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Space Engineers

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Rotor Gravity Drive
   
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3 Apr, 2017 @ 9:00pm
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Rotor Gravity Drive

Description
A gravity drive system, designed to move the ship, without rotating the actual ship. Yes, it uses rotors, gravity generators, and artificial mass blocks, and does not explode.

See it in action, here: https://youtu.be/GB63KFRVwlc
14 Comments
Storm 22 Mar, 2023 @ 2:16pm 
"wtf how how does it not break - " ..
years later I still don't know.
Mohawk 14 Sep, 2017 @ 10:51am 
If you need a simpler and more reliable (But way less fancy!) version:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1134945036
Pez 12 Apr, 2017 @ 11:03am 
On this day clang demanded more succinct and complex sacrfices.
This is Cursed 10 Apr, 2017 @ 5:31am 
wtf how how does it not break
Masterdude94 9 Apr, 2017 @ 8:20pm 
So I spawned this ship in, flew it around a bit, hit the max speed, rotors locked(as theydid in the video), crashed into another ship i had spawned earlier(it only broke off one corner of the "box", the direction i was looking in), i got out,and the ship went off flying in a giant circle, part of which was going through part of a planet's gravity well, and it proceeded to fly around on its own for some time, until it crashed into the ship again, this time while iwas flying it. Minor damage, of course, but it was hilarious at the time, as it came right out of the blue! And through it all, no clang whatsoever1

10/10 would fly, crash, watch it fly by itself in circles, and crash again! ...again!
Doomsday4766 8 Apr, 2017 @ 7:20pm 
How large of a ship can this move?
Dai'khairai 7 Apr, 2017 @ 12:30am 
i find this VERY MUCH a survival concept, Why? cause......
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ive made somthing similar on a far smaller scale, for small ships wasnt strong enough to do what i wanted untill i made the ships medium sized or basically very large small ship size and just set a rotor group in the center to be basically as limp as possible.

they always would fall back down to the lowest point in their angles, aiming at the surface of the planet, causing the gens to always repel the force of gravity no matter how that ship was oriented to the planet, Cause the grav repulse drive was always set to aim straight down therfor pushing straight up

i SOooo want to make somthing like that for a large ship,.. alas the ships ive made large enough to need one, rot far to heavy a load strain to play effectively. unles ofcourse you want to crash players weaker sytem

High Ground 6 Apr, 2017 @ 12:16am 
Rotors, Gravity Generators, Artificial Mass Blocks, & Clang all on a moving ship? What could possibly go wrong? (See Murphy's Law)
KPSracker26 5 Apr, 2017 @ 11:14pm 
it looks cool enough i may try to use it in one of my mega builds to see if it could work as a bigger ship's propulsion.i'd probably have to spend a bit of time with a programming block, but i could probably slot it into the ship i've got kicking around.
JCapt 4 Apr, 2017 @ 8:33pm 
This looks cool! I might try it out!