Survival Impossible - Boosters #25 - Space Engineers Hardcore Survival
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- This is Space Engineers survival in hard mode, using some custom mods made by me and a collection of others from the awesome SE community this scenario should push my engineering skills to the limit while also creating opportunities for some really unique design solutions.
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Checklist item.
#1 Check checklist.
#2 Some other important things
#3 If anything explodes blame Capac.
There you go, everything of importance.
"He's not dying. Probably not Capac" Lol :D
Don't the parachutes need the Autodeploy to be turned on even when using a timerblock? I'm curious.
Timer blocks act like a player interaction, parachutes should only need auto deploy if something isn’t triggering the parachutes.
Pre-launch: must break champagne bottle on bow of ship! For good luck
that was savage
@@pantherpickle08 yes good luck! Now who brought the champagne to the alien planet? It’s not in MY escape pod! 🥂
Checklist format is modelled a little bit after real life aviation, where the first officer would say the first two, and the captain would respond the last one. Some may look VERY obvious but that's why we have checklists! Note: This won't fit (comfortably) on your LCDs, sorry. :P
Relevant Stage - Variable - Desired value.
COMMAND - Power - 100%
COMMAND - Fuel - 100%
COMMAND - Parachutes - Loaded, auto-deploy disabled.
COMMAND - Merge - Locked.
COMMAND - Gear - Unlocked.
COMMAND - Thrusters - Disabled.
COMMAND - Cockpit - Manned. (either by yourself or by a cameraperson)
[Local control]COMMAND - Life support - O2, Food, Water on board.
[Remote control]COMMAND - Antenna - Online, max range (Thanks Slab4666)
COMMAND - Checklist Complete.
MAIN - Power - 100%
MAIN - Fuel 100%
MAIN - Merge to command - Locked.
MAIN - Merge to booster Left - Locked.
MAIN - Merge to booster Right - Locked.
MAIN - Connector - Locked.
MAIN - Orientation - Vertical.
MAIN - Parachutes - Loaded, auto-deploy disabled.
MAIN - Cargo - Empty.
MAIN - Thrusters - Disabled.
MAIN - Checklist Complete.
LEFT BOOSTER - Power 100%
LEFT BOOSTER - Parachutes - Loaded, auto-deploy disabled.
LEFT BOOSTER - Beacon - Online, max range.
LEFT BOOSTER - Reserve Chutes - Loaded.
LEFT BOOSTER - Timer block - Standing by.
LEFT BOOSTER - Checklist Complete.
RIGHT BOOSTER - Power 100%
RIGHT BOOSTER - Parachutes - Loaded, auto-deploy disabled.
RIGHT BOOSTER - Beacon - Online, max range.
RIGHT BOOSTER - Reserve Chutes - Loaded.
RIGHT BOOSTER - Timer block - Standing by.
RIGHT BOOSTER - Checklist Complete.
PILOT - Fed, Hydrated, Seated in powered seat.
PILOT - Environment - Breathable
LAUNCHPAD - Base Antenna - Online, max range
LAUNCHPAD - Ground clearance - All clear.
LAUNCHPAD - Sky clearance - No imminent threats.
LAUNCHPAD - Clear for launch.
Nice checklist
Very nice. You even remembered pointy end up, flamey end down.
Bonus points if Splitsie can get someone to stand in as commander, or grab sound bites for that from somewhere, like google translate or whatever. Do timers and soundblocks, or just some hotbars and soundblocks? :P
Also looks like there's a decent spot for a command&control center for space flight halfway up one of those two mountains.
Very nice list, You should add the one block that makes me lose drones sometimes: antenna range on ship at MAX and antenna range on base at MAX.
PILOT seat should be in an O2 rich environment.
Vegar Ystenes Valstad Good Idea with the sound effects!
Orientation Vertical - very important
Preflight checklist
1. Relax and breathe
2. Save blueprint
3. Start checklist
You want drones and to have something to run away from? Have you powered up the Absconder yet or is it still dead? You might want to fix that ASAP.
Pre-flight check:
Spare H2 bottles
Spare O2 bottles
Spare food
Spare H2O
Full fuel tanks/batteries on all modules
No damaged blocks
Spare rifle + ammo
Spare welder + grinder
repair parts
Base turrets on and loaded
All vehicles turned off or charging
Good Point, I really hope he follows this...
