@@thesneak536 he said he's coming to every planet to collect hitchhikers.. sort of. At least that's my understanding. So one does not have to search but has to be found.
It would be interesting to is a screenshot of the Respawn pod at the beginning of each episode showing the Splitication of the Ship as Splitsie progresses on his collecting of Engineers.
I've been trying to get a blueprint each time at the end of a recording so I can try to do something fun in the event of a wipe by someone nefarious, I think I might have missed one session though so I could mostly do something like that
The reason that one hydrogen engine was draining and the other ones were gaining is because all the engines try to reach an equal amount of stored hydrogen (hope that makes sense)
Just wanted to say, knowing the amount of time that a new baby can take up, and you managed to find time to make us another series is greatly appreciated by us. Thank you for all the great content.
likewise, debating taking another stab at Space Engineers now I have a slightly better computer and this is a great little "ease myself back into it" series to watch on the side.
Ok, I'm more enthused about this series than your other SE series. Its the starting on a new server (or private server with friends) with no (or very basic) mods fresh in a survival pod, lost in space that's the best part of SE for me. I've done it countless times. The scratching out a living at the beginning is my favourite part. By the time I end up in a newly designed mega factory ship, i tend to get bored, never finish it, and start again fresh somewhere else.
With the five drill limit, I usually do three drills in a row like you've done, and two placed opposite in a cross, but three blocks apart (one block space between the center drill and outer drill. That way I have one row of three drills packed tight, and one row a little more spaced out, and I rotate the whole ship while boring. The tight row catches all the voxel that I'll be driving into while the spaced row digs a little more space around the ship.
Or you simply use a rotor with a (one-sided, if necessary) arm - and if you want, you can even change the length of the arm using pistons, allowing you to drill an inner and an outer circle area. Automate with timer blocks and another piston or two advancing the drills, retracting, switching to the larger diameter, and advancing (slower) again.
Very nice. Great episode and I look forward to the series. I've watched a lot of your series and I learn so much from you. As well as being a skilled space engineer and creative content creator, you seem to be a genuinely nice person. I've enjoyed your recent interactions with Capac and TFE. Keep up the great work!
I really enjoy the pure engineering in this video. The other series with constant combat with AI drones and what not is exciting from time to time, but I really just like watching you guys build stuff so I hope this series continues to be more like we've seen so far.
Thanks, I really enjoyed my recent stream series with the scrapyard mod I made for that reason too - it's nice to just build and have the build itself be the challenge :)
Should definitely swing by Keen server CA#2 sometime. There's a few large and interesting bases there and many of them allow visitors (even to spawn in), and it even has a public trading station called the "En Route" and a domed base on the Moon called "Lovell City". The En Route station is the oldest on the server at this point, and has been a popular gathering location for 1.5 years. Mithridates Rex, the proprietor of both those bases, is an old veteran of the Sigma Draconis "Escape From Purgatory" server, and appears in chat in a few of those videos. His faction has some magnificent vehicles, and the server regularly polices itself to prevent piracy.
You're not the first to speak highly of the CA servers, from what I've heard they've got a similar vibe to the AU ones due to the slightly smaller community using them
You should have just started with the drill attached to the survival kit through where the slanted window is then you could have kept airtightness in the cockpit and you could have had it processing stone while flying around searching for deposits
I really don't need airtightness there as the cockpit only has 1 door so it's mostly a way to bleed out oxygen. I wasn't that pushed for time but was happy with how quickly things came together :)
Splitsie, I love the way your mind works! This ship is a hodge-podge, hobbled together cluster of engines and 02/H2 Generators (not to mention, small-grid large storage), but it all just works together and I can see how you're going to make the whole ship look good once you get a reactor on board. I can tell that I'm going to enjoy this series. I'm so glad I found your channel. Now if I could just stop building bricks myself! LOL Edit: I tried to this EXACT thing, with the merge block and an Asteroid, but I turned my ship into a station (because I thought I had to) and so even after I disconnected the merge blocks (and the ship wasn't touching anything anymore) the game said, "Error, cannot turn into Ship" So my Ship became an Asteroid... Go figure. I had to revert to a save from like 6 hours earlier that day!
Oh no, that's a long way to wind back. If you run into that again, you should be able to use the convert to ship button (it's in the same spot as the station one in the menu) to convert back. If it's refusing to do so make sure that every block of your ship is completely clear of the asteroid e.g. a slope block needs the entire cube space clear
must admit, i havnt gamed in 6 months, havnt played SE in over a year, and i havnt watched any gaming related videos in long time.... BUT then i see splitsie doing a vanilla playthru on a keen server.....AND im back baby
This isn't good for beginners though...actual beginners would just use solar panels instead of spending way too much time and resources on hydrogen engines. Don't use this video if you want to learn how to play, you need to know the basics first
Great idea for this series. I'm looking forward to this. Over 1k hours of SE mainly on planets. Just started an in-space playthrough and watching this I now know where I have been going wrong with power. (I think) 🙃
Something I usually do with space starts is I put in some freight crates in the cockpit of the ship to store materials I can't quite use yet, then I pull 'em out when I'm able to refine them.
