How to Improve in Space Engineers | Clever Tips Ep. 3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ส.ค. 2024
- Small grid stations, backside clipping and piston+sliding door designs are covered in this episode. If you learned something new, leave a like!
AT-AT by Malacanth:steamcommunity.com/workshop/f...
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:30 Control Click Sliders
01:03 Mouse Click Weapons
02:06 Backside Clipping Detail
04:27 Piston+Sliding Door
06:18 Small Grid Stations
Music:
Intro: Coastline - TrackTribe
Outro: Smooth and Cool - Nico Staf
#spaceengineers #building #tips #improve #clever #blackarmor - เกม
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:30 Control Click Sliders
01:03 Mouse Click Weapons
02:06 Backside Clipping Detail
04:27 Piston+Sliding Door
06:18 Small Grid Stations
Update this please as the warfare update has changed a few things with block weapons
@@MyxRSC This came out weeks after that update, there are no new block weapons
RE Small grid station: To create your own sprue, BP a small block locally, edit the small-grid blueprint SBC file (in %appdata%\SpaceEngineers\Blueprints\local), add true within .... Also, remove the SBC5B file from the blueprint folder before using the sprue. No BP subscription needed.
@@Anvilshock Sounds a lot more complicated to me
Sounds? Maybe. Is? Not really. Plus, it also works for blueprints you already have, not just for those you've yet to create.
i love how professional you've become with this
Intro+outro+voice haha. Thanks dude
Another thing on terminal sliders, for some of them, right clicking will put it back to default. For example, if you move the rotor’s velocity to 5 and then want to stop it, you don’t have to ctrl-click and enter 0, you can just right click and it will reset to 0.
Yup, can confirm the magic Popsicle sticks were a life-saver in enabling me to build my small grid KSH HQ, wouldn't have been possible without BlackArmor; much love to the guy.
Yeah buddy
it's gotten to the point it really doesn't matter what the video is about, i feel an obligation to click like when i see and hear that intro. i don't often make an effort to 'like' things. i think the trendy youtube 'etiquette' is obnoxious. blending intelligent creativity with artistic capability is something that impresses me.
Thanks Bjorn. I too think it's obnoxious that everyone and their grandma is begging you to like, favorite, follow and subscribe to their content on each of their 17 platforms. I ask for a like only if you learned something new, that helps me gauge if the video was effective or if I could have thrown in more tips to not just be surface level stuff.
totally +1
Omfg the small grid station is Amazing! What you created with it is incredible!! I can't believe it's not an option.
Well, it is now
Everyone can have static small grid blocks 100% vanilla.
Here are the steps:
1- Start a new campain mission (the first jump)
2- Press Alt+Tab and enable creative mode tools.
3- Play until you’re on the moon.
4- Enable your jetpack and search for the half-buried red drilling ship (it should be on the right side of the station)
5- Copy a blueprint of the ship, done!
Extra- Isolate one light armored block that is still buried underground and copy it for convenience.
@@GUMMY_MKII I guess that is another way to do it, sounds like it takes a lot more effort though
@@BlackArmor718
Not really much effort, just more time. (With creative tools enabled it’s more fun too)
At the same time, you can save the blueprints of the multiple ships to get inspiration from.
I think another way to do it is to put a large grid block in the ground, use a rotor or hinge with a small head, lock it, and build from there. I don’t know if that will actually clip into the ground though.
I love watching these kinds of videos!
I may be a SE veteran, but I always seem to learn something new by watching such videos!
It started out with info where I'm like, "Yep, already know this," to "oh, look at that," to "HOLY SHIT, YOU CAN DO THAT?!"
When it comes to SE, never assume you know all the tricks, because you most likely don't. Always something new being discovered or created in SE, and it's why I love this game so much!
with over 7k hours played I did not know you could ctrl click the sliders till I met this guy, total game changer when it comes to many complex builds.
Your videos just added more content to SE for me than all the DLC combined... I'm blown away, great stuff!
Hell yeah brother
I was wondering about that small ship station thing for the longest time and now i can finally turn my small grids into stations
Indeed!
