Testing The Most Powerful Clang Gun In Space Engineers
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Welcome back to our next testing instalment this time we take a look at a jolt cannon.
Test it for yourself here Helios PJ-100 Piston Jolt
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I've always loved how people have done actual R&D for alternative weapons in the face of only having Gatling guns and rocket launchers for the longest time.
Gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling to know people will go out of their way to weaponize anything in the game. Community spirit. Haha.
i sincerely miss slanging big ass rocks at a fraction of the speed of light
Finally, a proper main caliber for battleships other then missiles.
"Then" is to talk about when things happen.
(I did this *then* this.)
"Than" is to compare things.
(I would rather this *than* this.)
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There are like cannons and tail guns too
@@SneedRemembrancertail guns
"We will be using Mass Drivers."
"They have been outlawed by every civilized planet!"
"These are uncivilized times."
"We have treaties!"
"Ink on a page!"
Is that a Babylon 5 reference I see? Don't see too many of those these days
It's an older reference, sir, but it checks out.@@ottovonbismarck7646
Im introducing a friend(definitely not a captive in my basement) to babylon 5. were halfway through season 2 rn
good to see my people still show up for refrences
you love to see it
B5 love!
Captain: "Arm the Clang Gun."
Lieutenant: "But sir, what about the survivors?"
Captain: "What survivors?"
40k ship builders gonna start installing these for their broadsides
Love that that was my first thought
Heresy. These need to be on the bottom of the ship aimed down in times of exterminatus
Its a bit exploitive, but not unstoppably exploitive. It still takes a bit of aiming and good luck to hit a distance target, especially a moving one. If it could be somehow limited by the player so its not too overpowered, I think it would a fun addition to battles.
Besides, as long as it doesn't break the server itself, and all the players know how to build it. Than I actually would like to see it in a PVP server setting, because it would be interesting to see how players adapt and overcome the shear power of the jolty cannon. Instead of building mega large battleships that can 1v1 any ship, players probably will resort to smaller faster ships, capable of dodging with ease the gun at fairly safe distances.
Or maybe players will adopt fighter tactics, and swarm enemy ships with jolt cannons. With Jolt cannon users building destroyer or frigate like ships that focus on speed and maneuverability to keep themselves alive. Maybe the biggest ships wont be big battleships, but rather big carriers with swarms of AI drones, ready to be sent in before hand. Or maybe we will see jolt cannon battles from long range, where whole factions fire large volleys at one another from far far away. Space engineers is all about adapting and overcoming challenges, so the jolt cannon would definitely be a serious channel to overcome.
"where whole factions fire large volleys at one another from far far away" So the musket tactics of lining up and all shooting at each other.
@@Blargerhonkspace line warfare
@@justjesse4276 That's the words! I couldn't remember the terminology. Thank you! :D
I hate the idea of everyone sharing tech for fairness. I loved the early era of SE because everyone had unique weapons and armor solutions. It added a certain thrill you can't get with a curated and balanced fight.
To be fair, you sometimes did get outmatched, but that's when you go to the drawing board and R&D the response.
Could also (probably) use them for mining resources too.
You should have replaced the warhead with a seat and launched yourself to space. Probably make a moon trip a lot faster than my personnel shuttle, heh.
Klang drives are kinda this but somewhat controlable
if a single thruster was to be launched it would only travel 100m/s as well both control blocks such as seat/cockpit as well as thrusters have a speed cap. only sub-grids. this is using a sub-grid exploit
@@Only_Some no thrusters, just a block and a seat.
has anyone not done this before already?
I used to love making the old gravity accelerated weapons when the warheads were first added, I still mean to look back and see how much those types have progressed.. This just brings back that nostalgia for big clangy weapons and bigger explosions and destruction in general.
Mac rounds, in atmosphere???
Only if Reach would've had clang drives.
One way to get their attention. Hang on to your teeth, people.
Love it
HOLD ONTO YOUR TEETH!
"New contact, high tonnage"
Honestly, I would build this and then build an entire ship around it kinda like an A-10 Warthog being built around the gau 8. Just a way to get the gun where it needs to be.
All I'm seeing is something that's about to make my UNSC Ships a little more lore accurate lmao
This is beautiful
UNSC ships are more guns that happen to be ships.