Found the direction he's traveling; Since he's so far away, there's barely any parallax, so you can use the skybox as a reference for direction. The unit vector direction he's traveling in is (-0.9286153, -0.37076, -0.01457) and if you negate it, and multiply it by his distance,(if the "Home" marker is at the origin/earth) you get his approximate position. His position where he ended the video is probably close to (228495916, 9122961, 3569672). Do keep in mind, his marker is most likely not at the origin, and could be only just close enough to visually see the planets. There's also a bit of error in the measurement, about 53.3 arcseconds. So just keep in mind that the further you go out the further you'll have to search from the unit vector line. The current width of the area you'll have to search, at the distance Splitsie is at, is about 32Km around. Good hunting ;)
It's a little terrifying knowing that someone could offline wipe me, but it certainly adds some extra tension :D If I manage to get another stream series going with w4sted I've gotta sneak you in there somewhere to scare the crap out of him :P
yer doing it. nice. glad you're appreciating this experience. i didn't have jump drives when i did this years ago. but i did get inventive... i'll wait t see what you om across,...
@@Splitsie there's been a sneaky sounds plugin for a while. I think they're against the rules of most servers but it gives no advantage and they can't police it anyway.
36:58 I like it.. all of it!! Keep at Splitsie.. with luck your partner in crime AND adventure makes an appearance at some point as you two are GREAT together.. not mention we could use a little ORANGE in this world of yours.. ;)
It is good to see another public server series from you. With so many things outside of your control, it is a good challenge to stretch your engineering and editing skills. Some server quarks to look forward to in the vanilla game without experimental mode. Space Engineers Keen Public Server BINGO Server lag kills Engineer (rubber banding rampage) Server lag causes ship damage Sub Grids Teleported to 0;0;0 (Earth-like Core) Kang takes a Tribute! All gasses disappear; hold your breath! Sim Speed bottoms out, take a swim Rollback; do 10 minutes of work again Die while offline in a plumbed and powered Cryo Chamber Find all ores before Cobalt! Something is broken? Only solved by quick reconnect (F5) Hacker/Script kiddy rage Server is full, play again later Server location revealed by Global Chat Passenger damages the ship Acquire LCD Messages/items from passersby while offline Forget to unlock portion of the tech tree before starting upgrade Never hit 20k PCU limit Distracted by player made server event Willingly Engage in PVP
It's an interesting approach. I find that by grinding down all of the Ramp blocks and thin wedges on the top, I have room to fit 4 solar panels. Then by aligning my ship on the Y axis of the universe, as long as everything but my Survival Kit is powered off, I can leave the ship unattended for days, and come back to fully charged batteries. That's usually the first thing I build on a new space pod. Later on I will add the basic production and usually a rotor drill head. Storage will usually have to wait until I find cobalt, but I like the trick of small grid storage. I'll remember that for next time.
Thank you so much for showing me that the “sun shines through walls” bug is 100% part of SE. Now I won’t have to fiddle with graphics drivers! Very annoying bug to me..
Wow, what a lucky guy you are! In my last survival at space I ended up with all asteroids full of Nickel and Ice.... And I literally mean all of them in 17 cluster zone and I given up.
If that was in a modded save that could be the cause. There are a few mods that can kinda break asteroids ore spawning so they only have nickel and occasionally silver
@@Splitsie No, I use vanilla until I learn all the mechanic. As I said last time, I bought this game very late, just a month ago, but It hooked me deeply. I wasted almost 40h to make a human spy frigate from Hegemony, but... I still can't automate it how I want and can't set a proper targeting system either, both due to my lack of knowledge and a bit of space limitation enforced by this ship low profile and its "catamaran shape". Nevertheless thank you for reply and an advice.
31:57 It doesn't matter how many hours you have played, you will always learn something new. Using the Ctrl key to rotate 90° is a great feature, thanks.
I am new to the game. Picked it up and didn't like it but I am getting back into it. Another guy started a playthrough and showed me there is a LOT to the game I had never seen. I hope I get to see some cool stuff my dude! You seem to know a tun from what I can tell. I might want to try this game on a multiplayer server some day. Still learning the ropes though for now. Thanks for the play through!
Tbh what I do is replace the front corners with drills and one in the middle and place the b-assembler connected to the cargo container and the refinery on the back o2/h2 gen, and build everything in a sleek way so I can hide in asteroids when I’m off or from pirates
Yay! Solo on a public server starting in space. One of my favorite ways to play on a long winters day. How did you manage to start so far out of the system?
