A ship with a hybrid set of ion and hydrogen thrusters is power-efficient in space and can also handle planetary lift-off and landing
A Thruster is [1] a small rocket engine on a spacecraft used to make controlled alterations in its flight path or altitude.
For specific thruster blocks, see:
Usage[]
In Space Engineers, the thruster is the keystone block for all flying craft. Build at least one thruster block facing in each cardinal direction (plus a source of Power and a Gyroscope) to be able to stabilize and achieve controlled flight with a mobile grid.[2] Asymmetrical thruster placement is allowed and will not cause tailspinning, as it would in real life or Kerbal Space Program.
The max speed is capped at 100 meters per second (360 km per hour) due to limitations of the physics engine that causes faster objects to phase through obstacles.[3]
Each thruster type has strengths and weaknesses in different environments. As of Space Engineers release 1.157013, there are three variations of thrusters in the game, each with two size classes:
- Ion Thruster — optimised for the vacuum of space
- Atmospheric Thruster — optimised for planetary atmospheres
- Hydrogen Thruster — equally strong in vacuum and atmospheres, but requires voluminous Hydrogen tanks
For technical details, see Thruster mechanics.
Requirements[]
Important: If you have Progression enabled, you must build a Cockpit or Remote Control first to unlock Atmospheric Thrusters and Ion Thrusters. To unlock Hydrogen Thrusters, you must build an O2/H2 Generator and a Hydrogen Tank first.
Atmospheric and Hydrogen thrusters can be built with entry-level materials, whereas Ion thrusters require rarer materials.
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- ↑ https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199891580.001.0001/acref-9780199891580-e-8301
- ↑ Though experienced players can use careful gyroscope-manoeuvres to work around missing thruster directions.
- ↑ https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/pc/topic/increase-speed-limit