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I like this hull design, but if i built it myself i'd definitely changes a couple features. That hull design gives you a lot of options to change up the armament for the front weapon node. 5x6x7+ is big enough for a respectable APS(Nothing crazy, but something that can get past interceptors or perform utility functions), a smallish PAC, or an expanded LASER, or Plasma Cannon. Definitely need to spread out those LAMS nodes, that's asking for a hit to cripple the whole LAMS. Worse though, a smoke round loaded APS could neutralize the entire defense system and let some far worse things through. Speaking of defense its a bit hard to see the armor schema without using a cutaway. How the heck does that engine generate 2761 power per material(at 25%)? I've made some pure efficiency mechanic testing models to see how much can be squeezed out got less then half of that. To take a page i've observed on some ship models, using horizontal rudders placed in line with the center of mass(or a little below it) can do wonders to stabilizing a ship with little power cost while also having negligible impact on aesthetics. I see a number of empty locations on the deck and roofs that could accommodate missile interceptor nodes or small missile turrets. All that said, the ship design is nice and simple and serviceable and it looks like it could take quite the beating with how thick the hull is relative to ships of its size. I'm always a fan of ships with endurance and platforms in general that can run cold without burning any materials but deploy to respond to threats with some respectable firepower. I wouldn't send this against a anything over 600k, but its not really meant for that so that's hardly a criticism. 2 or three of these against quite a few things around 500k i could see a reasonable return provided they aren't hard countered.

at 14:47, I really need to know, how are you making the barrel stick out of a piece of metal, rather than the firing piece? I'd really like to know.

ACDC song EMP watch it explode. enter guitar riff. Gr8 guides dude. hope they get some attention & updated over time if things change. Guessing its all still relevant thow.

Love to see this revisited if you have the time. lots of new combos with the update im sure 😀

Thanks to your video I have made an autonomous craft for air targets it uses missiles and particle cannons

Interesting, something I've obviously not used enough.

Great Video but now my head hurts ... typical day of FTD lol

Are those interceptor missiles on a few of these turret caps?

I'd say if you stagger the PACs, they become even better than lasers imo

🙌 *promosm*

Nice Video!!! Well explained and really helpful ^^

Bro please update this on god i need this

where does era come into this?

Gah. I have SO MUCH extra hydrogen (I'm in endgame) and I cannot for the life of me figure out what to do with it! It's backing up my fire ice lines lol ughhhh

wonder bread x_X getting back into ftd after a quite long break and even easy campaign is kicking my arse now that even the regular campaign crafts have more defenses then LH used to have thank you proffessor ohm im taking notes

I like my sap-he. Unlike APHE, this one is mostly HE and can only pen a small amount of material, but puts out a devastating high explosive payload with a pen fuse.

best video on armor I found so far.

Amazing, thanks for the series. Love to see more. Examples of jets doing combat moves, bombing runs that predict enemy and more.

You have no idea this is seriously so helpful!!! Thank you!!

I took my time making a neat level but then didn’t have enough points to add any traps or guards 😂

EDIT: Unfortunately, triggering explosives through corner blocks has been patched out, which makes time bombs extremely hard to setup... For people asking for footage of these in action, I could, but I feel like it would be disingenuous. Ideally I'd find people dying to these in my outposts, but beyond that, I feel like I could make these look a lot better than they are, or completely useless. The truth is somewhere in between and making your own tweaks and variants is going to have a significant effect. With that said, let me know if you still want me to show this.

Will you be making beginner tips?

Thank you for the video I’m just starting the game so thank you 🤗

Super useful video but wish examples of the traps in use were shown.

Great video and great tips. I need tips on how to kill raiders who shoot every cube and use the guns too much. How do you counter that? Slow raiders are a pain. I do get more kills with bombs on slow raiders but more often then not they just tiptoe through my base and don't die once

I love this game and made great outposts but after so many people use the ALT F4 exploit I probably won't play much more. It sucks to take 3 hours to build a fun and hard outpost only to have someone die on it 50 or more times and then atl out and you get nothing. Literally as if they never played it. Just a replay of a bunch of deaths till they rage quit giving you nothing. So lame

quarter block on a ceiling next to an intersection angled so it looks like a normal cube with either a flame or bomb trap above catches alot of people, especially if there's a second trap below or just past to help draw attention away

A very good guide, thank you! Simple, effective and without exploits or needless overkill. And even not-so-new builders can borrow some ideas. What else do we learn from this guide - the pick ammo range augmentation cost every penny of its price in gold =)

thank you ,very helpfull guide

This seems to work against careful raiders who don't check their ceilings: Two ramp blocks down, normal cube blocks on top. Ceiling spikes on first one. They hear the *snickt*, and back up right into the spikes. Doesn't work against speedrunning or ceiling-checkers.

6:10 Something to keep in mind.. When The arrow trap triggers and shoots it will trigger the holo cube as well.

I accidentally made my first base extremely tricky and ended up Mastering it with a high K/D within the first week. The beginner traps are not to be overlooked! Great vid :)

What I like to do if I decide to have a Forsaken Tombstone Loot inside my building, I'll have it down a small hallway that you get to by going down one slope. The first block stepping off the slope is a picture perfect holo cube. Underneath it is a boltshot and above it on the ceiling (which can't be seen going down) there is an impaler. They may see the impaler and destroy it but then the boltshot will kill them. This works great because the Harvester doesn't go there so the floors can be fake, especially if there are already other bedrock blocks.

