I want share with you a new type of armor that I invented. It is much better that previous methods.
Introduction
With the release of the Stormworks Search and Destroy expansion, many different weapons were added, but for some reason, the developers did not add armor. So players have had to work around figuring out how to create armor, currently as far as I know there are two types of armor, the first type is the use of many individual structures layer by layer, also called grids.
The second method is the creation of armor plates from polygons. The grid method is very unstable due to the large number of connections, and consumes a lot of computer power. Another method with triangular armor is much better, but does not guarantee protection at all.
Both options did not suit me very much, so I looked for other methods of creating armor for a long time, noticing that if you press the F2 button, you can open a special mode for displaying blocks, or rather their hitboxes, I saw that the essence of triangular armor is because the projectile must go through as many triangles as possible, so I decided to try to create one such hitbox like a triangle but for the entire plane of the armor plate.
I decided to combine these two methods.
Creating a third armor type
In this section, we will make a new type of armor, for this we will make a stand with a controling screen on which you can see how much damage the projectile caused by passing through the armor, in front of the screen there will be an armor plate, the battle cannon without additional barrels, the gun will shoot an armor-piercing projectile.
Now let’s just make a wall three blocks thick and sleep our stand.
As we can see, the plate was easily pierced. If you look in F2 mode, you will see that the slab is monolithic.
Our task is to divide this slab into separate layers.
In general, there are many ways to divide the armor plate into different layers, you can remove blocks, you can put them, but in my opinion, the most effective way is to put triangles on the edges of the plate.
In general, this system is strange, and I do not know exactly how it works.
As you can see, in this case, cleaning the blocks is not effective, so let’s add triangles on the edges.
This plate was also easily pierced, if we switch to F2 mode, we will see that the wall remained monolithic and the triangles decided to be separate bodies.
How to fix it?
To do this, we need to cut out the plate itself, leaving triangles on the edges, then we spend the wall from one side with triangles to the other as shown in the picture, after which we do this several more plates times so that the armor plate is very similar to the previous one.
It is very important to place the block exactly on the triangle and not on some other block
Now let’s put our stand to spawn and see what happened, and as you can see, it turned out to be a miracle! On the controling screen, the affected area has decreased, if you look in F2 mode, you can see that we managed to divide the armor plate into three separate layers.
Now the most important thing is ready!
As a result of experiments, I found that external layer of blocks with a separate body helps to reduce the damage to the control plate to a minimum, but the damage to the armor itself is very high. This option is suitable for large structures such as ships, where you can make a gap of one block between the armor and the payload inside the ship.
However, if you replace this layer with a layer of heavy blocks, they will act as an anti-fragment pad, absorbing most of the damage.
The number of layers is more important than their thickness!
This armor with a heavy layer of blocks is great for a variety of equipment, for example tanks, imagine that this is the armor of a tank and behind it there are some important components, for example there will be batteries, so I placed a whole bunch of batteries on the inner plate to see how many of them will be hit .
As you can see only one battery is affected, this armor does work, not completely extinguishing all the damage, but removing most of it, leaving only one small hole.
Well, after a ton of text, I was able to fully express everything I know about the armor I invented, you are free to use it and experiment with it. It will be great if someone comes up with a better armor than this!
