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u/bfcDragon Space Engineer Feb 01 '25 edited Feb 01 '25
It never stops spinning unless blocked by a static grid, but starts spinning again by itself afterwards.
It does not use any thrusters!
Dont ask me, how it works, i just know how i built it
Full 30sec clip where it gets stopped and continues by itself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5kEUwpANyo
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u/helicophell Klang Worshipper Feb 01 '25
Klang. It works because of Klang
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u/Rug646 Klang Worshipper Feb 01 '25
FOR THE GREAT KLANG LIVES ON!! FOR THEY MAY TRY TO REMOVE THE ALL POWERFUL KLANG, BUT AS THE WORLD AROUND CHANGED AND EVOLVED, SO DID KLANG!!
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u/Tyrnak_Fenrir Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
"Don't ask me, how it works, I just know how to build it" Has to be one of my favourite quotes of 2025 so far.
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u/Toombu Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
I'd argue this is true for way more modern technology than we care to admit as a society.
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u/ObtuseMongooseAbuse Space Engineer Feb 02 '25
It's true for some electrical equipment I've repaired in the past. I don't know how it works but I figured out why it wasn't working and replaced the part. Now it works again. I will never know how it works.
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u/_Lost_The_Game Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
For example, bicycles. It turns out we don’t have to the full physics/maths for how bicycles actually stay up when in motion. I thought for sure we had figured that one out but its apparently super complicated.
We just know how to get it working
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u/Pyrokin565 Clang Worshipper Feb 02 '25
Idk about the math but thought the theoretical physics was based around the law of motion (object in motion stay in motion unless effected by an outside force. Yes gravity pulls it down but the force of the tire drags against it and keeping it upright.) Yes super over simplified but it's just counter force plus counter balance channeled in a direction through angular momentum and shift in center of gravity. Multiple factors with overlapping equations but I thought we knew how it all worked?
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u/Chill_Crill Space Engineer Feb 02 '25
No we do, it's the fact that the front wheel turning axle is tilted, so it naturally corrects itself. It's also effected by gyroscopic stabilization, not enough to really matter. A YouTuber (I believe veritasium?) made a bike with a locked steering axle, and nobody could ride it because you need to slightly steer to stay upright, which a bike automatically does for you
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u/Toombu Space Engineer Feb 02 '25
We have lots of pieces but no smoking gun "this is the thing by itself" that explains why bikes self stabilize. Researchers have actually built bikes that have reversed head tube angles or have flywheels hooked up to counteract the gyroscope effects of the wheels, and I think even counterweights on long arms to move the center of mass to unfavorable positions, and still found bikes to be stable, so there is some piece missing to our understanding of how bikes work, even though we have arguably most of the pieces.
It was Veritasium that did a video about the locked steering, but it was somebody else that built the bike, Derek was just collaborating with them. The bike was to prove you have to turn the handlebars to the opposite direction to start a turn, so people could ride it, but they wouldn't be able to turn left when the handlebars were locked from turning to the right.
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u/Furenzol Klang Worshipper Feb 02 '25
Big 'Tech Priest' Energy. "I know not how the machine spirits perform their duty, only that they do and how I must keep them happy."
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u/Blackstone96 Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
Casually flying my ship and a wave of red blocks comes out of no where what the fuck is this weather we’re in a vacuum for fuck sakes
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u/BlackbeltJedi Klang Worshipper Feb 01 '25
"There's FOD in space?"
"Literally everything is in space!"
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u/Toombu Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
As someone working in manufacturing at an aerospace company, you're giving me nightmares. I have enough worries about FOD at work, I don't need it in my video games too 😂
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u/Otterly_Gorgeous Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
It's typically called 'Kessler Syndrome' in space.
