On the right I used a rotor to try the same and on the middle I used a piston. The large hydrogen thruster on the left is built on a hinge and has a merge block on one of its sides.
When you try the same with a rotor or a hinge they don't merge, as seen on the first screenshot. When two merge blocks (one static, the other on a subgrid) are brought close to each other with a piston they merge as intended. So I tried with a rotor and a piston (built on the same grid as the hinge) to see if the problem happened too, and it happened only with the rotor. But no matter how many times I tried, the merge blocks never merged. Players build space ships, wheeled vehicles, space stations and planetary outposts, pilot ships and travel through space to explore planets and gather resources to survive, or build with no limits in creative mode.As I was building a small grid cargo shuttle I wanted to add hinge-mounted large hydrogen thrusters on it and lock them in place with merge blocks once they had moved to the desired orientation. This subreddit is an unofficial community about the video game "Space Engineers", a sandbox game on PC, Xbox, and soon PlayStation, about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Please review the Posting Guidelines (!) General Information ✘ Don't link to your twitch-livestream! (no channel links: VOD and YouTube links are allowed)
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