Space Engineers Ship Evolution (Destroyer)

[@ross2905]

Oh no. I can feel my two weeks Space Engineers binge coming!

[@sweatyasscracksyndrome6037]

I relate to this way too much

[@Stonecargo21]

12 hours a day for a week then never touched again until a minimum of 2 months later

[@sweatyasscracksyndrome6037]

The similarity of this is uncanny

[@Void-in2pz]

@@Stonecargo21 it's time bro :)

[@Stonecargo21]

@@Void-in2pz indeed

[@king_mosabi]

Excellent as always Major! From the ship itself to the video editing, it's all so well thought out and wonderfully crafted.

[@GhostOfSnuffles]

It's kind of weird watching someone design and build a ship from the outside going in. I'm the kind of builder that is constantly removing things from my builds until i distill it down to the absolute minimum number of blocks necessary and not a single one more. That requires me to place all the functional things first then add only enough armor to fill in the gaps to make it air-tight, a building from the inside out approach if you will. Watching someone greeble to me is like watching someone perform alchemy, i don't get how they can do it but i do enjoy watching.

[@Stonecargo21]

I don't understand how someone can just know what size the ship has to be, I tried making a ship and realized it about half the size it has to be

[@shawnhannah7060]

@@Stonecargo21 you just need a clear idea of what you want in your ship.

[@shawnhannah7060]

@@Stonecargo21 I tend to also make notes on paper.

[@DraconixMahvri]

Mmmm...Here's a thought. Why not build a shuttlecraft for this ship? One that goes in that hanger at the back? As far as things go, though, I'd also like to see a developed carrier craft with small assault/interception craft designed to go with it. Just thoughts.

[@CMTechnica]

Without proper scale, I'd think that hangar at the back would be too small for a proper shuttle

[@shade7367]

The shape seems just as functional as it is aesthetic, which I really appreciate

[@gen2mediainc.577]

This takes some skill, making all these cool ideas and actually having a developed sense of what looks good and how to execute it

[@faceboy1392]

Your thought process for building these ships is beyond impressive. All your ships look great and you make it look so much easier than it actually is. Amazing job!

[@maxis_scott_engie_maximov_jr]

Your workflow on creating this ship is 1000x better than my workflow on creating 3D models

[@brickster_22]

Looking great! I feel like your interiors have become a lot better

[@r3dp9]

Showing the design process was very valuable, I've never seen that before. I might be able to make something halfway pretty now.

[@TheMinecraftBricks]

Big respect for phasing this ship. Good ship and good job.

[@iamasquidinspace]

Can you show us the process for the interior, too? I am having such a hard time cramming everything inside my ships.

[@a3.0001]

this is cool to see a differnt way of building, i always lay out my conveyor systems first, then armor that and add the rest, not to mention making a 3d schematic in my head first.

[@MarkKhoury77]

Your videos are so informative and helpful. Watching them has helped me so much with ship design! Thank you!

[@deriongraves746]

This is great content. Thank you for creating this example of your work flow. Very clearly explained and detailed. Your ship design here is awesome.

[@cosmosyn2514]

I Like the build process, it starts by building up a shape, as if you are working clay, then, you chisel down details, as if you are working on a statue.

[@levink64]

it goes without saying that all of your builds are absolutely amazing keep up the epic work!

[@R3LOADlikesgames]

Another beautifully designed ship.

[@zolaire]

Very cool looking ship, well done.

[@nighthawk3045]

Really cool ship

[@MuchGusto]

Amazing job! Really like the overall shape of this one! Thanks for sharing :)

[@petermaltzoff1684]

ayyy, new Major Jon video!

