G'day everyone, I've been a bit sick this past week or so and just wanted to apologise if I missed any of my sniffles or coughs during the edit (it'll still be better than everyone on Twitch has had to deal with though) 🤔 Fingers crossed my voice is mostly back to normal next week 🤞
Next time you run into that problem splitsie, spam the convert to station button and it will save you time. Just don’t do it with anything other than a 45 degree angle, my grids get snap happy otherwise
Hi splitsie, i know i don't speak for everyone but there's no need to worry. you rest up, take it easy, and get well soon. PS: i had an idea for your pavement, you know how you built your ramp? what if you built colored small block panels that connect flat to the ground using landing pads. (kinda like the painted emmisive strips on the road and highways irl that outline traffic lanes.)
Hi Splitsie, you could have connected your two warehouses together with two connectors. Placing the connectors on top of each other (one facing up and one facing down) removes the need to have to create an angled connection.
Yes, with vertical Connectors positioned it givey you lot of sideways and lengthways diviation abilities and also in the height.Jjust put the force to zero and you can move arround with pistons or the crane or what ever. Also turning a connecting pipe segment on an Arch below gives you the abilitie to target different blocks in the plane and one will line up perfectly. You can do this with a rotor on one grid verry easy andf later switch 2 blocks to connectors on this side. Even if you have to target one specific block on one end you probably got enough options on the other side with different connection rod length and some archway. You can later convert the moved pipe section to a static grid and you are done. With on max only 4 Connectors in Total and only one connecting grid. Or if it matches even with only 2 and no connecting grid.
NGL - Splitsie realising that he could use this to angle the body of a structure, then immediately forgetting that he could use it was a little frustrating to watch 😂
I'm in the middle of the video as he's making a chain of connectors and had to stop and come look for a comment like this!! The corner of the warehouse is ready!!
Last night, I used what was possibly my first ever rotor to aim a spotlight at my hangar entrance. Then I wake to find Splitsie moving an entire bloody warehouse with a hinge and a couple of pistons.
Its not learning from your mistakes Splits, its just learning, you haven't (and I don't think ANYONE) has ever done anything like this before 😂 You're too hard on yourself dude, you're amazing at this game and this scenario you have created is amazing too!
Those reflections on the small-battery powered light, on how to connect it, and the best way to replace it for recharging - just screamed of "How many space engineers do you need to replace a lightbulb" jokes in my head🤣
As a bloke who has worked in heavy industry all his life, this series is just more than a little amusing at times. I like the dude on forklift stacking the cubes, you can tell he's been an operator before no question. -As for Splitsie's workshop and warehousing, all I can say it's a fairly common thing in Australia in manufacturing; crap everywhere lol
You could also just make lamp posts that stick on landing gears with a removable battery slot so if you need to recharge them, you can just unplug the drained battery and switch it out with a charged one. Keep a small battery charging bank somewhere to make it easy.
All this saga of the second warehouse is super interesting and so much fun, I wonder if in the future you'll "borrow" other buildings from the wastelands
I know! He already realized that eventually the grids would line up when he saw how small the gap gap the other end was. Besides, connectors tolerate a lot more transnational misalignment than the do angular so wouldn't even need to be that close.
@@Splitsie If you do go back to change it, the 2nd block on the 4th row (or the 4th block, 2nd row) of the new warehouse counting from the alinged corner will line up to within 0.1 blocks to your main grid. That should be close enough for a connector to lock. If not, 9th block, 4th row (or vice versa) is even closer within 0.04 blocks.
Well, that was a nice half an hour that went by! I gotta say, I like it when you build functional things around the base. Things that will get use/ you have a need for. Plus pulling things off vehicles is real nice to see, because you use everything in interesting ways!
Holly Frak ! I hitted jackpot while playing this scenario offline. Small grids O2 Tanks, lots of H2 tanks and... and... H2/02 Generator ! Ore Detector ! And Big Grid O2 Tank and H2 Tanks ! This is going to be awesome !
With the trailer for your crane truck (i think its called the flatliner) you should colour code the magnetic plates so then you can easily see the different groups of magnetic plates when you have lots of scrap.
This was a super entertaining episode. The warehouse at that angle looks soo good, too. I actually also really like the grey concrete, because of the contrast it gives to the reddish ground. If you wanna break that up you could try adding some guidelines, like on runways or something. Could look really interesting. Aaalso I loved that brain bluescreen, couldn't contain a laugh at that xD
When you were making the lamp posts I kept thinking about keeping the light attached to the battery and merge block and having it merged to the top of the post where the light were normally go. That way when it's time to recharge the batteries you could undo them from the top as if you were changing a light bulb. Just have a set of 'bulbs' charging in some small room to switch them out once a month so it's as easy as popping out the dead bulbs and popping in the fresh ones.
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Another nice way to connect up the power could be using small-grid powerlines above the ground. maybe even a hinge to give them a rope look. Powerlines would fit well with the scrapyard theme as well.
Off kilter... That was the word i was looking for. You can build the scrapyard sign on the ground. Pick it up with the crane. Add magplates. Then stick it to the building so it will be off kilter.
