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[EAU-9301] Damascus Mass Driver Cannon
   
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5 Apr, 2022 @ 9:36pm
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[EAU-9301] Damascus Mass Driver Cannon

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EAU Moon Base Project Structures
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Description
A turret mounted gravity propulsion system, used for launching a pod containing a small payload. Designed for use on the moon, or any small planet with low gravity.

The rear of the cannon contains a 3d printer, which is used to automatically reload the cannon. The pod also uses a speed limit breaking device to maintain enough speed to exit gravity at any angle. This automatically resets after 20 seconds.

Controls:
A series of 3 lights corresponding to 3 buttons (Reload, Load, Fire) shows when a button can be pushed.
EX: Reload light is on, push reload button.
WARNING: Pushing a button when the corresponding light is not on will most likely break the machine.

Turret can be aimed from seat using controls in the hotbar.

Known issues:
If you place a seat inside the pod, and ride it, using 3rd person causes severe lag until the speed limit resets.
Reloading a world with a printed pod resets it's speed limit.

Edit:
After watching a youtube video of someone testing this, I decided I wanted to clarify a few things.

This wasn't designed to be a weapon, but rather just a method of exiting the moon's gravity. It doesn't use a piston jolt to fire, but instead just gravity generators combined with a device that breaks the speed limit of the pod. That's why it takes so long for the reload light to light up, as it has to reset the device after the pod exits gravity. That second state, load, between reload and fire is purely for allowing you to drop a payload through that top slot into the pod.
10 Comments
Terrance Hood 20 May, 2024 @ 11:42pm 
Ok so after further testing, I used it as a giant overpriced man cannon.

My unlimited speed mod came in clutch to propel me at 280 meters per second
Terrance Hood 20 May, 2024 @ 10:27pm 
I jammed a shell full of warheads, lobbed at a ship, it hits, and my game crashes to desktop.

10/10 would misuse a piece of space-age industrial equipment as a weapon again
fish god™ 10 Jan, 2024 @ 9:24am 
gives HALO M.A.C. vibes
Pjotten 4 Oct, 2022 @ 11:31am 
@Thundercrash11
Thanks. Ill do some testing. Guess it was too heavy. Btw Awesome functionality and appearance. Trying to integrate it a ship design. Id like an orbital cannon for drop pods and bombs
Thundercrash11  [author] 4 Oct, 2022 @ 10:16am 
@AndrewIsANick
You can customize the pod in basically any way you want. The component for making it break the speed limit is contained within the cannon itself. It resets after a given time, which resets the speed limit. This is done to make it so you can use 3rd person again, and so that the pod is no longer considered part of the cannon by the game.

The pod itself is meant to be more of just a shell to hold something, and I've been slowly working on building a structure that would 3d print cores for the pod. You should be able to build whatever you want inside the pod, or change the pod itself, but make sure that it welds up inside the same way.
Pjotten 4 Oct, 2022 @ 9:04am 
Any parts that shouldnt be altered when customizing the pod? I managed to slow it down to 110m/s or whatever the speed limit was, whenever the cannon was 15km away
Thundercrash11  [author] 12 Apr, 2022 @ 10:31pm 
Technically, it's meant to be used to get a payload to space. You could in theory modify the pod with a warhead, but it's extremely hard to hit a target with it.
ABlueHairedFox 12 Apr, 2022 @ 7:56pm 
Is this meant for gettin' to space or as a weapon?
TORGMASTER 9 Apr, 2022 @ 9:38am 
very cool cannon :D
TheSimonHill 9 Apr, 2022 @ 5:45am 
This reminds me of the space gun from SOMA, nice work. Subbed and Upped.