Space Engineers - Large Ship Printers Tutorial 

Yeah that's a good idea :) and you can definitely do it that way. It would be especially good in space :) You can do it on a planet, but i think you would need to build some type of platform with wheels that the blueprint could sit on while you move the projection back. But you would need to put a fair few wheels to hold the weight, im not sure if they have fixed the wheels clipping through armor blocks in the new Wasteland update, that's really the only issue i could see with doing it that way.

You could use a hybrid where the projection is moved back through z and the welders traverse z and or y.

@@jwadaow I could but I am convinced that Clang hates me personally.

Its a really good idea :) Yeah the only problem I find with that style of welder is that they work really well in space but when in gravity you need to make a carriage with heaps of wheels to make it work.

@@TheGarageGamer86 Why not just make a vertical printer, with the ship oriented like a building? That would even out the gravitational forces.

@@tackytrooper That's a great idea 🙂 definitely another way you can do it 🙂 just gotta make sure the ship has enough lift to get of the ground vertically 😉

@@TheGarageGamer86Simply, when the ship is done attach a merge block on a piston to the ship and rotate it up. Or, for those who like to live dangerously, a "nose down and burn" move can also be attempted.

Hello, fellow thread necromaner here, dropping some input. Glass blocks infront of welders not only prevent occassional stuck in, but they also expand the welder's "area of influence" by the surface area of glassblock.Moving the projector is much better than moving the welders and that kind of stuff can be easily utilised in gravity as long your printable can overcome the gravity. Naturally. Heck, just simply as much pistons as you need with projection block, wall of welders (Checkered or not) with windows and boom. That's the simplest, hasslefreeist setup no matter where you build the printer. If you want to be fancy, you can have the projecting pistons on additional rotors to move it away from printing area for easier release. However, wall printing tends to be bit PCU intensive.

The small drone on a ball joint idea is brilliant. Thank you!

Thanks mate, glad you liked it and was helpful 😉. Same to your mate! 😁

That sounds way beyond my abilities lol

That sounds really interesting, I would love to see that 😀 if you ever make something like that send me a link 😁

Yeah I can see that working well for grinding ships down, as apposed to a static pit and just dropping something in and summoning clang :)

Awesome man, i will use that next time 😁👌. I had no idea you could use F7 lol No worries at all 😁

​@@TheGarageGamer86 Glad to help :)

Thanks mate!! 😎👌

Sounds like an awesome setup!! I think it work well in space! 😎. I generally just go for the welding wall style because I'm lazy lol. But then most of my experience is in single player so I can consume as much PCU as I like.

Thanks mate, thanks for the support 😁👌

No worries mate 😎👌👍

Yeah ive seen those, they look awesome but also way too technical for me lol, especially with that glitch at the end of this video that I just couldn't figure out lol

Klang was not happy lol

Yeah it's a very efficient printer :)

Yeah that mod is really good for big builds 😎✌️

21K PCU by hand!!!! Jeepers!! I think I would go crazy, yeah mostly on sever tours and such on youtube I have seen rotary printers, they seem to be the most efficient. I have used little small grid welding ships as well but I find it hard to load the resources I need into then for different components, with exception to regular blocks and steel plates orfcoarse :)

@@TheGarageGamer86 Welding by hand can be advantageous. Upon the server getting wiped, I spawned in deep space and blitzed from asteroid to asteroid to get the materials needed for my ship, then immediately welded for 16 hours straight. 14 jump drives, 36 batteries, large reactor, 20 gyros, about 14 O2/H2 generators, 12 airtight hanger doors, a refinery with yield modules, 2 assemblers with 8 speed modules, 34 H2 thrusters, 10 large H2 thrusters, 5 drills, and lots more. All by hand. Not to mention a fighter, miner, transport shuttle, and a few micro drones. I was able to do 16,000 Km jumps before people were finished making their 3D printers. By the time the first war ship was printed, I'd already made my first 100M space credits. 3D printers have their place, for sure, but using an elite welder and the build planner can be surprisingly effective, too. Also, if you're interested in the abomination that would have 14 jump drives, look up "Fortune's Gambit Mk. VI" on the Steam workshop. I'm currently working on the Mk. IIX, which is bonkers, having 38 jump drives, and can do single jumps over 25,000 Km. I've probably gone mad with jump drive addiction.

Definitely more useful in space, when you do these in space you don't need the wheels on the bottom as nothing is pulling the printer down 😁👍

Yeah you certainly can, with timer blocks or programmable blocks 😁.

