Space Engineers - S2E37 'Recuring Projector Blueprints' 

Wouldn't a projector on a worm with a merge block be much easier? It could just project out the next section, and it's hookups, then loop when done building. You could add grinders to the worm to remove the unwanted hookups too if you wanted.

You gotta do a drone thats only purpose is to fly between the 2 bases. Put a seat on there, maybe big cargo. Push a button and fly all the way into a specific hanger that opens only for that drone. Maybe 2 drones that always just swap and fly past eachother

That "inception" behaves exactly as I was thinking. Since you need to prepare the correct amount beforehand, this is not going infinite, and there is actually no recursion involved.

Thank you so much!! I learned more in 10 min here then any where else RE projectors. Thanks man!!

Um, wouldn't this be easier to just overwrite the blueprint with the newly adjusted blueprint?! Meaning make the blueprint then have it load itself then save it over the same blueprint! Sure this wouldn't allow a mk version of it or like how you're doing it but it it'll repeat itself until you say that's enough!

Have you looked into the Gravel Sifter mod? It makes the gravel into useful ores.

Enjoying this series so much, watching how you develop your imagination is inspiring, you should be working for NASA or the pentagon :)

'I need more things' ~Every great space engineer

@Kanjashi One way you can deal with all of the gravel would be to use the Gravel Sifter Mod. It would each kilogram of gravel into a small amount of all other minerals which could then be refined.. Great way to get a bit of platinum and uranium on the planet.

Far away in the distance. You see wild engineers grazing on the wheat fields...

In order to understand recursion, one has to first master recursion.

That would be awesome! 4:50

Did u notice that when u made the projection that you left use ignore color on And it's set as the same color as ur grind one?

What you described in the intro is the John Von Neumann self replicating automatation, its an interesting theory of replications machines. Worth a read!

To save time you could create singles doubles and triples and quads of the section projected to increase efficiency

How about an autonomous drone with a projector set up to create stations in cascade, projector1 builds base mine and power, assembler, build facilities, defense systems,..... pant, pant, you could theoretically make 'fire and forget' drones to set up bases, to set up more base...Done properly "We are the Borg." is attainable.

completely different note: I noticed you constantly go in and change the sound volume of BaR system (same goes for DaF). BaR has a chat panel command that creates a Modsettings.xml file in the appdata/roaming/SpaceEngineers/Storage/BuildandRepair folder. (read the Nanobot manual, it something like /nanobots -bcsf ). there are two versions. one creates the modsettings for your current world other for all. you want the for all option I am assuming. open that up in notepad or ++ and all the way on the bottom change the sound volume default to this: 0.2 after that you never have to do it again... nice base m8. I cant build stuff like this at the monent as my sim speed suffers to much. I had 2 bases on my current game and I was building an asteroid base and the sim speed suffered so much I had to put that world a side and wait until my new computer arrives.... So now I am building 2 ships. one is the base tho other is the workhorse...

Imagine making a coding error, leaving the game running for a while, and finding that the entire planet has been converted into hallways and projectors.

there is something you can try projector blueprint 1, blueprint that projector and save the blueprint as blueprint 1 i found it works fine on my end and gives me an endless projection

4:46 Stargate SG1 ...Replicators. Nasty little buggers.

Dude thinks outside the box by putting a box in a box. Mind blown.

Why do you have four oxygen bottles in Earth?

Couldn't you just set one projection to Tunnel Section_1 and the to build Tunnel Section_2 then get tunnel section_2 to build one again creating an infinite loop?

There is one slight problem with this kind of recursion, you don't have to dig out the voxels to have it recurse beyond the end of your tunnel.

1:18 "dark tunnel" sounds exactly like g-man

Change your blueprints name from -1 to -01 and it will fix the order problem, or you could start at 10 instead to fix it. Its going by position not value. Just do not have more than 99 of one thing or you'll have to add a zero or 100 will sit right next to 10.

5:43 the second blueprints name

If you're not going to do anything special with the blocks, you might as well use interior walls instead of light armor.

How do i do this on xbox?

If you want to do this with infinite recursion, i'm fairly sure that the projectors just remember the name of the projection, so you can rename a blueprint and have infinite recursion

All made possible by the Build&Repair Mod Specifically. Couldn't the Recursion Projectors work differently? Here's an idea. It should be that you only need 2 projectors in a single blueprint: the solid one that has the blueprint of itself plus the next one and the hologram one that also has the same blueprint. The first would build the next, then the 2nd would build what is technically itself in the last blueprint and so on and so forth, you just need to adjust the "forward offset" of the 2nd blueprint to show the hologram of the first and it's infinite. In the same way if you had an egg that hatched a full grown, pregnant chicken that laid the same egg instantly after hatching, you'd have infinite chickens. Surprised you didn't already realize that though.

It's like inception morty

Is there a way ti look at the script on the workshop because it’s finally coming tk console and you have a couple of scripts I wouldn’t mind programming into it

makes me wonder if assemblers need to be specialized... ie X number of machines just for plates, X number for tubes, ext...ext... ! seems like current versions get clogged way to easy.....

Wow. I was about to go to sleep.... buuuuut i wont now. Keep up the great work!

I'm not sure, but shouldn't it be possible to infinitely recur the same section? So each section contains itself, without lowering the recursion count? eg: section 3 contains section 3 that contains section 3 .... instead of: eg: section 3 contains section 2 that contains section 1 ... Also, if you apply this recursion to spaceships, and put a "back"* projector in each section (*if contains the projection that created itself (the "parent" projection)). Then is a pirate cuts your ship in 2 parts, EACH of the parts will heal up to become it's own ship (like how cells divide in your body), so one ship becomes 2 ships...

Ship cracks in 2 also ship becomes 2 ships now you done messed up

That's not even recursion because you're just nesting different blueprints.

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Wow. I was 9 minutes early! You only had 67 views and 3 likes (2+ me) at that point! :0

I learned what not to do, if that counts...

I am number one yeah