Gear Elevator - Space Engineers 

i like how, in a game built around engineering and space travel, it's a hassle to build with cogs and wheels :D

showing the progression in the learning was great.

The little arrow on the rotor is ingenious. My first idea would've been to use a programmable block to display information, but this is so much easier, I'll definitely use that in the future!

2:15 i can imagine someone doing a vault door from fallout using this

God damn it if I just scale up this gorgeous thing it will be a perfect fit to a mech cage deployment system! LAUNCH THE EVA!!!

I love how there are multiple ways to accomplish the same task in SE. So many different elevator methods, and that's just elevators!

I would probably place the gears above the elevatorcabin and watch those gears as they working :) Lovely piece of engineering 10/10

You have excellent problem solving and theory application skill sets. Well done.

You could fix the slanting issue by adding another 4 gears above the platform, meaning there will be 2 gears for each track. That might also allow you to move up and down much faster.

I play space engineers for over 5000 hours and can still learn something from you. Simply great buildings that you deliver again and again. Thanks a lot for this!

👏👏👏 Black Armor: The Bob Ross of Space Engineers! I'm putting this elevator design in my next base

Damn, these are surprisingly smooth. Never thought Lord Klang would allow something like this to exist...

No matter how I try and how long, I still feel like a DUNCE from brilliant creators and ingenious designs.

I suspect this can be done more compactly by tucking the gear mechanism into the left and right walls of an elevator car, but that's just tweaking. You've done the hard work. Very nice.

"What if we turn it, vertically." God, I just love that smooth delivery and turn, you make this so much fun

Neat! I love the use of the letters on the elevator!

I wonder how much load you could lift with a system like this. It would be interesting to experiment with cantilevered versions that just use a trailing set of wheels to offset the moment. This opens up some really interesting ideas for elevators that can lift large ships from underground or even to orbit

That is by far the coolest intro to any youtube channel I have seen

This feels like a high invocation of Klang, but now I'm interested in trying this as a large grid for moving big ships on a space elevator.

man this beats a lot of the mobility schemes around bases i've seen so far.

I had a grin on my face through the whole video, saying "yes, yes ,yes!". Maybe one day Keen will make a track block that integrates with a gear (or linear accelerator) block. And if Keen adds some curved track blocks we will have Space Engineers roller coaster edition! Think of the possibilities.....

You could compact it even further out by having the cogs displaced by 1+ block, but at that point I would rather resort to the "climbing piston" elevators that are better for displacing one player. I really wish this sees the days in an underground base as a massive vehicle platform, it would be so badass

That’s why I love this game ♥️ Thinking about a concept, testing it’s behavior and limitations in the game and finally using it in a suitable build and trying it until it works 👌🏻 that’s just beautiful…

I ran into a similar problem trying to put that oversized 'gatling railgun' into a more practical setup. I was bound to the arbitrary size of the large-grid and small-grid block, and I had to write my own trig formulas for overall size and shape, number of 'barrels', RoF, how to aim it reliably, and not kill your ship's batteries; without having an irregular shaped unit which would misfire or fire into the subgrid it was attached to, as funny as that was when I was testing it, lol.

This is amazing, I would love to use it for my future ships!

There's a lot more that could be done with this concept. Very cool.

you could have a central shaft with teeth for the elevator gears to climb if you wanted something more open. For bonus Imperial credits, forgo any railings or safety features.

800 hours spent in this game and I've never even had the slightest idea or even like heard of gears in space engineers this is legendary

The one that spins around could be a interesting sheild, door or mount for something that follows you.

This is actually a really cool idea. I could see it being used for a landing platform, that lowers your ship into a station. But i can already hear clang laughing in the distance just thinking about that idea xD

Very interesting to see the conceptualizing process. I could imagine some quite interesting steampunk-styled builds utilizing these gears and potentially some other less functional parts.

Just started getting back into Space engineers and am loving your videos, lots of good ideas and inspiration. Hope you keep making them!

2 things. Your intro was awesome. Super cool. And I wanted to say thanks for taking us step by step through your process and thoughts instead of just showing the final product. Keep doing your thing man.

This blew my mind man. Nothing to say other than amazing

This is just absolutely beautiful! I feel like such a ninny for never seeing this possibility. But now, I can't not see it. So frigging cool!

Coolest intro, 10/10. Love the content. Subbed on first video watched.

This is the most impressive space engineers video I've ever seen. That into just wowed me

Great video. I love seeing new ways to do different things in this game.

That's what I love about this game. People with ingenuity come up with the craziest and coolest stuff.

Wow that's some really creative thinking ! Great job !

That intro was top tier

first video of yours that I've watched and I have to stay that your intro is the coolest thing I've ever seen!

Seeing your failures and abandonments are more educational. They have given me a few more ideas. PS. IRL, Geared tracks are great for inclined slopes where friction isn't enough. Typically you only have one track and cog, with the remaining regular wheels offset to run on their own rail or surface.

been a fan since day one! glad to see you're still kicking it!