Hey Splitsie, quick recommendation (for safety's sake), make the edge that touches the ground of your ramp to your "aircraft hanger" area you made the ramp for at the end of your video have the yellow/black stripes and be solid. It will give it an obvious indicator to where it is and it is something a scrapyard might actually have for safety reasons. Just a thought. Love the series.
For the lights, you could just weld up the tube on the end since you're already using lamp blocks to make it (unless the tubes are really dim). It makes sense that you can't weld a lamp to the front of another lamp (the tube piece).
Hi @Splitsie, thanks for the video! I have a suggestion for the small-grid ramps: why not add a sort of girder to the bottom of the ramp, in the direction of travel? like make the center row of plate thicker to add a bit of depth and strength, visually. Cheers mate!
Your scrapyard is coming together nicely, but I think, if you find your bar, you need to make a beer garden with a climbing frame or see saw and swing set to complete the look. Maybe also have a burger van just outside your yard, so your (roleplay) workers and visitors can get a bite to eat.
Oh I really like that idea, I could maybe even contract out for a few food trucks for people to bring in to populate it too - I'm sure the others on the server would really get into that :)
Just began watching, I'm sitting here hoping my sign suggestion gets used, though the others were great, but my main point is that this video is already amazing only like ten minutes in, as per usual with the splitsie scrapyard series (or S.S.S. as i like to call it)
Hey Splitsie, thought you might find this interesting! For your garage building. Have you considered an openable door, like a drawbridge? It could double up as a ramp. For your base name: A large rotating signpost raised to the height of wind turbines. It would really bring your place to life! And for the warehouse lights: What if you lined up two rows of corner lights along the neon tubes, facing away from each other? It may bring out that classy warehouse vibe you're aiming for."
Sick Splitsie sounds like hangover Splitsie, not that I'd know, but with the previous episode ending in a contest with a booze tent, it's just too fitting. Get better soon.
Love the lamppost idea, you could have the connector at the top of the main post facing up (you would probably have to make the lamppost with the cylinders) and use a small flying drone and ai controller to automatically fly out to each lamppost dock on the connector and charge it up then return to its charging station. if the drone and automatic controller won't work due to server then just having an attachment to the telehandler that can connect to the connector at the top would do for a manual method of charging. either way, looking forward to what you end up going with, I'm sure it will be cool.
When you fins the bar, you should place it in line with the rail bridge entry way, so people aren't loitering inside the scrapyard, but outside the "gate" instead.
For the lampposts, I'd build them so that your existing little battery + merge block was attached upright to the back of the base/foot or the post. That way, you can just swap out batteries as required, and charge them at a charge point like the one you just built :)
That sounds like a great idea. I'll have a play around and see how I most like designing that. Thankfully I don't actually need to have the merge blocks remain on there, because I can just release the blocks when the battery dies :)
“… as I consider what angles a connector can tolerate.” Well, if you consider the circular face of the connector, it can tolerate rotation of 360º. But I guess we get to just watch him cook for another half hour. 🤣
For the lamp posts you could have the small battery and merge block be removable and build a little river that can carry a bunch and drive it around to swap them out when needed
You could make something like a wallmounted torch built around a battery, small connector, magplate and exhaust block. You could then hang them from various walls. Or put the exhaust block on top of your lightpole. Remember to set the right exhaust setting (fire or large fire). Of course, if you find a _large grid_ exhaust block, or can build one, there is nothing holding you back from building a tower or mast and installing the Beacon of Splitsie. Exhaust block light effects are visible from a surprising distance.
The beacons are lit! Scrapsie calls for aid! I really love the idea of a chain of flaming beacons around the planet between everyone's bases and want to make it happen now :D IT would be a really cool way to announce server events, though would probably need to do it with laser beacons and event blocks to automate for when people are offline.
@@JPEight Well, we are going to be getting signal blocks in a few weeks, so broadcasting a 'light the beacons' signal shouldn't be too hard after they drop . . . .
so the ramp supports: how about using a rotor under the ramp. use a "block" arm and let gravity align it. the mag plate to ramp to an strut that runs under the ramp. Hope that makes sense. You are my "TV" for the week. Thanks for the content 🫂
Making content while being sick (many don't) negates any need for you to apologize if a cough or sniffle got missed in editing. Sounds like you have a decent list of things to search for now as you go scrapping. More computers, small batteries, a rail trestle, a bar, and anything else you know you're low on and will need for the upcoming flying vehicle. I'm curious now to see how you'll go about making flickering neon. Should be interesting.
The red dust in the corner of the new warehouse is from Capac because that is where he sleeps every time he gets put in time out for one of his shenanigans.
Add a big single button to the battery with the merge block and call it your flashlight. You could even make mounts on your vehicles to bring it with you.
Your fix for converting the warehouse back to station once in position is how I built a massive pipeline in a single player world. I used that trick at each vertical pylon for the line every 20 blocks or so.
