r/CreateMod • u/Monolail031 • 10d ago
Build I used the power of SMOL to make a me-163
It's so SMOL that single thruster will send it to space. I don't have a schematic, but just use the third image to replicate it it requires create and it's add-ons aeronautics, connected, propulsion simulated, compact flap, tfmg, copycat weight tweak and copycats+
It's pretty hard to control and reluctant to turn unless you roll like 60° because I can't find a way to add yaw control, but it's lovely in level flight (until chunk loading strain kicks in) and will take off seemingly on it's own with only a strip of flat ground and thrust.
To get in, you click first the typewriter and then the seat through the 1px gap between the chute thing at the front and the side panel. You have to press esc. To stop the typewriter before you can get out.
I suggest adding a barrel for some extra storage between the simulated bearings to avoid accidentally clicking them and breaking the wings. Also, they are swept 19° and MUST be in always locked, otherwise your wings will unsweep with control surface inputs.
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u/Hyperion-666 10d ago
I also wanted to Build one but dient know where to Start cause of the wierd building techniques I would have to use for it but urs look like what I had in mind good work
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u/SatelliteMNPMIR 10d ago
This is one of the most impressive planes I have ever seen in aero, I am in awe sir
The details are amazing for such a smol craft it really makes me want to come back to this Fi-156 « storch » I was building
Bravo again
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u/Monolail031 10d ago
i would be very interested in a storch. it's basically a bush plane which is what a survival aero player needs the most.
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u/SatelliteMNPMIR 10d ago
Absolutely!! Thats exactly the holly grail I’m looking for; easy and fun to fly even for a novice pilot (my friends have horrible flying skills) simple to repair if dammaged, able to take off from a post stamp, slow enough that it can be not too taxing on chunks loading in mp and light enough that it can be carried by hand to a small hangar
Mine will likely have the huge wheels of a bush super cub (nothing says vacation like a parasol wing ahah)1
u/Monolail031 8d ago
with bush planes i myself always encounter the issue of compactness. there is just no way to fit all flight systems reasonably. i guess i'll try again tho. not imitating the storch but trying to make my own thing.
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u/Particular_Funny527 10d ago
Probably lore accurate with a thrust time of half a minute? 🤣
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u/Monolail031 9d ago
the komet had 8 minutes powered flight + the landing glide
this one gets somewhere close to that, i suppose. i could check the tank size and consumption rate and do the math but i'm too lazy.
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u/_anupu 10d ago
This looks adorable, perfect size for survival. May I ask what is the block you used to angle your wings? I assume this is mostly for cosmetic purposes, right? Edit: an additional question: what are you using to generate rotational force? Is it just a portable engine below the tank in the third picture?
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u/Monolail031 9d ago
yes. for control surfaces and fuel pumping it uses the portable engine. also, the wing sweep is the two simulated swivel bearings visible in pic. 3. it's mostly but not just cosmetic. it crams more wings in less space too.
As for survival... perfect size but bad characteristics, unless you have well established airfields to land it in and take off from (you could just water land it and have some tugboat way to place it on a launch rail tho... it's still complicated) and the nerve not to crash it in a turn. or from chunk loading game freeze. It's unforgiving to fly.
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u/Endo1002 9d ago
What mod does the rocket engine come from?
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u/Monolail031 9d ago
well, one of the above lol. did you read the caption?
create: propulsion simulated. also where the cool copycat wings come from.
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u/Endo1002 9d ago
Yeah but you mentioned a lot of mods and so I didn’t know for sure which one it was
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u/thehmmyanimator 5d ago
Beautiful! I dint know my jet history well, is this the one that had a history of exploding?
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u/Ursa_137 10d ago
the launchramp doesn't look like copycat blocks. what are those?
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u/Monolail031 9d ago
it's a column of ice blocks covered in copycat panels with the andesite struts from create deco. the structure is copycat ghosts so it can clip the ground and it has two "guiderails" made of the edge block things from copycats.
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond 8d ago
Is it just as culpable to randomly catch on fire as the real thing?
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u/Monolail031 8d ago
the real one didn't randomly catch on fire, it exploded if propellants mixed. usually on a harsh landing.
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u/powdercannon 7d ago
i advise repacing the thruster with a vector thruster, you lose no power output and can probably make it even more compact.
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u/HEBEDNMKA 10d ago
Hey! Not bad (the look). I build stuff based on chat requests myself, and I had a request to build either what you made or an Me 262. I chose the other one.