How to Improve in Space Engineers | Clever Tips Ep. 3 

Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:30 Control Click Sliders 01:03 Mouse Click Weapons 02:06 Backside Clipping Detail 04:27 Piston+Sliding Door 06:18 Small Grid Stations

i love how professional you've become with this

Yup, can confirm the magic Popsicle sticks were a life-saver in enabling me to build my small grid KSH HQ, wouldn't have been possible without BlackArmor; much love to the guy.

Another thing on terminal sliders, for some of them, right clicking will put it back to default. For example, if you move the rotor’s velocity to 5 and then want to stop it, you don’t have to ctrl-click and enter 0, you can just right click and it will reset to 0.

it's gotten to the point it really doesn't matter what the video is about, i feel an obligation to click like when i see and hear that intro. i don't often make an effort to 'like' things. i think the trendy youtube 'etiquette' is obnoxious. blending intelligent creativity with artistic capability is something that impresses me.

Omfg the small grid station is Amazing! What you created with it is incredible!! I can't believe it's not an option.

I love watching these kinds of videos! I may be a SE veteran, but I always seem to learn something new by watching such videos! It started out with info where I'm like, "Yep, already know this," to "oh, look at that," to "HOLY SHIT, YOU CAN DO THAT?!" When it comes to SE, never assume you know all the tricks, because you most likely don't. Always something new being discovered or created in SE, and it's why I love this game so much!

that tree house and tire swing at the end is absolutely incredible. these ideas really make me want to build more aesthetically and its so frustrating to get right sometimes. everything ends up as a box with a triangle on top for a base

with over 7k hours played I did not know you could ctrl click the sliders till I met this guy, total game changer when it comes to many complex builds.

I was wondering about that small ship station thing for the longest time and now i can finally turn my small grids into stations

I have used the piston+door+turret to make a successful trap on servers. Basically make a door that anyone can use. When they enter it triggers a sensor that closes and locks the door then opens another door and a turret pushes out to kill them while they are trapped.

that tire swing is SO cute

Your videos just added more content to SE for me than all the DLC combined... I'm blown away, great stuff!

man, someone could recreate so much of Halo with these props

Good sir... that you would share these secrets with us is a wonderful thing. I wish I had even half of your creativity. Bravo! ^_^

The outside the box thinking is what Space Engineers is all about.

Disabling the ability to make small blocks as stations was another example as Keen suppressed the creativity of their core players.

Well, I never knew about the half block trick... Just might have to utilize that idea in some of my builds. As always, great content man!

good god this man's creations are incredible

Those are some very impressive sculpting skills BlackArmor, thank you for sharing. Inspirational builds for someone still making bricks!

This "Series" is the best

Another one to do might be large grids that’ll clip through other large grid stuff. Won’t work through a door but you can put a passage way on a piston and it’ll slide between regular armour blocks without clanging to give you an elevator.

Your stuff looks really good! With the wood stuff though, you should use the "No edges" mod, or whatever it's called, to get rid of the random metal bits. Thanks for the series, really invaluable!

these videos warrant a subscription. keep at it.

@6:00 You missed an opportunity to do something I don't see many people doing. That is to add a timer block with the sequence you want, open doors, extend piston, move hinge or whatever into the timer sequence. Than rather than starting the timer set your button to trigger now. I use this for a number of things in my ships to automate some docking procedures etc

Deformation from meteorite impacts can cause small grids to become stations; I have had some luck filling fields with small grids with Armageddon mode on to farm small grid stations for copying.

That intro is SICK!

there's a very stable mod on the workshop that enables small grids to be embedded in voxels. i do believe its one of relatively few mods that are not required for the downloader to have since its not actually changing any blocks but just overriding the placement restriction.

Damn, even if i at one point i'd stop playing this game, i'd still enjoy the things you come up with here. Great vid!

Holy shit that intro was impressive!

Mind ever so slightly blown.

6:16 With the new Turret Controller we could make Custom Turrets that come out there, and with the Hinge we could actually fill them up also

The small grids are very good for inspiration. I got other kit ideas. Chinese houses , Japanese houses , cyberpunk apartments, alien organic even your base style as a kit with the corridors , rooms.

Brilliant as usual bud, keep it up!

This is outstanding, making me really want to up my Space Engineers game. It's crazy the things the community have come up with for this game.

This is really helpful. Glad it was recommended to me.

this is very inspiring work. keep this up.

Awesome builder, great ideas, information overload, thanks =)

Excellent!

yes another video !!! my day is starting to be awesome. thank you @BlackArmor

Hey dude I see other content makers are showcasing your stuff. Good work dude

Mind Blown!🤯

Awesome video! Keep going 😇

You are one smart cookie sir. Thank you for this, it's really cool stuff to learn!

thanks for sharing, great work

Those are some amazing builds.

that is amazing thank you for ideas

Randomly came across, but love the video! Extremely creative and gave me some good ideas!

Very first tip! Ctr click. Where was this when I started. Lol

Mind blowing!

Very nice video thx bro

Dude you are certainly very talented. I'm enjoying your videos and getting a lot of ideas. Keep doing it bro you are getting very good at this!

You got a lot of really creative and ingenious ideas man.

Wow... I learnt so much I didn't even think was even possible! XD

Small grid stations make me wonder why big and small grids are separate!!

Why some people commented after 9 mins since upload on a 16min vid is beyond me.

downloaded the medieval village, would be cool to see a spru setup with all the small block structures you had at end of this vid too, just label it random terrain for pvp.. or something like that...

