there IS a seismic ore detector that needs to be clamped to the ground or asteroid to work ... and it says everything around ... and yes you can sweep around to see in what direction from your ship the ore you want is
btw once you have drones and miner auto flight pathing down and a solar tracking array for power ... you should be ready for doing the survive mars scenario ... kind of like what you are doing here but Oxygen is NOT included ...
The buttons for the hangar are different from inside to outside because from inside you know if the hangar is currently pressurized or not but from outside you can't tell till you open it so seperate on and off buttons allows for you to know what you are setting it to without being able to see.
Just a suggestion but you can use the landing gear to lock/connect ships together. In this instance land the cargo ship on top of the explorer and lock the landing gear. 👍. Above all have fun😊
Next time you move a handful of ships around at once, I suggest turning off the dampeners of the passenger ships. You didn't get your speed up right away because the Explorer was fighting you when you jumped into the freighter. A little zero-g base satalite would be kind of cool. You could also have an excuse to use a laser transmitter(line of site based, rather than distance based antennas) to be able to communicate between each base with no problem. So if you threw a remote on your space ships, you could happily drive them around for a few kilometers as you sit in shagger deep if you need it. I like to imagine a few fighters built, an alarm setting up for any nearby ships passing, and then you could remotely intercept any pirates or other factions. Could be a fun project. You could make a welder piston trap in the zero-g base with a blueprint set up to make your fighters quickly.
15:40 Yeah, it takes some time to actually suck all the air from that large space. You can check the status of the closed space atmosphere by looking at the lights on the vent blocks. Green is pressurised, yellow for airtight but non-pressurised, red for non-airtight and thus non-pressurisable space.
more tips when you depresureize wait 4 to 5 seconds before you open door or you WILL still lose air , interesting connecting ships like u did , use landing gear just touch other ship lock gear and BAM , tow them turn off ship to be towed or turn off their dampness so they don't fight you they WILL. Also launch straight up from your base till out of gravity well go about 1 km past , make a GPS call it Planet approach or entry goto that point jump of drive it , so you know when you are above your base. Love the game and the vids KEEP IT GOING .❤❤❤❤
Watching Skye Lego 3 ships together, and then get them home. Wow, what a brilliant 11th hour entry to my most entertaining content of the year. And I'm so here for the Asteroid Base.
Unless there are resources you need that you can only get in space for it, I think it makes more sense for the first step to be getting them on the ground at the base, where all your resources already are, so you can customize the new ships easier. As you pointed out, there are a number of problems with them that need to be addressed before they're fit for your needs. Then do the asteroid base afterward.
2 things: you can jump even with only landing gear connection, ships will stay attacked, In the safe zones block damage is turned off, so all that precision was not needed
I recommend doing the astroid base, Would be good if you could set one up with an uranium deposit to fuel the ships reactors. Also a note about jump drives, if you connect 2 ships together, which both has jump drives, the drives will link to eachother and provide a boost in jump range. Basicly the grid counted for all 3 drives (even your small mining rig with the jump drive attachment). That boosted your jump range, reason why charge time was still only 7 minutes, was due to the reactors and batteries on all ships combined provided the charging power for each drive. (of course jump range are also influenced on collective mass, so a large ship can usually benefit from having 2 or even 3 jump drives on a grid)
B60 bulk freighter my favorite. I call it my BIG GREEN BOI , it will pick up a hefty amount of scrap ships good for space and planets , only drawback is it deceleration speed , the landing gear on front of blue ship is to tow wrecks or latch to surfaces like asteroids .❤❤❤
B-60 is my go-to. I like to replace the front cargo with a refinery with a full set of upgrade modules, add modules to the assembler, add a bottom connector. Good times.
When you're flying a ship while other ships are attached to it, you'll want to turn off the seconday ships' Inertia Dampeners. They'll burn through fuel when you're flying the main ship, and they also fight against your main ship's momemtum.
Very cool ships. An actual space dock would be cool…I can also see you building ring around an asteroid with docks radiating off a main circular hub. Looking forward to next one and Happy New Years🎉
4:22 the separate toggle makes sure what you want to happen happens. Vs the on/off toggle in one button you can misclick it an ord amount of times and have no idea if its on or off until you open the door and loose your air
I didn't make it through bootcamp. I just finished catching up from what I missed in the month and a half that I was there. I like the new series and I am glad you are taking care of yourself, instead of continuing to play a game you're burned out on. Also this reminded me of a series I watched a while back and I hadn't been able to remember the name of the game.