Good sir... that you would share these secrets with us is a wonderful thing. I wish I had even half of your creativity. Bravo! ^_^
Happy to help out
Well, I never knew about the half block trick... Just might have to utilize that idea in some of my builds. As always, great content man!
Glad to help
I have used the piston+door+turret to make a successful trap on servers. Basically make a door that anyone can use. When they enter it triggers a sensor that closes and locks the door then opens another door and a turret pushes out to kill them while they are trapped.
these videos warrant a subscription. keep at it.
Thanks for the sub!
man, someone could recreate so much of Halo with these props
that tire swing is SO cute
good god this man's creations are incredible
Appreciate it
Your stuff looks really good! With the wood stuff though, you should use the "No edges" mod, or whatever it's called, to get rid of the random metal bits. Thanks for the series, really invaluable!
that tree house and tire swing at the end is absolutely incredible. these ideas really make me want to build more aesthetically and its so frustrating to get right sometimes. everything ends up as a box with a triangle on top for a base
Those are some very impressive sculpting skills BlackArmor, thank you for sharing. Inspirational builds for someone still making bricks!
Thanks Brice
Another one to do might be large grids that’ll clip through other large grid stuff. Won’t work through a door but you can put a passage way on a piston and it’ll slide between regular armour blocks without clanging to give you an elevator.
Damn, even if i at one point i'd stop playing this game, i'd still enjoy the things you come up with here. Great vid!
Haha thanks!
Hey dude I see other content makers are showcasing your stuff. Good work dude
I'd like to look at that, got a link?
@@BlackArmor718 here’s one example. You’re creations being showcased by other SE TH-camrs is new tho. th-cam.com/video/sTXaOuTlMCQ/w-d-xo.html
Yep that’s the one jackrpg
Make sure they do you justice
Great showcase, he actually read instructions and used it correctly
This "Series" is the best
Disabling the ability to make small blocks as stations was another example as Keen suppressed the creativity of their core players.
Hell, Keen should just allow large and small blocks to work interchangeably with each other.
@@matthewwinans3068 the supergrid exploit is a toggleable function in settings
there's a very stable mod on the workshop that enables small grids to be embedded in voxels. i do believe its one of relatively few mods that are not required for the downloader to have since its not actually changing any blocks but just overriding the placement restriction.
@6:00 You missed an opportunity to do something I don't see many people doing. That is to add a timer block with the sequence you want, open doors, extend piston, move hinge or whatever into the timer sequence. Than rather than starting the timer set your button to trigger now. I use this for a number of things in my ships to automate some docking procedures etc
The small grids are very good for inspiration. I got other kit ideas. Chinese houses , Japanese houses , cyberpunk apartments, alien organic even your base style as a kit with the corridors , rooms.
Deformation from meteorite impacts can cause small grids to become stations; I have had some luck filling fields with small grids with Armageddon mode on to farm small grid stations for copying.
Dude you are certainly very talented. I'm enjoying your videos and getting a lot of ideas. Keep doing it bro you are getting very good at this!
I appreciate that!
This is outstanding, making me really want to up my Space Engineers game.
It's crazy the things the community have come up with for this game.
That intro is SICK!
6:16 With the new Turret Controller we could make Custom Turrets that come out there, and with the Hinge we could actually fill them up also
Holy shit that intro was impressive!
Awesome builder, great ideas, information overload, thanks =)
Not that you need any more ideas. How are those ewoks coming?
downloaded the medieval village, would be cool to see a spru setup with all the small block structures you had at end of this vid too, just label it random terrain for pvp.. or something like that...
The majority of the first section came from here steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=875735974. I'm not sure if those will work as stations though since they are sitting free in space, also the paint will be off since the game has gone through many updates since then
Brilliant as usual bud, keep it up!
You are one smart cookie sir. Thank you for this, it's really cool stuff to learn!
This is really helpful. Glad it was recommended to me.
The outside the box thinking is what Space Engineers is all about.
Sure is!
You got a lot of really creative and ingenious ideas man.
Thanks Nathan
Randomly came across, but love the video! Extremely creative and gave me some good ideas!
