i love the physics in SE. two thrusters on the back and it doesnt just start spinning uncontrollably, plus if you casually stroll into someone you sometimes just die XD
2:00 One surefire way to protect antenna and remote control: Put them in the back. The enemy would have to go through the front and the central battery or cargo to get to those parts. And at that part, they got through the center, so it hardly matters anymore. You want the control block as far away from the enemy in normal combat operations as possible.
Used your drone video to make my very 1st drone and it's amazing, railgun snipes until ammo out then warhead death dive, it's the last video I uploaded if you have a spare minute, this video help me a ton
For extreme range drone control you can make a relay drone with laser antenna and a normal antenna bounce a control signal from your location to the relay drone via the laser antennas and then have the drone broadcasting out to max range via normal antenna. This will let you control any other drone around the relay drone out to the max broadcasting range of it's antenna. With no limit to the distance between your actual location and the relay drones location. You can also have the relay drone work as a charging station for other drones. You may also connect more than one relay drone together to bend the laser signals around objects or make overlapping normal antenna fields to make larger drone control area's.
Seeing these vids has helped in my meager creative mayhem. Used to be I'd just copy paste static ships to blow each other up. Only now after a long time am I starting to tinker with survival. But makes it more fun now that I know how to set up basic drones.
I utilize drones mainly for patrolling supply lines to some automated ice gathering posts I've built, but they were pretty damn expensive drones. I'll have to fiddle around possibly with a larger volume of cheaper ones like this.
Hey Do you know what is the best use for a drone Having a grinder at the front face and a warhead The grinder goes into the ship and then the warhead detonates In practice there is the problem of the drones being shot down
So the obvious one would be to use solar panels, but because of their size they wouldn't necessarily be the best option for a small drone. What I like to do is tho have a 1 or maybe 2 small reactors specifically for charging.
I am curious....Would it be possible to make a drone that follows a script to automatically weld up a blueprint? Even go as far as connecting to a connector to pick up the supplies that it needs?
If you are thinking about the aspect of a " swarm " style then a mobile launch platform can work out but if you are using it as more of a recon drone that does not have a M.L.P. ( Please refer to ^ above name ) then solar would be about the best way to go so you do not have to worry about the added weight of a cargo container, ice, engine and storage tank.
The best way of charging a drone away from an outpost? Either it's gonna need its own solar panels or, lacking that another support ship or carrier, which could function as a command ship or relay.
Mod/Script Request, What if SE was VR and there was a script that attached ships to different VR tools that allowed you to use drones like extensions of your hands.
How do you best use them in a ship? Can they launch and then attack automatically, or protect a ship? How do you built/program them so they come back automatically?
Great video again. I would like a follow up how to wage war with some drones on some AI buildings or protect some mining drones. Oh boy - I wish there would be a mode where I can control such units like in an RTS.
Nice video but as far as charging away from base a solar rover is generally a good thing to have or u could attach solar panels to the drone itself but thats extra weight an creates more of a target 🤔
What do you suggest with the small batteries on drones? I’ve noticed they aren’t particularly useful unless you put like 4 of them, and even then can only barely handle like 3 thrusters... seems the larger one is just more useful anyway :(
Was busy and did't have time to leave a comment of any kind. SPACE DRONES Well I know that in "current colony survival" series there is a list of technologies that you can use and I'm talking about hover engines or plates?(didn't found the moment to look up the name of the things name) Anyway, use the hover plates on the side of the drones, they have very handy function" 0 damage bumper" the collisions can be avoided and it can use those to move as well. So make a basic drone innards and place 2 thrusters facing front and back 1 for 1 direction. > Coat it with armor. > position hover plates from out sides, up and bottom. Optional you also can: - position Gatling guns from sides protruding from heavy armor.(not turrets) - add more thrusters to the back and make it speed oriented drone.(quick and too small to hit) - shape it as you like it. Turn it into mining drone if you wanna(actually it might work wonderfully, no crashing into tunnel walls, no "I did it again") Cheers!
