How To Build Compact Drones Tips Tricks - Space Engineers 

i love the physics in SE. two thrusters on the back and it doesnt just start spinning uncontrollably, plus if you casually stroll into someone you sometimes just die XD

"Why is this better than a cockpit? Well, look at the size" Keen: bruh im about to change the game

What about a drone carrier, a large solar powered drone that serves as a resupply point for forward deployed combat drones.

I have honestly wanted this video since the original survival antagonist series. so I just wanted to say, thank you.

I'm kinda surprised nobody had noticed the 'cows' grazing behind the drones lol Nice scenery Aaron. As for the Battery recharge problem, I'm not entirely sure this would work but maybe a reactor could be onboard without any uranium, then when topped up the extra power could recharge the battery? or would the battery need to be set to recharge state? My whole fear of this problem would be the drone would max out the power off the reactor. So maybe additional reactors?

If you are thinking about the aspect of a " swarm " style then a mobile launch platform can work out but if you are using it as more of a recon drone that does not have a M.L.P. ( Please refer to ^ above name ) then solar would be about the best way to go so you do not have to worry about the added weight of a cargo container, ice, engine and storage tank.

Ok, this is going in my refrence lists, drones always were a problem for me but this helps a lot.

I utilize drones mainly for patrolling supply lines to some automated ice gathering posts I've built, but they were pretty damn expensive drones. I'll have to fiddle around possibly with a larger volume of cheaper ones like this.

can you please show how to make a welder drone that welds your base and automaticly restock ? i realy need that for survival XD

Mod/Script Request, What if SE was VR and there was a script that attached ships to different VR tools that allowed you to use drones like extensions of your hands.

Two questions: how do you get your free camera to move so quickly (3:16) and how do you move your block forward and backwards away from you (3:21) ?

The best way of charging a drone away from an outpost? Either it's gonna need its own solar panels or, lacking that another support ship or carrier, which could function as a command ship or relay.

cool concept: small-ish ship with a remote control drone. Give it a cutter, a welding arm, and a camera, along with the required pieces of a drone. Have it be able to detach from a small part of the ship's interior and let it fly around inside in out. The cutter can let it cut open the ship to fix internals, and then weld and fix everything back together. I think it would be cool.

I love the livestock in the background.

How do you best use them in a ship? Can they launch and then attack automatically, or protect a ship? How do you built/program them so they come back automatically?

Great video again. I would like a follow up how to wage war with some drones on some AI buildings or protect some mining drones. Oh boy - I wish there would be a mode where I can control such units like in an RTS.

Nice video but as far as charging away from base a solar rover is generally a good thing to have or u could attach solar panels to the drone itself but thats extra weight an creates more of a target 🤔

I just thought of this but what if u were to make a battleship drone that u could control from a distance and if a bunch of players came aboard the ship u have 2 options; self destruct the ship OR kamikaze into the other ship or base something to keep in mind for a challenge to try during colony wars ;)

ANYBODY BUILDING A DRONE: COMPACT!! ME: SIZE MATERS!!!

i would like to see a how to set up mech legs episode XD

What do you suggest with the small batteries on drones? I’ve noticed they aren’t particularly useful unless you put like 4 of them, and even then can only barely handle like 3 thrusters... seems the larger one is just more useful anyway :(

Can this all be done on xbox? Just got the game and still got a lot to learn. Loving it so far.

Hey LastStandGamers, I have a feeling that your mouse sensitivity is way too high for recording videos. The constant jerking causes me vertigo.^^ My suggestion would be to check out what kinda settings FPS professionals use and go from there.

How are batteries recharged? Can one give a drone printer the command to produce new once only when others had been destroyed?

can you make a drone go to a different specific waypoint when its power reaches a certain threshold? basically patrol until power is 15% then go and recharge its self then return to patrol?

Agree. Missiles are overrated. Yes, they can be useful to deal with larger ships and it is usually a good idea to have at least one launcher as decisive factor. But majority of turrets should be defensive PDC's, both causing decent damage and providing defense from players and enemy missiles. Exact proportions depend on how much offensive ship we design, though it mostly relate to additional launchers as all ships need defense. Almost always when someone put those 50/50 he is a n00b though.

I feel like now a days with recent updates small scale drones such as this fall into two categories A fuckin scary due to the small scale rail gun or B easy prey due to the fact of the combined variety force and also accessibility of weapons at least in vanilla which could pick them off from a distance unless their a massive drone with a equal amount of fire power

Very cool. Thanks for the great content.

awsome as always. simple useful tips for noobs like me.

Is that a small grid interior turret on that "dog drone"?

Plz make more drone tip videos

if you put wind turbines along the rout will it charge of them wirelessly or do they need plugging in you might need a script and two time blocks one to tell the other its flat so it goes to a charging point

I came to see what the remote control orientation was supposed to be. Not planning on subscribing. But I did after seeing the video. Are propellers DLC or Mod or vanilla?

so helpful thanks Aaron

I wanna know more about drone AI for some true automation where they will pick and follow a target, search out damaged blocks or ores if that's possible etc. Also if they can be configured to operate without a GPS so you can have a mobile base.

is it possible to make a drone to connect to a miner ship (while mining), get all the cargo and deliver it to a specified refinery and go all over again until we decide to stop it?.

is there a link to the big drone?

Can you make a drone that will mine a little then deposit at base????

Nice vid mate

Can we have the A Bot on the workshop?

