This is the part 2 of a tutorial series to guide new and old players alike through Space Engineers survival from the very beginning and through to the point where ridiculous builds seem plausible.
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This video covers the construction of a mining ship for use in atmosphere, as well as all the info you need to understand for the building of any ship in space engineers.
If you have any tutorial topics you'd like me to cover in the coming videos please let me know in the comments. If you've got burning questions about how to do something, ask here and I'll do my best to answer.
00:00 Previously in this guide series
00:21 Building a battery on the base
01:24 Ordering some extra components
02:00 Starting to build a small grid ship with a landing gear
03:14 Building the cockpit and the basics of Build Planner
04:49 Drills, Cargo and conveyors
07:02 Turn auto-rotate off
07:50 Connectors
08:55 Batteries
09:40 Atmospheric thrusters
13:08 Gravity as down thrust
13:38 Why can't my ship turn? Gyroscopes
14:44 Base mounted connector
15:22 First flight tests
17:05 Docking to the base, making connectors safe with magnets
18:49 Charging our batteries
20:07 Doing a Capac
22:10 Flight test 2
23:47 Ore detector
25:21 Getting the drill on our toolbar
26:08 Mining without flipping over
27:35 Why mine horizontally? Pancakes.
28:16 Setting up sorters and ejectors for stone
32:25 Lazy way to add drills to the toolbar
33:08 Offloading ore to the base
34:54 How to paint things, and when you can use P
37:18 Adding lights
39:27 What to do if you crash
40:23 Adding more drills
42:15 Weight watchers
43:15 Advanced techniques for starting your next small ship build
44:50 Outro
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Who here has played plenty of Space Engineers and still watches all of Splitsie's tutorials? This wasn't the first SE content I ever subscribed to but it's always been the best.
I have almost 3800 hours in SE, and I'm still enjoying these tutorial episodes!
Watched his original series when I was first learning and now watching the updated new tutorials after having almost 1000 hours and still enjoying/learning from them!
Splitsie gave me the knowhow to really enjoy SE and it is now one of my favourite Games. I definetly see Splitsie as a Mentor and he even gave me the permision to mod his Butterball miner and even looked it over.
just shy of 2k hours... Always down for a Splitsie tutorial 😁
2k hrs and i dont think theres a splits vid i havent seen def one of the best 😊
Splitsie's Space Engineers tutorials. The standard against which other Space Engineers tutorials should be judged.
Lol thanks 🙂
He has a Point i learnd a Lot from them oh Lord the solar turning Script was a Game changer in my early game
Me too. I was unsure what to do at the start, but found Splitsie tutorials for game start and, frankly, had it run in the background and following every step 😁 Now I am passing this knowledge to friends, who don't speak English.
Honestly, Splitsie makes better tutorials then keen.
Another fantastic tutorial series. This is definitely for players of any skill level. Whether you have 10 mins or 10000 hours in SE. These have tips for everyone. I love the way you explain things. Solid reasoning and a bit of humour along the way. Good on you mate, keep it up. Your series are brilliant, mate.
My biggest tip to newbies is to remember that braking distance increases considerably when youve got a full load. Ive crashed quite a few times because I was going too fast 🙂
Let's be real, you will always be loosing ships to dumb things like that. I have over 2000 hours in game and I am still loosing ships to "unlock while recharging" 😀
@themoss7115 Ha yeah the other day I couldn't understand why my hydrogen ship kept on crashing on undock then I realised I had the tank on fill 🙂
I feel ya, been there done that ... repeatedly. I have gotten into the habit of creating status indicators. You can use logic blocks (timers, scripts, programmable blocks, etc) to remind u of whats going on , in this case I add exterior light that can be blinking yellow when batteries are on recharge and are off when not. Or more likely i would have the use the light (and others) as navigation lights. I used to fly planes so I enjoy adding colored navigation lights to my vehicles.
My first major accident was drilling straight down with an atmo miner. It started to pitch a bit too far and was like a turtle on its shell inside the mining hole
@@AnonNopleb I put two large thrusters facing forward now 🙂
Honestly, Keen should hire Splitsie to make all their future tutorials. Always nice to watch these tutorials even though I'm an old player. Edit: Honestly, I've suffered under auto-rotate for so long. I literally forgot it was a thing and it was so annoying until I realized it existed again. Glad to see this tutorial warns new players (and old players that forgot it was a thing) about the suppressor that is auto-rotate.
