I think you might have less friction problems if you use pipe pieces, since scrap mechanic hates cube blocks being in contact with eachother

For the issue you had at 4:18 you can weld objects of the same creation together while said creation is on the lift. this should help for whenever you use barring in the future. just a tip, I think the way you did it was cooler.

I know that there are some mods out there that have gears in them, might make it a bit easier to improve on this

Day 15 of asking Reid Captain to try space engineers.

Some small tips: 1. "Generator pipes" look like thick pipes but actually are quite a lot smaller, so if you'll need smaller hitbox you can use these 2. Talking about gears, sm while having quite small blocks, works best with big objects in that regard

I've experimented with using spud guns instead of thrusters for engines, it gives the force all in one instance

Something you could try is a scrap mechanic piston engine they are high torque and smaller than a thruster engine

Great seeing your vids in my feed more frequently! :)

i like how he always does the most obscure things in the simplest of games

Yo I still think it would be sick to see a video of trackmania.

Yoo I'm definitely loving this new upload schedule Anyways, could you maybe play simpleplanes? Its really fun and seems like something you might enjoy

"Really chaotic and unpredictable" is like Scrap Mechanic's tag line.

Sick, someone who actually plays Scrap mechanic in 2022!

Seeing a piston engine, this is an old school engine, nowadays we use the actual pistons to create engines, smaller, more power, more reliable, more stable. But it's neat to see a thruster engine nowadays

Instead of expanding the pistons you could just weld them directly to the other crankshaft. Place a bearing on opposite sides of a block, put blocks on the bearings, put another block on the side of one of the blocks you just placed, place a block on the piston and weld that block to the other block. ⬛️l⬛️l⬛️ ⬛️ ↔️ ⬛️

so if you wanna weld/connect 2 parts together you need to place your entire creation on a lift. only then you can connect the part you wanna connect together

I love the quality of uploads! And you just uploaded the besiege shotgun which was also cool. Keep it up!!

So happy to see you back in SM. Also try something with water cannons or spud guns. the water and spuds have tranferable kenetic energy.

to weld two parts of a creation together, use the weld tool while the creation is oh a lift

Great video as always! I've tried my hand at some 'realistic' cars myself, but had some problems which you solved rather conveniently for me lol. Would love to see you make mechs in the various 3D games like this, such as dream car builder, besiege, etc. I feel Stormworks might be an interesting game to try out as well!

You dont need an engine for steering, if you just connect a seat directly to a bearing it will act as steering when you press A and D in the seat.

man really just summed up scrap mechanic in three words: "chaotic and unpredictable"

There’s a mod on the workshop that adds actual gears that work… would love to see you remake this with that mod. I think it can also solve the whole piston thing to spin wheels too

This was exactly the scrap mechanic video idea i was always wishing someone made and finally you dit it and its raw and awesome build

This is really cool. You truly are an awesome video game engineer. You make great content out of it too. And you are able to make that content frequently. You are a truly good KZfaqr. Thanks for entertaining us in times where it's hard.

Idea for Besiege: Make a James Bond Car.

If you put the creation on a lift you can weld "child entities" together, so you don't need to slot pins in to rotate. You may also have less problems of friction with pipes (not really 100% sure though) Since scrap mechanic did an update that messed up friction between blocks

Piston engines do exist, although I can't consider them to be realistic in this case, as they both push and PULL. still, nice job, and I hope for more scrap mechanic content soon, like maybe attempting Challenge mode...

i love to make piston engines powered by spud guns, and it works pretty well, managed to build a V8 with a shifting gearbox powering a car (also made an I4 engine, powered by 4 spud guns on each cylinder and managed to make a car with a clutch out of it too)

You can use suspensions they also have no collision for the engine also it is easier to make the wheels go gears are actually kinda better

It's interesting to see how you solve problems your own way. There are usually easier/more efficient options people figured out already but doing things your own way can be interesting too. I made a helicopter in Scrap Mechanic that uses a "realistic engine" and a working swashplate once with the wings mod and it works very well.

Instead of the wheel to the side, just use a gear using small pipes, they don’t resist much and the amount of power on your engine can be increased with the thrusters

It would be interesting to see your take on a regular scrap mechanic piston engine

it feels so good to have multiple vidios a week :)

The moment you got it sorta working, but the engine wasn't producing enough power, I thought "You need to put a gearbox in!" Engines almost always gotta be moving faster than the wheels they're connected to, after all. :3 But yea, gears in the stock game aren't very good.

Advice - make the camshaft bigger for higher torque. Its 3 blocks big now, if it was 5, that would make a huge difference. Could even go for 7. Thrusters shine not at torque, but at speed, so, using them in a system which expects less torque out of them, will make the system much better

You can use spudguns to move pistons, and they work either way-they can be on the pistons or push the pistons

Ok, your gears are kinda sus… But a great video, as always! Keep up the good work!

