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Hey brother Im liking this series you have recorded so far. I wanted to ask what do you use to edit/cut your videos? I’m sorta an amateur to UA-cam video making. Oh and what mod are you using for those shields?
I have never watched Space Engineers before, and I must admit, this has been a great introduction! As another comment suggested, I think “My Other Ship is a Star Destroyer” would be a funny name!
My man, if you can, get some friends together and play together, this is a GREAT game to play with friends *especially if they are of the less inteligent variation
@lightningsheep929 it's even better if you have a friend that is so good at the game that they get bored of it. And sabotage literally everything, prank them, ect.
@@LightningSheep1 me and my friendshave built a giant station once, and ankther wanted to dock smth to the station I wasnt aware tht the something was a giant cargo shup hauling ores He slammed into the station full speed...
You can tell it's an "express" cargo ship by its lack of retro thrusters. This looks like an interesting series. If you've grown fond of that ship, consider building a small grid hydrogen powered grabber drone (i.e. it has a landing gear pointing forwards) so you can reposition those thrusters by detatching them and using merge blocks to put them elsewhere. You'll be doing a lot of that if this is going to be a piracy heavy series.
I did this once with a bit of roleplay and it turned into my most memorable playthrough. I didn't use any cargo ship mods, but instead just relied on the vanilla encounters. Normal day at work, doing a spacewalk for a little maintenance on the ship on our way through a new region. We picked up a pirate signal and the pilot panicked; he jumped away immediately and left me out there. As I fled the pirates on my own, I picked up a distress signal and followed it to find a few damaged and abandoned habitat pods clustered together. Apparently the original owners had long been dead or gone, and either they or the pirates left the place booby-trapped. I managed to disable most of the traps and salvaged parts from two of the pods to get the third one mostly functional. From there I salvaged what I could find in the wreckage left behind by the pirates that apparently plagued the area, learned what I could about the things I took apart, and cobbled together a decent ship for defense, exploration, and eventual escape after hitting the pirates hard. What finally ended that run and prevented me from doing another like it was my annoyance at the ridiculously short character limit in the data pads that I was using to keep logs. We can develop jump drives and compact, automated manufacturing, but we can't store more than a few hundred text characters in a handheld computer? Bull***t.
I've never before watched any sort of Space Engineers content, but this has been a pretty good introduction to the game. All chill and with calming explanations of what's going on, rather than the jarring "high-energy" that you expect with a lot of let's plays.
Honestly, that ship having just massive guns with no obvious ways for them to reload does feel very space piratey. Take a ship that was sending an S.O.S. and just slap MASSIVE guns on it with no regard for practicality.
I thought you'd be literally starting with only the suit, not even the tools, probably possible but a grind, still excited to see how you get around the challenge!
I don't think it's possible without tools. The only way I think that might work is if you are lucky enough to start near a safe zone and they happen to sell tools.
@@bawlzack7877 I did that. No tools no spawn ships. But with strange signals. Those spawn tools sometimes. Needless to say I died A LOT before I got basic production going.
@@Xerkus I've done squads with no strange signals, tools or spawn ships, and it was a lot about doing contracts on foot until we had enough tools and trading to get the first survival kit
Really interesting play through idea, really interested to see how you do as a suit only start is no joke. Just a quick FYI, landing gears are good for securing your ship down but attaching your ship to voxel will kill your shield as it counts as a static grid
I love this but something that would REALLY add to your playthrough is the infestation mod. Its compatible with ME and most AI/Faction spawning mods, but it adds miniature spider encounters on abandoned wrecks and stations and certain finds out in space. Its spooky and definitely a recommendation
theres a function with NPC weapon replacer that allows you to adjust the size of the weapon that it spawns with. so if a 3x3 weapon is replaced with a 7x7 you can configure it for the next one to not be so big. or go ham and make little gat turrets become might warcannons on a simple 10x4x5 escort ship
@@LargelyUnemployed I'm glad. I may have to get back into it after seeing your video Probably won't make my own video as I imagine the snipping must have taken ages
OMG Madmavn and his NSS as well as his short multiplayer series - may I just say he was amazing at his editing on those vids. Seriously professional looking cinematography.... Not to downplay how excited I am for this series though, this is gonna be a fun adventure!
Oooh beltalowda... Oooh an Expanse reference... me likey! Great content my dude! I find it really hard to get my hands on good SE content made by personalities I sympathize with. You are now the second creator like that, first one is Splitsie. Thank you!
There is actually a mod to let you construct and refine a limited array of items in your inventory. The 'Independent Survival' mod. The original no longer works properly due to some recent-ish security features related to distance, so you can't open your suit due to it technically being a grid far away, but I've uploaded an update of that mod which makes it work again!
I haven't played this game since like 2014. It was such a cool game at the time! Glad to see it still has a community because I'd be sad if this game was lost to time. Glad to have found the series! :)
Congrats on the 1/2 a million views... I just found it and subbed after watching... Great to see someone having a successful launch to a series and the interest in it still active 8 months down the line.. Well done fella!
