Space Engineers - Prepare The Claw, Deep Space Pirates Weapon Of Choice

I lone cargo transport ship drifts through the sector unguarded and unarmed it would make an easy target for even the most novice of pirates.
From the deck of a distant vessel the captain brings his binoculars to his eyes. He shouts to the crew, prepare the claw ! From the hull of the ship the four arms of the claw a weapon outlawed in may sectors appear. Each instrument of death and destruction locks into place jolting the ship.
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The main purpose of the game seems to be building a space fleet and fight/ally with the other factions. You build your ships piece by piece and the only know limit for the size of your ship is what you computer can handle.

[@jasonrtz]

I wish they'd add a countdown timer option to the warheads. That way with the new autolock feature you could make sticky bombs.

[@SomeD00D01]

Seeing this is cool

[@PeterGriffensbrother]

guess again!!!!!

[@kmdgaming6039]

Imagine the claw as a full-blown ship instead of just a weapon.

[@trevor5933]

2 suggestions 1. clock or rotate all 4 claws 45* left or right. seem like the two claws on a horizontal plane with what your grabbing is less effective then if all the claws grab at an angle. (hope that makes sense). 2 What about mounting several grinders along the sides of each claw arm. As it grabs a ship, It would basiclly cut it into 4 parts, which would disable even the most advanced ships.

[@EadmundIsenHealf]

Even if this is highly impractical and inefficient, this was the first SE ship concept I found truly badass.

[@KorianHUN]

If anyone want to build a minefield: gravity block, a warhead, a thruster facing the warhead a reactor and a gyro. this is all. if a big ahip approaches it, the push will probably activate the gyro and the mine explodes. If your gravity field is a bit outside the ship it will trigger it immediately. This can be used to booby trap stations or standing big ships for example.

[@StarryGlobe089]

Hey LSG Its StarryGlobe here again, (i came up with the self repairing armor) I just got a idea for a ship build, but my computer is still at the repair service, so i am not able to build it. The concept is basicly like a giant extending fist that you can put on your ship to litterally hit the other ship with. Doing this you can ram ships from safe distance and expose their weak points to rockets. Now we can control rotors if they are on other rotors you can make a sort of chain that will extend untill it reaches the other ship. Because you can reverse the chain you can actually hit the ship multiple times before the fist gets destroyed or stuck, and if it gets stuck you can use missile launchers at the side of your ship to completely blow it up. This can also be used in synergy with this claw idea, just put a claw on the end. By the way if you want to use grinders on stuff that has a high speed when it impacts surround it with heavy armor slopes to protect it, it will still function but take significantly less damage from the impact. Hope these tips help you out and i will see you the next episode :D It would be very cool to see a battle between ships hitting eachother (:

[@COOLerSk]

I bet its quite embarrassing that you forgot to turn on the rotor to actually reel in the hook in the end of video.

[@LastStandGamers]

Dam was that it. I was wondering what had gone wrong because in the test it worked fine. Thanks for the observation.

[@Lyndeno]

I guess he'll have to make another video, oh well :)

[@koleyo9072]

LastStandGamers We're still waiting for another claw video BTW

[@Black-vo2tv]

@@koleyo9072 still waiting. lol

[@shadowdoesgaming7139]

"The clawwwww..."

[@superspider64]

The claw has chosen me!

[@CCOOA]

Awesome concept, really nice realization, love your work Arron, just keep us marveled as you had already done so far :)

[@Twanglet]

This is why I love your channel!

[@homerun-4966]

That's a great job, you've applied the grip we're all fine, that's tremendous.

[@Kroska1]

The final version of the LSG grappling hook complete, bravo.

[@quantumbox01]

This is ingenious! :D Favourited, Im going to try and replicate something similar but have the claw attached to my ship, and as it grips the target, a row of drills come forward to start cutting the ship in two!

[@TheShadowRaddish]

Awesome, It's kinda like that Reaver ship that roped stuff in serenity!

[@Dark123hound]

Awesome claw and ship design good job!

[@haggisandchips1]

this looks so cool, nice job dude

[@danielsomers9491]

Aaron when you tried recoiling the chain you obviously didnt see that you had the rotor turned off...