This first launch is unmanned. Remote controlled, so no need for a lot of that excess. Still an excellent list for manned missions.
Yep, unmanned first launch and yep, the absconder is powered up again - I was putting ice in it at the end of the episode :)
Splitsie, have you considered bringing the material for a large cargo container, beacon and parachute and send a container down from space with the ore in it? And collect it when you get back down.
At least for first launch he wasn't planning on going himself so no way to build anything
I did that once on a private server with 2 of my friends. I was sending them suplies from the moon with Unknown signals like crafts. It was a nice ideea but the main problem was that it was hard to get the packages near them. They still had to fly and bring them back...
Edit: grammar
My suggestion is similar to this but is to make a space buffer with basic power gen and basic ref and assem
Maybe add just the four directional thrusters, gyro, two or three small batteries, and a remote and make it a simple drone to arrive at a target gps? The native drone AI might be able to handle that kind of gantle arc, imho. I just don't know if the lack of up&down thrusters will impact the drone's behavior.
@@____5837 If he attached another module with a projector and some welders he could build it up there ! But that would be ridiculous. And Splitsie doesn't do ridiculous stuff, right ?
Checklist item; Make sure the booster parachute auto deploy is set to "Off" at launch to a) not deploy the chutes during takeoff and b) make sure that the timer blocks are turning the chutes on and not off....
I would add to put landing gears on the back of the atmo thruster pods to secure them properly when landing
Add spotlights and blinking lights
Add tug landing gear to command module if you want to bring something down.
Make a satelite to deploy at edge of gravity that can monitor your base airspace and act as radio relay.
#checkyourstageing
[Update Edit] You get 10L of Hydrogen per KG of Ice. Check your tank capacity. You need 16k ice per large hydrogen tank.
[Original comment] Oh, man, I was looking forward to this! :D I recently found the series and binge-watched the whole thing. Was kinda sad when episode 24 ended. I made a liftsie in my survival world too... Couldn't get MArmOS to work with it, unfortunately... It wasn't necessarily a MArmOS issue, it was a clang issue. Those opposing rotors generate phantom forces even if they're completely centered on the swivel rotor. I could make it turn left and right and have the 2 rotors working in parallel on elevation, but whenever I'd connect the 2 elevation rotors, the whole thing would freak out & start spinning around the Z axis, and there was nothing marmos could do to control it, so I gave up.
You know... instead of jumping at the buttons, you could set up a second hotbar for the liftsie's remote and have the bucket controls on that ;).
The liftsie's remote already has those controls on the hotbar, I just still find the jumping quicker/more fun :P
Checklist:
You really NEED a display that shows the Remoras distance to base when you remote control it. You may be running out of range without realizing it
Good idea, though while he's remote controlling he won't really be able to look at a display.
As long as he hides most of his GPS markers, he should be able to just look at the distance to his base antenna (or whichever antenna he's using) on the camera HUD
I think I'll try to come up with some way to make the antenna on base a bit more prominent so it's clearer just how far away I am at any stage to hopefully avoid those sorts of snafus :P
Instead of a mountain top antenna, what about taking the parts up to build a satellite with a laser antenna connection to the base and a standard antenna to connect outwards? Yet to see a laser antenna used! =P
They need superconductors...
100 each
In other words, they need gold. Tip: small grid laser antennas require many fewer components and AFAIK work just as well. One thing to watch out for: if placing a small grid LA on a large grid using a rotor conversion, be sure to keep the LA outside of the rotor's bounding box
Cyberguy42 I learned that one the hard way
Ryan Rands splitsie has Reavers in this world, I thought the same thing
Don't forget to blueprint everything. That needs to be on your checklist.
After having blown up so much stuff and lost it forever, blueprinting something the second it is complete has become second nature to me.
That's a good point, I do have a habit of not blueprinting all that much :P
@@Splitsie hi, I've been watching your survival series for a while now and love it, I have a help request, I've used a booster stage to successively get to space, but have been unable to recover the stage after re entry, it's basically two large hydro thrusters, o2 gen, small reactor, 6 parachutes with 3 canvas in each and a beacon. I release while still in gravity at approx 35000 metres. Any ideas? Cheers
Releasing at speed at that altitude there's a fair chance it'll have made it to space and then travelled on forever, that might be the issue?
@@Splitsie thanks for that, didn't really consider that, as was sure it fell, but you may be right, although zero g is at 43000 metres and I released at 38000 and 35000 the second time. Still gonna try it again and see.