Funny to watch the thruster of the B-60 fight the explorer, and possibly the miner too... And funny to look at that landing gear(magnetic) at the front of the explorer could have connect the B-60 anywhere, and not forget the landing on top of the B-60
*Evil Whisper in the back of your head* Combine both ships with a few more cool ones into one franken-monster and slowly merge them together with various bits and bobs until you have a scrapyard ship that combines and contrasts all the best aspects of each ship.
If the series will transition to be a survival on one of those ships, fighting klang and dealing with the kraken, I will watch every episode, as it is relly atmospheric.
fantastic, i lookforward to your customization, your building one from scratch, maybe building a space station, the astoriod base, finishing the ground base soo much to do!
There are two buttons on the outside because from the outside you don't know/see whether the hangar is pressurized. Inside, your suit tells you if the hangar is pressurized, so a toggle is enough.
Leave the ambassador in orbit at an asteroid base. Before you return to the planet, modify your small ship to have a connector on the bottom so it can dock to the B60 and then go mine as much uranium and platinum as you can find. Then the whole ship with your small ship can land on the planet. For next time you use both large ships, modify them so they are side by side with a tether between. I'm surprised you didn't damage the other ships with thruster damage honestly. Also, pretty sure it uses all three jump drives when you jump, so switching to the other ship wouldn't really help, it was just already charged by the time you got there.
When youre outside your new ship, trying to figure out each block, if you just TAKE OUT your grinder (but dont use it) and it will be like Minecraft WAILA- so you can see the name of each block
seeing you strapping the ships together was unexpected. But it was more amusing to watch how you ignore the airlocks and just close/open the doors without toggling the pressure and slowly losing oxygen in a depressurized ship
Asteroid Base with a docking ring. Also several large containers for storing ores and a connector dedicated to your "Surface to Space" shuttle that transport you (and resources) to the planet direct "under" the "Base".
Sky you could make a space elevator a nice name like "long shaft" and get two asteroids to connect to the elevator don't now lets call it Balls so you will have Balls connecting by long shaft to shaver deep nice😂😂😂😂
Happy New Year Skye! Great episode. You pulled that off with style. Asteroid base all the way. You could use a space station, one to fill up fuel tanks and recharge batteries on all ships. A place to bring all your ore back to without needing to contend with the gravitational weight challenges. Don't forget, space is dangerous. Make sure you are armed with weapons to defend against small fighters and some larger ships. Can't wait to see what you do!
Just a recommendation, even when connected all three ships gyros are fighting each other when connected, if just before you connect them you set the dampeners to relative, you will end up burning less fuel. I dont remember if this works with connectors, but it should work when using the landing gear.
A little subtle space base for docking efueling etc, is never a bad idea, be mindful though that grids have to be/stay powered to not go poof on default settings.
Would be nice to build an out post on that asteroid , to Dock your ships at . Then can ues it as an out post when you fly of the base to an from space. Love the video, makes me want to start an new game an do an mountain base 👍👍
Landing gears are better thought of as thing that will stick onto something else. Mounted on the front like that will allow you to park up on the side of a building, ship, asteroid or cliff face as well as grab hold of things like space hulks and other salvage or other working ships as a tow point.
Those empty quarters really needs to be redesigned. Some of the ships you can buy were made long time ago, before some blocks were invented, and they doesn't use DLC block (as far as I know). Tip: blue ship has enough space for a bar. In space. There is even med bay in the biggest room for potential "bad decisions" under influence!
I honestly thought you'd have to make a few trip back n forth to ferry those sexy ships home. I wasn't expecting the tangled knot to jump haha. An orbital asteroid holding dock sounds like a plan until you've built out your large ship hangers down in ShaggerDeep base. And Happy New Year! 🥳🎉
I watched the connector show ready to Dock right before you hopped out of the drivers seat lol😅 spent the whole time worrying about scorching your ship with the engines
Multiple jump drives won't increase the range of a single jump, it just adds another available jump. So with all those ships docked it'd 1600 + 1600 in two jumps not a single one at 3200. Best to keep that in mind as it can both help in building large jumpers, but also in making sure you've got enough fuel to handle the trip, as both drives > CHARGE SEPARATELY. < That's a big thing to remember, cause it'll screw with you.
