How to Stabilize Moving Parts and Conceal Mechanics

Large physical elevators, swinging crane booms, and flying vehicle hulls can tilt or snag on nearby surfaces if left unstabilized and exposed. A few dedicated structural blocks keep your contraptions level, firmly bonded, and snag-free.

Keeping Moving Structures Level

1. When a rotating or swinging main structure causes an attached cabin, platform, or tool head to twist out of alignment, insert a gyroscopic gearbox between the main body and the sub-structure.

2. Connect the gyroscopic gearbox into your rotational drive.

3. As the main structure turns, the gyroscopic gearbox automatically turns in the opposite direction, canceling out unwanted tilt and keeping your moving parts straight.

Reinforcing and Hiding Your Frame

1. Use sticky bubble gum blocks inside multi-block assemblies where you need a reliable structural bond to hold complex contraptions together firmly under physics movement.

2. Replace exposed structural walls around your Linear Casing tracks and sliding joints with slippery copycat blocks.

3. Apply your chosen building block texture to the slippery copycat blocks so they blend seamlessly into your vehicle hull or elevator shaft.

4. Because these copycat blocks have a smooth, low-friction surface, they hide internal bearings and casings while letting adjacent physics sliders glide past without catching.