Plasma engines sounds like something from Halo

I'm pretty sure fuel usage isn't unlimited in creative mode for thrusters, however reactors will work without uranium, and h2 o2 generators will generate hydrogen and oxygen without any ice input at a rate 10x that of survival or 1k liters a second if I remember correctly.

Great mod, these thrusters are what I've been looking for, I always found the engines in the base game are just far too weak. Just a question though - I'm in creative mode, but the engines are still using fuel as if I were in survival mode. Shouldn't fuel usage be unlimited in creative mode?

I'm not familiar with space engineers modding is it possible to add a config option to change fuel usage of the thrusters? There was a mod that added these thrusters but with more fuel usage but it seems to have been taken down,
if it's not possible to do the config thing could you make a second version of the mod where the fuel usage is double vanilla thrusters instead of half?

Thank you

@Sensational Being, Somewhere along the road, Keen must have changed the vanilla values. i updated the mod to match the vanilla damage values :)

Would you be able to tell me if the thruster flame damage is a block or so longer than hydrogen thrusters? I'm getting burn off in a tight spot that was fine with vanilla.

always use this mod no matter what in my games ,a lot of fun

Ok, fair enough

Thanks for the reply!

@Baigle1, Sorry but that "tier" -idea is against the whole concept of these thrusters. i believe there are already too many of those tiered thruster mods out there.

I've used this mod for years and years, and its existence has actually helped inspire my research into advanced propulsion methodologies and futuristic physics. I thank you and the other creators.


I know these would basically be godlike (or ungodly) in their performance and resource usage, but they can be shrunk and put behind significant research and material barriers.

Can you make this into a tiered pack?

Tier 2 - Quantum well shift-tunneled cold ion beams
Tier 3 - Photon-pumped superconducting micron LINACs
Tier 4 - A multiplier upgrade to Tier 3 which uses reactor fuel for carrier boson & higgs field interactions to increase the inertia of the previous tiers' exhaust plasma/ions/particles and decrease the active inertia of the thruster and extendably the grid its connected to. Possibly in a boost mode.
Tier 5 - Upgrading Tier 4 to use a specialty crafted heavy element with more than 110 protons, and using Tier 3's micron LINACs to make the higgs field inertial displacement interactions many times more efficient.
Tier 6 - Using other effects to push off of the fabric of space using no fuel, e.g. casimir / causality cone interaction with relativistic advanced particles.

@Armigus, The scientists mentioned in the description, found a way to achieve the improved burn by using the thruster components as catalysts, thus they dont need any extra power ;-)

If you are using thruster components to boost the hydrogen, should they not consume some electric power to do so? This is like a precursor to the Epstein drives in other mods.

Really fast in a speed mod

@Axel-of-Atheara, industrial thrusters added for those with the DLC

oh well, still using it

@darthdestructus, no :) the hydrogen plasma color is genuine

silly question: can I change the color of the ionized gas?

@Fizz, would you consider getting access to the new industrial H2 thrusters to make a reskinned set of these to go along with the vanilla ones?

Just tested it with vanilla and plasma thrusters and the issue occurred with both types. I should have tested this more thoroughly originally, my bad.

Theyre 2 or 3 times the power vs vanilla,

interresting... try to swap to vanillas, and re-create the issue... just to be 100% that its caused by the plasmas... because they are not THAT different from vanillas... basically just the fuel use, thrust, and color.

The cruise control script will continually fail and required to be recompiled over and over again, and if I attempt to manually turn on all plasma thrusters from the control panel, the game crashes (which is what happened at the end of that video). I still want to do more testing to figure out what might be causing this more specifically, but I've been using the cruise control script for a long time and only recently began using the plasma thrusters regularly, and I don't remember encountering this issue before with vanilla thrusters.

Hey, I absolutely love this mod! I have been having a weird issue with it recently though when paired with the simple cruise control script ( https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1734527386 ) and I captured it on video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8TXK4t7T60&t=52s ). At about 0:19 you can see that my rear thrusters are no longer lit up. This happens whenever the ship I'm in starts to take either excessive or rapid damage (I think, it's hard to pin down). For simplicity, it happens in fights.

