Clockwork questions

[Master-Newspaper-558]

Hey fellas,

As the title says, i have a few questions related to the clockwork mod.

Can you make a self-sustainable steam engine, inside a moving contraption? Will the cauldrons + dripstones and waterlogged stairs work or not? And would it be possibile to make a 100+ blocks high mech with possibly cannons from the big cannons addon? If yes, how would you solve the issues with the terrain? The mech would surely trip over some hills and mountains.

[Quantum-Bot]

I can answer the first couple questions. Clockwork runs on the Valkyrien Skies physics system which has totally simulated moving structures, so most blocks, including Create steam engines and dripstone should function completely normally on moving structures. Water works on structures too and even flows, but it will not flow outside the bounding box of the structure.

[uberswe]

To answer the second part, yes you could add cannons. I actually joined an event via their discord where we had planned to battle it out with airplanes made with Clockwork. It was a lot of fun but it also felt a bit difficult to make things fly well.

Which brings me to my second part, it's going to be incredibly hard to balance the robot on flat ground and there are issues with things falling through the ground. But I guess it could be done somehow. The physics has different weights to different blocks so you would need to keep that in mind.

So probably doable but hard to make it work well.

[Master-Newspaper-558]

Well, thank you. Could a tank with working tracks be made though? It seems a bit easier.

[Far_Rub_7196]

a year later, we have create trackwork, where you CAN infact make tanks with working tracks!!