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[BigD145]

50x40x400? holy schmidt, my carrier (WIP) only carrys ships 21x21x15 (or something like that)

Need a lift?

[ank]

Yo dawg! heard you like carriers!
So a made a carrier that can carry your carrier while it carries...

[BigD145]

But it can't transform into a super robot that can carry things on its robot carrier arms.

I'm going for the old-school Macross look but without the body.

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Make it into a faction homebase and it becomes invincible. Carry around some battleships with the doors closed. I'm just trying to think of how to make it more interesting to look at. Already have an idea to make one bay flythrough and one not, so one will be longer inside than the other. The skin averages 5 blocks thick to put in the engines and power and work some dimples or something to keep it from being one long stretch of solid wall. Maybe make at least one 30x30 joint/plexdoor to connect the two bays.

Super rough outline. The inside will be curved different from the outside.

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[NineFourEightSeven]

New Terrain Textures!

[Urist McScoopbeard]

@^: awesome!

anyways:

for reference here's my carrier:

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If you made both those bays one bay it could carry my carrier. :C

anyways, my carriers got 6 bays, connected to my docking hall (goes all the way through i.e. fly-through), it also has an auxiliary bay on top for really small craft, for planet exploring or stuff.
also, per usual, it's got 2x1 maintenance corridors to places like: the core room, the power generator, the shield room, the power storage room.
planned is an air-traffic control tower, 6-9 turrets, an observation deck, and crew quarters... and more maintenance corridors. And... armour, can't forget that, the ship will look ALOT different once it's armored up; doesn't even have it's engines in yet.


... it also has artificial gravity.

[ank]

Remember you can't chaindock yet

EDIT: did he just release 3 versions in one day?
Is this Bizzaro Toady?

[NineFourEightSeven]

The no chain docking (yet) thing ruined my attempt at a space train.

[Vendayn]

I'd probably need to train dock to make a flotilla like in Mass Effect. Either a train dock, or have a bunch of AI that follow you (and they can't follow you currently).

But...a massive fleet of ships in space would be so awesome then anyone in my faction could live among the ships and we could travel to sector to sector, using up all the resources.

All we need is AI being able to follow, or/and train docking

[Evilsx]

These seem nice, i might try it and hop onto the server

[BigD145]

If you made both those bays one bay it could carry my carrier. :C

Four, actually. ..... Per bay. I'm up to 100000 cubes in the outline.

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I like the shape of that front. Simple. 1/1 then 2/1 stairstep. The plexdoors will follow the shape. I may add bumps on the plexdoors as features. Since the skin is 5 wide I might even add hangars to the front lip on top. They could be escorts or scouts or something. The top deck will have short term docking spots. Maybe at least one dock big enough to take on things that can't fit inside. I have not decided on color scheme yet other than white and grey and maybe blues. I don't want to be too UN SPACEY, though.

At the very least I'll skin and power this thing. I can't even think power yet. The standard x-y-z lineshape for power cubes that's more efficient than a solid cube? I can make one that would fit the bay inside if it were a solid cube. Then I could nest more. 70 sideways, 60 down, 400 out.

I think I need a planet to make a dock big enough for this. My draw distance is 30 and I can't see it from end to end. Can only view it all from the middle.

[Greiger]

I am building a large scale factory at my personal home base now.  My ultimate goal is going to be to try to restock some of the more commonly bought items at the 0, 0, 0 shop on our server.

Since...you know...it's full of crap and nothing actually useful now...

But why the bloody hell do you need mini cactus to make grey hull?  Seriously?  What is so special about cactus?

[Urist McScoopbeard]

not just any cactus... SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACTUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dansmithers]

Creating some plans for a mega-station. One problem:I'll need 63.2 millon blocks for the hull alone.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

jesus, what is the station used for? sound's bigger than a solar system!

[Max White]

I am building a large scale factory at my personal home base now.  My ultimate goal is going to be to try to restock some of the more commonly bought items at the 0, 0, 0 shop on our server.

If you figure out how factories work, be sure to tell us. I've been collecting junk throughout the universe ready to start production!