It also could be interesting to have two drones patrolling, one with a bottom turret flying 3 m below the one with a top turret, together they have 360° coverage (+room for charging connectors)
I just thought of this but what if u were to make a battleship drone that u could control from a distance and if a bunch of players came aboard the ship u have 2 options; self destruct the ship OR kamikaze into the other ship or base something to keep in mind for a challenge to try during colony wars ;)
I think a drone with a connector for charging Makes sense. Perhaps two drones could patrol one area. The first can recharge while the second patrols and then they can swap (taking up only one connector.)
if you put wind turbines along the rout will it charge of them wirelessly or do they need plugging in you might need a script and two time blocks one to tell the other its flat so it goes to a charging point
Ive run into an issue with automated drone production, the welder station i made can make a drone craft, but i cant access the remote control block to engage its autopilot to make it patrol after cutting it free from the printer, any tips?
Question, I want to create a drone which will remain docked until and enemy comes into range, undocks goes after other ship comes back re-docks? Am I dreaming?
Arron thank you sooooo much I wanted to kindve make like a drone control ship and I was having trouble with the bots. One question though, how do you conveyor everything up and keep the design slim? Thanks for what you do colony wars is the best part of my day
is it possible to make a drone to connect to a miner ship (while mining), get all the cargo and deliver it to a specified refinery and go all over again until we decide to stop it?.
Love the vids man, but I am having a problem. I can't get my little drones to act like the NPC drones. even after high jacking thier program block and timer info and applying them to my own drones. do you have any helful tips. o and I can't get any other modder area superiority scripts to work for my drones eather. so at this point I can't make any drones of my own with any script on the workshop or from in game found scripts. HELP!! PLEASE!!
Classclown 102 yes, you’d need a welder and a projector on the ground. It seems like it could be more efficient to just weld ships from projectors using a welding ship.
Hey LastStandGamers, I have a feeling that your mouse sensitivity is way too high for recording videos. The constant jerking causes me vertigo.^^ My suggestion would be to check out what kinda settings FPS professionals use and go from there.
Make another drone, call it a "Charger Drone", then fly it from your Outpost to another remote location and find a drone to charge, dock to it using a Rotor head, then charge it up! then undock and fly back home to your Outpost.
can you make a drone go to a different specific waypoint when its power reaches a certain threshold? basically patrol until power is 15% then go and recharge its self then return to patrol?
I feel like now a days with recent updates small scale drones such as this fall into two categories A fuckin scary due to the small scale rail gun or B easy prey due to the fact of the combined variety force and also accessibility of weapons at least in vanilla which could pick them off from a distance unless their a massive drone with a equal amount of fire power
I wanna know more about drone AI for some true automation where they will pick and follow a target, search out damaged blocks or ores if that's possible etc. Also if they can be configured to operate without a GPS so you can have a mobile base.
I am downloading ships from the Space Engineers Workshop and i am trying to make them fight each other turning them in drones and giving one of them to Space Pirates faction. Do you think could it work?
I came to see what the remote control orientation was supposed to be. Not planning on subscribing. But I did after seeing the video. Are propellers DLC or Mod or vanilla?
Spectator cam, press f8 (only if you have permissons) and use scrollwheel + shift/cntrl to change your speed and spacebar + cntrl to teleport your character to the camera and use f6 to go back to your normal view.
Agree. Missiles are overrated. Yes, they can be useful to deal with larger ships and it is usually a good idea to have at least one launcher as decisive factor. But majority of turrets should be defensive PDC's, both causing decent damage and providing defense from players and enemy missiles. Exact proportions depend on how much offensive ship we design, though it mostly relate to additional launchers as all ships need defense. Almost always when someone put those 50/50 he is a n00b though.
I believe it's mainly for PvP, a lazer antenna doesn't broadcast it's location to enemies, it relays control by line of site. An antenna broadcasts a certain range, and anyone can pick it up, friendly or not.
