Space Vehicle Quick Guide - From the Depths

Some people call me the space cowboy...
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Underbelly - Lulu
Mylar Melodies - Videomusik
Jeremy Blake - Pixelated Autumn Leaves
R.LUM.R - Good Job!
ABOUT THIS GAME
Summary:
In From the Depths you can build and take first-person command of battleships, planes, submarines, space ships, hot air balloons and more! The game is currently in alpha and contains a wide range of single player content including:
A creative mode allowing you to push your designs to the limit and ensure the total annihilation of your opponents.
A campaign waged over hundreds of islands against eight unique factions.
A Story Mode where you can (eventually!) play 15 missions as each of the eight factions - a fantastic mixture of strategy, design and wild battles! Defend your fleet against waves of enemy forces in a series of extremely tough challenges that unlock new components.
An expansive multiplayer and co-op element is planned for the coming months!
Key Features:
Design and build your fleet, fortresses and structures however you want. The alpha currently has over 400 unique components blocks, not including 29 different components for making missiles, torpedoes, depth charges and bombs.
The sky's the limit, you can equip your vehicle with - cannons, lasers, mines, bombs, missiles, torpedoes, propellers, rudders, jet engines, wings, hydrofoils, hot air balloons, anchors, fire control computers, blueprint spawners, repair bots, air pumps, automated control blocks and many, many more!
Realistic physics - every block destroyed or added affects the vehicle's functionality, physics and control. Drag, inertia tensors, buoyancy and sealed compartments are all updated based on the design of your vehicle and the damage sustained.
Be part of a fantastic community: (www.fromthedepthsgame.com/forum), with new releases made on average once a week. Community organised challenges and blueprint sharing make it an extremely friendly place to hang out!
Customisable Components:
The customisable components in From the Depths allow a unique level of engineering customisation:
- Design custom missiles, bombs, depth charges and torpedoes by combining various warheads types, fuse types, IR seekers, laser beam riders, laser designators, thrusters, navigation algorithms, fuel pods, sonar seekers, buoyancy compartments and propellers, to deliver a truly bespoke weapon.
- Design custom cannons by combining four different barrel types and lengths with autoloaders, warhead types, ammo boxes and auxiliary components to create everything from AA cannons to howitzers.
- Design custom AI by combing an AI mainframe with 'AI cards' slotted into motherboard blocks. Add radar detection, laser detection and tracking and local weapon controllers to give partial or full control to AI. Create anything from a fully AI controlled aircraft carrier to a battery powered drone.
- Design custom engines using crank shafts, cylinders, carburetors, super chargers, exhausts and fuel injectors. Electric engines, generators and chargers are also available for backup power supplies and drones.
- Similar systems exist for the creation of anti-vehicle and anti-missile lasers, as well as drills that can cut even the largest of battleships in half.
I had nothing to do with the development of this game. All rights to From the Depths belong to Brilliant Skies Limited. Please do not upload this video elsewhere without my permission.

[@tytonovaehollandiae1278]

Tip: Using thrust vectoring with spin blocks can save a lot of material on ion thrusters by allowing a single thruster to do the job of several stationary thrusters.

[@Thiccubus]

@@proph7543 You gotta *love* knowledge seagulls. Fly in, squawk and shit everywhere, and never come back.

[@Thiccubus]

@@proph7543 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXLRo2SjbbpgrdE If'n you or anyone else ain't found his video on the similar usage of the above, here y'go.

[@ajobdunwell2585]

A fine space canoe indeed

[@foxwhite25]

A wooden steam powered spaceship, that sounds so steampunky.

[@imperialguardsman135]

*Imperial Navy has entered the chat*

[@doktork3406]

building 40K ships is nearly impossible in from the depths Necron and Chaos ships in particular as they'd require something such as a a 1m thick 20m long triangle of armor and rounded bits are pure insanity as well

[@imperialguardsman135]

@@doktork3406 I've made an imperial escort at around 1:3 scale, it looks fine

[@imperialspacemarine1539]

PURGE THE DAMN XENOS

[@khamaellol6260]

@@doktork3406 you can scale the ships down and it will be fine

[@patrikcath1025]

Up to around 1000m you can still use regular planes to some extent. Atmospheric propulsion doesn't suddenly stop working at 600ish metres

[@BorderWise12]

That is something I should've mentioned, yes.

