Weapons

Weapons are objects, that player can setup 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 it's total integrity of all components that when into it's construction which functions as it's health. In addition the type of damage received also is a factor, bullet rounds usually cause no deformation while kinetic collisions and explosions do. Certain components like Steel Plates are 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
                                                 1 (light armor block's deformation ratio)

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 Gatling Gun. How many rounds will it take to fully destroy this block, exactly. This can be found via using 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 this, 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]	Magazine size [rounds]	Max Capacity [rounds]	Muzzle Velocity [m/s]	Maximum Range [m]	Impulse [N]	Mass [kg]
	Gatling Gun	185	60	700	140	560	300	800	185
	Gatling Turret	185	60	300	140	700	300	800	185
	Rocket Launcher	500	500	60	1	4	100 - 700	800	400
	Reloadable Rocket Launcher	500	500	60	1	4	100 - 700	800	400
	Missile Turret	500	500	20	1	2	100 - 700	800	400
	Warhead	15 000	15 000	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4.8	489

Large ship / Station weapons

See also Building blocks

Block		Damage [To Player]	Damage [To Blocks]	Rate of Fire [rounds/min]	Magazine size [rounds]	Max Capacity [rounds]	Muzzle Velocity [m/s]	Maximum Range [m]	Impulse [N]	Mass [kg]
	Gatling Turret	185	60	600	140	3360	300	800	185
	Interior Turret	12	12	600	30	1920	300	800	3.2
	Missile Turret	500	500	20	1	6	100-700	800	400
	Rocket Launcher	500	500	60	1	19	100-700	800	400
	Warhead	15000	15000	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	24.44	2244

Hand-held weapons

See also Tools

Block		Damage [To Player]	Damage [To Blocks]	Rate of Fire [rounds/min]	Magazine size [rounds]	Max Capacity [rounds]	Muzzle Velocity [m/s]	Maximum Range [m]	Impulse [N]	Mass [kg]
32px	Standard Rifle	12	12	540	30	n/a	300	800	3.2	3
32px	Rapid Fire Rifle	12	12	900	30	n/a	300	800	3.2	3
32px	Precision Rifle	12	12	450	30	n/a	300	800	3.2	3
32px	Elite Rifle	12	12	720	30	n/a	300	800	3.2	3
	Grinder	20	20	?	n/a	n/a	n/a	?	?	3
	Hand Drill	20	20	?	n/a	n/a	n/a	?	?	3

Damage dealing techniques

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