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Components and Tools Overview

The following blocks and tools are available in the current Alpha build of Space Engineers.

Selected Component Details

Thrusters

Thrusters for both small and large ships require reactor energy and apply two different kinds of thrust. A thruster applies its maximum thrust while stabilizing and only 2/3 of the maximum thrust when the pilot uses W, A, S, D, or any other means of maneuvering. This means a ship will stabilize faster if the pilot does not activate any maneuvering controls.

Small Ships

Large Ships

Reactors

Ship reactors output different amounts of power depending on reactor and ship size. Thrusters, gyroscopes, gravity generators and motors are currently the only functional components which require reactor power to operate. Note that gyroscopes, gravity generators and motors require negligible power relative to thrusters.

Tips for Planning Ship Thruster-Reactor Systems

In order to avoid overusing your ship's reactors, use enough reactors to supply all of your ship's thruster's maximum power consumption.

Take the number of small and large thrusters and multiply them by their respective maximum power (GW). This is the minimum amount of power your ship's reactors need to supply.

For example, if there is a large ship with 4 large thrusters and 6 small thrusters, the maximum required power would be (4*504) + (6*42) = 2268 GW. This ship would therefore require 2 large reactors (2*1512 = 3024 GW) in order to ideally operate.

Landing Gear

Landing gear allow ships to latch on to other objects. They are particularly useful when latching small ships onto large carrier ships. One common issue is that when the large ship maneuvers (especially in pitch and yaw) the small attached ship's landing gear breaks due to collisions with the large ship.

In order to avoid this collision issue, be careful when latching the small ship's landing gear to the large ship. If the landing gear touch the metal of the other ship, there will be collision issues. Instead, slowly move the landing gear towards the metal and attach them the instant they turn yellow. There should be some space between the latched landing gear and the metal.

References

1. ↑ http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=190505566#
2. ↑ http://forums.keenswh.com/post/show_single_post?pid=1279687139&postcount=10
3. ↑ http://forums.keenswh.com/post/show_single_post?pid=1279672726&postcount=7
4. ↑ http://blog.marekrosa.org/2013/09/answers-to-your-questions-1_25.html
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Measured in-game