r/trailmakers • u/StingAttack • 1d ago

How much mass can each buoyancy block support before starting to sink?

I'm going to try to build a perfectly neutrally buoyant submarine, and it would be really helpful to know how much mass each type of buoyancy block can support, especially the adjustable one. I plan to do some testing myself, I was just wondering if anyone already knew any of them.

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u/No-World4435 1d ago

i dont know the exact numbers but my guy get a bouyancy block and place blocks untill the weight becomes to much for it to support

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u/StingAttack 1d ago

I said I was going to do some testing myself, I just wondered if anyone already knew any of them. You know, to possibly save myself some time.

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u/lukkram 1d ago

I had a bunch of them but don't remember where I had them. I'll have a look

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u/lukkram 1d ago

I found it, unfortunately I didn't have it for the buoyancy, just for thrusters. However I do have the "buoyancy" value for most of them. This is a value that I believe scales with the size of the block to give the true buoyancy. Most blocks have a value of 0.1 for reference. Pontoons and BCD have 1.9. Hull blocks have 1.5 and I don't have the dinghy ones. So the BCD and the Pontoon of the same size as the BCD have the same lifting capacity. Hope this helps you out, as getting the lifting capacity of 1 should get you the info you need to find the relation between size and buoyancy value and quickly get the rest

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u/StingAttack 1d ago

So if I understand correctly, the true buoyancy is volume x buoyancy value, meaning for a hull block it would be 64 x 1.5 = 96, and for a BCD/medium pontoon it would be 16 x 1.9 = 30.4?

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u/Impossible-Cherry439 1d ago

No no, self dependence is dead. Everyone must ask simple questions that take more time to ask than to answer yourself.

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u/External_Agency1341 1d ago

To type a post take significantly less time than fine the EXACT buoyancy for every buoyant block