Had an idea for a game. I wanted to do suggest a crane game like in the arcades, but that would require a bunch of small cargo containers unpowered. Unless you put small batteries on them. Each container would have a datapad in it with a prize written on it. People could come by and play for whatever resource they can donate that you need. Not large amounts, but enough to make it worth your while. You could put a bunch of nice scrap prizes in them they could win and one or two very nice prizes you found and don’t really actually need yourself. Basically just an arcade game for your fellow scrappers to play when they come by. I don’t know, was just thinking of things to do. You could announce what the big prize is every episode so people know what to look out for.
Hey Splitsie, for future consideration, there are two mods that would've helped you out immensely: Angled attachments (basically Hinge blaocks that look like standard blocks), and Pipelines. They would've made merging your new building to the rest of the build, as well as connecting conveyoring easier!
I quite enjoy trying to come up with vanilla solutions to these problems, it's where I find a lot of my fun in space engineers so I tend not to use mods for things I think I can do in other ways 🙂
If you place the connectors vertical so they will be usable you can then get a conveyor tube that will connect as the 45 will be on the radius of both connectors where they connect.
you could use the small battery+merge block as a battery pack of sorts, so you could build the street lamps off merge blocks instead of batteries and just change battery once it's empty instead of charging them; also this would give you some sort of standard modular power solution (maybe even have a emergency power merge block in your small grid builds)
39:30 or you could build a lamp post without a battery but wit a small merge block and just swap in a merge block/battery unit once a month from spares on a rack with the grab tool those little battery packs + the ability to carry them ignited a bunch of ideas in my head when i first saw them and this was one of them
oh, and i'm once again requesting a grinder pit for getting bulk components once you've picked out the good blocks off a scrap grid (that you aren't keeping for aesthetics)
im never this early, ive been watching this whole series and ive never heard of this game lol, this is thoroughly entertaining please keep up the good work
Depending if the server updates to the newest dlc version, you could wait and hook up all the exterior lights to a channel and have them toggleable to save power and last even longer
Probably would have been easier to set that hinge to 90 degrees and use the pistons for pure X and Y movement. All the vector math working at 45 degrees seemed to be far more complicated than was comfortable. I think the warehouse is a beautiful addition, and that you did an awesome job making it look like it was there from the beginning.
you could have just done them one on top of the other to get the twist, and then you can get it done with just 2 connectors... it would end up a bit deeper underground or you would have the bottom of the connector more visable, but its a lot cheaper
Having resetting voxels isn’t cheesy. It’s like doing the rough in like plumbing on a house and then burying it like you would do anyway. It’s actually more realistic than dirt Judd disappearing when you hit it with something.
One day we need to see a massive multiplayer survival impossible. That is a server I could get really invested in (I am actively studying aerospace engineering) Also a drainage system would probably look pretty cool going across your parking lot
Hmm... I wonder if I can do something that looks like a decent drainage system without totally messing up the driving surface (which is also why I've avoided doing any painted lines). I guess just replacing some of the blocks with grated catwalks could be enough as that'll still be perfectly smooth
Fill in the new parking lot around your base and to the side and front of New Warehouse, then under the parking lot, but close to the warehouse, dig down deep enough to place blocks down and Under the warehouse, (L-Shaped) ... Leave room for a 2 connector. One down from the warehouse and one up from the extension under the new warehouse, the angle is covered by the round top connector, like when a ship lands on a connector facing any direction.
for the small lights you could just stick a single small solar panel on each one with the small battery. you could then double or triple up on the number of lights on each one. I guarantee one small solar panel would be more than sufficient to keep the battery charged. Plus it gives you another thing to go scrapping for. Oh and you could put a rotor on the handler head, behind the mag plate to rotate things when you pick them up.
Late comment but I'm catching up after being offshore. Just caught the new Signals update - perhaps the new truss block can be used for the lamp post, a bit more robust in size rather than a single small diameter pole
Alignment of the warehouse would probably be easier if you either aligned a smaller set of blocks that you then merged the warehouse to (which would also solve some of the digging problem), or built a raised section of the corner you were aligning it to so you could just kind of shove it at the corner to get the distances perfect. Difficult environments defintely bring out peoples' empathy really well, because having barely struggled past ending up in the situation someone else is now in, you know the pain it brings. It could've been you in that situation, and it could be you in a similar one next time, so even if you're selfish you still want to help so it can be paid forward to you. Particularly running out of power, as your scrap beacon will go out and you'll be lost to the sand. Interested in your future fuel facility - it wouldn't need a massive amount of storage since SE tanks are far bigger on the inside, so you could use those silos that are scattered around to make it look much bigger than it is. Maybe design some spherical tanks out of armor panels, though it's a shame you can't use the actual hydrogen tanks - or even large grid large hydrogen thrusters, two placed nozzle to nozzle - as non-functional decorative blocks.
Merging to existing blocks would have run into the issue of those blocks then becoming mobile and exploding so wouldn't have been easier in the end (there are a lot of blocks in the warehouse so making the locked down grid larger is a big task)
Actually, if you're referring to how far apart the wheels are side to side (as apposed to front to back), the correct term is Gauge. Yes, Gauge gets used for a LOT of measurements, with this particular use going back to railroad standardization.
It seems like track can be used but gauge would probably be more common, at least from the info I looked into when this had been brought up in another comment
At 31:24 your trying to use a string of connectors in series in an angle sideways, mount connector upside down on floor of warehouse and mount upright connector on conveyor tube coming from main building, below that. This solves 3 things ... angle of building, conveyor access, and only 2 connectors.