I'm glad I was reminded to put the detail about auto-rotate in. I've had it off for so long I forget that it's there (until I fat finger it and accidentally turn it on) :D
"Space Engineers is going to try and predict the orientation of the block", but it's not very good at it. "Prediction is difficult, especially of the future." - Niels Bohr
Even as a somewhat experienced player, I really like to watch well structured tutorials like this because you can ALWAYS learn something you didn't know before
Thanks :)
Not knowing how to use the build planner was causing me so much wasted engineering time. This is a tutorial on top of a tutorial. Gorgeous gorgeous man
You're welcome, there's more than I put in here that's included in the standalone tutorial for it, but my goal is to slowly add the pieces in the subsequent videos in this series :)
ive been playing for bout 2 years but still like watching tutorials to see building techniques and i often learn new tricks. for example I HAD NO IDEA YOU COULD DOUBLE CLICK TO LEAVE HAND TOOLS ON DO YOU KNOW HOW USEFUL THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN TO KNOW AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
"It's not save-scumming in Space Engineers. It's just having a better day." Amen
One thing that I've taken to building while in space, and in the process of building a jump capable ship, is what I call a jump sled. Take a jump drive, add two connectors to it, surround it with solar panels and add two batteries. The thing will passively charge up jumps and hold 3 of them at a time, and you can use it to jump a small grid ship anywhere you want, while being dirt cheap compared to a true jump capable ship. You can also run conveyors around the drive to connect the two connectors, so inventory can run through it. Such a simple build, but tremendously useful, I find.
That's one nice looking starter miner! As for things you probably should mention in this one: 1. Point to the fact that spotlights work just as suit flashlight and can be controlled by pressing "L" when you're in the cockpit. 2. Starting small grid builds became easier than ever when they added a "add small head" button to rotors. It's way easier to do and way less chance to do it wrong since the rotor and the rotor head will be locked in place... well you'll have to explain how to lock the rotor too but still worth mentioning this method too along with connectors.
Good point about L, it's one of those things I use but seem to forget to mention :P As to rotors/hinges, I don't think they're a good option when just starting out. Things like the thrusters going nuts while attached to a sub grid adds some extra complexity that I think are best avoided, even if it's the technique I always use myself :)
@@Splitsie I know what you mean. These days I always use a projector off of a LG-SG locked rotor for building my SG ships. Design in creative, then project for easy building. I also save all my blueprints with the batteries on recharge and the thrusters off, to start charging as soon as the battery is welded as well as completely avoid that problem with thrusters on subgrids.
Nice to see updated tutorials from the master itself. 2 tips that you might add for a flying miner: 1: Breaking thrusters on/off on the hotbar. this is a good habit to have for saving power when you are flying more than 300m. A more advanced tip: 2: When right-clicking or left-clicking mining for long periods, you can go into your inventory or the control panel while holding the mouse buttons and releasing the button while in the panels then exiting the panels. This will keep the tools working even if you are not holding the buttons anymore. To stop them you can press the buttons again (or get out of the cockpit)
I toyed with whether to explain the use of braking thrusters on/off as it's definitely a useful thing to have. I ended up not adding it because it was already 45 minutes long but will definitely fit it in for one of the future videos :) Same with the workaround for no grid based double click - so handy to be able to use when clearing large spaces
I agree with both the suggestions, and feel they should be added in a later episode, going more in depth with certain control quirks once a player has progressed more.
1 is a bad tip for new players imo as it increases the chance that they'll forget something and explode because of it. As a new player it's less likely that they'd be able to diagnose and fix even such a simple issue before crashing, better safe than sorry for a very first build imo.
Braking thrusters were part of the last mining ship tutorial four years ago.
If you ever find yourself lacking in cobalt, you can substitute the small cargo container on your base with a welder, which can not only help you build refineries and assemblers on your early game build, but also holds the same amount as a small cargo container, without the need of grids!
Additionally, when building your first large grid ship - If you use the aforementioned method of building the ship off of a connector, you can build welders on said ship to pull directly from your base's inventories to help save on trips, time, as well as fuel on assembling the larger components. Sometimes it's worth building additional conveyers to extend a welder to certain parts, such as an unwelded jump drive or even additional smelters. Don't just limit yourself to your handy dandy hand welder!
I'm certainly guilty of overusing the hand miner but will be trying to work in the use of a grid welder for building the refinery when I cover that 🙂
I actually recently built a welding arm in my Never Surrender I'm playing with my dad. The thing works really well for building a very large ship off of a projector. Certainly saves on trips, what with the thing being plated in heavy armor!
I didn't know this. Thanks for the tip. I'm glad I read a lot of the comments. I've already learned 3 or 4 new things (but I'm still new to the game (at 53 years old)! LOL
Thats what the E-4 mafias for old sarge ;)
Tutorial Capac seems a lot more savvy than the regular one :P
Still gets blown up though 😂
As always, concise, well-planned, and well-illustrated. I've got 3,500 hours in SE and I still love watching your tutorials - and I'm still learning from them. Thank you :-) - Eddie (leatherboyUK).