I tend to start similar games like this, more recently going to no-oxygen planets... takes me a few hours of mining stone before I can get a small place with a functional airlock. Also recently been more keen to look for ore nodes instead of making a stone mine, as it is already going to be faster to build up what I need by doing that instead of just mining stone. There is the exception of my mining rig design I am still occasionally working on making it auto-print an extended line to move the platform down, which is capable of producing over 100k of stone in about 60 percent of the operation (takes about 3 hours before it auto shuts off due to an excess of stone and my refineries not being able to keep up); I set it to start before going to bed, and let it build up a ton of resources while I sleep. One mod I would recommend though, is Space Got Real. It makes the dark of space as dark as it is IRL, so like when you put your ship on the dark side of the asteroid, it would be impossible to see unless you had lights on it. That one and this other one I can't remember that replaces ore nodes with mixed variants (like iron and ice or silicon and nickel) would also be great.
umm, yes, yes it is 100% possible to start from zero in space engineers. You do not need to pirate, you don't need to steel.. its dooble on the moon easiest. but you can also do it on plants like earth type. BUT takes a lot longer. Step 1, find a space station that sells consumables. find out what ores that station buys. step 2, mine ores, sell the ores to the station, buy o2 and h2... buy energy packs, mine, sell mine sell... before long you can earn the cash to buy your first craft. Some stations have small rovers, others have ships. you need to pick and choose here, an ion mining ship for example may be a good starting point because it doesn't' require fuel, again, mine, sell repeat... your goal is either a ship with a survival pod on it, such as the large block level 1 green freighter. Now you have a surival pod, a ship with a reactor, and a h202 generator again.. we start building again. with some creativity you add a basic refinery, basic assembler, then shift to a standard assembler.... depending on your cash, you can buy the pipes and mount a drill right onto the freighter. now the money really starts rolling in the problem is the luck, yo need to spawn close enough to a moon, to make it to the bases... power and o2 are your limits here. o2 though is pretty cheep, you can even buy extra tanks at some stations. 1 o2 costs about 300 credits or so, 3 will fill a bottle, 1 will fill your personal tank.
I suggest naming it Constantine after it's former Captain. It's also the name of a ba DC character. Also, I really liked the video. You earned my Sub! Can't wait for part two.
Slight tip: If you're holding F while hand mining, you immediately pick up anything you mine up (as long as there's space in your inventory). I find this really helps prevent "losing" resources when mining in zero gravity.
i just started this game(and my laptop sounds like a plane taking off playing it lmao) and i'm so bad- but i just found your channel and i feel so much confident and i've already learned a bunch from here so thank youuu
27:20 You could have just accessed the terminal on the button panel of the outer door and shut off the turret instead of running all the way to the flight seat. :) Nice video
It looks like the ship was built without turrets and then the devs just popped gigantic turrets on quickly without changing anything else. Knowing the SE devs, they probably thought it was funny. (And they were right)
ok "start with nothing" and i mean nothing... No drills, no credits, no extra tanks, just your space suit. Pertam - will have 3/5 stations scattered around the planet. often within about 10km... at .25 g... its easy and quick to fly to them. these stations have benches and chairs you can sit in. this recharges your energy. they have storage lockeres with guns, ammo, and... drills. might take 1-2 stations but you'll find at least a starter drill the stations sell O2 and H2... note what each station is buying and selling. fun things are cobalt ore... there are also often aqusition missions for iron, zinc and other ores. Once you start making money with ore, you can keep running ciricles drillling selling, recharging buying more o2 and h2.. -next is vehicle sale... once you get to about 200-300k you can afford small rovers... These are fun you can travel further from the stations and/or stay longer mining. -400-700k you can get some space miners... fly around the planet and mine or go to asteroids... now you are dropping off and making money qicker. -1-1.7 million... your first fun baby... a large grid rover, that comes with an actual large refinery... and survival pod. This is fun cuz you can build it out, change the internal layout with new blocks, add in a full assembler... and all of a sudden you have something that can build bases... -at 4.5-5.5 million... your B-980 hauler, comes stock with survival pod. really easy to add in small assembler... small refinery.. this ship becomes your space miner, and ice miner... (i usually remove the front h2 thruster. replace that with piston and drill in the center, and a h2 thruster on each side. gives it better breaking power in space... better control when mining, this makes money FAST just remember to add in your ore detector. finally after a few runs and sales of big buck items like full cargobay full of cobalt, both unrefined and refined magnesium... and if you re lucky... Uranium... you get to upgrade to... the B-60 at 24-30million credits, its the first ship with a jump drive. stock its.. meh at best... but is 3 large cargo bays + jump dirve + h2 tank + all the other good stuff... you can quickly modify it to do lots of jobs And thats part of the fun to this style. you aren't building new ships... you are trying to figure out how to modify something you bought to fit your play style. with what you have on hand and often what the ship itself can build ... or the last ships you had could build.
"Only two motors in this thing? Nah not worth it." "Hm, I just need two more motors, I like doors but I guess that'll have to be the place." Like bro Ima need you to be aware of your last 15 seconds at minimum 😂. Fun video though, I like the concept and how you approached it. Thank you for posting!