Sorry but that's not true .. I just added a second jump drive to the Blue Ambassador and it's jump range increased from 2,000km to 4,000km .. in ONE jump
Landing gear to lock the ships together is best bet skye they don't need to dock also jump drives can make max jump and then anything that locks on or docks after the animation initializes comes for a free ride
First 3:13 that is landing gear. That lets you lock to things. Like other ships that you salvage, the planet, the moon or an Asteroid. Speaking of Asteroid you should build a Asteroid base that is over you planetary base. You can have a forward ore possessing and ship building base then you could build planetary shuttles. That way you won't have to use so much energy taking your big boys planet side to orbit.
omg .. I know what it is .. the question was 'what is it for' .. seems a weird thing to have there .. and yes it's probably for grabbing things or clamping to asteroids .. but that also seems like a weird choice for an 'explorer'
awesome job skye, what i would do is take all 3 ships back down and retro fit all 3 then work out how to merge them all together in to one big ship, think megazord from power rangers lol
that landing leg is for towing ships or pulling cargo containers behind you that what it is for HAPPY NEW YEAR in the hangar you park ships with mag plates or put in the new flat connector in the hanger floor
Skye, there are ways to have projectors and welders on your ship to auto repair in time of need! That seems like a cool mechanic but not sure you’ll be needing it immediately 😂
Your over obsessed with using connectors to latch large grids to each other. B60 has 3 landing gear under slung, and your explorer has one on the bow. Use a landing gear and jump home.
You need to give the ship time to depressurize it's not instantaneous. (You will see the oxygen and temperature go from good to low to none) Also turn off the other ship's inertial dampeners or they will fight you constantly when docked. (You can also use multiple jump drives at once for longer junps, just put them in a group and then check the groups range) you also don't need to be in the other ships to use their jump drive you can just use it from the ship you are in.
Nice video! Cool to still see this much appreciation for ships that are quite dated by now. Curious to see how you will handle or experience the Factorum Global Encounters!
If you want to know what something is then use your tools. I forget which ones (I know the drill doesn't but at least one does, maybe both the grinder and torch) tell you what part you are pointing at. As for the programmable buttons, the outside is different because you can't tell if it is pressurized or not from the outside, and if you are impatient you might hit the button again since it takes time to depressurize (as you saw with the air that pushed you back). Back when I played a bunch I would have an action group set up so I could close all the doors at once, or open them (two separate as they all won't be in the same state). I also would turn off hydrogen processing or oxygen in case I was low on ice and needed to pick which was more needed. Turning off the refinery is also helpful, but you won't need an action group with only one refinery, as you might want to transport ore to a purpose built refinery for more valuable materials such as platinum or uranium to get the most out of it. You will notice that the clamp on front is the only way to lock the ship down to something that is not built with an extruding port. The front clamp is what you probably should have use to tow your ship back to base. I make a space base above my main planet base to make it easy to handle the space to planet stuff.
Skye, Please turn the oxygen back on in the B-60. You depressurised it, lights turned red and you never turned it back on and i sat here watching it dwindle downfor about half the episode. Also the smoke you saw when you started moving after docking everything would have been the inertial dampeners from the B-60 trying to keep it in place. I tend to turn them all off when doing stuff like that otherwise you're fighting against them when trying to move.
I was thinking you were gonna have to mod at least 1 of those connector ports to sit on a piston to put that puzzle together. Good job fitting it in! (...That's what she said)
The large landing leg is for towing other ships manly wreaks. Asteroid base is a must. So you can keep your big hulks in geostationary orbit above Shagger Base.
Shagger orbit port sounds like a good idea. Add Solar, batteries and cargo capacity (and maybe a medbay or something) to it and you have a nice orbital transfer station. You can use a shuttle of some sort to bring materials up and down easily enough I suspect. Once that is done you can make a space miner to go on the back or side of the bulk frieghtsr and be all set to mine in space.
When you mention a mining spaceport/asteroid, it makes me think of nowhere in the G.O.T.G films, it’s all coming together, can’t wait to see what is next, happy Hogmanay /new year to you and yours when it comes
You should check out the server battlegrounds. Lots of ships to buy and quality of life stuff while staying balanced. Amazing and dangerous npc ships. Would love to see some videos of battles with those shields.
Daily positive comment Although 2024 was sjeit (for me), skye has been/is a positive constant last year. Really enjoyed your content (all of it) and on to a better 2025 with our favorite lemonhead. Also...ALSO remember to pet Picture even on the last day of the year 😊
You already have a landing gear mag plate on the explorer ship. Just park it on the asteroid, and take the other two down to the surface for modifications. Don't forget to mark it's GPS!
