Planet Distance

[Yonose]

Anyone know what the distance is between all planets, or how many jumpdrives you need?

[MegaManX]

You can overshoot a planet with just 1 blind jump(@ 4200Km), I'm still dialing in the jump for Mars.

[Yonose]

hah, thanks i guess, how far in the forum have you been to find this :P

[Slye_Fox]

It's a 10 hour flight from Earth to Mars at 104m/s.

[stallingblock2]

Originally posted by Slye_Fox:

It's a 10 hour flight from Earth to Mars at 104m/s.

roughly 1071.2 kilometers

[The_Wolf🐺]

Well if the distance from earth to mars is 1071.2km and you have a speed of 104m/s 374,4km/h then that means that it would take 2.861 hours to get there.

[ShadedMJ]

Originally posted by stallingblock2:

Originally posted by Slye_Fox:

It's a 10 hour flight from Earth to Mars at 104m/s.

roughly 1071.2 kilometers

Where did you get that from? Sounds way off.

104m/s = 104 meters/second = 6240 meters/minute = 6.24 kilometers/minute =
374.4 kilometers/hour = 3744 kilometers / 10 hours

Last time I measured, earth to mars was approximately 4000km.

[ShadedMJ]

@Yonose : Hope you realize that you could find out this information yourself. Go into creative and spectator mode, go to each planet/moon/whatever and make a GPS point for each, then go back to your favorite station and see how far away you are from each.

[stallingblock2]

Originally posted by ShadedMJ:

Where did you get that from? Sounds way off.

ingame

also nice job on a post from august of 2017

[ShadedMJ]

Originally posted by stallingblock2:

Originally posted by ShadedMJ:

Where did you get that from? Sounds way off.

ingame

also nice job on a post from august of 2017

It was The_Wolf that did the necro, not me. Your post had the math wrong anyway.

[stallingblock2]

Originally posted by ShadedMJ:

Originally posted by stallingblock2:

ingame

also nice job on a post from august of 2017

It was The_Wolf that did the necro, not me. Your post had the math wrong anyway.

yeah, except for it was literally the distance from ingame?

[Yonose]

I like how this post gets active again after almost 3 years.

[Dots]

well make it forever .. because this post is still relevant and much needed for mp servers. many people still seach for answers because they are just getting started and don't got a jumpdrive yet on a mp server so this info is very much apreciated. thanks for the necro and for help.

[Cowskier]

You probably wont need more than 1 realistically unless you wanted to quickly go from mars to the alien planet

[Freak_Gene]

-deep breath-
okay, not that OP will probably care since this was necroed but for the future
let’s get started...

Using the "star system" map or any "easy start planet" map the default cords for the centers of each planet (and moons) are as follows:
Earth: 0,0,0
Moon: 16384,136384,-113616
Mars: 1031072,131072,1631072
Europa: 916384, 16384, 1616384
Alien: 131072, 131072, 5731072
Titan: 36384, 226384, 5796384

So, let’s get some very basic distance calculations for all them now...
Earth to Moon: 178,262.801 m (meters)
Earth to Mars: 1,934,085.109 m
Earth to Europa: 1,858,151.045 m
Earth to Alien: 5,734,068.888 m
Earth to Titan: 5,800,917.254 m
Moon to Mars: 2,018,305.272 m
Moon to Europa: 1,953,791.186 m
Moon to Alien: 5,845,815.544 m
Moon to Titan: 5,910,719.076 m
Mars to Europa: 162,857.029 m
Mars to Alien: 4,197,618.372 m
Mars to Titan: 4,283,493.043 m
Europa to Alien: 4,190,528.083 m
Europa to Titan: 4,276,786.177 m
Alien to Titan: 149,384.912 m

Now the "average" radius of each planet for those maps...
Earth: 60,000 m
Moon: 9,500 m
Mars: 60,000 m
Europa: 9,500 m
Alien: 60,000 m
Titan: 9,500 m
Now we could use this to subtract from our distances and be done here but no jump drives don’t work in gravity and gravity is "tricky" to calculate where it cuts off...

