This is a speed that can't be attained by Corderpush technology.
In late July 2020, Goldtiger997 constructed a new type of Demonoid puffer with the record-breaking velocity of (4825784,4825784)c/45679544 - slightly slower than c/10 diagonally. Until recently, the fastest Demonoids used a 'Corderpush' method to move their elbows and target blocks: i.e., first a Cordership was constructed and allowed to travel a long distance, and eventually it was shot down by a following salvo of gliders to produce faraway target ash, which was then converted into a new copy of the spaceship's circuitry by a slow salvo. Only a constant amount of time is needed to construct a copy of the spaceship's circuitry, so with a long enough period, the construction time can be made to be as small a percentage of the elbow-push time as you want. We can build structures that come as close as we want to that maximum speed, simply by increasing the period of the spaceship and spending a longer time moving the target object at top speed.
This is because self-constructing spaceships speeds are always limited to the maximum speed at which a target object can be moved by a given construction arm. From 29th, 2020įor several years the upper speed limit for diagonally-traveling self-constructing spaceships has been c/12, the speed of a Cordership.
