Thanks, I can't believe the number of times I walked past it without noticing it.

Roof of engine room

Question, I cannot find the air intake, where is it?

There is a valve in the control room which you have to open before using the bilge pump. The feedback is great, but I do actually plan on either updating this build slightly or maybe even rebuilding it and improving a lot of the different systems to make them more user friendly, now that I know the issues that people have with the build.

so far good build
had a bit trouble with loading the torpedos seperatly into the ship with a crane but everything else so far great
here comes the but
i cant seem to figure out how to pump out the water from the torpedo room since it flooded a bit while loading

Throttle is controled from the engine room and steering from the control room or the top of the conning tower.

where do you drive the sub?

TBH most of thesse problems could be solved if we could simply disconnect the torpedo from the rail (this way we can store the torpedoes aswell) also at first all I was asking was that rail system that could be added on to load the torpedoes from the bow into the torpedo room like IRL, idk why I insisted on the crane part.

Yeah I know it is quite hard to charge them, I wanted the charge port to be on top for realism purposes. The easiest way to charge them is to put them into the tube half way and then connect the cable, which prevents it from sliding. This isn't a good way to do it but because of the design it is the best. In the future I might change it. I could make a basic rail for loading the torps, but you would still need a crane to put the torpedo on the rail for loading.

Thanks, also I'm also having difficulty maintaining the torpedoes, the cable port is unreachable even on top of the decoration MC the only way I managed to do it is to align the torpedo to the lower tube so that when the rail disconnects the cable port is free but that only works with the lower tubes, same with the type VII the other way is to delete the MC which also worked.
Lastly, that crane system would be a very nice addition, doesn't have to be pretty just functionall. I had a go at it but I reckoned you can do it better than I ever could.

For that you will need to use a crane with mag all's or a special rail system with a crane, kind of like they did IRL. But haven't made those, I just made a basic thing for testing and that's it.

First of all, amazing work! Secondly, any tips on loading the torpedoes into the sub? my idea is to put the torpedo on the bow and drag it in with the rail crank but I just can't get it to work, speacially when the torpedoes only have 2 connection ports and they're both at the rear, if there is a certain way to do it that I'm not aware of or something I would apperetiace some help.

In fact I've tried to make it even more realistic than UBOAT, for example IRL the TDC on the type IIa wasn't in the conning tower, as it is in UBOAT and was actually in the control room, due to lack of space.

With the full release of UBOAT, i can confirm this is realistic

Btw for the regulating tank you need to use compressed air to empty it.

You just have to know the length. The water outlet should be there, next to all the other valves for the pump

where is the water output for the pump located

Thanks, is there also a way to calculate the length? Or do u just need to know it

Open the fwd trim tank input valve and open the water outlet for the main pump.

i still have a problem tho, how do i empty the forward trim?

im exited to blow my friends up with this one!

we playing UBOAT with this one

hmm weird its now working

it dives perfectly fine but it keeps going down and then sea floor

Tested it, seems to work fine. What was wrong with it?

auto depth is messed up on the preloaded verson of IIa could you fix it?

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No problem.

Thank you! I really appreciate that. Prompt responses from creators are rare these days.

Added mouse aim to the gun, extended the torpedo loading rail, and uploaded a version of this submarine with 3 preloaded G7es homing torpedoes. And yes i know that you can load up to 6 torpedoes, realistically you shouldn't but it's a game and it doesn't matter. Irl they usually would just bring the 3 in the tubes to free up space in the torpedo room.

Amazing! A true work of art. The only gripes I have with it is the non mouse aimed anti aircraft gun and slightly awkward torpedo reloading system (can be fixed by extending the rail by 1 block). I think it might also be useful for some players to supply a preloaded sub with the G7es TV torps. By cramming 3 on the ground, I was able to get 6 torps into the sub :-)

Not sure how thick the hull of the type IIa was, but the material used was most likely steel, like most of the other u boat types.

question, how thick was the hull of the sub and, what type of meterial did they use?

Thanks, and I have actualy started work on a type XXI already.

are you going to make a type 21

Nice sub