the big 5x5x1 main body gear is bugged

It's not related, but what's with people talking like they're from 400BCE? It isn't strictly for this comment section either, but I just see a whole lot of broken english in Space Engineers comment's sections.

@hitnec BTW this "Mechanic" DOES exist.. the devs gave you shapes right? use them and make cogs from blocks its not hard

who knows.. most people just try and find out on they own

Does it work?

its so weird that this kind of mechanic/blocks aint in the game :(

Supposed to use same size blocks. If try mix large with small doesnt work. Its mentioned some where in discription.

As for update I will deff +1 that lol

can some one remake mod plz or update it

Any plans on updating collision boxes of the designs? A few of the large gear variants are really clunky and have issues with the smaller gears meshing. The largest gear has hitbox issues allowing you to walk right through the center of the gear and its very difficult to place the sides of the gear onto it.

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Some of the collision boxes are really bugged out on the .30 biggest gear. I haven't tested it on the small grids, but on large grids, I can walk straight through them on all sides but the teeth.

@Yurand2000 Would it be possible to get a few 'Plummer/Pillow block bearings' as unpowered and freely rotating anchor points for gears so we don't have to use as many often problematic vanilla rotors on contraptions?

Problems with hitbox. large grid large gear ,also i cant put gear sides

thx for this mod.

can't find the gears in the control! (i know shit englich)

Love the mod totally amazing concept, in your goal of more gears may I suggest gearbox's? Straight through, transferring, reducing and multiplier.

In one of the images above you show a machine that uses the racks and cogs to push forward some drills. Is ther a blueprint for it?

Are there any videos that explain how to use this mod? Things like getting the gears to mesh green not red - how to add a gear to the rack?

If could remove klang these blocks would be main blocks I would use lol I love making transforming/moving ships.

Damn, I can smell the clang all the way from there... nice mod though

be nice if a rail system was added in like what the "mech gears and things" has.

From personal use... if dont take precautions and plan for it.. its less. Well for elevators at least. Other uses might be fine.

Do these gears make rotor contraptions more stable, or less?

How to keep it level when moving long distances? Have level platform and set rotors for same speed. But due to rotor nature after a distance they start to become unleveled. I use one per corner due to size.

the wonder working's of Kog's. Alas I have thrown a wrench into your Plan's and machine.

ok i did as suggested. but since in space i used thrusters to move it.
above rails i put some blocks to stopupward movement.. flew platform into place and triggered rotors to climb..

once was on rail a little the blocks stopped and leveled it. I then added rails below it and a flat platform. Lowered elevator to bottom and finished lining it up.

Now it works :-) Thank you for the help. Ill just build them in space and copy paste them into world as need. "Adding a connector to elevator so can connect and become one unit :-)"

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2521323839
Ok what am I doing wrong? lol

Ah ok i will try that thank you

@dragonsphotoworks no you don't really need to put a platform on a piston to line up. The blocks are specifically made so they line up without having to move too much. Just build the platform off the main side of the building and then cut off the connection so they become a mobile grid. For the gears just place a rotor sideways with a pole piece and then a gear on top, it will line up perfectly with the tracks. the pole piece is because the rotor head collides with the rack block, so you must move the rotor a bit.
If the problem is that it won't let you place the gear iterself, just build it apart from the elevator and then let it slide on the rail from the top.

Building a huge station that in built around the ship elevators. Im stuck till can figure out how to do this lol

How would i use these for a large grid elevator? built tracks on wall... then put platform on pistons to move into place. But cant line it up.

now work

it not show

If look at the conveyor mod that adds sloped conveyors. Some thing similiar.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2364016183
See how they connect. some thing like that maybe but a rail.

If cant then what about a "load" picatinni rail "yes thats what i meant Jack lol" that is easy for the gears to climb back onto it. So if I use standard blocks to make a turn... I have easy way to get it back onto rail. Also do the gears take damage if used as wheels? I havnt started using them yet. Working on some thing for Jack atm lol

And does not need be curved. As that would be too sharp a turn anyway. What about a 22.5 degree turn? and a reverse of it so can make a 22.5 degree turn and extend it out a little. then do another 22.5 degree turn and have my 45 degree turn. This way can do gentle turns for higher speeds. And use 2 22.5 degree ones for sharper slower speed turns with same blocks?

Well not really sure but curved blocks might be possible, just like I had to cut the gears in multiple pieces

I culdnt sleep thinking about this lol Well for turns I could use normal blocks. And use momentum to keep trolly moving through the turns I think.

@dragonphotoworks do you mean a picatinny rail? I don't think the collisions allow for curved blocks. I've asked keen about adding curved blocks for the same reason (monorail turns) and that was their answer that a block can visually be made to look like a curved item but connecting it to anything if it didn't have a straight edge on at least one of the collision box sides wouldn't be possible and although it visually looks curved it's collision box is still a big square around it. At least that's how it was a few years ago when I brought it up and Keen actually replied to the suggestion. They have updated the collision boxes since then but I'm not sure it's possible yet. If it were possible? I'm surprised there isn't a mod for it already.

I need to try test boundaries with these current blocks first hehe. And see if I come across a spot where there is no usable block first. When i first posted i missed the pinned topic above some how.. "i must be blind, I think wife is correct.. though thats normally me being blind to chores needing to be done lol"

I have a bunch of ideas I want to try out. I know other is making a elevator. What im thinking to try is a mono rail.. Oh wait I do have block idea!!.

I want to make it run on a picani rail like system. So it there some way to make angled ones? So for example i put a gear on top of a armor block line. with the picani rails on it. The gear provides movement and the rail provides friction and guidance. Would a angled version be possible to allow turns? If so ill add it to pinned post.

Hi, I'll gladly add them if they are compatible with the game engine and are not too complex :D
You can post the suggestion in the subforum so I can add it to the list. That said it will take me a while to make new blocks but I'll gladly add them when I have some time :D

I love making complex and folding systems, this adds a whole new level to them!

I dont have any ideas currently. But if i come up with a seze or type not created. If not too difficult would you add them? Just curious, I dont expect you to add them for me.

Hello everyone, new update is out! I've had some free time and decided to port the module 0.06m gears to large grid! Gear descriptions have also been updated because there were some pretty bad mistakes by my side. Unfortunately Bevel gears for large grid are not yet available because their size is not grid aligned and to use them it would become really hard, so I decided to not include them. Have fun!
As always, open to comments, suggestions, likes and dislikes! If you dislike let me also know why! :D

I've been waiting for something like this for years! This opens up a library full of new possibilities!
Awesome mod! Thanks for posting!

Oh thanks for letting me know @Skallabjorn.

Dude stole your mod and reuploaded it here

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2504780951

@CTH2004 Indeed they do, as you can see in some of the pictures. As you can see in the crane the actual moving rotor is the one with the smaller gear, not the one on the rotating axle.

huh. Cool! So they can transfer rotory energy!

@CTH2004 they are just blocks with actual collisions like real gears, you can mount them on rotors and use them like you'd with LEGOs, they will work just like any other non-terminal/armor like block if you don't use rotors. If you want to use them for decorative purposes, there is also that :P

what do the gears do?