Yeah in the actual lore it wasn't uncommon of UNSC ships to come off the assembling lines half complete just to use their MACs
I think the risks associated with using these things & the skill needed to produce a good one (especially in survival) more than balances out the slightly exploit-y nature of them. Especially considering what getting hit just once can do if it just so happens to hit the cannon (which is a lot larger than any other weapon in the first place).
It would be a MAC situation where you have one powerful weapon, but if anything hits it then the entire ship is fucked.
Scale it up, replace the warhead with an anchor block, and you have an interesting way of launching ships with no atmospheric maneuverability into space from the surface. You'd probably have to make it absolutely enormous to launch most large grid ships though. This seems mostly for small grid ships and transport cruisers.
Side tangent, if you can rig a cargo container with inertial dampening, make it so it turns on after a set period (once it reaches vacuum, on a timer, or at a specific altitude), and give it a beacon, you could effectively make an orbital-range Fulton Delivery System.
This is giving me ideas, and now that Space Engineers is on Game Pass, I can test said ideas out.
As far as gameplay goes this is technically not intended, but from the standpoint of physics it’s essentially a crossbow, as the projectile is launched by the force of the drawstring (pistons) snapping back to a resting position from extreme tension
Not only this construction is legitimate, but it is holy, as it is a stable vessel for Clang.
I love the idea of it being an illegal weapon. It makes me want to use it more. 😂
Exactly!!! This thing is effectively a superweapon.
This is why you dont ban anything in space engineers servers, you just make them "warcrimes"
Many forgot how are single warheads devastating. This is certainly the most interesting way to fire them at enemy, but one of the most Clang-prone ways too. We need good ship for showcase of cannon-fired ones too, which may be slower but equally devastating
This little build would be good if a server wanted to simulate what real space battles would be, make them planetary defenses and allow teams only a couple ships capable of being armed with 1 or 2 of these each.
Because honestly if you want a roleplay idea, this would fit.
It's basically like a depth-penetration fuse warhead, that explodes after breaching the target, to cause way WAY more damage.
Likely how explosion propigate in SE, they'll do more damage in a caved in structure, as opposed to a flat surface. Basically less wasted explosive force.
Definitely an exploit, but a fun one. Maybe transform it into a kinetic gun, that fire high mass blocks.... Maybe that would be an acceptable exploit, while still remaining fun.
It's not forgotten, nor obsolete. It's just that when playing within limitations, missiles far outclass this, as they don't require rotor/piston manual assembly or precautions other than repairing the launch bay when damaged. A clang gun will clang your entire ship if broken when firing.
AI Block missiles also have surpassed CTC-rotor missiles. They're ready to launch effectively as soon as assembled, given a well-written blueprint. CTC-Rotor missiles require manual setup every time, and rotor care.
What if you put this on a block missile? A drone ship-killer.
@@maxbennett5412 It isn't feasible, as it would require you to either build or finish the missiles manually. Every time.
@@FMHikari Still a fun idea of a swarm of nuke-launching missiles.
@@maxbennett5412 I don't find fun in manual assembly if i know i can do better.
How is this an exploit? it's merely worshiping the lord of chaos.
ALL HAIL CLANG!
search Piston Jolt Clang Gun Multi Ammo for a version with adjustable projectile speed and ammo type. It's based on PJ-200 by Major Jon.
Credits goes to Major Jon
This would be a good spinal mount artillery. Harder to aim at distance, and the enemy still has plenty of time to evade, even with the speed.
I see no reason to ban it, aside from the domination it would have in orbital bombardment
I absolutely love and am fascinated by clang weaponry, every iteration is amazing. Please please please make a dedicated clang cannon ship build
The weapon concept I think is 100% legitimate, because the projectiles aren't exactly cheap to produce either. And if done properly, this 'clang cannon', or as I like to call it, a HYPERVELOCITY GUN, can be redesigned to have either a bigger projectile, or several in a row in very rapid succession, fired at a target. The HYPERVELOCITY gun si a planetary Superweapon that fires into fairly large ships in orbit due to big ships, logically, being smaller. The massive and/or numerous projectiles will just damage or split the target with ease.
So if you have the time, I challenge you to design a Hypervelocity Gun with this gun concept. It's just bigger and/or more projectiles instead of just the one.
And yes, this 'clang gun' does, as demonstrated, work on ships. But the bigger the gun is, the bigger the ship has to be that carries it.