Charli says hi (or it was a sleep yip, who knows) 😂
I just started playing this on xbox gamepad yesterday, didnt actually think I'd find an active information outlet as I thought the game was old but your channel is a goldmine for me right now 😂😂
Glad you're finding it helpful - SE is old, but still actively developed with a pretty active and great community :)
@@SplitsieI prefer the term "highly experienced" ;-).
@@Splitsie How to search ores in ne updates?
Great tutorial! Just few tips to improve quality of life: * Backward facing remote controller + camera on top of connector simplifies docking and flying out from tight mines * Event controller on "Connector Connected" + 2 timer blocks for dock on/dock off sequences (recharge batteries, turn off/on thrusters/gyros/antenna/ore detector/ejector sorters/stockpile/lights etc.) * Event controller + Holo LCD for cargo filling control - just turn on/off lcd with preconfigured text (checked AND gate, use level 90%-95% for small miner to avoid flashing when ejcectors pull out stone and drills push new stone) * Event controller + Holo LCD for drill filling - turn on/off lcd with text (unchecked AND gate, use level 95% - it is hard to fill drill to 100%) * Hide tanks, ejectors and sorters from inventory screen
Agreed, all great tips. I'll likely be including a lot of them when I get around to demonstrating the more complex stuff like Event Controllers :)
You only need a TB with an EC if you have more than 9 groups of blocks you need to toggle. I use an EC for docking with no TB on nearly all my ships.
Never thought about putting the RC on backwards, seems useful, all the rest are great tips for anyone who doesn't like or cant use scripts as should be expected of new player tutorials
One of my fav uses of the event controller is to set it up so it automatically switches all drills off. This only works if you mine by setting your drill group to "on", though.
I've never needed RC or EC before, maybe I'll experiment with them on my heavy miner. Sounds useful.
The auto rotate... hundreds of hours in game and I just learned that... 😂 apparently I still have so much to learn! Lol thanks again splitsie 😊
You're very welcome 🙂
A good middle ground for drills is to place a conveyor on the front port of the cockpit and a drill on each side of the conveyor for two drills total. This is my usual 'starter' miner design and gathers nearly as much ore as the three drill setup.
That's also what I wanted to say, it is more efficient drilling than 1 drill but without the risk of overloading to the point that you are too heavy to fly.
With this design the 2 drills would still have been able to get a bit too heavy to lift if filled, but that's a good option for a tidy design that's a bit more capable than a single drill :)
@@unclegreybeard3969 That's why my heavy miner has a truly excessive amount of lifting thrust. 8 large atmo and 3 large H2, carrying 9 drills and 3 large cargos. I can't overload it, no matter how hard I try. Blown up so many ships designing the beast though.
@@phoenixfire596 Do you have that Beast on the Workshop? I'd love to take it for a ride!
@@sgt_retiredcharlie4102 I'll upload it tonight when I get home from work. Check the workshop in about 5h and it should be there
Completely satisfies KISS for beginners. Well done!
Thanks :)
I have thousands of hours in SE and learned a couple of things. Not a wasted minute in this tutorial, fantastic
Thanks :)
Been playing the game for years. Splitsie is still the best resource for learning and watching his videos I always learn something. So many "I didn't know that!" moments! Also, his presentation style is just awesome!
Thanks so much :)
It took me a good number of weeks when I first started playing to figure out the ships drills could do the mass clear without collection mode. Absolute game changer
Such a good tutorial for beginners! I would also add an antenna on the ship if say i were to leave it somewhere
Ah, good point. I do that so rarely in my own games but it seems like it would be a good habit to have 🙂
Or at least a beacon :)
Beacons use far less power, and should be used unless you need to access the grid remotely.
I have an antenna on all of my ships, for just that reason. Never lose a ship again because you had to abandon it!
I'm glad to see the updated tutorials. I had no idea we had the flat fans.
Lear how to have fun with space engineers years ago with Splitzie's tutorial! After 1000 hours of play time still learn something new!❤
Nice and easy to follow, and pleasant as well, your chuckles really brightened the mood. However, and this is my only criticism, I personally thought there were a few jarringly sudden cuts early on in the vod. Other than that, awesome!
It's tricky with tutorials to avoid some of those cuts (especially with clouds moving in the background). I record myself saying things multiple times to get them right, or in many cases actually went back and re-did segments by rebuilding what I had at the time in order to demonstrate it in another way so couldn't quite get them as smooth as I might have liked given unlimited time :/
@@Splitsie I enjoyed it and found it helpful, looking forwards to the next one. Release them in your own time though, Splitsie, you have a lot on your plate, dont burn yourself out. As for new players, your old stuff is still good, better than good, so they wont be left floundering.