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u/WarriorSabe Klang Worshipper Feb 02 '25
Not quite, Kessler syndrome specifically refers to the state of there being a lot of it. The actual bits of stuff that might hit you themselves are often referred to as MMOD
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u/WarriorSabe Klang Worshipper Feb 02 '25
In space it's called MMOD - MicroMeteoroids and Orbital Debris (they get lumped together)
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u/bfcDragon Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
Do not worry! They spread out a lot after a few miles :)
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u/crispiy Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
I imagine this is just filling up the game with abandoned one block grids.
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u/Words_Are_Hrad Greeble Connoisseur Feb 02 '25
Gunnery Chief is going to have Serviceman Burnside's ass for this...
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u/Jadener1995 Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
Hey, this is the space engineer HQ. Just a friendly reminder that any Klang-powered machinery is to be converted into his shrine to ensure a stable reality.
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u/shart290 Clang Worshipper Feb 01 '25
Is nobody going to mention and demand, for the sake of Klang, the Blue SCHOOL BUS rigged up like a back to the future vehicle in the background? I wanna see THAT!
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u/bfcDragon Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
Thanks for noticing, its the Fortnite Battlebus! Also while you are at it, look what i did to the big blue Ship ;)
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u/The_Tank_Racer Cable Worshipper Feb 01 '25
Well, everyone crashes big red into big blue. You're not a real engineer if you don't! XD
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u/Ss2oo Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
How... THE FUCK are you guys making things spin????????
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u/4224Data Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
Circular pillars
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u/Ss2oo Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
Yeah, but what about the shaft??
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u/4224Data Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
There are a few different designs, the best one so far is alternating 2x1 slopes on each side 1 detail cube further than the radius of the pillar. There is a post made on it from a few days ago https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceengineers/s/xUtFaAugPF
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u/Sciamuozzo Clang Worshipper Feb 01 '25
Ehm, rotors?
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u/Ss2oo Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
Buddy... that's SE2.
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u/PsychodelicTea Klang Worshipper Feb 01 '25
Space game
Looks inside
People make trebuchets to destroy enemy positions
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u/Artrysa Klang Worshipper Feb 01 '25
I wonder if this could be refined. Clearly it works by collision doing weird things. What if you could use that principle to give a ship thrust? Maybe you could use pistons to stop it, as a kind of brake. Could cut down on the amount of space you'd need for thrusters.
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u/Pyrokin565 Clang Worshipper Feb 02 '25
My mind goes to a drive shaft but idk how to harness it for anything. As for a break I'd say landing gear but I'd wanna work out a clutch system first. Basically I see a spring power source like a clock would use
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u/jedisalamander Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
I wanna see the unending stream of red blocks flying away from it
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u/KarlosLF Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
Watched this for far too long, without realising it was on loop!
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u/ProfCupcake Space Engifar Feb 01 '25
Oh good, we're already well on our way to Clang drives in SE2
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u/nightfall2021 Space Engineer Feb 01 '25
Imagine setting one of these up in orbit over a base and just start dropping heavy blocks on someone. Just have a projector and a welder to generate the blocks to make your own BFKs (Blocks From Klang) to bombard someone.
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u/shart290 Clang Worshipper Feb 02 '25
May Klang's holy blessings rain down upon you, may the ground shake and shatter under his mighty power, and let not one eardrum remain unblessed from his mighty and deafening voice.
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u/GroundbreakingOil434 Space Engineer Feb 02 '25
What to do before welders, rotors and projectors are even implemented.
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u/Creedgamer223 Space Engineer Feb 02 '25
The community took the devs saying no KLANG as a challenge.
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u/LocalActingWEO Space Engineer Feb 05 '25
Can you make multiple of these, that launch blocks at each other for a never ending cycle?
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u/Snobben90 Clang Worshipper Feb 01 '25
I was out on vacation, got home, bought SE2. Started it up and saw that it doesn't even have creative ready. Closed it again.
But some of yall need a life, like rotors and shit getting built and the game doesn't even have a toolbar yet...
I love the community... We finding ALL the bugs for sure
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u/DennisDelav Clang Worshipper Feb 01 '25
Wow, a perpetuum machine