WIP Argo Raft inspired Ship

[dry anchor]

Figured i might as well try and start a log for this ship again, original posts for this ship are in the Aero discord!
This ship is constantly changing what its end purpose will be in my mind so i think it's just going to be some sort of all purpose sick looking ship.

I started to steer away from the Argo Rafts design aspect once i finished the front parts of the ship and got the Vtol thrusters down, it's prob pretty obvious to seeing as the back of the ship doesn't have that open cargo grid so my mind is running free now for the most part!

I would like for this ship when it's in its finalised state to have proper 6 degrees of flight comparable to what you get out of Star Citizen maybe, this ships flight systems will also be built around the idea that the user has a HOSAS or some kind of flight stick setup, and i plan to use the Universal Keyboard mod for that whenever it gets Vjoy support if that happens, but for now I'm stuck with Create Controllers Tweaked which is giving me issues.

The ship also uses applied energistics which may seem odd to some people but basically when i was first designing the Vtol thrusters i struggled to figure out how to transport fuel over to them (I didn't know about Sable Hose Connectors), so i looked back to when i was testing whether or not Ae2 works on Sable contraptions and it does! So i decided to try using Quantum Tunnels to transfer fuel and it worked flawlessly so i stuck with it. They also look sick! :3

Extra Photos

[drifting heron]

4 3x3x3 thrusters 🐟

how fast does it go?

5000m/s?

[dry anchor]

when the vtol thrusters turn to face the back there is 8 and uh yeah it goes mach fuck. Still uncontrollable tho cause the thrust to weight ratio is off and there is no sort of flight controller/PID yet so it just flips and tumbles

[slender isle]

we got space engineer in minecraft before ww3

[young totem]

Drop the schem and modlist when it’s finished

Also since I’m a freak i recommend using the pipez mod for energy fluid and solid transfer

They genuinely work so well on aero stuff it’s wild. Only issue is you can’t edit them while it’s a physics object but that’s not that bad

[dry anchor]

New note i now have a friend making the PID/Flight Controller for me since idk what tf im doing in that area, now i just get to do all the designing :3

[pale lava]

does ts use cc

im guessing it does

im trying to make my craft a stable platform without cc

[dry anchor]

it will be using cc, but it is not set up at all yet. All controls are currently just done with Controllers Tweaked so i can test things like the movement of the vtol thrusters and other stuff.

[pale lava]

ohh im guessing you havent assembled it yet

[dry anchor]

I have plenty of times, i dont work on it while its assembled tho

[pale lava]

no I mean

I thought you had it stable in the sky already

like the hover thing

[dry anchor]

no not at all, thats going to be hard to set up especially with the controls i want

im going to try and get full 6dof

[pale lava]

yeahhh

im thinking of using Levitite to stabilize mine

im building a 600i

[dry anchor]

Peak

[pale lava]

I cant risk putting in cc on my server

theres just too many ways it could be exploited

heck one of the guys managed to put the entire server into a bootloop using cc

[dry anchor]

thats why i'd only try and play with trusted people who arent trying to do smthn like that

[pale lava]

yeahhh

well, good luck on your ship twin