Still my one and only favorite upgrade for hydrogen thrusters that allows them to work as tier 2 without replacing "tier 1"

Oh and for eddy. download the azimuth grand bundle mod that will help with your hydrogen storage issue.

To answer Eddys question yes it is very effective to use on small craft.

This mod is great. With these thrusters Ive built ships in access of 80 billion kg that can take of and land in gravity field of 1.0 and 1.1. Your mod is simple elegant and very efffective. Thank you for your creativity and hard work.

it might be possible somehow, that im not aware of.... Keen made the thrusters so you can either pick and modify ion, atmo or hydro...
Some creative coding might solve it, but its out of my ballpark ;-)

Hm. I have a humble question. So Im looking for propolsions to replace atmo, hydrogen and ion engines in one so I can build relatively small ship able to fly anywhere without having 10 hydrogen tanks and around 100 thrusters of all types. PLASMA Engines. But here's the trick.
Air fed plasma engines. What that means, is that in atmosphere the engine use air as a fuel and in space or no atmosphere they need hydrogen. But the thing is, either for air or hydrogen, plasma engine is energy demanding (using more power then any other thrusters).
Simply its a combination of hydrogen and atmospheric thruster but with higher power consumption for balance. Is that possible to create??

Can't see the output flames.

we should have something like this in the vanilla game the trade off could be there are only certain locations it can be found and you must have all the other thrusters unlocked before hand the game is supposed to take place several decades in the future so its not unreasonable to have thrusters like this the hydrogen thusters we have in game now are based of what we have right now irl but we are currently on the verge of replacing them with better ones and also maybe to encourage exploration there could also be new tech that players could obtain if the go to the planets the are specifically located like maybe the more advanced tech could be located mars and the alien planet while the more basic tech could be on earth and the moon. i know this is long but i have thought allot about this

@Fizz, Thank you for the reply and quick update, can confirm groupings are now working properly. I just tried those babies on my Virtue (exploration corvette by K_Medlock) and your thrusters boost mobility overall by such a comfortable margin. That mod is a keeper ;)

Also, purple is nice :P

@Drake, i Fixed the groupings :-)

i also updated the stats so they match vanillas hydro (½x fuel + 4x thrust)

Was pretty excited to convert some of my ships with those, but both large thrusters don't seem to exist in the thruster group. Only the small thrusters can be crafted (both small and large grid). And before someone says something, since there seems to have been issues like this before with this mod, yes I know how to use mousewheel. Every other g-menu group convert small/large scale properly, including normal hydrogen thrusters. The Plasma Thrusters just seem to not have a large scale version at all. I'll hope for an update in the near future.

can't you just limit the amount of thrust that they're able to put out? Or disable some?

I have a need for a WEAK space-capable thruster, size of 1x1x1 The ship drills tunnels, and only minuscule movement is required. All thrusters I know, are too strong.

These are a really nice upgrade for Hydrogen. They are not TOO powerful as you have with most mods and gives the Engineer something to plan with.

Again, a nice mixture, and a very proper "tier 3" thruster.

Thank you!

for people wondering and for future, if you use the scroll wheel on your mouse it will do large and small, its all in one group, just scroll the mouse wheel up or down

Yeah the other guy is right. There are only small thrusters in game. Even called small thrusters. Dont know if its because a patch broke something?

nothing vaninlla how can i make them a normal plasma thruster

NO HOW CAN I DO THAT

@ALPHA: Just tested the mod, its still working fine....
@Vladimir: You create large thrusters just as you do with the vanilla. They are all in one group

how can you create a large plasma thruster?

update needed?

What’s the effociency in atmosphere?

It only says "Plasma Thruster", not "Plasma Pulse Thruster" and currently, i dont believe it is, but it may be coming into military use within the next 10-15 years.

is this an irl thruster? "plasma pulse thruster"???

@Fizz Love the thruster!
@Darkner Is a good thruster and u should judge by wht it does not by colour!