It happens when there's a player on the server living out that far. You will always spawn somewhat near another player if they exist, so you kinda have to get 'lucky'
You can space out large ship drills by one pipe to get maximum mining area with max mining speed. Thus you wouldn't have to shrink your ship at all Upping the radius and lowering the fall off of the spot light also would light up everything at the front of your ship
My general rule with H2 engines is to have at least two O2/H2 generators per H2 engine. I also take this approach when building H2 ships, where each large H2 tank should have at least three O2/H2 generators (preferably 4). Not the fastest, but that's a good rule of thumb if you want a net positive in H2 production under normal operating conditions, while minimizing power consumption. The new event controller, of course, helps even more with power management, as O2/H2 generators drain a good amount of power while active.
That used to be close to my approach, but it seems like you can cut it much more fine than in the past so I'm keen to see if I run into any major issues doing it this way 🙂
Congrats on the mini Splitsie! 😇😇. I just found out by the comments here. When can we expect mini Splitsie to start jumping in your SE vids to help daddy? 🤣😅😂. You fly a large grid ship and mini flies a small grid ship! 🤣😅😂😁
Yo Splitsie, I tend to add the drill on to the survival kit, removing only the one right side angled window, it still keeps it airtight despite a small visible gap. I also add a cryopod to the opposite side of the cockpit, symmetrical with the survival kit.
I don't see much value in keeping airtightness for the cockpit (seems a good way for me to accdientally waste lots of air going in and out the single door) so I like to rip up the roof and get materials from there too :D
well, i was playing 7 days to Die for a while, then watched this video, and now I've started a new world in Space Engineers. Granted, it's modded, but I started with the same pod and scrambled to find my cobalt.
Every time I'm away from SE and building something I always find myself craving the physicality SE has, hopefully we'll eventually see some other genres get this treatment one day
A new event control block to turn on the engines when battery% is below 25% and turn off engines above 75% (for example) would help save the ship when your offline, right? A pair could also control the O2H2s with tank fullness.
I may do something like that in the future, though in general I want the batteries completely full when I log off and not rely on the event controller to keep the ship from being deleted - I'm just not sure I trust it enough
You don't need stone first... just hack your ship for parts until you have a drill, basic refinery, and basic assembler. Start with basic assembler, from the control seat computers. What am I saying, I learned all this from you years ago lol.
Hey Splitsie, we the Pickle Pirates from Us server 3 challenge you to war, we would of course let you build up your faction first. We haven't had much competition for a bit, in case you're wondering why and it doesnt have to be a series or anything. Also I recommend getting friends to join you if you're up to it. This goes for anybody else who feels like challenging us aswell, we need a challenge We enjoy the videos, keep up the fun work.
I’m just waiting for one of you crazy guy to find out the server and exact location. Also can I ride along to build a 40 deep heavy armor box around Splitsie. 😂
Ah yes, keen official servers; the lawless wasteland of space engineers. Dont let too many strong unknown signals spawn near you, otherwise people may come hunting. On a completely unrelated note, what keen server are you on? ;)
I dont really like mods and use only a couple like quieter tools and the immersive paintgun mod. So your other series sometimes struggle to capture me but I'm all in on this one. I love chill vanilla building and the opportunity for some rare player interaction on the server is fun. Its more fun to follow because anyone can just hop on and do it compared to heavily modded runs or series on dedicated private community servers that are exciting(!) but tend to add a layer of seperation for lack of a better term
I get it, that feeling is why I've tended to avoid block mods. Once you have a few it's really easy for the game to feel so different that it's hard to relate to
@Splitsie yes exactly! Also sorry ahead of time if you get a bunch of comments from me, I'm recently returning and barely remember anything so I'll be rewatching all of your tutorials for like, the 5th time lol. Love your content!
Soo.. back to your roots eh? ;) Do the math of speed vs distance, fling the ship to the goal, log out, and go on with life until the timer runs out. :)
Quiet drills... makes sense the only noise would be through the ship and vibrating your suit. But I'm sure you would be blasting something interesting in your suit heh
wow... splitsie on keen server O.o this is madness!! haha but refreshing at the same time going back to basics will be interesting and hopefully eventfull :p cheers!!
I’m inspired to try a similar run across the system on a Keen server. One question: how did you manage to guarantee a spawn so far from the Earthlike planet? And how did you get the GPS marker to head toward? Creative mode?
I didn't guarantee it, I loaded up the game to record, spawned in, was surprised when it happened and just rolled with it :D You've gotta get lucky to spawn near another person who just happens to be that far out from the origin
Oh wow, first time I ever looked at servers! Is there really just 7 keen servers? Got my fingers crossed but think getting sniped is inevitable with those short odds lol,
Needs more Capac! (I'm kidding!) (Kind of...) Seriously, though...? I've been waiting for an "official server" playthrough. I've just started to play on an official server, and I've been wondering how MY start compares to everyone else's.
so thats the plan... lull unsuspecting tourists into cryopods and then revoke sharing so they're trapped forever [mad laughter here]! How did you spawn so far away from earth? Is that vanilla thing or you left ship drifting for a day before recording? Also, how much time in advance did you record this? I imagine you're probably couple sessions in at this point, right?