Maintenance is pretty hard, you could use GPS waypoints, but it's pretty pointless and not very reliable. Kamikaze though, that's another story! If the target is stationary, you can simply set a gps coordinate (there are scripts to get them from far away). There are also missile scripts that uses cameras or turrets. They can be a bit tricky to set up if you haven't used scripts before, but just put down some time and you'll get it done.
Just remember that hydrogen production has been nerfed by 75% in generators since the release update. So keep that in your mind if going with a hydro build. Keep your design ultra light or just do not bother with small hydro ships. I have built hydro fights for years and the update has basically made that impossible without using twenty+ o2/h2 generators. Battery is the best source right now for power but it requires an external source to be charged with is easier to do than building an internal source in each craft. If you would like for hydro production to be returned to it's old values please vote/like here support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/general/topic/return-o2h2-generator-output-pre-survival-update
i have never had a use for hydrogen beyond the first departure from a planet. i dont know if its just my designs, but every time i tried building anything with hydrogen thrusters it just ran out of fuel within seconds :/
@@fenchellforelle it requires a little more work in designing a system that can sustain and balance itself with enough fuel and thruster to be applicable and yet not weigh to much to be irrelevant. Now with the hydrogen production being reduced most small designs are just irrelevant.
Hold a block in your hand, look at the ship and press M. Press the button until you find a direction you're happy with. Press left click, then use N to toggle it on/off while looking at the grid (ship/station). It only works in creative, not survival.
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i love the physics in SE. two thrusters on the back and it doesnt just start spinning uncontrollably, plus if you casually stroll into someone you sometimes just die XD
The Gyroscope is constantly spinning, so the locations of thrusters matter only for protection... Gyro is god
What about a drone carrier, a large solar powered drone that serves as a resupply point for forward deployed combat drones.
I actually make drone/containers that are modular that I use as storage for my base / mining to rotate them out while I'm out in space, autopilot op
This is literally the Arkbird from Ace Combat 7
@@johnnyfakeassname7852 I think the Arsenal Bird is more fitting though.
So basically, a Drone Helicarrier.
Dronecage
"Why is this better than a cockpit? Well, look at the size"
Keen: bruh im about to change the game
2:00 One surefire way to protect antenna and remote control: Put them in the back.
The enemy would have to go through the front and the central battery or cargo to get to those parts. And at that part, they got through the center, so it hardly matters anymore.
You want the control block as far away from the enemy in normal combat operations as possible.
Can you make a part two where you show how to automatically dock the drone using timer blocks or something
Dylan Leddy you actually don’t need to, search automatic drone autopilot
@@Solyt OK I just did thanks so much
I have honestly wanted this video since the original survival antagonist series.
so I just wanted to say, thank you.
when using batteries depending on the drones use i will put in solar to recharge or have a way for the drone to dock up to a charging station ,
Used your drone video to make my very 1st drone and it's amazing, railgun snipes until ammo out then warhead death dive, it's the last video I uploaded if you have a spare minute, this video help me a ton
For extreme range drone control you can make a relay drone with laser antenna and a normal antenna bounce a control signal from your location to the relay drone via the laser antennas and then have the drone broadcasting out to max range via normal antenna. This will let you control any other drone around the relay drone out to the max broadcasting range of it's antenna. With no limit to the distance between your actual location and the relay drones location. You can also have the relay drone work as a charging station for other drones. You may also connect more than one relay drone together to bend the laser signals around objects or make overlapping normal antenna fields to make larger drone control area's.
I use a space based control satalite the bottom is packed with laser antenna so it can cover a very large chunk of of planet survive.
Two questions: how do you get your free camera to move so quickly (3:16) and how do you move your block forward and backwards away from you (3:21) ?
Ok, this is going in my refrence lists, drones always were a problem for me but this helps a lot.
Seeing these vids has helped in my meager creative mayhem. Used to be I'd just copy paste static ships to blow each other up. Only now after a long time am I starting to tinker with survival. But makes it more fun now that I know how to set up basic drones.
