Can pistons act like an impact spring?

[MythN7]

Is there a way to use a piston extended so that when it smacks something it will compress before it breaks allowing you to sorta do a hot impact without full crash damage?

[ShadedMJ]

No.

I've done lift tests. Pistons do not absorb shock.

If you want a hot impact area, put landing gear on it so it will snag your ship.

[งง Two Snake]

You might be able to do it with wheels suspension but not pistons.

[MythN7]

Originally posted by งง Two Snake:

You might be able to do it with wheels suspension but not pistons.

Ya, i find that you can hit the ground hard if your using 5x5 suspension wheels set to max height clearance and power, and if your using a nice setup meant for heavy grid like an 8 wheeler, as long as you have good reactive gyros, you can try to control your angle of impact, so far, ive been able to hit the ground at about 70m/s, only the bounce is really high.

I tried putting a suspension facing forward so i could drive into a wall full on to test, and hitting grids does not seem to be as forgiving when you bounce off as when you hit the voxels for some reason.

I was kinda wanting to try and have a hot landing like you see in sci fi when a ship that is under heavy fire just belly slides into the hanger as that damage is less to compared to slowing down to park nice when getting shreaded by weapons.

This game seems to not be a very realistic sym when its doing explosive damage from impacts when plain jane metal smack each other.

Dont know how armor blocks can explode unless this future hulling is made from some light weight combustable material lol.

I tried the landing gear thing, but it does not seem to snag unless your going slower than x speed which i cant figure out.

As many times I am crossing my fingers that my landing gear that has not snapped off will lock when im bowling balling down a hill after a failed approach.

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Rotors can absorb shock, i made a motorbike a while back and the centre of the frame had a pivot like a real bike has at the back for suspension.

The result was that you could land off insanely big jumps as long as the rear wheel (the one on the subgrid) hit the ground first :)

[Kaii-Killer]

I've seen pistons acts as nuclear bombs.

*stares off into the distance*

[Pembroke]

Yes, rotors will work! Wastedspace did recently a video (with Captain Shack and Texfire, of course) where he built an amazing all-terrain vehicle that actually *works*.

All it required was to have like a 100 wheels suspended in 4 freely moving separate rotor-mounted sub-grids...

No, seriously, it worked amazingly.

[SkollUlfr]

mentioned this myself, made a thread on the keen forums last week requesting this function.
https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/general/topic/request-hydraulic-pnumatic-toggle-for-pistons
more votes cant hurt.

[M.Red]

Originally posted by SkollUlfr:

mentioned this myself, made a thread on the keen forums last week requesting this function.
https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/general/topic/request-hydraulic-pnumatic-toggle-for-pistons
more votes cant hurt.

ouch that hurts

[Marco Schepper]

Originally posted by MythN7:

Is there a way to use a piston extended so that when it smacks something it will compress before it breaks allowing you to sorta do a hot impact without full crash damage?

Simple and short answer: It will break before it compresses, and it will do this with a mighty BOOM :)