5 Automation Tips to Make Life Easy in Space Engineers Automatons
🚀🛠️Space Engineers Automatons Update is here!🛠️🚀In this tutorial video, you'll learn 5 essential tips to make life easier, even if you're a beginner or an experienced player.
🔆 Tip 1 shows you how to use the Custom Turret Controller to track the sun's position for optimal solar alignment.
🔆 Tip 2 helps you avoid falling out of a ship while docking with the Event Controller.
🔆 Tip 3 helps you keep track of resources and displays them on a Status Board.
🔆 Tip 4 shows you how to use a Repair Projector Toggle to prevent lag and conserve PCU.
🔆 Tip 5 helps you stay safe while using a Welder Wall.
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Chapters:
Welcome! - 00:00
Tip 1 - 00:18
Tip 2 - 01:24
Tip 3 - 02:15
Tip 4 - 03:48
Tip 5 - 04:50
"-why is my demonstration base on fire?!" LMAO
That gave me a good laugh too.
Here year later to say. That's pretty funny and this video gets an immediate like
... "Why is my demonstration base on fire?" - This is some relatable SE content right here!
One could also set a precise sensor area to detect humans in the welders range and turn them off when humans get into danger zone.
I was going to say the same thing. :D
Friendly humans. Enemy humans can get welded LOL.
This could lead to unwanted behavior, sadly. A player in a cockpit does not take damage from welders, so flying a ship into a welder wall is perfectly safe, but the sensor will still detect the player in the cockpit and turn off the welders, thus making the welder wall useless. Unless you set the sensor range so low that the player is basically touching the welders, and even then it's debatably useless.
Regarding the welders and assuming they are in a group or timer block of their own already, just placing down a few lights and adding them to the group would do the same job, no real need for the event control at all. 😁
this 100% some folks overuse that darn block, and it just kills it.@@MadmanMac2001
If you are missing the "Always aim at sun" then add and remove a weapon or tool, that will bring the missing options back.
Thanks for the tip!
I love the idea for setting up docking and undocking power management!
I love how you timestamp your videos, and your captions very clearly capture what is happening in the video. Very accessible and makes for easy watching. 10/10 content will watch every video you post.
love this video format! the ship event controller is actually super neat, I've been using timer blocks to trigger multiple sequence stuff while docking/undocking, but still had accidents happen now and then awesome tips!
Regarding the welder-wall warning lights, if you want to get really fancy with it you could tie those lights to a timer block, then tie the timer block to the event controller. The result is that you have lights that not only turn on, they blink on and off. Add a sound block to that and you can have it play a warning noise. Presto, flashing lights and klaxons.
Lights have settings to make them blink anyway
I honestly can't tell if all the little "accidents" in this video are intentional or not, but it's super entertaining nonetheless. Great video!
Personally, I'm using 2 AI blocks (Move & Recorder) and a timer block to automatically dock my miner after returning with ore, I've got the timer block setup to toggle the AI Blocks on/off and run the autopilot and follow the waypoints, on the last waypoint I set it to trigger the timer block again (shutting down the autopilot & handing the control of the miner back to me). I used to HATE docking to connectors, and dreaded the return of a mining run each time because of this. Now when I return I just need to get close enough to not have anything blocking the path and then trigger the timer block, everything from that point on is fully automated :)
good thing about this is that you dont need to setup timer block for a simple stuff. like the light turn on and off with welder
Nearly 3000hrs and I learnt something new through this video! Big wins 🏆
that power change/tank change when undocking is going to save a lot of my ships!
The event controller is so goot to auto recharge and refill, stop and start engines and pretty much anything you would do anyways when docking. One Block, so much easier life
For welder walls I always used sensor that would turn them off whenever I walked into the kill zone. It is foolproof that way.
I've used that, too, and probably will in the future, but status lights are always cool. :P
You could also combine the two
@@J37T3R Absolutely!
@@GleebTorin You can also put your warning lights AND welders into a timer block, trigger it with a button for ON/OFF, then a sensor to do the same with friendly players detected, it will come back on automaticly once said player is out the killzone. I make everything like that because i hate "grouping" it clutters the k-menu when you have alot of ships docked and ppl forget to name it right. Thrusters off, batteries and tanks on recharge, lights and antenna out = all in one timer block = triggered with sensor on "detect subgrid". Don't need automatons for that. But cheers on your vid anyways, I'm thinking i'll use that light on ore/h2/O2, with containers & sorters, to detect low on ingots of certain kind. No need for scripts like autolcd or isy's inventory management.