I would modify the small grid minor to be mostly hydrogen, with minimal ion, and a bottom docking port. On the explorer, in the hanger bay add a floor docking port.
Also, did you saw the ships dampeners fighting? That's what you get if you conect two ships with dampeners on on both. If you use one ship to fly another, turn dampers or thrusters on all ships you carry off, as, same as with subgrids, they don't know about each other and will star mining their own business, fighting to prevent any movment and damaging eachother.
Oh, I've done an ambassador refit before. I did quite a bit to it, atmos capability, basic self-defense, extra storage, extra gyros, door sensors, auto closing doors, parasite docking ports, automated AI docking capability, updated interior blocks, new coat of paint... you know the usual. _edit: also seeing those hanger doors open without flashing yellow lights and a claxon going just seems weird to me now_ _edit: oh yeah, in mine i grinded out that big screen on the bridge and it did this wierd thing and left the screen texture floating in space, so probably best leave that screen in_ I also took a look at a b60 before, but all i did was use some of its features for inspiration 🤔
I wouldn't use the connector for tugging ships. That's what the landing gear on the Explorer is for. Because I think those hydrogen engines are going to make a mess of your Cargo vessel.
I‘m still thinking about how he connected the jump drive to the old ship and think about the jumprings from the Star Wars Jedi fighters. Please make some!!!
You've probably heard this a million times, but are you bugging the devs for EA to Space Engineers 2. And more Timberborn when the tube goes live. Yes, there must be a waterfarm at Picalilly Station
1. Just hold the welder if you want to identify blocks. 2. your ships have landing gear. They don't need to use the connectors. Locked is locked. You really overthought this.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy New Year thanks for the work you put in enjoy the videos praying you have a excellent 2025
there IS a seismic ore detector that needs to be clamped to the ground or asteroid to work ... and it says everything around ... and yes you can sweep around to see in what direction from your ship the ore you want is
btw once you have drones and miner auto flight pathing down and a solar tracking array for power ... you should be ready for doing the survive mars scenario ... kind of like what you are doing here but Oxygen is NOT included ...
can you use gravity generators to get rid of the natural gravity field and have a jump drive powered elevator from base to orbit?
And a happy new year to you, my unknown friend. And not to forget PicturePerfect 😊
The buttons for the hangar are different from inside to outside because from inside you know if the hangar is currently pressurized or not but from outside you can't tell till you open it so seperate on and off buttons allows for you to know what you are setting it to without being able to see.
3:13 The landing leg on the front is for bumping into salvage wreckage and locking on to it.
Or for locking onto his other ship to push it back home.
and parking and tugging stuff around, so many uses.
Also useful to dock to your larger ship, didn’t need connectors to get it home
Just a suggestion but you can use the landing gear to lock/connect ships together. In this instance land the cargo ship on top of the explorer and lock the landing gear. 👍. Above all have fun😊
Was going to say that , I would also make sure you power down or turn off dampners on connected ships.
Next time you move a handful of ships around at once, I suggest turning off the dampeners of the passenger ships. You didn't get your speed up right away because the Explorer was fighting you when you jumped into the freighter.
A little zero-g base satalite would be kind of cool. You could also have an excuse to use a laser transmitter(line of site based, rather than distance based antennas) to be able to communicate between each base with no problem. So if you threw a remote on your space ships, you could happily drive them around for a few kilometers as you sit in shagger deep if you need it. I like to imagine a few fighters built, an alarm setting up for any nearby ships passing, and then you could remotely intercept any pirates or other factions. Could be a fun project.
You could make a welder piston trap in the zero-g base with a blueprint set up to make your fighters quickly.
I did turn them off
@SkyeStorme oh, I could have swore I saw the blue ships thrusters on. Great, nevermind then
@@SkyeStormethrusters firing on the other ships while moving says otherwise 😊
I turned them off at 30:34
15:40 Yeah, it takes some time to actually suck all the air from that large space. You can check the status of the closed space atmosphere by looking at the lights on the vent blocks. Green is pressurised, yellow for airtight but non-pressurised, red for non-airtight and thus non-pressurisable space.
Nothing takes damage in safe zone, you can play bumper cars in there. some people even smash into the station on purpose to quickly slow down.
