Weapons

Weapons are objects, that players can set up to deal damage to other objects or players. Every block in Space Engineers has a total integrity or "health", this is integrity is determined by the sum of its parts so if a block is filled with Steel Plates and Metal Grids it's fairly robust compared to Interior Plate. It's important to note that most weapons have a maximum range, this maximum range is often 800 meters - if the weapon's round or missile has traveled past that distance it will no longer damage anything. Although it is possible to construct specialized guided torpedoes that can travel well beyond 800 meters, since they are technically ships themselves.

Damage Mechanics

The amount of damage a block can sustain is entirely dependent on the total integrity of all components that went into its construction. This functions as its health/durability. In addition, the type of damage received is also a factor, bullets usually cause no deformation, while kinetic collisions and explosions do. Certain components like Steel Plates have high integrity, others are weaker such as Interior Plates. For example, a Light Armor Block's integrity can be found using the following:

100 (the base integrity of a Steel Plate) x 25 (the amount of steel plates the a Light Armor Block has at full strength) == 2500 HP

With this we can work out how much damage a single block can sustain before it's destroyed, let's say it's being shot with a Gatling Gun. The amount of rounds it will take to fully destroy a given block can be determined using the information provided in the following table. A Gatling Gun round uses 25x184mm NATO Ammo Containers which are powerful rounds, at least compared to 5.56x45mm NATO Magazines. A simple division is needed to figure out the exact amount of rounds before the block is destroyed.

    2500 (integrity of the Light Armor Block)
-------------------------------------------------  == 41.667 rounds
60 (per round damage to blocks from 25x184mm NATO) 

From this we can see it will take at least 42 rounds to completely destroy a light armor block, while doing this calculation for 5.56x45mm NATO it would seem it takes 209 rounds for it to fully destroy the block (or about 7 magazines).

Ship weapons

Small ship weapons

See also Building blocks

Block		Damage [To Player]	Damage [To Blocks]	Rate of Fire [rounds/min]	Shot Deviate Angle [degrees/shot]	Magazine size [rounds]	Max Capacity [rounds]	Muzzle Velocity [m/s]	Maximum Range [m]	Impulse [N]	Mass [kg]
	Gatling Gun	33	150	700	0.15	140	560	400	800	50
	Gatling Turret	33	60	300	0.3	140	700	400	800	50
	Rocket Launcher*	500	500	60	0.1	1	4	100, acceleration is 600 m/s^2	800	700
	Reloadable Rocket Launcher*	500	500	60	0.1	1	4	100, acceleration is 600 m/s^2	800	700
32px	Missile Turret*	500	500	90	0.5	1	2	100, acceleration is 600 m/s^2	800	700
32px	Autocannon	85	500	146.16	0.15	?	?	400	800	?
32px	Autocannon Turret	85	500	?	0.25	?	?	?	?	?
32px	Assault Cannon*	4000	4000	10	0.2	?	?	500	1400	?
32px	Small Assault Cannon Turret*	4000	4000	10	0.5	?	?	500	1400	?
32px	Railgun*	8000	8000	3.75	0	?	?	1000	1400	?
	Warhead	15 000	15 000	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4.4883	489

(*) Can penetrate blocks

Large ship / Station weapons

See also Building blocks

Block		Damage [To Player]	Damage [To Blocks]	Rate of Fire [rounds/min]	Shot Deviate Angle [degrees/shot]	Magazine size [rounds]	Max Capacity [rounds]	Muzzle Velocity [m/s]	Maximum Range [m]	Impulse [N]	Mass [kg]
	Gatling Turret	33	150	600	0.3	140	3360	400	800	50
	Interior Turret	24	30	600	0.1	30	1920	300	800	3.2
	Missile Turret*	500	500	90	0.5	1	6	100, acceleration is 600 m/s^2	800	700
	Rocket Launcher*	500	500	120	0.1	1	19	100, acceleration is 600 m/s^2	800	700
32px	Assault Cannon Turret*	4000	4000	18.947	0.35	?	?	500	1400	?
32px	Artillery*	17000	17000	5	0.15	?	?	500	2000	?
32px	Artillery Turret*	17000	17000	9.4118	0.3	?	?	500	2000	?
32px	Railgun*	50000	50000	1.2667	0	?	?	2000	2000	?
	Warhead	15000	15000	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	22.4415	2244

(*) Can penetrate blocks

Hand-held weapons

See also Tools

Block		Damage [To Player]	Damage [To Blocks]	Rate of Fire [rounds/min]	Shot Deviate Angle [degrees/shot]	Magazine size [rounds]	Max Capacity [rounds]	Muzzle Velocity [m/s]	Maximum Range [m]	Impulse [N]	Mass [kg]
	Automatic Rifle	24	30	600	0.3	30	n/a	300	800	3.2	3
	Rapid-Fire Automatic Rifle	24	30	1000	1	30	n/a	300	800	3.2	3
	Precision Automatic Rifle	24	30	300	0.1	30	n/a	300	800	3.2	3
	Elite Automatic Rifle	24	30	700	0.2	30	n/a	300	800	3.2	3
	Grinder	20	20	?	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	?	?	3
	Hand Drill	20	20	?	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	?	?	3

Damage dealing techniques

• Kinetic Torpedo
• Throwing and crushing with pasting in Creative Mode