[@alice672]

fun fact: sails work in space, in fact they work very well in space, and are a great option for an adventure mode craft that wants 140m/s on the cheap

[@mixxnitro7797]

I've been playing ftd for little over a month and I consider myself a high level....noob.... still love it, honestly you and lathland are my teachers Adventure mode is my game tho

[@pieman53097]

Space vehicles, ... in spaaace!

[@talinpeacy7222]

It's literally easier to make a space craft than it is an air craft. Hell, I often have to tweak my aircraft a bunch so that they don't go to space right away. Could tell the AI that it's max altitude is 500 and it still usually ends up at 2k or more. Honestly wish they would fix how physics is handled by smaller craft. It seems unless you build something above 100-200 blocks, the game engine will send it to the stratosphere or it will be incredibly unstable.

[@erslippers3805]

This is very like real life: small things are very sensitive to tiny nudges, big things are not

[@techstuff9198]

If you're getting to space with an aircraft, you should probably use less wings.

[@crimzonplays1134]

Excellent. My autobot and Decepticon fleets will be more terrifying than ever!

[@DukeWooze]

Honestly if I hadn't found your channel I would have given up on this game a long time ago.

[@major0noob]

finally, our first planes can achieve their dreams.

[@beanlord4347]

Engineering and PIDS and power...building in this game makes my head hurt.

[@utzius8003]

I was just thinking about building a space battleship. What a happy coincidence. :D

[@doktork3406]

been trying to make a decent looking one for a long while the AI can't handle space travel due to inertia and my ships always end up looking like boxes....extremely well armored boxes that can take a monstruous hammering..but they look like shit

[@utzius8003]

@@doktork3406I generally build big, armored boxes and make them look better by adding details made of more armor.

[@clarencevale5660]

so was I!

[@antonymash9586]

Earth; the place we all live. Unless you are veiwing this video in the future. In which case hellow future people.

[@BorderWise12]

Hello, future people! 👋😁

[@someguynamedsomething9612]

I AM FUTURE PEOPLE, MAYBE NOT THAT FAR FUTURE BUT STILL

[@thebackround4578]

@@someguynamedsomething9612 I AM FUTURE PEOPLE, MAYBE NOT THAT FAR FUTURE BUT STILL

[@Afrancis16]

@@thebackround4578 I AM FUTURE PEOPLE, MAYBE NOT THAT FAR FUTURE BUT STILL

[@sawco9921]

@@Afrancis16 I AM FUTURE PEOPLE, MAYBE NOT THAT FAR FUTURE BUT STILL

[@BorderWise12]

Looks like I rendered this damn thing in lower resolution than usual AND I forgot to talk about 'proper' space planes. Well done, me. >_< Let me know if you guys want this reuploaded in the usual higher resolution.

[@macaroni8273]

I dont really care about good or bad resolution, do whatever u want : )

[@dripthanos5595]

sure! I already know how to get stuff into space, I was just looking for inspiration

[@lolman3089]

Thx this helped🙂

[@rangefindingdoc1608]

Do you know if you can harvest material from space, or at least above the rings?

[@justiceforjoggers2897]

I'll pipe up. Yes if there's a higher quality video of yours it would be preferable to upload. However, I appreciate and find this video helpful. Also, I am struggling with my pp pants Dad please help

[@bessie8612]

Some call me the merchant of love-Borderwise 2020

[@Kav.]

1:54 I don't know if you corrected later but steam jets work in space

[@BorderWise12]

I remembered in the nick of time. 😁

[@Elinzar]

i was thinking on a series idea for you, a "How to Bust" series where you teach us how to counter different weapons and attack types like "How to Bust: HESH" or How to Bust: EMP attacks how to bust missiles, cluster missiles how to bust Robbaz Daka, well you get the idea

[@BorderWise12]

That's pretty much what the Most Wanted series is, but perhaps I could do more generalized videos on how to counter x and y like in my anti-torpedo guide. 🤔

[@BorderWise12]

@Marginally Sapient Cactus You seen my armour tutorials yet? :D

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

the answer to that is two fold: be really, really fast. also be either a sub or a spaceship. I builb a really heavy sub, so heavy it subs around the ocean floor on wheels. its thickly armored and spams pedos and underwater guns at things above. it also goes 200m/s. really it bounces around the ocean floor. beached itself too, once. right into a shipyard. torpedoes do not go far on land.