@@mandyspence1599 ive been watching all of his tutorials on repeat for a couple days now. It definitely takes a bit to wrap your head around this game
This tutorial series stopped me from quitting this amazing game out of frustration, thanks man
I always hated when tutorials or teachers / instructors tell you exactly what to do... correctly .. but not WHY or any practical application of said information or technique. =)) No worries here... You explain what to do, why to do it that way, what happens if you don't, and most importantly the key presses and shortcuts to do it all. Impressive tutorials without useless "attempted" comedy or video clips, silly voices, or gimmicks. Well done as always! Earned a sub here. Tyvm for the effort.
Thanks, I similarly find such things quite annoying - if there's comedy in these it normally happens by accident :P
There is plenty of comedy in your other videos. Right Crashpac?
I can absolutely guarantee that if i was to buy and play Space Engineers, I would be replicating every step of this tutorial, that ship looks amazing, as well as being functional. :)
Thanks :)
Fun little trick: When using the Block Tool option for the drill, you CAN force it into a constant on state like double clicking hand tools. Just hold down left or right click, open the K Menu (Other menus more than likely work), then hit the button again to close the menu
That is indeed super handy, I use it all the time when drilling out large caverns :)
I always use one of your other techniques where I build a large grid rotor and give it a small rotor head. Then I build the ship off of that, and it is connected to base power while I do so. But that is definitely more resource intensive early on. I love these tutorial videos! I hope you keep them going.
Yup, I do the same. But I also know that when the thrusters start going nuts on that rotor I just need to turn them off until later. I decided not to go into that side of things in order to keep the other more useful info more clear - even though I really wanted to :D
For docking and undocking, I like to use an Event Controller and two Timer blocks. Name one timer block "Undock" and one timer block "Dock". Set the event controller to monitor your connector, and on connect, trigger the "Dock" timer block, and on disconnect trigger the "Undock" timer block. Then on the timer blocks, set batteries to recharge/auto, turn thrusters on/off, turn ore detectors on/off, antennas, beacons, set H2 tanks to stockpile or auto, etc. On small grid, this takes up only 4 blocks, and means that I can free up my hotbar so that I really only need my connector and maybe my lights. And when docked, my small grid ship consumes a minimum of power from the parent grid. The Event Controller is definitely the best block added to SE in recent years.
I prefer to do things this way too, I'll definitely be covering it in a future tutorial on the more advanced stuff 🙂
I always use advanced rotor for the build platform. You get the benefit of power to your ship and the flexibility to start however you like with armor blocks.
I seem to default to hinges these days (for no particular reason) but chose to avoid hinges/rotors for new players due to the other complexities of the blocks and the fact that the thrusters go bananas when part of a sub grid, meaning you often need to turn them off while under construction :)
I agree with both statements. Maybe the rotor/hinge method can be included in a later video, with more advanced controls, like the K-Menu trick to keep the ship tools activated, and reverse thruster disable to allow coasting.
There are two things I can recommend new players to mess around with. One being: If you ever struggle to find Cobalt Ore but really need more cargo capacity on your base, you can use small grid Large Cargo Containers and lock them to your base as Splitsie showed at the end of the video with Connectors to build off of. Small grid Cargo Containers don't require any Cobalt to be built and a large one has the same cargo capacity as a large grid Small Cargo Container. Another option to attach them to your base is to build an Advanced Rotor that is attached to your conveyor system. 1. You weld the Advanced Rotor up to be functional. 2. You grind off the Rotor Head. 3. You access your bases control menu and set the Advanced Rotor to "Locked". It's a tick box that shows up once you selected the block in the control menu. That prevents it from spinning around uncontrollably. 4. You press the "Add Small Head"-button in the same menu. This will add a small grid Advanced Rotor Head to your rotor. Which allows you to transfer all items between your base and whatever type of cargo you put on the small head side. 5. Place a small grid Large Cargo Container on the rotor head. Make sure the large port of the container connects to the large port on the rotor head. Number two being (slightly more advanced): Should you have troubles finding ore spots near you, or have found one that is quite far away, you might want to build a vehicle with wheels. Think of it as a large-ish truck with a few cargo containers and a connector for your miner to connect to. For traversing longer distances you can save a lot of powerr, since wheels use substantially less power than thruster. And you can use it to carry more goodies with you if you add cargo containers to it. Be warned though: Wheeled vehicles sometimes have a very weird way of interacting with ... well everything in this game. But if you decide to do it: Make sure you have more than 4 wheels, especially if you want to add additional cargo capacity. Add more batteries than needed, so you can, if you really need to use them to charge your miner. DEFINITELY add a Gyroscope. Yes, it is wheeled vehicle, but you'll catch air more often than you'd like to. And it makes getting out of weird ditches you might find yourself in much easier. Beforer you put your miner on it, give it a test drive, see how it feels, and what wheel settings work for you. Then add your miner on it's back and try again, but more carefully, you don't want to destroy both vehicles at the same time. This might be something interesting to touch on in this series as well. Like your Goose (I think it was), from Survival maybe. Or just wheeled vehicles in general. Although flying machines tend to be much easier to use and utilize in this game than wheeled ones. As a side note: I love how you got Capac to help you in your tutorials, besides just causing chaos :D
Oh, don't worry. I love wheeled vehicles way too much to not cover them in a future video 😂
I have 4 thousand hours of SE. I've played it since the map was bounded at 50k on a side. And I STILL learn from Splitsie's tutorials!