Love the vids man, but I am having a problem. I can't get my little drones to act like the NPC drones. even after high jacking thier program block and timer info and applying them to my own drones. do you have any helful tips. o and I can't get any other modder area superiority scripts to work for my drones eather. so at this point I can't make any drones of my own with any script on the workshop or from in game found scripts. HELP!! PLEASE!!

Just remember that hydrogen production has been nerfed by 75% in generators since the release update. So keep that in your mind if going with a hydro build. Keep your design ultra light or just do not bother with small hydro ships. I have built hydro fights for years and the update has basically made that impossible without using twenty+ o2/h2 generators. Battery is the best source right now for power but it requires an external source to be charged with is easier to do than building an internal source in each craft. If you would like for hydro production to be returned to it's old values please vote/like here support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/general/topic/return-o2h2-generator-output-pre-survival-update

This video is good but how to make drone make kamikaze or repare base and that stuff? 🤔

THE FUTURE OF WARFARE IS HERE

you didn't cut the seat off when you added the cot pit

so what about when it needs a recharge?

is it possible to make ai controlled turrets just curious i wanna create a faction

I am downloading ships from the Space Engineers Workshop and i am trying to make them fight each other turning them in drones and giving one of them to Space Pirates faction. Do you think could it work?

Using a small ship inside a base as an elevator would be cool

Learn me how to make a modless remote controlled spy drone so i can harass my friends on the moon

The cockpit is deceptively heavy at over 2000lbs

But what does the laser antenna do actually im dead confused

anyway i could make drones follow my ship?

Or how about a drone salvage ship that goes and litteraly takes ships apart completely and stores the parts inside it

You guys need to build more automated drones. You should also try to come up with a system that tells you if a drone has spotted an enemy. Maybe even a display screen that shows the status of each drone.

Moving Medical bot? how bout dat?

Hi, thanks for this tutorial very much, now i have my own drone, but, can you please make a tutorial how to make drone that will follow me please ? (In Space Engineers), thanks

I cant get my drone to auto pilot when I turn it on it just sits in one local

arron: how do you build large ship drones

And how do you activate symitry?

wrong weight

i needs help WTF!!!!!!!!!!! NOT work Cinematic Camera in Survival

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auto miners?

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Can you make a part two where you show how to automatically dock the drone using timer blocks or something

when using batteries depending on the drones use i will put in solar to recharge or have a way for the drone to dock up to a charging station ,

Was really interested in this video, but your sample drone has no way to charge itself...

2:00 One surefire way to protect antenna and remote control: Put them in the back. The enemy would have to go through the front and the central battery or cargo to get to those parts. And at that part, they got through the center, so it hardly matters anymore. You want the control block as far away from the enemy in normal combat operations as possible.

Can you show use how to make drones and a mothership for them with the Fleet control script?

I am curious....Would it be possible to make a drone that follows a script to automatically weld up a blueprint? Even go as far as connecting to a connector to pick up the supplies that it needs?

So the obvious one would be to use solar panels, but because of their size they wouldn't necessarily be the best option for a small drone. What I like to do is tho have a 1 or maybe 2 small reactors specifically for charging.

Hey Do you know what is the best use for a drone Having a grinder at the front face and a warhead The grinder goes into the ship and then the warhead detonates In practice there is the problem of the drones being shot down

Aaron any tips on trains/monorail?? 600 hours in and its quite frustrating to build. With a single large block track plz and ty :)

Make another drone, call it a "Charger Drone", then fly it from your Outpost to another remote location and find a drone to charge, dock to it using a Rotor head, then charge it up! then undock and fly back home to your Outpost.

For extreme range drone control you can make a relay drone with laser antenna and a normal antenna bounce a control signal from your location to the relay drone via the laser antennas and then have the drone broadcasting out to max range via normal antenna. This will let you control any other drone around the relay drone out to the max broadcasting range of it's antenna. With no limit to the distance between your actual location and the relay drones location. You can also have the relay drone work as a charging station for other drones. You may also connect more than one relay drone together to bend the laser signals around objects or make overlapping normal antenna fields to make larger drone control area's.

Question, I want to create a drone which will remain docked until and enemy comes into range, undocks goes after other ship comes back re-docks? Am I dreaming?

Me during video Hmmm i think ill make a space buss/train from here to here so i dont have to drive

so i tried a wee thing, and let me tell you - high altitude solar powered patrol drones are amazing.

I don't want to build compact. I want to build big

Awesome thank you for showing us this very cool give me some good ideas

Terratech + Literally any modern war game = Space Engineers

LSG actually building and not stealing blueprints? Wow

can you put the A-BOT on the workshop?

Used your drone video to make my very 1st drone and it's amazing, railgun snipes until ammo out then warhead death dive, it's the last video I uploaded if you have a spare minute, this video help me a ton

I think a drone with a connector for charging Makes sense. Perhaps two drones could patrol one area. The first can recharge while the second patrols and then they can swap (taking up only one connector.)

Ive run into an issue with automated drone production, the welder station i made can make a drone craft, but i cant access the remote control block to engage its autopilot to make it patrol after cutting it free from the printer, any tips?

for me the auto pilot does not work at all how do i fix!

Couldn't make it past the intro voice, just talk with your natural pitch please

Now I will have my star wars gozanty hold drones that will be realest when I what a patrol around my base

drone doctrine 101: have local human commanders to handle less important tasks

I was think how to build a fleet controlled by one person or one ship,drone battleships

My drones are so small on my moon base that I use them as replacement friends to talk to also they can fit through doors lol

Please check Arsenal Bird from Ace Combat series out

What scripts do you use for the drones???

Whats that song you use for the end credits

Is this completely vanilla?

How did you blast into space so fast?

but can you make it recharge itself?