[@kylestanley7843]

@@trazyntheinfinite9895 it spams pedos? >.>

[@agustinyavar525]

Just what I neaded at 2:30 am

[@crgkevin6542]

“You need something stronger than ion thrusters for heavy craft” Meanwhile I’m off not caring about things like costs and made a 66K block spaceship with the whole bottom surface covered in ion thrusters protected by heavy armor…

[@_tyrannus]

What should really be a solution to this wobbliness instead of everyone having to either deal with it or get familiar with PIDs, would be to make the game's default control loop into a PID with sane default values, instead of whatever this dumb default behaviour is called. Then using PID blocks you can fine tune from the default settings if there's a bit of dynamic oscillation left or if the response isn't to your liking. I feel like this is just another difficulty needlessly thrown into players' face. Also, default PID settings are absolutely inadequate for most uses which doesn't help learning from them.

[@erslippers3805]

The problem with the idea of a 'sane' PID default is that the same values will behave differently on different crafts. However, I agree that they can be difficult to pick up.

[@_tyrannus]

@@erslippers3805 For sure different crafts will need different tuning, but I think the default D-term should still be lower than it currently is. Too low of a D-term means a bit of oscillation, too high and you get crazy oscillation ; the former is much less of a hinderance really.

[@ThatGuy-vw6gc]

So I had the design concept of turning my Late Ww2-Post Cold War craft into spaceships by retrofitting them... It turned into a Battleship with a block of Ion Thrusters underneath them.

[@smasherr9397]

My space planes just keep going up until they are so high you need to restart the designer

[@snowfox2192]

I havent tested it myself but i know a couple years ago i made a space "Plane" that was entirely propelled by sails. It was just as weird as it sounds. But hey solar sails are a thing so if anyone asks thats what it was. Honestly it was more of a space kite than a plane...that sounds pretty cool in my opinion.

[@gaberielpendragon]

800m? Most of my dedi-blade craft pop up to around 1600-2200m and hang out in that range. Sadly still well in the range of most cram, though they have a hard time tracking them. Any type of AA, on the other hand, turns them into swiss cheese pretty quickly. Haven't tested them against lasers yet, but as they can shoot 5km, I expect they will turn them into swiss cheese also. Laser designators are great. Would love making a craft that goes past 6km up to be out of detection range and drop guided bombs onto everything while being outside detection range.

[@macaroni8273]

Yay 3rd comment. Also i loved this video, its very useful too bc i dont really understand spaceships in ftd Keep up the good work

[@BorderWise12]

Thank you, I will! 😁

[@Omniroc]

I wonder if a vehicle in space can share resources with a vehicle on the surface. If you can, then a bomber spacecraft, cargo hauler would be a fast ship with RTGs that can quickly supply your fleets while relatively safe. Even though that think spacecraft make it too easy can't argue with a space freighter.

[@BorderWise12]

Yup, it can. Space freight is a thing in this game. 👍

[@danieldeak9141]

Sweet Now i can make my space railgun OF DOOM

[@scorpion563]

I will take this idea from you now sir.

[@jaydenbest2141]

In the still striders still striders

[@HazrShield]

is there a way to make it activly stop drifting after moving? like going 100km/h and then telling it to stop and its not just turning off the propulsion but actually stops

[@SuwinTzi]

Helium pumps stop working around 300m though people should have contingency plans for what they find in space

[@seanwarren9357]

How about a basic ui and control tutorial. Got a friend that's new to ftd, and honestly it's a hurdle I have to overcome Everytime I get back into the depths... Just wondering on your control shortcut habits and such..

[@elseif7265]

peek and boo Twin guard enemy is here

[@clairehealey3344]

Hey Border, little question again: it is possible to set the target altitude e.g. in an AI Breadboard with a constant. Would it be possible to somehow set it by players input e.g. the pitch up/down in the vehicle controler if it would be possible to change the target altitude of the craft by that given input. (Main idea for a sub in adventure mode for more manuel control) Thanks in advance :)

[@BorderWise12]

Good question. I have no idea, but it's probably possible? 😅

[@macaroni8273]

Um does anyone know if i keep rewatching the video it adds more views? Iv been doing that for a while now idk if it is working

[@BorderWise12]

It does. Don't feel obligated to do that, please. XD

[@jaydenbest2141]

Hey border wise can you do a most wanted on valiant

[@beanlord4347]

Not trying to spam, but does the glitch where you place dediblade spinners on spin blocks to negate collisions still work?

[@beanlord4347]

And will PIDs connect to them if so?

