Wire Your Vehicle's Engines and Control Parts So You Can Pilot It

Simple Combat Engines replaces complicated machinery with a direct wiring system. You hook vehicle blocks straight to each other, so a working war machine is mostly a matter of placing the right parts and connecting them in a sensible order.

Plan the connections before you build

1. Decide where you will sit or stand to pilot. Everything you want to control should eventually trace back to this spot.

2. List the parts that need to respond to you:

• Propulsion: propellers or jet engines.
• Steering: control surfaces on aircraft, or wheels and tracks on ground vehicles.

3. Leave room between parts so you can reach each block while you wire it. Cramped hulls are hard to fix later.

Connect and test

1. Wire each propulsion block and each control part directly to your piloting position using the mod's wiring system. Work one part at a time.

2. Test before you add armor or weapons. Check that each engine and each control part responds when you give input.

3. If a part does nothing, the cause is almost always a missing or broken connection. Re-run the wiring for that block before you assume the part is faulty.

4. Build the same way for ships. Wire propellers to where you steer, then test in shallow water before you head out.

Keep your wiring tidy and grouped by job, such as all engines together and all steering together. Repairs mid-fight on a survival PvP server are much faster when you know which connection does what.