The floating arm trebuchet loses the range advantage over regular trebuchet at very large scales, because the difficulty in construction of the drop channel and axle increases with size. A regular trebuchet is a better realistic war machine. However, a floating arm trebuchet is more efficient when built to a size of between one meter and five meters
It still works, because it uses physics that falls out of the basic equations of force, so it applies across all physics based games that have stress limits on the parts.
Senior year of high school i made a trebuchet for physics and optimized it as much as a part time working student could afford. It was funny to see myself looking at certain elements thinking about "well you want the arm ratio to be 3:1" or the rope to either be positioned on the front end for a modern trebuchet or how it was for a classical trebuchet, but above all, there is an ideal weight ratio, and adding more weight does not simply correlate to further distance
"the front and back fell off but that wasn't really much of a big deal" POV your a soldier besieging a castle: "huh, is it supposed to fall apart like that?"
I love Trebuchets, it's such an underated war tool. It's extremely simple to wrap your head around it and it performs like a beast. Seeing it in action is super satisfying too, how the individual rotations culminate in a extremely fast moving projectile and then recoil from the heavy weight swinging back and forth.
This whole video was awesome! The trebuchet came out so amazingly well. Kinda wish we could have seen it actually destroy a tiny mock castle or something, though. Still, very 10/10.
The trebuchet moves during launch. It means that some of the kinetic energy is wasted, which is obviously not good. I believe that making the arm longer would fix the problem, but still, great contraption ^^
Amazing content as always. I think (counterintuitively) you can get more distance simply by increasing the weight of the projectile. As I understand it, more weight in the projectile will take more energy from the counterweight. Meaning both the counterweight and the projectile will be moving slower, while the rig will move faster. The more energy you can take from the counterweight, the more energy you’ll have in the projectile, yielding possible increases in distance. But you’d have to ask Tom Stanton to be sure 👍
I can see that it can also quite easily have a store of projectiles easyily rolled into place to be grabbed and loaded, so if you needed it to you could get it to have more ammo, that's pretty cool.
Dude I just re-installed Besiege yesterday, this looks great! I'm a brainlet however and still figuring out how to "aim" projectiles like cannons meanwhile you built a trebuchet!
Watching this reminded me of something Tom Stanton did. He built a rather interestingly designed trebuchet. Honestly I don’t know how to describe it (it’s called a whipper arm trebuchet) but if you want to look it up the vids name is: Optimizing a Trebuchet by the channel: Tom Stanton I think it would be cool to try and design something in besiege using the ballast trick he used. Hope you don’t mind me sharing a vid name in your comments.
I think you can make a rngine with this. because when u launch, the platform moves at a speed that is coolfor it's size. so if you make it constantly spin without it launching the whole thing into the air with grabbers and balloon blocks that push down and some other stuff that give more downforce and traction, it might turn out pretty cool.
Wouldn't it make more sense to use the swinging of the arm to actually pull it back up instead of stopping it? Thinking about it in terms of 'preserving energy' and making the whole thing a bit faster...
If you use anglometers on the arm of the trebuchet you can control the launch angle a little bit better. Love you content, not very many besiege youtubers anymore. You should try and make car suspension next it would be interesting to see.
hey reid, you should try out a game called stormworks, its very similar to a lot of games you play and youd like it a lot! also, this trebuchet is really impressive!
can u do the most efficient trebuchet ? it would be fun to watch (at least for me) honestly, why did i tell u that? im weird, do what u want and ill still watch it! keep up the great work!
You should use bombs instead of ballast and throw them at an actual castle. I would love to see that.
The problem with that is, as shown in the bomb engine video he made a while back, bombs kinda explode a lot when you don't want them to :/
@@jmejuniper yeah I get that but there has to be a way
@@KingRaulDame In theory, but it would be a lot of work (probably)
@@jmejuniper why not the grenade thing
@Hamfish yes it explodes. That's the entire point of using the bomb
"It's not actually falling apart or anything."
*everything breaks*
Quality content
You could try building a "Floating Arm Trebuchet", they are a bit more complex but are much more efficient than regular trebuchets.
Good idea
GREAT IDEA!
The floating arm trebuchet loses the range advantage over regular trebuchet at very large scales, because the difficulty in construction of the drop channel and axle increases with size. A regular trebuchet is a better realistic war machine.