[@matteus8411]

I love this idea. Great job!

[@janisf01]

It’s crazy how much the game as changed

[@lordofalafel5950]

Seems like a boarding claw would be a cool idea... Like, a claw with a pod on the back with a few mechs in it, that has an opening at the front so once you're locked on you can enter and clear the ship, taking it hostage... Never played though, and these videos have inspired me to buy and try to get some good ideas

[@connorlove8289]

After watching this video,on Multiplayer,I always put an escape pod in the bottom of the ship for if I ever run into....THE CLAW! *Du du duuuun!*

[@Rpreds64]

Haha

[@Epicslayer77]

The claaaaaw! It decides who will go and who will stay!

[@justingould2020]

I'd love to see this as the business end of a boarding vessel. Have a corridor down the centre of the claw, clamp on and cut your way through the hull.

[@theDebel1]

That is the best weapon you made so far!

[@CRIMECASEBEEETCH]

That just digs in to the ship and destroys it that claw is sick

[@ernestorodriguez3637]

In the chronicles of Riddick assault on dark Athena the Athena used a rocket propelled grappling hook to capture ships! ...I guess it would help if space engineers had ropes! If that were the case then I guess you could make an elevator! Or maybe a crane! Hay maybe that can be a letter to the developer!

[@farenht456]

awesome concept man its pretty cool

[@ToxicWolf2]

You can easily disable it with rocket turrets.

[@lmaogottem5984]

Or shooting it.

[@aracaniusinfinius2880]

Or plain ramming/attaching warheads and shooting at them to destroy the chain

[@RayvenQ]

Or moving...

[@theDebel1]

But small / civilian ships are easy targets, and that is what pirates mostly attack...

[@leaf0nthewind625]

Unless you attach guns to them

[@w4kch0w31]

Hello aron i found your channel about a month ago and ive watched everyone of your space engineers videos your awsome

[@CRIMECASEBEEETCH]

Love the idea of the claw and the chain

[@breakinginferno6774]

well... im putting small versions of these on my ships because that was AWESOME!

[@Jack_Wolfe]

Needs "teeth" on the arms of the claw for more eating damage

[@Jack_Wolfe]

Very cool design.

[@daquanrushing5584]

grinders would make good teeth to rip through the hull, thats a smart idea

[@Jack_Wolfe]

Daquan thebuilder That's what i mean when i put teeth in quotes.

[@daquanrushing5584]

I was agreeing with you

[@Jack_Wolfe]

Daquan thebuilder ^ ,^ i was confirming that i agree with your agreeing ^ u^ Shame there's no way to make a really strong chain. or to hook two motors controlling the same attached part @ ,@

[@darkenwarrior]

I can't say it seems very effective but looks bloody cool

[@MrDAkotaDESUS]

An amazing concept!

[@calipto4605]

That hook is awesome

[@docgonzoxfg]

If you could incorporate a crew boarding pod you would be able to clear enemy crew and turn off any defensive systems before the parent ship moved in to clean up and turn off either some or all of the other ships engines to make it easier to tow back

[@voxexmachina5620]

interesting, would a fly-by-wire arrangement be possible? (set a series of thrusters on the claw and group them so you can turn them and the main ship thrusters on/off independently)

[@nathinminello3736]

It would be really cool to see this claw design on a torpedo body and have it jet propelled so that you can attach multiple claws at a faster pace or even have them on small controllable pods that people can drive around so they can manipulate the larger ship the way they want it to go.

[@TheRedNaxelaYouTube]

AWESOME IDEA, propel grinder balls (a small spherical ship covered in grinders) into enemy ships.

[@CliffordBoom]

I know what it needs... A spike on the middle of the claw that can retract that way, when activate, it can go right through a ship

[@vechmaster]

What would be an interesting ship is one that takes advantage of the merge blocks. Its purpose is to connect to an enemy ship's merge blocks and 'hack' their ship and take control of it. For it to work it would be relatively small in size but be compatible with large ships

[@laserbrony3659]

LOL WHEN IT CAME OFF AT THE END I KNEW THAT WOULD HAPPEN I COULD ALREADY SEE SPARKS LIKE 10 SECONDS BEFOR IT SNAPPED!