I've been playing SE for many, many years, but I can't figure out how you started that far away from the planets. Best I could figure was to start in creative, strap 200 jump drives on and remove them when you get there. Though I'd guess there's an easier way.
I had no creative mode options here, this was on a keen official dedicated server. The reason I started so far out is that someone else was living out there. You spawn near other players in multiplayer, including players that are making their home in the deep black
Hey Splitsie, have you ever done a video about fixing/adjusting/modify your viewers smaller builds ? ( like people have uploaded their build with your name and you try and make it interesting ) ?
You know good thing you didn't have my luck when I start on one of the server's not too long ago. It was about two weeks before I found ice found every other or including platinum and uranium but no ice
Each o2/h2 generator produce the same amount of hydrogen as an Hydrogen Generator needs. So you had 4 o2/h2 generators but 5 hydrogen generators or i counted wrong and you just had another device that used some of your hydrogen
You've got to watch out for all those dastardly people putting "Welcome Splitsie" signs everywhere. 😂
Lol 😂
Those Dastardly scoundrels!
Funny because it's true. 😀
Considering how far he is they got to find him yet
@@thesneak536 he said he's coming to every planet to collect hitchhikers.. sort of. At least that's my understanding. So one does not have to search but has to be found.
It would be interesting to is a screenshot of the Respawn pod at the beginning of each episode showing the Splitication of the Ship as Splitsie progresses on his collecting of Engineers.
I've been trying to get a blueprint each time at the end of a recording so I can try to do something fun in the event of a wipe by someone nefarious, I think I might have missed one session though so I could mostly do something like that
The reason that one hydrogen engine was draining and the other ones were gaining is because all the engines try to reach an equal amount of stored hydrogen (hope that makes sense)
Reall? Huh never knew that then again I never have a build with more than one
Just wanted to say, knowing the amount of time that a new baby can take up, and you managed to find time to make us another series is greatly appreciated by us.
Thank you for all the great content.
Thanks and you're welcome :)
@@Splitsie
Know it's a bit late but congrats on fatherhood my dude! Start counting ya greys now haha
Now that I finally have SE, I would like to meet you in space at some point. If only just to wave at the man who taught me all I know 😂
Time to hunt
love this new series!! Feels like the old days of tutorials - explaining as you go... Keep it up!!!!
Same.
Glad you're liking it, I thought with all the new PlayStation players it might be helpful to explain some of the basics as well 🙂
likewise, debating taking another stab at Space Engineers now I have a slightly better computer and this is a great little "ease myself back into it" series to watch on the side.
Ok, I'm more enthused about this series than your other SE series. Its the starting on a new server (or private server with friends) with no (or very basic) mods fresh in a survival pod, lost in space that's the best part of SE for me. I've done it countless times. The scratching out a living at the beginning is my favourite part. By the time I end up in a newly designed mega factory ship, i tend to get bored, never finish it, and start again fresh somewhere else.
With the five drill limit, I usually do three drills in a row like you've done, and two placed opposite in a cross, but three blocks apart (one block space between the center drill and outer drill. That way I have one row of three drills packed tight, and one row a little more spaced out, and I rotate the whole ship while boring. The tight row catches all the voxel that I'll be driving into while the spaced row digs a little more space around the ship.
That's a neat design 🙂
Or you simply use a rotor with a (one-sided, if necessary) arm - and if you want, you can even change the length of the arm using pistons, allowing you to drill an inner and an outer circle area.
Automate with timer blocks and another piston or two advancing the drills, retracting, switching to the larger diameter, and advancing (slower) again.
a 6 panel Solar array can typically be used to make the RespawnPod stay powered while you're logged off.
Very nice. Great episode and I look forward to the series.
I've watched a lot of your series and I learn so much from you.
As well as being a skilled space engineer and creative content creator, you seem to be a genuinely nice person. I've enjoyed your recent interactions with Capac and TFE.
Keep up the great work!
Thanks so much :)
I love your solo projects.
It's interesting to hear your thought process when doing builds.
Thanks 🙂
Always fun to see a new (to me) style of content Splitsie. Thanks!
I'll tell you a little tip i've used in the early days. I put a gear next to the connector to evade random deletes at restart. Have luck 😊
I really enjoy the pure engineering in this video. The other series with constant combat with AI drones and what not is exciting from time to time, but I really just like watching you guys build stuff so I hope this series continues to be more like we've seen so far.
Thanks, I really enjoyed my recent stream series with the scrapyard mod I made for that reason too - it's nice to just build and have the build itself be the challenge :)
Should definitely swing by Keen server CA#2 sometime. There's a few large and interesting bases there and many of them allow visitors (even to spawn in), and it even has a public trading station called the "En Route" and a domed base on the Moon called "Lovell City". The En Route station is the oldest on the server at this point, and has been a popular gathering location for 1.5 years. Mithridates Rex, the proprietor of both those bases, is an old veteran of the Sigma Draconis "Escape From Purgatory" server, and appears in chat in a few of those videos. His faction has some magnificent vehicles, and the server regularly polices itself to prevent piracy.