[@xt6wagon]

I've found space vehicles are stupidly easy. Ion Jets pushing down, but placed high on the hull. You want the craft hanging off your lift devices, not balanced on them. Too wide they are very stable, but don't turn, too tall they wierdly get really happy about barrel rolls even if the pure physics say it should be stable. Also ALL THE ION JETS on the back helps get them into space. Again, going wide on your thrusters make it not turn. Peak difficulty is balancing the lift fore/aft on the center of mass, but even then you got a pretty big margin given that your pitch control can be mostly or entirely pushing the craft up thus helping keep it in space. Sadly, I've found space battleships easier than submarines. Mostly because the craft isn't affected by anything, and there is nothing to worry about running into. Also even on the 2019 settings, dediblades will get you to 700M. I don't bother on stuff thats 800M or higher. Don't even have to skimp on armor, can layer on plenty of normal metal over wood spall liner and then an inner armored core.

[@thegamingcat3202]

xt6wagon 700M isnt space tho....

[@sea_kerman]

Why would putting your jets above the COM be more stable? kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYqrdINpYtKjrs0

[@dembones9275]

I can acheve the same thing by making my jet two fast

[@dwayne7201]

And then you can add Mortars once you get into space

[@BorderWise12]

Yeeaaaaah 👍

[@nakuroyuki]

Is it possible to have a multistage spacecraft with part separations? Or does every propolsion cease to work when docked?

[@BorderWise12]

You could have a vehicle 'piggyback' subvehicles into space I guess? Not a bad idea, really.

[@nakuroyuki]

@@BorderWise12 This is mainly for fun and not practical at all. But I was wonder whether you could make a multistage rocket with boosters and such lmao. Maybe you can? Like make the first stage the parent so it would still have the propolsion? I haven't tested this idea lol. But yeah, just wondering.

[@BorderWise12]

@@nakuroyuki You could totally do that. I would not be surprised if someone on the steam workshop had already done it. XD

[@nakuroyuki]

@@BorderWise12 Highly possible tbh XD I wish someday the devs would polish out the things that are problematic in space, like CRAMs trying to arc their shots even though they're in space, and a bunch of minor things like the world "edge" appearing if you go high enough XD. I wanna see someone make a complete space custom campaign, cause that would be awesome.

[@DAR_BOIO]

Can you do a guide on how to make satellites like a radar or orbital bombardment

[@BorderWise12]

That's kind of what this video is already. The difference between an armed satellite or spaceship in this game is mostly aesthetics.

[@DAR_BOIO]

@@BorderWise12 oh ok noice

[@willowknight3956]

How did you get the craft to stay at a certain Altitude with the PIDs?

[@BorderWise12]

General PID set to altitude mode with a 'fake point' of the altitude I wanted.

[@willowknight3956]

@@BorderWise12 Thank you so much!

[@BorderWise12]

@@willowknight3956 Yer welcome. :)

[@chaoslordgodzilla2708]

You know how you did a wacky but fun ammo video can you do a wack but fun missile and torpedo video

[@BorderWise12]

Sure!

[@kylenormanvalencia598]

Can you make a tutorial about a stable speed craft?

[@BorderWise12]

That tutorial would essentially be: have all your thrusters in the right places and mess with PID settings until your craft is stable. 🤷‍♀️

[@kylenormanvalencia598]

@@BorderWise12 oh thanks!

[@kylenormanvalencia598]

@@BorderWise12 it helps but im still confused I just started playing this week

[@BorderWise12]

@@kylenormanvalencia598 Keep at it. It takes a while to get the hang of it, but you'll get there.

[@creeperlover53]

steam jets work very very well in space, I built the Scarlet Dawn's new space interceptor with a cluster of 9 steam jets that allow it to get to about 260 m/s. edit: whoops commented before the end of the video

[@BorderWise12]

They were. I remembered in the nick of time towards the end. XD

[@creeperlover53]

whoops. I didn't have time to watch the entirety lol, watched 2/3rds and had to go

[@BorderWise12]

@@creeperlover53 Rule of KZbin: always watch all the way through before commenting. 😛

[@AK-bf2li]

show us the 40k folder

[@deltacx1059]

Maybe steam jets would work? Ok nevermind he says it later in the video

[@Driver-qt9jh]

Do sails work in space?

[@BorderWise12]

Apparently yes.

[@anthonylin5585]

guess we can now glass planets like in halo :)

[@jwadaow]

You didn't cover ther helium pumps.

[@bob_was_taken]

Me use balloon me do good me go space 😊😊😊

[@MrDSkreet]

Noisy keyboard is irritating to listen to