Nothing loaded for me but a large asteroid.

you can use pistons for this now, which is great.

Do you have a guide to making this in survival, as well as the siczor arm in itself?

btw sorry to be the man of 1000 questions :P but with ur extending conveyer boom fuel thing you thing you chould make a stable extending walkway??

thats awesome! thnx for pointing that out this will definitly help with building my uss enterprise do you think you chould put that world on ur workshop as a ruff version just so i can see how it works and get a closer look? i was thinking about this and i was tinkering with a missle launching concept that was one big barrel that turned and chould shoot small ship missiles do you think the gravity mass block missle things you used in the video chould be put in this same concept? anywho thnx for pointing that out!

gamersnationn, Thanks, you mean like this? ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcg5w-3emTg

ValkeRyan, yea scissor arms have its uses. Mass is definitely an issue with longer arms, and whether or not the rotors can provide enough torque to turn.

hey mk84 i hope you see this ive been playing around with space engineers for a couple weeks now and i just started working on a few concepts for a mothership/uss enterprise and ive been wondering do you are prety good with the game i mean all your stuff is awesome do you think it whould be possible to make a tractor beam like with gravity gens and stuff?

even with pistons, there are some ideas form extendable sistem that pistons cannot destroy, like the solare panels retractable sistem. I just need to know if the extendable sistem caan be as long as I wish or it would be too heavy, energy consuption, mass to move...

¿is it possible to make it as long as I wish or this is the maximum due to breaking probability?

This is not obsolete, the pistons are quite shitty right now, they brake easily and you can't make them work with merge blocks without breaking them (i didn't manage to make them connect to a unique grid).

It's still a good idea. The new piston block just makes it a little easier to built.

Indeed... LoL

That feel when updates make ur incredible inventions obsolete. :D

This was built long before piston block was mentioned. And its actually not that hard to build in survival before 01.039.

Cool Design! Would work into a mining station very well.

but i admit its nice engineering

im truly sorry but i think this is totally useless. first we will have piston blocks very soon
( maybe today ) and second you never will make something like this in survival. its easy to make something like this in creative mode but in survival its a nightmare,

Thanks.

Very cool design
Extraordinary engineering

Ok. I've upped my version.
Sorry that it took so long, but I had a new idea, to optimize it bit. Both versions are included here:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=288046097
I also ran in some issues with the new update. They must have changed something with the rotors or connectors. The Station end of the arm did suddenly had a very rough ride while moving over the connectors. It was so bumpy that it rattled a bunch of scissor links loose. But after a lot of experimenting I've found a workaround. Now it moves quite smooth.
Please comment.

I' haven't added it to my workshop yet. I just wanted the permission of MK84 (as the original author) to publish it. I will post it and will provide a link as soon as I'm home.

Yup post it up.

I'm waiting for the pistons update at the moment to see if this can be further improved upon.

@Ekuah, do you have your modifaction on the workshop to review?

Hi there, I have made a extendable conveyor with a modified scissor system. The result is, that the disconnecting is much more reliable. You don't need to turn of the connectors. It has enough power to pull it right of the ship.
As a result the handling is quite easy.
Press P an reverse a rotor group. Thats it.
Please tell me if you are interrested.

love youre conveyor, blow minds. deff worth experimenting with.