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What other things should we build in Scrap Mechanic?

A tip with sm trains is they barely ever need more than phys simple 7. The diesel you looked at is designed for phys simple 1, as many trains with simple engines are. Physics settings sometimes break pistons and suspension, but creations with only bearings often can get away with it.

12:25 Ok here's the answers to all of your questions about my train: The whole thing is designed to operate on physics 1. Despite how that may sound, it works just fine. There are ways to make basically any build work on physics 1. You just have to design it correctly. The massive amount of lag you experienced and the various malfunctions like the doors not opening were because you never turned the physics all the way down. It does say to do this in the description, but I guess you did not read it. :P The barrier blocks between the cars are not meant to be removed. They are a normal part of the coupling system. You just delete one of the two blocks and put it back to uncouple, and weld the two blocks together to couple. No, the train cars are not meant to be separated before driving the train. The whole thing works as-is. Even longer trains are possible, but one engine and ten cars is the reasonable limit. Covered hoppers like the first car often carry grain, but they can be used to transport many other bulk products that need to be kept out of the weather, like plastic pellets, potash, salt, sand, cement, and many others. That one specifically would transport fertilizer. I'm pretty sure haybales don't ever get transported by train for various logistical reasons. Why are there bales on my train though? Because reasons. The tanker car has the paint scheme of Proko Fuel and Oil company (which is fictional), so yes, it could have cooking oil inside. I was imagining something more dangerous like jet fuel though. :P The big yellow area on the last car is inspired by real hopper cars. Some hoppers are designed to be turned completely upside-down by rotary dumpers to unload their contents. These cars are equipped with a rotary coupler on one end, which is able to twist to remove the need to decouple the cars when using the dumper. The colored end of the hopper marks which end of the car has the rotary coupler. Oh and the whole train is not meant to be specifically farm supply, but the first three cars are farm-related.

About the clutch in the last build, its refered to as a double bearing clutch in the community and uses the torque of the engine its connected to while turned off to transfer power through (engine is on when clutch is disengaged, but doesnt add any power to the driveshaft), the only slight issue with them is that you cant pass more torque through them than the torque of the engine connected to them.

We need more of the robot arm! That was incredibly cool!!

Hey Kan, I really appreciate you taking the time to feature my Steam Train build on your channel! The build is entirely a fully piston-powered locomotive using a system based off the Walschaerts valve gear design as you mentioned. I've set it up so that the 1 key serves as the trigger to activate the pistons. Inside each cylinder, there's a sensor which detects the "valve stem," which in turn initiates the piston's movement. I had also integrated low-powered thrusters glitch welded into the boiler. These thrusters are used to replicate the "chuffing effect" to capture that authentic steam train experience. Apart from that and the boosting thrusters, it's entirely works off of the pistons. Anways, thanks again for giving my creation the spotlight!

You should find someone to do a survival run with you where you guys never use actual engines, just make your own

Kan, 9 times out of 10 the description of the creation will tell you which button/switch will do ,so if you went to the description of the steam locomotive it would tell you about the locomotive.

You should try lubing the bearings and pistons

Try and put the explosive engine on the dyno

The "sus movement" differential is actually a real mechanism named Almond noiseless coupling right angle drive. There are a few videos on here of it in motion it is a cool mechanism. Some fun builds in here

The one thing I find interesting with the last vehicle, the muscle car, is that bespite the fact the body is completely rigid (Because Scrap Mechanic), you can actually see the left side lift more than the right side, like on high-torque vehicles irl.

I'm loving the piston engine renaissance going on rn

It would be great to have a bigger container for fuel in survival or being able to push gas from crates to gas containers

I'd love to see stuff similar to that spider, with an off button. A drivable version would be even better

I love that your getting into the piston stuff again I scrap mechanic. Very interesting, keep ul the great work :)

The one thing which would revolutionize flying vehicles would be having items with negative weight, so they can float. Even if we have to craft them.

The way the clutch works is a bearing that's glitched into another bearing. Icebound Glaceon has a pretty recent video covering how to make it, and how it works.

Try building a plane with a “piston-powered” piston engine OR helicopter But KAN style!

