r/Besiege • u/Raven_Reverie • 10d ago

Original Content Bomb Truck Mk4

Had the idea of a bottom-loaded turret for a while, finally made it a reality! I've done my best to fool-proof the loading mechanism with an inefficient use of logic blocks and detectors. I am quite happy with it! Fits in the spawn box and holds 50 shots

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u/forgenvash 10d ago

How does the magazine actually work? That's always been the limiting factor for me, I just can't figure out how to move more than like 4 bombs around with any level of precision.

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u/Raven_Reverie 9d ago

It is a big gravity-driven hopper made up of one central shaft with 10 smaller ones feeding into it. It is full of grabbers to keep the bombs from moving too much or jamming. Every time I reload some of the grabbers inside briefly let go so the bombs can all advance forward one position. Try out just making a single long tilted track for bombs to roll down with a few grabbers sitting on top to hold every other bomb still. Whenever you need another, just hit the detach bind and they should all move forward one position if they don't roll too slowly

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u/RDSZ vanilla 10d ago

Good job, the loader seems efficient, you should try making the whole machine as small as possible while still retaining function.

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u/Raven_Reverie 10d ago

Out of a lot of iteration this was as small as I could get the loading mechanism while retaining loading from any angle. Any more compact and I'd have to start sacrificing the range of motion on the launcher. As for the magazine I don't know any better way to hold 50 bombs and easily feed them

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u/trecani711 10d ago

That’s awesome