I've been doing my own playthrough of the scenario, and one thing I'm adding to my first launch vehicle is enough components to bootstrap an industrial base in space. That way, I can do my refining in space and send down loads of ingots instead of loads of ore.
Splitsie, what you can do with the booster stages timer block and the parachutes is:
1. Turn off the parachute hatches
2. Turn on the auto-deploy feature
3. In the timer block get rid of the turn on/off auto-deploy and replace it with turning the block on
Yep, that would probably have made more sense :P
I love this series, one of the best on TH-cam. Stay safe, and I wish your all a lovely day.
Thank Nicklas :)
Next time on explosions, clang and assault drones splitsie attempts to assemble a reusable space shuttle and build an antenna on a mountain and not pull a wasted and fall off the edge. Will he do it. Find out next time on explosions, clang, and assault drones!
Yep, definitely got to avoid those falls. High grav and no Shack to catch me will probably end poorly :P
"And get out of the Clang zone..." If I know anything about gir- I mean Clangs, you never get out of the Clang zone.
Checklist suggestions: All booster parachutes have enough canvas (hehe), Food stocked, All batteries charged, All fuel tanks fueled, Spare ice (maybe), Thruster override shortcuts set, Timer shortcuts set.
I would also suggest the timers turn the parachutes ON (have them OFF on launch) and have auto-deploy set ON.
Hope the launch goes well, Major Tom.
This is honestly the coolest build I have ever seen, and I watch way too much Space Engineers videos on TH-cam.
20:57 capac just sitting on a couch watching splitsie do work through a window.
Nothing out of the ordinary there :D
Watch out for the creeper at 22:38 :P
For the boosters, if you’re worried about power I’d recommend doing like the mayday signals and have the beacon turn on and off over an interval. On enough for you to get oriented but not long enough to kill the battery.
Remember to check all the thrusters are in their respective groups, h2, left booster, right booster, remora, lifting ones etc.
Attach sound blocks to give of loud "OOO!" in Capac's voice in most epic moment :) Or just regular alarm during takeoff just for style.
Make sure booster engines are switched off by timer block or they may drain battery after separation.
You could use programmable block to change beacons broadcast text. For example after deployed parachutes it would add "Deployed" to its signal. It should be easy to write.
Also programmable block would be usefull to manage whole separation process with one click. If you want i can try to wirite custom script for you. Unless you already record new episode as i'm few days late here.
I'm getting caught up, so this might have been brought up. But I would put your merge block disconnect in the timer block of the boosters. Then on your payload stage set a timer block to activate both timer blocks. Put all your checklists into timer blocks!! This makes them repeatable, and less likely to make mistakes.
Can't wait to see what you've done.
thank you for all your workshop content
It’s great to see that Splitsie's still uploading regularly!
Always plenty more to come ;)
Tossing in a bunch of items to include to the checklist:
-Fuel check (Tanks, Engines reserve, optionnal Ice Backup)
-Battery Charge
-Food/Water/O2
-Gatling Ammo
-Check for damage on the craft's functionnal parts
-Timers setup and hotbarred (They should be reset when merge detaches for example)
-Parachutes loaded
-Cargo and drills emptied
-Tools/Personnal weapon/Medkits/Powerkits/Coffee
-Crawler secured (Handbrake on/Landing gear locked on voxel or static grid)
-Booster and Main Hydro Thrust Cruise controls set-up (Fuel efficiency)
-Spare repair parts for critical functions
-RCS Thrusters group
I would suggest a tiny attacheable drone with camera to scout out potentially dangerous area to avoid risking the crew and craft itself, potential use for the small hydro tanks (dampeners hardly required for space flight). As well as good lighting and cameras for the drilling part especially. For the boosters i'd leave the beacons off until they are needed, perhaps activated by timers after booster stage drop off.
I love the idea of the colour change for damage, I did this on my builds in escape from mars, whenever I replaced a block I replaced it with a solid grey like it was brand new metal plates. It looks even better now than we have battered and rust skins that you can apply whenever you repair a block that was only a little damaged. I admit it can be a bit to keep up with but I’m an RPer at heart and I love the story it gives a build.
