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[Sergius]

Yeah, good idea. Do you know if servers usually have it turned off?

[forsaken1111]

Yeah, good idea. Do you know if servers usually have it turned off?

Depends on the server mod. I usually do just because of general bugginess but my server isn't up any more.

[ThtblovesDF]

I had fun building crappy mine-towers (just a stick with gravity blocks on one end and a drill on the other, plus some storage), add some flashy lights and it gives off a nice mine-roid vibe, plus harvesting them after a while is fun.

Once one fullfilled his Duty and left the astroid on the other end, flying off into space, flinging about, his beacon forever more showing us his journey throu the universe.

I tend to have a tiny thing with a cargo box, for moving stuff, looting, docking up, raiding and just a ol miner for... mining and some pile of refinerys and assemblers (very) slowly shuffling along somewhere else.

[Sergius]

Ugh.

Well, building using projections by carefully moving one tiny block at a time doesn't work. The best way is to move all over looking for points where the welders start sparking, because it doesn't just place blocks in valid places inside some radius, it uses some sort of weird pathing algorithm which decides which next block to build from the position you're at. But the really bad part: projection building SUCKS at placing gyroscopes. I just built a complicated ship and managed to weld everything (at 10x with 6 welders) but it placed EXACTLY 0 gyroscope (blueprint had 8 ). ARGH!

[jocan2003]

It will place block only if the block as a connection to another block. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr7bvjXOkac. You just need better planning or use a mod with bigguer radius welders. I personally like the *laser welding* mod.

[Sergius]

It will place block only if the block as a connection to another block. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr7bvjXOkac. You just need better planning or use a mod with bigguer radius welders. I personally like the *laser welding* mod.

Yes and no. It will only place connected blocks (which is what I meant by "valid"), but there are a lot of other factors, such as if all the surrounding blocks are finished, and will select a certain order. So, just because it can be placed it's not guaranteed that it will be the next block, even if it's right in front of the welder and has an adjacent complete block.

[Sergius]

Ok, maybe I can ask for some ideas here.

I'm trying to figure out a way to make an automated ship grinder platform. Tested pistons, but there are some problems, same that I see in videos on the net: while you can "push" a ship towards the grinders, actually crushing the ship destroys some of the blocks (dropping scrap), and it damages the walls, and/or the piston itself.

The only other way I can imagine this can work would be to shove the ship between two movable walls instead of crushing it. So, it would alternate moving the bottom and the top platform, always giving enough space so that the ship isn't crushed. Alternatively, move both platforms in parallel up and down...

Thoughts?

[martinuzz]

can't you use sensors to make the pistons start and stop moving?

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

I'm heading into the "IFDGaming Universe [Procedural]" server.  It has a max size of 64, so it should be fairly good, hopefully.

[TheDarkStar]

I just realized that I can use merge blocks and connecters to transfer cargo without manually moving everything between cargo containers.

[Sergius]

can't you use sensors to make the pistons start and stop moving?

That's a good question, still, they would have to alternate to avoid crushing the ship.

Another alternative could be to park the ship above a grinder pit, attach a small reactor on the top and a Mass generator, then put a gravity generator on the other side of the grinders.

EDIT: Yeah, that didn't go well. In fact even just falling towards the grinders seems to sometimes explode parts, but a lot less than crushing them. Eventually, the ship turns around and the reactor/mass gets destroyed and the thing just floats away.

In the end, I think nothing beats dismantling a ship by hand (meaning manually, not using the hand grinder). AND carefully in order to avoid floating debris :/

[PTTG??]

Nah, you just need a crusher plate. More easily controlled feed rate and also it's a CRUSHER PLATE!

[jocan2003]

can't you use sensors to make the pistons start and stop moving?

Yes i had a setup like that once but was for grinder and making them stop, but could easiliy be reversable i believe.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

I watch too much LSG and whenever I end up attempting to make a ship I feel woefully inadequate!

[zombat]

Ok, maybe I can ask for some ideas here.

I'm trying to figure out a way to make an automated ship grinder platform. Tested pistons, but there are some problems, same that I see in videos on the net: while you can "push" a ship towards the grinders, actually crushing the ship destroys some of the blocks (dropping scrap), and it damages the walls, and/or the piston itself.

The only other way I can imagine this can work would be to shove the ship between two movable walls instead of crushing it. So, it would alternate moving the bottom and the top platform, always giving enough space so that the ship isn't crushed. Alternatively, move both platforms in parallel up and down...

Thoughts?

I've got one that is a giant box tube, down the far end the entire wall is grinders
At the top I have a lid on a rotor that flips up, on the inside of this lid I have stacks of pistons that are all merged into a platform made of blast door segments.

It mostly works without exploding violently... mostly.


I'd share it but the save file is on my home computer not my work laptop, apparently steam cloud doesn't work with this game?