I just wanted to say thanks for this tutorial series. I bought Space engineer when it came out and got overwhelmed and quit on the spot. This series after all this years brought me back and I love this game. Your tutorials are amazing and teaches me some fundamentals to improve on. It is so much fun how my ships change with every build.
Very thorough tutorial while still keeping it easy to digest. Learned some neat things as well as review on the basics. Wonderful video Splitsie!
Been excited to see the new and improved tutorials with all the updated recipes and costs!
Regarding sorters between 28:20 and 32:20, If you allow I can add some tips for sorters and ejectors: - the best ratio of 'things' ejected thru 'ejectors' is to slap 1 sorter per 1 ejector (in some cases I put 2 sorters to pull on one ejector but it clogs ejector after some time so I call it like 1 vs 1). - if happens sometimes that you need the stone for some reason (let's say you don't have gravel in your base and you need it), it is good to group ejectors in a group and put them in hot bar for On/Off (you can add sorters as well but there's no reason unless you want to save power while offline etc). - you can also set sorters to always pull resources, that way you will always have full sorter inventory for an ejector to pull from (if you have 2 ejectors and 1 sorter, ejectors will throw 2 chunks but it will have the same amount as 1 sorter and practically you will waste one ejector, that's one more reason for slapping 1 sorter and 1 ejector only). - sorters and ejectors are working on ticks, it means that everything going thru them it will be calculated in a single tick , that means on each tick sorter inventory will be full and it will be empty instantly by ejector, on the next tick it will pull the next inventory, that is another reason to use only 1 sorter for 1 ejector as well. :D For offloading the ore to the base 33:12 to 34:50 , you can build an dedicated miner docking spot, it is same as one you have build one on a side of an survival kit, just build on another spot (free conveyor spot) an sorter on a base (arrows toward the base) and set the sorter to white list the ore and pull all (you can also set Ice in a whitelist), then slap an large connector and basically, when you dock a miner it will pull every ore and ice from the mining ship to the base cargo, just open the inventory and check when it's empty, close it and you can fly for another round. Later on you can see how much time you have to be connected until empty and without opening the inventory just fly for another mining trip ^^ Few tips for building conveyors. If you can try to fill all the slots of an conveyor ports specially when building large ships and when playing multiplayer game (game have an tick system I've mention above and it will check everything that have conveyor port, unless you put some functional blocks to cap an conveyor. It is not much affecting game render speed in single player but it affects a lot on multiplayer server or as well in single player game where you have lot's of grids which have lots of open ports on conveyors and not connected to something. Example: Conveyor block have 6 sides and sometime you slap like few in a row to connect something and it leaves like 4 on each open while only 2 are connected, imagine a big ships filled with that kind of build and have probably thousands of them opened and not connected and game have to check every tick all of the ports. My advice when building conveyor system on a grid is to build the conveying system as much closed as possible, without opened ports not connected, just try to keep the ports connected or use proper conveyor blocks such as pipe, curve, T piece etc... I know this is not like something for maybe new people but it is helpful for even some experienced player, I have noticed that many of multiplayer games have player which doesn't know those stuff or maybe they just not interested in to remember them :D Anyway, keep up great content and channel Splitsie, even with my 6K hrs of SE I still watch your tutorials and I like them every time as well as recommend them to anyone interested in SE
You can have an almost unlimited number of 'ejectors' per sorter as they can all independently pull material and the sorter's own pull becomes irrelevant at scale 🙂 There's a through put limit for conveyors but in practice you're unlikely to reach it in survival play. The conveyor thing was fixed a couple of patches ago, the performance issues are now almost non existent 🙂
@@SplitsieDidn't know they've fix the conveyor thing lol, thx for the update though. I really have to read the logs in detail in the future I guess :D They have probably fix the ejectors thing with that conveyor updates since they can all pull from one sorter. I have to test it one day just to make sure. I will also check the code to see what's going on in deep. Thx for the update again. Those tests I was made for sorters are like 1 year plus old, maybe more can't remember, but anyway it doesn't matter to much as you say :D Keep up great content and channel. Also, tutorials are awsome
I learnt how to play from your original tutorials and know everything you've covered so far and this video still kept me from bed. Good stuff.