It's possible to do this without piracy but there's definitely a lot of luck involved. You need to beeline it to Earthlike, grind down any unknown signals on the way. You're looking for at least 10 interior plate. Then you can build passenger seats onto unknown signals, which you can sit in and turn the battery back on, recharging your suit. Now you can recharge power at any unknown signal. Head to Earthlike and gather resources, prioritize computer chips. Once you hit Earthlike you need to kill wolves and try get power cells. When you have more than 80 computer parts and 4 power cells you can make 2 small batteries, attach them to a rotor and use your computer parts to make a basic assembler. Rotor lets the 2 small batteries power the assembler so you can make enough girders for wind turbines. Once you have a basic assembler and wind turbines it's easy to recycle parts to make a basic refinery then you're back in business. Takes a few hours, you can't die without restarting and you need to luck out on enough interior plates to get recharges and hit Earthlike atmosphere before you run out of air. But sometimes it works out
Taking that second ship at the beginning would have been a really good idea... Each ship you steal is extra resources you cant currently manafacture at the moment, plus your ship has a pre-build merge block which means you can easily join the two ships into one grid. Best option would be merging the second ship, traveling to that neutral base that appeared, and destroy the ship while docked so you have power and O2 while you dissect both ships and rebuild one big ship (or sell of items to buy one) If the two ships are the exact same this also means you have 8 largegrid storages at the very beginning of the game which is HUGE because now you can just stockpile resources as you take apart both ships.
Serious suggestion: "Spring Rain". To symbolize new beginnings. Shaman King reference. I believe this was the name Amidamaru gave the first sword his friend Mosuke forged for him. Joke Names: "Runaway Express" because you got no breaks. "Shipy McShipface"
Silver was a very lucky find, basically turning this into a better start than starting with one of the starter respawn ships, all you need is the big refinery and you can start work on a survival kit or even better a medical station
"What am I short on?" Well, the one hydrogen bottle you're trying to disassemble for one :) Great episode, just discovered your content. I think I'll hang around.
a count up timer....also known as a clock.....bro....u just killed me!!! i had to stop right there and sub ... much luv and thnx for the awesome content!!!
Having a ship from the start (and "coincedentally" without a proper antipersonnel defence) kinda degrade all this "Starting with NOTHING" thing. You just replaced the default start ship with a fancier one. So, where is the point? There is no struggle at all. Even if this isn't staged, still, this is immediatly turned into a mundane SE serie. Try starting at that random encounter with the escape pods. Especially if there are no nearby asteroids. That would be a challenge, that would be really interesting.
I alterady finished this series and its awesome, i wanted to go back to the first episode just to remember when u took the NFFP now called FFP. btw, u made me want to buy the game, so im going to buy it next week!
When you said wait where's my ship I felt that so bad 😂 btw your playing kinda of like a scraper letsplay. I think it would be better to make a scraper and or a scraping bay or mechanical scraping thing. It seems faster to hunt ships and get components. Plus you could make battle ships or drones. Some of the best space engineers videos in a long time. Big sub. Also if you want to do a coop let's play let me know. Keep it up!
I said I'd never really get back into space engineers (say that about a lot of games...) and then I go and watch videos about the game and I'm like "yeah.... that looks fun, maybe I will play it again"
Nu-uh, you can build up even without basic tools I start up with the one and only mod, that increases the speed limit The easy way: Trading You start with 10k, go buy the tools and then it is a rush to find 3 medical something to build a survival kit The most scarce resource is energy, and disabling the comms does not help:( it just drains The hard way: Go and find a pirate outpost with saw-bots and minigun-bots, and force them to make a hole in the station hull Get inside and you'll see a message of activated self-destruction, get outside and wait, because you can't access anything When it'll blow - try to see a ring of small debree, disable your dampeners and follow it, if you are lucky enough, you'll get some tools or canisters of fuel/oxygen Then, look for MAYDAY signals, and build up from wrecks You can do it in many ways But that was my way
Done with Europa and watching mimus. Great work. Im having trouble with the phase change update with filtrations. And all that condensation lol. Think you would make a tutorial when you got a change?
Lucky to find a pretty much defenseless ship so quickly to take over. Most vanilla ones at least have a couple gatling cannons to spray at things closing in. But I guess that's what it had to be since wouldn't be much of a series if you flew around space for 10 minutes then ran out of power.
The Random Weapon Picker mod cycled out those gattlings for these goofy ones. We absolutely lucked out as they're too large to track character models. If I'd approached in a ship we would have been vaporised lmao
Have you ever started off on a planet and hollowed out a mountain with a hand drill to get all the ores? It takes quite a bit of forethought to get everything inside a mountain and leave it a hollow shell, perfect for building a base. Maybe that could be your next challenge.
To match the color of another block, change to a light or heavy armor block, put the block over the block you wanna match, and then hit Shift-P to copy the color.