Sweet man, enjoy the others
yes another video !!! my day is starting to be awesome. thank you @BlackArmor
Very first tip! Ctr click. Where was this when I started. Lol
Love hearing that you actually didn’t know that one
this is very inspiring work. keep this up.
Small grid stations make me wonder why big and small grids are separate!!
Try building one of those big capital ships in small blocks. Saying that, there's probably some madlad who's already done it.
@@F4ngel its just that the interior, and very often exterior of ships and statuons, could use some small grid love, but you cant without risking angering the gods.
They could just make large block-sized small blocks (Like the o2 gen is or a grinder). Then you could attach them together at will
@@BlackArmor718 now that I thino about it, Largegrid armor blocks are the same size as Smallgrid cockpit, then it should be simple enough to create a mod that has everything enabled for Smallgrids!
@@pedropimenta896 Yeah, a large cube is just 5x5 small cubes
Those are some amazing builds.
thanks for sharing, great work
Thank you too
Mind ever so slightly blown.
Excellent!
Wow... I learnt so much I didn't even think was even possible! XD
Glad I could help!
Awesome video! Keep going 😇
Mind Blown!🤯
that is amazing thank you for ideas
Very nice video thx bro
Now with this i wanna see someone make a pvp combat arena or area maybe a faction war map where you have a few bases and everyone fights to control them all. 1 survival kit to spawn off each and when you destroy that kit then the team spawns to loser arena where they can still have fun or just leave game
These builds/videos are so cool!
Now if only I could get my friends to play this game
Easy to find people on reddit who want to play together
Mind blowing!
You can use offset on lights to make them go through walls, making it look like light is coming from nowhere
Why some people commented after 9 mins since upload on a 16min vid is beyond me.
Nice video
A new thing I've found out if you use right mb with any drill you can remove voxels without damaging blocks 😁
I guess we just need a mod force-converting a small grid into a station on request. Ideally it should enable or replace the "Convert to station" button for small grids.
Why do you need a mod when you can do it vanilla
Legend 🏴☠️
Hey nice video, definitely some cool stuff there. When you were showing off the tip with the sliding doors and pistons there's a compact looking turret at the back of the platform, how did you get the gatlings connected like that without having to use a conveyor junction? Is it a small hinge part connected to the large hinge block or is it just decorational?
It's a small hinge part on a large hinge base. Looks kinda funny on it's own but it works
Man, I forgot they (briefly) allowed small-grid stations.
That hinge(?) multiple turret design looks great.
Also would it be possible to set sensors in a way, that if turrets would be shot of the pistons, they would retract automaticly and a blueprint and welder would be waiting to renew it and send it back up again? That would be in my eyes an effcient and neat looking system, wouldn't you agree?
With the hinges being a subgrid, you can't weld them unless the projector is on that grid, and there isn't really space for it. Sensors also don't have a setting to detect if a grid takes damage. But I like your thinking
@@BlackArmor718 mmm can a sensor generally see if in its defined space is something or not? So if a part of a grid is gone, it would registrate as empty space(not as part of a grid missing)?
I have seen splitsies tutorial on automatic door opening but there it seemed to have to do with the player entering an defined area so dependend purely on player interaction.
sorry for pestering you with these question i guess you have been through that endless times over the years playing this game.
@@kinngrimm I have no problem with questions. Sensors generally only detect if a certain type of thing enters or exits their area, such as large or small grid, players, enemies, friendlies etc. But they can’t see if a part of a grid is missing, just that a grid is present
@@BlackArmor718 so the entire turret assembly would have to be destroyed for a sensor to retract and close the door?
Hey man, love the stuff. Is it possible to do the small grid in survival, via projectors or something, or is it creative only?
I'm not sure it's ever been possible to weld small grids into the ground
Awesome video! I'm just curios why you didnt just upload a blueprint of the "Popsicle stick" instead of having people sub to the village. Doesn't matter either way though, great video!
Would it be possible to share this trick on your next video?
This is how you can get yourself a static small grid 100% vanilla
Here are the steps:
1- Start a new campain mission (the first jump)
2- Press Alt+Tab and enable creative mode tools.
3- Play until you’re on the moon.