I know a trick for you when it comes to glitch welded pistons. You can easily use the vanilla glitch welding technique to do it with a lift but you use an elbow pipe with the bolt part to give the piston a side mount point that's in line with the piston.

FURST VIEW 17 SECS btw kan those trains are actuly ment for liw phisics seettings bc of how laggy rhey are. Mist of the time the discription will tell whitch one to use. Oh and 6 on the train is the smoke effects when stopped by jamming a piston. Jotrain likes to do that

"That's Vodoo" :D Great creations!

I can’t wait to see you conquer piston engines I’m just waiting to see u break out the dyno on a engine with “OVER 9000” torque ❤

I remember the times you were big in hover things ... you obliterated the guys in Multiplayer monday with your hovercrafts later ... having one just shy of flying and a thruster on a sensor with suspension for adjusting

Attaching a block the the large side of the piston then carefully hovering around until the block disappears into the piston.. Works in vanilla.! (Ignore this bit if you've heard enough) > This enables attachment of anything to any side of the piston which now has the connectivity of a block.

Idea: an army of horribly beweaponed kinematic spider follow you and your friends around the map. They fire constantly. Maybe you need 1000 of them

20 thrusters also equals 2000 component kits for survival lol

simple understanding on how a piston engine works is you need to learn how valve timing works on pushrod engines. and then apply the knowledge on how a hall effect sensor works. that’s how i learned how to build good ones

These builds are insane. I can't even play TrailMakers without visible lag on my current PC, so I'm not even going to buy Scrap Mechanic until I can get a new computer.

we need more piston engine cars!! maybe even based of real life!!

15:00 kAN, go get the cup 😂.

These are definitely cool Maybe a Fast & Furious themed best builds video?

You should do some torque tests on the explosive engine too.

7:29 k: I hope that wasn't important *as he lobotomizes the poor spider*

oh boy I defo watched this whole video even though it released one minute ago :D

What I'm trying to figure out currently is how in vanilla can we have a logic signal based on if a creation is moving or not. Like, if a car is falling out of the sky, driving, any form of moment as apposed to standing still. I'm trying to figure this out cause I want sensor doors that open when you get close to them. . . but only activate when the car is standing still.

Still highly recommend you check out Kein Anderer's stuff on the workshop. Great collection of piston engines with pseudo-gear systems. They have a great example of how it works in a built car called "Piston Car MK13.2 AWD" Variable speed piston engines using a controller to rotate the "encoder plate" for different "gears" (including reverse ofc). Hope you check it out cause I think it'd be a fun thing for you to experiment with!

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i've seen piston engines work with timers even under load they seem to work quite well for smaller vehicles?

Hey kAN a idea for future videos and possibly a sires of sort. So build a basic car that is easy to modify and change engines in and then do some sort of tractor pull series with different piston engines and different weights. Sounds cool, but it's just something I would enjoy.

I liked the part where you lobotomized the spider and it couldn't walk anymore

@16:35 - "I am become train" ~Openhopper

You should go back to your co op survival world and complete all of your projects that you wanted to do

You just need to take that extra muscular muscle car apart and put its massive engine through the torque test

You should dyno all the engines

Please do a drift themed olympics or something :))

You should do pro vs. Noob with piston engines. Then hook them up to the Dino machine and compare values

For some reason, that "spooky spider" look like that baby head spider from Toy story 1. Idk thats what it look like to me.

Piston engine lamda mechanism walker?

I tried timing piston engines with timers and it doesn’t work very well when you get a little load just keeps going back-and-forth because the Pistons aren’t going at the right time

I found a new suspension glitch awhile back without glitch welding

i was thinking when i seen the gover car why not make a gear powered hover car i dont know how it work out but i figure smash two things Kan might like in to one thing and he might like to explore it for a vid becase it just sounds cool id think they like it every one wins id think

25:10 sounds like a flywheel of sorts?

3 length max speed for regular engines is the way to go

Hey kan, i just put up the piston engine from the shopping cart to the dyno, and it got about 26.600 torgue WITHOUT a gear ratio.. That engine cant be stopped...