[@razziel4599]

holy ship I was just playing around with this blueprint just a few days ago and now I get recomended this lmao

[@benji45645]

I had a scifi design for a ship that had a similar rear engine layout, except without the lower ones. In mine, there was a small hangar and a half-hangar/half-landing pad below it for an aux craft. The upper hangar, however, was designed for drones (either exploration or combat, the ship was designed to be multirole by payload), which would fly out in a compact configuration before deploying into whatever they need to be once they clear the engines. This would keep them safe from gunfire, especially given how the ship was meant to engage, and it kept a fairly clean area in which to line up for landing. This design reminds me of that, and I imagine a destroyer would carry drones for reconnaissance or support, since they tend to hunt larger ships solo or in small packs.

[@kevintan3705]

Great build, inspiring as always

[@Nusszucker]

The only two times I made good looking ships that I was really happy with, I went from the outside in, every other ship I tried building from the inside out ... Why did I not learn from my own experiences? Anyway, your ships look amazing, this one is no exception!

[@c_gull9995]

Major Jon - reinventing the MSCS Donnager since 2021 xD

[@anzac407]

Looks very good

[@DullSpectrum]

Awesome looking build. Just out of curiosity, do you have any mods you'd recommend for ship building?

[@CMTechnica]

Remove Block Edges I can't play vanilla anymore. Seeing edges on blocks... it kills me Of course, that's just one mod. In the interest of saving us time, I just listed what A; came to mind, and B; my favorite cosmetic/building mod

[@MajorJon]

I usually build without many mods, the only one I always have enabled is buildinfo, it's so helpful to know how heavy blocks and all the other stuff it shows you.

[@DullSpectrum]

@@CMTechnica Yeah, I can get behind that. It's really frustrating sometimes, lol

[@DullSpectrum]

@@MajorJon Ah, I see. How do you make conveyor setups? Do you just tunnel it all out?

[@MajorJon]

@@DullSpectrum yep, just removed all the blocks by hand, takes quite some time lol

[@DrummClem]

These first shapes reminds me of a cargo ship in an old "Privateer" game (Wing Commander series spinoff). Nice work!

[@notsudo6873]

That "boring" interior looks better than probably anything I'm ever going to build

[@bagofsunshine3916]

Dude, looks awesome.

[@yeetyeet3440]

this is some serious skill man good shit

[@MegaKBabs]

Great video, I really enjoyed everything about it! I appreciate the time you put into this.

[@spacepiratecaptainrush1237]

watched a few of these, you have an interesting method of design, blocking out the rough size and shape in the way a sculptor might then adding details and carving away interior space. I wonder how you arrived at that method. I tend to start at the bow or stern and build the whole armor conveyor network, and thrusters as I go forward or back. I also note you don't use any DLCs, I'm guessing to make each ship accessible to everyone on the workshop who may not have them?

[@jjcraft9099]

With the new AI blocks, I would love to see a battle between all of the ships you have made a ship evolution of!

[@luckynoob9728]

Looks amazing like always

[@leaf741]

Dude these videos are so good, I love them so much

[@rradical4714]

hey, your stuff looks pretty cool, but I was wondering if you know about a game called "From the depths" its space engineers, but in a ocean, you can make spaceships, ships, thruster crafts, and submarines has planes. You need to make your own engines, guns, and can program Bread boards, pids or lua. its pretty cool and it seems something up your alley

[@deez6298]

I love vids like that. Keep going dude

[@superchairbed]

when I look at music at 2:08 none of a listed tracks sound any thing like this one slightly confused.

[@kre8or465]

it feels like a lot of turrets for a destroyer, but other than that it looks amazing!

[@heraldam]

I always was curious how much time ppl spend to build such a cool detailed ships? Everything I build looks like a war sausage.

[@Capybara_space_explorer]

The hanger is nice

[@Vision1100]

that looks fantastic... keep going your way o7

[@jefferyscotweir]

Amazing ship. You should do one with all DLC enabled.

[@Quvl]

This is the reason why i want the game but i cant.

