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[1.193 compatible] PhysFix v3: A Slightly Arcade Physics Fix

This little script has a long-going story, and even impacted the development of Space Engineers itself. Today, it's back from the scrapyard: the single most famous feature, Impact Tolerance, has been ported to 1.193.

Impact tolerance speed is based on grid's dry mass, and if your ship collides something below this speed relative to that something's speed, it will get no damage and slightly bounce off. Not very much realistic, but still far better in gameplay sense, right?

— Tolerance is calculated as a cube root of grid's dry mass (without cargo) in tons. For example, a 500 000 kg ship will have an impact tolerance of 7.93 m/s (cbrt(500)=7.93)
— Tolerance is hard-capped at 3 m/s min and 15 m/s max (note that the speed cap values are affected by GeneralToleranceMultiplier). This corresponds to 27 tons and 3375 tons, respectively.
— If the impact speed exceeds your impact tolerance by no more than 100%, the damage is still reduced. For a 500-ton ship, if you collide at a speed of 12 m/s, your blocks only get 50% of impact damage. Only secondary deformation (damage propagation through deformation) is permitted on this stage.
— Yes, you can ram at 90 m/s in a ship flying at 85 m/s in same direction and get away with little or no damage.
— Yes, this also works with voxels. You may whack an IMDC Kestrel fighter in your base roid at 3-4 m/s and still have it mostly flyable.
— Ships do not chew through each other anymore when at low speed.
— A high speed impact, on like 100 m/s, will still devastate your ship, but it won't melt it into nothing. Impact debrises are now much more interesting as salvage.


Bruce LeedleLee's creation, the Temple of Clang, was used as a representation of Clang to display him defeated in the thumb.