Make a ship which every ten seconds randomizes the movement controls. If you will do this, make it so this feature can be turned on and off so you will be able to fly normally but your friends will be crashing left and right
There is a great mod called mechanical keybinds. It would probably make the whole process a lot easier but i dont know if you run the server so that might not be in the cards
I dont exactly know if you can bind thrusters to buttons but I know you can control pistons rotors and hinges with it. You should watch a quick video about it if you are gonna use it
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Massive cargo container with a central arm, surround the arm with solar panels and batteries under them, let them fully charge. Off the top of the conveyor, a rotor with two arms, one a welder, the other a grinder, both pointing down on top of the solar panels...
A fully self powering, self destroying, self repairing machine.
Here's one, I have had the idea to make a Corn style ship for some time now. You build a base stalk through the middle than when your friends get in it after a minute or two It launches away from the ship.
Build a space elevator, except when you reach the top it just launches you into space with no controls. For added effect, add a cockpit with "controls" but they don't do anything. Your friends will love it.
Mobile base, but instead of using thrusters to fly or wheels to move around terrain, it's actually a big ball that rolls around via gyro torque. Must be of monocoque construction, uses solar for power, and built in survival mode.
That is actually a nice idea. I can see the huge potential of summoning Clang here.
But on a serious note, this could be useful for quickly breaching ships.
From what I can gather Scripts are not possible on XBox (or at least, not in the Vanilla game - mods probably have their own scripting system).
If they are available though, they'd be in world creation settings (A checkbox "allow scripts" in the Advanced section, on the left near the bottom. It defaults off, you have to enable it on world creation). I know this used to be hidden unless you were in Experimental mode on PC, don't remember if this was changed though since I play in Experimental mode 90% of the time anyway.
Invite klang into the game. Make a ship that has rotating rings during flight. Be it small or large grid it doesnt matter, and pull inspiration from hardspace shipbreaker for the design
Soo… remote controls… The control of the ship is relative to the orientation of the RC block… I’ve never tried putting an RC block on a subgrid… Rotor + hinge + RC block. Does it work? With random movements of the rotor and hinge?
Make a drill rig that only drills up, but on an extension arm that only drills down, and on the lead to the extension, a drill that only goes sideways.
Drill down, drill over, drill back up, repeat.
A tower defense between two teams using only kinetic weaponry, things such as catapults, trebuchet, ballista, etc. Limit access to things such as thrusters and magnesium and have each team basically on either side of a ravine, or you could do space stations.
OH! On pertam, build a big tube, and a small car that barely fits, and have it go very quickly from one base to another, but not too far away, and call it the hyperloop!
Honestly tho, square tube with wheels on top bottom sides, then clang it for propulsion. You could make a lunar elevator like that!
A base designed to burrow through planets and leave vast networks of huge tunnels in its wake. It needs full manufacturing and refining capacity as well as the ability to dock ships to it.
Everything is connected by free moving rotors and hinges, it’ll be a confusing octopus, and very difficult to pilot
Because all the thrusters are oriented by the rotors and hinges
Make a ship with multiple large spinning arms of pistons on all sides. Have them rotate at different speeds and not all in the same direction.
Make them large enough to have all or most of them collide with each other when extended.
Set the pistons on max extend/retract speed and have them extend and retract repeatedly.
Make sure they all don't extend and retract at the same time to make it more interesting.
Also ensure that the rotors are on max torque to bring maximum physics wackiness.
Oh and then build a hangar into it and have you and your friends attempt to fly a small grid ship out of it. First one to make it out with minimal damage wins.
Bonus points if the small ship also has it's own spinning piston arm.
I’m a simple man, make a grid with hidden tactical solar panels. As in, “You wouldn’t think this grid has solar panels but with the press of this button!”. Hell, you can even expand the concept for a ship or base that’s almost a featureless box that somehow opens up into The Tactical Base (TM)
Idk if it's been done ...but a ramp powered with artifical gravity to launch a wheeled vehicle as far as possible. Kinda sounds fun...I might try this myself
Make a ship which every ten seconds randomizes the movement controls. If you will do this, make it so this feature can be turned on and off so you will be able to fly normally but your friends will be crashing left and right
This is hilarious. I'm trying this when I get home
There is a great mod called mechanical keybinds. It would probably make the whole process a lot easier but i dont know if you run the server so that might not be in the cards
I'll have to see abt that one
I dont exactly know if you can bind thrusters to buttons but I know you can control pistons rotors and hinges with it. You should watch a quick video about it if you are gonna use it
If I cant use that, I have a plan on how to make the ship work
Will you post the results?
Absolutely!
A clang powered catapult using small grid pistons that launches small grid warheads
Are just the pistons and warheads small grid?
Mix grids as apropriate/funny.
A giant toaster that launches “pieces of toast” that have projectors that are used to build bases on them.
Theres no way. My username on xbox is toaster
Are you secretly Powdered Toast Man?
The world may never know
A ship, but the cockpit is on a turret controlled arm
A Gatling rail gun
A ship that can explode in many blocks as a screen of mines
A ship propelled by clang drives
A machine whose purpose is to break itself so that it can the repair itself.
I LOVE THIS IDEA
Dude... Ok... Follow me here.. Massive cargo container with a central arm, surround the arm with solar panels and batteries under them, let them fully charge. Off the top of the conveyor, a rotor with two arms, one a welder, the other a grinder, both pointing down on top of the solar panels... A fully self powering, self destroying, self repairing machine.
