You no longer need Thrusters in Space Engineers...

Have you guys got any other gravity related designs to try out? Please leave a comment below!

You could have a spherical gravity generator in the middle of a ship with negative acceleration as an anti grav missile shield

Well now that I've seen a gravity missile with a Drill on the front of it, I'd love to see a mining ship that can detach its drills to send them flying at high speeds towards its enemies using gravity!

I've actually been working on what I like the call the "Angler Defense System" where a ship is outfitted with a very very strong gravity "cell" where one field pushes out very strong and another pulls in but at a further range allowing small artifical-mass defense satellites to skim the orbit which would in theory cover all angles of attack regardless of the ships static armaments

Back when items did damage to blocks, you could make a "poor man's railgun." You would use a connector to eject stone into several rings of gravity generators and it would be pretty good. Unfortunately Keen nerfed the damage of items, so it's not as effective now. :(

so gravity drive-based tech has a habit of interferin with other gd tech, so what if we utilize this? could one hypothetically make a weapon to throw gd-powered ships off course, or even repel gravity missiles?

AP railgun rounds with drills. And HE with warheads. Interesting, wonder if you could make APHE rounds by adding a fuse to the warhead after in penetrates

Why just make thrusters obsolete? Couldn't we also make massive ships rotate with gravity gens and mass blocks too? I'd imagine you could make some huuuge ships spin fast with the right configuration and some scripting.

For that last one with a drill add a cargo container filled with gravel. In the past a gravity block shooting gravel out of a connector was enough to do major damage, so added to yours should do a lot of damage.

Dear god, the drill torpedoes are CRAZY that’s gonna be terrifying to go up against

Could the spherical gravity generators be used to create some kind of shrapnel shield? Like have one in the middle of the ship and use that spherical gravity field to make armor plates or something circle around it?

I saw a gravity based weapon on the workshop a bit ago (Ragnarok Shatter Shell I believe it was called) that absolutely shredded capital ships. And the thing's only 3x3x3

There is a type of thruster missile which uses heavy army to penetrate of a ship, then destroys a cargo container in the missile that has tons of rocks inside of it to tear up the insides of the ship. It'll be interesting to see that with a grav missile.

What about attaching more drills to the sides? Since they have that impact damage immunity I feel like that might make them much more effective and potentially unstoppable. I can test this at a later time, but this might be something to consider as if you can just stack on more drills for armor of the projectile then just throw it at a ship. Maybe that'll pack a lot more punch. Could also potentially make a huge battering ram with the custom turret controller setup that you used in another video then just throw a gravity drive on there and also throw on the drills for armor and boom, ship seeking gravity drive missile with a bunch of drills attached for impact armor

Put heavy armour around the grave generators and other key components to make them slightly more effective

Build a version of this that is only used to accelerate and decelerate going forward and backwards and leave thrusters for directional control, if this is inside the ship it would be a low energy way at getting a ship up to traveling speeds

Something from back in the day could use the drill treatment. Spherical generator with massblocks flying around it used to be used as a swarm shield type thing. Imagine this with drills that can't easily be destroyed. Fly in close and shred thine enemies. I actually now see CaptaiNarwhal remembers the same thing!

The turret gravity drive should be used with a program that uses regular control keys (zqsd or wasd (not sure for the second i have azerty) + going up and down) to switch on and off the mass blocs and can replicate the dampers effect to slow down and stop more effectively.

Damn that editing is next level man!

I’m just gonna put this out there, but the physics for turretblock-controlled rotors/hinges are different, including *clang*. Rotor collision will sometimes result in the grid teleporting randomly within a small area, and will teleport inside of other grids nearby. It’s not controllable but still… mayhem.