Yeah cooling the engines are probably the biggest con, but other than that they do seem to be both more powerful and fuel efficient compared to the old engines. Other than that figuring out air-fuel ratio took a bit of research.

Creating gas relief valves for the fuel/ballast tanks helped a lot too with the compressed gases update.

Ah! Good ol' Stormworks physics! This actually makes sense because after the compressed gases update I had to add additional fluid pumps for just about everything. I'm still using standard engines on my builds but on my larger submarine I had to pressurize the fuel tanks just to keep the flow up or the engine would lose power. I have not had any experience building the modular engines, but as I understand, there are several pros and cons. It sounds like cooling may be one of the cons. Either way, this is still my all time favorite ship, and I was really excited to see the update. Thank you for taking the time to explain.

@ShopSnipe
You're welcome! And yeah unfortunately it sits quite low in the water now.

Took me like a week of looking over everything to make sure there were no leaks or fluid in the wrong place. Old engine version sits normally, but the modular one sits low. Dry weight is also almost the same. So I'm pretty sure it is all the coolant in all the long coolant pipes that is weighing it down.

Had to put radiators pretty much everywhere and pipe coolant there to cool the ship with the new modular engines, and then finding out that each radiator & heatsink lowers coolant pressure as it passes through. So I had to create multiple coolant loops with a total of 20+ radiators & heatsinks both large and small. Must be thousands of liters of coolant in total I realize now that it is done lol. Not the most efficient system I know.

On the plus side, you can pretty much run the engines at full power in 3rd gear at I think roughly 40kts without overheating, even in the warmest parts of the map.

Thank you for updating. Seems it might be sitting a little lower in the water?

Well done, thanks for updating it!

Finally got around to updating this ship, removed some of the old stuff and added more efficient modular engines that gets much better speed and range. Probably still some left over logic and dials from the 4 engines I removed. More details in the changelog for those interested.

ok if you have a chance to update it would be wonderful have a good day man

@chunkymonkey2220
Thank you. And I may update it again at some point, haven't played the game in a while so I have no idea how many things have broken over the last year or so of updates.

I know you have moved on from this but its a amazing ship please update it to the newest conecters i love this ship so much but lots of stuff is old please update. thx

@Shamshurin.T
Thank you very much. And I don't have any real plans to update it at this time. But at some point I may get interested in the game again and then I may update it.

Still my favorite ship. Is there gonna be updates on it?

@255 | William C.

Depends on what you mean, in the game itself you have the option of using the already existing fuel tanks or build your own larger tank using the various blocks and components, but there are some tutorials on the internet on how to do that as it would be long to explain here.

If you mean on this ship itself, there are two tanks placed in the rear and one large in the front.

Wheres the fuel tanks? (new to Stormworks)

@MeerKat
Thanks a lot! And I'll try to keep things updated over time as long as I have an interest in the game. Since I don't really use any game exploits in the design I have been lucky enough to avoid it breaking completely, for the most part. Which is good as I swear that every time I come back after a longer break I lose some of my sanity trying to figure out the interconnected spiderweb of logic systems that I and others have made. lol

@Badjoe I don't normally write anything on steam; if ever. But I had to write this for what you have created: this is by far the best ship I've has the pleasure sailing within this game, it covers everything I want in a ship; all in one. Even though it's rough around the updates, it's by far the best damn thing I've sailed. Please for the love of god, keep this baby updated for future generations to love and cherish what god has created, all hail Badjoe lmao

@Dr. Dingo
Thank you very much, I'm glad you like the ship and the various details! And yeah the old stuff is more or less there for the time being as a backup while I was testing some things. In the future they will be removed at some point.

Amazing ship, it is pretty much the only vessel I use. Build quality is insane and attention to detail is unmatched.

My only complaints (if you could call them that) is that the deck winches and fluid pumps are outdated. Regardless this is an amazing ship.

This is actually the perfect ship I just wish the connectors on the deck for cargo were electrical, so they would work with the 1.0 containers. As well as this, it seems that with 2 of the 1.0 containers the ships rear is nearly submerged. I'm sure it's just not designed for what I'm trying to do but if you want more work there you go lol

@Salticus
Yeah it can do that sometimes.
They changed how some things work with the engines a while back so they have been a bit weird like that, particularily since the water jets were changed to be more powerful while also running "heavier" so to speak. But yeah depending on what gear you are in the engines might not have enough power to actually turn and will just die.

When starting it is a good idea to throttle up a fair bit or alternatively manually switching to props instead of jets.