[@fod3er]

That looks awesome :)

[@jjstrongarms3720]

This is amazing I got the game recently and this is wayyyyyyy beyond my skill

[@samschafft3956]

awesome idea, you might want to try to use the "decoy" blocks as well decoys and shoot them out the back of your ship to divert missiles, just a idea

[@XseuguhX]

That is so awesome !

[@KazuyaMisuki]

Awesome Idea Thumbs up!

[@techmarineadeptusmechaniku4881]

with this you can do a really good boarding torpedo

[@tokyosplash8584]

hey a cool idea would be to make those spinny spikey things from the movie batle ship and throw those into ships

[@aracaniusinfinius2880]

Problem: no implementation of ships, large or small affected by gravity so you still have to shoot them by kinetic propulsion

[@tokyosplash8584]

yea but with the force like he uses and remember im a kid so dont get mad but if he uses the force and a little rotation from roters he might be able to do it

[@Unknownsoldier740]

You generate all of these concepts and stuff, but I would like to see videos were you improve upon their weaknesses and test them in combat situation.

[@Madesic]

This gives me an idea for a grinder torpedo!

[@XDFreakLP]

holy crap this is epic :D

[@AliBaba-zm7fo]

Using gravity generators and mass blocks works well enough to drag a ship away, still needs to be improved in a manner to control it better, could be useful for dragging a ship of out battle, maybe escort ships, thus leaving the target (Cargo ship) alone.

[@Creaform003]

You can have two rotors connected to a single axle with use of merge blocks and some clever positioning, it makes them many times stronger against sheering forces.

[@kelseythurman2314]

You should use the middle claw as a boarding method by putting people in it then once it latches grind into the hull of the ship and everyone runs in

[@gameygameygamer]

1:55 anyone inside the ship* OH GOD THE CLAW IT'S COMING IN SO SLOWLY WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO WE CAN'T FLY AWAY OR ANYTHING THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE OH GOD!

[@Darqshadow]

Difficult to fly away if strike craft took out weapons and engines.

[@Maffi96]

I died of laughter at the end XD

[@iwanthalo3]

How about, you create the claw as normal, and set the arms to the open position. Then remove the power generator and reverse the arm direction. Then attach it to your ship by landing gear with a merge block on the back of the claw, and front of your ship. Then when you release the claw and it attaches itself, fly over and connect the merge blocks powering the arms once more allowing the claw to close and capture the ship fully. Would love to see that :)

[@FlipLogic]

Have you considered a projectile claw device that has grinders on the insides of the hooks? They would grind away as the hooks continue to tighten, until they chew through completely.

[@xRaTeDSnipingEU]

You could add a gravity generator to it to cancel out their gravity or if the claw destroyed their gravity it would just flip theirs altogether

[@BraveCat9927]

you should put a little gatling gun on or very near the torpedo version so youhave that laser to guide it easier

[@aspade01]

You could design the torpedo version to have a passenger and could be piloted into the enemy ship. You could also replace the chain version with a tube which could double for boarding.

[@etopsirhc]

might i suggest making a tentacle claw variant. so the claw arms would be a chain with auto lock landing gear attached to each link and rotors set to reverse with a torque gradient allowing for little damage but a very firm grip.

[@WarlordToby]

LSG should make Claw MK II... Add thrusters so when you grab the target, it starts spinning uncontrollable so it crashes or the hull gives up, pretty much destroying armor. The hull possibly breaks into 2 pieces and sends pieces away ((depends on the architecture)), possibly making target retreat while you reclaim the other part of the ship.

[@verazunrus4834]

you should use the claw with dispencers like you did with the octopus thing on your vids and make a harpon to pull the ship back in

[@ethanzarian3163]

I would love to see the finished version of it

[@AmlSeb]

You should try to use it as torpedo with a enforced tip in the middle to breach the first armor layer and with some warheads on the actual claws.

[@fenixmyaroon8633]

this would be a great idea for a boarding craft. imagine: the ship has troops in it and gets launched into a ship, the craft clamps, the troops drill a hole into the ship, and pile into the enemy ship.

