Thruster

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Type:	Construction tool
Primary fire:	Attach a thruster to the surface you're looking at.
Secondary fire:	No action
Notes:	The thrusters force will vary depending on the model you use, a mx power soda can will not have as much force as a Fat canister at max (See note 3 under Useful Hints below).

Brief

Adding a thruster to an object allows you to propel it at the push of a button. You can choose between several thruster models, you can set the amount of thrust and influence the style of the thrusters effect.

Instructions

1. Just left click a surface to attach a thruster to it.

Variables

Thruster Model 

How the thruster will look and how large it will be.

Thruster Effect 

Style of the exhaust flame.

Thruster Force 

The amount of force the thruster can apply to the object it is attached to.

Push 

The button you have to press to make the thruster push.

Pull 

The button you have to press to make the thruster push in the inverse direction (= pull).

Toggle On 

Whether the thruster stays on after releasing the key assigned to it.

Collide with attached object 

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Active when Damaged 

If activated, the thruster fires as soon as it receives damage.

Useful hints

1. You don't have to remove and re-attach a thruster to change its settings. Just press primary attack while looking at it and it will adopt whatever you've set to the tool's options in that moment.
2. You can get greater power precision by manually typing the values in beside the sliders.
3. Since January of 2008, most thrusters will not generate more than 10 000 thrust unless their weight (mass) is increased. Choosing a larger thruster model will also bypass this problem, as they have a higher weight. If some of your older contraptions fail to be pushed by thrusters and they once were, this is probably why.