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SAME EPIC LOOK, BUT A DIFFERENT BEAST: Watatsumi battlecruiser - DARK EDITION

Major redesign of the legendary Watatsumi-class battlecruiser. The download includes a "shell" version (which features the same interior, same systemed turrets, plus a bare minimum of easily removable systems that provide thrust and shielding). CHANGES: totally resystemed, rigorously...

Came back to this guide to calculate the block requirements for a ship with almost exactly 1,000,000 blocks of available internal volume. I ended up copy-pasting the original post, and adjusting its numbers to fit the current game configs. Two configs have changed that significantly affect...

Collisions that send your ship spinning wildly, they always make them look more solid and heavy.

Not my best, not my worst: Donatello-class destroyer If someone would like to go over the hull, adding a layer of microdetails, I'd love to see that. Didn't bother with it in this project.

HIGHLIGHTS: Bridge that can be retracted into the hull (doubles as an airlock) Three half-inset sphere turrets (9000 weapon blocks each) Four onboard missile systems (4500 each) Reverse thrusters Large diagonal cylinder hull elements that aren't docked entities Minimalist exterior...

Thanks, glad you find it appealing :) I tend to reuse templates of my previous nozzles designs, which makes it easier to work out such layouts. If you look at the pictures below, all thrusters on this new ship came from that 2020 battlecruiser... compared to which it's nothing, of course, cause...

Turret bases significantly reduced in block count. Included bowl template reduced in volume, allowing for an additional 2850 blocks below it (that's almost half of the 6000 reactor blocks needed to power one such turret).

Built the rear, closed the hull. Open the small pictures, check out how retracting the bridge increases the top turret's field of fire: (or maybe it doesn't, the nose tip still blocks certain angles... at least it prevents the shooting of pilots by either enemy or own weapons, lol)

Redone the underside detailing at the rear. Replaced white ingots with armor in some exterior parts. Tweaked thrust config.

The blueprint now comes with the elevator-deployable AMS turrets out, so that they don't stuck inside their enclosures when spawning the ship for AI battles. Redone the underside detailing at the rear. Added gravity blocks in core room. Tweaked thrust config.

Saved a blueprint of the new retractable bridge+core room for future reuse, then started my first attempt of building a hull around it. Experimenting with some diagonal cylinders / octagonal prisms on its underside. Those aren't docked entities, they're built on the main ship's grid. I used the...

When in doubt whether to have a dedicated core room or just place it in the bridge... have a fake core in your RETRACTABLE BRIDGE that leads to the real core room! ;) The airlock's inner door (port-side button) gives access to the bridge, while its outer door (starboard button) let's you in the...

Solved: Hexapedal walker

This upload is a package (RAR file) of two blueprints, one of the thing pictured above, plus a turretless variant. The turreted version is a demo - the gun is properly systemed, but the walker is underpowered for it, and probably couldn't fit a reactor adequate for that particular turret. Its...

Not exactly intended result:

Just kidding... Finally finished my factory ship mega-project: MIC-583 mobile industrial complex More precisely, I finally added living and working areas (very elaborate ones) inside the hull. The interior compartments above the main body of the ship (factory buildings, core room, bridge) were...

Massive update; click "read more" if full list doesn't appear. CHANGELOG: the ship now features living quarters, lots of it old hangars now connected to the rest of the interior end point of the production chain now connected to a hangar (previously dead-ended) systems setup finalized...

prisoner robots in detention bay slightly restyled, as well as their cells fixed a single mispositioning of a placement guiding block in large mineralogy lab metal bar corners instead of light corners in decontamination facility improved the password entering instructions on password-secured door