One of my favourites, SO fast, SO fun

I can't put ammo in the guns

@Panik Goblin Did you put uranium in the large reactor?

Sometimes I wonder if we are all playing the same game. The Kestrel flies great, as of 5 June 2023. Gorgeous ship as always, good fun in a dogfight.

@Panik Goblin: No physics changes in the game that would render this ineffective. This is 3 months late, but did you check atmospheric thruster effectiveness? Remember that atmo thrusters lose power at higher altitudes, with lower atmosphere density. Atmosphere depends on the planet you're on. Gravity also affects ship weight and thus thrust-to-weight ratio.

2600 PCU is hardly a heavy burden, when Keen official servers have a 20k PCU limit. I have no idea what server would consider this excessive.

Not sure what is going on other than possibly just changes in the core game physics since the initial release, built this and it has charge and restocked ammo (nothing was inside the cargo as mentioned in the description). Once I tried disconnecting and taking off I came to find out that there is not enough power in the thrusters to even move the thing. Really cool design though, love the look of it.

Just because you play on clearly under achieving servers @Shortstack35, doesn't mean that this ship is a stupid thing. Why do you come here bitching. If you don't like it walk away and publish something better.
But you probably won't.

just wandering if theres a big block version of this, cos im not gonna lie im not a fan of the small conveyor systems, other than a small amount of ore and small rounds, theyre next to useless for shifting goods and cargo, sometimes its handy to be able to dump stuff in the cockpit and let the conveyor do its job but normally end up having to shift it by hand anyway cos of the small conveyor systems

Dang! Thank you kindly for the answer. Have a nice day!

not a mod. just take two screenshots from the exact same position, the second one with all but the conveyors removed (switch between spectator and character). Then just overlay them in photoshop or gimp or something

This is cool! I really want to know how you achieved that second screenshot where you can see the internals but armor blocks are transparent? Please tell me that's a mod I can get! Great work!

Nice one

You have to get underneath and pretty close and just look around until you find the small bar, where you can access the inventory. It's hidden inside other blocks, so it's kinda tricky, but it definitely works.

how do you load the turret?

@jonathan worked like a charm thanks man

awesome ship!
love it!

Keen included a new world option in the most recent update called "allow supergridding". I guess you must have it enabled for the turret to be buildable.

so i used projector to build this in modded survival and i cant build the turret im wondering if there is a trick to making it work

Nice design, will try it this evening.
Question : is it only light armor, or also with some heavy armor ?

Nota : you should erase the "space" images, some people in the comments seem unable to understand it's only atmo-thrusters ;-)

It's like a mix of the Kestrel from FTL and the Liset from Warframe, Cool.

looks bueitiful

I just pasted it in for the cutaway screenshot. On a planet it would have just fallen down. Probably should have removed the background in PS though :D

still wondering about space picture... you made it in empty world ? why would you put space pics?

in other words, unusable for space in survival vanila... ty

I stick to vanilla ships usually, but you can make an edit of this one with the hover engines if you want.

could i suggest one made with the hover engines mod?

atmo thrusters is only working in atmosphere hydrogen thrusters works in atmosphere and space and ion thrusters works only in space
hydrogen thrusters need fuel

or am I doint something wrong ? I pasted in creative first, and seems like only atmo thrusters. Im still newbie. Do they work at all in space?

How did u get a space image if it doesnt work in space?

Nice design but Dislike couse of interrior turret.

oof [place epic facepalm here]

I didn't make it, you can just export it from the game with ctrl-alt-e

I can't believe you made 3D model for such a little thing.

I managed to build this ship and take it out, and it handles great. A joy to fly and happy to have the blueprint for use in my worlds. Tyvm for sharing

ok thanks
I didnt wanna drone it without knowing if you already tested it and it didnt work

It doesn't have a Remote Control or Camera, but if you can fit them somewhere, sure :D

Could I drone this

Such a compact concept, this design would work with so many different themes! Very playable. I could see carrier bays stacked full of these for deployment!

Love the detail as well. Very nicely done mate!

Man it reminds me of the old light fighter I made before they changed the thrusters and killed it...

Keeping a compact body, using the connector as a major part of the conveyor system, using multiple small reactors instead of just one large reactor. A actual space engineer does exist!

An alle Space Engeneers !!!!!
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Dann kommt auf MilkyWay Gaming 1.0
Hier gibt es eine aktive Community aktive Admins die dir gerne bei Problemen helfen und Wöchentliche Events also schau rein !!!

Great work !

Not everyday you see a blueprint with a model view... very nice

DBX

Казалось бы причем тут Украина ?

@Darth Crunchus
I just tried it and it is in fact projector compatible. Loading it with ammo is a bit tricky, but also possible.

I didn't even know about the diamondback from elite:dangerous lol, this one is only inspired by my imagination.
It does look slightly similar though :D

*LAKON spaceways would like to know your location*

you dont happen to play Eve do you lol?

looks like a diamond back explorer

But is it fully small grid projector compatible? I suspect not, as it contains large grid blocks, which I assume would not be able to be 'printed' through the use of a small grid projector. This, if that is the case, means that it is in fact not survival ready.