However, a floating arm trebuchet is more efficient when built to a size of between one meter and five meters
@@poiu477 bros the Trebuchet Teacher
@@saab35draken39 TREBUCHET CHAD
Pretty sure the weight side (the one with all the ballasts) is supposed to be 1/4 the sling side, just as a general rule for all trebuchets
*the machine literally breaks into 3*
Reid captain:not that much of a problem
This works in real life too
3:45
"And you see here, it actually looks pretty good"
He says as it breaks
10:33
@@idkwhatmynameis7326 XD
It just SMASHES its self
7:30
To be fair, this is Besiege.
I feel like this is what happened in a world without gunpowder. Timers, sensors, automatic ropes, but no black powder
Amazing machine!
Hello i love your plane videos
Thanks!
I love it when a new RUclipsr I really like posts a video right when I’m binging
Ah yes, using Ploybridge diamond strategies in Besiege
I mean, it worked though.
It still works, because it uses physics that falls out of the basic equations of force, so it applies across all physics based games that have stress limits on the parts.
@@nikkiofthevalley by "physics that falls out of the basic equations of force" you mean vector addition, right?
ploy??? bridge...
At last, the superior siege weapon
awesome stuff mate, I'm from australia and love your videos. I love looking at mechanical things in games
me too
That and designing logic(though I'm hardly good at it myself)
*entire trebuchet destroys itself*
"don't worry about that"
Senior year of high school i made a trebuchet for physics and optimized it as much as a part time working student could afford. It was funny to see myself looking at certain elements thinking about "well you want the arm ratio to be 3:1" or the rope to either be positioned on the front end for a modern trebuchet or how it was for a classical trebuchet, but above all, there is an ideal weight ratio, and adding more weight does not simply correlate to further distance
Now that's an interesting Trebuchet. Amazing work as always.
"the front and back fell off but that wasn't really much of a big deal"
POV your a soldier besieging a castle: "huh, is it supposed to fall apart like that?"
I would've liked to see a demonstration, and a magazine too. Great stuff as always though.
Bro thats WICKED🤯🤯🤯!!!! Love your videos man!
Respect man keep it up!
I love Trebuchets, it's such an underated war tool. It's extremely simple to wrap your head around it and it performs like a beast. Seeing it in action is super satisfying too, how the individual rotations culminate in a extremely fast moving projectile and then recoil from the heavy weight swinging back and forth.
Have you seen Tom Stanton’s work on trebuchets? Very clever design process from him.
Impressively effective. Also satisfying
Always amazing thumbnails 😆 👍
This whole video was awesome! The trebuchet came out so amazingly well. Kinda wish we could have seen it actually destroy a tiny mock castle or something, though. Still, very 10/10.
"the front and the back fell of but that's not really that big of a deal".....
Thanks for making videos. They are enjoyable to watch on my break at work.
The trebuchet moves during launch. It means that some of the kinetic energy is wasted, which is obviously not good. I believe that making the arm longer would fix the problem, but still, great contraption ^^
There are also grabbers that dont move
He should have made the arm longer on the sling end and shorter on the counterweight end.
The engineering you put into these puts a big grin on my face.
I love your besiege videos. Can't wait for more
I would love to see how you try to recreate, change and improve other siege engines
ballista
Recently started watching but just want to say have been loving your video's, keep it up!
It is only because you're making those videos incognito, that people still let you into hardware stores.
Amazing content as always. I think (counterintuitively) you can get more distance simply by increasing the weight of the projectile. As I understand it, more weight in the projectile will take more energy from the counterweight. Meaning both the counterweight and the projectile will be moving slower, while the rig will move faster. The more energy you can take from the counterweight, the more energy you’ll have in the projectile, yielding possible increases in distance.
But you’d have to ask Tom Stanton to be sure 👍
love your videos keep up the good work :D
I love this ideas because its perfect
This man is so good at besiege that he could probably invent a working radio
Awesome design!
Incredible
I love besieges atmosphere and designs
Man creates a trebuchet that flings stone 300 yards
I love your videos
Ayy new besiege let's go
This dude reminds me of Nile red, but with games
A counter weight powered car. Or whatever the swingy thing is. Anyway have a good day and bye
Repeating medical weaponry scetch colorized circa 900
Rapid fire trebuchet,
Rapid fire trebuchet,
Rapid fire trebuchet,
Rapid fire trebuchet...
These videos are just so sick. I honestly don't think I've seen a video of yours that I haven't enjoyed.
Virgin Catapult Vs. Chad Trebuchet
Yessss Besiegeeeeee!!!!
I can see that it can also quite easily have a store of projectiles easyily rolled into place to be grabbed and loaded, so if you needed it to you could get it to have more ammo, that's pretty cool.
