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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@EadmundIsenHealf]

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

[@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 (:

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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 :)

[@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

[@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 @ ,@

[@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!

[@Kroska1]

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

[@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

[@homerun-4966]

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

[@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.

[@danielsomers9491]

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

[@TheShadowRaddish]

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

[@Epicslayer77]

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

[@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

[@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!

[@janisf01]

It’s crazy how much the game as changed

[@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.

[@MonkeyHazard]

why wouldn't you put this on the steam workshop??

[@LastStandGamers]

It could literally destroy the fabric of space. joke its not finished yet.

[@MonkeyHazard]

oh right, what about the other awesome contraptions you've made? like the missile ships ect.

[@carhemi72]

LastStandGamers Arron you forgot to turn on the winch rotor, that's why it wasn't retracting

[@NorthEevee]

weed 0 monkey maybe he keeps some for himself, idk...

[@capras12]

LastStandGamers your power is off in the roter

[@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!

[@TheRedNaxelaYouTube]

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

[@theDebel1]

That is the best weapon you made so far!

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@CRIMECASEBEEETCH]

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

[@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...

[@Twanglet]

This is why I love your channel!

[@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.

[@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 :)

[@Xick]

There's something beautifully Warhammerish about the completely pants-on-head scale of this weapon. "A capital ship with a giant grappling hook for snaring slightly smaller capital ships? Our shareholders/taxpayers don't know we're doing this, do they?"

[@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.

[@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)

[@breakinginferno6774]

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

[@camspythepro]

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

[@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.

[@stuckinmyhead5945]

I thought of a cool disabling weapon. If you made a launch-able missile with octopus arms made of rotors, you could shoot it at an enemy ship and entangle them. It would be even better if you put small ship grinders on the ends of each arm, which would do even more damage.

[@stuckinmyhead5945]

not if it splayed out when it hit the ship, which would mean no matter were you hit the ship, you would still slow them down and damage them to some extent. and if you miss, you can just collect it later.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@festivepenguin7831]

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

[@CodeBroRob]

My idea has come to life, my designs did't work that well, the claws did work, but the ship didn't, also i thougt making smaller ones and make more than one would create a swarm effect, it destroyed the ships core so they couldn't fight back or run away, the small ones also are like leaches that dig inside the hull and get rid of the reactors or other important things like engines, i also killed ppl with them, i only tested it with 5 tho, i don't know what effect it will have with more, with 5 only i started to have a tiny bit of lagg

[@Bradalden01]

suddenly the battle stops then you hear RELEASE THE CLAW!!!! then big impact then your haul gets ripped open crew flying out cause no gravity and some killed by the claw itself and you sit there a wait to be boarded

[@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.

[@GonTar_X]

Anthena update* -> Wireless Claw FTW!

[@HGDfan]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@JohnKaz]

I'm guessing that even when the rotor would have been on it could've snapped especially on slightly heavier ships (cargo and such) So perhaps it would be wiser not to have it reel in the chain but just pull it. And before firing it, you could easily store it in the length of the ship you were using for testing, in a zigzag like fashion. Or even better, abandon chains alltogether, and just have a large beam running along the lenght of your ship, guided by landing gears. Range would be limited but the chains themselfs don't go that much further. I'll give this a try myself later.

[@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.

[@PillowTalk420]

Might want to protect your cockpit, though. The passengers in the ship might not panic for long once they see they can just jetpack above you and spray you with machineguns, and then take *your* ship. :P

[@darkenwarrior]

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

[@kennyhovater8320]

Now we just need a Kraken dreadnought that has an insane amount of experimental weaponry.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@NathanAlgeo]

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

[@Maceochaidh677]

Interesting idea. But maybe a harpoon method would work better? I've not played this so I don't know the physics but If you used a sprung loaded harpoon to pierce through the hull, then have arms open on the harpoon so the ship cant pull away.