I have a new setup what i discover. You make a hole holo trap. Put a chain hook in the midle. Put a upside down slope around the holocube and under the reverse slope you put a normal one and either a flamer or a bolt trap there. You can do a cross trap if you wish but its more expensive. It will hit the person who jump backward to avoid normal bolt holes and if he jump upward the chain pull him back to the fire. If you only have bolt trap you can replace with a bolt trap the midle chain one too. It will cover the normal angle too.

I never thought of having decoy traps. That’s really smart! Thanks and keep the content coming!

I'm glad to the traps presented in a guide like this, this is really cool!

Did you think of staggering the pump rows, so you can have every pump connect to a single input cavity? Trade all normal cavities for single input cavities and 1 dead space per row of pumps. What i mean is a chain of: something -> single input pointing up with pump -> single input pointing down with pump -> repeat Only other downside I can see is that this way you must have 1 non cavity per 2 cavities. In your example there is another doubler or destabilizer instead of a single input cavity, which is not possible with my idea, without giving the row a 1x1 tail. The tail would be much shorter though and you could still use the space for batteries or material storage. Maybe with my idea, an L shape, shifting each other row 1 block forward and tesselating, it might be possible to squeeze that fourth Q-switch into the gap close to the coupler, while still staying super compact.

Interesting points on destabilizers being better now. I would probably point out that 2 and 3Q are kind of pointless, since you're usually either wanting rapid fire, or high damage per shot, and those are generally 0Q and 1Q (With edge cases for 4Q). Also, while bread can indeed read custom axes now, ACBs cannot yet set or read them. Using complex controls as you're doing here, or using the extra drive axes (A, B, C, D, E) work, but have the drawback of being very finite (And if you're using complex controls for manual control of your ship that really limits things). What you can do instead for boolean yes/no inputs from your ACBs to bread, is set up ACBs that you want to be sending alerts to your breadboard to just take an action that doesn't really do anything, and then use the Generic Block Getter component in bread to monitor that ACB's "time since last activation", and if that time becomes higher than 2 frames, you know it's not activating. If it's lower than 2 frames, it's probably activating. Unfortunately even when delta time is stable, the time since last activation will bounce a bit between delta and 3ish. So you have to check for 2 frames rather than 1. Hopefully at some point they'll update ACBs to be able to read from and write to the new custom axes, but for now we have to use workarounds.

Nice tutorial, to the point and easy to understand; also nice trick. I did similar things with APS but found offensive lasers lackluster due to HA/smoke combo, did you ever find good ways to overcome smoke?

Assuming I make another video before another 6 months, what would you like to see?

A point for having the armor all around the turret is that you often fight multiple enemies. So just armoring the side thats pointing towards your target might get you killed if a second enemy is on the side of it and just pens the turret and blows it up.

Thank god I watched the video to the end, output functions are just what I needed for developing my aircraft AI!

Learning to edit better \o/ Anyway, MYM content incoming and at least one FtD video is in the works. Are you interested in Meet your Maker? It's certainly flawed and different, but it still hooked me.

I think emp would be greatly improved if it didn’t destroy the blocks but disable them temporarily for a time that scales with the pulses strength and maybe stronger less efficient pulses could cause heat damage. Increasing the viability of rubber could be nice as well.

The best way I can describe it is this: No guidance: Aims like a laser. Tries to keep it's crosshairs dead center on the target. Prediction: Aims like a bullet: Tries to keep itself on a direct intercept course. APN: Aims like a person trying to ram something. It keeps itself at a relative angle as it closes in. No guidance is good against stationary/slow targets (though all of them will work) and where the target will have little time to dodge (like close range). Prediction is good for fast moving targets that move in a straight line or with slow missiles/torpedoes. It's the worst option against dodgy craft like Flying Squirrels. APN is good against maneuverable craft. Against targets moving in a straight line it isn't much better than none. A thing to note is certain tracking types go better with different nose detection. Single pixel for example would be bad with prediction because it may turn so far away from the target it may no longer be able to see it.

APHE/APFG(they're the same tbh since both produce frags IRL) is my most favorite since it is reliable and I like realistic booms also Hybrid Rail-CRAM is something I wanna see be real imagine CRAM but fast

Seems to me the main problem with it is that EMP can dead-end so easily. What if some fraction of 'dead end' EMP damage turned into fragments, instead of just evaporating? Like there was so much EMP the surge protector exploded and turned to shrapnel? Defensively, this would make EMP-proofing more difficult than just sticking surge protectors around, attached only by one end. Offensively, this would make Large bursts of EMP (like crams) viable in a different way than DPS EMP.

Its ab it late, but what how do you think about aplique armor for airgaps?

I use 1m long hollow point railgun shells made out of 8 components - the hollow point head, a couple solid bodies, don't remember if I have a tracer in there and the rest is the railgun casings. I feel they do quite some damage with my rapid fire railgun (about 160 RPM) and are very good as light AA, but they don't quite line up with my expectations. Do you have a guide or know where I can find information about choosing the correct damage type for a given enemy?