I utilize drones mainly for patrolling supply lines to some automated ice gathering posts I've built, but they were pretty damn expensive drones. I'll have to fiddle around possibly with a larger volume of cheaper ones like this.
can you please show how to make a welder drone that welds your base and automaticly restock ? i realy need that for survival XD
You don't need a drone for that, the BuildandRepair mod will do that just fine in your base.
Hey
Do you know what is the best use for a drone
Having a grinder at the front face and a warhead
The grinder goes into the ship and then the warhead detonates
In practice there is the problem of the drones being shot down
So the obvious one would be to use solar panels, but because of their size they wouldn't necessarily be the best option for a small drone. What I like to do is tho have a 1 or maybe 2 small reactors specifically for charging.
I am curious....Would it be possible to make a drone that follows a script to automatically weld up a blueprint? Even go as far as connecting to a connector to pick up the supplies that it needs?
If you are thinking about the aspect of a " swarm " style then a mobile launch platform can work out but if you are using it as more of a recon drone that does not have a M.L.P. ( Please refer to ^ above name ) then solar would be about the best way to go so you do not have to worry about the added weight of a cargo container, ice, engine and storage tank.
I love the livestock in the background.
The best way of charging a drone away from an outpost?
Either it's gonna need its own solar panels or, lacking that another support ship or carrier, which could function as a command ship or relay.
Can you show use how to make drones and a mothership for them with the Fleet control script?
Mod/Script Request, What if SE was VR and there was a script that attached ships to different VR tools that allowed you to use drones like extensions of your hands.
Awesome thank you for showing us this very cool give me some good ideas
How do you best use them in a ship? Can they launch and then attack automatically, or protect a ship? How do you built/program them so they come back automatically?
Great video again. I would like a follow up how to wage war with some drones on some AI buildings or protect some mining drones. Oh boy - I wish there would be a mode where I can control such units like in an RTS.
Aaron any tips on trains/monorail?? 600 hours in and its quite frustrating to build. With a single large block track plz and ty :)
Is that a small grid interior turret on that "dog drone"?
Nice video but as far as charging away from base a solar rover is generally a good thing to have or u could attach solar panels to the drone itself but thats extra weight an creates more of a target 🤔
ANYBODY BUILDING A DRONE: COMPACT!!
ME: SIZE MATERS!!!
This is enormously helpful, thank you!
i would like to see a how to set up mech legs episode XD
Was really interested in this video, but your sample drone has no way to charge itself...
Doesn't need to charge. Send it to your enemy base. Send 100 of them. 1000 of them. Just keep sending them, they're not gonna be returning.
@@blame7121 they run out of charge after 10 minutes of flight tho
@@truereaper4572 I'm sure they wouldn't be that far from the enemy. But that's a good point
What do you suggest with the small batteries on drones? I’ve noticed they aren’t particularly useful unless you put like 4 of them, and even then can only barely handle like 3 thrusters... seems the larger one is just more useful anyway :(
Was busy and did't have time to leave a comment of any kind.
SPACE DRONES
Well I know that in "current colony survival" series there is a list of technologies that you can use and I'm talking about hover engines or plates?(didn't found the moment to look up the name of the things name) Anyway, use the hover plates on the side of the drones, they have very handy function" 0 damage bumper" the collisions can be avoided and it can use those to move as well.
So make a basic drone innards and place 2 thrusters facing front and back 1 for 1 direction. > Coat it with armor. > position hover plates from out sides, up and bottom.
Optional you also can:
- position Gatling guns from sides protruding from heavy armor.(not turrets)
- add more thrusters to the back and make it speed oriented drone.(quick and too small to hit)
- shape it as you like it. Turn it into mining drone if you wanna(actually it might work wonderfully, no crashing into tunnel walls, no "I did it again")
Cheers!
It also could be interesting to have two drones patrolling, one with a bottom turret flying 3 m below the one with a top turret, together they have 360° coverage (+room for charging connectors)
Very cool. Thanks for the great content.
Can this all be done on xbox? Just got the game and still got a lot to learn. Loving it so far.
Whats that song you use for the end credits
can you put the A-BOT on the workshop?
Thanks man this helped a lot.
