You can have a single programmable block. If your cradle connects via connector and not merge or rotor/piston, set "Detect blocks over connectors" to true in custom data so the script can see those blocks.

Question? can this work in reverse? sorry im new to scripts, and still fairly new to the game.
to clarify, i created a Thruster cradle. simply fly your ship into the middle of the cradle and merge the grids in order to acquire all the thrusters from the cradle. I guess what i wanna know is, do i have to have the program block on every main ship that uses the cradle? or can i just have the program block on the cradle itself, and have it supply its thrusters to any ship that attaches to it instead?

On the second look its seems to be a game bug because I can only hear it when I'm very close to it and not in the cockpit like the other thrusters on the main grid. Thanks for the response.

I do not. That feels like a game bug. If you put a thruster on a rotor and manually set the override, do you get sound?

The Script is working pretty good , but the thrusters on the sub-grid seems to have no sound . Its connected to one rotor, you know a fix?
Version 42.3.4

thank you works great

i forget, but do thrusters have ownership now? if so, ensure all ownership is the same

I set connector detection to true, but it is stilll not recognizing my thrusters, any aidea why? I am on the new update.

yes, your physics stability may vary though, nothing the script can do to fix that heh

do this work on multiple rotors ? Like my ship is Main body , rotor , rotor , rotor , thrusters

Very easy to use and works instantly, amazing!

is it possible to make a mod out of this as own block? so admin can add it and Programmable blocks don't need to be active on servers?

yo how do i get the code?

You are a god! Thank you, now I can realize all my engineer fantasies!

I think my subgrid thrusters are draining fuel in space while drifting. I turn off inertia dampeners and unless I also turn off the thrusters, I still lose fuel.

Update: The issue turned out to be the dampener setting in the custom config. I had to turn it way down (to 20 from the default 50). Works like a charm now.

I'm trying to use this script (and do thrusters on a sub-grid) for the first time and I'm seeing some strange behavior. Small grid ship. The ship has 4 thruster pods on rotors. The rotors are locked. When the ship is "at rest" with no movement keys being pressed, if I have the dampeners on, the ship seems to be constantly fighting itself, the forward and back thrusters alternately firing. I initially thought this might be because there is unequal forward and reverse thrust, but evening the thrust out did not change the issue and then I realized it will do it up/down as well, where the thrusters are already even. I did a short video snippet to show the issue. It does it if I rotate the thrusters as well. (I did learn that I needed to turn the dampeners off while rotating the pods or it goes berserk though).

https://youtu.be/Y3GVueDgPOI

If someone has an idea on why this is happening and how to fix it I'd be very grateful to hear it.

If I'm understanding this right, then in order for the command to work the main grid can not have thrusters?

No. Dampeners are synced with the dampener state of the main grid if the main grid has thrust.

Yes. Is it possible for the dampening not apply to the subgrids?

do you have thrust on the main grid?

I can't seem to run dampeners_toggle
Every time I try nothing happens. I type it in; hit run; nothing happens
Am I doing something wrong?

I've rebuilt Scrap Ship 09 from the new Rusty World. There are two rotor thruster subgrids with atmo engines on opposite sides of the ship. I've updated the rotors to Advanced Rotors. When I set the rotor group to 45 deg, the left one goes forward, and the right one goes to the rear. Is there a way to set the angle as a group? The ship is flying but it is a handful to maneuver.

Correction for clarity:
another script of OR physics weirdness

"Im trying to remember name of other script.."
Likely vector thrust 2 or Vector thrust OS?

Never had it rotate rotors. It doesn't interact with them only the thrusters them selves far as I've ever seen. There is another script out there that does move rotors and hinges. But it is not this one. Im trying to remember name of other script.. But if recall it was automation it just kept ships level. So other script might be what your using as well?

If you are seeing rotor movement when you thrust, it is not this script. It is either another script of physics weirdness ("Remember to lock your subgrids or you will get torque").

I promise you it doesn't and it never has.

It does seem to use some form of control or influence over the rotors and hinges.

For clarity, this script has absolutely no control over rotors

Thank you very much mate. its not that the script is deficient its more so that with what im doing i was not expecting the rotors to suddenly start being controlled by the script as previously it wasnt. Im sure theres ways around it but its just easier for me to use the older version.

This script doesn't control rotors at all It just extends movement controls to subgrod thrust

For some reason the rotors just dont wanna turn, is the script outdated now or am I doing something wrong?

Can I also ask why you prefer the old one? If the new one is deficient in some way, I'd like to fix it

If you have the older version already in a programmable block, you can open it and copy/paste it. I also publish my scripts on GitHub: https://github.com/Whiplash141/SpaceEngineersScripts/commits/master/Released/subgrid_thruster_manager.cs

Is there a way i can use the older version of this script? I have an old blueprint when i did some mini testing of this script and it worked exactly how i wanted it to but now if i try to copy the old block without using the blueprint it changes to the new version of the script. This is also in part to wanting to use the dlc version of the programming block.

In the programmable block edit menu

Ah ok makes sense, but where in the files do i find the code then?

This isn't a mod, it's an in game script. Adding it to your world as a mod will cause errors.

I have a really werid question. I´ve downloaded the mod and its shown in my workshop page under the same number but i cant see the mod ingame to add to the game... What can cause this cause never had this issue

got it thanks for the reply

As for posting the ship, I think a youtube guide would be better at answering that question.

It does make sense. The hinge without shared inertia was wiggling and slightly angling to one side, and that caused the thrust to not be completely even, causing your ship to steer in one direction, at least for a short while, if not for the whole duration if the thrusters being used.

also how can i post my ship in the user creations?

I think i fixed it. It may had something to do with inertia tensor. I had it turned on on the wings hinges but i had other hinges (not attached to the subgrid) and they had it off so i turned it on as well and now it flies straight. Does this make sense?

Its forward thrust on foldable wings. I also locked the hinges

how are your thrusters oriented? if you have thrusts at diagonals, that can happen because the thrust in the axial directions isnt balanced perfectly.

Cool Script but I have a problem. I got two subgrids with 2 thrusters each and when i accelerate the ship it dosent fly in a straight line it kinda points up and a little bit to the left any idea why?

You'd think so, but that's assuming I re-read the description since I subscribed to the script. I did re-read the rest, though, some time ago.

The underlined sentence in the description attempts to make that clear

I was under the impression that this script controlled the rotors, hinges, and pistons, too.