenetic weapons still are effective

[@julianseipp2708]

can somebody explain to me how to use timer blocks i dont understand them and i cant find videos that explain it

[@kerbalairforce8802]

A timer can trigger an action on another block, or block group. For example, you can set a timer to wait 20 minutes and then activate autopilot to return to home base. This is good for if you die while manually mining. Timers can also trigger other timers, which can make for really complicated automation without a programming block.

[@kerbalairforce8802]

You set up what a timer triggers I. The "K" menu.

[@julianseipp2708]

thanks for the help :)

[@liljon0111]

w4sted/jon happy new your mate :)