Great tip! I had no idea. If you're pulling my leg, though, it will be a funny thing to watch my ship explode on contact. 😂
I do that occasionally, it's useful if one forgets the brakes while talking 😂
Well this was a surprise. Thought there were no more Skye videos till new years. 🎉
Grats on first ;)
more tips when you depresureize wait 4 to 5 seconds before you open door or you WILL still lose air , interesting connecting ships like u did , use landing gear just touch other ship lock gear and BAM , tow them turn off ship to be towed or turn off their dampness so they don't fight you they WILL. Also launch straight up from your base till out of gravity well go about 1 km past , make a GPS call it Planet approach or entry goto that point jump of drive it , so you know when you are above your base. Love the game and the vids KEEP IT GOING .❤❤❤❤
Asteroid base would be awesome!
as a veteran of 10 years in this game you make so many things wrong or more complicated than they need to be but to be fair so did i.
15:45 I think you are supposed to wait until the light turns red before you open the doors in order to not vent all the atmosphere.
Watching Skye Lego 3 ships together, and then get them home. Wow, what a brilliant 11th hour entry to my most entertaining content of the year. And I'm so here for the Asteroid Base.
Skye I think in the B60 the interior light is currently red because you have an unpressurized cabin and your oxygen level is dropping
100% I was thinking the same thing... as Skye was talking about how good he was doing with airlocks.😂😂 Love you Skye!
@@joshg2994 x3 lol 🤣
I could see you expanding that little hanger bay ever so slightly. Excited to see you construct your own multiplanetary vessel
Unless there are resources you need that you can only get in space for it, I think it makes more sense for the first step to be getting them on the ground at the base, where all your resources already are, so you can customize the new ships easier. As you pointed out, there are a number of problems with them that need to be addressed before they're fit for your needs. Then do the asteroid base afterward.
Check out the next episode when Skye builds a death star!
2 things: you can jump even with only landing gear connection, ships will stay attacked,
In the safe zones block damage is turned off, so all that precision was not needed
attacked also means attached
I recommend doing the astroid base, Would be good if you could set one up with an uranium deposit to fuel the ships reactors.
Also a note about jump drives, if you connect 2 ships together, which both has jump drives, the drives will link to eachother and provide a boost in jump range. Basicly the grid counted for all 3 drives (even your small mining rig with the jump drive attachment). That boosted your jump range, reason why charge time was still only 7 minutes, was due to the reactors and batteries on all ships combined provided the charging power for each drive. (of course jump range are also influenced on collective mass, so a large ship can usually benefit from having 2 or even 3 jump drives on a grid)
I think you definitely do need a docking base of some sort whether its in an asteroid or something like deepspace 9 is entirely up to you.
B60 bulk freighter my favorite. I call it my BIG GREEN BOI , it will pick up a hefty amount of scrap ships good for space and planets , only drawback is it deceleration speed , the landing gear on front of blue ship is to tow wrecks or latch to surfaces like asteroids .❤❤❤
you can setup vents to auto open doors when depressurized so that your not wasting oxygen constantly by opening the doors too early
I am ready for the new space station, name suggestion time!
SHAGGER High-Altitude Terminal, or S.H.A.T.
B-60 is my go-to. I like to replace the front cargo with a refinery with a full set of upgrade modules, add modules to the assembler, add a bottom connector. Good times.
Astroid base ftw. Swiftly followed by a space elevator! Yes, all 46km of it 😂😂
When you're flying a ship while other ships are attached to it, you'll want to turn off the seconday ships' Inertia Dampeners. They'll burn through fuel when you're flying the main ship, and they also fight against your main ship's momemtum.
So many potential disasters... Well done Skye!
Because of the docking shenanigans i put the connector on a piston. So while docking th piston is extended giving a lot of room and clearance.
That is a good idea.
Very cool ships. An actual space dock would be cool…I can also see you building ring around an asteroid with docks radiating off a main circular hub.
Looking forward to next one and Happy New Years🎉
4:22 the separate toggle makes sure what you want to happen happens. Vs the on/off toggle in one button you can misclick it an ord amount of times and have no idea if its on or off until you open the door and loose your air
I didn't make it through bootcamp. I just finished catching up from what I missed in the month and a half that I was there. I like the new series and I am glad you are taking care of yourself, instead of continuing to play a game you're burned out on. Also this reminded me of a series I watched a while back and I hadn't been able to remember the name of the game.