This should 100% be allowed on servers... it's basically someone making a legit weapon using the physics in the world which is amazing. Instead of using some stupid weapon that's given to you it's way more fun to build your own weapon. It's also MASSIVE so it kinda balances itself out with that almost.
I had a friend that would make these tiny little fighter craft that he used as drones to ram other ships. His main ship was a carrier and he had a few others in their ships to defend him while he would basically fly unmanned ships at other ships. It worked shockingly well and he kept trying to make the little ships cheaper and cheaper to reproduce.
The premise of using it to protect your planet is a wonderful idea.
“Launch your ship into orbit”
Yes, but only IF you desire to become a fleshy, compressed ball of steel
Those exist in the game for years, can't really consider it legit, but depending the rules of the server you plays on, they can be real weapons (most of the server i played on disalowed all piston related guns, or any kind of "clang tech"). Cause actually there are no counters to this, not way to dodge the pistons at the speed they are going and armor doesn't matter, even if you makes gyroscope armors... Witch is lame too...
What I would do with this, is use a high mass block, instead of a warhead, use an array of them, and then use it like a mortar on planets, and make it rain blocks onto an enemy base in a preparatory bombardment, before the assault. Maybe too OP for players to use, but might make for a fun event that the server admins put together. Watch out for blocks raining from the sky!
FWIW, there is a 'laser pointer' mod in the Steam Workshop that might make aiming it *MUCH* easier.
If you put a cockpit and camera on this, it should be no harder to aim than a spinal railgun
One thing I don't see anyone ever using is the Space ball which can be used as ammo in a gravity gun you don't see it often used tho last time I checked it still does good damage and the higher your speed mod goes the better it will do
also gravity drives even tho UA-camrs do talk about it players don't use them in there designs very much
Search workshop for PMW nuke, you will find lot of weak stuff but if you will find the true vanilla nuke, you not need any lanch system just activate it near enemy fleat and jump away :), But search for the newer nukes the older might not work because there was some updates which cripple the older ones :)
Explote, no, feature that was granted by the physics of space engineers for games to make use of in creative manners, absolutely yes
Yes please more clang weapons. Would like to see more explanation of what's going on mechanically as well!
It’s an abuse of the force the game applies to keep the piston head on the piston
@@joyhoward6105 lol thanks, I know, at the high level, *what* klang is but I don't know/understand the best ways to invoke it and especially how to invoke it with semi reliable results.
I am truly astonished - people have harness the Wraith of Clang and have made a weapon from it!
I think I would LOVE to see this thing launch a ship into space. that would be quite something to see! :)
Reminds me of the transform cannon from Perry Rhodan. These cannons are basically teleporting devices that teleport nukes inside of ship hulls to detonate.
I would love to see this clang gun as a dual-barrell variant on a custom turret.. and maybe see some efforts in increasing RPM as safely as possible.
"MAC Rounds? In atmosphere?"
I'd love to see how this works with Bigger Explosions and Kinetic Devastation mods enabled!
So when an object exceeds a specific speed, it's mass increases exponentially along with the force required to maintain that speed. Given that, if launch a can of chef boy R Dee at something like 13,000 km/s it becomes a small yield nuclear explosive.
So far space engineers is the closest game I've come across that calculates this with a fair (ish) amount of accuracy. So your clang gun is basically a nuke launcher.
This weapon is to fun not to use at least once on a server. Maybe make it a superweapon that only has 5 shots for the entirety of the next server scenario?
Let's hope the devs don't nerf this weapon!
They can't really do much about it since it exploits subgrids
@@Creeper7ech maybe they can, they already fix item duplication with projectors with warfare 2 update, i was wery impresed by that, because i was thinging before the exacly same think what you thinking about the exploited subgrids :D
@@denisj4996 that might be possible depending on why they didn't give subgrids a speed limit
@@Creeper7ech the supgris speedlimit is already there, so the projectiles can fly maximum velocity of 1067.5 m/s they just need to make way that the game can discover that subgrid is realy detached if it looks tetached, mybe something waht detach all supgrids in betveen blocks what ar in distance bigger than 10m 🤔
@@denisj4996 good to know
Jolt cannons are great they basically deliver on everything a gravity cannon promises but fails to live up to.
I have an old long large scale ship i could add this too to make it functional. Its definitely impressive to find a game physics to make warheads into a range weapon.
I added mines to a ship a year and after the new update it doesn't work, just sad and embarrassing since I was ready to test on the new blocks
Ironically a good counter to this is the railgun, since punching a pretty little hole through a necessary structural member right as it's about to fire would probably rip the ship it's mounted to in half.
