Space Engineers

Space Engineers

[Discontinued]Advanced Pistons
24 Comments
Rikkavidu_GER 15 Jan, 2020 @ 8:34am 
Hello, i cant find this Mod ingame. How Name is it? I search to "advanced" to "piston"... nothing. Space Engineers has changed lot of Names yet... Best reguards.
Letal 1 Apr, 2019 @ 9:15am 
Hello, thx for this mod.
One question.

What is the name to limit them on my DS? "ExtendedPistonBase" I tried..
TrayneRekk 10 Mar, 2019 @ 10:27am 
@Argual
I have sent you a friend request because I would like to ask you a few questions regarding modding. Thanks in advance for your time.
Comedy 13 Feb, 2019 @ 7:00pm 
Fokeymann
Agreed. Definitely, that would be wicked!!!
Sarcastic. "Wicked" is 14 years out of date, but you get the jist.
Fokey 3 Feb, 2019 @ 11:13am 
sorry to annoy but could you make an invisible piston ? like only the mid section missing while base and top are still existent, this would look so awesome
Barloc 8 Jul, 2018 @ 11:41pm 
This piston mod is just super great... enabled me to build a underground base and not build 25 piston elevators to get 150meters underground :) and the added bonus that i can use the piston elevator as a conveyor to the surface... :D Haven´s tested it though... Hope it works :P
ig_alx 18 Jun, 2018 @ 11:30am 
It is possible but would be very laggy to compact all that parts...
Argual  [author] 18 Jun, 2018 @ 10:45am 
If you do, please tell me so I can do it too
(btw this is the internet so I feel the need to express that i'm not trying to be cocky or an ass, im genuenly interested if u find a way)
ig_alx 17 Jun, 2018 @ 4:03pm 
XD Sorry, i did not read, IM GNNA FIND A WAY TO DO IT MYSELF HEHE...
Argual  [author] 17 Jun, 2018 @ 4:43am 
omg lol, i could but i probably wont sorry, thats a bit too extreme for my liking
also quote from the description:
"Please don't request longer pistons, I think even the 1x1x3 one is pushing it."

but just to clarify the main reason: Piston collision width is fixed, and i dont want to add extremely long but only 1 block wide pistons
ig_alx 16 Jun, 2018 @ 12:13pm 
Can you make a 100km extending piston please?
Deathium 11 May, 2018 @ 8:11pm 
..............
Argual  [author] 10 May, 2018 @ 4:05am 
@deathstroke225
Here: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?edit=true&id=1382383087
I don't know what more can I do for you.
Deathium 14 Mar, 2018 @ 11:16am 
i still cant place large advanced pistons on top of each other :(
Argual  [author] 14 Mar, 2018 @ 8:12am 
Update: Small Adv Piston Heads now require 4 small tubes instead of 2 large tubes.
Deathium 8 Mar, 2018 @ 12:38pm 
k i think i need to create a new savegame so the mod can work properly
Argual  [author] 8 Mar, 2018 @ 10:16am 
I checked it, they work fine.
Deathium 8 Mar, 2018 @ 5:47am 
the long advanced piston wont connect to other long advanced pistons....... Plz fix
Dingoniner 5 Mar, 2018 @ 8:54am 
These pistons don't seem to work for me. They are purple when I create them, and I can't get them to function. Any ideas?
Fascist Pig Bank 26 Feb, 2018 @ 9:14pm 
Great work Argual, these seem to work in the latest update unlike the other piston mods from a couple of years ago.
Malkavian407[RU] 27 Jan, 2018 @ 9:21am 
Hurray! Have been looking for!
Argual  [author] 26 Jan, 2018 @ 12:52am 
Actually the top and the bottom would be the same, but you get the idea, the subparts would be as thin as a vanilla piston.

Oh and about the 5 block long piston, as I mentioned in the descriptions, I think the extended 3 block long piston is almost ridiculous. But I may add them, I set up the models so it isn't very hard to change the length.
Argual  [author] 26 Jan, 2018 @ 12:47am 
Thanks! Sadly the game generates the collision of the piston as it extends (so it only needs 3 collision meshes i guess), and AFAIK it is hardcoded. So If i made a wide piston,

______
\--------/
.|-------|
.|-------|
/--------\

its collision mesh would look like this:

.____
..\---/
...|--|
...|--|
../---\

So other blocks and the player model could fly through parts of the piston, or even be inside the model. I don't want to make such a faulty mod.

I'm think there may be a clever workaround to make wide pistons happen, but I know almost nothing about the mod API of SE, so I doubt I would find it. I asked around in the KSH dircord, and people there said that its hardcoded and that it cant be changed. :/
Ravenbolt 25 Jan, 2018 @ 9:32pm 
Great work! I had my own idea for a piston mod but never got it to work. Any plans for a piston with the lenght of 5 blocks and/or 3x3 (large conveyor) pistons?

Also, nice job on the micro merge block and the compact tools!