Part of our adventures making minimum viable transport ships. This thing barely works, moves slowly, can’t fire at many asteroids, only sorta supplies enough energy. It gets where it needs to eventually though and includes the most important space ship feature: Blinky lights

  • Baggie@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    Here I was theorising you could make a functional spaceship with just 1 crafter and a chemical plant, but you actually did it. Great job!

    What’s the refill time on the fuel tanks there?

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      Thank you, it was a lot of fun to build! No idea on refill speed I just use them for reading which I’m lower on. It can travel at an inconsistent speed of about 40-50 between Nauvis and Gleba. It was actually spending almost all of its time floating around trying to make ammo, fuel was fine. I made a 2.0 version that has ammo delivered to it that I’ll post later

  • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    I love seeing what people come up with and which design choices they make.

    This one for example is completely contrary to mine which is: BIGGER, FASTER, MORE, MOOOREEE, ADD MORE ROCKETS!!

  • StarfighterEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    How quickly are you switching between recipes on the chemical plant?

    Is it long enough for fuel/oxidizer imbalance in the thruster and how does that impact thrust efficiency?

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      It makes whichever one is lowest in the tanks which means it usually switches each time the recipe completes, and periodically for water

      It seems to have an internal bias for more fuel than oxidizer but the engines run near constantly and the imbalance can’t cause a backup so I’m not worried about it. I don’t know anything about thrust efficiency

      It goes around 40-50km/s between Nauvis and Gleba

      • StarfighterEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Well sorry for sending you down this rabbit hole, but thrusters get more efficient the less fluid is in their internal reserves ;)

        There’s a table on the wiki page detailing how internal fluid reserve impacts thrust and efficiency.

        I’ve omitted the fuel tanks in my newer designs. Tweaking the chemical plant output with modules is an easy way to hit the desired efficiency point. Although it’s probably not that easy when you have only one single shared chemical plant.

      • TechieDamien@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        You could count crafts and make an equal count of each which should do the same thing. Don’t know if you need the buffer to prevent stalling though…

        • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          you can count crafting, but how do you count usage?

          Two combinators is the same footprint of a storage container, so the logic has to be really simple. < 4 units otherwise storage makes sense

          • TechieDamien@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            There are 2 storage tanks, so we have 8 tiles to work with (maybe a little more if pipes end up being shorter but that doesn’t matter). Off the top of my head, I could do it in 5 tiles. First, a decider combinator as a basic memory cell to count the crafts, resetting at 2x. Then another to pick the recipe earlier in the ui if the count is less than x. Finally, a constant combinator with the later recipe as the fallback option when the other turns off. Switching for a second decider would make the system more robust against any changes with priority when there are multiple recipe signals, but that is still 6 tiles, which is an improvement.