HMS Fiji 1:1 - VS + Eureka + Clockwork

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HMS Fiji built on my world at 1:1 scale.
All 4 main guns have an assembly that goes deep into the ship full of shells and powder bags. The
Powered by 8 big steam engines (designed to look like the 4 admiralty 3 drum expansion boilers).
Has a spot for a floatplane but I have no idea if you could launch an aircraft from it. 4 propellers driven by 4 "engines" get this thing up to a noticeable but still slow speed.
Has 4 secondary gun mounts and a handful of AA gun mounts. Interior is maybe 20% done.
Mostly good at obliterating pillager outposts and crashing lesser pc clients.
Unsurprisingly, extremely unstable and prone to crashing the server.

It serves as the extremely big brother to this, the Steam Gunboat, which gets a lot more use as a coastal defense ship from pirate raids on the colony.

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do u use gyro for stable it?

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Without the ship helm these ships tend to roll over

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use gyro

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Apologies, I meant unstable as in it likes to crash my server

I have a gyro in the middle of it

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pretty stable

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did make it without helm

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i see

probably many contraptions in it lol

tbh vs floater and ballast kinda confusing

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Its got about 12 contraptions on it

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ohh

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Here it is next to the Gray Fox

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cool

how many time u need to build those tho?

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How much time did it take?
Gray fox maybe a few hours. Fiji I've been messing with for a few days.

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i see

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Those propellor shapes

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meow

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anyways any tips to make smoke coming out from the chimney?

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Steam and rails smoke stack

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i did use that but the smoke gone if im goes far from it

is there any fix for it?

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I think entity or render distance might change that.
I haven't messed about with anything for it.

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is this just like the optimal shape for a propeller or are you "one of those people"

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Im tried my best😭

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How do you turn the turrets in the ship?
Is there any tutorial?

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Put a turret on a physics bearing / mechanical bearing (with an interact-me sticker)
rotational power into the bottom, through an inverted clutch and a gearshift.
Powering the clutch will rotate it one way, powering both turns it the other way.
For gun elevation, they're on cannon mounts that are all linked, and you just do the same thing but on the turret to elevate and depress guns

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qarsan video bout making tanks would help u how to make the turrets turn