You're not the first to speak highly of the CA servers, from what I've heard they've got a similar vibe to the AU ones due to the slightly smaller community using them
You should have just started with the drill attached to the survival kit through where the slanted window is then you could have kept airtightness in the cockpit and you could have had it processing stone while flying around searching for deposits
I really don't need airtightness there as the cockpit only has 1 door so it's mostly a way to bleed out oxygen. I wasn't that pushed for time but was happy with how quickly things came together :)
Splitsie, I love the way your mind works! This ship is a hodge-podge, hobbled together cluster of engines and 02/H2 Generators (not to mention, small-grid large storage), but it all just works together and I can see how you're going to make the whole ship look good once you get a reactor on board. I can tell that I'm going to enjoy this series. I'm so glad I found your channel. Now if I could just stop building bricks myself! LOL
Edit: I tried to this EXACT thing, with the merge block and an Asteroid, but I turned my ship into a station (because I thought I had to) and so even after I disconnected the merge blocks (and the ship wasn't touching anything anymore) the game said, "Error, cannot turn into Ship" So my Ship became an Asteroid... Go figure. I had to revert to a save from like 6 hours earlier that day!
Oh no, that's a long way to wind back. If you run into that again, you should be able to use the convert to ship button (it's in the same spot as the station one in the menu) to convert back. If it's refusing to do so make sure that every block of your ship is completely clear of the asteroid e.g. a slope block needs the entire cube space clear
must admit, i havnt gamed in 6 months, havnt played SE in over a year, and i havnt watched any gaming related videos in long time.... BUT then i see splitsie doing a vanilla playthru on a keen server.....AND im back baby
lol Hope you enjoy the ride :)
I love the way this ship looks after u built it up, it looks so unorganized but mechanical
lol Thanks :)
Completely Vanilla. With Progression enabled. Oh the humanity! God's speed, Splitsie.
lol It's not all that bad... mostly :P
Heck yeah. I like tutorial content and I've always wanted to be good at Space Engineers. Looking forward to this :D
This isn't good for beginners though...actual beginners would just use solar panels instead of spending way too much time and resources on hydrogen engines. Don't use this video if you want to learn how to play, you need to know the basics first
Great idea for this series. I'm looking forward to this. Over 1k hours of SE mainly on planets. Just started an in-space playthrough and watching this I now know where I have been going wrong with power. (I think) 🙃
Thanks 🙂
I freaking love your content, and I've been around SE for over a decade, never gets old :3
Something I usually do with space starts is I put in some freight crates in the cockpit of the ship to store materials I can't quite use yet, then I pull 'em out when I'm able to refine them.
Hi Splitsie. Got to say that love this series idea. I will be waiting for each notification :)
LOL have to ask ALF..... Do you come with cats? JK.... Loved watching that show as a kid.
@@jonathanbair523 Cats? Love them. delicious... i mean: cutest pets you can have.:)
lol :D
The confusion for the younger people out there with this exchange would be real :D
Found the direction he's traveling; Since he's so far away, there's barely any parallax, so you can use the skybox as a reference for direction.
The unit vector direction he's traveling in is (-0.9286153, -0.37076, -0.01457) and if you negate it, and multiply it by his distance,(if the "Home" marker is at the origin/earth) you get his approximate position.
His position where he ended the video is probably close to (228495916, 9122961, 3569672).
Do keep in mind, his marker is most likely not at the origin, and could be only just close enough to visually see the planets.
There's also a bit of error in the measurement, about 53.3 arcseconds. So just keep in mind that the further you go out the further you'll have to search from the unit vector line. The current width of the area you'll have to search, at the distance Splitsie is at, is about 32Km around.
Good hunting ;)
This is the first SE survival video I've watched in years. Fascinating concept!
It's a little terrifying knowing that someone could offline wipe me, but it certainly adds some extra tension :D
If I manage to get another stream series going with w4sted I've gotta sneak you in there somewhere to scare the crap out of him :P
@@Splitsie would be a blast from the past!
yer doing it. nice. glad you're appreciating this experience. i didn't have jump drives when i did this years ago. but i did get inventive... i'll wait t see what you om across,...
Poor man, no sneaky sounds. That mod is a blessing, thanks for it!
Lol so true, thankfully I can at least help you guys by adjusting the volume for the video 😂
''Not all heroes wearing capes''
@@Splitsie there's been a sneaky sounds plugin for a while. I think they're against the rules of most servers but it gives no advantage and they can't police it anyway.