4- Enable your jetpack and search for the half-buried red drilling ship (it should be on the right side of the station)
5- Copy a blueprint of the ship, done!
Extra- Isolate one light armored block that is still buried underground and copy it for convenience.
I like that you found another solution but in order for me to put in an edit I would need a solution that is easier/quicker than what I suggested. And to me just downloading a bp and clipping off 1 stick sounds much faster.
@@BlackArmor718 yeah I guess you’re right.
I missed the part where you said you’d share the static block, so I told the method I did to get mine.
Could you perhaps release this world itself as a download so that we could blueprint and view each of these?
The world was overwritten for the next video
Processor not frying wise would you advise using small grid only on a big craft (for the extra detail) or combination of large and small?
Build the bulk with large grid then go back and fill in
I have some questions, like did you use scripts to make the turrets from some of your mechs? Like the fire walker, that can move its turret up and down, right and left
Yes that is the MART script
@@BlackArmor718 oh, thx
arrgglllll sooo good
Hey man great videos, is there any possible way you can do a video on the spotlight that follows you? I tried recreating it and failed miserably. PLEASE!!!
Where is it not working
@@BlackArmor718 :) I was hoping you could explain it to us like we were 5. Like maybe go into the settings of the sensors, show its ranges? u could do a whole vid on just that alone, Im sure there are lots of applications for it.
Built in large grid for so long, it seems small grid is superior, or supergridding which I must learn still
Big rotor-small rotor head. Done
@@BlackArmor718 I had this long question about grids and their sub grids but i ended up answering it myself. So yes motor with small head 👍thanks a bunch man
@@BlackArmor718 but, I do have 1 question. Is it better to design a ships interior first then to design its exterior. I find myself leaving alot of vacant space in my builds. I can only add so many redundant rooms and hallways.
@@mikeblake2830 Depends what your priorities are. I want my stuff to look good so I always build the outer shell first.
@@BlackArmor718 Fair enough, thank you.
The pop up compact turret. Is that conveyed in or just built for show?
If stuff can pass from a large hinge to a small hinge then it would be conveyors
@@BlackArmor718 well, it’ll pass to the small grid, large hinge but that’s a small grid large conveyer port and the guns use small conveyer ports. So while they’ll attach to the surface of the hinge part, they won’t be conveyed to get ammunition.
It looks VERY tight and good, so if it is conveyed I’m wondering what block/s you’ve used to achieve it. Otherwise I’m guessing it’s just built for appearance sake, which is fine.
sooo i tried to make the turret thing in the game for my creation...... after a few tries and coming back to check it again..... i noticed you used a small grid small hinge
indeed
Lindos trucos, debes ser popular con los niños.
I have not played in a month or 3, just picked it up again and appearantly im struggeling with something. Maybe you can adress this in a video or something but. If i for example weld up simple decoy missiles I dont get them to tie up to the launch timer on the base. Also struggled with the same issue in a different scenario. I tried making a tank factory long time ago but couldnt get the turret or gun to attach to the rotor by itself.
How do you do stuff like this? I know its possible yet i struggle with this more than i should.
I don’t quite follow what you mean by “tie up to the launcher timer on the base” If you want 2 parts of a rotor to attach then you need to set up a timer to attach them when they are close enough. I’ll address this in a video.
@@BlackArmor718 No no, I get how to connect multiple rotors to a single subgrid. The issue I have is: If i weld something up from a blueprint, and this object has a timerblock. I can not get that timerblock to activate with an allready existing timerblock.
Sorry for the misunderstanding :p
@@Sawer Instead of triggering say, Block A, with a timer, make Block A into *Group A*, then trigger Group A with the timer and it will work even after disconnecting and reattaching
@@BlackArmor718 You are a livesafer dude!
@@Sawer Thanks for highlighting that tip for me as I hadn't written it down yet
Clang Heresy!
The only problem
I'm having,
Is making a blueprint.
Have ship built.
But don't know how to blueprint it.
Looked everywhere.
🤔
Cntrl + B
Not on PC yet.
On console
@@Emile-N4-A239 Then that's your problem
@@Anvilshock lol, I already figured it out, like 8 months ago,
Isn't there a convert to station button in the information tab?
