I appreciate the sentiment, Dots!

Moved on from modding SE in 2019 to focus on developing my own video game geared towards ending poverty globally. A significant contributor to me stopping modding SE is my internet connection from living in the woods at the time wasn't good enough to play Space Engineers multiplayer. Until getting Starlink earlier this year, when I was on copper cable internet in 2018 and tried playing on people's servers my connection would cause the entire server to lag and break things.

Trying to get more into streaming, but am drawn away from my computer to volunteer at a local nonprofit cleaning up the town, helping the homeless, and other philanthropic endeavors.

Recorded some gaming/dev vids, but haven't had the time to edit/upload 99% of them, got a few Helldivers videos uploaded recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlpylsK7Abg

Wanting to livestream more, just haven't had the time.

you can try making a community on twitch with title that says "game dev/making mods for SE" and start acting like you own the place. you will keep talking and talking until your ears bleed but someone will eventually find you and follow you. each follower count has potential to boost you up in viewer count and each viewer is a potential for bits or subs donations that can be redeemed to real money. This all said you can continue update your mods and stop thinking of doing it at fast but do it slow. there is a small brain that thinks of a game dev of say "10 years" and they say its long and that needs to stop and there's a big brain like myself that says 10 years is nothing in the grand scheme of things. if you are the kind of person that wakes up plays games and goes bed and does that on repeat for next 10 years it will totally feel like yesterday was day one of those 10 years.

Crashes the game when the menu is opened on a grid with one of these blocks on it.

I thought you were talking about that super tiered thrusters mod (the one you linked), not this one.

Which grid size are you looking at & which thruster?

I just checked on my end & I see all 3 (atmo, ion, hydro) thrusters in both grid sizes for this mod.

it says `Created By` and Your name, then how come you did not make this mod?

and where is the link of the mod then? i see on the description of this mod there 2x2x2 thrusters

I didn't post that mod, someone else did. I'm marked as contributor so my fans don't flag that mod. I'd ask on that mod page.

no more 2x2?

i cant find the 2x2 thrusters on this mod you posted
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1937341783&tscn=1576873475

Great, thank you. <3

It did. G-Menu has your tiered thrusters again after I subscribed to that collective mod and added it to mod list of that save.

Let me know if it works out for ya!

Thanks for the authorized "replacement mod" link. Thrusters now don't show up any more, they are also shown as a red "critical error" warning at savegame loading. I'll install now that replacement and hope my builds load with thrusters in place. Thanks again.

No problem, it was a ton of fun to create them! Development is going fantastic, 2020 is looking to be crazy. This is the current active equivalent of this mod: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1937341783&tscn=1576873475

Another mod may pop up eventually, but that's the only one I've given permission to so it shouldn't disappear/break.

Thanks for the thrusters, Shaostoul, and I wish you the best with your game development. Needing to make some money to survive is understandable.

The mod works well for me. I have been looking for large hydrogen trasters for a long time and this is exactly what I need. Thank you for your great work!

I would like to come back to SE, but it'll have to be a while down the road. I need to do my project first, as it's my chance at having an income. I'm not getting anything from modding SE, except maybe $20.

Sorry to see your mods being 'retired'. I hope I don't have to throw them all out of my creations and they continue to work. I had mods suddenly disappearing from shop before and that was a chaos each time.
Having said this, I sincerely hope you find back sometime later into SE now that it is in full bloom. We like to have every talent onboard who helped this game become what it is.
Now looking at that game project of yours...

Hey guys, I'm so sorry to do this to you, but I need to work on my future for concern of not having one if I'm not careful. Please check out the video added to the description discussing me going on hiatus from modding Space Engineers.

Which essentially translate to mods getting put on hiatus for a while as I try to get an income. Project Universe is the focus, since SE is unfortunately not panning out to provide sufficient enough donations.

The problem is that I can't reliably do it, because of my living situation. I have to share internet and our internet is really crappy. So, cloud storage would use up all our extra bandwidth, especially if I were modding a lot. I really need to move out of where I live, but with no sponsorship, no disability for the Crohn's Disease, and not sufficient enough donations yet to do it properly, I have to make sacrifices.

