I suppose its encouraging for would be hackers of this game that they haven’t actually fixed the physics bug, they’ve just disallowed a use that would easily show the bug. Which I’d guess means there may be other ways to break the engine in interesting ways.
Never mind. I was going to comment on the fact that the rockets don’t work when I play, but I just read the latest posts about not being able to make rockets anymore, anyway.
I don’t think that’s actually true – they did give the wheels some added traction, due to the corners protruding ever-so-slightly; my solution for Awash used them for that purpose – it still works, due to the now-flailing rods sorta dragging the machine on, but if you remove them, it’ll tip over while climbing, and it worked perfectly before.
There’s also an anti-wheel league that has come up with some pretty cool stuff. One guy was successful making wheels out of sticks, but unfortunately with the physics update it doesn’t work any more. I think that will be my next challenge.
Might be, but I don’t think this one would work the way it does if there wasn’t some protrusion at the connection wheel/rod. (You can quite clearly see it hobble at that point.)
Also, here’s a green solution to Down Under – seemed kinda natural to try this one using gravity alone.