About the ramp If you put the mag plate on the 2nd closest plate to the ground, wouldn't it be able to lock at that angle without being in the way Just an idea if you want to do a large grid on later
Maybe make the placeable lights things a bit bulkier around the base of them, then you can have a spot where you can just "plug in" a battery module. You have a battery and merge block as a module, then have a merge block on the light post somewhere near the bottom. Then you don't really have to worry about using more than one light per post. Swapping out a battery like once a week or so seems feasible.
For your streetlamps. Just make 'em and place em around on mag plates. keep your little batteries somewhere charging. And go take the little batteries to the lamp-posts with a merge block. that way you don't have to charge the whole thing. just swap out the battery with a fresh one as you need it. i reckon every 35 days right?
Hey Splitsie, always enjoy your videos, especially your co-op series with Capac. With connecting the two warehouses, could you have used two advanced rotors and conveyor tubing, rather than the connector chain? Just curious for when I can play Space Engineers again - my PC has all the capability of a ten year old laptop 😋
It would probably be a lot of work, but what if the "light bulb" for your street lamps consists of a light, battery and merge block. When the battery dies, just change out the "bulb". Your telehandler can change the bulbs.
27:26 Thank you Splits for letting me won the bet of "will Splitsie overengineer moving and placing that barn and connecting with the main base?" with my friends. 31:15 I think this was where you realized that upward and downward connectors can be connected even if the other is not in the same angle in y axis and can be cheaper, no? lol like the one at 49:53
Ya sound a little bit sick 🤒 hope everything’s all right, poor Toby daycare illnesses lol Ahh I was correct lol, hopefully everyone gets over it soon lots of love and joy
Your underground connectors could be vertical instead of horizontal. Then you could have whatever angle you want, like a rotor, from only one pair of connectors.
so, a small thing i noticed, don't Wind Turbines work best if they're 8 blocks away from each other? it doesnt seem like you have power issues but thats just a thing i noticed
44:05 A tertiary color to go with the grey and navy blue might work pretty well. I'm partial to a vaguely greenish-gray, but perhaps a more muted yellow to match the "Scrapsie" sign? 59:00 Do you think you could have snuck a sloped block under the large block ramp to supply a place for the mag plate to lock to?
G'day everyone, I've been a bit sick this past week or so and just wanted to apologise if I missed any of my sniffles or coughs during the edit (it'll still be better than everyone on Twitch has had to deal with though) 🤔
Fingers crossed my voice is mostly back to normal next week 🤞
Why dont you merge block the new warehouse to your existing grid?
Next time you run into that problem splitsie, spam the convert to station button and it will save you time. Just don’t do it with anything other than a 45 degree angle, my grids get snap happy otherwise
I hope you feel better soon.👍🏻 I got hit with strep throat two days ago. Been bored in bed all day until I started watching this❤
I didn't spot any, Get well soon Splitsie 🙂
Hi splitsie, i know i don't speak for everyone but there's no need to worry. you rest up, take it easy, and get well soon.
PS: i had an idea for your pavement, you know how you built your ramp? what if you built colored small block panels that connect flat to the ground using landing pads. (kinda like the painted emmisive strips on the road and highways irl that outline traffic lanes.)
Hi Splitsie, you could have connected your two warehouses together with two connectors. Placing the connectors on top of each other (one facing up and one facing down) removes the need to have to create an angled connection.
Yes, with vertical Connectors positioned it givey you lot of sideways and lengthways diviation abilities and also in the height.Jjust put the force to zero and you can move arround with pistons or the crane or what ever.
Also turning a connecting pipe segment on an Arch below gives you the abilitie to target different blocks in the plane and one will line up perfectly.
You can do this with a rotor on one grid verry easy andf later switch 2 blocks to connectors on this side.
Even if you have to target one specific block on one end you probably got enough options on the other side with different connection rod length and some archway.
You can later convert the moved pipe section to a static grid and you are done. With on max only 4 Connectors in Total and only one connecting grid. Or if it matches even with only 2 and no connecting grid.
NGL - Splitsie realising that he could use this to angle the body of a structure, then immediately forgetting that he could use it was a little frustrating to watch 😂
I'm in the middle of the video as he's making a chain of connectors and had to stop and come look for a comment like this!! The corner of the warehouse is ready!!
yeah this! the connection horizontal gives all rotation needed.
Yup, I did the dumb - saw a solution and didn't pause to consider if there was a better solution if I just thought a little bit longer :D
Last night, I used what was possibly my first ever rotor to aim a spotlight at my hangar entrance. Then I wake to find Splitsie moving an entire bloody warehouse with a hinge and a couple of pistons.
lol I mean, I also used a hinge to aim a spotlight at my main parking area so at least we both did that bit :D
I like the red dirt in the corner. It gives the illusion that it was all blown there by the wind. Makes it feel more realistic.
I was literally thinking this, a good spot for a rusty barrel too
Splitsie: "Success, despite being my own worst enemy."
