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Type: Mod
Mod category: Block, Other
Tags: NoScripts
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19 Apr, 2022 @ 9:08pm
19 Jun, 2022 @ 3:08pm
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Physical Defenses

Description
Okay, you don't really want to use shield mods, but your armor is more like a wet paper bag than actual protection. This may be the mod for you ...

Armor, cockpits, doors, hangar doors, blast door blocks, windows, and a few other exterior blocks designed to protect the vulnerable assets on your ships, should actually provide protection when you are attacked. This mod is designed to counter the increases in damage due to new weapons added, and to allow reasonable resilience to ships without having to resort to adding additional defensive systems such as shields that require enormous amounts of energy. This mod adds no new blocks it only redefines existing blocks to make them harder to destroy. So, what is changed? Well, anything that is on the outside of a ship that can be reasonably expected to separate what's outside from what is inside.

How much protection? Well, if you're lucky then a cockpit may be able to take a single assault cannon hit, provided it hasn't been hit by anything else. Light small grid armor can usually take a single Gatling cannon round, and light large grid armor may take a higher number of Gatling gun hits. Artillery rounds still do significant damage, and if your small grid ship gets hit with artillery, well it shouldn't expect to still be there. Rail-guns of course are expected to make swiss-cheese out of your ship.

If you really want to know the specifics of this mod, then feel free to open the files and take a look. if you're really lucky some enterprising person will take it unto themselves to detail things for you. This mod took a lot of trials and testing so I will not be going back to detail all the specifics any time soon. Primarily because my vision isn't that good right now, and I have to get cataract surgery (yes, I'm probably older than most of you).
12 Comments
BIV 25 Sep, 2022 @ 2:13pm 
Thank you for making this magic that will somehow slow the inevitable destruction of whatever vehicle I've just spent days building and now watching it get sliced and diced by bad guys or more usually impacting at highvelocity into something with much higher mass (like a planet). But seriously,thanks for the time and effort you put in to helping us all live longer. Cheers mate.
rustynx0158 6 May, 2022 @ 1:32am 
That ship in the picture looks really familiar? Thanks for the mod 👍
Thorn Blackwell  [author] 29 Apr, 2022 @ 10:34pm 
New blocks have been added to the mod.
Thorn Blackwell  [author] 23 Apr, 2022 @ 10:13pm 
@cOde - Armor blocks are "replaced" by this mod, more accurately speaking it redefines the existing blocks. It reduces all damage to affected blocks.
c0de 23 Apr, 2022 @ 7:35pm 
does this increase armor limits of vanilla blocks? doesnt replace current blocks correct?
Thorn Blackwell  [author] 22 Apr, 2022 @ 11:36pm 
@JuperO - No problem, I hope it works well for you. My main motivation was bulltet proof glass never really was ... so cockpits, and such were usually the first things destroyed on my small grid vehicles. The image above is from Capt. Shack's original mod-all-the-things series. I noticed then every bullet destroyed an armoir block or more. In twenty seconds the ship was swiss-cheese.
Juper0 22 Apr, 2022 @ 8:28pm 
Thanks for doing this. it was needed.
Thorn Blackwell  [author] 22 Apr, 2022 @ 1:22am 
@LordZarmack - Cool, you could post the link here as well, because there may be others who will prefer that mod to mine.
LordZarmack 21 Apr, 2022 @ 10:33am 
I'm a armour guy myself and don't like using shields so I can send you a link to the mod in dm's if you'd like, I've been using the mod for along time now and it may be of use for yourself......going to try out your mod in a min in a battle arena I have for testing new ships, il let you know
Thorn Blackwell  [author] 21 Apr, 2022 @ 10:20am 
@LordZamack - I am unaware of Duraarmor in order to respond. As I have stated this mod affects more than just armor.