You should play some Medieval Engineers. With a couple of mods you can make some really amazing contraptions.
can you make it reload more than once?
In theory yea, but it gets more unreliable with each shot, so getting more than one reload is a bit luck based
Great build!
btw there was just a little bit too much of saying "a little bit"
I have to build a functioning trebuchet for an engineering project, thanks for helping me get an idea of what to do!
Thats insane lol. You could also throw rockets with logic on them so when the arc is right they fly and then get more distance
You could also do a video on comments for design upgrades which would be awesome love the work!
Get that spin launch company on the phone. The besiege space program starts now.
Dude I just re-installed Besiege yesterday, this looks great! I'm a brainlet however and still figuring out how to "aim" projectiles like cannons meanwhile you built a trebuchet!
Amount of times he says "as you can see here" = quantity of Adderall he has consumed
Ik I’m really late but I love ur vids man keep it up 👍
The superior siege weapon 2.0
once you notice how much he says "a lil bit" you hear it every sentence lmao
WOOOOO YEEEEAAAAHHHH! LOVE TREBUCHETS! WOOOOOOOOO!
6:01 Sounds like a foreshadowing for a gatling trebuchet idk....
WHOA! If you were teleported to de medieval ages, and also got as an wizzard... well, i will just say that the machines would be very difrent XD
woah sick!!
yay more besiege:D
turning the most superior siege engine more superior
super cool dude
300 years of medieval engineering attempts in one video
I would not even wonder if one day he just sais: ok so today I wanna invent a cure for cancer. And actually does it 🤣🤣🤣
0:16 THOUGHT HE WAS BUILDING SMTH ELSE THEN
Gorgeous!
"making a reloading trebuchet"
*Only can reload once*
Thats better than not reloading. Kinda
@@KingRaulDame ig lol
@@toxic2971 If anything the worst part about this video was that it was not used on a castle.
@@KingRaulDame true
Technically, it does reload. Just only 1 time.
"Putting on a few extra braces" Every besiege player knows this pain.
You should make a video of beating the game with only medieval siege weapons
Watching this reminded me of something Tom Stanton did. He built a rather interestingly designed trebuchet. Honestly I don’t know how to describe it (it’s called a whipper arm trebuchet) but if you want to look it up the vids name is:
Optimizing a Trebuchet
by the channel:
Tom Stanton
I think it would be cool to try and design something in besiege using the ballast trick he used. Hope you don’t mind me sharing a vid name in your comments.
I wanted to make a "litle bit" counter but I lost count.
nice content.
It would be cool building a glider launched by trebuchet
idk if anyone's done this, but a b52 with a huge bomb to drop would be awesome
could you make a rope bridge(for cars) or golf playing machine(uses the various different cars as a golf ball) in poly bridge 2
I think you can make a rngine with this. because when u launch, the platform moves at a speed that is coolfor it's size. so if you make it constantly spin without it launching the whole thing into the air with grabbers and balloon blocks that push down and some other stuff that give more downforce and traction, it might turn out pretty cool.
Wouldn't it make more sense to use the swinging of the arm to actually pull it back up instead of stopping it? Thinking about it in terms of 'preserving energy' and making the whole thing a bit faster...
1:21 shwivle
''the front and the back fell off but thats not really a big deal''
what
If you use anglometers on the arm of the trebuchet you can control the launch angle a little bit better. Love you content, not very many besiege youtubers anymore. You should try and make car suspension next it would be interesting to see.
I would recommend using the symmetry tool!
How have I never heard of this game before??
ToDaY wE mAdE a QaUnToM sPaCe ReAcToR iN pOlLy BrIdGe
We should still use trebuchets in war
Can you upload it to steam workshop?
you use bracing to stop it from wobbling i just start using 1 blocks in a weave pattern
How's the scrap mechanic computer going?
Hey Reid captain can you do a video on besiege console?
It came out not long ago on xbox one and series x/s
hey reid, you should try out a game called stormworks, its very similar to a lot of games you play and youd like it a lot! also, this trebuchet is really impressive!
can u do the most efficient trebuchet ? it would be fun to watch (at least for me)
honestly, why did i tell u that? im weird, do what u want and ill still watch it! keep up the great work!
Wouldn't a rotatable weight be way more efficient than your rigit design?
yes
scotland been real quiet, since this was build.
It looks more like a hammer machine
I think you can have a great future in control engineering if you choose to.
you should travel back in time and help them make this
Nice
Imagine this guy being an engineer for the military