How To Space Engineers: Rotor Wheel Elevator System 

Same here, I always thought it had to use the suspensions... now I know you can use rotors. :D

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I am very curious if the space elevator worked!

Well, there's two actual practical uses for a space elevator in Space Engineers, although "practical" is something of a misnomer because they like to clang and damage themselves a lot (though you COULD rig up some welders to fix any damage as you go). But, ignoring that, the first practical use is taking ice from a planet to orbit, and the second is taking uranium from space to the planet. Probably the better way of doing the stop is arranging a sensor to stop it at the right point, although there is admittedly something of a lack of precision when doing it with wheeled vehicles.

I was wondering how to make a elevator that can go to several floors, the merge block clearly is the way to go as you said. Combine a few timer blocks and merge blocks and you can go from the first to the fourth floor with the simple press of a button.

I found the same issue in a dedicated MP Server, we also attempted the same thing, using thrusters to attempt to move it. Ours was 7 blocks wide and 5 deep, but I don't think that was the issue sadly

Using shared inertia will prevent the limp rofl

Works fine for me

It still can work if the rig isn't too heavy. Traction wise, it's not the same as wheels on suspension.

Idk if you mean fast as in quick to build or fast as in high velocity, but for both those cases, pistons are the answer. Make one centered piston column, turn on share inertia tensor, and set axis force accordingly. You could probably just max it out, but be aware that it has a lot of force at that point and if something goes wrong, it won't stop easily, causing some weird physics stuff happening if something goes wrong. Otherwise, the main limitation of pistons is the maximum and minimum height such an elevator can go, kinda like shown in the video. Also, if you need to move really high masses with your elevator (large grid vehicles and such), you have to make parallel pillars (e.g. one in every corner - Pandemic Playground has some of those systems in the underground base series) and join them into a single grid using merge blocks to maintain stability and provide enough force. Also, as you scale up a piston elevator, the complexity of the system goes up dramatically. At some point, the wheeled systems like this one start to look more attractive, because even though they're complex to begin with, they really don't get much more complex as you scale them up. In fact, in terms of travel distance of such an elevator, you only need to make a longer carrier pillars, whereas with pistons, you have to add 1 more piston for each 10m of travel, which also moves your minimum and maximum height by additional 5m, and it gets kinda messy to think about, plus each piston increases weight of the system and at some point, the lowest piston won't be able to raise the whole contraption up. An honorable mention goes to piston systems that use an "inchworm" kind of travel - there are top and bottom parts connected by one or more pistons traveling around a carrier pillar. The bottom part fixes itself to a carrier pillar, usually with a connector or a merge block, then the top part extends up to a point where there's another set of connection points, where it connects to the pillar. The bottom part then disconnects and the pistons contract, moving the bottom part upwards. This is pretty slow, but moderately stable. Though it requires a more complex carrier pillar with carefully thought-out connection points all over the travel path.

​@@btCharlie_ yes i was meaning fast in velocity, to make a kind of emergency elevator. I think i dont need a lot of piston, maybe 3 high. building it with rotor would be more complex indeed. Thanks for the information really appreciated 😊. I'm french sorry for my bad english...

if you are using large grid pillars try some walls on it. Adds a bit more clang sound, but seems to work. Having some rotorhead breaking now and then, not sure if this is related to using these walls. Will most likely combine rotors with some normal suspension to get extra grip and push a lil harder into the pillar.

Try increasing friction on the wheels if you haven't done that already

Did you ever figure out how to make this work for something heavy? Trying to do something similar and failing miserably

There is a chance it no longer works. Haven't tried it in a while now

@@PandemicPlayground Oh, it works, need to convert the block to a ship. Missed that part for some reason. Having lots of breakages.

Did you forget the add rotor head step?

Yup, I just did it in creative to save time from gathering mats and welding.

After testing different models, I reproduced the one with the 4 pillars (I used two before and it was not very stable) but it does not work. It falls under its own weight. I have lightened it to the max but nothing works :C