I think you can actually… you need to go into a store and start selling items. You need to hope that you find a station that sells ships. Best recommendation is to go to the moon and then go and find some of those stations that sell the ships!! Also getting resources from the ships is a great idea!!! Hope this helps
This is absolutely possible, as another commenter pointed out, I just unfortunately didn't have anywhere near enough time to grind that out when this was made. I have two other jobs I do, and this is very much just a hobby!
I’ve been doing this with 2 pals. We just got cobalt and made a refiner and an assembler. Honestly not sure what to do from there so I’m excited to get some tips from this video.
Love the video already i got into space engineers about 2 months ago and just fell in love with the game. As for what i personally would like to see from the series (hope it is one) in the future maybe some space warfare. 😊 Love what you do keep it up.
Ive never played space engineers or seen any gameplay beyond people showing off crazy builds like a big railgun accelerater thingy. I didnt even know it had a single player like this.
I've done this several times, it's fairly easy. I'm setting up a modded version with (hopefully) no ice on asteroids and eating/drinking/sleeping required.
Hint: with a block in your hand you can press shift + p to get the same color as you're looking at. Hint 2: you can detach npc thrusters and attach them elsewhere to make them functional
you could Name the Ship: Scared Crow. ^^ Why? Your a Scavanger at the Moment, and you flee before every battle. So it would be a fitting Name. ^^ Interesting Start by the way. ^^
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I would call it bonaparte as it reminds me of the Personal tank in Tank Police anime.
The tank has a tiny body and a large short barrel main cannon.
Name it "The Austodan"
Hey brother Im liking this series you have recorded so far. I wanted to ask what do you use to edit/cut your videos? I’m sorta an amateur to UA-cam video making. Oh and what mod are you using for those shields?
@darecaone the full modlist is in the description, but I believe the shields mod is currently broken.
This was edited using Adobe premier pro
I have never watched Space Engineers before, and I must admit, this has been a great introduction! As another comment suggested, I think “My Other Ship is a Star Destroyer” would be a funny name!
Wow thank you!
My man, if you can, get some friends together and play together, this is a GREAT game to play with friends *especially if they are of the less inteligent variation
@@matthrew thank god cause mine are exactly that
@lightningsheep929 it's even better if you have a friend that is so good at the game that they get bored of it. And sabotage literally everything, prank them, ect.
@@LightningSheep1 me and my friendshave built a giant station once, and ankther wanted to dock smth to the station
I wasnt aware tht the something was a giant cargo shup hauling ores
He slammed into the station full speed...
You can tell it's an "express" cargo ship by its lack of retro thrusters.
This looks like an interesting series. If you've grown fond of that ship, consider building a small grid hydrogen powered grabber drone (i.e. it has a landing gear pointing forwards) so you can reposition those thrusters by detatching them and using merge blocks to put them elsewhere. You'll be doing a lot of that if this is going to be a piracy heavy series.
Lol i pitched the name unstoppable force for the ship since that "express" delivery ship has no brakes or reverse. 😂
I did this once with a bit of roleplay and it turned into my most memorable playthrough. I didn't use any cargo ship mods, but instead just relied on the vanilla encounters.
Normal day at work, doing a spacewalk for a little maintenance on the ship on our way through a new region. We picked up a pirate signal and the pilot panicked; he jumped away immediately and left me out there. As I fled the pirates on my own, I picked up a distress signal and followed it to find a few damaged and abandoned habitat pods clustered together. Apparently the original owners had long been dead or gone, and either they or the pirates left the place booby-trapped. I managed to disable most of the traps and salvaged parts from two of the pods to get the third one mostly functional. From there I salvaged what I could find in the wreckage left behind by the pirates that apparently plagued the area, learned what I could about the things I took apart, and cobbled together a decent ship for defense, exploration, and eventual escape after hitting the pirates hard.
What finally ended that run and prevented me from doing another like it was my annoyance at the ridiculously short character limit in the data pads that I was using to keep logs. We can develop jump drives and compact, automated manufacturing, but we can't store more than a few hundred text characters in a handheld computer? Bull***t.
Holy novel Batman! No wonder the character limit on the data pad was an issue for you.
Lol you don’t have to turn it into a role play bro it’s not that serious
@@OssjdbDjshheehlet people have fun
Let the people have their fun lil bro@@OssjdbDjshheeh
@@OssjdbDjshheeh And... you think rp is serious bro? It's literally a silly thing to enhance fun.
I've never before watched any sort of Space Engineers content, but this has been a pretty good introduction to the game. All chill and with calming explanations of what's going on, rather than the jarring "high-energy" that you expect with a lot of let's plays.
Really happy you enjoyed it! It's become a short series if you'd like to see more 😁
Honestly, that ship having just massive guns with no obvious ways for them to reload does feel very space piratey. Take a ship that was sending an S.O.S. and just slap MASSIVE guns on it with no regard for practicality.
With that HUGE cannon on top, the only logical name for the ship would be "The Compensator", cause he was clearly compensating for something..
It's a perfectly good size thankyouverymuch
I thought you'd be literally starting with only the suit, not even the tools, probably possible but a grind, still excited to see how you get around the challenge!