Wonderful vid. Asteroid bases are always awesome. Next you can build the Nestromo, with ore processing facility.
Funny to watch the thruster of the B-60 fight the explorer, and possibly the miner too...
And funny to look at that landing gear(magnetic) at the front of the explorer could have connect the B-60 anywhere, and not forget the landing on top of the B-60
*Evil Whisper in the back of your head* Combine both ships with a few more cool ones into one franken-monster and slowly merge them together with various bits and bobs until you have a scrapyard ship that combines and contrasts all the best aspects of each ship.
If the series will transition to be a survival on one of those ships, fighting klang and dealing with the kraken, I will watch every episode, as it is relly atmospheric.
fantastic, i lookforward to your customization, your building one from scratch, maybe building a space station, the astoriod base, finishing the ground base soo much to do!
There are two buttons on the outside because from the outside you don't know/see whether the hangar is pressurized. Inside, your suit tells you if the hangar is pressurized, so a toggle is enough.
Leave the ambassador in orbit at an asteroid base. Before you return to the planet, modify your small ship to have a connector on the bottom so it can dock to the B60 and then go mine as much uranium and platinum as you can find. Then the whole ship with your small ship can land on the planet. For next time you use both large ships, modify them so they are side by side with a tether between. I'm surprised you didn't damage the other ships with thruster damage honestly.
Also, pretty sure it uses all three jump drives when you jump, so switching to the other ship wouldn't really help, it was just already charged by the time you got there.
This series is awesome! I look forward to every video.
I can't do that Dave. Good video! Don't forget to turn off inertia dampners on your other docked ships so they don't fight ya.
Turned them off ages ago :)
Thanks 😊
I like the looks of the green freighter.
If the cockpit of the ambassador is directly above the bay, perhaps you can make some sort of trap door/elevator chute for easier access.
When youre outside your new ship, trying to figure out each block, if you just TAKE OUT your grinder (but dont use it) and it will be like Minecraft WAILA- so you can see the name of each block
Space elevator next for transportation of goods from the surface to outer space and back?
Thanks for a really nice year Sky!
Had so much joy watching alll your videos!
GO SKY and Happy new Year 🎉
seeing you strapping the ships together was unexpected. But it was more amusing to watch how you ignore the airlocks and just close/open the doors without toggling the pressure and slowly losing oxygen in a depressurized ship
I ignore the airlocks because I'm making a video and don't want to waste time on something that doesn't matter
Asteroid Base with a docking ring.
Also several large containers for storing ores and a connector dedicated to your "Surface to Space" shuttle that transport you (and resources) to the planet direct "under" the "Base".
Instead of connector to connector...landing gear or a mag plate or two, super simple. But uncheck the box "use for parking".
Sky you could make a space elevator a nice name like "long shaft" and get two asteroids to connect to the elevator don't now lets call it Balls so you will have Balls connecting by long shaft to shaver deep nice😂😂😂😂
RIP sim speed
Happy New Year Skye! Great episode. You pulled that off with style. Asteroid base all the way. You could use a space station, one to fill up fuel tanks and recharge batteries on all ships. A place to bring all your ore back to without needing to contend with the gravitational weight challenges. Don't forget, space is dangerous. Make sure you are armed with weapons to defend against small fighters and some larger ships. Can't wait to see what you do!
Just a recommendation, even when connected all three ships gyros are fighting each other when connected, if just before you connect them you set the dampeners to relative, you will end up burning less fuel.
I dont remember if this works with connectors, but it should work when using the landing gear.
A little subtle space base for docking
efueling etc, is never a bad idea, be mindful though that grids have to be/stay powered to not go poof on default settings.
Would be nice to build an out post on that asteroid , to Dock your ships at .
Then can ues it as an out post when you fly of the base to an from space.
Love the video, makes me want to start an new game an do an mountain base 👍👍
Landing gears are better thought of as thing that will stick onto something else.
Mounted on the front like that will allow you to park up on the side of a building, ship, asteroid or cliff face as well as grab hold of things like space hulks and other salvage or other working ships as a tow point.
Those empty quarters really needs to be redesigned. Some of the ships you can buy were made long time ago, before some blocks were invented, and they doesn't use DLC block (as far as I know).
Tip: blue ship has enough space for a bar. In space. There is even med bay in the biggest room for potential "bad decisions" under influence!