It really does make a fun little bit of RP, I like doing bits a pieces that way as well :)
for the antennas, you gonna use the satalite dishes from frostbite? i think that would look pretty good on those hills.
to add to the checklist:
- set up all your hotbars for the diffent stages
- check all your antena ranges are set to max (just before launch due to power usage)
-check if you have canvasas in all parachute blocks
- turn on or off the hydrogen engines when needed
other ideas:
- build a cheap quick satalite for orbital relay station with some solar?
- build an camera up on the mountains with the antenna for a good overview shot / and maybe visual confirmation if the parachute deployed (have cappac man those cameras during lauch for that remote ground station chase cam feeling.
good luck,and good flight!
You might want to consider a large grid Hydrogen tank piped on to the base to allow you to accumulate fuel. There will come a time when you need to relaunch rapidly and not make three trips with the gufi to do so. I play on the Keen servers, and I don't even use hydrogen that much, but my base has H2 and O2 tankage. They are some of the first things I build.
One thing for the list, make sure to check your parachutes. Make sure the autodeploy is off at launch and will turn on when the boosters are let go. Better safe than sorry is a very good thing.
1. Could you have autodeploy on at all times and just toggle the chutes on/off like you want to with auto deploy?
2. Check center of mass and move chute position accordingly so they land the way you want especially if you have a landing gear you want them to land on to prevent any damage on landing to the boosters themselves.
3. Add landing gear on the Crawler to prevent it from flipping when you tilt to launch position and make sure boosters fit without interfering with the tilt process.
4. Small grid water recycler.
5. Pre-flight checklist to check on connections on hot bar are set up correctly and easily controllable/rememberable.
6. Try not to get to excited that you'll be able to use your jet pack properly again and make sure you bring extra H2 tanks just incase you celebrate a little too much. ;)
Splitsie, you could bring your comm relay with you. A small battery, a gyro, a programmable block for solar panel alignment, a small solar panel, an antenna, attached by either merge block or landing gear to the main stage. As you reach the end of your antenna range, detach a comm relay satellite. Bring at least two and you could get over 100 km away from surface.
Great episode as always Splitsie! Cannot wait for the launch!
I need to add a caution comment. I like to play Kerbal Space Program a lot and when detaching booster sections from main sections, there is always a need for separation force between the two stages. If only disconnected, stages tend to collide with each other and create unwanted explosions on such stages. I don't think that the merge block will have enough repulsion force to separate both sections and those boosters are going to hit everything they can on their way down to the planet. Please add something to separate them safely after detachment.
One more comment, maybe a post with a unified list will be good...
Last entry for your checklist..
"Light blue touch paper and retire to a safe distance" ;)
Not sure why I'm saying this, but Whiplash made a script that allows you to use thrusters on other grids, like thrusters on rotors and pistons. Anywho, great video once again Splitsie!
It also supports connectors.
That script can really help if you are flying a jumble of docked ships, but a single grid is always going to be simpler and more reliable.
The Remora looks very great :D
Thanks :)
I took influence from your garage design for my game and I now have an elevator that goes underground for vehicle storage and your goose is also in service with the butterball with it’s own personal parking space that when leaving the doors close the floor drops and spins 180 ready for driving away
Nice, if I weren't trying hard to avoid underground building in this series I'd certainly be thinking of something like that :)
Splitsie I’m usually the type of person to build above everything above ground, so I thought I’d go for something with an underground build
The emergency ration uses a lot of power and is very slow in producing stuff. (If you are hungry or thirsty, you will die befor it even finish something)
Instead of this, use a small cargo container that fit in this space and put it full with food and water.
If you have some meat from the drones, put it in the Food Protein Re-Sequencer to clone the meat. It takes some time (and other stuff) but you only need 0.33 meat and get 3kg from it.
Im currently playing your scenario and moving to a new base location. Only 3 Iron locations and surrounded by very big hills and deep valleys. 1.9G is realy a challenge. Sadly the NPCs spawn no drones to f me up (by now)
Still lots of fun playing this hard after 1,5 years not playing Space Engineers :D
1) You could use the connector at the bottom of the main stage to connect to a set of large cargo containers with parachutes and beacons built in space to drop ore to the planet.
2) I would be cool, if you built laser antennas on both mountains. :)
You could use the timer block to pulse (turn on then off) a beacon or antenna for a few seconds every minute to extend battery life.
Like your logical approach to the trusters. Spock will be proud.
@Splitsie - for your future "vehicles with no power" issue you can just use that spare small grid battery behind hangar with rotor head as power starter. You can easly push that battery by yourself or just use crane.
