The Hammer Is the most essential tool of any player, It is given to you on spawn (appears in slot 1) and cannot be dropped. It allows the manipulation and configuration of parts through six simple modes:
These modes cannot modify parts that are owned by other players unless they give you permission;
- Modify: Allows Drag, Size, Faces and Cjoint
- Unlock: Allows you to unlock the part (Not important here)
- Paint: Allows Paint
- Configure: Allows Config
- Interact: Allows you to interact with parts (Ex: Click a button or toggle a switch) (Not important here)
Drag[edit | hide all | hide | edit source]
This mode is the default mode that is selected when the hammer is held. It allows you to move parts to any location you desire, except inside other parts.
How to use it:
To use it, hover over the part you want to move and hold the left mouse button, a blue "frame" will appear around the part selected and dragging your mouse will change the part's position. If you hold [CTRL] the part wont weld to anything and will be unanchored.
Warning:
Drag can malfunction at negative Y coordinates, if you cannot move a part, try shaking the camera or moving around your character/Mouse. This will often happen if you are building on rings or under the map.
Size[edit | hide | edit source]
This mode allows you to resize parts, as long as it respects their malleability. Malleability determines how big a part can be made; a part with low malleability (Like Copper) will not be able to be made large, while a part with high malleability (Like Iron) will be able to be made very big. Some parts have locked size, meaning you cannot resize them!
It is to note nothing stops you from making a part clip trough the ground or another part.
How to use it:
To use it, hover over the part you want to resize and left-click it, a blue "frame" and six blue spheres will appear around the part selected. Drag any of the spheres and the part will resize if it can.
You have three levels of precision: 1, 0.5 and 0.1 . 1 should be the one you use the most, the rest are for precise building or separating wires or Chutes that would normally touch. You can copy the size of another part by hovering your mouse you want to copy from and by pressing [F].
Faces[edit | hide | edit source]
TODO
How to use it: TODO
Paint[edit | hide | edit source]
This mode allows you to paint parts to the color of your choosing. While this is purely decorative, color-coding things can still help when organizing bins or chutes! For example, let's imagine you have 20 bins containing resources and you want copper, but they all look the same! How will you find what you want? If your bins were color-coded, you would simply have to go to the orange bin because you know it would contain copper, instead of searching trough every bin you own.
How to use it:
To use it, hover the part you want to paint and left click it, the chosen color will be applied to the part. There are two ways to select a color;
First, The color picker will allow you to choose any color you want in a simple way, just click anywhere on the gradient to set the color. The other way to select a color is to directly write the RGB values in the three boxes at the bottom.
By pressing [F], you can copy the color of the part you are hovering, useful for color-coding bins according to the material they contain.
CJoint[edit | hide | edit source]
This mode allows you to place various constraints between parts: Specifically the SpringConstraint, RodConstraint and RopeConstraint. Additionally, some parts add features to these constraints. Every constraint will come with parameters, defining some property of the constraint.
Warning! Cjoint may be confusing or contain incorrect information, proceed with caution!
SpringConstraint[edit | hide | edit source]
A SpringConstraint applies a force to its Attachments based on spring and damper behavior. This constraint is ideal for building vehicle suspension.
Parameters:
- MaxForce: The maximum force the SpringConstraint can apply on its Attachments. Some spring systems can give rise to forces that grow fast leading to instability. In such cases it is recommended to set MaxForce to a reasonable value.
- Stiffness: Stiffness sets the strength of the spring. Higher values create a spring that responds with more force when its attachments are closer together or further apart than FreeLength.
- FreeLength: FreeLength defines the natural resting length of the spring. If the attachments are further apart than the free length, they are forced together; if the attachments are closer together than the free length, they are forced apart.
- Damping: The Damping value controls how fast the spring's oscillation dies down. A value of 0 allows the spring to oscillate endlessly, while higher values bring the spring to a rest more quickly.
Rope[edit | hide | edit source]
A RopeConstraint prevents two attachments from separating further than a defined Length. The attachments can move closer together than this length and both can freely rotate. This constraint can also be powered to behave as a motorized winch.
If a rope is connected to a Winch, it's length parameter can be modified using a Polysilicon. A Deactivate signal shortens the rope, while an Activate signal lengthens it.
Parameters:
- Length: The maximum distance apart the two Attachments can be.
- Restitution: Elasticity of the Attachments connected by the constraint when reaching the maximum defined Length. Constrained between 0 and 1.
Rod[edit | hide | edit source]
A RodConstraint keeps two attachments separated by its defined Length, while being able to rotate freely.
A rod connected to a DriveBox, an Engine or a Motor will spin at the same speed.
Parameters:
- Length: The distance apart at which the constraint attempts to keep its Attachments.
How to use it:=
To use this mode, select the constraint you want to add, input your parameters (Optional), click two parts and the constraint will appear between both parts. if you want to remove a constraint, click one of the two parts with the CJoint mode selected or drag them using the drag tool.
Config[edit | hide | edit source]
This mode allows you to configure parts, this is indispensable for any factory (even the most basic) and to any contraption or system more complex (like a ship or a Microcontroller). The most basic utilization of this mode is configuring a Extractor, if you were to mine Copper, you would have to place the Extractor then using this mode to change MaterialToExtract to "Copper", thus allowing it to mine the Copper.
How to use it:
To use it, hover over the part you want to Configure and left-click it, the gray rectangle on the right should show the properties of the part. There are three types of properties: rectangles you can write in (Like MaterialToExtract of an Extractor) , checkmark boxes (Like Toggled of a Switch) and dropdown boxes (Like the PolysiliconMode of a Polysilicon. When you have put the parameters you wanted in the menu left click "Apply" to make the properties take effect.