Great vid as always, could you do an AT-AT or some kind of walker/mech?

Always wanted you to do stuff in scrap mechanic!

Dude i love to see people enjoing a underrated game

very cool

You could make a clutch to keep the engine running even when the vehicle is stopped, this would also allow you to get it rolling without relying on a bump start, as when you extend the clutch pistons to make contact with the flywheel, it will still be able to slip to keep running, and the vehicle would gather speed off of the leftover friction until there is no longer any slip. You could try various block combinations for different levels of drag, who knows what the right combo would be as too much friction would stall it while too little would hinder performance.

Really cool

If you put the creation in a lift it will allow you to weld anything in right each other in lift state

Piston engine: exists* What the guy made is effectively a piston engine, rotating the axis and transfers rotation to wheels, still can't figure out myself how do you turn the wheels, seems difficult af

You can edit the games code for the terrain height by changing literally 1 value. It’s a perfect method to get otherwise static grids off the ground and into your lift!

just watching this makes me feel smart

This man could be an engineer in real life.

Finally! A reid captain scrap mechanic video!

You should try to play "Sprocket"😂

Nice vid! But the jet vid was better though

instead of extending pistons, you should use suspension, since they have the same no-collision property but are covering 3 or 4 blocks of distance with no collision, and like other comments say, pipe pieces would help as well

I've been playing scrap mechanic since 2016-2017 and this guy is still better than me

Make a mech suit in scrap mechanic that is powered by a realistic engine

why are you so good at every thing you play?

Hey Reid, can you try to make a steam train in Besiege?

saw some people commenting about mids that add gears but there are also mods that add magnets that you could use to make another engine

scrap mechanic piston engine ??? that would fun for you to make into a car :) also love your vids

Take a step into piston engines. There are also alternatives for gears for the axel linkage and clutches are relatively easy

Love your videos, FYI

it would be good if the game had a mod were you can select a erea and shrink it, the thing you selected still has to work tho. That would be good

Lol, I created a single piston thruster engine a week ago, but I didn’t have enough time to finish it (4 Pistons (everyone with a different phase)). Maybe when it’s finished I will test it out on a car. However, your design is a lot more compact than mine

you can make this much much much better by using the aforementioned pistons as the actual pistons that move to make the crankshaft spin instead of using thrusters

you should try the game "instruments of destruction"! it's a lot like besiege, but with a cleaner aesthetic and new mechanics like gravity wells and magnets!

You sound like a more energetic version of Nile Red

I already commented on the last video about this, but does anyone remember the game Principia? Reid's videos really remind me of the game and I would love to see what he would be able to do with it, but it sadly got shut down due to financial reasons :( Also, keep up the great content, man!

Good job

Bro, I dunno how to tell you this, but realistic cars don’t have the engine extending half the width of the chassis out the left side attached to a fifth wheel.

next vid idea: Making a Bomber Plane in Besiege or Scrap Mechanic

Love the more frequent uploads, keep it up!

That guy on the Scrap Mechanic title screen looks hella cursed

Orc's engineering as is it... WAAAGH!!!

Download The Modpack so you can use ice blocks which have no friction at all (I think even net blocks have the tiniest bit of friction)

Alt title Madman pollutes desert with rockets while trying to reinvent the automobile

i remember making a car with en engine including crankshaft and pistons. a drive shaft. a differential and realistic stearing and realistic suspension in the same space that he used just for his engine

If you put a creation on a lift, you can weld between movable blocks

maybe, ill just have to watch the video until the end to find out!

great to see you uploading so frequently dude love your stuff

The new scrap mechanic update has some optimization like less lag and probably less unpredictable physics. Some new things also

I haven't heard of scrap mechanic in a long time

i would love to see a follow-up on the 3D printer that can be controlled by a drawing thing or somethin

thats pretty cool

Nice!

I would like to see you make block launchers / realistic weapons in SM

Title: realistic car In video: strange thing with 5 wheels

Tip: Use Suspensions with strengh 0 as sliders

THIS IS PAINFUL FOR MY EYES TO LOOK AT

I haven't seen this game in years

you can have the piston welded on either side of the bering. none of the piston has colision so it is a realy good connection

0:00 yo it's Mark

Love it 😂

FYI all the parts of the piston don’t have collision, even the head and the.. foot i guess?

this is funny watching someone who doesn't know about scrap mechanic physics issues, while i have over 3000 hours in this game. i have a problem lol

AYY Scrap mechanic!

Imagine you are in far future and you try to reverse engineer piston engine using rocket boosters

2:32 everything reminds me of her. . .

New idea: USE PISTONS INSTEAD OF THRUSTERS

I saw you had trouble with Wielding the crankshafts. It would be easier to wield them by placing the creation on a lift and wielding them.

I must say, you have an odd definition of “realistic”.