Splitsie, me ol' spanner, as great as this series is, the longer it airs, the more convinced I am it should have been called, 'Survival ... Calculated.' XD
That's fair, I honestly did expect to have died by now - especially that bit where I was flung a few hundred metres by that piece of stair :P
Oh god... It's one of the Capac clones that was created in the medbay malfunction!
The prelaunch checklist for remote launches should be in the launch vehicle cockpit.
REVERSE LIGHTS ON THE GUFI. Sorry for caps, but so you don't forget.
To prevent dizziness, perhaps build yourself a medium cargo container sandwiched between two Connectors, that the Searchie can carry up and down for when you're building on rooftops. Since the container should never be left sitting disconnected, it won't need a power source. But then you could bring say the bits and pieces for a new turret up in the container, rather than hoofing it up and down the spinny staircase. That said accidents happen, so a small battery in recharge mode just like on the absconder isn't a terrible idea.
Darn I just started watching the series the other day and I'm already at the end
Maybe you could leave the chutes auto-deploy on, but turn the chute block it self off, and then set the timer to turn the chute blocks back on when they separate. This would effectively give you a separate on and off function like you wanted. Also maybe add a water recycler to the Remora command module so you can make some water if you find ice up there, since the water drains faster then food.
limited to ONLY 3 perspectives?! you poor thing XD. great series. love going back to it
Such a complex build, learning allot watching you though. Keep up the great work.
I'm glad my constant push to build complex things has some added benefits :)
Since the parachute don't have seperate actions to turn the auto-deploy on or off, you could always turn the parachute block off and enable auto-deploy from the start, and then use the timers to turn the block back on. That way you can spam the timer block hundres of time in a panic, and the auto-deploy will be active. :)
I've followed all your series for the last couple of years - one thing I've never seen you do yet, and maybe this is a prime opportunity to do so - is set up any kind of laser antenna relay. Maybe instead of putting a regular antenna set to max range on top of the mountain, put a laser antenna up there and then put a laser antenna on the Ramora? Could make for interesting watching anyway :)
Problem is Laser Antennae have shorter transmission ranges than regular ones.
EDIT: Nevermind, the Wiki is just outdated. That's a great idea.
The real problem is that you need gold to make superconductors for laser antennas, and AFAIK Splitsie has nowhere near enough (if he even has any)
@@Cyberguy42 Oh yeah absolutely not. That is a problem.
Gold spawns on the alien planet, so sure it might be an issue ATM, but not unsolveable. Just need to find some.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - Leonardo da Vinci
I nearly jumped when you connected the crawler to the base for the first time and the Hydrogen Engines kicked on. As far as the mountains go, I think it would be fun to build Antenna parts and minibase parts and haul them up there via truck like you and Capac did with the modules in Frostbite. It would mean having to possibly build access roads which could serve a roleplay function for "maintenance"
Will the antenna stations have rotating bits for fun? The idea of building sections of them at a time and hauling them to location where they can get craned on sounds like a fun feat of engineering. Don't forget the most important parts of the antenna, the Blinkenlightsen what for letting any nearby aircraft know there's an obstruction and to fly around
Remember daily needs for your journey. Also remember what happened at the end of survival maybe with your booster stage when it's velocity didn't beat the gravity and it flew off into space
His first flight is unmanned other than a camera account but I think having daily needs built in now is important since you cant forget it when you go on it next time.
Hmm, curious then. If Splitsie is at the base controlling a drone ship in space, would the drone attract pirates, or only at the base... Or both.
For space based stuff, it'll be potentially both of those things - reavers attacking the remora, assertive cargo ship drones would attack me (or crash trying) :P
Flight crew checklists usually go item by item, if there are two things to check there are two entries, so instead of saying "do x AND y" you'd see two separate entries one for "do x" then another entry for "do y", this helps prevent skipping the second step, this seems like an unnecessary step, but consider that the only pilots who could argue that, didn't survive their crashes.
You should reconnoitre a good landing spot (or a couple of good landing spots) for the Remora to aim towards on the way down. You know, flat areas with enough space to movie the crawler and the crane in next to the landed ship, and sufficiently far enough away from home to avoid crashing into the top of your base.
Checklist Item: Compile last will and testament; leave everything to Capac.
No, to Steve!
NEVER! :D
Reggie gets the lot ;)
That would be the last item on the list, written in Capac’s handwriting.