@Splitsie, ty for making these guides man, Im a solo players, and somewhat new, and I used to follow your older guides and Im at the point where Im essentially all set up on my earth like home planet and getting ready to go into space for the first time. These guides, although they do have alot of info that I already know at this point, are really invaluable to players like me I feel who dont have others to play with in game.
As someone who just purchased the game a few days ago, this video was just what I needed. Thank you so much, Splitsie!
You're very welcome, hope you're having fun with it :)
Absolutely phenomenal video. Explained a ton of concepts that were completely lost on me. Thank you for this guide.
You're very welcome :)
Thanks for these. Very excited to see all the future tutorials
I need more of this. Its fantastic. Thank you.
Thanks for this series mate, helped me get a hang of the game.
Love it! Keep it up. I followed a ton of your videos within the last year or so and have made some cool things recently. This is great to repost more recent things due to some of the new updates we have seen.
So loving going back through a tutorial with you - I started playing SE after watching one of your videos years ago (I now have over 8300 hours in SE). Also, another advantage (since a recent update) to building off a conveyor piped connector is you can access inventory though your ship's cargo (if a large port) which is very convenient.
Absolutely, love having those little side ports on the small grid one for grabbing stuff :)
i like your style of tutorials, very thorough, very well explained
And here I am over 2400 hours of space engineers adddiction. Still watching splitsies tutorials and still learning tips and tricks
Biggest tip to new players is watch splitsie. Seriously, watch his let's plays they're funny, enjoyable and informative. I learned to play thanks to watching Splitsie and Capac on the survival series (all of them) and downloaded the survival impossible scenario. Brutal and beautiful
can't wait for the next part. Great work
I NEED PART 3!!!!! :)
Honestly you are one of the best guides I've seen. Started playing this game recently and this video explains everything. It's thorough and informative while not being too complicated. You explain things slowly and make them make sense. Well done
Thanks so much, glad it's been helpful :)
very helpful, simple but covers all the bases; watched it on 1.5x speed no problem! AWESOME CONTENT, GREAT JOB!
Can't wait for the next Tutorial. Deff appreciate the way you do these tutorials. I'm learning a lot !
It's a little delayed as I've mostly lost my voice this week so haven't been able to record much. In the mean time, the older series that I made is still correct for the core of the game, it's just that I thought I could teach some of it better so am remaking them, so they'll be able to get you up and running while waiting to see what I do with the newer blocks in the next videos :) kzhead.info/channel/PLfMGCUepUcNzLePdu3dZfMTLfWq1bclUK.html
See, should I honestly make yet another tutorial while my lessons from 15 years ago work just as nice? YES, because I still watched it lol. I dunno mane, your SE vids are just good. Thanks for the years of lessons dude.
just got into SE from your video series of just a suit and a buddy who has played for years. I am glad I took your tip on saving before undocking I forgot to add fwd thrusters on and KABOOM... reloaded and fixed it. thanks for the tutorials
Your the ace of the base, and tutorials
Looking forward to the next episode!
Very long time player and I still watched the entire video. I just really enjoyed the way you deliver the information.
Thanks so much :)
Thanks for the cool video! Looking forward to the next
I had no idea that pulling the materials out to complete a build also cleared the build planner of the item... feel so dumb. Love these tutorials.
Glad I could help, I've got a full video on the build planner that covers a bunch of the other oddities about the system too, as it's got more than a few quirks :P
Thank you!! I love my ship. Wouldn’t have been able to do this without your tutorial ❤
I'm having trouble Setting up the small conveyors, they won't spit out any of the Stone.
Tysvm. Great tutorial. Love your content.
Please continue this updated series of new player guides. It just dropped on gamepass, translating the keys to controller is a bit of a hurdle, but your previous guide and this one were perfect for getting me introduced to the different systems, and started. Thank you.
Don't you worry, I will be. They won't have any specific release timing as I'd prefer to make them good than make them fast, especially since the older guides are still accurate, I just think I can improve upon them with what I've learnt since then :)
@@Splitsie thank you 🙂 that sounds great. It introduced each system very well, including the tech progression unlocks, so that there were no hangups. The learning curve is definitely steep if this is someone's 1st game like this.
I have had 4 goes at learning Space Engineers and get overwhelmed with the learning curve. I think I might have attempt number 5.
Best of luck, hope it makes sense this time around :)
Splitsie! I only just got into this game about a month ago (at 53 years old) and your tutorials have really been the one thing that have taught me the most! I'm surprised you didn't mirror the Ore Detector with an Antenna on the other side, just so you can still see the ores if you ever need to get out of the ship.
An antenna there would have been a good idea, I'm so terrible at remembering to put antennae or beacons on my ships - something I should probably work on :P
Thank you for the ending message, i felt the frustrations these days. I built several rovers just to roam and after roaming, it will stumble like a turtle getting stuck facing the skies while struggling to get up.