Is it an exploit? Absolutely.
But fuck if it isn’t glorious.
I think if you can build it manually, it's a legitimate weapon
gotta love a hyper velocity cannon
I built one of these on a server once, although was a little larger and the shell was bigger and used blast doors to as they have a tendency to go completely through a ship .... very quickly got told of after offing a few ships with it XD
Wow... Just... wow. Love it!
Tbh, if it doesn't create issues like lag or clang for others etc, then it's totaly fine in my book! Love to see this being used all over!
Edit: I call it: The Clang-Cann.
it creates phanton forces on ship it is mounted on and ocassionally does catasthropic clang on own ship. Aaron was just spawning it as static grid
I actually mad a GAC cannon using a lot of Gav gens and mass blocks, was a fun concept to play with
I can imagine using something like this via some kind ship like the UNSC MAC cannons, sort of a front mounted weapon, nice alpha strike capability and good range too
Made an SG piston based launcher for mines for the water mod using the new barrels as floats and setup with a proximity sensor.
In terms of physics, what is probably happening to cause the round to do so much damage is probably the same reason graviton ram spike shooters do so much in From The Depths, and its in-game tick rate. What im assuming is happening is that the physics are set at a certain tick rate, the projectile has a certain speed initially, and every tick that goes by the object is teleported a certain distance forward. At lower speeds, its not noticeable and doesnt create issues. However, once you go past a certain speed, instead of colliding how you would expect it to, youre partially teleported into or tbrough the object, meaning you are essentially nullifying any kind of armour since you quite literally just teleported through it. So you technically mever hit the outer armour, you only hit the interior assuming this is what is happening
curious now if it can go surface to orbit xD
Imagine the power of someone putting this on a cheap drone and mass producing them. If one goes down then a dozen more guns are already firing.
Reminds me of my early days in SE before planets were a thing and playing around with gravity based weapons
How do you make this amazing thing?
If you are to allow this, it should have heavy constraints placed on the availability. Maybe have them require a timer block for reload simulation and make them capital ship weapons or have ships that only have that as their weapon, sorta like a capital ship killer.
Never forgot this. Experimented with the concept to see if I could make a stable/non-banable weapon design. Server I played on banned pistons, so I never got to use my design I came up with.
there is always option to propel it with artilerry shots timed together with release on merge blocks ;)
DEMOLITION DEMOLITION DEMOLITION DEMOLITION
Also Lord Klang would be proud of this weapon!
Few things, first I’d like to bring up the concept of using it to launch small craft/drones out of atmosphere. Second is that speed is typically relative when it comes to damage from a projectile. Third, this clang weapon is an unintended result of the systems at play, yet it adds to the system. I think some severes should allow such mechanics
some servers do allow jolts
I think a good method of comparing what happening is, that it is sort of similar to a railgun, but much more centered to destruction rather than penetration.
A comparison to what is happening, to use a movie, would be "Battleship" with those weird spinning interceptable rounds that lodges itself into the ships and explodes after a short period. It's what's happening here as well, but significantly more powerful and deadly, especially if someone makes something like a light cruiser or destroyer that only utilizes this weapon as their main gun.
Granted, most likely than not, this weapon will most likely have much more limited armor protection and be an exterior weapon that is attached to something like a destroyer or cruiser to prevent Clang from coming to you for abusing its powers, but that would be a fair trade off in combat for hitting a shot that may rip a ship in two, or do some serious damage.
(TLDR: Weapon pierces through and explodes in a delayed manner, which makes it do more destruction rather than piercing as heavily as a railgun, which may be effective to breaking a ship's teeth. Might be best as an exterior mounted weapon on ships with decent gyroscopical control. Two might be an upper limit, but I don't have space engineers. Experts go nuts.)
Also forgot to mention, but from my limited understanding of Space Engineers, it would be much less risky to mount the weapon outside the ship but using the design as such to not have most of it directly exposed than having the ship have the weapon inside it. Though granted, that *DOES MEAN* it would need a specialized design and need significant testing to have it consistently not break the ship in some way, at least not after 15-30 shots were fired to ensure the ship has decent combat effectiveness and staying power. (And for it to probably not break before that point.)
Now if you launch a rock and not a warhead, you can probably get away with it, if your persuasion level is high enough. "No Admin sir, this rock was probably just a high speed debris result from an earlier explosion somewhere!"