I just thought of this but what if u were to make a battleship drone that u could control from a distance and if a bunch of players came aboard the ship u have 2 options; self destruct the ship OR kamikaze into the other ship or base something to keep in mind for a challenge to try during colony wars ;)
I think a drone with a connector for charging Makes sense. Perhaps two drones could patrol one area. The first can recharge while the second patrols and then they can swap (taking up only one connector.)
so helpful thanks Aaron
if you put wind turbines along the rout will it charge of them wirelessly or do they need plugging in you might need a script and two time blocks one to tell the other its flat so it goes to a charging point
Ive run into an issue with automated drone production, the welder station i made can make a drone craft, but i cant access the remote control block to engage its autopilot to make it patrol after cutting it free from the printer, any tips?
I’ve just been tipped off that my base is going to be attacked next time I’m online, so this will definitely help for defense
Question, I want to create a drone which will remain docked until and enemy comes into range, undocks goes after other ship comes back re-docks? Am I dreaming?
i dont know how to do it exactly but it might be possible with sensor and timer blocks.
The pirates do it I believe
If they can do it we can figure it out
is there a link to the big drone?
Can we have the A Bot on the workshop?
Terratech + Literally any modern war game = Space Engineers
Halo
How are batteries recharged?
Can one give a drone printer the command to produce new once only when others had been destroyed?
awsome as always. simple useful tips for noobs like me.
How did you blast into space so fast?
so i tried a wee thing, and let me tell you - high altitude solar powered patrol drones are amazing.
Arron thank you sooooo much I wanted to kindve make like a drone control ship and I was having trouble with the bots. One question though, how do you conveyor everything up and keep the design slim? Thanks for what you do colony wars is the best part of my day
What mod are all the turrets on the drones from?
Plz make more drone tip videos
but can you make it recharge itself?
Nice vid mate
is it possible to make a drone to connect to a miner ship (while mining), get all the cargo and deliver it to a specified refinery and go all over again until we decide to stop it?.
for me the auto pilot does not work at all how do i fix!
Can you make a drone that will mine a little then deposit at base????
Love the vids man, but I am having a problem. I can't get my little drones to act like the NPC drones. even after high jacking thier program block and timer info and applying them to my own drones. do you have any helful tips. o and I can't get any other modder area superiority scripts to work for my drones eather. so at this point I can't make any drones of my own with any script on the workshop or from in game found scripts. HELP!! PLEASE!!
LSG actually building and not stealing blueprints? Wow
What scripts do you use for the drones???
Question, I'm not able to remotely control it. I'm using an antenna, and I'm 5 blocks away. How do I connect?
you need a remote control block on it.
@@sirgouki6207 yeah, I actually got it working, I'm in xbox and didn't realize how simple it was
Do you think it’s possible to make a drone that builds stuff for you, such as ships, outposts or even more drones?
Classclown 102 yes, you’d need a welder and a projector on the ground. It seems like it could be more efficient to just weld ships from projectors using a welding ship.
is it possible to make ai controlled turrets just curious i wanna create a faction
A normal gatling gun shoots by its self buddy
drone doctrine 101: have local human commanders to handle less important tasks
Hey LastStandGamers,
I have a feeling that your mouse sensitivity is way too high for recording videos. The constant jerking causes me vertigo.^^
My suggestion would be to check out what kinda settings FPS professionals use and go from there.
Make another drone, call it a "Charger Drone", then fly it from your Outpost to another remote location and find a drone to charge, dock to it using a Rotor head, then charge it up! then undock and fly back home to your Outpost.
Mining drone set up be nice
How do I charge the drone if it’s low?
Is this completely vanilla?
can you make a drone go to a different specific waypoint when its power reaches a certain threshold? basically patrol until power is 15% then go and recharge its self then return to patrol?
I feel like now a days with recent updates small scale drones such as this fall into two categories A fuckin scary due to the small scale rail gun or B easy prey due to the fact of the combined variety force and also accessibility of weapons at least in vanilla which could pick them off from a distance unless their a massive drone with a equal amount of fire power
I wanna know more about drone AI for some true automation where they will pick and follow a target, search out damaged blocks or ores if that's possible etc. Also if they can be configured to operate without a GPS so you can have a mobile base.