You beat the only enemy who really matters. 👍
...but don't get too cocky. He'll be back. 🕶
lol :D
My warehouse don't jiggle jiggle, it floats.
Place it on a dried lake, No boats
57:02
Splitsie, you gave me a heart attack! I felt genuine fear.
same 😂
It made me pause too.
I scanned the QR Code for text. Wasn't disappointed.
That was absolutely blood chilling
I'm glad you tried the QR code, might have to come up with a different link for the next time I use it ;)
Instead of storing the tele handler in the second warehouse, store it in the raised garage as it is the perfect size for it and it looks cool!
Archimedes is rotating in his grave, looking at the leverage and rotating of a hole builing.
It is funny how you sound more Australian when sick. I never paid much attention to this, but now i can really tell the accent.
Oh yeah, I can absolutely hear it when I'm sick 🤒😂
He's a little bit sounding like Clarence ;)
Its not learning from your mistakes Splits, its just learning, you haven't (and I don't think ANYONE) has ever done anything like this before 😂
You're too hard on yourself dude, you're amazing at this game and this scenario you have created is amazing too!
The amount of patience you had to align a separate grid near flush with your other grid is beyond me. I tip my hat to you
Those reflections on the small-battery powered light, on how to connect it, and the best way to replace it for recharging - just screamed of "How many space engineers do you need to replace a lightbulb" jokes in my head🤣
As a bloke who has worked in heavy industry all his life, this series is just more than a little amusing at times. I like the dude on forklift stacking the cubes, you can tell he's been an operator before no question. -As for Splitsie's workshop and warehousing, all I can say it's a fairly common thing in Australia in manufacturing; crap everywhere lol
You could also just make lamp posts that stick on landing gears with a removable battery slot so if you need to recharge them, you can just unplug the drained battery and switch it out with a charged one. Keep a small battery charging bank somewhere to make it easy.
That's a good idea
Yay, I'm all caught up. Bother, I'm all caught up.
Wake up from your daydreaming, engineers! Splitsie posted!
Always fascinating to see how complicated you can make things without overcomplicating them 😅
All this saga of the second warehouse is super interesting and so much fun, I wonder if in the future you'll "borrow" other buildings from the wastelands
I 100% want to, if I find a bar or a rail bridge, they're coming home with me :)
33:30 ... or you place that connector facing up and connect to second one that is connected to your hangar :P
Yeah, y no vertical?
@@Sasinc-pw8ni probably because is against Splitsie`s phylosophy: `why make things simple, when they can be overcomplicated?` :D
I know! He already realized that eventually the grids would line up when he saw how small the gap gap the other end was. Besides, connectors tolerate a lot more transnational misalignment than the do angular so wouldn't even need to be that close.
@@JPEight best part is that he accidentally almost did it at 49:55 :D
Writing this while watching...
Have you tried overcoming the 45° connection issue by placing the connector vertically?
Oh yeah, I probably could have dug deeper and done that instead
@@Splitsiescreaming at my screen while watching. Good to hear you now realise
@@Splitsie If you do go back to change it, the 2nd block on the 4th row (or the 4th block, 2nd row) of the new warehouse counting from the alinged corner will line up to within 0.1 blocks to your main grid. That should be close enough for a connector to lock. If not, 9th block, 4th row (or vice versa) is even closer within 0.04 blocks.
@@callidus-13.x42 how do you even know this hahaha. I don't have space engineers yet so I have no clue how that works🤔
Yes, but now you took away his purpose 😂
You always make this look so easy but it's so crazy at the same time.😊 Hopefully you'll be able to get over your cold as soon as possible.
Thanks :)
@@Splitsie stay awesome 😎
Well, that was a nice half an hour that went by!
I gotta say, I like it when you build functional things around the base. Things that will get use/ you have a need for. Plus pulling things off vehicles is real nice to see, because you use everything in interesting ways!
It cracks me up seeing all the junk lying around after he devised an organization system
splitsie progressing in the ramp project : it's a slope process 😆
Holly Frak ! I hitted jackpot while playing this scenario offline. Small grids O2 Tanks, lots of H2 tanks and... and... H2/02 Generator ! Ore Detector ! And Big Grid O2 Tank and H2 Tanks !
This is going to be awesome !
With the trailer for your crane truck (i think its called the flatliner) you should colour code the magnetic plates so then you can easily see the different groups of magnetic plates when you have lots of scrap.
This was a super entertaining episode. The warehouse at that angle looks soo good, too.
I actually also really like the grey concrete, because of the contrast it gives to the reddish ground.
If you wanna break that up you could try adding some guidelines, like on runways or something. Could look really interesting.
Aaalso I loved that brain bluescreen, couldn't contain a laugh at that xD
When you were making the lamp posts I kept thinking about keeping the light attached to the battery and merge block and having it merged to the top of the post where the light were normally go. That way when it's time to recharge the batteries you could undo them from the top as if you were changing a light bulb. Just have a set of 'bulbs' charging in some small room to switch them out once a month so it's as easy as popping out the dead bulbs and popping in the fresh ones.
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Another nice way to connect up the power could be using small-grid powerlines above the ground. maybe even a hinge to give them a rope look. Powerlines would fit well with the scrapyard theme as well.