[@RDO15]

ive never built a ship like that but this makes me want to

[@Crypteddd]

Im curious, what are your computer specs? Im impressed at how well space engineers runs on your system comapred to mine

[@MajorJon]

Ryzen 5 3600, rx 5700 and 16 gb ddr4 ram

[@HalIOfFamer]

Ur designs are the best for one simple reason, you use hydrogen thrusters, the only kind that does not feel like cheating in the game, i wish the devs made atmo thrusters need fuel and ion some wireing and xenon gas so they are not just the optimal option all the time.

[@robopenguin5501]

They aren’t optimal thrust is so bad compared to hydrogen and they are weirdly shaped. They are also heavy. A hydrogen ship will always be faster

[@butterfley]

bro you are a god

[@ozankale8558]

Do you manually gut the ship to get a full conveyor setup to see or is there a quicker way to take out everything that isn't part of the conveyor system? Also, when you added heavy armour did you manually remove the light armour and replace it or is there a mod or something that allows you to do it faster?

[@talinpeacy7222]

Looks like a fairly straightforward heavy escort and patrol craft. The high focus on point defense weapons and relatively heavy armor plating should lend it well to guard duty with the space for a light fighter to scout the area. Perhaps I missed it, but it seems to lack a jump drive or med bay which will make isolating it easier but so long as it sticks to a guard role, this can be compensated for. It doesn't seem to have much braking thrust which can make it easier to pull it out of position and the rear seems to have a few armor gaps at it's relative underside that could be exploited to quickly cut over half it's engine's conveyor lines and damage the more exposed thrusters with some focused fire. Still, the core of the ship looks rugged and the set up lends it well to handling lots of smaller craft. It's rear thrust looks like it could get up to a respectable speed for reaching nearby hotspots or running down fleeing ships if needed. It would be a decent work horse for a large group when paired with a logistics ship and a sister ship to give it the range and support needed to operate independently.

[@A.Person.Who.Exists]

That's a destroyer? It's like battleship-sized!

[@MajorJon]

But what do I call my next ship then? ;)

[@antonioaguera4580]

Like watching your evolution videos, only thing that amuses me though is that you say you don't like the symmetry so you change them a bit, but they are STILL symmetric...

[@pepemiura3884]

what do u use to build ships in? the actual game with a skybox or an external program? they look nice

[@RogenLothena]

Are you using a graphics mod? A nice black line appears outside the blocks.

[@chrheca]

Name of the song that starts @ around 2:08?

[@MajorJon]

Oh, looks like youtube didn't recognize it automatically. It's this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnOxqKCAfs14n7c I think the acoustic version I used is somewhere on the ncs.io website

[@zat-1-fury]

So what background are you using for your se world ik your in a world I can see the lights from your helmet

[@sh1be572]

The ship looks awesome, can't wait to try it. But why u removed that gravity gun xD

[@simonheadless7898]

I writed this cooment in previos video. But I ask again - How to make such evolution shots??? I not asking how to build - this is need practice. I am asking how to make - such gray skybox?

[@CMTechnica]

There's a mod that replaces the skybox with a flat gray one

[@Quaitgor]

I guess its manually, each time you start working on the ship make a copy of it and paint the new one completly in one color. change your color, all new blocks will be the new color. repeat

[@ironchicken7240]

Quality content. You have earned a sub.

[@roboticintelligenceunit1a652]

To Make A Ship Have As Much Power Efficiency (None is wasted) and Use All Of it’s Space Efficiently whilst having as much Firepower as possible. This wouldn’t be the most efficient disign as it has unnecessary detail and Wasted Space. Cheap,Reliable,expendable,strong, durable,fast,accurate and many more features are required within a ship.

[@jaysol191]

Awesome

[@rogerarmstrong3573]

I've got to ask. What program are you using? I feel like I need to try it.