So cool that the game has been out for a long time now and people are still coming up with really creative stuff!

This will make large scale vehicle transport so much easier. No longer will we have to worry about scratching the side of our ships as we ascend from our cavernous bases. With the press of a button we could have any number of ships or rovers delivered to us. Personally, I would look into a way to make it more omnidirectional; able to go up and down, left to right and forward and back as well. Although, that would likely require a little over engineering and a handful of custom scripts

Fasinating! Your builds never cease to amaze me. My elevators always seem to explode!

That intro was really cool

actually makes for a pretty good elevator design, especially for very long elevator shafts, I'll be using this in the future, it's really cool

thia has to be his coolest creation yet

you're a genius; this is so elegant and functional

That intro was dope too.

This is so simple and yet so ingenious and well made

Nice Job, many thanks!

Dude this is brilliant! Got yourself a new subscriber

You could make a door system that runs on a track, I imagine there wouldn’t be much of a issue if this works, just make it more 2 d and turn the tracks 90 degrees. That way you can have a door or entrance as large as you want and looks aesthetically pleasing. There’s so much you can do with such a simple system of cogs.

Nor only you got me to subscribe to your channel thanks to thst insane intro but also to your impressive engineering design

This is amazing! I think I'll use it in my playthrough. I'll give you massive credit for it!

Good engineering. Simples but effective! Keep it comming

i just started playing space engineers, and this just blows my mind, awesome!!

Finaly! A worthy vanilla custome elevator for any length of track!

Wow that's so cool. Amazing what you can do in this game!

... im speechless this is amazing

This is AMAZING!!! Great job :D

I’m learning so much. You are awesome 😎

That is really cool. I wouldn't have thought the game would handle it so well. very cool.

wow that is incredible you have such great ideas

This is so cool. I’ve never would have thought of using cogs. Great video too 👍

I wonder then if you could do a kind of retractable landing platform... like, a door opens, and the gears extend a platform outward for you to land a ship on, then they can retract back into the base and the door closes behind it. Or, if you wanted to go really out there, maybe a kind of self-building mine. Place a main vertical structure over the ore spot with the main machine in the center; have a drill setup underneath, and above that a series of welders that could build the gear track as it descends, with the gears near the top of the machine above the welders.

Dude that looks really cool

Finally. My dream of having a functional vault door has come true. You can make some big and fun doors with gears. :)

This is true engineering here ! Congrats it's just awesome.

Damn. That is the most creative channel intro I have seen in a long time. Really well done dude!

So, the problem i always have with elevators is creating a call function; some way to summon the elevator to a designated floor with the press of a button. It's easy if the elevator only has two stops, but if you have a middle floor I tend to have difficulty bringing the elevator to that designated point. Suggestions? I know you have the camera idea in this one, but something a little more seamless would be nice.

First off, thanks for explaining your thought process and including the things that don't really work it's really educational (and inspiring at least for a noob like me lol) but tbh I'm most impressed by the indicator V which is just a simple yet genius solution. Keep up the great work mate

I guess to build it in survival you'd have to build the elevator carriage nearby, then fly the elevator to the top of the track, set it in, then seal the top.

Great vid. Love the idea! You got a sub

Idk but that intro is lit as hell

Incredible

Nice build!

Bruh I can't get over how accurate you were on stopping it flush with the other floors

First time seeing that great new intro

pretty sweet man. Nice going.

Wow! Amazing!

Amazing design! I'd love to see a space elevator with this design. Hookup the earth and moon. Though I realize that might take a really long time to make haha.

What you did here is great !

Very nice engineering. In additions to the wheels cushioning the stops. You could add sensors at each ends to stop the elevator.

Omg, you solved the piston problem on elevators on this game in definitive!

Very impressive!

Awesome intro!

I would add one thing and that is a set of landing gear on either side to act as an emergency brake system in case the batteries lose power.

I know this post is from a long time ago but for anyone watching this in 2024, you can use sensors to detect the top and bottom of the elevator shaft and stop the rotors

Love the intro and your vids:)

It's amazing on how you figure on how to make a elevator with game made gears.

Absolute mad lad!

Fantastic

One of the only games that really lives up to it's name This game is literally engineering at it's finest, it gives you the tools and the possibilities are endless

Amazing creation, I've got some great Ideas to improve upon your work. You could use sensors to automatically make it stop at floors. I would also change it so that the elevator itself doesn't have a railing but the floor you are going to does. This way, whenever the elevator is in use there is a rail instead of a hole to fall into for the people on the floors where the elevator isn't.

With the new turret control block you could use this in your ceiling as a rolling crane to pick up fighters or vehicles. Have this slide horizontally along the width of your fighter bay and us a rotor and hinge to make the crane.

I dunno if this game even has them but one way to solve the energy issue would be to just have electrical pickups on either side of the shaft, so the elevator is always being charged even while moving. Or just some sort of short-range remote charging devices, at regular intervals.