I can't drive in SE. I always end up flipping, or getting too much air and crashing, or otherwise destroying my rovers. I always fly these days because of it.
I learned so much with this video, thanks a lot for putting your time to make it. Your attention to saying out loud the keys you were pressing really helped me out figuring a bunch of stuff up. Thank you so much and keep up the good work!
Thanks, glad it was able to help you get started :)
18:15 usually i reduce the magnetic power to 1/3 (on both), remove the 1 and replace it with 0. ive not once seen a dmg connector in 6 years doing this. :) adv tips: event controller is excellent to setup tanks to refill fuel on ship using the connecter connected option and you can also string on turning thrusters, lights, gyro and ore det. off/on with it. if u have designated cargo container for ore, make a loop with a sorter on it to auto pull ore when the ship is docked (connected) and have a event controler do the job. i love making industrial ships, mining transport building :)
I can remember watching your other tutorial series when i first started playing SE. I hope this one helps the new players as much as your first helped me! ❤🧡 Cheers and keep it coming!
Also, I want Capac for a mouse cursor; I think that would be very amusing 😆
lol I haven't seen any mouse cursor mods before, I wonder how hard that might be...
It is really really easy to end up the wrong way up while mining. I am a massive fan of putting downward thrust even at the extra cost.
this tutorial answered so many questions for me on things i did not know yiur tutorials are so easy to follow
Thanks, glad it was helpful :)
MAN, I'm 5 mins in and OH MY GOD the amount of work and details put into the video. Insta like and insta subscribe. I really really appreciate this kind of work!!
Hey Splitsie ;) For ships and rovers with rear connectors, a good trick is to create a sub-group of thrusters/wheels for reverse parking, so that you don't crush the connectors.
And yet more great content from you. I have been playing SE for several years now. but i watched cause i love your content, I still learned something new. I also thought everything was very well explained. Thank you.
Thanks :)
Love the Capac-assisted pointer for the tutorial. :)
Thanks, I have a bit of fun with the animations of it here and there :D
Good update. Thank you sir
For optimal spread of the small grid drills, they mine a 5x5 block area centered on the drill head. Since the drill takes up a 3x3 block area, it means you can have 1 blocks of space on each side of the drill. You can space them with two blocks between. Just be sure to connect them up. It can be real handy when your ship is a little wider than the drills can manage if they're all bunched together.
The way your ship grew through this tutorial, I'm reminded of the first stages of Spore if anyone has every played that
I never played spore but I think I can picture what you're referring to. It was somewhat deliberate as I thought of a few different orders to build things in and tried to follow an order that helped the lessons stack nicely :)
Oh yeah, totally makes sense!
Amazing Video like always. Have learned a lot by watching your channel. When building any vehicle I tend to use a piston & advanced rotar which you can then lift and drop your ship to get into all the nooks and make sure you get everything built. Connecting the piston to a conveyor system will allow you to grab components from the assembly and avoid having to run up and down, also makes it easy to extend your build lower if you forgot something that needs to be placed lower down. this works great for adding tires as well.
Nice, I learned something new after 3k hours playing this game with the connector build options at the end (always just used landing gear). Thanks.
You're very welcome - glad it ended up useful, I still get taught new stuff in the comments all the time even after 5750 hours :D
I always push people to have a beacon on their ships. The respawn pod comes with a traveling GPS, and the beacon is as close to that as we can get. You can use a sensor to turn it off and on again automatically when you're in it/when you've left the area if you want to.
That's quite fair, I have a terrible habit for not doing that and it's perhaps something I should work on :)
very nice Update. Your the best.
Been playing on and off since alpha, but never let myself learn anything so i just left this on and definitely pick up on stuff, thank you :) (My designs will always be flying boxes though D: )
Hi Splitsie!! It is always a pleasure to see your videos. Lost track of since when i follow you, at least sice Survival Maybe. I have a TIP if you dont know about it yet: it is a little but usefull bug, there is a way to use the ship drill on auto (like doble click on hand drill) and work on both modes, mine and tunneling. Must use the "Ship Tool" in the Action Group. Mouse click to start working (the mode you want to use), then, while pressing the mouse button,press "I"(i) to open inventory, then release the mouse key and press "I" againt to close the inventory. The drill will continue working like in auto mode, to stop it just do a simple click on a mouse key. Keep it up with the good work!!
oh perfect timing, just finished going through the first one and was looking forward to the new version of this one
It took me a bit longer to put together than I'd planned, but I feel like it's a much less error prone design than the previous tutorial series 🙂
@@Splitsie So when do we get to grind up the original lander?
