or if you just need to unmerge it temporarily, id reccomend buildvision, then fly up to the merge block to toggle the one you want on or off, i dont think they will be easy to find if your looking through the K menu

if you want to stop it from merging, you could go into the timer blocks and delete the merging commands, either in the deploy or retract timers depending on what you want, it should just be a group.

Im not sure i understand, but if the grid is a station, it tends to have weird behaviour,where it seems the grids needs a little jiggle/shake in order to get going, which isnt a problem when its on a space ship going downor up from a planet

Kennet, I've run into a little problem - how do you stop the merge block changing the subgrid into a fixed part of the main ship (i.e. unmerged but it wont move!)

Nah, just admiring the ingenuity xD

Why thank you! indeed, its a neat little trick i picked up after playing around with pistons, rotors and hinges and fighting CLANG for more than 3000 hours xD

Anything in particular you were looking for?

Wait... You made 2 subgrid connect on suspension using a hinge... I never tried to make it work using subgrids and always got CLANG angry while merging them... never occured to me it would be possible this way! anyway not the this I was looking for in the workshop but I learned something new!

How does that work? are you unable to paste it?

can you make a version not using a dlc?

Update:
Added 4x Event Block failsafe's
Changed 4 timer blocks triggers from start next timer to toggle on/off event failsafe's

This was done as a safety measure so that if a landing gear fails to deploy or retract the operation halts until fixed

Thanks for the kind words @Kaptainkrak! at some point ive promised Strong Hoove im gonna make small grid versions aswell, thatll be an interresting challenge!

This is the best retractable landing gear I have ever seen. Getting everything to work, first of all, is a huge accomplishment. And on top of that kennet0508 makes it look seemless, which is another huge accomplishment. Congrats on this Klangtastic design.

or atleast supress

I cant wait for the event block, ittl give me a lot more failsafes to hopefully prevent clang even more

Lord Klang's "forgiveness" is like rolling a D20 and needing a 20 to succeed.

It can also be withdrawn without warning!

@kennet0508 no i dont think i will

@Lord_Clang I beg your forgivness for making such a clangtastic creation!

@Cookie man i wont

may Klang have mercy.

My Pleasure

Thank you, you just solved like 10 different landing gear problems for me with one thing

@Asuine: id love to see that!

@Strong Hoov: Thank you as always, cant wait for our next collab!

@Stratotanker: Yeah, clang is always around every corner, i cant wait for the event block, as that will allow me to build in more failsafes so if for some reason a hinge doesnt move, then the rotor doesnt activate to avoid giant explosions and minimize his wrath.

@ThePropheticWarrior, id love to see your creation, maybe i could make a small grid version of this setup at some point

@morpheus and @KingdomBragg: no mods, this was made by blueprint editing. you can achieve the same results in survival and creative by using buildvision to attach a rotor head or just copy the piece from my creation making your own blueprint, its 100% vanilla once pasted, just the "creation of it" is not.

So who is going to be the first person to use these for a Star Wars Acclimator Assault Cruiser

NIce work as always!

OMG.. Awesome.. BUT... you DO know that CLANG will not be happy with this.. just saying...

Ooh, fancy. Wheel suspension with a rotor head instead of a wheel? How did you manage that?

Interesting! I started using piston/hinge/mag plate assemblies on my large small grid builds, because modded landing gear are too small and make my ships go through large grid blocks - and Keen has yet to come up with any solutions to incorporate retractable gear themselves.

Maybe at some point, I'll start using your idea, if my builds allow for it!

Fantastic! I've been after Keen to make landing gear suspension that compresses from the weight of a ship like you see in just about every ship piloting game or sci-fi movie. I see you're using a rotor suspension mod; can you link the mod you're using? Thanks

i dont think its gonna be a problem, ive seen it work on some of the biggest ships on the workshop with as little as 20% strength, so just try

can your landing gear support the weight of such a ship?, its size is somewhere between 250 and 300 meters

I am sorry if you are still waiting for me to build something, but I am going through a difficult life situation right now, I am working on building a ship, but when I have the desire to build one, I am sorry if I disappointed you. ps I am currently building a light aircraft carrier if you are interested.

Your welcome! please do show off your build if you end up using it, id love to see what people do with it

Cool Thanks