How do you make turrets?

[Mr. Midori]

I am a noob and have no idea how.

[CrisstheNightbringer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkqkKmxbrXU

This should help. Bench has other videos for rail systems as well.

[alphajim49]

Turrets have two parts : turret base and barrel.

Place a turret rail on your ship, then do another ship that will be your turret base, add a rail docker and dock it to the turret rail on your main ship. Then do another ship that will be the barrel part of the turret and do the same (turret rail + rail docker) but dock it on the turret base instead. Then you need an AI module on the barrel part IIRC, and obviously a faction module on each part. Don't forget to activate the AI module and checking "turret" and "activated" ^^

[Farrel]

No worries, we're all noob once. I've only been playing since Christmas.

Turrets aren't so hard once you get the hang of it. Basically you build two extra ships and then mount them onto whatever it is you're mounting the turret on.

There are some good tutorials out there, although some of them are really very wordy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxFjl2OsudY <- Not a bad example.

The short of it is:

-Use a rail turret axis block on the ship where you want to mount the turret.
-Make a new ship with a rail docker block and another rail turret axis block at right angles to the first. (We'll call this the turret base)
-Dock this new ship onto your main ship and try piloting, you'll notice you can only rotate in one axis.
-Make another ship with a rail docker, dock it to the turret axis on your turret base. (We'll call this the turret body)
-Add weapons to the turret body and a Bobby AI module.
-Exit the turret, and activate the AI module by pressing R on it and choosing the settings you want.

I think that covers it.

Good luck!

[Farrel]

As a personal recommendation? A good first place to start is with anti-missile turrets, armed with a single block cannon linked to another single block cannon for rapid fire.

Two or three of those should keep your ship safe from the few pirate stations that spit out missiles.

[Mr. Midori]

The turret only moves side to side. How do I get it to go up and down?

[Farrel]

Each turret axis block allows rotation in one plane. So to get a turret that has free movement, you'll need to use a second one placed on it's side.

In effect, you'll be docking a turret that can only move up and down onto a turret that can only move side to side.

Hold left ctrl when you're building to access advanced build mode, that will let you rotate the block.

[zar992002]

This is stupid. Why cant they make a part that has both axis in one square and you have to junp thu all these hoops to make a turret.

[Mr. Midori]

This thread is 4 years old dude.