Bouncing

[Levi Animator™]

How do i prevent Vehicles from bouncing?
what i usually do is fill them with Heavy Concrete but that also doesnt work!

Help me pls

[splic3x]

devs tell about this in our A&Q on 2021. I think, you can make suspension little softer.

[Levi Animator™]

But i am using suspension and i went fullward in a Basic car for 30 seconds and came back and i saw that i was Flipped over

[Levi Animator™]

By just Pressing W

[bar0blik]

if the car flips over, the engines are too strong, you can either lower the engine or have two engines, one for the front and one a little weaker for the back wheels.

[Levi Animator™]

il try doing the 2 engine thing

but what if i want to go fast?

[Sir Budgerigar]

The faster your wheels turn, the more they will bounce. It has to do with how the game handles collisions. Now, there are a few things I like to do to help with reducing that bounciness.

1) Make a big and heavy car body: The bigger the car is, the less it will be affected by the wheels. The longer the car, the less likely it will be to flip over. The wider the car, the less likely to tip over.

2) If you have a bigger vehicle, use Pipe Bracers / Large Tank Tank / Hay Bale, as these pieces are wheels that are 7 blocks in diameter. Bigger wheels don't have to turn as fast to go the same speed as a smaller wheel would, BUT they generate more torque, which can make flipping easier. This is why you need to put them on a big vehicle.
If you have a smaller vehicle, look for wheels with lower friction values. They'll have worse handling, but the bounces won't be as bad at high speeds.

3) Don't have super powerful engines. Stronger settings on a gas engine will make the wheels bounce more, as the wheels will spin faster in the air than they should be if they were on the ground. Using less power doesn't mean that you can't reach the same top speeds, it will just take a little longer.
You can set the top speed of electric engines, and they usually don't make too much torque. They are usually to awkward for proper driving, though. More on that later.

4) Make your suspension stiff on fast vehicles. This doesn't make sense at first, so I'll explain it. Soft suspension is great, but soft suspension can only take small impacts. If you put a lot of force on a weak piece of suspension, it will not absorb anything, but instead compress entirely before slowly coming back. Stiffer suspension can't take soft impacts very well, but it is great for hard impacts. The faster you go, the bounces put more force on your suspension, so you want the suspension to be able to respond correctly and keep contact with the ground. For my faster vehicles, I like to increase the suspension the point where the suspension is able to stay at full length when standing still, but compresses just a little bit when you first start moving.

When I make a fast vehicle, I usually like to use an electric engine with Large Tank wheels. Large Tanks have low friction, which means the acceleration of the electric engine doesn't flip the vehicle, and the electric engine can have it's top speed set.

These are things I do to help reducing the effect of bouncing on faster vehicles. You can't make it go away fully unless you have a slow car, so I like to use the Hoverpads mod by 00Fant. Hoverpads don't bounce, and you can go really fast with thrusters.

[TeddyBear4444]

Originally posted by splic3x:

devs tell about this in our A&Q on 2021. I think, you can make suspension little softer.

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