The "sus" piston engine's diff is kind of... suggestive I think I get it

And a 8x8 piston semi

7:00 & 7:33: Mr. Incredible moment

with sensor timing systems if you advance or retard the timing to change speed, I managed to get an engine that goes 70 kmph with the most advanced timing it allowed. it's got 6 pistons.

omg plz more piston stuuff ¨!!!!

10:30 found the sus part of the car in the trunk

It would be cool to see if you could make a piston engine to see what the highest amount of torque you could get then try some sort of sled pulling and see if it's usable. Edit: forgot to say this but use the dyno obviously to so itll be easier plus i wanna see what kind of numbers you could get with a piston engine.

btw thats how real steam locos change gearing to

The “old school hopper car”, is called a gondola car.

Check out "Bingo's block and part editor" mod. Adds a tool that allows you to do blueprint editing without exiting the game. I learned about this tool a week ago and it makes building stuff so much easier. Some cool tricks you can do: - move parts and bodies - overlap anything - rotate pistons in any orientation (requires it's attachment to overlap it) - create 0 width blocks (just make sure you put some kind of weight on them, they are quite glitchy and easy to loose track of (for the lather there is "unknowns tools" which makes them visible and adds other fun tools)) The shopping cart uses inline bearings on any power source that cancel out their torque. When they are powered they cancel torque creating a free spinning bearing. When off they create high resistance. Works for gas, electric and controllers. With controllers you can even make angle limited free bearings.

24:34 imagine trying ti do car repairs 🗿🗿🗿

You dont need such high physics for trains

Kan, How about you make a piston engine in whitch pistons are mounted to the crakshaft with two sets of two curved pipes on each side of the piston. Like crankschaft, bearing, curved pipe up, curved pipe to the right, bearing, curved pipe up, curved pipe right, unpowered bearing and the other side of the piston is the same story but backwards. If you set the angles at whitch first two bearings are (first 90 second -90) you can change how far the piston needs to move for the engine to complete one revolution from 2 blocks away from the crankschaft to concentric with the schaft. I would say that assuming that the linear speed of the piston is constant, a shorter travel distance of the piston would allow it to complete a revolution is less time making the engine faster. Though I watched your video with a dino and you might put an adjustable encoder on that engine too because I saw a video on the internet of such an engine and it makes me think that lag will be involved and screwing with the engine timing.

Kan you are the best

Kan you should play derail valley

I found a good way to make piston engines smaller

U are cool😊

What happened to that mini naval series?

"They dont have to be that powerful they are only spinning props" Me who works on a 4700 horsepower explody tube connected to a really big constant speed ceiling fan: ( ͡ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ)

and common since would tell you that if it's still laggy on physics 8 then go to physics 7

awesome!

Kan when is the next vid whit hyce comming out?

More factorio?

Where piston challenge? Started first level and did not finish.

Can u try to make a piston engine powerd big american truck?

Would a piston engine with 8 pistons 45 degrees offset from eachother work well? Any piston engine pro can answer.

when will all these be in survival thats when i turn the game on agean

One of the plane's pistons wasn't painted black and now I can't unsee it

where can i get a copy of that world?

maybe look at the discription of the creation first. because the first train actually says to but it to level 7 physics.

The diff on the blue car is what makes it sus 😅😅🤣

I have a 8x8 piston powered truck

I wanna see the extra muscular muscle car on the dyno ☠️

I'm still waiting for your new piston engine video

Put the musclecar on the dino

11:54 do you honestly not see just how sus this is

Bread

I made an ai helicopter thingy that uses PID controllers, but it took so long to make that it ended being put on the discord right after the video posted, :(

8:30 That isn't actually that hard, but the way SM has to make programmable stuff makes it painful

Are we not getting more of that Roblox train game?

Hey kAN! I was just wondering if it would be okay if i used your old intro song since you don’t use it anymone.

Anyone else who wasn't realized that kAN uses F for 3? 🤔🤔🤔

trick: get in a vc with someone good, you build and they will guild you. -sm technical community

The two reasons I haven't played Scrap Mechanic yet. 1. Single player is still alpha state and grindy. 2. Lagging out the physics and rendering is too easy.

Can you make a new co-op video.