It would feel disingenuous for me to use plugins in a 'perfectly vanilla' series 🙂
36:58 I like it.. all of it!! Keep at Splitsie.. with luck your partner in crime AND adventure makes an appearance at some point as you two are GREAT together.. not mention we could use a little ORANGE in this world of yours.. ;)
At the very least I might get him to jump into one of the Cryo pods when I have some 🙂
It is good to see another public server series from you. With so many things outside of your control, it is a good challenge to stretch your engineering and editing skills. Some server quarks to look forward to in the vanilla game without experimental mode.
Space Engineers Keen Public Server BINGO
Server lag kills Engineer (rubber banding rampage)
Server lag causes ship damage
Sub Grids Teleported to 0;0;0 (Earth-like Core)
Kang takes a Tribute!
All gasses disappear; hold your breath!
Sim Speed bottoms out, take a swim
Rollback; do 10 minutes of work again
Die while offline in a plumbed and powered Cryo Chamber
Find all ores before Cobalt!
Something is broken? Only solved by quick reconnect (F5)
Hacker/Script kiddy rage
Server is full, play again later
Server location revealed by Global Chat
Passenger damages the ship
Acquire LCD Messages/items from passersby while offline
Forget to unlock portion of the tech tree before starting upgrade
Never hit 20k PCU limit
Distracted by player made server event
Willingly Engage in PVP
It's an interesting approach. I find that by grinding down all of the Ramp blocks and thin wedges on the top, I have room to fit 4 solar panels. Then by aligning my ship on the Y axis of the universe, as long as everything but my Survival Kit is powered off, I can leave the ship unattended for days, and come back to fully charged batteries. That's usually the first thing I build on a new space pod. Later on I will add the basic production and usually a rotor drill head. Storage will usually have to wait until I find cobalt, but I like the trick of small grid storage. I'll remember that for next time.
I prefer to take the hard route sometimes :D
This was so refreshing to watch....after months of designing stuff in the game....I think I might do this for a while :)
Thanks 🙂
Thank you so much for showing me that the “sun shines through walls” bug is 100% part of SE. Now I won’t have to fiddle with graphics drivers! Very annoying bug to me..
Wow, what a lucky guy you are! In my last survival at space I ended up with all asteroids full of Nickel and Ice.... And I literally mean all of them in 17 cluster zone and I given up.
If that was in a modded save that could be the cause. There are a few mods that can kinda break asteroids ore spawning so they only have nickel and occasionally silver
@@Splitsie No, I use vanilla until I learn all the mechanic. As I said last time, I bought this game very late, just a month ago, but It hooked me deeply. I wasted almost 40h to make a human spy frigate from Hegemony, but... I still can't automate it how I want and can't set a proper targeting system either, both due to my lack of knowledge and a bit of space limitation enforced by this ship low profile and its "catamaran shape". Nevertheless thank you for reply and an advice.
31:57 It doesn't matter how many hours you have played, you will always learn something new. Using the Ctrl key to rotate 90° is a great feature, thanks.
You're welcome 🙂
I am new to the game. Picked it up and didn't like it but I am getting back into it. Another guy started a playthrough and showed me there is a LOT to the game I had never seen. I hope I get to see some cool stuff my dude! You seem to know a tun from what I can tell. I might want to try this game on a multiplayer server some day. Still learning the ropes though for now. Thanks for the play through!
And the scramble begins to find what server
I'm playing on the vanilla server right now too. And the one thing I instantly miss is build vision lol
Tbh what I do is replace the front corners with drills and one in the middle and place the b-assembler connected to the cargo container and the refinery on the back o2/h2 gen, and build everything in a sleek way so I can hide in asteroids when I’m off or from pirates
Nice to see you doing solo SE again. It's been a while.
It has indeed, it felt good to be back editing the solo stuff too :)
Yay! Solo on a public server starting in space. One of my favorite ways to play on a long winters day.
How did you manage to start so far out of the system?
I'm wondering the same thing. I'd love to try it, it sounds like a neat way to start!
I once respawn that far from Earth like. Maybe try to respawn a couple of times?
It happens when there's a player on the server living out that far. You will always spawn somewhat near another player if they exist, so you kinda have to get 'lucky'
You can space out large ship drills by one pipe to get maximum mining area with max mining speed. Thus you wouldn't have to shrink your ship at all
Upping the radius and lowering the fall off of the spot light also would light up everything at the front of your ship
My experience with spacing large grids drills in the past has been the occasional doom voxels being left behind and badly damaging my ship 😐
Looks like a great start! I`m excited for the next episode
It should be a fun ride :)
My general rule with H2 engines is to have at least two O2/H2 generators per H2 engine. I also take this approach when building H2 ships, where each large H2 tank should have at least three O2/H2 generators (preferably 4). Not the fastest, but that's a good rule of thumb if you want a net positive in H2 production under normal operating conditions, while minimizing power consumption. The new event controller, of course, helps even more with power management, as O2/H2 generators drain a good amount of power while active.
