Space Engineers - How to make drones using the turret controller 

im glad this helped

Maybe a ball with grinders on all sides that slowly drives towards grids could work lol

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@@kingjeffoftriton5507 Tell your friend that this is cool as hell! This is exactly what I imagined! I'm definitely looking forward to 'Mining Joe' haha.

This just gave me ideas...

glad this helped

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REPAIR DRONES

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sounds like an interesting challenge

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that would work if you only intended on looking at or following a target but if the camera / designator is facing backwards it will never look at the target so it wont shoot or activate the "setup actions" buttons

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another option is to have your grinder attached to a larger grid, via piston or something, these drones like to collide with targets there may be ways around this, but probably not to the fidelity needed for an auto grinder. you might be able to use the GPS guidance and landing gear/ mag plates for a fetch drone though...

I have no clue if this works and I’ll try it when I get to my computer in a few hours but what if you had an ejector that shoots stone out to a collector that is then sorted back to the ejector and two timers, one that ejects the stone periodically and one that turns on a sensor a few seconds after the stone would be collected that triggers whatever you have that makes the drones return It’s kinda bulky but what I’m thinking is that if the collector ends up getting full of parts it won’t be able to collect the stone so when the sensor turns on it sees the stone and says to stop the grinding Idk I’ll try it later

Or... use a PB?

@@EnjoyCocaColaLight he literally said without scripts

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interesting, do the controllers remember the rotors if they share a grid? if so they could be a lot more printer friendly.

@@TheMhalpern @Michael Halpern I actually did testing with this months ago. Say you have a hangar, and you want to open/close hangar doors with a button panel. You would group the hangar doors (for example "left hangar doors") and add that group to the button panel as open/close. Then you realize that the hangar doors should be somewhere else completely. But you're able to keep the button panel where it is. If you delete the doors and move them, then group the new ones in a group called "left hangar doors" like before, the button panel will still work on them. You don't need to change anything on it. I know that works. I'm pretty sure it works with individual blocks too (for example, moving connector 13), but I'd need to test it. I think it works similarly with the CTC, but sometimes it forgets what parts it's supposed to use? I'm not sure

has anyone thought of using a static camera to set off a booby trap or something when a player walks past it that would be cool

just need more than enough thrust in every direction except forward to be able to counteract the gravity

thats awesome, and you're welcome

I think the large grid rotors are better at allowing rotation within a 1x1 space than small grid rotors, and the gyroscope is sticking out so it’s not colliding with anything

They don't need rail guns to be good anti-capital weapons, give them a rocket launcher or other relatively cheap weapon (for targeting mostly, that's why I mention RL) and warheads that only arm just before impact, they can be pretty good guided missiles/torpedoes, providing the effective long range explosive damage the Warfare 2 weapons lack, being mostly KE/piercing,

unfortunately it doesnt increase the range. you can get 800m range but that requires a large grid turret controller

Guided missiles are basically just drones with lots of forward thrust and no reverse function lol. You can also use a separate turret to trigger a missile to fire when a target is in range, at which point the missile turret controller will take over

@@Daddy_Damo Awesome, thank you. I look forward to what you make with the new update.

Another designator activates at a shorter range and turns on reverse thrust

@@Daddy_Damo Thanks!

At the very least, it is a source of redundancy when the middle gets shot at

It would, but it would also lock when it gets to the stop. Unlike an actual turret, these things will go round multiple times on both axis.