Half Light Armor Block

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The Icon Block Half Light Armor Block.png Half Light Armor Block is a set of half-height structural blocks in Space Engineers. Armor blocks exist in many variants such as Icon Block Light Armor Corner.png Light Armor Corner, Icon Block Light Armor Slope.png Light Armor Slope, and Icon Block Light Armor Block.png Light 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 Light 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 Light Armor Block.png Half Light Armor Block 240 1x1x1 4 1 2 10 0 2 front no left right bottom top
Icon Block Half Slope Corner Inv. Light Armor.png Half Slope Corner Inv. Light Armor 460 1x1x1 8 1 2 19 0 4 front back left right bottom top
Icon Block Half Slope Corner Light Armor.png Half Slope Corner Light Armor 40 1x1x1 2 1 2 1 0 1 no back no right bottom no
Icon Block Half Slope Inv. Light Armor.png Half Slope Inv. Light Armor 440 1x1x1 8 1 2 18 0 4 front back left right bottom top
Icon Block Half Slope Light Armor Block.png Half Slope Light Armor Block 80 1x1x1 2 1 2 3 0 1 front no left right bottom no
Icon Block Light Armor Half Corner Block.png Light Armor Half Corner Block 120 1x1x1 2 1 2 5 0 1 front no left no bottom no
Icon Block Light Armor Half Sloped Corner.png Light Armor Half Sloped Corner 220 1x1x1 3 1 2 9 0 2 front no left no bottom no
Icon Block Light Armor Half Sloped Corner Base.png Light Armor Half Sloped Corner Base 220 1x1x1 4 1 2 9 0 2 front back left right bottom no


Small Half Light 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 Light Armor Block.png Half Light Armor Block 20 1x1x1 2 1 2 1 0 0 front no left right bottom top
Icon Block Half Slope Corner Inv. Light Armor.png Half Slope Corner Inv. Light Armor 20 1x1x1 3 1 2 1 0 0 front back left right bottom top
Icon Block Half Slope Corner Light Armor.png Half Slope Corner Light Armor 20 1x1x1 1 1 2 1 0 0 no back no right bottom no
Icon Block Half Slope Inv. Light Armor.png Half Slope Inv. Light Armor 20 1x1x1 3 1 2 1 0 0 front back left right bottom top
Icon Block Half Slope Light Armor Block.png Half Slope Light Armor Block 20 1x1x1 1 1 2 1 0 0 front no left right bottom no
Icon Block Light Armor Half Corner Block.png Light Armor Half Corner Block 20 1x1x1 1 1 2 1 0 0 front no left no bottom no
Icon Block Light Armor Half Sloped Corner.png Light Armor Half Sloped Corner 20 1x1x1 1 1 2 1 0 0 front no left no bottom no
Icon Block Light Armor Half Sloped Corner Base.png Light Armor Half Sloped Corner Base 20 1x1x1 2 1 2 1 0 0 front back left right bottom no