I don't think it's possible without tools. The only way I think that might work is if you are lucky enough to start near a safe zone and they happen to sell tools.
Only way I see that working would be unknown signal hunt
@@bawlzack7877 I did that. No tools no spawn ships. But with strange signals. Those spawn tools sometimes.
Needless to say I died A LOT before I got basic production going.
@@Xerkus I've done squads with no strange signals, tools or spawn ships, and it was a lot about doing contracts on foot until we had enough tools and trading to get the first survival kit
Shift + p lets you copy a color. The f1 menu has a list of color commands.
Will check it out!
28:11 the sheer panic in your voice, sells this whole episode! I SO want this game, been wanting it since it came out!
This game has been out for almost 10 years
I think it is on sale right now
What's been stopping you?
@@TranquillShot money. I’m unemployed.
@@mattparker9726pirate it you clown
12:28, Dont forget to close the Secondary rear hatch, and repair the hole you made in the ship to get in.
glad to see you do suit-only playthroughs too! consider the wood+crafting mod that we made a few years ago for ours :)
Really interesting play through idea, really interested to see how you do as a suit only start is no joke.
Just a quick FYI, landing gears are good for securing your ship down but attaching your ship to voxel will kill your shield as it counts as a static grid
Take a look at the Advanced Welding mod, might let you detach/reattach the NPC thrusters in different directions
That's the intention, afaik; to encourage piracy. (Because we need to encourage that, I guess?)
I love this but something that would REALLY add to your playthrough is the infestation mod. Its compatible with ME and most AI/Faction spawning mods, but it adds miniature spider encounters on abandoned wrecks and stations and certain finds out in space. Its spooky and definitely a recommendation
theres a function with NPC weapon replacer that allows you to adjust the size of the weapon that it spawns with. so if a 3x3 weapon is replaced with a 7x7 you can configure it for the next one to not be so big. or go ham and make little gat turrets become might warcannons on a simple 10x4x5 escort ship
Last time I played this you had 60 seconds of boost and around five minutes of oxygen. Made survival almost impossible 😆
They made it muuuuuuuch easier when they added the planets in
@@LargelyUnemployed I'm glad. I may have to get back into it!
@@LargelyUnemployed I'm glad. I may have to get back into it after seeing your video
Probably won't make my own video as I imagine the snipping must have taken ages
OMG Madmavn and his NSS as well as his short multiplayer series - may I just say he was amazing at his editing on those vids. Seriously professional looking cinematography.... Not to downplay how excited I am for this series though, this is gonna be a fun adventure!
Looking at setting up a second PC to do the spectator cam capture like he did! so unbelievably cool
There are two things I’ve learned in space engineers about ship theft.
1. Hand guns are useless
2. Angle grinder is love. Angle grinder is life
Yes! More SE content creators, if you ever fancy a "storyline" play though, check out the Ares at War scenario.
Oooh beltalowda... Oooh an Expanse reference... me likey! Great content my dude! I find it really hard to get my hands on good SE content made by personalities I sympathize with. You are now the second creator like that, first one is Splitsie. Thank you!
Huge praise, thank you!
I share the same sentiment. Just discovered him and I'm a big fan of Splitsie's.
New viewer here: This video series looks awesome and the intro for it was hilarious. Looking forward to more installments!
There is actually a mod to let you construct and refine a limited array of items in your inventory.
The 'Independent Survival' mod. The original no longer works properly due to some recent-ish security features related to distance, so you can't open your suit due to it technically being a grid far away, but I've uploaded an update of that mod which makes it work again!
I haven't played this game since like 2014. It was such a cool game at the time! Glad to see it still has a community because I'd be sad if this game was lost to time. Glad to have found the series! :)
Congrats on the 1/2 a million views... I just found it and subbed after watching... Great to see someone having a successful launch to a series and the interest in it still active 8 months down the line.. Well done fella!
Thanks! I only just noticed the numbers myself
Thank you greatly for the modpack, it’s nice to have a UA-camr for once share the mod list as an URL instead of saying the mods
I tend to start similar games like this, more recently going to no-oxygen planets... takes me a few hours of mining stone before I can get a small place with a functional airlock. Also recently been more keen to look for ore nodes instead of making a stone mine, as it is already going to be faster to build up what I need by doing that instead of just mining stone. There is the exception of my mining rig design I am still occasionally working on making it auto-print an extended line to move the platform down, which is capable of producing over 100k of stone in about 60 percent of the operation (takes about 3 hours before it auto shuts off due to an excess of stone and my refineries not being able to keep up); I set it to start before going to bed, and let it build up a ton of resources while I sleep. One mod I would recommend though, is Space Got Real. It makes the dark of space as dark as it is IRL, so like when you put your ship on the dark side of the asteroid, it would be impossible to see unless you had lights on it. That one and this other one I can't remember that replaces ore nodes with mixed variants (like iron and ice or silicon and nickel) would also be great.