Off kilter... That was the word i was looking for. You can build the scrapyard sign on the ground. Pick it up with the crane. Add magplates. Then stick it to the building so it will be off kilter.
Hey Splitsie, quick recommendation (for safety's sake), make the edge that touches the ground of your ramp to your "aircraft hanger" area you made the ramp for at the end of your video have the yellow/black stripes and be solid. It will give it an obvious indicator to where it is and it is something a scrapyard might actually have for safety reasons. Just a thought. Love the series.
For the lights, you could just weld up the tube on the end since you're already using lamp blocks to make it (unless the tubes are really dim). It makes sense that you can't weld a lamp to the front of another lamp (the tube piece).
When you do your flickering neon, depending on the flicker frequency, having an exhaust pipe add sparks could look really great with it!
Hi @Splitsie, thanks for the video! I have a suggestion for the small-grid ramps: why not add a sort of girder to the bottom of the ramp, in the direction of travel? like make the center row of plate thicker to add a bit of depth and strength, visually. Cheers mate!
Your scrapyard is coming together nicely, but I think, if you find your bar, you need to make a beer garden with a climbing frame or see saw and swing set to complete the look. Maybe also have a burger van just outside your yard, so your (roleplay) workers and visitors can get a bite to eat.
Oh I really like that idea, I could maybe even contract out for a few food trucks for people to bring in to populate it too - I'm sure the others on the server would really get into that :)
im proud that they are adding more wethered paints to the builds
That's part of a mod called Textured Build States :)
@@Splitsie oh i just ment it felt weird that somuch of your stuff was looking shiny and new in a scrapyard X3
Just began watching, I'm sitting here hoping my sign suggestion gets used, though the others were great, but my main point is that this video is already amazing only like ten minutes in, as per usual with the splitsie scrapyard series (or S.S.S. as i like to call it)
Hey Splitsie, thought you might find this interesting!
For your garage building. Have you considered an openable door, like a drawbridge? It could double up as a ramp.
For your base name: A large rotating signpost raised to the height of wind turbines. It would really bring your place to life!
And for the warehouse lights: What if you lined up two rows of corner lights along the neon tubes, facing away from each other? It may bring out that classy warehouse vibe you're aiming for."
The bluescreen killed me 😂 especially the qr was very nice
lol Glad you enjoyed it :D
Sick Splitsie sounds like hangover Splitsie, not that I'd know, but with the previous episode ending in a contest with a booze tent, it's just too fitting. Get better soon.
lol You're not wrong, the two do sound quite similar :D
If Splitsie were a super villain he would be the kind that steals national monuments
Love the lamppost idea, you could have the connector at the top of the main post facing up (you would probably have to make the lamppost with the cylinders) and use a small flying drone and ai controller to automatically fly out to each lamppost dock on the connector and charge it up then return to its charging station. if the drone and automatic controller won't work due to server then just having an attachment to the telehandler that can connect to the connector at the top would do for a manual method of charging. either way, looking forward to what you end up going with, I'm sure it will be cool.
When you fins the bar, you should place it in line with the rail bridge entry way, so people aren't loitering inside the scrapyard, but outside the "gate" instead.
For the lampposts, I'd build them so that your existing little battery + merge block was attached upright to the back of the base/foot or the post. That way, you can just swap out batteries as required, and charge them at a charge point like the one you just built :)
That sounds like a great idea. I'll have a play around and see how I most like designing that. Thankfully I don't actually need to have the merge blocks remain on there, because I can just release the blocks when the battery dies :)
“… as I consider what angles a connector can tolerate.”
Well, if you consider the circular face of the connector, it can tolerate rotation of 360º.
But I guess we get to just watch him cook for another half hour. 🤣
Small grid conveyor tubes would be really nice for detailing. Hope they add them at some point.
That Windows blue-death screen made my day! That was funny!
lol Glad you enjoyed it :D
LOL, I can't believe you mobilized an entire warehouse.
For the lamp posts you could have the small battery and merge block be removable and build a little river that can carry a bunch and drive it around to swap them out when needed
You could make something like a wallmounted torch built around a battery, small connector, magplate and exhaust block. You could then hang them from various walls. Or put the exhaust block on top of your lightpole. Remember to set the right exhaust setting (fire or large fire).
Of course, if you find a _large grid_ exhaust block, or can build one, there is nothing holding you back from building a tower or mast and installing the Beacon of Splitsie. Exhaust block light effects are visible from a surprising distance.
The beacons are lit! Scrapsie calls for aid!
I really love the idea of a chain of flaming beacons around the planet between everyone's bases and want to make it happen now :D IT would be a really cool way to announce server events, though would probably need to do it with laser beacons and event blocks to automate for when people are offline.
@@JPEight Well, we are going to be getting signal blocks in a few weeks, so broadcasting a 'light the beacons' signal shouldn't be too hard after they drop . . . .
so the ramp supports: how about using a rotor under the ramp. use a "block" arm and let gravity align it. the mag plate to ramp to an strut that runs under the ramp. Hope that makes sense.
You are my "TV" for the week. Thanks for the content 🫂
Making content while being sick (many don't) negates any need for you to apologize if a cough or sniffle got missed in editing.