I honestly thought you'd have to make a few trip back n forth to ferry those sexy ships home. I wasn't expecting the tangled knot to jump haha. An orbital asteroid holding dock sounds like a plan until you've built out your large ship hangers down in ShaggerDeep base.
And Happy New Year! 🥳🎉
I watched the connector show ready to Dock right before you hopped out of the drivers seat lol😅 spent the whole time worrying about scorching your ship with the engines
The beavers would get so confused, so am I ❤
Multiple jump drives won't increase the range of a single jump, it just adds another available jump. So with all those ships docked it'd 1600 + 1600 in two jumps not a single one at 3200. Best to keep that in mind as it can both help in building large jumpers, but also in making sure you've got enough fuel to handle the trip, as both drives > CHARGE SEPARATELY. < That's a big thing to remember, cause it'll screw with you.
Sorry but that's not true .. I just added a second jump drive to the Blue Ambassador and it's jump range increased from 2,000km to 4,000km .. in ONE jump
Landing gear to lock the ships together is best bet skye they don't need to dock also jump drives can make max jump and then anything that locks on or docks after the animation initializes comes for a free ride
First 3:13 that is landing gear. That lets you lock to things. Like other ships that you salvage, the planet, the moon or an Asteroid. Speaking of Asteroid you should build a Asteroid base that is over you planetary base. You can have a forward ore possessing and ship building base then you could build planetary shuttles. That way you won't have to use so much energy taking your big boys planet side to orbit.
omg .. I know what it is .. the question was 'what is it for' .. seems a weird thing to have there .. and yes it's probably for grabbing things or clamping to asteroids .. but that also seems like a weird choice for an 'explorer'
awesome job skye, what i would do is take all 3 ships back down and retro fit all 3 then work out how to merge them all together in to one big ship, think megazord from power rangers lol
that landing leg is for towing ships or pulling cargo containers behind you that what it is for HAPPY NEW YEAR in the hangar you park ships with mag plates or put in the new flat connector in the hanger floor
Skye, there are ways to have projectors and welders on your ship to auto repair in time of need! That seems like a cool mechanic but not sure you’ll be needing it immediately 😂
I got a couple variants of the B60. Both armed. One i ripped the atmos out and slipped ions in. Good ship
Your over obsessed with using connectors to latch large grids to each other. B60 has 3 landing gear under slung, and your explorer has one on the bow. Use a landing gear and jump home.
Asteroid base is a great idea. Could be mine 🤭 looking forward to whatever you decide to build.
You need to give the ship time to depressurize it's not instantaneous. (You will see the oxygen and temperature go from good to low to none)
Also turn off the other ship's inertial dampeners or they will fight you constantly when docked. (You can also use multiple jump drives at once for longer junps, just put them in a group and then check the groups range) you also don't need to be in the other ships to use their jump drive you can just use it from the ship you are in.
You could turn that B-60 into a carrier or something that could be a fun challenge
Happy New Year to you and Ms Picture. 😅
Nice video! Cool to still see this much appreciation for ships that are quite dated by now.
Curious to see how you will handle or experience the Factorum Global Encounters!
If you want to know what something is then use your tools. I forget which ones (I know the drill doesn't but at least one does, maybe both the grinder and torch) tell you what part you are pointing at. As for the programmable buttons, the outside is different because you can't tell if it is pressurized or not from the outside, and if you are impatient you might hit the button again since it takes time to depressurize (as you saw with the air that pushed you back). Back when I played a bunch I would have an action group set up so I could close all the doors at once, or open them (two separate as they all won't be in the same state). I also would turn off hydrogen processing or oxygen in case I was low on ice and needed to pick which was more needed. Turning off the refinery is also helpful, but you won't need an action group with only one refinery, as you might want to transport ore to a purpose built refinery for more valuable materials such as platinum or uranium to get the most out of it. You will notice that the clamp on front is the only way to lock the ship down to something that is not built with an extruding port. The front clamp is what you probably should have use to tow your ship back to base. I make a space base above my main planet base to make it easy to handle the space to planet stuff.
A dock in orbit at the asteroid would make a good spot to S.H.A.G.G.E.R. Over
Skye, Please turn the oxygen back on in the B-60. You depressurised it, lights turned red and you never turned it back on and i sat here watching it dwindle downfor about half the episode.
Also the smoke you saw when you started moving after docking everything would have been the inertial dampeners from the B-60 trying to keep it in place. I tend to turn them all off when doing stuff like that otherwise you're fighting against them when trying to move.