@@rekiirek5601when you have an O2H2 gen on your main base so you can have H2 refill ability. The thing is O2H2 gen for large grid, unlike survival kit cost far more resources than the small grid variant. But for example, you can strip down the thrusters on your drop pod, you can use it as well to improve the progression by grinding some part below control level (the blue and red lines you see on the status bar of the block) and then weld it back. Be careful if you grind an unknown block you can't weld it back.
@@rekiirek5601 You can safely do this once you have replicated it's use on your home base, once you have a bit more experience you might skip a few of these steps. But in general that means: 1. Moving your Survival Kit and making sure it has enough power, so you can respawn should you die. 2. Building atleast a Small Cargo Container on your home base. 3. Building atleast a Basic Refinery on your home base. 4. Building atleast a Basic Assembler on your home base. 5. Building an O2/H2 generator on your home base. (Optionally you fill it with a bit of ice) As you progress through the game, you will naturally figure out that more storage space is going to be a nice addition, that a proper Refinery gets stuff done more quickly and can process all ores and that a proper Assembler can assemble all items in the game and quicker than a Basic Assembler. But trying get those things done right from the start isn't really achieveable from your Drop-Pod. Those things require a lot of materials and a few different ores. Mainly Cobalt for making Metal Grids.
I'd been trying to decide what to do with it after realising that making the mining ship from its bones was a more complicated way to do things than building from scratch. I'm still slightly tempted to use it for something but I completely agree that once you've got an O2H2 generator on your base you can grind it down if you like :)
Great video Bravo, and I've seen it right when I was thinking of trying this game, thanks!
Thanks and you're welcome :)
Hey, Id love to see the continuation on this series.
It'll be continuing but it's a slower process trying to put together these videos, especially at the moment as I've been unwell and losing my voice. The older tutorial series on my channel is still accurate so you can watch that to get you up to speed in the mean time :)
I have over 443 hours of Space Engineers clocked on Steam, but... 34:32 , I did not know about that. Glad to have learned something new once again from your great tutorials :)
It's a super useful way to empty whole ships without needing a script. I knew of it ages ago and then never used it, recently I was reminded of it and have now been using it everywhere :D
Thanks for this, I'm just getting back into the game. Even with over 1k hours in the game it's amazing how much you forget after not having played for a couple of years. My preferred method for small grid construction once I'm up and running used to be a large grid rotor with a small head attached. That then gets used with a projector and blueprint. Finally once the base is fully running it becomes a 3d printer with welders.
I also normally do things that way, with the habit that thrusters have of going berserk when attached via a sub grid (and other complexities) I figured I'd leave that for when I cover rotors/hinges themselves 🙂
Alright, so I love learning about the ejectors. During your explanation my ship was docked; after which my ejectors proceeded to throw out the 20+ k Stone stored at my base. That turned out to be quite the work cleaning up.
lol That is indeed an issue with having ejectors on, I probably should have included a little bit about how to turn them off - I'll make sure to cover that in another video to hopefully prevent too many more messes :D
Great stuff as always! A little clarification I guess: The "ejectors" try to collect and throw out everything, but the sorters only allows stone to get to them. This means that if you by mistake conveyor your cargo around the sorter to the "ejectors", they will start throwing out everything else as well, your ores included.
Yup, I probably didn't state that as clearly as I could have :)
On behalf of the Elite Ship Welders Guild, I hereby excommunicate you Splitsie. 🤣
Well done! I would have gave up on this game a second time if it weren't for Splitsie's tutorials and streams. Instead I have 1300 hours!
Oh man I have sooo many hours in SE and still learned something new. For probably the hundredth time, thanks Splitsie!! Edit - Ok make that 2 new things. And I haven't finished the video yet....
lol Glad you found something good in there Dobbs :)
Always mate, and I truly mean always. Thank you for so much entertainment, advice and inspiration over the years. A lot of my builds have been influenced by your content. And a special thanks for replying to comments so often too!!@@Splitsie
I have over 1000 hrs in SE and i still watch all his tutorials
Thanks, I do my best to include some things that may be more obscure or that I feel I learnt recently in the hopes it'll provide something useful for everyone :)
Amazing, the information density in this video is impressive, let alone how you managed to include all of that in a single coherent narrative! You might want to mention the toggle single/all block tools "feature" (with Middle Mouse Button) in the next video, as that can be really annoying if players activate it and don't know that it even exists.
I'm so annoyed, I was intending to add that in here and completely forgot. It was brought up in the comments of the previous tutorial too. I'll be making sure I mention it in a future video as it's so easy for people to get caught out with it
I try some time back some tutorials but in spanish trying to separate them in three groups... But never know how... And use yours like inspiration... More because you where the first one to show me how this game really works
Glad they've been helpful. Hopefully I'll have time later this week to correct the auto-generated subtitles as I think the translations work better that way (in case it's helpful having them in google's best approximation of Spanish) :D