That used to be close to my approach, but it seems like you can cut it much more fine than in the past so I'm keen to see if I run into any major issues doing it this way 🙂
that intro is so creative
Forgot about you, good to see you're alive :)
Congrats on the mini Splitsie! 😇😇. I just found out by the comments here. When can we expect mini Splitsie to start jumping in your SE vids to help daddy? 🤣😅😂. You fly a large grid ship and mini flies a small grid ship! 🤣😅😂😁
If you turned off your hydrogen engines at 31 minutes in you can save som hydrogen think of the little things
31:00
Meh, don't need to think of the little things when I've got plenty of ice :)
Yo Splitsie, I tend to add the drill on to the survival kit, removing only the one right side angled window, it still keeps it airtight despite a small visible gap. I also add a cryopod to the opposite side of the cockpit, symmetrical with the survival kit.
I don't see much value in keeping airtightness for the cockpit (seems a good way for me to accdientally waste lots of air going in and out the single door) so I like to rip up the roof and get materials from there too :D
The GPS location of the exact center of the Earthlike planet on all Keens servers is the default GPS when creating a new GPS location; 0,0,0.
Yup, that's where I put my 'home?' marker 🙂
Does this mean 2 videos a week?! YAY double the splitsie!!!
Now we just need to add Capac in to throw a literal wrench into the works ;)
Yep, 2 videos per week. Every other week will be this series, alternating with the Stationeers series that started last weekend :)
The ending was good ill definatly be in a cryo find me on earthlike
When I get closer to the point of collecting I'll post the instructions on how to be collected (assuming things don't go wrong before then) 🤞
well, i was playing 7 days to Die for a while, then watched this video, and now I've started a new world in Space Engineers. Granted, it's modded, but I started with the same pod and scrambled to find my cobalt.
Every time I'm away from SE and building something I always find myself craving the physicality SE has, hopefully we'll eventually see some other genres get this treatment one day
I found the memorial, its still there.
A new series on a Keen vanilla server! This will be very interesting 😅
Great Video as always! Thank you!
A new event control block to turn on the engines when battery% is below 25% and turn off engines above 75% (for example) would help save the ship when your offline, right? A pair could also control the O2H2s with tank fullness.
I may do something like that in the future, though in general I want the batteries completely full when I log off and not rely on the event controller to keep the ship from being deleted - I'm just not sure I trust it enough
cant wait for the next one
You don't need stone first... just hack your ship for parts until you have a drill, basic refinery, and basic assembler. Start with basic assembler, from the control seat computers. What am I saying, I learned all this from you years ago lol.
I love watching other people on Keen servers - lol - too many grievers for me to enjoy it. :)
I've played on the Australian servers for years and I've only been griefted once. Its surprisingly friendly.
Yeah, the stories I hear are that the AU and CA servers are surprisingly friendly, particularly to newer players
Hey Splitsie, we the Pickle Pirates from Us server 3 challenge you to war, we would of course let you build up your faction first. We haven't had much competition for a bit, in case you're wondering why and it doesnt have to be a series or anything. Also I recommend getting friends to join you if you're up to it. This goes for anybody else who feels like challenging us aswell, we need a challenge
We enjoy the videos, keep up the fun work.
lol I don't think I'd end up being much competition - have you seen how long it took me to add any guns to my giant purple carrier? :D
Understandable
The Twiglet flys!
Event contoller cycling hydrogen and generators engines when your batts get low would help extend your how long you could stay offline
Small grid large storage container doesn't need metal grids. So large grid to small grid via rotor, oh wait 30:00 you remembered.
Yup, got there eventually :P
I’m just waiting for one of you crazy guy to find out the server and exact location. Also can I ride along to build a 40 deep heavy armor box around Splitsie. 😂
lol :D
Ah yes, keen official servers; the lawless wasteland of space engineers. Dont let too many strong unknown signals spawn near you, otherwise people may come hunting. On a completely unrelated note, what keen server are you on? ;)
Lol 😂
Cobalt searching in space is the worst :D
im cant wait to watch more!
Next episode out this week :)
Hey, Splitsie have you considered doing the suit only start I have seen a few people try it but to see the master would be awesome.
I've thought about it, but it's mostly restarting over and over until you get lucky 😕
I dont really like mods and use only a couple like quieter tools and the immersive paintgun mod. So your other series sometimes struggle to capture me but I'm all in on this one. I love chill vanilla building and the opportunity for some rare player interaction on the server is fun. Its more fun to follow because anyone can just hop on and do it compared to heavily modded runs or series on dedicated private community servers that are exciting(!) but tend to add a layer of seperation for lack of a better term
I get it, that feeling is why I've tended to avoid block mods. Once you have a few it's really easy for the game to feel so different that it's hard to relate to
@Splitsie yes exactly! Also sorry ahead of time if you get a bunch of comments from me, I'm recently returning and barely remember anything so I'll be rewatching all of your tutorials for like, the 5th time lol. Love your content!