[@tontowmerlin5240]

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

[@dpf1110]

That ceratainly looks interesting and probably very frightening if you get hit by that. But I think there are still a few weaknesses that need to be fixed in order to make it effective. The joints on the claw seem to be a little bit too easy to destroy, especially since the claw is quite vulnerable to enemy turrets. you might want to upgrade the chain too, since that is also going to be a big target ( insert clever "weakest link of the chain" metaphor here). My solution would be to put some anti persion/ams turrets on it and maybe add one or two engines that help with the velocity and maybe help the chain retract, so that it doesnt break off that easily. But that is just my opinion on this.

[@kattastic9999]

I know this video is ages old, but I am so very curious to see how this Claw would work on a much larger ship, like say for example a ship the size of the one you're working on in survival. About the size of the ships you guys used in your dog fight video. A ship the Claw can't wrap around and thus has to dig into with all four prongs.

[@winterhirst5934]

Make a whip... PUNISH THE SHIPS :3

[@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.

[@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

[@Thaumcrafter]

It would be really awesome if you could make a weapon like this, but it would actually crush the ship in half so the victims ship would be unuseable :D

[@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

[@XIHawkEyeSkyIX]

I've never been able to create one, but could you create a torpedo that holds some crew to attack, a boarding torpedo, and could you make that idea with the claw? I was never able to make one cuz im not too good at building with rotors and stuff like that..... Also, the rotor was never on....

[@danielrodham4329]

the problem with the grappling hook is that if the other ship moves forward it would snap the chain and if the chain was stronger it would whip into the pirate ship

[@giin97]

hmmm... Wonder what would happen if you threw a few artificial masses on it... hits ship, starts spinning it from the targets gravity field... or have your own, move it whatever direction you want... mulitple small ones locking, pulling it all different directions... ooo, the possible evils :D

[@cameronstain4793]

ok LastStandGamers, I have an idea for you, combine this design with your grappling hook design! "how can I do that" you may ask... it's simple, reverse this claw so that when it fires the claw is closed and is also facing towards your own ship, and make it so that when you fire it at a ship, it will penetrate and then spring open and hook into the guts of the ship. you can add a tip on the end of it if you like to give better penetration if you wish, I have a feeling it may improve your original grapple design. if it is unclear what i'm talking about have a look at some switchblade broad head arrow tips, they're pretty much the same idea and where I got the idea from!

[@naudeyboo8938]

you should make a projectile that grinds into a target that not only traps the ship, but destroys the ship entirely, for parts.

[@martinstensvehagen9161]

Dude. Dont stress out, we have the time to see you figuring it out. You know well that stuff dont just not work. Something in the options was off and you just paniced and went with something els. Dont wory about it

[@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

[@TheSgtVodka]

The only thing that could make this better are grinders on the interior of the claw!

[@Dark123hound]

Awesome claw and ship design good job!

[@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.

[@crunchy7202]

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

[@powertothepoopful]

Make a varient that a crew member can pilot, so like a ship launched from a ship to latch on to another ship.

[@nicknevco215]

Makes me think of OUTLAW STAR anime had weapons on spaceships like this crazy show.

[@KamilDrakari]

You should be able to just put a stationary weapon onto the projectile to act as a laser sight right? I mean, you would have to use merge blocks instead of landing gear so no launching with hotkeys just yet, but it would make aiming easier, and you could have a mixture so you line it up using the laser sight before disconnecting the merge blocks, but also use landing gear so that you can release it using the hotkey.

[@jjstrongarms3720]

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

[@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.

[@gardinershow7641]

First of all the ship might be fast enough to get away from the claw, I suggest that this claw should have a couple fighters to take out the engines

[@jackstrawn159]

To help with the aiming issue, consider adding a camera to the center area with all the landing gears.

[@thespyclasstf2]

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

[@charliewinkley6131]

This is awesome. Would love to work on it in my own saves. It would be really coll if you added this to the workshop! :3

[@w4kch0w31]

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

[@theprogrammer32]

The rotor you were trying to use to reel the claw back in, was off. you needed to actually turn it on for it to do anything.

[@alexday721]

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

[@thegreatwarrior1239]

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

[@techmarineadeptusmechaniku4881]

with this you can do a really good boarding torpedo

[@EmergencyTemporalShift]

Now, if you set it up right you could make the the winch unwind and wind without switching direction.