[@tontowmerlin5240]

Your rotor is off, that is why it wasn't pulling it in

[@festivepenguin7831]

Ok I just got to do this *coughs* The Claw! *Points at claw*

[@ArBee123]

I havent played Space Engineers yet, but woud it be possible to turn the final claw with a chain into a mini ship that you stear yourself and have the chain connected the other way around so once you latch on, you pull yourself back to the ship?

[@Hughsie28]

You never have much luck with your chains xD

[@thespyclasstf2]

You should add large warheads at the end of the claws instead of the grinders so that it does more damage

[@bergenplays5787]

It would be so cool if u could attach warheads to the claw and blow them up as it hit the ship and just a bunch of space pirate coming in with guns... That would be awesome

[@alexday721]

You could add a sensor to close the claws when it comes to close to a ship

[@Ryan-hq2dw]

How do you pair things in control panels like two rotors at once and also how do you change the colors of the names

[@LanceAtlas]

When you tried reeling in the red ship like a fishing hook, you reversed direction and changed speed of the correct rotor, but you never actually turned the rotor on. ^_^

[@TheRedNaxelaYouTube]

When you get the grappling claw finished, make a bay where you pull the ship back to full of grinders to salvage the ship whilst a group of soldiers kill everyone inside.

[@Prominator123]

Well, this weapon is the ultimate piracy weapon. First take out their defences, then use the grappling hook claw to grab 'em and take them back. Even if it does snap the ship in half, the engines are near the back, therefore meaning that they won't be able to control it, and they're easy prey.

[@crunchy7202]

Awwww, I wanted to see the chain whip around and hit big red.

[@AgentDexter47]

if your point is to lock to the ship, wouldn't the auto locking landing geaars be better for the claw tips?

[@robertprine8405]

Can we get a view of the inside of the ship as the claw hits? I would like to see from the crews perspective.

[@gaming4fun586]

That thing is terrifying, imagine minding your own business mining some asteroids or something, then all of a sudden a giant space hand grabs and disables your ship. You're then boarded (or destroyed) by a ship you didn't even see coming...

[@justindowden2985]

I was thinking more along the lines of outlaw star grapple arms.

[@sirnomnoms126]

I totally see like people on the claw in the missile version breaching in after impact.

[@winterhirst5934]

Make a whip... PUNISH THE SHIPS :3

[@RayvenQ]

Here's an idea, think of the claw, but in reverse, it deploys closed, penetrates into the target and then opens, ripping the target to shreds from the inside.

[@swirol1711]

Arron you could possibly attach several smaller versions to a light craft and use it as a way to infultrait larger ships and still have it attached by more than a flimsy landing gear or several on a large ship so the have to remove more than one large one

[@TheZurkey]

Please build a little ship around the claw. Would be glorius having many little claws attacking a ship and slowly disabling it. You could even still attach the cain and let one brave pilot fly the claw into the enemy.

[@HGDfan]

The claw should be a separate ship. Guided by a pilot, heavy armor.

[@Sojo214]

Could you create circles or posts to create an aiming sight which is at least somewhat accurate? Like, 3 fins that line up to fire the missiles into your target, same with the claw.

[@thegreatwarrior1239]

Should have put some drills or something in the middle of the claw to drill into the ship would have been cool

[@Crazymoniker]

With the sensor blocks, this could be a hell of a lot better.

[@truckerduck85]

You guys are awesome.

[@NathanAlgeo]

2:40 what you need is a little ship following you with guns to knock out turrets/thrusters

[@awsomesauce03]

i want to see this more it seems so cool like if you made the arms blow up so it cut the ship apart or but teeth on it so it crushed more or it like twisted

[@camspythepro]

I'm just thinking of those aliens from toy story. "The claaaawwwwwwww". Don't let them fly this ship xD.

[@lilbaberdoo9778]

Its funny how his voice from the intro changes near towards the middle

[@tubby7321]

if you only use 2 claw part things you can can grip rectangular ships much easier because the side ones dont get in the way.

[@PDModding]

On the first configuration me and my friends put a docking bay on the claw so we could go inside the ship easily