It's all good mate, thanks for watching!! 😀 I think it would work well for digging a tunnel in space 😁👌

You certainly can for sure!! But I wanted to keep this tutorial basic and focused on the printers themselves. Also I am sort of bad with timer blocks 😆

I think the 3rd printer i have in this video would be the best, you can always reduce the amount of welders and then add additional pistons to go from left to right and just do the ship in strips. Just add a skirt to the side of the welders as well as the front and back then it wont weld the blocks in an L shape and prevent you from moving the welders over to weld another section of that layer :).

just rotate the blueprint instead of the welders

You need to first build a cockpit, which will then unlock the thrusters. If you go into the G menu at the top there will be a progression tab, click on that and it will show you what you need to build to unlock other items 😉. Hope that helps 😉👌

Yes, that is exactly how I have done it 😎👌

Nah I haven't to be honest, but I think it would be a good idea 😁

@@TheGarageGamer86 later on i saw a vid of a server where one group occupied the only uranium available. They went straight downwards in huge round whole in the ground and then at the side of that tunnel(if you could call it that ... perspective) they dug in for hangars and base stuff. Seemed straight forward and quick to establish. I imagine on the lowest point a huge printer covered by retrectable doors, so you print there, park at the side upwards or if it would be a capital ship fly it out. The sides also covvered in defenses so anything that flies in wont come out again.

@@kinngrimm yeah I seen that video, I think that was one of last stand gamers servers 😎 that pit was massive!

There's nothing wrong with doing it that way, it is essentially the same thing, the only difference is that this way is more compact 😉👌

I have done space based printers before, the most efficient way would be to have a wall and pull the projection rather than the printer, but in space you don't need to worry about gravity, so its alot easier to do it that way. I tend to build a large ship in gravity and then leave the planet for space with everything I need to build a base on an asteroid 😁.

Sometimes it take a long time to weld blocks because the game is struggling a bit or using a heap of CPU. It could also be that the blocks the printer is trying to weld are not supported by blocks underneath as they need to be attached to something to print. What i tend to do is weld up one layer of the front of the ship especially if the very front of the ship is not attached to the bottom. I cover it in more detail in this video here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uovF9Pvu9M8.html

I always do 😎👌. The PCU cost is more relevant for people who don't or xbox players 😉

I think you would need to build them sideways, so have the welder weld them up from the side, rather than the top. Otherwise you could just go and place a single component into the launcher, to make it a wire frame and the welder will finish it up :)

Nah mate, I'm an Aussie. From Perth Western Australia to be exact 😁🇦🇺

Sure am buddy :)

For sure! Yeah I never really bother making them look good because they are usually temporary 😎👌

Definitely, and if you are good with timer blocks and make sure you have enough components you could automate the entire ship!! :)

I'm sure you can, it should work! I have used welders spaced apart by one block for the welding walls and it works just fin so i assume it would work for a rotary printer as well 😁👍

@@TheGarageGamer86 alright, thanks!

Yeah you have to run conveyors vertically on the back of the welders to connect the rows together 😎👌

Lol yeah I love this part of the game maybe a little too much, but I think it's perfectly OK to grab something from the workshop that suits your style and use that 😎👌.

@@TheGarageGamer86 I might have just figured it out. I had to do some of the tutorial first... Part way through attempting my first small ship now. Looking forward to getting proficient enough to maybe join a small tribe.

Sorry figured it out. You have to open Sandbox.sbc with Steam then new game then pick workshop then there is your Large Printers pick and run.

Yeah you certainly can do it that way, and I have done that quite a bit in the past, you just have to be absolutely sure that the printer speed is slow enough to print every block and that you have all of the materials on hand unless you are going to watch the progress closely 😊👌

No worries at all mate :)

@@TheGarageGamer86 hello a won asking you something how can a put mods in my server in nitadro do you now that ?

He probably doesn't know the simulation needs to make 6 checks per conveyor junction vs 2 checks for straight and bend conveyors. You should only use the conveyor junctions if you absolutely need them; less checks for the server to make, improving server performance. Edit: I really wish they'd add airtight straight and bend conveyor tubes, as well as a 3-way corner, and a 4-way intersection, all airtight, for vanilla SE. I could make my ships run even more optimized.

Yeah I do know that, but mainly it's for attachment points :). Tubes do not have attachment points on the side :).