Space Engineers yay. Still one of the best sandbox space 3D games
It's so damn good
@@LargelyUnemployedyeah
umm, yes, yes it is 100% possible to start from zero in space engineers. You do not need to pirate, you don't need to steel.. its dooble on the moon easiest. but you can also do it on plants like earth type. BUT takes a lot longer.
Step 1, find a space station that sells consumables. find out what ores that station buys.
step 2, mine ores, sell the ores to the station, buy o2 and h2... buy energy packs, mine, sell mine sell... before long you can earn the cash to buy your first craft. Some stations have small rovers, others have ships. you need to pick and choose here, an ion mining ship for example may be a good starting point because it doesn't' require fuel, again, mine, sell repeat...
your goal is either a ship with a survival pod on it, such as the large block level 1 green freighter. Now you have a surival pod, a ship with a reactor, and a h202 generator again.. we start building again.
with some creativity you add a basic refinery, basic assembler, then shift to a standard assembler.... depending on your cash, you can buy the pipes and mount a drill right onto the freighter. now the money really starts rolling in
the problem is the luck, yo need to spawn close enough to a moon, to make it to the bases... power and o2 are your limits here.
o2 though is pretty cheep, you can even buy extra tanks at some stations. 1 o2 costs about 300 credits or so, 3 will fill a bottle, 1 will fill your personal tank.
I giggle at the thought of the ship spinning helplessly after firing a salvo from that battleship turret lol
Finnaly i love space engineers
What should we name the ship??
economy controler
few suggestions, Iron clad, Bastion, Behemoth, Claymore, Gannus, Excalibur, Icarus, Raptor, Fury, Walrus, große Waffe, little bastio
Space tortoise
The Salvation (yes, overused I know, but it did save your life!)
Little guy, big gun.
Bismark would have been a good name, because of the big turrets, but now that they are gone...
A trully beltalouda perished on the boat that started it all. Props to the captain, rest in pieces
Remember the Cant
@@LargelyUnemployed gotta check the orbital defense system, yall beltaloudas are prone to throw asteroids as revenge...
I suggest naming it Constantine after it's former Captain.
It's also the name of a ba DC character.
Also, I really liked the video. You earned my Sub! Can't wait for part two.
Slight tip:
If you're holding F while hand mining, you immediately pick up anything you mine up (as long as there's space in your inventory). I find this really helps prevent "losing" resources when mining in zero gravity.
To be clear, the thrusters aren't a Keen (game dev) thing, it's a Splitsie (mod dev) thing
i just started this game(and my laptop sounds like a plane taking off playing it lmao) and i'm so bad- but i just found your channel and i feel so much confident and i've already learned a bunch from here so thank youuu
27:20 You could have just accessed the terminal on the button panel of the outer door and shut off the turret instead of running all the way to the flight seat. :)
Nice video
It looks like the ship was built without turrets and then the devs just popped gigantic turrets on quickly without changing anything else. Knowing the SE devs, they probably thought it was funny. (And they were right)
The replacement is done by a randomizer mod! Hahaha
ok "start with nothing" and i mean nothing... No drills, no credits, no extra tanks, just your space suit.
Pertam - will have 3/5 stations scattered around the planet. often within about 10km... at .25 g... its easy and quick to fly to them.
these stations have benches and chairs you can sit in. this recharges your energy.
they have storage lockeres with guns, ammo, and... drills. might take 1-2 stations but you'll find at least a starter drill
the stations sell O2 and H2... note what each station is buying and selling. fun things are cobalt ore... there are also often aqusition missions for iron, zinc and other ores.
Once you start making money with ore, you can keep running ciricles drillling selling, recharging buying more o2 and h2..
-next is vehicle sale... once you get to about 200-300k you can afford small rovers... These are fun you can travel further from the stations and/or stay longer mining.
-400-700k you can get some space miners... fly around the planet and mine or go to asteroids... now you are dropping off and making money qicker.
-1-1.7 million... your first fun baby... a large grid rover, that comes with an actual large refinery... and survival pod. This is fun cuz you can build it out, change the internal layout with new blocks, add in a full assembler... and all of a sudden you have something that can build bases...
-at 4.5-5.5 million... your B-980 hauler, comes stock with survival pod. really easy to add in small assembler... small refinery.. this ship becomes your space miner, and ice miner... (i usually remove the front h2 thruster. replace that with piston and drill in the center, and a h2 thruster on each side. gives it better breaking power in space... better control when mining, this makes money FAST just remember to add in your ore detector.
finally after a few runs and sales of big buck items like full cargobay full of cobalt, both unrefined and refined magnesium... and if you re lucky... Uranium... you get to upgrade to...
the B-60 at 24-30million credits, its the first ship with a jump drive. stock its.. meh at best... but is 3 large cargo bays + jump dirve + h2 tank + all the other good stuff... you can quickly modify it to do lots of jobs
And thats part of the fun to this style. you aren't building new ships... you are trying to figure out how to modify something you bought to fit your play style. with what you have on hand and often what the ship itself can build ... or the last ships you had could build.