Practical. But awfully cheat >:C
The welder wall one is actually easier than this, Just put the welders and the lights in a group, so they all turn on and off together. Then if you want you can use a sensor to turn the welders off if you get too close, never get zapped again.
Unfortunately, and this has happened to me, that doesn't stop people from activating the welders independantly.
Quick, straight to the point, informative. Excellent video
Glad to hear it! :)
Aah the small subgrid rotor thing is a nice idea to save some space when building many event controllers, thanks for that!
I've been using the emotion block for my resources status displays and I try and put them on a small grid robot body to give the more character.
That's hilarious! I love that!
I just started playing this game in February 2024 on my old rickety ps4 and im already in kove with it. Albeit that I'm a novice and only have the basics down. I am very excited to get a better understanding of the intriqitue mechanics of this game. I've been itching for a game like this since the first time i played Kerbals. I kove designing and engineering in games, maybe uts in my blood. My father is a retired mechanical engineer with approx. 50 years experience. Whilst my mother was a gifted artist. So i was very blessed for my genetic traits. Where artistry and engineeringnhave been figuratively and literally married into one. So with that said, I cannot wait until I understand the mechanics of this game. The things I'm already envisioning in my head I am excited to bring them to life! So, I appreciate people who make videos like this. Thank you for the time and effort, I subscribed and will be watching all your stuff, keep up the great work!
It's great to see people getting into the game. If ever you have questions, I'm sure that the community can find an answer, but the best part of Space Engineers is trying to figure it out for yourself. Fly safe!
Офигенный видос, спасибо огромное!!
Wow, I had no idea the event controller was this powerful. Thank you for the demonstrations!
Definitely be using some of this. Thanks!!
I'm just glad you can get some use out of it!
CHANGE THE TOOLBAR FOR THE EVENT CONTROLLER?!?!?! OMG!!! THANK YOU!!!!
Right?! So easy to miss this feature, but it's SO useful!
I started a new survival world an found the best thing ever, i made a static miner and had it mining straight down. And then added a cargo check to se if there is space in the cargobay for more stone. When it had space it mined and then turned of when full. I didn’t need to supervise it at all. Went on building my aircraft carrier(early game!!!) and i never ran out of iron. When it was finished i had 700k iron stored.
Awesome! Sounds a lot like the ice drill you can see in this video, it stops when the cargo is full.
For the last tip instead of using an event controller you can use a sensor to disable all welders when a character is nearby.
Yeah, but then you don't get the laugh as your friends cook themselves. >:3
I cannot wait to use the new event block, loving the new update, I wish this game was more popular, I guess it never got the exposure it needed :( great video!
Space Engineers is more popular than I thought it was. When researching and older video, I found that it has like 4,000 daily active players, and they also recently hit 500,000 items on the workshop, making it one of the most popular games for user generated content... ... But it does feel criminal that it's not more popular.
bro finally a way to have ma usage on solar panels without scripts
Glad it's useful!
good tips . thanks
Man it was awesome !
The event controller is such a nice block for people like me that don't know how to code.
Good ideas except for the last one. That one was a stretch to use the event controller purely for the sake of using the event controller. You can get the exact same result from adding the lights to the same group you use to turn the welders on/off. A better safety feature would be a sensor that turns off the welder group if a player gets too close. That, of course, doesn't require any event controllers, either.
I've actually had some great use out of this. I use this on a multiplayer server. Some people don't think to look for a group and will just turn the welder on by itself. By using the event controller in this way, no matter how the welders are activated, the warning light comes on.
@@GleebTorin To this I would have said "Use a timer block and set the entire group.", but an event controller is 40% the PCU so your solution is the best, as long as there are no more than 3 things to do at the same time.
You can set the welders to not share with your faction so other players have to press a button that is shared and toggles the group. Or set a detector to only turn on the welders when a grid is in range so nobody ever has to manually turn them on in the first place. Using an event controller just for lights isn't going to hurt anything, but it's unnecessary.