[@Bismarck-ns8ql]

Mate you need more Subs then you have this work is amazing love watching it Respect from Australia :)

[@lightning1434]

Oh yea I’m gonna cop this and put more guns on it

[@GreatFreedom]

how did you get everything to look like this?? is there a program/,mmod to do what you did for this to make it like a transition for the designs to build quicker? i have an idea for a sdhip but i just cant build it right o.o this type of thing would be perfect

[@nyxborne1786]

what skybox do you usually use when building?

[@toqup_inua8023]

Now i want to play Avorion again

[@nemesiskapn2406]

What program do you use for the models?

[@dracolongdong5157]

How do you paint such large sections of the ship and change their colours so easily?

[@MajorJon]

I just use the spectator cam, no mods. You can paint bigger areas with ctrl. or shift and the entire ship with ctrl. + shift + mmb

[@arxranger8011]

The UNN Donnager king

[@wokawokaaaaaaaaa]

This is basically a step by step tutorial on how to make a ship

[@lordclangtheintolorable2094]

Nice

[@jeremievigliaturo1317]

you used the term Soyuz transition. but I don't understand what you mean. A union Transition? I guess I dont understand the context that applys to building

[@Kirton1541]

he meant the way the engines sloped into the main body

[@thegremlin5886]

Aesthetics similar to the Russian assembled multinational made Soyuz rocket.

[@dankilla5964]

what mod do you use to build these creations?

[@possiblynova]

Major, what mods are you using for your skybox and outlines (your building videos have strange but neat outlines)

[@MajorJon]

No mods, just reshade postprocessor

[@possiblynova]

@@MajorJon Interesting, would you be able to share your settings?

[@MajorJon]

@@possiblynova sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/11566/

[@possiblynova]

@@MajorJon Thanks!

[@marcus757fugaming7]

Thank you for masons it dlc free because now I can use it & it loooks nice

[@KAV567]

is this skybox a mod or a workshop item WANT!

[@locoperroh440]

Quick question how is your toolbar set up?

[@dunn384]

where is the bridge?

[@AimlessSavant]

Hngggg the desire to build intensifies, but I have given up many times before...

[@DmytroBogdan]

Nooo, 22.5° rear thrusters looked way cooler. Also you would have more space for rear hangar

[@xrify9407]

how do you know how to do this?

[@danrey9197]

Whats the name of the ship?

[@INWMI]

i wish this game had something to do with such ships :(

[@arandomsystemglitch2398]

I think the third engine design looks good probably with a bit of the 4th I think I'm not sure but if you wanted to you could of made multiple versions of the destroyer all different engine designs and either have mk-1 - mk-whatever the last design is but it does look nice the interior looks like a npc ships interior also same with the out side for some

[@BRla86]

I wanna see it in combat!

[@luckynoob9728]

Can you make a video for combat testing

[@nowayout1215]

Hi everyone, im a little late to the game, but can you give me the numbers on the scale?

[@gemoglobinator6860]

Please, try to make ship from game galaxy on fire 2.

[@thegremlin5886]

That game had amazing ships and did not get enough credit.

[@東踏取蜜-j5l]

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[@Not_Evil_]

I loved building in the space engineers (1000 hours, what feels like 900 hours on creative) but once the Ideas run out there is just.. nothing to do

[@robopenguin5501]

Go check out stuff on the workshop, watch sci-fi, you’ll get more ideas

[@imaginarystranger1974]

Looks like something from Halo universe.

[@kaloianmitrev6279]

It's goodish but to much or too less detail is bad... You need to create spaces for the eye to rest

[@Wazza555]

Thank you, sincerely, a 165h noob

[@grzegorzswist]

Some of these turrets have terrible shooting arcs. They should "poke out" not be tucked in. You already have a fin on the top, why not place some turrets there?

[@TheSandsofFlowingTime]

Instructions unclear, ended up with yet another large rectangle that I still don't like I wish I could build nice stuff in space engineers, but I still suck at it. Maybe another 300 hours will improve my skills

[@Karek53]

Looks like a big d. I love it