"Only two motors in this thing? Nah not worth it." "Hm, I just need two more motors, I like doors but I guess that'll have to be the place." Like bro Ima need you to be aware of your last 15 seconds at minimum 😂. Fun video though, I like the concept and how you approached it. Thank you for posting!
Oasis. I like the RP aspect of the former owner's tomb drifting through space and becoming your salvation.
as i did with OSRS, i started watching a series from a game i don't even play, and im loving it lol.
It's possible to do this without piracy but there's definitely a lot of luck involved. You need to beeline it to Earthlike, grind down any unknown signals on the way. You're looking for at least 10 interior plate. Then you can build passenger seats onto unknown signals, which you can sit in and turn the battery back on, recharging your suit.
Now you can recharge power at any unknown signal. Head to Earthlike and gather resources, prioritize computer chips. Once you hit Earthlike you need to kill wolves and try get power cells. When you have more than 80 computer parts and 4 power cells you can make 2 small batteries, attach them to a rotor and use your computer parts to make a basic assembler. Rotor lets the 2 small batteries power the assembler so you can make enough girders for wind turbines. Once you have a basic assembler and wind turbines it's easy to recycle parts to make a basic refinery then you're back in business.
Takes a few hours, you can't die without restarting and you need to luck out on enough interior plates to get recharges and hit Earthlike atmosphere before you run out of air. But sometimes it works out
Saving this for a future playthrough idea. Absolute genius
Suit Only Survival .... or S.O.S. for short 😂. It's pretty tuff to start with nothing else but yoo toes and a T-pose
Taking that second ship at the beginning would have been a really good idea... Each ship you steal is extra resources you cant currently manafacture at the moment, plus your ship has a pre-build merge block which means you can easily join the two ships into one grid. Best option would be merging the second ship, traveling to that neutral base that appeared, and destroy the ship while docked so you have power and O2 while you dissect both ships and rebuild one big ship (or sell of items to buy one)
If the two ships are the exact same this also means you have 8 largegrid storages at the very beginning of the game which is HUGE because now you can just stockpile resources as you take apart both ships.
Serious suggestion: "Spring Rain". To symbolize new beginnings. Shaman King reference. I believe this was the name Amidamaru gave the first sword his friend Mosuke forged for him.
Joke Names: "Runaway Express" because you got no breaks.
"Shipy McShipface"
“A count up timer” 🤣 I’m gonna start using that 😂😂
Silver was a very lucky find, basically turning this into a better start than starting with one of the starter respawn ships, all you need is the big refinery and you can start work on a survival kit or even better a medical station
I think without it I would have had to restart tbh. Imagine losing the ship after all that
"What am I short on?" Well, the one hydrogen bottle you're trying to disassemble for one :) Great episode, just discovered your content. I think I'll hang around.
Can't wait for episode 2 this is awesome !!
Firing that gun should likely make it tumble head over heels o_0
a count up timer....also known as a clock.....bro....u just killed me!!! i had to stop right there and sub ... much luv and thnx for the awesome content!!!
I LOVE this guys over the top sarcasm!!! 😂😂😂
What I call beating the game is, Jump Drive, Settelemnt on all planets. and One Capital Class Ship, and 5 Pirate Controlled Ships taken over.
You can recharge power sitting in a chair. You can see if there is another turret from any panel (even if you don't own the block).
This shown up in my feed yesterday. I am now playing SE again and definitely subscribed
Having a ship from the start (and "coincedentally" without a proper antipersonnel defence) kinda degrade all this "Starting with NOTHING" thing. You just replaced the default start ship with a fancier one. So, where is the point? There is no struggle at all.
Even if this isn't staged, still, this is immediatly turned into a mundane SE serie.
Try starting at that random encounter with the escape pods. Especially if there are no nearby asteroids. That would be a challenge, that would be really interesting.
What a fun episode! I've never seen a start like this before. Well done!
I alterady finished this series and its awesome, i wanted to go back to the first episode just to remember when u took the NFFP now called FFP. btw, u made me want to buy the game, so im going to buy it next week!
When you said wait where's my ship I felt that so bad 😂 btw your playing kinda of like a scraper letsplay. I think it would be better to make a scraper and or a scraping bay or mechanical scraping thing. It seems faster to hunt ships and get components. Plus you could make battle ships or drones. Some of the best space engineers videos in a long time. Big sub. Also if you want to do a coop let's play let me know. Keep it up!
This video was so phenomenal my cat rose up from the grave to watch it with me.
My respect
pulling the colour is I think having the block and then looking at the block you want the colour form and press shift+p
finding a local rimworld and space engineers enjoyer is rare, keep it up
I would personally board any ship but before hand cut their engines off and their guns.
I said I'd never really get back into space engineers (say that about a lot of games...) and then I go and watch videos about the game and I'm like "yeah.... that looks fun, maybe I will play it again"
Ship name. Rock Hopper
OMG! Thank you for following MadMavn example! I was searching for anything like that NSS searies for so long
I Love it !
He's such an inspiration and an incredible content creator.
Holy i love this serie so far
POV: You were an innocent Crewmate jettisoned outside the airlock.