Yep, I use cut-off sensors on my welding ships, too, since I sometimes forget to turn the welders off before jumping out of the cockpit. I set the field to encompass the cockpit, the welder(s) and around 5 to 7.5m out in front of the welder contacts. Set to detect players only (but not enemies >:) ) Works like a charm
@@mailleweaver An event controller to switch lights based off manually toggling welders might be unnecessary, but it combined with the projector toggling for when blocks go missing has given me an idea for an automatic 'red alert' mechanism for my mothership that I've previously not bothered to do because it'd require a PB. Making lights start flashing when events occur (depressurisation, taking damage, running low on something, etc) is a neat usage for an EC that I hadn't considered. So the specific usage here might not be the most useful thing to copy exactly, but it's a good source of inspiration for mentally bootstrapping your expectations of what the controllers can do.
Not Automatons related, but one of my favorite thing to do with lights is when you have a hanger you're flying into...I put lights on all 4 sections of the hanger entrance. Then I put a corresponding sensor. I set them up so if my ship is going collide with any part of the opening, the corresponding light turns on and I know to adjust. I guess I could just setup an automation sequence now...but for ships that you don't feel like adding flight controllers to, it's a nice way to let pilots manually enter a hanger without hitting the entry walls. LOL
I've done this one myself!
my welder Trick is to put a sensor on them to turn them off when I or faction mates get too close and back on when we walk away.
I've done that before, it's a great way to avoid welding your friends. I might do both together, that way people know to avoid it, but can get close without a worry.
KZhead isn't putting your chapters into the seek bar in the usual way (for me anyway) I can see the chapters listed in the description and the 'key moments' bar - but not on the seek bar (no idea why) Thought you should know... :)
How odd! It normally works, and there's no way for me to do it myself. Thanks for letting me know!
You could also add a sensor for your welder wall, and make it turn off the welders when a player is near, it could be usefull fo checkng how your welding is coming along without getting baked!
Yeah, but I like watching my friends get cooked when they get too curious. :P
Why is demo base on fire?! Love the cooked-in drama.
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Great stuff, didn't see too much new to me as I have some systems like this too plus some stuff for additional automation & convenience. I'd tell more about that but I'm not great at "telling" best when I "show" stuff like that... That said, the Welder Wall at the end, I got 4 Small Grid printing bays on my base with a more complex safety system. 2 Event Controllers (1 for Tools ON, 1 for OFF) a warning light & a sensor to shutdown tools if someone gets too close. Just got done setting up the last 2 printers yesterday but it's not the only thing I have done, sensors are vital for me because they keep working when my Server Ping is too high & have saved me for certain death before.
Definitely doable, but... it's kinda funny when mistakes are made, haha. :P
I just add my caution/warning lights to my welder group. This way when u turn on the welders, the lights are also turned on. No extra event controller processing required.
Yeah that's a good point, but I find that if I'm playing with other people and they don't know there's a group, they may just turn on the welders accidentally. So this saves a bit of trouble.
I also put a sensor block on welder walls that shut the wall down when triggered.
But then your friend won't die hilariously by their own poor situational awareness. :P
Good stuff!
Thanks!
Wooo, clunky SE GUI strikes again! I didn't know before watching this video that the event controller has more toolbars. I was like "why the heck does the timer have it but not the EC?". Should have looked more carefully. :D
Keen definitely need to hire a user experience dude.
Great idea, do a video of you using slowest lvl one welder possible, brilliant
I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy, haha
Glorious Easter Egg
Gotta be careful with those sabroids 😅
To add onto the solar tower, you can also set up an event controller to detect when the panels are not receiving power anymore, and kick on lights and/or backup generators, since this likely means the sun is down.
That's a good one, I covered it in the earlier video at kzhead.info/sun/l9qnYK6qsHudYGw/bejne.html
Thanks fam
Any time
With a welder wall, just ad your warning lights to the group of welder's. If you're using sensors to activate the wall than use 2. Sensor 1 to detect small grid only. Welder's+lights on and off Make a new group welder's+lights+sensor 1 Place sensor 2 set to detect player's only, welders+lights+sensor 1 off And sensor 1 on
On topic of not dying because of welder wall - add a sensor in welders area it to turn off welders if friendly/neutral player detected
Yeah, but then you don't get to see your friends fry themselves 😂
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My solution for welders is to have a sensor only detect large and small grid ships, they turn my welders and warning lights on when a ship is detected and off if not detected, so they are always off unless I fly a ship near them, then they automatically turn everything on and off.