Sounds like you have a decent list of things to search for now as you go scrapping.
More computers, small batteries, a rail trestle, a bar, and anything else you know you're low on and will need for the upcoming flying vehicle.
I'm curious now to see how you'll go about making flickering neon. Should be interesting.
I'll be sure to show off some tests of my idea in the next video in between going out hunting for all of the things :)
The red dust in the corner of the new warehouse is from Capac because that is where he sleeps every time he gets put in time out for one of his shenanigans.
Add a big single button to the battery with the merge block and call it your flashlight. You could even make mounts on your vehicles to bring it with you.
I can't wait until next time where you set a warehouse on a 3-4-5 right triangle to get perfect alignment 😁
Lol
man that blue screen of death had me, i was like WTF looked at my second screen hmmm, xD
Your fix for converting the warehouse back to station once in position is how I built a massive pipeline in a single player world. I used that trick at each vertical pylon for the line every 20 blocks or so.
I probably should have used a similar technique back on my pipeline in survival impossible. Might have been better for performance
the upright pole looks best in the small cylinders to a height of 3 LG blocks
Had an idea for a game. I wanted to do suggest a crane game like in the arcades, but that would require a bunch of small cargo containers unpowered. Unless you put small batteries on them. Each container would have a datapad in it with a prize written on it. People could come by and play for whatever resource they can donate that you need. Not large amounts, but enough to make it worth your while.
You could put a bunch of nice scrap prizes in them they could win and one or two very nice prizes you found and don’t really actually need yourself.
Basically just an arcade game for your fellow scrappers to play when they come by. I don’t know, was just thinking of things to do. You could announce what the big prize is every episode so people know what to look out for.
Hey Splitsie, for future consideration, there are two mods that would've helped you out immensely: Angled attachments (basically Hinge blaocks that look like standard blocks), and Pipelines.
They would've made merging your new building to the rest of the build, as well as connecting conveyoring easier!
I quite enjoy trying to come up with vanilla solutions to these problems, it's where I find a lot of my fun in space engineers so I tend not to use mods for things I think I can do in other ways 🙂
If you place the connectors vertical so they will be usable you can then get a conveyor tube that will connect as the 45 will be on the radius of both connectors where they connect.
you could use the small battery+merge block as a battery pack of sorts, so you could build the street lamps off merge blocks instead of batteries and just change battery once it's empty instead of charging them; also this would give you some sort of standard modular power solution (maybe even have a emergency power merge block in your small grid builds)
39:30 or you could build a lamp post without a battery but wit a small merge block and just swap in a merge block/battery unit once a month from spares on a rack with the grab tool
those little battery packs + the ability to carry them ignited a bunch of ideas in my head when i first saw them and this was one of them
oh, and i'm once again requesting a grinder pit for getting bulk components once you've picked out the good blocks off a scrap grid (that you aren't keeping for aesthetics)
The first version actually looks very much like the new LED based streets lamps we start getting in Sweden, they looks flat and quite small.
Wooo let’s go! More bedtime material to relax to!
im never this early, ive been watching this whole series and ive never heard of this game lol, this is thoroughly entertaining please keep up the good work
Thanks so much :)
Depending if the server updates to the newest dlc version, you could wait and hook up all the exterior lights to a channel and have them toggleable to save power and last even longer
Can't wait to discover the impact resistance of small-grid barred windows
P.S. Hard to not think of that shed as "The Chicken Coop" now.
Probably would have been easier to set that hinge to 90 degrees and use the pistons for pure X and Y movement. All the vector math working at 45 degrees seemed to be far more complicated than was comfortable. I think the warehouse is a beautiful addition, and that you did an awesome job making it look like it was there from the beginning.
Yep, so many things I made so much harder than they needed to be. My brain was definitely not firing on all cylinders that day :D
you could have just done them one on top of the other to get the twist, and then you can get it done with just 2 connectors... it would end up a bit deeper underground or you would have the bottom of the connector more visable, but its a lot cheaper
Having resetting voxels isn’t cheesy. It’s like doing the rough in like plumbing on a house and then burying it like you would do anyway. It’s actually more realistic than dirt Judd disappearing when you hit it with something.
One day we need to see a massive multiplayer survival impossible. That is a server I could get really invested in (I am actively studying aerospace engineering)
Also a drainage system would probably look pretty cool going across your parking lot
Hmm... I wonder if I can do something that looks like a decent drainage system without totally messing up the driving surface (which is also why I've avoided doing any painted lines). I guess just replacing some of the blocks with grated catwalks could be enough as that'll still be perfectly smooth
Fill in the new parking lot around your base and to the side and front of New Warehouse, then under the parking lot, but close to the warehouse, dig down deep enough to place blocks down and Under the warehouse, (L-Shaped) ... Leave room for a 2 connector. One down from the warehouse and one up from the extension under the new warehouse, the angle is covered by the round top connector, like when a ship lands on a connector facing any direction.
for the small lights you could just stick a single small solar panel on each one with the small battery. you could then double or triple up on the number of lights on each one. I guarantee one small solar panel would be more than sufficient to keep the battery charged. Plus it gives you another thing to go scrapping for. Oh and you could put a rotor on the handler head, behind the mag plate to rotate things when you pick them up.