I was thinking you were gonna have to mod at least 1 of those connector ports to sit on a piston to put that puzzle together. Good job fitting it in! (...That's what she said)
adding the pistons might still be a good idea to make docking future ships easier.
The large landing leg is for towing other ships manly wreaks.
Asteroid base is a must. So you can keep your big hulks in geostationary orbit above Shagger Base.
Asteroid base makes a lot of sense.
Shagger orbit port sounds like a good idea. Add Solar, batteries and cargo capacity (and maybe a medbay or something) to it and you have a nice orbital transfer station. You can use a shuttle of some sort to bring materials up and down easily enough I suspect.
Once that is done you can make a space miner to go on the back or side of the bulk frieghtsr and be all set to mine in space.
When you mention a mining spaceport/asteroid, it makes me think of nowhere in the G.O.T.G films, it’s all coming together, can’t wait to see what is next, happy Hogmanay /new year to you and yours when it comes
The Connector shows "Ready to lock" on the toolbar. @21:16
You should check out the server battlegrounds. Lots of ships to buy and quality of life stuff while staying balanced. Amazing and dangerous npc ships. Would love to see some videos of battles with those shields.
Daily positive comment
Although 2024 was sjeit (for me), skye has been/is a positive constant last year.
Really enjoyed your content (all of it) and on to a better 2025 with our favorite lemonhead.
Also...ALSO remember to pet Picture even on the last day of the year 😊
Happy New Year :)
@SkyeStorme you too Skye and ofc for picture too
Asteroid Space Dock! YEAH 😁
You already have a landing gear mag plate on the explorer ship. Just park it on the asteroid, and take the other two down to the surface for modifications. Don't forget to mark it's GPS!
I would modify the small grid minor to be mostly hydrogen, with minimal ion, and a bottom docking port. On the explorer, in the hanger bay add a floor docking port.
11:33 take out your welder and it will show you the block name and components
The freighter is so huge, I wonder if you could've parked the miner inside.
Also, did you saw the ships dampeners fighting? That's what you get if you conect two ships with dampeners on on both. If you use one ship to fly another, turn dampers or thrusters on all ships you carry off, as, same as with subgrids, they don't know about each other and will star mining their own business, fighting to prevent any movment and damaging eachother.
I turned the thrusters and dampeners off on the other 2 ships
Oh, I've done an ambassador refit before.
I did quite a bit to it, atmos capability, basic self-defense, extra storage, extra gyros, door sensors, auto closing doors, parasite docking ports, automated AI docking capability, updated interior blocks, new coat of paint... you know the usual.
_edit: also seeing those hanger doors open without flashing yellow lights and a claxon going just seems weird to me now_
_edit: oh yeah, in mine i grinded out that big screen on the bridge and it did this wierd thing and left the screen texture floating in space, so probably best leave that screen in_
I also took a look at a b60 before, but all i did was use some of its features for inspiration 🤔
You REALLY need a starbase in orbit above your main base now just to keep track of all your ships now lol
10:40 : I wonder what this landing gear is for.
A couple minutes later : how am I going to connect this ship to the transport vessel?
I wouldn't use the connector for tugging ships. That's what the landing gear on the Explorer is for. Because I think those hydrogen engines are going to make a mess of your Cargo vessel.
Yess
You likely could have used merge blocks to join the ambassador and b60, make one super ship with ion, hydrogen, and atmospheric thrust
I‘m still thinking about how he connected the jump drive to the old ship and think about the jumprings from the Star Wars Jedi fighters.
Please make some!!!
Great job!!
Asteroid base sounds like a good idea, but why not bring all the ships down to base? Those "clamps" you were confused about look like landing gear
You've probably heard this a million times, but are you bugging the devs for EA to Space Engineers 2. And more Timberborn when the tube goes live. Yes, there must be a waterfarm at Picalilly Station
No I'm not and there won't be any more Timberborn videos
Almost first, happy new year Sky and Pic Thanks for the content
26:57 NO YOU HAVE WASTED SO MUCH EVERY TIME YOU DON'T WAIT FOR DEPRESURIZE D:
Who cares?
@SkyeStorme it's breaking my heart Skye 😭
@SkyeStorme don't worry I still love you
1. Just hold the welder if you want to identify blocks.
2. your ships have landing gear. They don't need to use the connectors. Locked is locked. You really overthought this.