So also need the max hill height, gravity scale, and gravity falloff (last one being simple its always 7) so for each planet I will list the max hill height above the "average" radius and then gravity scale
Earth: 7,200 m ; 1.00
Moon: 285 m ; 0.25
Mars: 7,200 m ; 0.90
Europa: 570 m ; 0.25
Alien: 7,200 m ; 1.10
Titan: 285 m ; 0.25

Okay so how does all this info work together? Well we need to find X and X will be the distance from the center of the planet at which the scale of gravity is "0", but actually we will be aiming for a scale of gravity at 0.04999 as space engineers uses a cutoff at 0.05
Our formula will be X=((0.04999/G)^(-1/7))*(R+H)
G is our planets Gravity
R is our planets Radius
H is our planets max hill height
So, the following is the approximate distances from the planet's centers that gravity cuts out and allows us to use our jump drives...
Earth: 103,093.391 m
Moon: 6,157.208 m
Mars: 101,553.300 m
Europa: 6,336.544 m
Alien: 104,506.684 m
Titan: 6,157.208 m

So now we can subtract these numbers from our original distances to see what the approximate minimum jump distances are.
Earth to Moon: 69,012.202 m (meters)
Earth to Mars: 1,729,438.418 m
Earth to Europa: 1,748,721.110 m
Earth to Alien: 5,526,468.813 m
Earth to Titan: 5,691,666.655 m
Moon to Mars: 1,910,594.764 m
Moon to Europa: 1,941,297.434 m
Moon to Alien: 5,735,151.652 m
Moon to Titan: 5,898,404.660 m
Mars to Europa: 54,967.185 m
Mars to Alien: 3,991,558.388 m
Mars to Titan: 4,175,782.535 m
Europa to Alien: 4,079,684.855 m
Europa to Titan: 4,264,292.425 m
Alien to Titan: 38,721.020 m

Now the maximum jump distance of the jump drive is 2,000 km or 2,000,000 m and the minimum jump is 5,000 m (0.0025 of a jump)
SO, THE ANSWERS EVERYONE HAS BEEN WAITING FOR...
Earth to Moon: 0.0346 Jumps
Earth to Mars: 0.8647 Jumps
Earth to Europa: 0.8744 Jumps
Earth to Alien: 2.7632 Jumps
Earth to Titan: 2.8458 Jumps
Moon to Mars: 0.9553 Jumps
Moon to Europa: 0.9707 Jumps
Moon to Alien: 2.8676 Jumps
Moon to Titan: 2.9492 Jumps
Mars to Europa: 0.0275 Jumps
Mars to Alien: 1.9958 Jumps
Mars to Titan: 2.0879 Jumps
Europa to Alien: 2.0398 Jumps
Europa to Titan: 2.1322 Jumps
Alien to Titan: 0.0194 Jumps

BONUS travel time approximate between planets assuming a constant speed of 100 m/s (and sim speed/what not is behaving) (also rounding up to next second)
Earth to Moon: 00h 11m 31s
Earth to Mars: 04h 48m 15s
Earth to Europa: 04h 51m 27s
Earth to Alien: 15h 21m 04s
Earth to Titan: 15h 48m 37s
Moon to Mars: 05h 18m 26s
Moon to Europa: 05h 23m 33s
Moon to Alien: 15h 55m 52s
Moon to Titan: 16h 23m 05s
Mars to Europa: 00h 09m 10s
Mars to Alien: 11h 05m 16s
Mars to Titan: 11h 35m 58s
Europa to Alien: 11h 19m 57s
Europa to Titan: 11h 50m 43s
Alien to Titan: 00h 06m 28s

Disclaimer: These are approximate and I didn’t double check my math so might has fat-fingered something or transposed some numbers, but should be "fairly" accurate.
Also, again this only applies to the default "Star System" and "Easy Start (planet)" maps or if someone deleted and replaced some of the planets.
...AND I didnt check about planets being in the way of each other so that might be an issue as well...

Edit: also for some reason the discusions page listed this thread as 14 hours old to me yet Cowskier's post is like 5 days old im now realizing

[requiemfang]

You neglected to add that the total weight of the ship the jumpdrives are on cut down the max jump distance, so depending on the total weight of the ship that max 2000 km distance is cut by a certain amount.