Would love to see you try "From the Depth"
I just wish I had the time to learn the game, I've tried to pick it up a few times but it's so dense I can't find the spare hours needed :/
Soo.. back to your roots eh? ;) Do the math of speed vs distance, fling the ship to the goal, log out, and go on with life until the timer runs out. :)
Sort of, last time I did this was about 3.5 years ago. I thought some more intentional interaction might add some fun for a second run 🙂
Quiet drills... makes sense the only noise would be through the ship and vibrating your suit.
But I'm sure you would be blasting something interesting in your suit heh
It would make sense, if the server was set to realistic sounds but I'm pretty sure it's on arcade 🤔
@Splitsie but what music would be blasting? A orchestra of capac saying ow?
Hold on, I just noticed, since when did small grid large cargos not require metal grids?
13:00 what about a small grid ship with large grid drills?
wow... splitsie on keen server O.o this is madness!! haha but refreshing at the same time going back to basics will be interesting and hopefully eventfull :p cheers!!
Just a bit crazy, hopefully I get to do some fun stuff before the worst happens :D
@@Splitsie with the level of activity on keen server because of automatons i wouldnt be suprised theres is going to be fun going around
going to a new adventure sounds fun just got back into SE, so sign me up lol
I’m inspired to try a similar run across the system on a Keen server. One question: how did you manage to guarantee a spawn so far from the Earthlike planet? And how did you get the GPS marker to head toward? Creative mode?
I didn't guarantee it, I loaded up the game to record, spawned in, was surprised when it happened and just rolled with it :D
You've gotta get lucky to spawn near another person who just happens to be that far out from the origin
Oh wow, first time I ever looked at servers! Is there really just 7 keen servers?
Got my fingers crossed but think getting sniped is inevitable with those short odds lol,
There are about 20, at least 11 in North America
Needs more Capac!
(I'm kidding!)
(Kind of...)
Seriously, though...? I've been waiting for an "official server" playthrough. I've just started to play on an official server, and I've been wondering how MY start compares to everyone else's.
I might convince him at some point to get into one of the Cryo pods I build 😂
Can you move asteroids if you are attached to them?
so thats the plan... lull unsuspecting tourists into cryopods and then revoke sharing so they're trapped forever [mad laughter here]!
How did you spawn so far away from earth? Is that vanilla thing or you left ship drifting for a day before recording?
Also, how much time in advance did you record this? I imagine you're probably couple sessions in at this point, right?
That's vanilla - there's someone else out there so I spawned 'near' them :)
Why do you always have dampeners on? I would think coasting to maintain speed is more efficient than burning fuel to maintain speed.
What server did you use for survival immpossible?
I love how well this game imported to multi-player with factions fighting for control of so many resources
I'm loving this!
I've been playing SE for many, many years, but I can't figure out how you started that far away from the planets. Best I could figure was to start in creative, strap 200 jump drives on and remove them when you get there. Though I'd guess there's an easier way.
I had no creative mode options here, this was on a keen official dedicated server.
The reason I started so far out is that someone else was living out there. You spawn near other players in multiplayer, including players that are making their home in the deep black
How did you get the GPS for "home"? Is that just the 0,0,0 coordinate?
Yep, that's where the centre of earth like is in vanilla 🙂
Cool, new series.
Hey Splitsie, have you ever done a video about fixing/adjusting/modify your viewers smaller builds ? ( like people have uploaded their build with your name and you try and make it interesting ) ?
I've done something like that a lot on Twitch. It's how many of the assert ships were built. The vods are over on my flipsie channel 🙂
@@Splitsie ah thanks, i'll check it out tomorrow then. have a good day.
Im just curious why not add another drill to each side to make it as wide as your ship,so u do not have to worry about getting stuck?
You're limited to 5 on the official servers
OH NO I THOUGHT THIS WAS AN ALREADY DONE SERIES! NOW I GOTTA WAIT! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Next one is out this weekend :)
@@Splitsie what a chad
You know good thing you didn't have my luck when I start on one of the server's not too long ago. It was about two weeks before I found ice found every other or including platinum and uranium but no ice
Ouch, that's rough
@@Splitsie my luck did turn around when I found an asteroid made completely of ice so I guess it was worth it. =)
I may have missed it somewhere in the video, but which server are you on? I may have to start at one of the planets
I'm deliberately hiding that 🙂
Lol, just gotta start on all of them then XD
There is a rumor that captain jack put a bounty on you.
COULDN’T the event controller auto start the generator to charge your batteries wile off line?
It could but I really don't trust it to do that, much rather have enough power to more than cover any downtime :)
Each o2/h2 generator produce the same amount of hydrogen as an Hydrogen Generator needs. So you had 4 o2/h2 generators but 5 hydrogen generators or i counted wrong and you just had another device that used some of your hydrogen
You might want to turn the suit antenna off.
What server you on. Might share some of my caches. And I hide loot crates on every planet.
Definitely not revealing which one I'm on, at least not for a while :)
@@Splitsie if it's na 5 stop by our salvage yard. Just give us a heads up before you jump in for lag issues.