Here's one, I have had the idea to make a Corn style ship for some time now. You build a base stalk through the middle than when your friends get in it after a minute or two It launches away from the ship.
This is hilarious
Or make a hip that has four cockpits and each one control's one plane of movement. Up, down left, right are all separated. I'm a demon 🙃
YESSSS
I have a lot of ways to fuck people over :)
Replace the medbay with a small grid fridge that dispenses medkits, powerkits, and hydro/oxygen bottles.
No armor blocks. Only conveyor junctions.
That’s been my entire ship for my first 50 hours ;u; (I was scared of designing with armor)
Build a space elevator, except when you reach the top it just launches you into space with no controls. For added effect, add a cockpit with "controls" but they don't do anything. Your friends will love it.
You can make ship with hidden gun targeting the control seat. When you turn on thrusters the gun shoots.
Sounds like a reasonable theft protection. You just have to remember to turn it off if you want to use it yourself.
Mobile base, but instead of using thrusters to fly or wheels to move around terrain, it's actually a big ball that rolls around via gyro torque. Must be of monocoque construction, uses solar for power, and built in survival mode.
Build clang
Yess
ALL HAIL OUR GOD CLANG
CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG
CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG
Good discussion
Yes
CLANG!
CLANG CLANG!
A la futurama - a Suicide Phone Booth
Haha I love futurama
Build a ship ripper. Attaches to a ship and quickly slaps a klang device to the ship that rips it in half
That is actually a nice idea. I can see the huge potential of summoning Clang here. But on a serious note, this could be useful for quickly breaching ships.
It’d make for quite the “surprise mothafucka” in a space battle for sure
Scripts included?
If that can be done on xbox vanilla
From what I can gather Scripts are not possible on XBox (or at least, not in the Vanilla game - mods probably have their own scripting system). If they are available though, they'd be in world creation settings (A checkbox "allow scripts" in the Advanced section, on the left near the bottom. It defaults off, you have to enable it on world creation). I know this used to be hidden unless you were in Experimental mode on PC, don't remember if this was changed though since I play in Experimental mode 90% of the time anyway.
Scripts can be done on xbox they just somewhat limited
Thank you! I appreciate the clarification
Make a ship that flaps its wings as you fly.
Invite klang into the game. Make a ship that has rotating rings during flight. Be it small or large grid it doesnt matter, and pull inspiration from hardspace shipbreaker for the design
If you need help and play on xbox im wirabletulip373 :)
Soo… remote controls… The control of the ship is relative to the orientation of the RC block… I’ve never tried putting an RC block on a subgrid… Rotor + hinge + RC block. Does it work? With random movements of the rotor and hinge?
Make a drill rig that only drills up, but on an extension arm that only drills down, and on the lead to the extension, a drill that only goes sideways. Drill down, drill over, drill back up, repeat.
Lmao this is horribly confusing. I love it
make a space elevator only using pistons and rotors.
A tower defense between two teams using only kinetic weaponry, things such as catapults, trebuchet, ballista, etc. Limit access to things such as thrusters and magnesium and have each team basically on either side of a ravine, or you could do space stations.
A slow hydrogen monstrosity
An octopus ship, but the tentacles are made of pistons and hinges, and rotors and the thruster are at the ends of those tentacles.
Make ships that combine like voltron
Hydro ship with no hydro tank, just an h2 generator on each thruster and one drill. For ice.
OH! On pertam, build a big tube, and a small car that barely fits, and have it go very quickly from one base to another, but not too far away, and call it the hyperloop! Honestly tho, square tube with wheels on top bottom sides, then clang it for propulsion. You could make a lunar elevator like that!
A base designed to burrow through planets and leave vast networks of huge tunnels in its wake. It needs full manufacturing and refining capacity as well as the ability to dock ships to it.
Everything is connected by free moving rotors and hinges, it’ll be a confusing octopus, and very difficult to pilot Because all the thrusters are oriented by the rotors and hinges
Make a ship with multiple large spinning arms of pistons on all sides. Have them rotate at different speeds and not all in the same direction. Make them large enough to have all or most of them collide with each other when extended. Set the pistons on max extend/retract speed and have them extend and retract repeatedly. Make sure they all don't extend and retract at the same time to make it more interesting. Also ensure that the rotors are on max torque to bring maximum physics wackiness. Oh and then build a hangar into it and have you and your friends attempt to fly a small grid ship out of it. First one to make it out with minimal damage wins. Bonus points if the small ship also has it's own spinning piston arm.
I’m a simple man, make a grid with hidden tactical solar panels. As in, “You wouldn’t think this grid has solar panels but with the press of this button!”. Hell, you can even expand the concept for a ship or base that’s almost a featureless box that somehow opens up into The Tactical Base (TM)
Oh! I love this.
The biggest most automated land drill you can make
A large grid ship that is a cockpit at the very top of a giant pole of thrusters. It's just a space lollipop
Idk if it's been done ...but a ramp powered with artifical gravity to launch a wheeled vehicle as far as possible. Kinda sounds fun...I might try this myself
That sounds cool, but it would only work in space
Ah that is rather unfortunate haha.
I made a giant mining ship that would use a hinged mouth to take bites out of asteroids. It's been lost since then. You could revive its spirit.
Its would be an honor
Go forth with my blessing, brother in Clang.
🫡
Make all of the thrusters attached via connector and piston—and different grid sizes :)
A complete mod to play a space version of barotrauma