The Goofi is definitely a cool vehicle, and I cannot wait until I figure out how to make my own similar Goofi type miner!!! Can’t wait to see ya hit space, it’s gonna be exciting 😎👍👍
Thanks, it should be an interesting journey - especially if I don't have enough parachutes for my return weight :P
You just gave me a great idea to a build in game, dont knownifnits possible, but what better time to check than in quarantine
Hey Splitsie, a not-obvious thing about the food blocks. Every side of them is a conveyor port, so you could have an interesting face outwards and it would still work.
Oh right, I keep forgetting that :P
@@Splitsie it's not remotely obvious so pretty easy to forget
Might be good to add auto locking landing gear on the opposite side of the 'shutes for the boosters, so that they don't roll around on hills and potentially damage themselves.
This series is kind of like RL Craft. It’s modded and customized to make the game harder. You die a lot at first but after a while you start to thrive. And it’s very entertaining to watch.
Thank you :)
I'm so glad you named your little ship Ramora, after that suckerfish... because with you current naming scheme you would had to have named it "Sucksie" and I kind of don't think you'd want that name to stick around :D
hey Splitsie i ask last episode that you could make a safe platform (that of course doesn't just look like a plateau of blocks) in space to make space mining easier, i thought it could be interesting
Eventually I'll build something up there, but this first launch is going to be unmanned so no option for building anything yet
For the booster timers and the parachutes, just leave them on auto deploy whatever level you want and turn them off. Then have the timer block turn them on and they should auto deploy as usual
Add a timer block with 10 minutes delay that turns on autopilot. When you are remote controlling you can reset the timer periodically, but in case you lost antenna connection the ship will autopilot itself back.
Use laser antenna, it is less convenient but range is huge. On Earth like planet with radius of 60km, 0G at altitude ~40km, even there regular antena is not really enough to remote control, but there you can place retranslator in 0G region.
You need ~100tons of ice to refuel lower stage and ~10-20tons to refuel upper stage. Make sure you don't leave a lot of ice in the rocket when will launch, you don't need that extra weight.
Also since you use timer to drop busters, you can set safety switch, button on hotbar which will stop timer in case you change your mind or you start detaching busters by mistake.
It seems like the game is telling you to finish some of your many ongoing projects before starting new ones, all those unwelded blocks for example are causing the bug where some of them disappear and reappear when you get close to them.
How about two timers in a loop (triggering each other) , wich turn the beacon on and of every 10 seconds or so. Just to save a bit more Power...
could even use the one he already has installed so he'd only need one more
The Cylons type like us now! You expect us to believe you're human when you suggest an SPRT move? No no no, Mr. Roboto. We will find your devices and shut every one of them down for destroying humanity.
Only 1 timer is needed: just have it trigger "Toggle On/Off" for the beacon and start itself.
Though it would be better to have the beacon off more than on, such as on for 3 seconds, off for 30. That's almost as convenient for locating the boosters while using 20% of the energy, though it would require 2 timers (or 1 PB)
This could certainly be worth doing for when I do a manned launch as I might stay in space long enough for power to become an issue...
4:35 is how horror movies start.
lol :D
"I want as little weight as possible for the best thrust-too-weight ratio".. Then proceeds to add additional armor greeble making it heavier..... Sigh.
The greeble was always going to happen, an extra timer block? That's where I can cut weight :D
also some form power generator, for those booster modules might be a good idea too, as depending on when you are able to get to them, and depending on battery state and usage it might be worth a back up when it lands
i really like the design of the remora. you dont even need the crew module if you arent going up with it. you can just fly it remotely. one thing you should do tho is build a small satellite to put in orbit so you can remote it to some asteroids.. also remember asteroids dont spawn unless you first go to space physically.
Taking the crew module is part of the test, I want to make sure I can safely go up on the second launch :)
I'm planning on slightly cheating and using Steve to ensure some asteroids spawn
I would say set the booster battery to discharge, just so the atom thrusts don't drain your main batteries. You could also set up the beacons to be pulsating to save batteries if by any reason they can't be recovered quick enough.
Don't forget to add a landing gear to the crawler and add it to the check list as
_ Lock crawler down prior to rotation of Remora
* you might want to add the gravel to the crew module before launch due to not being able to make gravel without a refinery or a survival kit, and some ice wont hurt either.