@@TheGarageGamer86 Indeed. I wish they'd make the straight and bends with attachment points. Not judging you; the game does have limits you have to work around. 👍

Oh I know there was no judgement 😁👌. Yeah I wish they had a conveyor junction with only two ports, for the sake of airtightness, and right angled ones as well. You can get away with tubes on the welding wall, and only use a few conveyors for joining the rows together. I do like to have a few more attachments just incase one get struck by lightning or blown up by and NPC 😀

Nah they are all good, no blocks missed 😁

@@TheGarageGamer86 How do I make the printer go all the way to the end? I tried adding more pistons but something made them bump out of alignment and they won't connect to the printer wall

F10 on PC :). To create a blueprint you look at an object or collection of blocks (A Grid) and then select Ctrl+B

as long as it is balanced, so the same on either side you should be able to fit as many as you could possibly need to complete a large ship. In space you could fit as many as you want!!

@@TheGarageGamer86 that's what I was thinking. About to try and build a ship printer in space that will be expandable to print any size ship you can imagine. Thanks for the info. Will post a link when I finish and upload to workshop. Thanks so much for the video also, it was top notch

@Nasser Qabazard all good man, I'm happy it was helpful! 😎👌

You can try to attach landing gears to the side of the welders and lock it to the ground or something, then grind back the Piston head thats attached to the printer, add the pistons you need. On the end of the new Piston put a conveyor Junction and a merge block on one side and then replace a welder with a merge block and reconnect it all. It is very tedious but it should work haha

You know what I didn't even think of a merge block! I locked the printer into place removed rhe old pistons but couldn't replace the new ones as they wouldn't attached. I ended up putting more wheels on the frame and a cockpit and driving it. Only that didn't end very well 🤣

🤣🤣👌👌

I shouldn't play this game unsupervised 🤣

If you want to you can just download the Build and Repair mod and it will build stuff for you, but I do find it a bit boring for my taste, but may work out for you! 😎✌️

@TheGarageGamer86 yeah I'm still trying to figure the whole game out I just make my first space fairing miner so I'm still learning I only got a few QOL mods but I'm keeping the game relatively vanilla till I become more seasoned but you, splitsie, andrewsgaming and kanajoshi have helped me immensely! Keep up the great content bud!

Haha yeah, that's actually a really good idea!!! 😁👌 I have to admit it never even crossed my mind, then again I only really play single player lol.

Yeah for sure, you could setup the layer printer to do that, and have a set of pistons that move from side to side, instead of having the welders span the entire width of the ship, although I'm going to hazard a guess and say they also have a restriction on amount of pistons you can use, so might just be better to use a welding ship 🤔😁👍

Yeah this happened to me as well, its caused by a setting called "unsupported stations" which mean that even though a grid is floating in mid air it is still a station. What you have to do is go into the K menu and then go to the Info tab, then click convert to ship. Make sure the thrusters are turned on and inertial dampeners are on or it will fall to the ground 😎👌

@@TheGarageGamer86 thanks. Really like tiene pilgrim!!!

@@dobermad195 thanks mate, glad you like it 😎👌

Will do mate :) Although because of the pistons there will be multiple sub grids so you won't be able to project the whole thing in survival, i will try to merge block the caraige to the floor though.

Yeah if you had that mode then you probably wouldnt need one of these printers haha :)

Yeah it should do mate :) only issue is that it uses quite a bit of PCU, so I would recommend a rotary printer for xbox :).

Thanks for letting me know mate, I've added the links for the weld ship and the big ship I was printing :)

There is a blueprint for this world on my workshop if you want to check them out up-close and personally and see all of the settings 😎👍

Sure would, they lag my single player games sometimes lol. I guess it all depends on what your server admin allows, and how good the server is, I have mainly seen rotary printers on servers but I suspect those servers are pretty high end. For the most part i use these in my single player worlds.

Yeah I can see how the engine wouldn't like that very much LOL

Better than 666 hahaha. I'm just glad its helping people out 😎👌

@@TheGarageGamer86 yeah the video is great, but the design isn't really helpful on some servers where there is a welder limit

@@Fized Yeah that may require you to build a welder ship instead, I have done that a few times myself, still works but just takes a lot longer haha. Here is one I have designed - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2140520466 I will upload the Ion Variant soon 😁👌

I have my mouse sensitivity set to the highest possible setting, I think that is why 😅

Yeah she is getting on a bit this video haha. I didn't cover kebab printers in this video either!