These builds/videos are so cool! Now if only I could get my friends to play this game

Legend 🏴‍☠️

Man, I forgot they (briefly) allowed small-grid stations.

Nice video

Now with this i wanna see someone make a pvp combat arena or area maybe a faction war map where you have a few bases and everyone fights to control them all. 1 survival kit to spawn off each and when you destroy that kit then the team spawns to loser arena where they can still have fun or just leave game

You can use offset on lights to make them go through walls, making it look like light is coming from nowhere

I guess we just need a mod force-converting a small grid into a station on request. Ideally it should enable or replace the "Convert to station" button for small grids.

A new thing I've found out if you use right mb with any drill you can remove voxels without damaging blocks 😁

Hey nice video, definitely some cool stuff there. When you were showing off the tip with the sliding doors and pistons there's a compact looking turret at the back of the platform, how did you get the gatlings connected like that without having to use a conveyor junction? Is it a small hinge part connected to the large hinge block or is it just decorational?

Small-grid batteries (3x3x2) have the lowest cost, volume and weight per unit of energy stored. COST: Large-grid batteries are 4 times more expensive and have only 3 times more energy. Small-grid small batteries have 20 times less energy and are only 10 times cheaper. *Cost based on power cells, the main limiting component of batteries. VOLUME: (and energy density) L-g b 15.625m³ 192kWh/m³ S-g b 2.25m³ 444.4(4)kWh/m³ S-g s b 0.125m³ 400kWh/m³ If you need to make a massive battery pack in your base, use small-grid batteries. (Normal, not small.) UNLESS, you're worried about CPU, then use large grid, because all battery types have the same PCU/block.

Hey man, love the stuff. Is it possible to do the small grid in survival, via projectors or something, or is it creative only?

That hinge(?) multiple turret design looks great. Also would it be possible to set sensors in a way, that if turrets would be shot of the pistons, they would retract automaticly and a blueprint and welder would be waiting to renew it and send it back up again? That would be in my eyes an effcient and neat looking system, wouldn't you agree?

Could you perhaps release this world itself as a download so that we could blueprint and view each of these?

Would it be possible to share this trick on your next video? This is how you can get yourself a static small grid 100% vanilla Here are the steps: 1- Start a new campain mission (the first jump) 2- Press Alt+Tab and enable creative mode tools. 3- Play until you’re on the moon. 4- Enable your jetpack and search for the half-buried red drilling ship (it should be on the right side of the station) 5- Copy a blueprint of the ship, done! Extra- Isolate one light armored block that is still buried underground and copy it for convenience.

Processor not frying wise would you advise using small grid only on a big craft (for the extra detail) or combination of large and small?

How to make an air lock door?

arrgglllll sooo good

Awesome video! I'm just curios why you didnt just upload a blueprint of the "Popsicle stick" instead of having people sub to the village. Doesn't matter either way though, great video!

The pop up compact turret. Is that conveyed in or just built for show?

Hey man great videos, is there any possible way you can do a video on the spotlight that follows you? I tried recreating it and failed miserably. PLEASE!!!

I have some questions, like did you use scripts to make the turrets from some of your mechs? Like the fire walker, that can move its turret up and down, right and left

Isn't there a convert to station button in the information tab?

Lindos trucos, debes ser popular con los niños.

Clang Heresy!

Wow

sooo i tried to make the turret thing in the game for my creation...... after a few tries and coming back to check it again..... i noticed you used a small grid small hinge

Hey black armor, this is completely irrelevant, but theres a secret block known as large rail straight, I have been trying to make a train with those tracks, but haven't been able too, any tips?

I have not played in a month or 3, just picked it up again and appearantly im struggeling with something. Maybe you can adress this in a video or something but. If i for example weld up simple decoy missiles I dont get them to tie up to the launch timer on the base. Also struggled with the same issue in a different scenario. I tried making a tank factory long time ago but couldnt get the turret or gun to attach to the rotor by itself. How do you do stuff like this? I know its possible yet i struggle with this more than i should.

Is still possible to make a small blocks station without having an old save?

The only problem I'm having, Is making a blueprint. Have ship built. But don't know how to blueprint it. Looked everywhere. 🤔

your mech seems to have a cross-eyed problem 0_o (i guess you already have built in weapons adjustment swithc to fire straight, just poking a little fun at you) edit: would you have a link for that first mech too?

fUN!

Built in large grid for so long, it seems small grid is superior, or supergridding which I must learn still

Hey again

11:22 yes, "space"...

theres a mod for that, you know. Static Small Grids

Hey black armor how can I contact you. I figured out something with the game I would like to show you. It may help with your mechs.

I don't know if this series would be the right format, but when you showed the probs tankwires and such, i was thinking, they sure look fine, but what about actual PVP relevant builds? Are they that? At some point i myself would like to join a PvP server and don't want to be messed up by everyone all the time hrhr as it often goes on PvP servers for noobs like myself. So what i am asking is, if you would be so kind and include marked PvP relevant builds, could be turret solutions or if that works, tankwires, i have no clue what actually is pvp relevant/workable. I appreciate this series sofar and find it higly educational for me, i am just wondering besides making things look good, which definetly is also something i invest time into, that the most effective builds in other PvP survival games i played, do not nessarily look so good and aslong *i don't know what is actually really effective in pvp* i can't really work on improving the style as i get blown to pieces by my opponets ^^.

i dont know how your builds dont explode when using subgrids, even without testing the new collision, if a subgrid exists my ship just dies :L

It that mech in the workshop?

You keep talking about putting small grid onto large grid, how is that possible?

You have piqued my interest. I'm 3 videos in and downloading the game as I search for the next.