How To Build A Ball Turret In Space Engineers Survival Mode 

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This sounds great

And that’s what they get for not googling stuff

What a great idea! Excellent!!

Thank you!

Yes I messed up when I did the camera.

I place mine on a Sorter with ammo set to white list, on top of a container, and for towers attach MULTIPLE turrets

Sorters on turrets are a must for rapid deployment.

Hadn't thought of that but it would save on space.

I do it a little differently. I build it expecting to take damage so I hide a projector behind the small hinge part, blueprint the subgrid and load the bp into the projector. You can also have the controller in there as the bp will save the settings but it may break the shortcut on the control seat so I have it seperate. However if you are desperate for space inside your ship, throw down a rotor somewhere well protected and put all your controllers, timer blocks, programmable blocks, antennas, beacons etc on it.

Problem is the turret is a sub grid and on survival with no mods sub grids must be printed separately with separate projectors.

Oh I'm well aware I was talking specifically about the gun part and not the neck of turret (hinge and rotor)

Your welcome it's one of my most popular videos.

Yes! Then you could factory build the turrets.

How do you drop a small hinge part into the large hinge body when there is no gravity? I’ve lost my large hinge many times and the way he does it works in a no-gravity environment

Can you control the orientation of the small hinge part when you drop it in your large hinge? You can control its orientation the way he does it. I prefer the interlock face of the small hinge part to be facing forward in my large hinge frame

Your welcome.

Thanks! Got more coming.

Thank you.

Your welcome.

The hing adds flexibility to the scaffold so you don't have a clang. And yes I realized I messed up later because I talked it like a ship and not a turret.

The scaffold rotor is entirely unnecessary. You can just build a large hinge, replace the head with a "small" head through the menu, and then use light armor blocks to build over to the other rotor.

This might be an update then I did do this video right after the turret controler came out. Thanks good to know.

Pulling the gun in then?

Yup I got a kick ass pc and came back.

@@badgerwildgaming6908 nice and did you win the lottery? 🤔😂

No one of my family members needed some cash and offered to sell it to me for $1000.

Your welcome and good luck in terminating what ever you need to take out.

Your welcome

It was a mod I had that replaced vanilla weapons with weapon core.

Be nice also I they would let us print sub grids too.

@@badgerwildgaming6908 There is a plugin for that and it works wonders )) it's in plugin loader and was called i think ''subgrid projection''

Thanks I have an unofical part two coming up on how to make them better! Should be out next week.

I should do a machinama after this comment. Thanks this made my day.

@@badgerwildgaming6908 only if your character is wearing a poorly drawn yet still recognizable Nick Cage face mask

Wonder if there's a mod?

that extra hinge isn' neccesary at all

Its mostly there to prevent a clang. The extra movement of the extra hinge keeps things flexible and acts as a buffer. Last thing you want is your ship going 1000mps thru you station.

It will affect you ships performance by fighting to ship. Best to keep them off and label everything to specific groups. If you put the wrong thing into the wrong controler the guns act drunk.

@@badgerwildgaming6908 So *that's* why my turrets have been going berserk at random. I just thought the patch version was buggy and went back to WHIP's Which reminds me, ICYMI WHIP has a script up on Steam Workshop that makes the post-build setup a lot easier.

The new turret controller allows it to act like a conventional automated turret I believe (based off the videos I've seen, haven't tested it myself).

@@003Jetfire I can confirm, the Turret Controller has an option to have AI-controlled turrets

Yes the turret controller is the same as wips turret script but more plug and play no coding skills required.

Yes, slaps a small grid custom controller at the back of the turret, where it is protected and turn the AI control to [ on ] after you’ve identified your turret rotor, hinge and optional camera (for manual control)

Some times you just got to work it.

Do you have I centered with the large hinge?

Sometimes the hinge won't attach because it's not aligned right. Check and see if it's centered on the big hinge. Also there is this thing where if the small hinge is on the wrong side it won't attach have explanation why it's like that.

If your in creative mode yes just build it once as a standalone then hit point your reticle to the connection port on the main rotor, them push and hold control followed by c on the keyboard. You can then place it anywhere you like. For survival your going to have to build every part yourself or get a mod to help with subgrid printing.

Ah! Thank you!

@josephbourque2346 your welcome.

Ya the ball turret is for missle and small ship defence.

They have to balance super sized railgun turrets some how.

Nice! Practicing the delicate art of the dreadnought pimphand too?

@@badgerwildgaming6908 eh ? I dont understand the reference lol But thanks for the reply. edit.. Oh and i can't wait to see how they do in battle.

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@@badgerwildgaming6908 LMAO DERP yea i get it now. Funny how the brain works.

The control block should give you one by default or I've seen other builds where the take a transparent screen and put a custom cross hair by placing it in front of the camera.

@@badgerwildgaming6908 Thanks! I don't have it by default. You don't have it on the video either. However, I saw one review where the crosshair was present. So I thought that it somehow turns on.

@@off8784 glad I could help

On the turret controler?

Yes this I just easier for the average player.

I've got an update to this video because keen changed some things.

@@badgerwildgaming6908 do you have a link voor you new video

I will when I make it.