Splitsie living the Musk montra: The best part is no part
Hey I just want to give splitzie a shout out he has been invaluable to us Xbox players stating out everyone in our Facebook community references his videos pretty all the time. good job.
I'm glad to have helped :)
[] beacons and antennas are on[] Booster thrusters are on[] Booster parachute autodeploy is off[] Player can survive for extended period of time (don't forget the vent connection to the cockpit of the crawler)[] Tanks are full and cargo is empty except for emergency supplies
checklist.
1. check if all hatches have parachutes
2. check parachute hatch settings to prevent accidental deployment
3. check oxygen and hydrogen levels in system
4. check battery charge
5. check if there's enough food and water for the journey to and from space
6. check if there are back-up oxygen and hydrogen tanks on person in case of an emergency
instead of multiple launches for things that you need in high quantity (like iron) i could imagine you just send home a container full of stuff. Just the container, the simplest of thruster setup for space maneuver and a parachut to drop it above a gps near the base.
And another idea regarding the antenna relais: i guess you should use the laser antenna for that purpose to avoid too much attention to these outposts.
That would be the plan for once I've got some things established up there, but not an option for this initial unmanned launch
Laser antennas aren't an option, they require parts I can't build (I don't have the gold that's needed) and they need direct line of sight so it's very easy to become disconnected when used between mobile grids.
One of the points probably should be... Make sure the atmospheric thrusters on the boosters do not drain the batteries on the crew module and the cargo module.
power upgrades to consider.
a larger Solar Tower. or two.
these can be built lying down and attached via a Hinge and then raised to the vertical orientation to attach via a Weld Pad rather than use a flying Grid. but a considerable increase of power generation that doesn't require mining vast quantities of Snow or Ice.
Given the ones I built in Survival Maybe I adamantly refused to build large solar towers in this series, I wanted to challenge myself to do something different :)
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Not a checklist thing, but when you are ready to jettison the boosters, maybe roll the ship a little to give the boosters a little distance from the main ship as it ascends.
I think it's time to make a dedicated snow mining platform or a "Zamboni" drill truck with drills pointed down to make scrape mining easier.
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you could build drop cargo boxes a cross between your booster rockets set up so you can just drop a cargob ox full of iron from space on a remote/programing block targeted to land near your base if thats even posable
you should build a traverse in the garage, build things and able to move them outside, have like one rotor attachment on it and one landing gear lifter thingy
Checklist items: check that all parachutes have canvas. check that you have enough food/water.
Just be sure the auto deploy on the booster parachutes doesn't trigger until after they have been jettisoned. If you keep running after shiny sweet lootz in the middle of the job you'll have to change your suit to orange...
I’m way too late but some gyro on the booster would have been nice. You can set them to pull away (tilt) slightly when you detach them. So the motor push away from the main body.
Something else to add to the large vehicle - decoy blocks with a directional thruster? release it and run. Maybe a first option instead of losing the main launch vehicle?
I know you probably won't be able to pull this off in the next few episodes, but i would suggest building a relay satelite in space, or build a shuttle that can take a satelite up there
With any repairs, rather than paint them a different colour, paint them the same colour but as a shiny new bit rather than the weathered look
Ah, good call. It'll be an nice more subtle difference :)
For the check list, perhaps you could make a script that shows checkboxes for each item on the list and prevents you from activating the engines until you've checked all the boxes..
Also, verify if boosters are attached properly..
Splitse, i think you should add "drop pods" so you can drop ore that ou have collected in space, idk if it would make re-entry cheaper?
For this sort of setup it would likely make it more expensive to do the launch due to the extra connectors and merge blocks that would be required, re entry isn't an issue as it's reliant almost entirely on the parachutes so fuel use at that stage doesn't matter much other than helping to drift away from something that isn't a good landing site
Thanks for the video
for the check list make sure is no bloc from the building process left ( mean you did not remove on the side of the connector from the first stage snd mobile launch platforme )
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Partial Checklist: ( pre launch )
1: Do dance
2: Thumbs up
3: Wave to camera
Partial Checklist: ( Launch )
1: Thumbs up
2: Scream like little girl
3: Wonder if you left the stove on
4: Remember to look for aliens
5: Remember discussing animal crackers with Capac ( Armageddon )
6: Practice epic speech for when you save the world at the last second
7: Practice quotes from Sci-Fi movies
8: Fall asleep and dream of being Chest Bursted