It's sad when an HDD dies, and the cloud storage most times isn't big enough all of the time. I used to burn files to DVDs to back them up, but I ended up having stacks of the things.

I unfortunately do not possess the source files necessary to fix the thrusters. My HDD died a while ago and it took all of my source files with it.

Can you please list the block damage distance of the thrusters somewhere? I would like to know how much clearance they need to not toast the ship's hull :)

I would gladly test it myself, but the thrust damage seems broken at this time... I want to be sure once it's fixed again.

Sure thing, join my Discord if you need any help. Also, add me on steam so you can add me as a contributor so you don't get flagged from my fans/users.

I request permission to use part of this mod in a modpack. Spicificly a BSG themed modpack that I am working on ( with others ). I like the Hydrogen thrusters in a big way and would be grateful for their use. I'd need to refuel and tweak their construction, but mostly they would be as is.
Naturaly you would be fully accredited. I will only proceed with your permission.

Link is at the bottom of the description of this mod.

Sure, I should be able to find it.
Thanks.

Thank you for your understanding. :) If you join my Discord you can keep up to date what's going on and suggest stuff when I'm working on mods. I regularly ask my Discord for input.

Oh, no, that's fine. Thanks for the quick responce.
Do take care yourself, that is a priority over a game.

No, it's still there. I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing RL, game, and mod wise. It takes a lot of time to make a mod and to add to a mod. I'm not playing SE, so my incentive to work on SE mods is very low. I'm working on stuff for my Patreon patrons but, beyond that, I've been taking it easy due to my health.

Is the potential idea for upgrades dead?

no, they don't have the same depth. You can see the exact numbers in the spreadsheet "balance sheet" linked in the description.

Shaostoul, does 4 1*1 hydrogen thrusters give more power then 1 4*4?

I still have some RL stuff going on before I can work on modding again but, I'll see about adding some upgrade modules of my own. I thought about doing my own upgrade modules to go with the theme of my thrusters, so I wasn't too concerned about testing the vanilla ones on it. That's why the ions I made are the way they are.

Well, the eezo core does nothing. Not even a power use reduction.

Yeah!

It seems weird you never thought to test that.

If it does work, then I can just eezo core these things and have super thrusters.

Maybe? I never tested. Could you?

Do the vanilla upgrade modules work on these?

Well, we do have the text channels. I can't really use the VOIP option cause my internet sucks horribly.

You don't wanna hear my horrible french accent, trust me

:) I appreciate it. Y'know, if you wanna, you (and everyone else) can join my discord server. The link is in the description above.

Don't worry, you did way enough already !

I'm sorry my dude. It'll be a while before I can do what you want/need for the infinite fuel on the thrusters.

Nevermind, did more testing and it seems like the inf. fuel mod only affect normal thrusters. So I need to figure out a way to don't have fuel problems with your mod. For now it will be mass Hydrogen generators :)

Thanks for your answer.
Indeed they are, but with the infinite fuel mod I used to have no problem.
I am starting to think that's it's just the mod being bugged, did non stop testing for the last hours and I can't make it works without adding a lot of Hydro generator.
I also tried your tip about deleting the .sbm file, but doesn't fix it.
Do I have any way to tweak the config file of your thrusters to make them use very very few hydrogen somehow ?

I think hydrogen thrusters are hardcoded to use fuel in creative mode. I can try looking into it but, it'd have to be an additional mod.

Thank you very much.
Really love that mod !
I am doing some testing in Creative mode, any way to have "infinite hydrogen fuel" for your thrusters please ?
With the standard hydro thruster the mod "inifite fuel" works ok, but these one drains all in a few second.
Any help would be very appreciated

Yeah, just after I finished making this mod and got it uploaded, like a couple days later the devs changed the damage cone to a cube. This broke the mod. While in the process of fixing it, the devs changed the damage cone again to something else. I've just not gotten around to fixing it.

I just never got around to making the upgrade module. I'm unsure how I want to make it at present.

I downloaded the mod for hydrogen thrusters, and I love those models for more conveyor placement.

Ion thrusters T1 and T2 are damaging blocks around them. Dunno about others, I just noticed on these.

What is the problem with making upgrade module?