I might get around to optimize the engine setup in the future, but no promises. As it is the 4th time I have done that since release now haha.

For me, whenever I go under full throttle, the engines will just turn off. Am I doing something wrong or is this a problem with ther ship?

@Bigmeat
There is no automatic navigation system on this vessel, so you'll have to do the piloting yourself. However there is a heading hold which will maintain the current heading.

do you know how to activate the gps autopilot

@IKEA™ Hotdog
Thank you very much!
When the ship was first uploaded it did reach the top of the Stormworks workshop for a day or two. But unfortunately I uploaded it when the arctic update was released, so it had to compete with many of the more skilled creators who uploaded their own arctic versions like the Arctic Dolphin for example.
So unfortunately I think the odds of her getting any real attention anymore is rather low. But I'm happy in having made a vessel that people enjoy that luckily enough also hasn't completely broken, yet at least... lol.

In my opinion, this is one of the best ships in the workshop.

@jamieharper1998
Hmm, that is strange then. There has been a few others that have had problems with engines from time to time and I have never had any issue with them myself, so I wonder if there is some kind of error in the game itself or something like that.

No just the main batteries

@jamieharper1998
I just tested it myself and I had no problems starting any of the engines with either the engine room starter buttons or the ones on the bridge. Stupid question, but did you enable both fuel and either the main or emergency battery?

It seems like engine four motor isn't working wont turn on.

Nice! Goodwork! Looking forwards heading out again with your ship!

@TheInsider (Don)
I added the handheld locator and there is a larger locator and transponder built into the ship as well.

Did you also add the beacon locator thingy?

The ship has now been updated for version 1.0 with the main additions being:
The various handheld tools.
Fire hose with pump and water tank belowdecks.
The annoying yellow error triangles have also been fixed.
I also tried converting the radar system into the newer LUA type of radars, but discovered that they can only detect moving objects and not terrain? So for now the old radar will stay, but in the future I will probably add one LUA radar on the roof and keep the current bow radar for terrain avoidance.

@Korbel
It is on my list of things to do whenever I feel like playing Stormworks again. Got a bit burnt out on the game for now.
But yeah, the new radars will be implemented at some point along with the updated Marine radio as the current one may be broken.

when you come back to the game any chance you can install the new radar system? so we don't have to deal with battery death any time we turn it on for 2 seconds?

@Lemon Man [MJR]
It used to work before, but I'll check it out as I must have disconnected something there at some point.

the radio doesn't work, you forgot to connect the on button to the microphone lmao

@kriffe2004
I'm taking a break from the game for the moment, but I could add it as a separate Workshop item at some point in the future. However, feel free to just copy and paste it onto a different ship in-game if you want to use it.

Can you post your liferaft system to the workshop?

@Warden
I looked it up quickly, and for some reason the radio channels were set from 8-72. I also seem to have a way older version of the microcontroller compared to the latest one. But I set the available channels to 1-72. Not sure if that will still work or if I'll have to rip it out and add the new microcontroller.

Gonna have to be a future project though as I just moved and started working this week.
But one day when I get back into the game I'll add it as well as some other changes I have planned.

I dont know why it does this, but i need to get to lower channels. when I looked at the VHF Marine Radio, it goes to 1, but yours doesnt, no idea why.

@Warden
I'm not actually sure, it was like that when I put it in. So it is possible that I made a mistake when adding it to the ship or it is designed to be like that.

Why is the lowest channel 8 on the ship??

@Turtleman1000

Glad to hear that and I hope she will not let you down out on the rough seas!

this is my favorite vehicle

@TheInsider (Don)
Thanks, I will probably not update it in a while as I'm taking a break while moving and also taking a break from the game. Though I'm sure I will update it at some point it the future as they add more new things to the game.

@Badjoe, I have tried many ships! But nothing beats your ship. Your ship is the best ship out there. I think with a good update it really outreaches everyone else :)

@kendallod24
Thank you very much! And maybe not the best one out there, but certainly quite a good one!

Excellent ship, best in class.

Fair enough. Good luck on your exams. Maybe only using it intermittently would probably help :)

Thank you for checking in on it for me!

@Fiddle
Hmm, I did some testing with everything running, and in my testing it was only the radar that caused any serious power drain at around 3rd gear.

The reason radars use so much power is because the rotors started using alot of power around last summer if I remember right. Though I do have plans on switching out the old radar for a new LUA one at some point. Just that I'm closing in on my final exams in school at the moment, so it might take a while.