Ok Cool, thanks!

you can have one on either side of the center of mass, that's fine, it will cancel out. If you have just one on one side, it will work too, but it will also make your ship spin, so how like a physically accurate thruster would work.

Looking at some of the pictures the doors don't seem to be in alignment w/ what I would assume is the center of mass?
In picture 5 for example, the top and bottom doors of both engines would be misaligned right? Is there any significant detriment to this or is it fine as long as it's balanced

Thanks

You can stack them however you like, the armor blocks are just there to hold the doors in place, you don't need them

Thanks for sharing. Can we stack 3 pistons verticaly ?

All hail lord clang the order have come and is time use clang for justice

SPEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Fantastic. Hail Klang

ALL HAIL CLANG

praise the sun, skulls for the skull throne, sacrifice to lord clang

@Singleton

Clang Drives to take some time to get used too...

11/10 would launch again lol

I tried to use this clang drive once to make a missile that would have a beacon on it so it would lure a big npc fleet away.
When it launched, it did a loop, tore off a chunk of my ship's armor (at least 9-10 large grid light armor blocks), and yeeted itself in the opposite direction, never to be seen again.

So, I see this one has an example. I have a quick favor to ask. Could you have example ships for the other clang drives, and those ships, while going in (Say, the Cepheus collection), also go into a "Clang Drive Example" collection, which also contains the clang drives (In the order such that the example is above the clang drives, so it goes Example Ship(s) for Clang Drive A, Clang Drive A". Example Ship(s) for Clang Drive B, Clang drive B, and so on. By doing that, we could see more on how it works. Just an idea (:

Its work on all server

Of course that's alright, I made these for everyone. You can do whatever you want with them :D
Btw, incase you haven't noticed, I made a new version of this type of drive, which doesn't even have subgrids, is printable and tileable.
Anyways, have fun exploiting Klang for your desires

Hi Major Jon! Thank you for this, I've been using these kinds of drives in my builds for some time. I have recently published a ship that uses this exploit to my workshop and credited you for the PDD drive, I hope this is alright; if not I can remove the drive from the blueprint.

Thank you for your brilliance, and I hope you stay safe! <3

Just (mostly) finished my new ship with the PDD & MID, if anyone wants to have a look i've published it as a blueprint. https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2036088385

Cheers Major Jon for the inspiration to make it XD

Just started my Mk - 2 of a clang ship about 60 - 70 done on this using the PDD-3 with all axis

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2032451558 https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2032451618

Nice

i am amazed that people are harnessing the godly power of klang. how is this possible?

Ooooh, okay, will have another look. Thanks

It's a blueprint

Have to ask, I've subbed in attempt to use it, but it's not appearing in my Mod list, Am I doing something wrong?

nice dude, but i dont wanna continue worshiping clang iv been suffering withdrawal from the worshiping and so this is SUPER tempting to use always XD.

Good idea, I'm gonna try that. You can always just drag the piston group to the toolbar. If you mean that you want to toggle the drive with wasd, a script would be necessary. That's definitely possible, but quite some effort and I'm not gonna make one atleast in the near future.

Have you tried doing any of this dark magic using super grid blocks? Like would it work on a small grid using the super grid doors? Thinking not because the collision box is different but something interesting ought to be possible.

Is there a way to keybind this so I could still accelerate with wasd? A script? Or would it even be needed if I used this with the inertial dampener?

there is a mod called small ship mega mod pack

You can place it anywhere as long as it is in line with the center of mass.

can this be mounted inside the ship or does it have to be mounted outside the hull?

Hope KSH doesnt patch this too fast

God, you just did it again, my ship now has an acceleration speed of GMOD km/s


All fear the unfathomable power of clang

It's pretty simple to build. You can just weld it from a projector, add piston heads from the terminal and put interior pillars on top.

or spata

This is is too overpoersed, it it to hard to do in survival? Cause if not, Im going to the moon lol.

As long as there are no small ship doors, it will most likely be impossible. I'm gonna make a small grid version of this thing in the near future though.

can you make a small block version pls

this is really cool

Easy orbital launch*

This is about as insane as I've seen on here - well done Ser! :D

How did you come up with this

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1933578826

@damienmccain12... i would be interesed in see that...

@damienmccain12 sounds awesome, I'd very much appreciate getting some feedback from some other clang scientists :D
Also your drive has like 1 GN of Thrust in a 2x2x3 space? How the hell did you manage to do that? I suppose merge blocks, but my merge block drive is gigantic compared to that.

Love it!
All hail Klang. :D

Lol. I love that

hey jonathan,im the R&D head of a faction,and ive got to say,youre making good progress.id be happy to give you a spot in our group.while your drives arnt very efficient in comparison to what we use,i love the modularity and design asthetic.as an example,our main lifting engine actually gets stronger the more mass and gravity effect it,functionally making have infinate thrust up to a point. ive lifted the 'aci ascendancy titan' off a 3g planet with the smallest drive we can mass produce in survival,2x2x3 blocks.also ours has instantanious toggling and constant thrust

Try to make an clang jump drive that