Thruster damage ?

[Atophy]

I'm trying a little R&D on a new atmos miner and was testing thruster damage.
I built a contraption and mounted some atmos engines, large and small, cranked em up to full override, no damage to light armor blocks... Added some hydrogen thrusters with the same result.
Thruster damage is on, tested it in both creative and survival, same result, toggled the game setting and tested it with the same results so we can rule out that the setting is reversed.
Was it the recent patch, longer or is it just me ?

[GameGibu]

I have tested this just now and my thrusters are damaging blocks, so at the worst it's a machine-specific bug, similar to the asteroid density reset one that was going on a few days ago.

[Atophy]

Originally posted by GameGibu:

I have tested this just now and my thrusters are damaging blocks, so at the worst it's a machine-specific bug, similar to the asteroid density reset one that was going on a few days ago.

Alrighty, ill have to run some file verification etc... maybe delete a few folders.

[JDaremo Fireheart]

Unlike Empyrion, hidden thrusters will damage your hull if Thruster Damage is activated in your save options or on a server's options.

[Atophy]

Originally posted by JDaremo Fireheart:

Unlike Empyrion, hidden thrusters will damage your hull if Thruster Damage is activated in your save options or on a server's options.

Yeah, I was testing for the tolerances, just how compact I can put them without melting the ship itself. Though the setting was enabled, the damage wasn't being delivered...
I'm in the process of downloading all new files after cleaning out the game folder and verifying local files so hopefully it will work as intended therafter...

[JDaremo Fireheart]

Originally posted by Atrophy:

Originally posted by JDaremo Fireheart:

Unlike Empyrion, hidden thrusters will damage your hull if Thruster Damage is activated in your save options or on a server's options.

Yeah, I was testing for the tolerances, just how compact I can put them without melting the ship itself. Though the setting was enabled, the damage wasn't being delivered...
I'm in the process of downloading all new files after cleaning out the game folder and verifying local files so hopefully it will work as intended therafter...

I have so many builds on Empyrion with Hidden Thrusters (Dev have plans to impliment Thruster Damage as well) and it's hard to not build like that in this game. But I love this game because it has so much we have been asking for in Empyrion.

Splitsie on YouTube has some great videos, here's one that might be helpful in this case. One on Thruster Damage and Range
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DuPFWRxFZ4

[Atophy]

And no success even after deleting the game directory, are there settings files elewhere which might be affecting the thruster damage ?

This is my test rig... built in creative, currently being tested in survival. As you can see, theres no block damage happening.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1145974143

[casualsailor]

It's bugged.


Both thrusters on max no damage after 60 seconds

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1145987715

Turned the Ion Thruster off and immediately damage by the hydrogen thuster.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1145987793

Turned the Ion Thruster back on and still no damage from it.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1145987861

Turned the Hydrogen Thurster off and after 5 seconds damage by the ion thruster.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1145987938

[Atophy]

Originally posted by casualsailor:

It's bugged.


Both thrusters on max no damage after 60 seconds

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1145987715

Turned the Ion Thruster off and immediately damage by the hydrogen thuster.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1145987793

Turned the Ion Thruster back on and still no damage from it.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1145987861

Turned the Hydrogen Thurster off and after 5 seconds damage by the ion thruster.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1145987938

Sooo It looks like damage happens from 1 engine mut if theres many it will not ?

[Atophy]

Just tested mine again after deleting the config file in appdata and still no thruster damage at all even though the option is toggled on... even added buttons to test them individually... WTF is going on with my game ? Does it save any of that info with the savegame file ?

[MyProfile]

Atmo thrusters definitely damage blocks in my game.

[Legas]

Thruster damage bugs in and out every update, it's never been reliable at all.

[Atophy]

It seems like large grid damage is fine but small grid damage is nill.... I just spent a few hours building an over complicated and elaborate test facility...
The test has been running for about an hour and show no damage on the small grid.
The atmospheric engines stream is a little short, The facility is nestled up in the mountans close to where I initially spawned at a little over 3000 ft... I've been making modifications to make it mobile so I can bring it down to sea level...

On a side note, my solar panel rig using 'midspaces experimental solar tracker', (which usually works great) exploded when I was mucking about with the rotor settings.... I wish I took a screenshot of that mess before it launched parts all over the mountainside !!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1146235602

[Thebl4ckknigh7]

check out splitsie on youtube he has the exact distances for all thrusters in space and atmo

[antmutant]

any ARMOR blocks must resist thrust force damage i gues. Heat - not bullets. 3 blocks of distance required thruster to work. And 5 to brake.

[rolenthedeep]

Hey guys, we're aware of various issues relating to thruster damage. We've got tickets for it internally, it will be fixed soon.