I am downloading ships from the Space Engineers Workshop and i am trying to make them fight each other turning them in drones and giving one of them to Space Pirates faction.
Do you think could it work?
Ye
how is it gonna refuel? land, etc etc.
My drones are so small on my moon base that I use them as replacement friends to talk to also they can fit through doors lol
I can play with you
how do you spawn batteries fully charged?
He used creative mode.
I came to see what the remote control orientation was supposed to be. Not planning on subscribing. But I did after seeing the video. Are propellers DLC or Mod or vanilla?
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How did you go from planet to space like that to build?? I been racking my brain tryin to do it. Can anyone help with that please. Tia.
creative mode allows for this.
How did he just blast off into the stratoshpere?
Spectator cam, press f8 (only if you have permissons) and use scrollwheel + shift/cntrl to change your speed and spacebar + cntrl to teleport your character to the camera and use f6 to go back to your normal view.
@@Anty-ux8rx ok thanks bro
you didn't cut the seat off when you added the cot pit
so what about when it needs a recharge?
Agree. Missiles are overrated. Yes, they can be useful to deal with larger ships and it is usually a good idea to have at least one launcher as decisive factor. But majority of turrets should be defensive PDC's, both causing decent damage and providing defense from players and enemy missiles. Exact proportions depend on how much offensive ship we design, though it mostly relate to additional launchers as all ships need defense. Almost always when someone put those 50/50 he is a n00b though.
But what does the laser antenna do actually im dead confused
I believe it's mainly for PvP, a lazer antenna doesn't broadcast it's location to enemies, it relays control by line of site. An antenna broadcasts a certain range, and anyone can pick it up, friendly or not.
Cifer ok thx
Now I will have my star wars gozanty hold drones that will be realest when I what a patrol around my base
This video is good but how to make drone make kamikaze or repare base and that stuff?
🤔
Maintenance is pretty hard, you could use GPS waypoints, but it's pretty pointless and not very reliable. Kamikaze though, that's another story! If the target is stationary, you can simply set a gps coordinate (there are scripts to get them from far away). There are also missile scripts that uses cameras or turrets. They can be a bit tricky to set up if you haven't used scripts before, but just put down some time and you'll get it done.
Just remember that hydrogen production has been nerfed by 75% in generators since the release update. So keep that in your mind if going with a hydro build. Keep your design ultra light or just do not bother with small hydro ships. I have built hydro fights for years and the update has basically made that impossible without using twenty+ o2/h2 generators. Battery is the best source right now for power but it requires an external source to be charged with is easier to do than building an internal source in each craft.
If you would like for hydro production to be returned to it's old values please vote/like here
support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/general/topic/return-o2h2-generator-output-pre-survival-update
i have never had a use for hydrogen beyond the first departure from a planet. i dont know if its just my designs, but every time i tried building anything with hydrogen thrusters it just ran out of fuel within seconds :/
@@fenchellforelle it requires a little more work in designing a system that can sustain and balance itself with enough fuel and thruster to be applicable and yet not weigh to much to be irrelevant. Now with the hydrogen production being reduced most small designs are just irrelevant.
Learn me how to make a modless remote controlled spy drone so i can harass my friends on the moon
Using a small ship inside a base as an elevator would be cool
Not really.. too complicated and ask for klang.
I was think how to build a fleet controlled by one person or one ship,drone battleships
How did he get into space so quick w/ jetpack
How do you activate symmetry mode
Hold a block in your hand, look at the ship and press M. Press the button until you find a direction you're happy with. Press left click, then use N to toggle it on/off while looking at the grid (ship/station). It only works in creative, not survival.
Is this in vanilla? (Sorry, new player)
Pretty sure it is
anyway i could make drones follow my ship?
Moving Medical bot? how bout dat?
what would be the point? without modding you'd still have to go to the bot and access the medical equipment on it manually.