Late comment but I'm catching up after being offshore. Just caught the new Signals update - perhaps the new truss block can be used for the lamp post, a bit more robust in size rather than a single small diameter pole
Yeah, I'll have to play around with it and see if it looks any better :)
Alignment of the warehouse would probably be easier if you either aligned a smaller set of blocks that you then merged the warehouse to (which would also solve some of the digging problem), or built a raised section of the corner you were aligning it to so you could just kind of shove it at the corner to get the distances perfect.
Difficult environments defintely bring out peoples' empathy really well, because having barely struggled past ending up in the situation someone else is now in, you know the pain it brings. It could've been you in that situation, and it could be you in a similar one next time, so even if you're selfish you still want to help so it can be paid forward to you. Particularly running out of power, as your scrap beacon will go out and you'll be lost to the sand.
Interested in your future fuel facility - it wouldn't need a massive amount of storage since SE tanks are far bigger on the inside, so you could use those silos that are scattered around to make it look much bigger than it is. Maybe design some spherical tanks out of armor panels, though it's a shame you can't use the actual hydrogen tanks - or even large grid large hydrogen thrusters, two placed nozzle to nozzle - as non-functional decorative blocks.
Merging to existing blocks would have run into the issue of those blocks then becoming mobile and exploding so wouldn't have been easier in the end (there are a lot of blocks in the warehouse so making the locked down grid larger is a big task)
Actually, if you're referring to how far apart the wheels are side to side (as apposed to front to back), the correct term is Gauge.
Yes, Gauge gets used for a LOT of measurements, with this particular use going back to railroad standardization.
It seems like track can be used but gauge would probably be more common, at least from the info I looked into when this had been brought up in another comment
My crane don't jiggle jiggle, it folds 😎
At 31:24 your trying to use a string of connectors in series in an angle sideways, mount connector upside down on floor of warehouse and mount upright connector on conveyor tube coming from main building, below that. This solves 3 things ... angle of building, conveyor access, and only 2 connectors.
About the ramp
If you put the mag plate on the 2nd closest plate to the ground, wouldn't it be able to lock at that angle without being in the way
Just an idea if you want to do a large grid on later
That blue screen nearly gave me a heart attack! Never do that again! (Joking aside it was funny, and obviously I am being silly XD)
Maybe make the placeable lights things a bit bulkier around the base of them, then you can have a spot where you can just "plug in" a battery module. You have a battery and merge block as a module, then have a merge block on the light post somewhere near the bottom. Then you don't really have to worry about using more than one light per post. Swapping out a battery like once a week or so seems feasible.
could also put a Lil stopping nob on the underside of the weahouse and make a stopping point for it coming off your other wearhouse.
For your streetlamps. Just make 'em and place em around on mag plates. keep your little batteries somewhere charging. And go take the little batteries to the lamp-posts with a merge block. that way you don't have to charge the whole thing. just swap out the battery with a fresh one as you need it. i reckon every 35 days right?
Hiiiii splitsie!!! Cant wait to watch this Scrapyard ^w^
Hey Splitsie, always enjoy your videos, especially your co-op series with Capac. With connecting the two warehouses, could you have used two advanced rotors and conveyor tubing, rather than the connector chain? Just curious for when I can play Space Engineers again - my PC has all the capability of a ten year old laptop 😋
12:23 did anyone else notice how the spotlights look like a smiley face?
8:35 YAY my favorite song except you got it wrong its suppose to be "i really hope this REALLY explodes"
It would probably be a lot of work, but what if the "light bulb" for your street lamps consists of a light, battery and merge block. When the battery dies, just change out the "bulb". Your telehandler can change the bulbs.
The shell and shuck method would have been easier, but this was way more impressive
27:26 Thank you Splits for letting me won the bet of "will Splitsie overengineer moving and placing that barn and connecting with the main base?" with my friends.
31:15 I think this was where you realized that upward and downward connectors can be connected even if the other is not in the same angle in y axis and can be cheaper, no? lol
like the one at 49:53
Ya sound a little bit sick 🤒 hope everything’s all right, poor Toby daycare illnesses lol
Ahh I was correct lol, hopefully everyone gets over it soon lots of love and joy
Your underground connectors could be vertical instead of horizontal. Then you could have whatever angle you want, like a rotor, from only one pair of connectors.
Splitsie, have you considered a hinged drawbridge style of ramps to climb into the hangars? Also could serve as s door.
so, a small thing i noticed, don't Wind Turbines work best if they're 8 blocks away from each other? it doesnt seem like you have power issues but thats just a thing i noticed
"babe hurry, splitsie uploaded!"
44:05 A tertiary color to go with the grey and navy blue might work pretty well. I'm partial to a vaguely greenish-gray, but perhaps a more muted yellow to match the "Scrapsie" sign?
59:00 Do you think you could have snuck a sloped block under the large block ramp to supply a place for the mag plate to lock to?
I wonder if you had a half block below the large grid magplate on the main grid would of let you lock to it for your ramp.