That is for large grid to the best of my knowledge
Small-grid batteries (3x3x2) have the lowest cost, volume and weight per unit of energy stored.
COST:
Large-grid batteries are 4 times more expensive and have only 3 times more energy.
Small-grid small batteries have 20 times less energy and are only 10 times cheaper.
*Cost based on power cells, the main limiting component of batteries.
VOLUME: (and energy density)
L-g b 15.625m³
192kWh/m³
S-g b 2.25m³
444.4(4)kWh/m³
S-g s b 0.125m³
400kWh/m³
If you need to make a massive battery pack in your base, use small-grid batteries. (Normal, not small.)
UNLESS, you're worried about CPU, then use large grid, because all battery types have the same PCU/block.
How the fuck does "20 times less" even calculate? What's "1x less" in the first place so that you can have 20 of it?? Also, there's a difference between "3 times more" and "3 times as much". "3 times more energy" would mean LGB have 4 MWh of capacity when in fact they only have 3 MWh.
Wow
Hey black armor, this is completely irrelevant, but theres a secret block known as large rail straight, I have been trying to make a train with those tracks, but haven't been able too, any tips?
I haven't used the block
How to make an air lock door?
Hey again
Hola
your mech seems to have a cross-eyed problem 0_o
(i guess you already have built in weapons adjustment swithc to fire straight, just poking a little fun at you)
edit: would you have a link for that first mech too?
Here ya go man th-cam.com/video/h5z1Q5D9J1s/w-d-xo.html&t
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1272040851
@@BlackArmor718 :) cheers mate
Is still possible to make a small blocks station without having an old save?
You can download my blueprint as I mentioned in this video
fUN!
11:22 yes, "space"...
I don't know if this series would be the right format, but when you showed the probs tankwires and such, i was thinking, they sure look fine, but what about actual PVP relevant builds? Are they that? At some point i myself would like to join a PvP server and don't want to be messed up by everyone all the time hrhr as it often goes on PvP servers for noobs like myself. So what i am asking is, if you would be so kind and include marked PvP relevant builds, could be turret solutions or if that works, tankwires, i have no clue what actually is pvp relevant/workable. I appreciate this series sofar and find it higly educational for me, i am just wondering besides making things look good, which definetly is also something i invest time into, that the most effective builds in other PvP survival games i played, do not nessarily look so good and aslong *i don't know what is actually really effective in pvp* i can't really work on improving the style as i get blown to pieces by my opponets ^^.
f.e. the trenches they look beleivable and depending on how an enemy would aproach me i guess they are also of use in a static defense position. I but don't know if this is a thing i should build right from the start as very important defense structure or something i put there for eyecandy later on as i don't have the experience yet. (erm *blush* i wouldn't mind blueprints for them aswell hrhr, i just made a tunnel BP and it took me roughly 7 hours to get it right, including a concrete mod i had installed which as i now learned in your video maybe obsolete ^^ due to concrete being added)
PVP in this game is heavy armor cubes surrounding cockpits covered in turrets. You just sit there next to the enemy and hope you kill all their turrets before yours die. There's no reason to make anything look nice in a fight because aerodynamics/radar isn't a thing. That's why I don't care for pvp here and just treat it as a building simulator.
@@BlackArmor718 oh :( that type of pvp sounds rather boring indeed.
@@kinngrimm it’s probably a bit more complicated than I described, but that’s the basis for the most part
i dont know how your builds dont explode when using subgrids, even without testing the new collision, if a subgrid exists my ship just dies :L
I will be covering that at some point
@@BlackArmor718 O: that would be so helpful thank you!
Hey black armor how can I contact you. I figured out something with the game I would like to show you. It may help with your mechs.
You can find me on steam
It that mech in the workshop?
Yeup Jaegar Titan
Oh thank you very much
theres a mod for that, you know. Static Small Grids
You keep talking about putting small grid onto large grid, how is that possible?
Small to large rotor or hinge attachment
You have piqued my interest. I'm 3 videos in and downloading the game as I search for the next.
I think you'll have a lot of fun with it
@@BlackArmor718 I spent 9 hours in game after I watched this video.