[SPACE ENGINEERS] 8 VANILLA SOLUTIONS that may replace mods or scripts!

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[Cona-vhvi]

I came here solely for the tank tracks you put in the thumbnail... Not a word spoken about them.

[Gottaculat]

My first instinct when I bought SE all those years ago was to use mods, rather than actually learn the game mechanics, the stuff vanilla designs can accomplish. I came across a vanilla BP rover that auto deployed and could even retrieve deployed turret emplacements. I was stunned. I contacted the author, and asked him how he did it all. He was really patient with me, and challenged me to only ever build vanilla designs, and to build in a survival world, but with creative tools enabled. This would make sure power, fuel, ammo, etc. was correctly portrayed and consumed.

I took his advice, also played and completed the "Learning to Survive" scenario, and my builds I make now are like 100 times better than the crap I built using mods. Best part is, all my BPs can be used in ANY server, as they are not dependent on mods, and the scripts are there for convenience, not function (mostly just Auto LCDs 2 script). This is great, because I can load up my tried and true BPs, and if the server has some good mods, I can just retrofit my design for even better performance.

Build vanilla. Learn how the game works. THEN mod.

[therealbahamut]

The double rail gap thing is brilliant. Annoyed I never thought of it. Could've used an idea like that many times...

[fakshen]

If you have a sub-grid connected to a subgrid, you can merge the second sub-grid to your original grid. Using a hinge on top of another hinge will let you create rotating thrusters in vanilla that can be locked to the grid, huge doors that lock, etc.

[jwfromsg]

Thank you for the tips, and have a good time at Keen.

[FalloutSC]

Orbital Rotor. My life has changed.
I've wished the game had an axel for so long now. This is an amazing stop gap.

[melb.]

I think I was the one who came up with the wasd but putting a landing gear lock on it is genius. I was trying to find a stable way of doing that! Well done!

[Chronostra]

That double railing thing is cool ngl and I used it before. But, use it with caution as it can cause clang too. my experience with a dip in sim speed made my gravity ring became a scrap of metals lol

The simple colored projection also can be used as a hangar entry/exit guidance like on eve online bases too. And this can be combined with multiple color projections and sensors to make a precise guidance, like for example green for good clearance, yellow for close clearance and red for off clearance.

[randaspread]

To clarify on that hovercraft technique, the visual floating is not caused by an engine glitch, it's just caused by vanilla wheel collisions being spherical (so the collision, extends slightly past the rim on each side, this is by design as spheres are smoothest when driving). I actually prefer to set them up with the suspension in the normal position, while it doesnt visually "hover" the dampening you get is helpful for traversing terrain bumpier than ice lakes too, and the 0% friction acts the same whether the wheels are vertically placed or not.

[MMuraseofSandvich]

At first I was thinking, "so he's gonna suggest stuff that is more likely to clang because of SE's collision modeling", then he mentioned the Xbox. Ah, that clears things up. Still, Keen should give all players clang free ways to do certain things in the vanilla game.

[namdoolb]

This is kind of a long story...

So I'd been working on a base build, & one of the hurdles you always run into is aligning your connectors at the correct height so that your rovers can hook up to them easily (assuming that your rover has a rear facing connector). That was solved fairly simply by mounting the base's connector on a pair of hinges. You could even map the hinge functions to a button panel & have really quite fine control over the height of the connector.
Of course that's not the real story - you see one day I'd hooked a rover up to the connector & I hit the button on the control panel to reverse the hinges. Result? The rover gets lifted into the air & an idea forms.

You see I'd been wanting to build a mid sized base rover for a little while, and I'd wanted it to be able to carry around a couple of auxiliary vehicles. Accommodating a flyer is not too difficult; landing pads are pretty rudimentary, but finding a way to carry around a small grid rover without bloating the large grid rover too much? That had proven difficult.
But now I had a plan: with a modified version of the hinge setup I could lower a connector to the correct height, connect the small rover, & hoist it up into the air for transit.

Of course this wouldn't be much of a story if that went smoothly. To install the system on a vehicle, the small rover would need to be lifted quite a bit further off the ground. This means the lifting arm would have to be longer. And as any engineer will tell you (and as I found out) this dramatically increases the amount of torque required, to the point where the large grid hinges couldn't get the job done.

This almost stumped me, until I hit on a cunning plan: I actuated the hinges by using pistons. This did increase the bulk of the lifting arm, and also required the installation of additional hinges to allow the system to move correctly. But the resulting lifting arm was more than capable of picking up any small grid rover that I had.
I also carried out some testing because I felt like it: A static version of the lifting arm was constructed, and was capable of lifting a large grid rover into the air. Now obviously the arm wasn't going to lift absolutely anything; the rover it was tested on was fairly modest in size (for large grid) and that was pushing the limits of what the arm could lift. But as a vanilla project I'm still extremely happy with it.

[WornyTheHun]

Love the first one.
I made something similar that does the same for mouse movement. Can control more than two rotors at the same time with mouse.

[kellDarkes]

I really like the double hand rail trick, looking forward to using this and the running lights.

[TheGarageGamer]

I really like how you push vanilla to the limits! Good stuff man :)

[justinlackey]

Quick comment to help out with the algorithm! God bless!

[capacamaru]

Cool ideas! I'll have to try some!

[nomekop]

I've known about the double rail gap, but your solution is way simpler. I had it horizontal, and tried to rotate a conveyor tube through it. It got stuck, and I figured you couldn't do anything with item transport. But this is a way easier solution

[matiasdelafuente]

Dude! this is all genius and some are so simple! (like the double rail gap). Subbed, and am probably gonna implement several of these in my builds :3

[stark]

I never even thought about the idea of for projection of the hangar force field door, or for holograms of messages and stuff, thats clever as hell! I can easily see this being used for cyber punk esq builds with the floating hologram adverts and stuff.

[OzzDrake]

I just wanted to apologize for a comment I made (and have since removed). I completely misunderstood the WASD "mod" entirely. I do enjoy the content and hope you keep it up as it's very informative. Once again, I do apologize for my own "snarkiness" before fully reading into what these features actually change/don't change