That turret reveal was hilarious
Nu-uh, you can build up even without basic tools
I start up with the one and only mod, that increases the speed limit
The easy way: Trading
You start with 10k, go buy the tools and then it is a rush to find 3 medical something to build a survival kit
The most scarce resource is energy, and disabling the comms does not help:( it just drains
The hard way: Go and find a pirate outpost with saw-bots and minigun-bots, and force them to make a hole in the station hull
Get inside and you'll see a message of activated self-destruction, get outside and wait, because you can't access anything
When it'll blow - try to see a ring of small debree, disable your dampeners and follow it, if you are lucky enough, you'll get some tools or canisters of fuel/oxygen
Then, look for MAYDAY signals, and build up from wrecks
You can do it in many ways
But that was my way
To copy colour you press shift+p with a none built block in hand hope that helps you man
I’ve been playing Space engineers for a while now, recently got on stationeers and I’m loving that too
I've got 3 series on it if you're interested!
Done with Europa and watching mimus. Great work. Im having trouble with the phase change update with filtrations. And all that condensation lol. Think you would make a tutorial when you got a change?
I haven't touched the game since the update either. It was a little too much of a change for me. Will almost certainly return, but I don't know when.
I think you should name the ship "Constantine's Rest"
Also, I'm glad to see another MadMavn fan, I love his NSS and Skyjack series XD
Lucky to find a pretty much defenseless ship so quickly to take over. Most vanilla ones at least have a couple gatling cannons to spray at things closing in. But I guess that's what it had to be since wouldn't be much of a series if you flew around space for 10 minutes then ran out of power.
The Random Weapon Picker mod cycled out those gattlings for these goofy ones. We absolutely lucked out as they're too large to track character models. If I'd approached in a ship we would have been vaporised lmao
Have you ever started off on a planet and hollowed out a mountain with a hand drill to get all the ores? It takes quite a bit of forethought to get everything inside a mountain and leave it a hollow shell, perfect for building a base. Maybe that could be your next challenge.
"I spent 40,000 hours digging a hole in Space Engineers"
@@LargelyUnemployed I was thinking more like "I turned this mountain into the ultimate Builder's Paradise in Space Engineers"
I remember sinking so many hours into this game as a teenager, super glad to see it again ❤
I was obsessed from about 2013-2015! It's taken a minute but I'm slowly remembering hpw to play. It's amazing how little has actually changed 🤣
To match the color of another block, change to a light or heavy armor block, put the block over the block you wanna match, and then hit Shift-P to copy the color.
I think you can actually… you need to go into a store and start selling items. You need to hope that you find a station that sells ships.
Best recommendation is to go to the moon and then go and find some of those stations that sell the ships!!
Also getting resources from the ships is a great idea!!!
Hope this helps
Also consider the fact that you get a pod that gives you useful items PRAY that is the power kit so that you can travel further
This is absolutely possible, as another commenter pointed out, I just unfortunately didn't have anywhere near enough time to grind that out when this was made. I have two other jobs I do, and this is very much just a hobby!
And Ctrl+ shift + p is copy color I think
@@LargelyUnemployedwell I get you. Still really good and interesting video man! Keep it up!!
Stone, cobalt, and silver will get you setup for a LONG time.
I’ve been doing this with 2 pals. We just got cobalt and made a refiner and an assembler. Honestly not sure what to do from there so I’m excited to get some tips from this video.
Hope is was helpful! Mods can definitely make the difference
Love the video already i got into space engineers about 2 months ago and just fell in love with the game. As for what i personally would like to see from the series (hope it is one) in the future maybe some space warfare. 😊 Love what you do keep it up.
Love it. Well done. What a comiclly over powered ship. lol
I know, right? This modpack is complete chaos
Why are you so practical? No trying to frankenstein two ships... Scrapping the beautiful turret...
I like how the main gun also can double as a propulsion device
Captain Constantine was a man of vision
I loved this and cant wait to see more and for the color select its shift p to get the color of the block u are looking at
Subbed, keep up the impressive work homie
Trust me that last bottle was wild.
Count up timer is my new favourite word
How about “Warthog” for a name? Ugly as sin, and you DON’T mess with them!
Ive never played space engineers or seen any gameplay beyond people showing off crazy builds like a big railgun accelerater thingy. I didnt even know it had a single player like this.
I've done this several times, it's fairly easy. I'm setting up a modded version with (hopefully) no ice on asteroids and eating/drinking/sleeping required.
Crusty Bacon. Great name for a pirate ship.
From now on: "Count Up Timer" (CUP) It is an innovative new twist on the old concept of Count Down Timer. I don't think it will catch on though.
19:56, Sounds like someone needs a Solar panel
Hint: with a block in your hand you can press shift + p to get the same color as you're looking at.
Hint 2: you can detach npc thrusters and attach them elsewhere to make them functional
you could Name the Ship: Scared Crow.
^^
Why? Your a Scavanger at the Moment, and you flee before every battle. So it would be a fitting Name. ^^
Interesting Start by the way. ^^
I like that count-up timer