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Badger Smart Quad

The Smart Quad is a sleek, rugged, versatile, and self-stabilizing aircraft for novice and experienced pilots alike. The craft touts a drill and ore scanner, over a 5 ton towing capacity with a docking port under the belly, 145 m/s top speed, and a 15,000 meter service ceiling making it the perfect craft for mining, exploring in style, and shuttling your friends around.

This craft self-stabilizes and auto-recovers from being flipped upside down while in the water AND on land eliminating the need to hit the reset button. Simply turn the autopilot off and stabilizer on for auto-recovery.

The Smart Quad has 1 hour and 38 minutes of air-time, can fly up to 392 kilometers on a single charge, and can land and takeoff in water for faster charging.

The Badger is a mid-game craft that will cost some uranium for the RTG's and gold for the Nav Instrument. The RTG's are all centered on the center of lift so it is safe to rip them out in creative and re-blueprint for Adventure. However, the Nav Instrument is vital to craft operation and cannot be removed without breaking it's primary systems.

If you are looking to update just the software on this craft, use this blueprint and follow the instructions.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3347370498

- Power on the aircraft (left side of passenger seat)
- Close Door
- Turn on main Avionics Power (top left of the right panel beside the nav display)
- Turn on Rotors (top right same panel as above)
- Turn on Stabilizer (bottom left, named STAB) ** OPTIONAL
- Throttle up with the lever to the right of the pilot until you reach your desired altitude then center the lever.
- Pitch forward with W and back with S
- Roll with A and D
- Turn/Yaw with Q and E

** Protip, the stabilizer will roll with your turn up to 43 degrees.


- Fully programmed, turn-key aircraft
- Self Stabilization (when STAB is on) for yaw, roll, and pitch
- Full-featured autopilot which controls altitude, speed, and heading while capable of following a target
- Drill, anchor, and container for hard-to-reach terrain
- Perfectly balanced (to the kilogram) ratio for center of mass and center of lift
- Belly docking port for ship landings
- Deliberate positioning of seat for maximum visibility
- Extra seat for a friend - user can easily install 2 more seats
- Organized cockpit with method to the madness


The Badger has many systems installed and ready for use. Some of which are features I've not seen anywhere else on the workshop and are simply things that I found useful. This aircraft's programming is complex enough that it was helpful in tracking down a nasty IDE crash in the game and has been dubbed one of the most complex programmed workshop creations and has had features added to the game specifically from ideas I wanted to implement in this craft such as a docking mode and the ability to switch user-input by the computer on the fly which both required some changes to the game's code.

Here, I'll go through each system and give a brief run-down on how to use them.


This quad has been tested extensively up to 8,500 meters and at over 130 m/s. However, that doesn't mean this quad will perform exactly the same in every situation. I've done my best to account for a vast array of situations in the auto-pilot to keep the craft comfortably safe, but there are things you can do in order to destabilize it.

However, I have disabled all user control input to the rotors (WASDQE) when the autopilot is on and the craft is moving faster than 20 m/s. That means if you want to control it with the autopilot you must use the autopilot interface.

In the way it was setup where the autopilot allowed user-overrides, this seemed to be confusing people and in that they erroneously thought the craft was misconfigured when it crashed or lost stability. It was not misconfigured, it was a PEBKAC problem. The only reason I'm allowing WASDQE controls under 20 m/s is because the autopilot has time to adapt and react to the user input. The autopilot simply simply doesn't have that kind of time for a game that only processes things 25 ticks per second when it's moving 110 m/s. In simpler words, if the craft crashes with user input at under 20 m/s the user will very much know and understand it's their problem, not the autopilot's problem; even simpler terms, you'll know the fault for loss of stability is yours, not the autopilot's.


This craft's systems are complex enough I've had to create a guide from running out of room on this page.

Without further adue:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3336794387


I would like to thank the developers for the awesome game that made a creation like this even remotely possible.

With that said, I'm asking for donations to the developers. You can visit their Patreon page here:

https://www.patreon.com/batcholi