That's certainly one way to do it, I've used this method myself, but I do like me some fancy lights. :P
@@GleebTorin Me too, the sensor also turns on my warning lights, but this way I don't need to manually turn my welders on, and they are not wasting power or a danger to players when not in use 😀
well thats one mod i can knock out of my list with solar, but i got a LOT of mods to bugger though, what im looking for is a auto miner at lest the easy to read shell of one i wish i could make a gyro stable miner that has the drill rotate differantly from the ship but :P that be me being board, but i wonder how the new AI stuff hands with sub thrusters like when they altered by whiplashes scripts
back when SE introduced planets , i expend like 8h building a massive ship , it fell down a cliff and blowedup because i forgot to change batteries from recharge to auto , lol
I feel your pain 😢
Ive been trying to set up my ship to recharge when docked, then discharge when not docked, but I cant seem to do it right. Theyre either left in recharge when undocked or put in auto. Theres no option for "Recharge On', "Recharge Off". Its just "On/Off"
If you're turning the welder wall on and off using the block group, why not just add the lights to the block group so they also turn on with the welders?
I set up three solar towers like these. Now with two it worked fine but when I added a third tower, one of the other towers started tracking something else other than the sun. I tried tearing them down and rebuilding them in different places but every time I built that third tower it would screw up the tracking on one of the earlier built towers. Once the tracking was out, I could do nothing to recover it, apart from a rebuild. I can't work this out.
Or just add the lights to the same group as the welders themself. And for larger solar arrays avoid using hinge's ,Just use 2 Rotor's , They are stronger and less buggy
I tried my own cargo status light for when my ice amount on my ship was 25, 50, 75% but it wasn't working right with multiple cargo containers. Does it not take an average of all of them but monitors the percentage on all of them and would only light up when all containers are reading below 25% for the 25% light to activate? I'm trying to wrap my head around how it works :(
It doesn't take an average, no. If the AND gate box is unchecked (as it is by default) then the output/condition is true if any of the blocks meet the criteria (like greater than or equal to 50%). If the AND gate box is checked, ALL of the blocks must meet the criteria. Let me know if there's anything else I can clear up. :)
@@GleebTorin Ah nice, perfect :) Thanks
Here's a question, how do i make my external cameras link to a transparent LCD screen. My shuttle isnt gonna have windows.
That's a great question! There have been a number of attempts at making mods or plugins that allow you to put the output of a camera onto an LCD. Unfortunately they do come with performance hits and as far as I'm aware, at the moment, there are no mods that work. For now, LCDs are only for displaying information and images.
@@GleebTorin thank you for the answer.
how have i never noticed the extra slots of the event controller lol, i’ve been using timers because i can trigger multiple blocks with a single button press instead of creating 1 event controller per block/group
They don't exactly scream that those slots are there, to be fair. I had to be told that they were there before i made this video.
hey guys in this SE tutorial I will be showing you how to.... why is my demonstration base on fire?
Fair warning, I didn’t get the option to “always point at sun”; pretty sure it’s because I have Weaponcore, though…..
Good to know! I'll be sure to test that.
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Привет , какой мод делает такой белый лед?
Этот тип льда появляется на планете Тритон.
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DAMN IT!!
Or... You could make warning lights and group them with the welders....
That won't help if someone just turns on the welders, though. :P
Dude wtf? I havent seen that Event Controller has pages in the actions tab.
Yeah, they don't exactly shout about it, haha
The first tip was unnecessarily obvious, the last one unnecessary at all. Just add a sensor for friendly humans to turn off the welder. Anyway, I hope there are more videos like this.
...but how can you laugh as your friends if they don't roast themselves with a welder wall? :P
@@GleebTorin Because I play SE only with my Wife and if she's getting roasted by a Welder and I dare to laugh, I'm gonna have a baaaaaad time. True Story.
I'am new in this game, what ist the "Klang" ? Sounds bad in my ears^^
Klang is a mythical deity feared by SE players, he is thought to be the source of Clang, the sound made when everything goes wrong and explodes without local cause.
@@GleebTorin Oh, it seems that this deity also showed me its existence without me knowing it 🤣🤣. Something like this: "Why the heck did that thing explode now?"......jaaaa I've had something like that before.
What is a point of a welder wall?
Great Question! Having a wall of welders let's you weld over a larger area, letting you repair and weld ships much quicker.
This gave me a headache. I barely know SE even without all of this automation. Good video though.
Yeah, it can be a lot to wrap your head around. Let me know if there's anything you'd love to see covered.
I combine the lights into the group with my welders, so one button turns everything on and off.
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