Half Heavy Armor Block

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The Icon Block Half Heavy Armor Block.png Half Heavy Armor Block is a set of half-height structural blocks in Space Engineers. Armor blocks exist in many variants such as Icon Block Heavy Armor Corner.png Heavy Armor Corner, Icon Block Heavy Armor Slope.png Heavy Armor Slope, and Icon Block Heavy Armor Block.png Heavy Armor Block.


Usage

Armor is the primary structural component of all ships, rovers, and stations, providing a framework to which other blocks can be attached. Additionally, armor provides protection from environmental dangers, crashes, impacts, and attacks from hostile players.

  • Light Armor is cheap to build and light-weight, but provides only basic protection.
  • Heavy armor provides the best structural integrity and is much more resistant to damage, but has a high material cost and drastically increases the ship's mass.

Note that welded and unwelded blocks have the same mass, but armor resists damage only when fully welded.

It's best to use a combination of armor types.

  • Use Heavy Armor to build the spine that holds your battleship together and to protect vital blocks; use Light Armor for decorative greebling or quick scaffolding.
  • Use Heavy Armor along the bottom of vehicles and Light Armor along the top to lower the center of gravity and increase stability.
  • Use Heavy Armor sparingly because you cannot linearly lift more mass by adding more thrusters (which are themselves heavy).
  • Heavy Armor blocks require extra Metal Grids to achieve maximum durability, whereas Light Armor can be built cheaply from day one.
  • On PC, all armors cost 1 PCU; on consoles, all armors cost 2 PCU.


Recipes

Large Half Heavy Armor Blocks
Block Name Mass HWD Build time in secs PCU (PC) PCU (console) Steel Plates Metal Grids Steel Plates (optional) Mount Point Front Mount Point Back Mount Point Left Mount Point Right Mount Point Bottom Mount Point Top
Icon Block Half Heavy Armor Block.png Half Heavy Armor Block 1650 1x1x1 10 1 2 65 25 10 front no left right bottom top
Icon Block Half Slope Corner Heavy Armor.png Half Slope Corner Heavy Armor 264 1x1x1 5 1 2 10 4 2 no back no right bottom no
Icon Block Half Slope Corner Inv. Heavy Armor.png Half Slope Corner Inv. Heavy Armor 3050 1x1x1 20 1 2 125 45 14 front back left right bottom top
Icon Block Half Slope Heavy Armor Block.png Half Slope Heavy Armor Block 416 1x1x1 5 1 2 17 6 2 front no left right bottom no
Icon Block Half Slope Inv. Heavy Armor.png Half Slope Inv. Heavy Armor 2930 1x1x1 20 1 2 120 45 13 front back left right bottom top
Icon Block Heavy Armor Half Corner Block.png Heavy Armor Half Corner Block 872 1x1x1 5 1 2 35 12 5 front no left no bottom no
Icon Block Heavy Armor Half Sloped Corner.png Heavy Armor Half Sloped Corner 930 1x1x1 8 1 2 40 5 5 front no left no bottom no
Icon Block Heavy Armor Half Sloped Corner Base.png Heavy Armor Half Sloped Corner Base 990 1x1x1 10 1 2 40 15 5 front back left right bottom no
Small Half Heavy Armor Blocks
Block Name Mass HWD Build time in secs PCU (PC) PCU (console) Steel Plates Metal Grids Steel Plates (optional) Mount Point Front Mount Point Back Mount Point Left Mount Point Right Mount Point Bottom Mount Point Top
Icon Block Half Heavy Armor Block.png Half Heavy Armor Block 66 1x1x1 3 1 2 2 1 1 front no left right bottom top
Icon Block Half Slope Corner Heavy Armor.png Half Slope Corner Heavy Armor 46 1x1x1 2 1 2 1 1 1 no back no right bottom no
Icon Block Half Slope Corner Inv. Heavy Armor.png Half Slope Corner Inv. Heavy Armor 106 1x1x1 6 1 2 3 1 2 front back left right bottom top
Icon Block Half Slope Heavy Armor Block.png Half Slope Heavy Armor Block 46 1x1x1 2 1 2 1 1 1 front no left right bottom no
Icon Block Half Slope Inv. Heavy Armor.png Half Slope Inv. Heavy Armor 106 1x1x1 6 1 2 3 1 2 front back left right bottom top
Icon Block Heavy Armor Half Corner Block.png Heavy Armor Half Corner Block 46 1x1x1 2 1 2 1 1 1 front no left no bottom no
Icon Block Heavy Armor Half Sloped Corner.png Heavy Armor Half Sloped Corner 66 1x1x1 2 1 2 2 1 1 front no left no bottom no
Icon Block Heavy Armor Half Sloped Corner Base.png Heavy Armor Half Sloped Corner Base 66 1x1x1 3 1 2 2 1 1 front back left right bottom no