AI Automated Supply Drop - HOW TO - Space Engineers 

I could imagine a setup where a bomber comes flying overhead, dropping bombs. Just place the beacon close to target and orientated the right way, then watch as a fleet of bombers come flying over and dropping their load on target

What you could potentially do is have a mothership that can come rescue you. Imagine being able to venture out and explore on a bike or small rover, but when you are in danger you can have a rescue craft come to your location and pick you up.

Best thing would be a *Resupply Missile.* Like a standard GPS missile, but at the end activates a *parachute,* and gently lands at target point. US Space Force actually considered this idea using the Starship-Super Heavy to offload cargo from orbit. Coincidentally, tomorrow on Thursday 20.4.2023 is first ever Starship *orbital flight test,* SpaceX will livestream the whole thing on their channel: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--1wcilQ58hI.html (assuming they don't cancel)

I used to do this sort of thing all the time with just auto-pilot. And an entire galaxy of waypoints. It was a NIGHTMARE! It's SO much simpler now. Go there. Do this. Come back, or do the other thing. Gotta love it.

That chinhook: FUCK PHYSICS (*proceeds to ignor the rotors and fly's anyway*)

I could see using this system on a flying vehicle transport that would carry like 4 AI tanks, kind of like an air drop ground force of tanks or rovers. Imagine having like 3 or 4 of these kinds of drop ships, being able to remotely call in 16 Ai tanks to do you bidding! This is a wonderful update. Thanks Aaron for the videos!

Aaron could you deploy an automated drone printer and have an ATC that you could make requests for specific supplies from and then have it task any free drones to accomplish your request from a specific grid and bring it? Think a mix between the movie Obliviion and the game Factorio drones. They could have face blocks and names so it would always be a fun surprise to see who brings your requested item and the "mood" they are in!

I'm imagining a mining ship that has detachable cargo pods that'll fly back to base and empty out, then fly back to reattach to the mining vehicle.

I don't mind flying from place to place, but can always only be in one ship at a time. being able to pick up from multiple resource asteroids simultaneously would speed things up considerably.

This is space engineers at its finest, really cool to watch. I'm looking foward to tge scenarios that can be made now!

One of those buildings on your base had a voice ringing in my head, saying:"Bombardment", good old C'n'C generals

I want you to build a beacon on a short range missile and fire it into the enemy base. Then launch an ICBM on the beacon from the other side of the planet.

I call shenanigans - no AI could ever be as insane as a Chinook driver!

I can see this as a way for auto recover of field assets. Lets say you got an orbital deployment and recover system with a tank. You can send the ODRS with the tank to an area to drop the tank and RTB. After the mission is complete, and the tank is recoverable, you can press a button and send the ODRS to automatically collect the tanks.

loving the new format of your videos

LoL, the helicopter's rotating wings are in sync with the camera shutter.

🤩 amazing, absolutely ridiculously cool!

Very nice. Man with this brand new Update to space engineers, it's going to be Interesting.

Very cool great video 😀

this is what I've always wanted in space engineers 😢, im so happy 🤣

It would be interesting if you had a small drone attached to the vehicle that basically acts like a messenger, and when you turn it on, it makes its way back to base and connects to the base and sends the command to launch the supply ship.

Loved the video @LastStandGamers! Can't wait for the next video man! There's only a few other Helicopters that I can see this being done with. The Westland Lynx AH.7 and AH.9 Multipurpose Military Helicopter, the Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion Heavy Lift Cargo Helicopter and the Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk Medium Lift Utility Helicopter. Imagine seeing these Helicopters Moving in with Cargo and Reinforcements. The British using the Lynx's alongside the Chinooks they Purchased from the U.S. While the U.S. uses the Chinooks, Super Stallion's and Black Hawks as follows..... British Army: 41 Chinook HC1 (CH-47C), 32 Chinook HC2 and 6 HC2A (CH-47D), 119 Lynx AH.7 and 24 AH.9 U.S. Army: 233 CH-47C, 427 CH-47D, 234 CH-53E, unknown number of the 5,000 Black Hawks built as of January 2023 as the UH-60M. These are the Historical Limits of the Helicopters in Britain and American Inventories, but the Thought of Having Helicopters Moving Cargo and Possibly even Troops and Equipment around is very Interesting. I wonder if something similar can be done with Tanks and other Ground Vehicles? Let me know what you think about this and I'll catch you in your next video man!