Fire drop pods for orbital drops or at ships to get a team of engineers inside the ship.
I really wanna see a bunch of them arranged like the barrels of a gatling gun, the firing mechanism set up to fire them in succession 1/2 second after the last for a constant, concentrated bombardment.
Macrogun be like: "Not so mini anymore, aint`it?"
I make a series of ship with those canons. One is already finished. It’s more of a prove of concept than anything else. Also working on a turreted version for my latest replica ship the Monarch (work in progress still).
I remember making one of these like a slingshot and using it to chuck small ship parts into the moon orbit
I remember in an older patch, you could turn off the safety limiter of a piston, turn up the velocity, and the piston would rip through my 4 mil kg ship every time. Avsolutely devastating. Everything in a 30deg cone for 30 blocks gone.
If gyro armor is allowed, then so is this. It's the same principle of using one block in a way not intended by game design to gain an advantage. If anyone in a server actually takes the time to build and effectively operate it in survival combat, then kudos to them. I'd be impressed
I think it's 100% legit it's called space engineers if we aren't trying to exceed what they gave us what are we doing?
Totally, this would be awesome on rover only server as a way to launch odst pods and cargo pods across the planet.
this would be a cool wepion for a server with an energy shield mod as to not have it an insta kill but more a opportunistic finisher of medium to large craft, or as a launcher for some kind of manned breaching craft
Awesome space transport system :D
The damage length is probably tied to ticks on which in game time operates. There was a similar problem in Starmade where you couldn't mod projectile (or ship) speeds over a certain limit without getting very weird results. Up to projectiles going through ships without doing damage or doing too much, or anything in between. Basically due to the speed the projectile is moving at it registers as being in multiple places at once and by the point game catches up to calculating the explosion it just slams it in all the affected spaces.
Similarly the explosion against ships happens not on armor but in internal spaces and you are basically getting more than double the total damage due to how limited are surface explosions and the fact that they need to deal with armor.
Ah StarMade... anyone who complains about SE being exploitable needs to go back and play that one (before the power 2.0 update killed it). If your ship was not using at least 10 exploits, you were doing it wrong.
Used to use 2 small grid piston jolt guns on my ships.....very dangerous when you get a hit but also very sensitive to dammage!!
Major Jon made a reversed version at my request a while back after I spent ages trying to reverse engineer it lol. I was tinkering with mounting them on the port and starboard sides of a large grid ship, I always thought it would make a great super weapon on a capital grade.
It was a combination of this thing and the death lotus that got me back into SE after my initial 100 or so hours
Ooh that would be a cool weapon for broadsides
gotta love a clang cannon
Try building the UNSC Grafton around it.
"MAC rounds?! In atmosphere?!"
I wanna see one of these in one of your servers, see how effective they are in actual combat.
Hrrm!
If it were possible, put it on a swivel and it makes an excellent Ground-to-Orbit static defense cannon
Classify these as WMD's and allow them on your servers. By allowing this you will quickly see A LOT of new innovations in terms of armor.
kinda want to see if you could do indirect fire on a base with this. or see if you could use it as a planetary defense weapon
i kinda wanna see this in battle. its so sick!
Finally we can harness the power of clang
that is one very powerful weapon
The battleship weapon of choice
These would make great tech 3 strategic artillery on a rover only server
isn't there a modular missiles mod for SE? That might allow you to make the stuff this fires guidable over extremely long range.
Now Im curious if you could put that torpedo warhead with the block of stone in the middle and gravity generators holding it in place from the video years back on the front of that thing. I feel like that would either work way too well or change nothing whatsoever. Leaning more towards the nothing side buuuut cool thought experiment at the least
Oddly good timing because I was testing these out a week or so ago
that's crazy cool. Clang rules all!
I believe its a legitimate weapon. The devs either can't or won't patch out the behavior, which means its practically a feature by now, much like HOIKs in Terraria, or quasi-connectivity in Minecraft's redstone.
I wonder how it would have compared using heavy armour to fire against. My thought being that the latter holes seem to be from the connector rather than the warhead itself. Is it due to collision damage, or is it due to two blocks occupying the same place at the same time and the armour getting destroyed by the game as it tries to figure out what's going on?
I feel like this could be allowed on a server, with a very specific limitation. It can only be used as a fighter Catapult.