any updates?

yes but do to how SE regasters weight keeping the small blocks using 1 plate, we could not change there weight, SE registers weight by the sum of a blocks componets, not a number in the cube block code. so a full block made with one plate would weigh the full amount of 1 steel plate..witch is if i remeber right 26 or 24 KG a 50cm cube should not weigh that much in the first place.

FYI: Steel plates are much bigger than 50cm x 50cm. The smallest plates I have seen are 1m x 2m, and they can be had much bigger than that. There are 8 x 50cm x 50cm pieces in a 1m x 2m plate, so a small armor block should require less than one plate.

oh never mind

what does it look like?

First of all there's not really anything to show, it still uses the stock models and materials for most of the parts. All it does is rebalance the weights and used materials to be more realistic. This results in much lighter ships.

guy if you dont show the product people will not trust in you because they think this is a loss of time, please show the product and maybe i subscribe

After working for 2 whole days on the final update of my mod I encountered an error I am unable to fix. This error was caused by the block textures I had included and prevented me from uploading any updates at all, even uploading the old one with the textures of the "Depleted Uranium" blocks failed even though that version was actually already uploaded to the Steam Workshop. In other words everything went FUBAR!

So since I was unable to upload fixes in any way I had no choice but to remove all block textures this mod was using and as a result of that I also had to remove the blocks that used those same textures. In other words I had to remove the "Depleted Uranium" blocks.

I sincerely apologise for the trouble this update has caused and I hope sincerely that you'll understand this necessery change I had to do...

YA that wa sthe point...I dident want to steal any work done by anyone so I just thought i would ask you first sense its still 95% your mod.

Tidus Klein, I don't mind you uploading your own mods however I'd appreciate if you'd link to me as well as it's my child so to speak :)

Ps this change only fixes the large blocks for Gatling fire, I have done very little to anything on the actual small blocks, all blocks still act the same way and still take the same amount of iron...I believe...haven't tested that yet.

Hello Night...I have edited your mod to make it more user friendly, by riding it of the large plates. And also fixing this bug with the large blocks being completely allergic to Gatling gun fire, note it still takes bout the same amount of damage to dystroy the blocks now as in stock, and edited all component amounts acordingly, back to stock values for the large blocks,

This makes the mode much more playable and was hopeing that you would alow me to upload my own version of this mode, with your consent.....do note you will be fully credited with the 99% that is still your mod.
Thank you

Managed to find the problem, it appeared that the textures were too large in file size to upload to the Steam Workshop... Anyhow, fixed, updated and good to go!

For some odd reason Steam is not allowing me to upload to the workshop anymore... I keep getting the error "Failed to upload to Steam Workshop", been trying several solutions and have retried many many times but no progress so far... If this problem is a cause of Steam's servers they better fix it soon and it'd be great if they could at least warn people about it!

The new update has brought an error with it! The light armor blocks seem to be missing textures and it's due an error in the upload to the Steam Workshop and I've attempted to reupload it but the workshop is bugging out on me atm so please bare with me... I'll work on fixing this ASAP.

Thank you for your understanding...

LOL! Been there a few times.

And that'll teach me to read discriptions when half asleep.

Indeed, 70R4 is correct!

@Itsapainfulworld: It affects all blocks that use steel plates of any size as a construction component.

Ah, I see I guess I didn't read well enough, you're talking about small ship light armor blocks. So this also affects the recipie and durability of large ship armor blocks?

Indeed Itsapainfulworld, large light armor blocks did indeed take 25 normal steel plates, but with this mod it has been reduced to 6x large steel plates, since these large steel plates are 5x larger then the regular ones.

Forgive me if I am mistaken, as I've been away from SE for a month due to PC issues....but I thought a Light Armor Block used 25 Steel plates.

Very cool! I just spent 5 hours updating conveyor ducting and signage in my ferox, lol. It would be nice if someone could come up with a material stronger than steel, same or less weight, from which we could make blocks. So many tier 3 heavy armors and reinforced this and that that my ship doesn't move the way it was intended, even with 13 titans. So I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Well I just found out that the integrity change doesn't affect anything, maybe it just affect the steel plate itself (as an object when you drop it). Like when you'd drop a steel plate and shoot it that way. I didn't notice any difference in the block or component durability by changing that value. However I did find another function that affects those factors, I'll be updating them in the next update as I'm trying to work on implementing a new armor type as well.

That is what I thought it might be, but I have a concern that if the mod modifies all components that are made up with the use of steel plates, that their endurance will be negatively impacted. Effectively halved if they only use 1 steel plate. Did you perform the combat/explosive/kinetic/impact testing to see the comparison between the two? I do agree though if it's too high, it will make weapons all but useless against even light armored targets, lol. That would actually be game breaking. This is quite a cool mod, I'll be utilizing it in my creative builds for sure.

Hello 70R4,
Thank you for pointing this out, I'll look into fixing it asap. What concerns the integrity reduction, I did it to compensate for the additional plates you add in and the actual strength of the armor was a bit too much as well. I tried to estimate the integrity the best I could to simulate real life situations.

Mind you, I love it when people think of this stuff, so don't think I'm downing you with this. Just trying to help a bit. While this is great, I just noticed something a little odd. I think for your corner block and angle block, there is a miscalculation.

Your angle block would actually require 4 steel plates, or it wouldn't have either sides, or one of the square faces. If you have 3 square faces, that accounts for 3 steel plate but the sides would require 1 steel plate cut at a 45 from corner to corner. So one extra steel plate would go into the angle block than what you have listed.

For the corner block, if you cut a square steel plate in 3 segments, such that you cut it to get the front angle plate, the waste would make up the two back plates, which would give you 2 plates, then you'd need a plate for the bottom . So that would need 3 plates. Also, why the reduction of integrity? Is that to manage the mass increase from increasing the number of plates used?