A way I do airdrops of supplies to have a huge aircraft with a large bay like the Atlas on the workshop and just yeet them out the back on chutes, the UNSC supply drop thingie I found worked great

Not gonna lie, those not rotating rotors are superbly immersion breaking.

since you can't make the rotors spin maybe you could use projectors to make a disc, to atleast add some kind of spin / blur effect.

you could make the blades spin by making them blueprints and putting a proyector in a rotor.

The Heli always know where a beacon is at all times. Heli knows it bacause it knows where it isnt.

could you use this system to precisely position the truck when it comes time to pick up the beacon?

If the rotors are an issue, I imagine if you have them rotating opposite of each other like the real thing did, one spinning one way, the other the other way, it would probably help a lot with the AI's issues, I don't know for sure if it would work, but it might?

Imagine trying to get a supply to your artillery thing to bomb a base and then you watch 13 rail gun drones shoot your supply

They need to add toggles to a few windows like say you want it to slow down of speed up at point or slow down at one (Sam or docking for example) also I haven't been on since the update but it'd be nice if the event controller block read the ore detectors n could signal to the ai ore deposits. This could aid in mining or scouting mining locations or it could be used to target hydrogen systems for a homing middle of sorts. That's if you can configure ore detectors to read cargo containers

I see the C&C generals base and now I want to recreate it inside of SE

Does this still work if the ship is out of range of the beacon? That would be cool, otherwise it will be limited to beacon/signal range which may add an extra level of engineering complexity

I cannot take seriously a helicopter without rotors that… y’know… rotate. These kinds of systems would be kinda cool though in a world with huge distances between bases. Maybe with little to no ore anywhere other than at the bases to make sure you can’t just build a bunch of mining and refinery rovers/ships. Actually enforce good logistics being a deciding factor in who wins.

I wonder if you can actually make a Command and Conquer minigame in Space engineers with these new AI blocks

Sorry but, rotating blades needs to be a must... lol (common Keen - cable for things wouldn't go a miss either, a moders dream)

We are going to have so much fun with this, quality of life upgrade or what guys?

Gday mate. Love the simple way you describe these things! I was wondering if you could setup something that has the ability to engage or disengage more downward thrust depending on the weight of the transporter. I am trying this atm with a small hydro machine that has about eight small thrusters under it. With no load it would fly on 2 thrusters but if I load it with ore for example it would turn on more additional thrusters till lift is attained. The idea it not really for the cargo change but I want this one machine to be easily with more turrets and ammo without needing to manually add more thrust. I have a really cool little example of the vehicle if you need an example. I have also purposely made it over complicated so that it needs to use the ai bits to make it flyabld

The AI blocks seem to retain the beacon info/position after turning the beacon off.

the blades rotating would be purely cosmetic, so how could it affect the AI?

I NEED these blueprints for these helicopters.

those helicopters belong to Columbia Helicopters (same paint and everything lol)

Can the beacon system work over the curvature of a planet/moon I wonder?

Is it too hard to make helicopter blades actually rotate ?

I want to make drop pods now. Deploy an army from space. Have ai escort fighters and deploy automated tanks.

to be more reliable just have it descend until it can attach

do you think we can make ships "orbit" now

That beacon reminds me of the Dorothys from Twister

I wonder if you could use a beacon to send a swarm of drones to attack a base…

so those rotors didnt spin when it took off... whats up there?

to drop defense pods

space station bringing a base or small dropship?

Can you do fighters leaving and returning from a hangar

That's great. Beautiful helicopter. Any plans to setup an AI mining rig? Like a flying cargo vessel that picks up ice from a drill rig in the mountains and then loops automatically?

Tony Stark, eat your heart out

Hey, now is it possible to make a ship recall system like no man's sky? I'm getting ideas haha

Ai going make ever so different

i need the blueprint for the beacon

During the beta I had an idea similar to this; but instead of cargo it calls in a strike fighter

Could this system be repurposed for some sort of airstrike? Drop a beacon pod and have a ship fly in and drop a bomb or start firing at the location.

Always getting the error that no moving block is installed in order to get the AI running... What did I do wrong? Any advise? Any kind of thrusters, gyros etc. are installed...

The helicopter would had looked more cooler if the blades was rotating

got distracted by the rotor blades not spinning. didn't hear a word u said

Supply drop inbound

it upsets me those rotors aren't spinning.

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come on man.... Such a waste not making the rotors spin....

It's a surprisingly simple system to do what it does. Leave it to LSG to create this system. Great job, as always. 😁 🤍